Gadget of the Day: Roth Music Cocoon
How frickin' cool is this absurd, retro futuristic, tube powered, $750 iPod doc?
(speakers NOT included)
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Posted by: PeterR | Oct 22, 2007 7:50:18 PM
Isn't retro futuristic an oxymoron?
Posted by: Winston Munn | Oct 22, 2007 8:22:05 PM
I've got a tube amp kit sitting in my basement, waiting for a rainy winter weekend. Safe to say it won't look that cool.
Posted by: F. Frederson | Oct 22, 2007 8:24:06 PM
Barry,
If it's not made with 100% Hyper-pure cooper with a GyroQuadratic, tri-braided field geometry VariStrand™, and precision machined pure silver interconnects wrapped in a clear Teflon® dielectric, then there is no way I'm hooking it up to my audio rig!
Posted by: Christopher Laudani | Oct 22, 2007 9:11:19 PM
So tell me again, how do it restore the fidelity and accuracy lost by compression?
Oh, and, is the iPhone model twice as expensive?
Posted by: Jim Bergsten | Oct 22, 2007 9:22:35 PM
Those "tubes" aren't real, are they? They're just for show, right?
In that case, I'd rather listen to my Grandmother's old radio, from 1946, where the tubes have never been replaced and continue to work every time I turn it on.
Beautiful warm sound coming from a huge World War II speaker. Plays 78's as well -- I've got a Jelly Roll Morton classic going right now.
That Roth thing doesn't play 78's, does it?
Posted by: John Navin | Oct 22, 2007 9:38:49 PM
@Jim Bergsten
One can put lossless audio on an iPod.
Otherwise: Oooh, pretty fire-bottles.
Posted by: Captain Ned | Oct 22, 2007 10:13:24 PM
I bet you can get better sound by spending $10 for one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/Nyko-Stereo-Link-for-iPod/dp/B0007LI13U
and plugging it into a genuinely hi-end preamp and amp setup.
Posted by: Mike Anderson | Oct 22, 2007 10:48:33 PM
I need new glasses. At first, I didn't realize those were tubes. Remember how in movies 30+ years ago people conducted business only after offering their guests a drink with the classic line "what'll ya have?" So, I thought they were bottles off expensive liqueurs protected under Get-Smart/Batman-phone glass cake covers.
bbrrrrrrrng! Chief, it's for you:
http://www.millionaireplayboy.com/images/batphone/finishedphone.jpg
Posted by: wunsacon | Oct 22, 2007 11:12:49 PM
You don't need new glasses. I thought those were some kind of liquor decanters at first glance as well.
BTW, I've got a couple of Harmon-Kardon tube amps in my closet that my older brother gave me. Seems just about everything goes retro if you wait long enough.
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Posted by: VJ | Oct 23, 2007 1:24:24 AM
The ipod-minibar.
Posted by: cm | Oct 23, 2007 2:57:51 AM
Thanks, VJ and cm. So, what'll ya have?
;-)
Posted by: wunsacon | Oct 23, 2007 3:40:25 AM
Cool & retarded, all at once.
Posted by: bucky katt | Oct 23, 2007 9:25:29 AM
I bet rap sounds much better through those tubes.
Posted by: Fred | Oct 23, 2007 10:00:18 AM
It would be very cool if I paid $3 for it at Salvation Army but not so cool at $750.
Would I not rather put a $100 ipod dock on top of a genuine $3 tube radio? (Actually I
have one in my basement... free)
But yes it does LOOK very cool!
Posted by: Bob A | Oct 23, 2007 11:03:22 AM
