Sendstation Systems PocketDock Line Out | List Price: $29.95
Discount Price: $24.50
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Brand: SendStation
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 1 year warranty
Features: - Ideal accessory for professional DJ's, HiFi enthusiasts
- Offers an industry-standard 3.5 mm (1/8) stereo jack for connecting to a stereo
- Also lets you connect the iPod's docking port to a standard 6-pin FireWire cable
- Includes two 6-foot white audio cables: one with 3.5 mm (1/8) stereo plugs on both ends, one with stereo RCA and 3.5 mm plugs
- Compatible with 3G, 4G iPods, iPod Photo, and iPod mini
Works well, just wasn't for me [Posted on 2006-03-21]
I've used both this item and a SiK IMP(Din). Both do exactly what they're supposed to do, give a line out and a firewire connection. Sound quality is good on both. A couple things I didn't like about this:
1) The Sendstation didn't have the spring loaded clips/buttons to release it from the dock connector on the bottom of the iPod. The SiK does. The Sendstation still has a pretty secure connection without this feature, but the SiK feels even more secure.
2) Even though the SiK has two long wires coming out of it, which makes it a little inconvenient, the SiK's actual dock connector part is very small, same size as the apple connector. The Sendstation has the sockets for the lineout and firewire right on the dock connector so it is MUCH bulkier than the SiK. To me, this proved to be even more annoying than the two wires coming out of the SiK since you could at least bend the wires out of the way on the SiK.
The two nags I had are very minor and might not be relevant to most of you out there so you may choose to ignore it. Overall though, functionally, there is nothing wrong with this thing and it is pretty small and portable. Looks cooler than the SiK too. Bottom line, sound from it is fine, the dimensions didn't suit me.
Fantastic tool! [Posted on 2006-03-28]
The PocketDock gives superior sound, taking advantage of the full-range feed from the bottom-end connection, compressed into the conventional cable need your stereo has. It's easy to use and easily portable, compact and affordable.
Much easier and cheaper than using an Airport (or other solution that feeds from a PC) since that requires going back to whatever room the music's fed from whenever you want to make a change. Much higher quality than running a cable from the headphone jack, whose signal is flattened and muffled.
Of all the accessories you could get for your iPod, this one will add the most value for the buck.
Perfect Match [Posted on 2006-11-10]
I needed a line-out device that would also allow me to get USB power. It works great. Do be carefull to order the right unit - Sendstation also makes a USB/firewire device which I ordered by mistake.
Holy crap, what is the deal with the scarcity of digital output? [Posted on 2007-03-10]
It's silly that a $[...] ipod needs this item, but it does. It is awkward sticking out of the end, and it doesn't even stay in that well, but until there is something better (like apple redirects their attention to making their units sound as good as possible, which would mean the audio information could be sent out digitally for instance, or at least each successive generation of ipod would sound better than the last instead of mixed results, or even that the ipod units themselves could accomplish on their own what this makes possible for headphones) get this. This device enables a line out, which all docking stations accomplish, but does it for headphones, thus bypassing the ipods headphone amp, significantly improving the sound. The line out is just a little loud to plug headphones directly into, but you can find headphone attenuaters that are a short cable with a volume knob. Sure makes one that comes standard with a pair of headphones I got from them. Incidentally, I listen to wav files on my ipod, which at 60 gb holds over a thousand songs. Originally I listened to mp3's and loved the convenience, but then I discovered that instead of near cd quality, you could have better than cd quality (as compared to my typical sony discman portable cd player). Not as convenient, but why not have the music sound as good as possible? It's less fatigueing and just better. Simple as that.
Oh yeah. Now you can have a fire wire connection too.
Does not work with iPhone [Posted on 2008-08-01]
I got this for my Gen 3 Ipod. It worked great. But it's not compatible with my iPhone, which I used to replace my iPod.
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