Good Things, Small Packages

Sometimes you have to wonder why we music types take so much trouble mixing and mastering songs these days, when people tend to listen to tinny, compressed versions on tiny earbuds! Here's why: when a respected speaker company like Polk Audio troubles to build an iPod dock that actually makes that handy little critter sound like it has heft and shimmer and sonic boom! Ah, but it warms the coddles of me wee heart....

Yup, the I-Sonic ES-2 system's four-speaker array, front and back -- with their patented PowerPort bass for all y'all hiphoppers -- delivers room-filling sound at a fraction of the price and without occupying half the living room with bulky gear and furniture to hold it. Not only that, this co-dependent hardware will stream video from the Pod to the TV via S-Video or composite connection. Podcasts, Youtube vids and photos -- all released from their tiny-screen bondage.

But wait -- there's more! This honey doesn't just play what's in the iPod, it also has a second generation HD Tuner, capable of bringing in the more than 1,500 HD stations now broadcasting across this great nation. You get CD-quality audio along with a data stream telling you what music's playing, where a traffic jam is or if heavy weather's about to hit. It also "tags" songs that you like at the push of a button, making them easy to track down for subsequent preview and purchase.

Add a traditional AM/FM receiver, trusty alarm clock, headphone jack and a wireless remote control and you can wake up to a Category 13 hurricane and never know what hit you. The music done saved your life!! Hallelujah.....