iHome Speaker Reviews

"Offers a good degree of protection for your player, exterior audio controls...Loses functionality without an iPod, relatively expensive for the performance...Personal Computer World Technical specification Review: iHome iH19 portable speakers...helping you purchase the right computer, digital camera, peripherals, gadgets and more......" read more »

"The company's latest portable design iH27 ($100) doesn't stray far from its past formula, which is to deliver competent audio performance and a simple alarm clock for a fair price...Basically, iH27 uses a similar formula to Logitech’s $150 mm50 and Pure-Fi Anywhere speakers, placing an array of four speaker drivers—two active, and two passive—behind a metal grille and iPod dock...Turning this feature on is seriously recommended, as it takes iH27’s default flat presentation of audio and spices it up with a combination of frequency boosts and modest echoing, creating sound that’s livelier and more dynamic...What ultimately cost the system our high recommendation is iHome’s continued, confusing policy of offering the system with or without an included remote control based only on where and when it’s purchased..." read more »

"What a great idea - an iPod-compatible digital clock radio...The iHome iH6 includes removable inserts to connect multiple types of iPods and charge while docked...You choose the songs and the rest is up to the iH6...With the iHome iH6, you can wake to your iPod, AM or FM radio, or buzzer..." read more »

"The 20 Watt, 2.5in speakers can also be used for direct audio output, charging and syncing iPods without the use of connecting extra cables to your PC...The speakers will even allow playback when your PC is off, through the dedicated play/pause, fast-forward and rewind buttons on the base of the right hand speaker or the controls on the iPod...A price for the iH69, which looks set to be released in mid-2008, has not yet been confirmed although it is expected to be in the region of £100..." read more »

"First is the iH70 ($150), a pair of silver and black computer speakers with an integrated iPod dock...Though they can conceivably be set up anywhere in your home or office, the iH70 speakers were designed to stand off to the left and right of a computer monitor, augmenting whatever integrated audio hardware your PC or Mac might have...iHome includes cables to connect the speakers to each other—even a few feet away—plus your computer’s audio port and USB port, the latter constituting iH70’s most interesting feature...We may have preferred the 200ID’s sound to the iH70’s overall, but as noted, judging these systems purely on audio quality misses a part of the value equation...Overall, the iH70 strikes us as a pretty good iPod speaker system with a semi-novel USB synchronization feature and an all-in-one design that some users will prefer to separately buying an iPod dock and speaker system..." read more »

"First is the shiny, expensive Philips DCM230, and then we move to the comparatively affordable iHome iH8...Philips is one of those companies that you can rely on to produce a good looking product...All in all, it's a good range of options for the Philips...I bought an iHome iH8 iPod Clock/Radios about a year and a half ago..." read more »

"Today, we review one speaker that’s decidedly in the SoundDock-alike camp—Klipsch’s iGroove SXT ($170)—and one that’s not, iHome’s iH80 OutLoud ($100...iGroove SXT is, in essence, Klipsch’s best attempt yet to offer a lower-priced, different-looking, and similar-sounding alternative to SoundDock, and iH80 is iHome’s best-looking semi-portable speaker to date, with a cool rounded cube design similar to Griffin’s wireless Evolve system...iH80’s power button is huge, set alongside volume buttons in front of a Universal iPod dock that’s centered at the speaker’s front...On a positive note, iH80’s sound remains pretty consistent as you turn the volume up to the system’s loudest—and loud—levels, exhibiting additional distortion only at its peak...it’s a distinctive-looking, somewhat novel speaker given its $100 price point, offering users the option of toting around a large but otherwise conveniently portable monaural loudspeaker that can be expanded with additional mic and speaker add-ons if you desire..." read more »

"It is painfully, completely obvious that iHome’s new iHC5 ($150) wanted to be your iPhone’s best friend...But the iPhone doesn’t really want to play with the iHC5, so as a result, this new Bluetooth 1.2 (with A2DP) speaker system is forced to make nice with other, less popular friends...None of these devices can be charged from iHC5...But you can make the iPhone connect via Bluetooth to iHC5 to use it as a speakerphone...Whenever the iPhone (and, most likely, other cell phones) are near the iHC5, the speakers perform not only radio or connected audio, but also a lot of interference from the phone’s communications with nearby cell towers..." read more »

"• Decent volume for small room • Protects nano with full access to controls • Good battery life...• Short range • SRS TruBass setting doesn?t do much...In 2007, Cusack would be holding the iHome2Go iHM1 portable iPod nano speaker over his head, with one hand left to get the girl...The opening at the top of the iHM1 lets you drop your player into a compartment where an audio plug easily slides into the nano's base headphone outlet...The iHM1's sound..." read more »

"The worth of the iHome iHM2B is all dependent on just how ‘portable’, you need your iPod dock to be...Like I mentioned before, you’ll like the iHM2B based mostly on how much you’ll be moving it around...The speaker quality is decent for something its size, but you’ll be sacrificing good sound for portability...I believe that the iHM2B is a great deal if you can find it in the $20-$25 price range..." read more »