| 01/03/2010 | Music-Making Masterpiece | |
| Hi Fi Choice magazine's chief loudpseaker reviewer Paul Messenger has had a close encounter with the awe-inspiring JBL Everests, and lives to describe his contact with musical greatness. Click For More Info... |
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| 22/02/2010 | Thumbs up for Cadre No1 | |
| Televisions.com has had a long look at Image Screens’ Cadre No 1 screen. Reviewer Florian Friedrich says “ The Cadre No.1 is priced at 2,000 GBP, putting it roughly in the middle of the price range for this size class, but its performance is up there with the best.” Awarding a 7.9 score, the site loved the screen’s excellent masking, accurate colours and bright images and says it’s perfectly suited to 1080p, but does caution that it needs a dark room! Which is fair for a specialised home theatre screen. Click For More Info... |
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| 22/02/2010 | Levinson No512 is 'Editor's Choice' | |
| In a rare press outing, Mark Levinson's No512 CD/SACD player has impressed leading UK hi-fi reviewer Keith Howard. Writing in February 2010's issue of reference hi-fi magazine Hi Fi News & Record Review, Mr Howard says: "Law of diminishing returns? Piffle. Whoever coined that phrase didn't know high-end audio...Once again the No512 delivered exquisite detail but without ever throwing it in your face.Above all the sound was effortlessly spacious and refined, in the way that turns short listening sessions into long ones..." Click For More Info... |
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| 22/02/2010 | CSE Welcomes Harman's HPAV Brands | |
| CSE is delighted to welcome the world famous brands of Harman's High performance AV (HPAV) division to our product range. They include JBL's awesome Synthesis home theatre systems, comprising all speakers, processing, amplification and professional standards of equalisation through which they are able to reproduce the world's most accurate film sound for the home environment.
As inspiring to generations of audiophiles is the extraordinary Mark Levinson brand, the doyen of the American high-end hi-fi market. Renowned among experts for driving down distortion to utterly negligible levels, Mark Levinson is just about the most seductive and charismatic of all hi-fi electronics ranges. CSE already looks after HPAV's Revel brand of loudspeakers but now is able to offer the natural synergy that exits between Revel and Mark Levinson - Revel was created for Mark Levinson after all. The fourth HPAV brand, and certainly no less prestigious is Lexicon - the champion of pro sound processing for over four decades and the marque that's still recognised as the supreme choice for high-end home cinema processing. Find JBL Synthesis, Mark Levinson, Revel and Lexicon in the 'Brands' section.
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| 28/10/2009 | Max Marks for Model L | |
| Hi Fi World is perhaps the hardest to please of all the UK’s specialist hi-fi magazines. And so it is especially gratifying to find a one-box music system gaining maximum marks for its sound quality! Yes, EmbracingSound does work, and here’s the proof. Click For More Info.. |
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| 25/08/2009 | Primare not Primark | |
| Achieving astonishingly good test results for low A/V jitter and power consumption, in the latest Home Cinema Choice magazine, the DVDI10 proves that even a combi system can aspire to high-end build and performance. Click For More Info... |
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| 16/08/2009 | loud and proud | |
| Of Geneva's awesome Model XL system, the UK’s top Hi Fi Guide What Hi Fi? says ‘if you’re the kind of person who fancies more of a stylish centrepiece that doubles-up as a party-rocking performer, you may just have found your prime candidate.’
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| 07/08/2009 | Top of the Top 101 | |
| September 09's T3 magazine publishes a list of the ‘101 gadgets you can’t live without’, and GenevaSound’s Model XL features at the very top of the first page, just above the iPod Classic 120GB. They say ‘this hulkingly substantial iPod dock sounds beautiful at lower volumes and blows your molars out at higher ones. Nothing else compares, really.'
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| 03/08/2009 | Primare top scores for sound | |
| Primare's new pre/power combo has gained the best marks (80%) for sound quality in a group test published in Hi Fi News' September 09 edition. In collecting a 'Highly Commended' badge the Pre30/A33.2 combo beat NAD, Cyrus, Myryad and Arcam in sonic superiority. The review says that when listening to the Primares '...it was evident that the sound had moved into true high end territory.'
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| 31/07/2009 | Loaded Loves Geneva XL | |
| Lads’ mag ‘Loaded’ has branded Genevasound’s Model XL with a rare ‘loadedLoves’ logo, having experienced the XL’s peerless levels of sound quality and power, unmatched in the ‘dock’ market. In its September 09 issue ‘Right Stuff’ column, the hitherto unshockable editor writes ‘this giant, piano black obelisk has taken the iPod dock to new heights. Like a huge reggae sound system, the aptly named Geneva XL kicks out 600 watts of pure, room-filling stereo. With a built-in CD player and FM receiver, it’s futuristic, sexy and not for the shy. This year’s must-have also comes in white or red.’
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| 29/06/2009 | One L of a performer | |
| What Hi Fi? has found the Geneva Model L to be a cut above the usual iPod Dock fair. In delivering a five star verdict, What Hi Fi? concludes that ‘if you’re looking for an iPod-based true all-in-one with a lot more musicality than the norm, you need to hear the Geneva Model L.’
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| 17/03/2009 | Geneva XL makes Top 100 Gadgets | |
| There are only two iPod docks in the list of the Top 100 gadgets provided by technology bible T3. One of them is the glorious uber-dock, the Geneva Model XL. Making its entry at number 52 in the countdown, which includes gadgets of every function, shape and colour, the behemoth dock is lauded for its uncompromised sound quality and audacious style. The mag says: It's hard to overstate the sheer, balls-out power of this joyously over-sized, high-end iPod dock. Genevas 30-kilo, 600W sonic behemoth sounds beautiful at lower levels. Crank it up and it practically blows your head off, with room-shaking bass and outrageous volume. Also available in red and black.
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| 11/02/2009 | Uber Server: FullHD Video, 24/96 music | |
| The future's not all about streaming: where should you preserve your favourites at the highest quality? Performing at the cutting edge of entertainment server technology is the truly high-end Studio6 server from UK multi-room wizards Living Control. Not only does it offer two simultaneous streams of FullHD (1080p) video, but four simultaneous streams of high definition 24bit/96kHz audio as well. As powerful as entertainment servers come, it offers a home full of the highest quality audio and video entertainment from a single box. Its advanced modular design, which is created and built in the UK, is powerfully future-proofed and its control interface is simple to use and sophisticated in operation. Conceived for duties at the centre of the finest multi-room entertainment systems, Living Control's Studio6 defines the shape of future home entertainment and storage. Click For More Info... |
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| 19/01/2009 | Geneva L passes the 'Stuff' test | |
| Describing it as ‘big, bassy, beautiful and brilliant’ the UK’s biggest selling gadget magazine ‘Stuff’ has given a maximum five star mark to Geneva’s Model L. What’s more the Model L wins a round-up of five docks in Stuff’s February 09 issue. The magazine, which has reviewed practically every dock available, reckons it sounds ‘bloomin’ marvellous’ having an ‘articulate, detailed and dynamic’ sound.
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| 23/12/2008 | The end of built-in obsolescence? | |
| The audiophile SP32 eight-channel pre-amplifier/processor begins a new chapter in the evolution of home entertainment product design. Its innovative modular architecture allows it to keep pace with advances in the performance of digital storage/playback mediums and avoids waste and obsolescence. Consequently, the SP32 may be the very first of a new generation of ‘greener’ home entertainment products, more in tune with environmental concerns.
Its modular design, borrowed from the PC industry and making its debut in high-quality home entertainment product, allows for entire audio/video processing and control sections to be upgraded with proprietary Primare boards, incorporating thoroughly evaluated and optimised versions of the latest technologies and connectors. This makes the SP32 an ideal high-end audio and video processing platform for many years to come.
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| 23/12/2008 | Leaner, Cleaner, Greener Amp! | |
| Primare is doing its bit for a greener planet with a new range of upgradable modular designs, as epitomised by the SPA22 home cinema amplifier. The SPA22’s innovative open architecture looks beyond the latest fad or next format war by providing an easy way to upgrade entire audio, video and control sections as new technologies arrive. As with PC upgrades proprietary video, DSP and communications boards, incorporating optimised versions of the latest digital processing, are simply plugged-in to replace the previous ones. In a single step, Primare has ‘built-out’ waste and obsolescence and secured long-lasting satisfaction for lovers of film and music.
What’s more, the new SPA22 combines its upgradable topology with five discrete channels of super-efficient UFPD amplification rated at 120W each. Ultra Fast Power Device technology uses a purified Class D/switch-mode design exclusive to Primare, which delivers a natural dynamic quality of sound across the entire audible spectrum while saving around 70% of the energy used by a conventional amp of similar specification
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| 23/12/2008 | One-box System for HD Music & Film | |
| Iconic Scandinavian hi-fi designer Primare Systems is launching the DVDi10, a single box solution for high performance video and audio. Inspired by its award-winning forerunner the CDi10, the DVDi10 is a beautifully compact entertainment system that adds Full HD video to a globally successful mix of style and performance. In the DVDi10, a single slender box provides you with a full multimedia experience: superb wide bandwidth 2.1 channel audio, video in the highest definition, DAB/FM or FM/AM radio, state-of-the-art power amplification and iPod® control. Click For More Info... |
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| 12/12/2008 | Ace of Bass! | |
| The high-brow Hi Fi and AV bible Hi Fi News has conferred a ‘highly commended’ badge upon Audio Pro’s ACE-Bass 3 active subwoofer. Having undergone the most rigorous scrutiny in the hi fi publishing industry, AP’s compact bass engine emerged from a test including Eclipse, Mordaunt-Short, Sunfire and Velodyne subs with honour enhanced. Grand inquisitor Keith Howard found this ‘a fulfilling sub to listen to: its sound quality isn’t state-of-the-art but it’s not far short, which is a fine result for the price.’ He concludes that ‘there’s a strong case for considering the Audio Pro ACE-bass 3 the best value sub here. It offers full-bandwidth performance and delivers a clean engaging sound.’
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| 12/12/2008 | Pro by Name, Pro by Nature | |
| Just when you thought that only integrated solutions were the way forward, DVDO’s VP50 Pro has proved that there’s a place at AV’s top table for stand-alone processors if they’re good enough. For video expert and enthusiast John Archer, the slim but awesomely powerful VP50 Pro is near miraculous.
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| 24/09/2008 | 'Go' for Leather | |
| Audio Pro’s new Porto 'Go' is a leather-clad, genuinely portable mains or battery-powered music system for the iPod®. Few battery-powered iPod systems are as tactile and carriage-friendly as Porto Go, and unlike many mains-powered systems of similar sonic potential, it can travel literally anywhere!
Porto Go is the perfect Christmas gift for all iPod owners. Upholstered in immaculately-stitched red, white or black leather, this slim but highly durable design is ‘Made for iPod’ and can dock all music players except ‘Shuffle’. Navigation through songs, artists and compilations can be made from the fascia buttons or through the neat credit-card sized remote (with a 5 metre range) supplied. For added convenience, the remote can be stored with Porto Go by clicking into a pocket on the back of the unit.
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| 17/09/2008 | Give Your TV The Edge | |
| The advent of DVDO’s amazingly advanced EDGE video processor/scaler marks the end of all video compatibility headaches and disappointments and the beginning of easy, inexpensive and powerful picture enhancement.
This user friendly but technically advanced little box is the perfect solution for all those frustrated to discover that rather than enhance DVD, TV and HD satellite pictures, the added resolution of their expensive Full HD display can expose their imperfections. By employing a suite of sophisticated image processing technologies developed for elite home cinemas, EDGE will upgrade dramatically the video experience of any video source, removing noise and reducing motion artefacts to produce a more natural-looking image with smoother movement and greatly improved detail at up to Full HD resolution.
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| 20/08/2008 | Geneva XL is the 'uncontested king of power-docks.' | |
| Anointed as ‘the uncontested king of power-docks’, and feted with expressions of joy, delight, even adoration, Geneva's Model XL one-box music system has emerged victorious from a group test of iPod docks in the October 2008 issue of UK’s most ascendant gadget mag T3. Reviewer Duncan Bell says, ‘it’s hard to overstate the sheer balls-out power of this 30-kilo, 600W sonic behemoth. It’s capable of incredible sweetness and precision at lower volume, but buying this and keeping it down is like buying a fast car and then not breaking the speed limit…(if you) want the ultimate one-box sonic experience, resistance to the awesome crushing might of the XL is futile.’
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| 11/08/2008 | 'great big slab of audio excellence' | |
| In iPod User magazine reviewer Cliff Joseph is clealy impressed with this 'great big slab of audio excellence. 'Describing the Geneva Model L as a set of iPod speakers', he continues, 'is a bit like saying that David Beckham has a few quid in the bank. It’s a complete home audio system that just happens to have an iPod dock attached…it’s a terrific sound – clean and clear, and more than powerful enough to fill any room in your home, or even a small hall or warehouse.' Click For More Info... |
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| 18/05/2008 | Elite Video Processing | |
| CSE recently concluded a deal to distribute Anchor Bay’s DVDO video processors and scalers. Famed throughout the world for their abilities to improve and scale any video image, DVDO’sVP50 range will provide the ultimate in versatile outboard video processing alongside CSE’s ever-widening range of video solutions. Announcing the move, CSE’s MD Ian Severs said ‘we’re delighted to work with such expert and dedicated people to bring yet another specialised high performance solution to our portfolio. DVDO’s International Sales Manager Francois Pheulpin said ‘the strength of CSE’s portfolio and established dealer relationships convinced us that this business can add real momentum to our progress in the UK’. The pinnacle of Anchor Bay’s skill and creativity can be found in the DVDO® iScan™ VP50PRO the world’s first THX Video Certified video scaler and processor. Blu-ray, PS3, HD-DVD, DVD, Sky HD, Games Consoles and PCs are all equally and powerfully enhanced. With HDMI 1.3 connectivity and state of the art 10-bit precision processing, all sources, all formats and all video resolutions can be viewed on the latest Full HD displays at the highest achievable picture quality. Click For More Info... |
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| 18/05/2008 | CSE Welcomes Mirage | |
| World renowned for its quality and innovation, Klipschgroup’s Mirage brand of loudspeakers has made a perfect landing at CSE. The award-winning range of speaker systems for stereo and multi-channel sound, indoors and out, utilises the Company’s proprietary Omnipolar™ and Omniguide™ technologies to generate a higher proportion of reflected sound than conventional designs. The result is an incredibly lifelike sound imbued with an impressive level of detail and a wide, natural scale and atmosphere. Speaking about the new partnership Mirage’s European Retail Services Director Dick Tuerlings said ‘Mirage’s range is all about providing high performance solutions that will inspire installers to re-appraise what’s possible in sound. Mirage will dovetail perfectly with CSE’s solutions-oriented business.’ CSE’s MD Ian Severs said ‘Mirage’s innovation will widen the choice available to our dealer/installers and provide the unobtrusive design they need coupled with an astonishingly big and involving sound. I know there’s so much more to come from Mirage.’ Click For More Info |
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| 03/04/2008 | Mondials are World-Class | |
| Committed hi fi enthusiast journal Hi Fi World, has reserved its highest accolade for the diminutive leather-bound Audio Pro MI mini-monitor. Collecting a maximum five globes, the M1 charmed the World crew with its blend of novelty and performance. In his review, Editor David Price said ‘the best thing is that their tiny cabinets are utterly inaudible – giving one a sense of an electrostatic-like out of the box listening experience. The music simply hangs in the room… images are located quite accurately. Tonally, the Audio Pros are as warm as they can be…the mid-band sounds clean without being dry and analytical. Beautifully built and sweetly styled, with a pleasantly warm and clean sound – these are lovely little boxes.'
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| 20/03/2008 | Porto is a Top Dock! | |
| If proof of the re-priced Porto’s audio prowess were needed, it can be found within the lofty portals of audiophile hi fi magazine 'Hi Fi World'. Editor David Price, who's used to mixing with and judging the finest audio equipment on the planet, was full of praise for Porto's quality – ‘It was genuinely detailed, with a surprisingly airy treble... Bass was powerful and firm whilst avoiding the usual boom you get with portable audio devices that attempt to reproduce low frequencies...It offers superb build and finish and sounds surprisingly civilised – an average iPod boom box it is not... At under £175 it’s competitively priced, and a good deal cheaper than Harman Kardon’s superb £250 Go & Play portable which is the one to beat on sonic grounds. Overall then a charming little music maker offering fine value for money’. Verdict 5 Worlds (Maximum score) March 2008 issue Click For More Info... |
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| 29/10/2007 | Geneva's musical miracles! | |
| From Switzerland, Geneva Lab is revolutionising home stereo by making great sound easy. For too long, we’ve been told that good sound comes only from stacks of components and speakers cluttering up a room. But great sound doesn’t always require piles of boxes and coils of cable. All it takes is the Geneva Sound System: a perfectly balanced array of components in one piano-lacquered cabinet.
It’s an all-in-one hi-fi that fits in the home as simply as a table lamp. In a choice of three sizes and piano lacquered colours, it offers an optimal, easy-to-use sound experience anywhere in the home; from a table top location or from an optional heavy-gauge aluminium stand. Each Geneva Sound System has iPod connectivity, a built-in low distortion CD player and digital FM radio tuner with external antenna for superior signal capture.
With up to six high performance drivers, including two powerful subwoofers in the Model XL, and up to 600 watts of pure digital amplification in one solid piano-lacquered cabinet, a Geneva Sound System is carefully calibrated, tuned and optimised to deliver a truly wide frequency range: from deep bass sounds as low as 35 Hz to beautifully defined highs up to 22,000 Hz (+/–2dB). This amazing performance, coupled with an incredible dynamic range, is why Geneva Sound Systems are compared with multi-component systems costing many times more. Click For More Info... |
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| 01/10/2007 | Sunday Telegraph Champ! | |
| The September 30th issue of the ‘Seven’ media supplement to the Sunday Telegraph (abc 641,385) featured a test of five subwoofers which pitted designs from leading woofer brands like REL, Velodyne and Monitor Audio against those from relative newcomers Audio Pro and Revel. The result was a decisive victory for the virtues of no-compromise engineering. Of all the subwoofers in the test, Revel’s amazingly compact but incredibly heavy B12 sub proves that when it comes to deep low frequency grunt, control and fidelity there’s no substitute for brute physicality. In awarding the B12 the ‘Choice’ of the test, reviewer Stephen Ferns says ‘…such ordinance gives the B12 supreme control when producing clean bass waves, which impart a sense of natural authenticity. It’s the kind of limb-pinning ballistic bass that evokes the sense of hysteria you get from a roller-coaster ride…’
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| 26/09/2007 | Real Leather Speakers | |
| Audio Pro’s new Mondial loudspeaker range is not painted or veneered, it’s upholstered! Around the compact, slim profile Mondial range, a choice of black or brown hide is beautifully stitched and finished to a standard reminiscent of high quality leather goods. Unlike the space-age synthetics of many speakers, which might look nice in a chemist’s shop, Mondial’s leather has a character more in keeping with softer furnishings and richer, more organic interiors.
Utilising high-performance drivers, including the latest super tweeters, the Mondial series comprises five speaker pairs, ranging from the ultra-compact M1 (which includes a wall bracket) to the slim floor-standing M5. With the M4 centre-channel speaker and two active AceBass subwoofers (also in leather) as multi-channel options, the Mondial range offers a novel, stylish and versatile choice of great sounding systems for the home.
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| 26/09/2007 | Multi-room iPod and more! | |
| Share your personal iPod® playlist with up to eight rooms in the house and swap playlists with as many as five other iPods with SpeakerCraft's innovative, easy-to -use and versatile MODE multi-room entertainment system. Uniquely intuitive, the MODE in-room Keypad provides full control of each iPod with all album information visible on a high resolution colour display. A dedicated base station allows each iPod to be conveniently located in any room while a single cable carries both audio and data back to a multi-room MZC controller. SpeakerCraft’s digital audio servers and other sources can also be fully controlled via the MODE keypad. Album, artist, song title, genre, and user defined play-lists can all be selected from its colour display in any room in your home. Share all your music, iPod content and more with the entire family via the MODE system and banish the space hungry, dust friendly, last century midi systems and radios forever. MODE multi-room is the 21st Century way to enjoy entertainment around the home! Click For More Info... |
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| 26/09/2007 | Please remember to breathe! | |
| If you're settling down to a night in front of the big screen, there's no replacing the heart-stopping speed and natural 3-D precision of the finest and most sophisticated digital audio processing on the Planet. The pioneers of multi-channel sound design are refining their original art to even greater levels as the new RV-5 receiver and MV-5 processor will prove. If you really want to suspend disbelief, Lexicon is where you begin and where you stay. Before you invest in the latest ordinary digital sound processing, you owe yourself a listen to the real deal. Just remember to breathe! Click For More Info... |
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| 25/09/2007 | 'ASTONISHING'! 1 box system | |
| Primare's CDI-10 has proved its true hi fi credentials by impressing the big-eared experts at Hi Fi Plus magazine - the UK's most esoteric hi fi publication. When compared with more traditional hi fi systems from big names like Rotel and Quad, the CDI10's sonic capabilities gave reviewer Chris Thomas a very pleasant surpise. Writing in issue 53 for an enthusiast audience equipped more often than not with whopper systems he says ‘this is a notable product that would satisfy many people’s ambitions. If you’re looking for a quality second system for the bedroom, study etc, this should be at the top of your list. But if you’re on a budget, then smile because the Gods are smiling too. In conclusion he implores his readers to 'take into consideration the fact that it is priced much lower than any of the other three, that it has an excellent FM section and a useful DAB ability, plus the fact that, as a single box design, it offers true convenience, only needs one shelf, one mains plug and requires no signal cabling and you have an astonishing package for the money.’ That's right, he did say 'ASTONISHING'!
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| 25/09/2007 | A Truely Portable Dock! | |
| Audio Pro’s battery/mains powered dock turns a personal player into a party animal! The iinnovative ‘Porto’ is a durable, leather-clad, uniquely equipped and genuinely portable music system custom-designed for any iPod or MP3 player. There are many lightweight battery-powered iPod systems available, but few are as well specified and carriage-friendly as the Porto. And unlike many mains-powered systems of similar sonic potential, the Porto can travel literally anywhere!
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