Blast master: Skip-sized iPod dock with 10,000 watts of amplification is world’s loudest – but it’ll cost you £20,000n
By Rob Waugh
Last updated at 9:31 AM on 13th January 2012
Las Vegas’s Consumer Electronics Show is rarely short on iPod docks – but this year, one blasted its way into the record books.
The new iNuke Boom is the world’s largest and loudest iPhone dock. It is eight feet wide, weighs 700lb, and pumps out 10,000 watts of amplification – all for the price of $ 30,000 (£19,500).
The iNuke boom offers 10,000 watts of amplification, is eight feet wide, and is yours for $ 30,000 (£19,500)
The new iNuke Boom is the world’s largest and loudest iPhone dock which is 8-foot wide, 4-foot-tall and weighs a massive 700lbs
Behringer, a German maker of professional audio and music equipment, created the speaker system. It also works with non-iPhone/iPod devices via Bluetooth.
‘Everyone is making something small,’ Mark Wilder, vice president of communications for Behringer said when the product was unveiled before this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
‘We said, ‘Let’s make something loud. I’m not sure our neighbours like us.’
Wilder admitted that the iNuke Boom is essentially a marketing tool to promote the company’s new Eurosound line of home audio equipment.
One of Behringer Eurosound’s ‘booth babes’. The company says that the dock, a prototype, is a real product, and that they will make them to order
‘We made this one as a prototype, but we will make them and sell them if we take orders for them,’ he said. ‘It is for the buyer who has everything.’
‘Probably someone with a sizable amount of property and wants to throw a party and wants something more elegant than a normal speaker system.’
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The Gigantic Behringer iNuke iPad/ iPod Dock
Got a lot of money to waste despite the failing financial crisis? Here’s a suggestion: buy an 8-foot, 700-pound iPhone/ iPad dock for a whopping $ 30,000. No kidding.
Behringer has announced its iNuke dock, which can blast your music tracks with 10,000 Watts of electricity while making your iPhone or iPad look really tiny. The iNuke is part of Behringer’s Eurosound brand, a high-end range of audio equipment that cashes in on the niche market of expensive headphones with not-so-impressive quality. Good thing for Behringer, though, is that the company banks on its reputation of offering good audio gears and mixers. Only this time, they are testing the waters of consumer electronics.
I could imagine the power the iNuke could bring to your house. Just make sure have your abode soundproofed.
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