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iHome iH52B Bookshelf System for iPods with AM/FM Radio (Black) | List Price: $199.99
Discount Price: $114.97
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Brand: Soundesign
Binding: Electronics
Release Date: 2006-07-01
Features: - Listen to iPod, AM or FM radio, auxiliary audio sources
- Subwoofer and 2 speakers with 32 watts total power
- 3 line display shows what's playing on iPod
- Full function remote allows you to change songs or stations from around the room
- Compatibility: iPod nano (1G only), iPod mini, 3G iPod, 4G iPod with click wheel, iPod Color, iPod Video, iPod shuffle (1G only)
Perfect little bookshelf system [Posted on 2007-12-26]
This works great in my son's room. The subwoofer really rounds out the sound nicely, and the iPod integration is great. I would definitely buy this again.
ihome ih52b bookshelf system [Posted on 2008-01-01]
Unit has better sound quality then I expected. Quick set up and flexible mounting thanks to fairly long speaker wires. It filled my needs perfectly. Totally satisfied. Joe in Wisconsin.
Awesome! [Posted on 2008-01-27]
When I bought this item, the picture given by amazon looked okay, because of the white against the black finish, but when I received it in the mail and opened the box, the white part is actually a silvery gray which made the system looked incredibly sleek and "expensive". The speakers and subwoofer works perfectly and I love playing my trance music with the subwoofer since it rounds out the music very well and creates the "boom boom boom" factor that is signature in trance music. The reason I gave this system 4 stars is because the remote control does not allow you to actually search through all your songs. You have to physically walk over to your ipod and change to albums, songs, playlists, artists, or w.e, click on one of those, and then search for your song. The remote only allows for you to skip or rewind songs, but not search for songs through your ipod. So, you basically have to make a playlist in your ipod, and then play those unless you want to constantly walk to your ipod and change it yourself. Also, using my video ipod for tvs was also great to show my videos!
Good, but not fully compatible w/ latest iPods [Posted on 2008-02-12]
The sound sound quality & features on the iH52 are pretty good, but it has some minor flaws (no alarm clock, no ability to navigate menus/choose playlists on iPod) and one serious flaw with the remote when using newer iPods (specifically, the Nano, the Video, or the Classic), where the forward/reverse buttons on the remote don't work reliably. After a year of grumbling about those buttons and wondering if maybe I was just too stupid to use a remote correctly, I finally called iHome and got someone on the phone who knew exactly what I was talking about before I finished explaining the problem.
Apparently, there's an issue w/ the hardware of the iH52 that means that it can't reliably send the correct instructions to skip tracks or scan within tracks for those newer iPods from the remote--some people have the "skip tracks" function work, others have the "scan within track" function work, and some (like me) have neither work reliably so we have to schlep ourselves over to the iHome to use those functions via the buttons on the main dock. He noted that people w/ older Nanos or Videos have reported being able to revert back to the original factory firmware and get them to work correctly w/ the iH52, but not users of the Classic (whose factory firmware is new enough to not recognize the codes that the iH52 sends when using the remote to control it).
(Apparently right now the only iHome product that can reliably control the skip/scan functions of newer iPods from the remote is the iH9 (IH9 Black Alarm Clock for Ipod), which doesn't have the external speakers or subwoofer of the iH52. The iH9 reportedly also has the ability to control the entire iPod interface (including navigating menus) via the remote, and has a line-level output that could in theory be connected to a stereo system for folks for whom the lack of external speakers is a deal-breaker.)
ih52b B stands for don't BOTHER [Posted on 2008-07-05]
If I were to design a product, which has a symbiotic relationship with another product, wouldn't I want them to be compatable? The Ihome ih52b is not compatable with my Ipod. The remote isn't, which is specifically why I purchased this product. I wanted to put it in the garage, for working out there and for music in my backyard. It worked for a month. then the remote stopped changing tracks of the Ipod. I tried swapping batteries in the remote, to no avail. I contacted tech support, a person named Chee Ming told me in an email "yes, we have problems with that, try uninstalling your itunes and resetting your ipod to an earlier model or software, or return the product." Return the product? Is amazon going to take back a product older than 90 days and out of it's box? Is Target stores going to either? I doubt it. So, if you want a 200 dollar am/fm radio with an ipod dock, and what should be a full function remote which ummmm does not work for long, then by all means, go with this unit. I am disappointed. Ihome should offer to swap out either the head unit, or repair the head unit (dock) at no charge to the people who own one.
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