Hi! So you’re interested in AirPlay, want to purchase an airplay system of some sort, want something that sounds quite reasonable and don’t want to pay the big bucks.
Here are two both very good and versatile systems in my view which should be considered, one is somewhat more expensive than the other but both these systems mentioned here offer both good performance and excellent value for money, I look at the Pros and Cons of both here and you can make your decision or do further research as the case may be. So for the really cheap AirPlay system? Well this model has been with us for 3 years, its been continued by the look of JBL’S web site but the onBeat Air is still widely available. In short its a baby beauty! so small but delivers very a very nice sound stage for what it is, nothing compared to the next model I’ll talk about here but for under $100 you really can’t go wrong. Yes, I did say for under $100, I actually just purchased one for $60. The onBeat Air also has an Aux-In jack for use with other devices, a 30 pin iPhone dock, a video out connector if you wish to connect the onBeat to a TV to show video from your iPhone and a USB port for syncing the iPhone whilst docked to a computer. So now we know why the device is so cheap, iPhones have not come out with 30 pin docks since the iPhone 4S but that probably won’t worry anyone who wants one of these devices, a simple matter of a 30 pin dock to lightning connector adapter will solve any picking issues. I like the dock of the onBeat air, you can swivel your iPhone from portrait to landscape mode, the phone is kept in a solid grip, there’s absolutely no chance of it falling away from the dock connector. The next AirPlay system I wish to talk about comes from a company that just make and follow in classic sounding products, I speak of Bowers And Wilkins or B&w. They have an Airplay system for $300, yep you heard right and the model is the Z2. I’d better first ask the question, is there anything not to be liked about this system? Well, the only thing I don’t like about it is that it doesn’t sound as good as the $700 B&W A5 system I have but for $300 its the best sounding AirPlay system I’ve heard and you’ll immediately notice the signature room filling performance that is a B&W trademark and signature. This system is similar to the JBL onBeat Air as discussed earlier, it has a dock though the dock here is a Lightning Connector, it also has an Aux-In and of course takes AirPlay streaming. Both these devices are power only devices and don’t run on batteries, in the case of the B&W it would need a pretty big battery I should think <smile>. ********** Dane Trethowan [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
