Holy Cow! I won something --- and it wasn’t a scam email!
January 5, 2010 Post a Comment Wednesday, January 6th, 2010, Netcast 998
When I saw the subject line: You won a Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Mini, I moved my finger toward the ‘delete’ key. But something told me I should open the email instead. Surprise, I really did win. At a press event I had been to everyone was invited to throw a business card in a fish bowl to win a B&W Zeppelin Mini. At this event I saw the Mini for the first time, but I was already familiar with regular Zeppelin. If you haven’t seen one, it looks like – well, a Zeppelin. It’s long – more than 25” long - and pointed at both ends. The Mini is much smaller, but still different from other iPod docks on the market. It has a bright mirror-like plate at the top. It looks very high tech, but attracts fingerprints like an magnet. The Mini comes with a pebble remote and an AC adapter. (There’s no battery operation option.) You have to make sure you don’t lose the remote because the unit itself only has on/off and volume. But when you connect this to your iPod, iPhone or Touch, you will use their on screen controls. The arm that holds your iPod device rotates if you want to watch wide screen video. You can also connect any other MP3 player or music source through the 3.5mm auxiliary jack in the rear. I think the unit doesn’t make sense if you’re not going to use an iPod device because the empty bracket will just sit there in plain view at the very top of the unit. You can connect the Mini to your computer via USB to listen to tunes on your hard drive, but it’s not wireless as many other iPod docks are. There’s a light in the center of the mesh speaker grille that changes color and/or blinks to tell you what the Mini is doing. Inside the unit (the Mini is only about 12” wide) are twin 3-inch glass fiber drivers. There’s a rear bass port and a 36-watt amplifier. The sound is good, but to my ears it really lacks bass. And it’s not inexpensive at $399.99. (The full-sized Zeppelin is $599.99.)
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