Fatman ITube or other??

googles84

Im looking for a good music system for my ipod. I had been looking at the Fatman iTube Valve Dock but with my own speakers, not heard good reviews about the speakers.

The problem is, i would love some sort of wireless system to listen to music in other rooms.

Does anyone know if the Fatman can be made wireless eg by adding seperate wireless speakers.

If not can anyone suggest a good wireless system.

Thanks in advance

buglawton

I would use the Fatman in the main room and buy a cheap iPod dock for every other room I want music in. An iPod is portable - can be put in whichever room you need.

danthemoneysavingman

sonos? bit pricey maybe??

fwor

This does not answer your question, but...

Am I the only person to find it bizarre to put a valve amp stage into an iPod docking station?

Ok, I can understand some people preferring the sound of an all-valve (i.e. no transistors involved at all) amplifier - because the nature of the distortion that valves give is slightly different - but what is the point of sticking three valves in a unit where the signal has already passed through a few thousand semiconductor junctions anyway? And in this case, as far as I can establish, the valves are not even there as an output stage - the power amp stage is semiconductor-based. So what is the point, other than having them glow nicely?

The reason that manufacturers stopped using valves in everything other than "high end" (supposedly) audio is because they are inefficient, fragile, microphonic and have a short working life compared to semiconductors. So why do some people still consider them to be "better" for this sort of application?

buglawton

Valves can add subtle harmonics that the human ear finds pleasant, additionally they can produce a resonant bass or a 'sympathetic' treble, again due to their less than scientific accuracy of reproduction. So they might work well with and iPod or digital source. Only your ears will tell you. In these days of everything being digital-efficient, a valve amp might be a nice bit of recreation.