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4th September 2011
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| Gear nut  Joined: Nov 2009
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Thread Starter | The £350,000 iPod dock so big you'll need a ladder to use it
This must be the ultimate iPod dock... Mark Prigg | Blogs | Evening Standard  Text from article linked above: IT costs £350,000, is 11 feet tall and is billed as the ultimate accessory for the discerning iPod owner. The AeroDreamOne is so large, it requires owners to climb a ladder just to plug their gadget in. Designed by French musician Jean Michel Jarre, it is believed to be the world’s most expensive iPod dock. Its makers say it has “all the precision and grace of a new Formula 1 Grand Prix engine”,and claim it enhances the physical and emotional pleasure of listening to music. However, they warn prospective purchasers the 10,000 watt speaker does require a large room - and, weighing in at 62 stone, strong floors. As well as working with an iPhone, iPod and iPad, owners can plug in a turnable or any other gadget to play back music. Jean Michel Jarre , who unveiled the speaker today at the IFA trade show in Berlin, claims he developed it in response to the emergence of small hifis and cheap headphones . “Not that long ago, the Hi-Fi system was the centrepiece of our living rooms, but as music has become completely portable, even nomadic, we’ve become less demanding of the quality of our listening devices,” he said. “Today we listen to music on small plastic speakers connected to computers and tiny earphones which use the vagaries of the human skull as their imperfect resonator. “This goes against everything I believe in as a musician. AeroDreamOne is fantastic, but it’s no fantasy.”
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5th September 2011
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Apr 2008 Location: Canada, B.C.
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How many pounds or Kilos is 62 stones ? I wish the brits would stop using that old dark ages weigh scale system  go modern - imperial or metric !!
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5th September 2011
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14th September 2011
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| Gear interested Joined: Jul 2011
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Nothing else to do with their money I see. *sigh*
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14th September 2011
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| Gear addict Joined: May 2009 Location: London
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To need a ladder to place the ipad in the dock is crazy!!!! Why would you want to do that? Can I see some rich old man, who can afford this nonsense climbing up a ladder to look at the ipad screen. Can I F***!!!# Imagine having your friends around and you have had a bit too much to drink. "Oh, I want to climb this ladder and stick my ipad in the dock!!!" Up you go.....down you go..... A&E for you! |
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14th September 2011
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| Gear Head Joined: Aug 2006
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Ehm ?? ...why does the dock bit have to be on top  J  |
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14th September 2011
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| Gear maniac Joined: Jan 2009
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400 000 € to climb a ladder I never been a fan of JM Jarre but here I find him completely ridiculous | |
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15th September 2011
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incredible. why couldn't he just feed a few families for a couple of years? Hell, even using it on hookers and coke seems more sensible.... keep moving, nothing to see here.
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15th September 2011
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Richmond Hill, Ontario (Canada)
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15th September 2011
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15th September 2011
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15th September 2011
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| Gear maniac Joined: Aug 2011 Location: Cambridge, UK
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If the ladder's there, and he's making his way up, swipe it from under his feet. If the ladder ain't there, the MP3 player remains untouched, and the bones of the bloke in question remain unbroken, unlike when the ladder's there! Otherwise, there's no point to this product, unless you like Phillipe Starck and whatever made the 80's look crap...
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15th September 2011
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if you have enough money for that thing you have enough money to send someone up the ladder for you dont you think?
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15th September 2011
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15th September 2011
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| Gear nut Joined: Dec 2010 Location: Amsterdam
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GOSH!!!!! why would I spend over 50 eoruos on a mp3 device. mp3!!! and its not even wireless so i walk around the room with my iphone. when i get a call i have to climb AGAIN!! to only recieve call. i respect people who are gonna get this beast though.lol.
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31st October 2011
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Feb 2011 Location: Houston
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53,000 lb pounds? Yeah right!
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3rd November 2011
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Jul 2003 Location: Tujunga
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And I wish the USA would come out of the dark ages and join the rest of the world with metric dimensions.
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3rd November 2011
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| Gear addict  Joined: Jul 2010 Location: Lubbock, TX
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I wish I had 8 of Geoff's preamps appear in my rack in the morning!
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3rd November 2011
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| Gear maniac Joined: Jun 2009
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being someone who will never be in a position to buy this (i dont like ipods) i can say it looks badass and its great to have to climb a ladder to plug it in! why wouldnt you want to do that?
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3rd November 2011
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| Gear Head Joined: Nov 2010 Location: Brooklyn
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All that to play a crappy mp3?
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3rd November 2011
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3rd November 2011
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2003 Location: Tujunga
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What I found amusing was that all my life, even school days in the 1950's, I was using verniers and micrometers that measured in decimal thousands of an inch. I looked at a venier caliper recently in the USA and the damn thing measured in 1/128th's of an inch! Yea Gods... what the Heck was wrong with hundreds and thousand's of an inch? In the 21st century? | |
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3rd November 2011
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3rd November 2011
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2003 Location: Tujunga
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My iPhone's Appzilla 2 program has a neat ruler and spirit level applications! | |
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4th November 2011
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4th November 2011
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jul 2003 Location: Tujunga
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Nah! Too lazy to bring about improvements more like! Two examples... and green issues too... 1. My Grandparent's home and my parent's home had instantaneous water heaters (made by Ascot I think)... they only draw gas (or electricity) when hot water is needed... they don't waste energy heating a big water tank 24 hours a day... these are only just being introduced in the USA in recent years... 2. Even when I worked at Neve I had a combined Washer/Tumble dryer... you could load it up in the morning and everything would be washed and dried in the evening when you got home. Also, the dryer did not use a vent as it disposed of the steam by condensing it and pumping it out with the water from the dryer.... these are not available in the USA even now.... And we didn't use flappers in our toilets! | |
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4th November 2011
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| Gear Guru  Joined: Jan 2004 Location: out in the dirt.
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JMJ must be smoking some AMAZING weed.....
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5th November 2011
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Mar 2009 Location: London
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Expensive fantasy. Wait for the ad...  | |
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5th November 2011
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for that much, the ipod should have it's own elevator. |
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5th November 2011
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| Gear Head  Joined: May 2010 Location: Warwickshire, England.
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I don't actually own an iphone so I wonder if one comes with it. The last thing I would want to do is fork out for this and then find I out I couldn't actually use it until I had splashed out some more. Quote:
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