To me speakers are a very important part of my life, sitting in front of a desk most of the day I need my music to keep me going, sometimes I’m here for 12-15 hours per day and if I had to do it in silence I would go nuts. Of course you’ve got a plethora of choices when it comes to speakers for your computer or music system, which on you pick depends on budget, space and functionality.

Samsontech has sent me over their StudioDock 3i Active USB Monitors, yeah it’s a fancy name for a set of speakers, but they’re so much more than that. These speakers include an iPod dock, USB input and standard RCA inputs as well so they can be used for much more than just your PC. On the front of the speakers is even another input jack and a headphone jack along with a volume control knob to easily adjust the sound. These are a relatively inexpensive set of speaker that are decent sounding and can provide a nice audio solution for someone with an iPod and any other audio devices.

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Speakers are a very interesting product in that they come in all shapes and sizes, and pretty much everyone has them, but not everyone really give much thought to them.

Today I’ve got an unusual product for review it’s a speaker, but not in the traditional way, this thing can be set on fire and even run through a carwash and still work great. The product is the OutCast from SoundCast Systems and it’s a wireless portable speaker system that comes with a transmitter called the iCast with a built in iPod dock. One nice thing though is that is can accept most any audio source, at the transmitter or at the OutCast unit itself. It is a bit on the large side, in both price and weight, but overall it’s a very unique product that works perfectly, sounds excellent and is just really cool…

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