Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Portable Video

We’re used to large quantities of “me too” design and product from most smaller manufacturers — with China hosting some of the worst offenders — but Edifier is breaking the mold with a couple of new home audio products. The Chinese company has put quite a bit of thought and design into its “Active IR” Rainbow wireless audio system, which uses a wide IR spectrum for ultra-low-loss uncompressed digital transmission. All it takes is a 3.5mm input and you’re set, with transmissions from the base station to receivers working at up to 15 meters. The sound is supposedly CD quality, and it

certainly sounded good to our ears. The other item of note is the iF380 iPod dock (pictured), which includes a 7-inch LCD, SD card and USB inputs, and some 25 Watt speakers. The €350 pricetag might be hard to swallow when that rolls around in July, but the unit is certainly quite a bit sexier than its competition.

 

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Original post by Paul Miller