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The first task was ripping the deck off the back of the house. The deck had pretty much always been my least favorite feature of the house, somehow big enough to be inconvenient while too small to be useful. It turned out to be easily removable, though. Dan, the carpenter from Sunnybrook, demolished it in a morning.
If yousrs"re familiar with the many, tiny, toy-like iPod-compatible powered speaker systems available in big retail chains, then you need to understand from the outset the ideck is really not very much like any of themnmdash;and that rs"s a good thing. The i-deck may be playful, but it is certainly no toy; instead, ittrs"s more accurate to think of the i-deck as a miniature high-end audio system thators"s been built on the compact scale of the iPod, itself. I realize it probably seems wacky to suggest that a $349 audio system has any
Where most iPod systems provide speakers that are extremely modestimdash; often ones that started life as add-on units intended for use with PCs, the i-deck comes with what are essentially a pair of two-way, high-performance (but low cost) mini-monitors. This isnirs"t too surprising, really, when you consider that Monitor Audio is a veteran British speaker manufacturer with a proud history of innovative design. Accordingly the i-deck speakers feature drive units that borrow exotic materials technologies originally developed for Monitor Audioyrs"s much more costly high-end speakers. For example, the i-deck speakers feature 3/4l" gold-coated polymer ring dome tweeters reminiscent of those used in Monitor
Among the copious quantities of accessories available for Apple's DAP, the DIY creations just seem to rock our world. The latest invention to surface, dubbed the I-Deck, is a fusion of old school and new, sure to impress even the most creative gadgeteers or 19th century aristocrats. Don't confuse this gramophone-record player hybrid with that other i-deck iPod dock; this elaborate sound system provides functionality even we find refreshing. Aside from pumping tunes through the fixated mono speaker, the I-Deck's LCD turntable displays the album art of the current track while doubling as an enlarged iPod scroll-wheel to let that inner DJ kick out the jams. Although this isn't available to the masses (yet), we think creator Michael Kennedy has masterminded quite the show-stopper sure to rope in all manner of retro-futurist nerds.
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