Arcam rDock: Audiophile iPod Dock March 14, 2007
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iPod docks are two-a-penny these days, ranging from the cheap and nasty to the expensive and sometimes good. Arcam makes some great home entertainment kit and has decided to shrink its expertise in its first iPod dock, the rDock.
Touted as the first “audiophile dock for the iPod”, this is not the first high-end dock we have covered, claiming such lofty things. At around £130, it’s in the right price range but what do you get? It’s built from heavy die-cast alloy for zero vibration and sports a built-in preamp for iPod audio with “high performance op-amps and low noise, double regulated power supplies”.
There’s a smart charging system that can be programmed to switch-off when the juicing is done - good for your battery – and the ability to turn-off charging during playback to improve sound quality. Out now. -Martin Lynch
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"Audiophile iPod Dock". Contradiction.
actually you've got to be carefull there, because taking the lineout from an ipod and not the relativly poorly amped headphone socket, and apple lossless as an audio codec, and not the lossless mp3 or aac, and you've got a pretty good audiophile combination
obviously i meant lossy mp3 or aac in the previous comment