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[Closed] Portable iPod/Phone speakers, any suitable for use in a car?!

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Unusual question I know, and I only ask because the stereo in my car is absolute shite and the car is so old I don't want to spend loads on a new head-unit and speakers.

I've been looking at these on Amazon and wondered if the sound they kicked out was loud enough to hear in a car...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Generation-Capsule-iPhone-Laptop-Speaker/dp/B001UEBN42/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1313692980&sr=1-1

...or can you recommend any others.

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Posted : 18/08/2011 7:08 pm
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I had a listen to that speaker yesterday and it's very impressive for it's size (and money). I'm tempted to get one myself.


 
Posted : 18/08/2011 8:49 pm
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Had mine for just under a year, it is a great little speaker


 
Posted : 18/08/2011 8:51 pm
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Honestly - I'm a hugh fan of these. I got a pair for a nephew a xmas pressie a few years back and was so impressed we got some for me and missus's holidays with the ipod / laptop etc.

Realistically though - your car speakers must be truly bloody awful if these are in the ball park. They will be loud enough - but the louder they go the less bass they have - I dont know if that makes sense. They are really loud though and survive a really long time without charges. In a car you will be turning them down before they reach their limit.

Overall summary - a massive improvement on laptop or iphone speakers (and esp great for laptop dvds) but imo not for a car.


 
Posted : 18/08/2011 8:57 pm
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Best bit is you can plug them into each other if you have more than one and they then get even bloody louder 😉

I was given one as a present and my wife nicked it off me and I've not seen it since!


 
Posted : 18/08/2011 9:09 pm
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the car is so old I don't want to spend loads on a new head-unit and speakers.

Nothing to stop you taking the stuff out again when you sell the car


 
Posted : 18/08/2011 9:37 pm
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Really not appropriate for a car. Yes, they go pretty loud in a quiet room, and the bass is surprising for such a tiny thing, but any background noise and they struggle. The leads are very short, only about 2", so not easy to set apart from each other. When I bought mine, there were only display boxes, which were several inches square, so when the shop assistant came back with this tiny little plastic cube I thought she'd made a mistake. I was impressed enough to go and buy a second one, though. Brilliant with the phone, I'll be taking them on holiday next month.


 
Posted : 18/08/2011 9:38 pm
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they are great for the money and size but honestly i think you will be disappointed in the car. they are just not big enough. They are the sort of thing you take to work, take on a bivi adventure, take to the park etc. not the car, some cheapo halfords speakers would be better


 
Posted : 18/08/2011 9:41 pm

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