Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin iPod Speakers Really Looks Like Namesake
July 20, 2008 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Portable Audio
The biggest temptation the Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin iPod Speakers brings is very childish. It makes you want to take out the portable media player (supports any iPod that fits into a 30-pin connector and any player with a 3.5 mm audio jack), carry it up and make propeller sounds, imagining your on the Hindenburg’s maiden voyage perhaps? But then again, that would look really weird to whoever you wanted to share your portable audio with, and a total waste of the $600 price tag.
The B&W Zeppelin features DSP, and over 100W of power divided equally between the bass and treble. Pretty powerful, but it’s reliance on the wall socket (i.e., no battery-power option) means that the Zeppelin fantasy is totally impractical. It’s currently available at the Apple Store and Amazon. [insert propeller sound here]
Great, another iPod-only speaker set. I don’t know if anyone realizes this, but there are other audio players besides the iPod! It’s almost impossible to find a decent speaker set for the Creative Zen players.
Well, as written, these speakers can also accept players that have a 3.5mm audio jack (practically all of them?). Though it’s obvious that these speakers really were designed to accept the iPod.