Kicker are generally regarded as one of the best and leading car audio specialists in the market, but they have branched out to the home to include the outstanding Kicker iK500 iPod dock in their product line.
The Kicker iK500 has been designed with volume and sound quality in mind - so much so, you'll feel the air moving in the room when you crank the iK500 up!!
Boasting huge 5inch Woofers, 19mm tweeters and 40W stereo amplifiers, the Kicker iK500 punches out a crisp and powerful sound, but in addition, the 6inch square reflex sub-woofer on the back really delivers the dynamic bass response that you just don't get from ANY other MP3 docking station on the market!!
The bass and treble can be easily adjusted to your liking so you can listen your music on the Kicker iK500 just the way you like it, unlike many other iPod docks that restrict you to just their preset levels of tinny sound.
The Kicker iK500's small (but perfectly formed) remote allows you to easily access all the iK500's menus, as well as letting you navigate through the entire iPod menu system, making it extremely intuitive to select from any of your music library. From the Kicker iK500 remote, you are also able to set the unit to standby, which still allows your iPod to charge, ready for you to take it out and about with you.
The Kicker iK500 isn't just an iPod dock though - the minijack also allows youu to connect other media, such as other brands of MP3 players, CD players, as well as laptops, desktops, radios, and the list goes on, meaning that you can enjoy the enormous and full sound from the Kicker iK500 whatever you're listening too!!
Many of the iPod docking stations available at the moment aren't compatible with some of the new iPods, the iPod Touch or iPhone, but the Kicker iK500 is fully compatible with ALL models of iPod!! In the unlikely event that you do start to get interference with the iPhone, just switch it to 'Airplane' mode.
If you want to expand the Kicker iK500 to include even more speakers, then there are RCA stereo outputs which you can plug into and get even more volume!
Kicker iK500 Specifications
Speaker Design 2-Way
Woofer (inches / cm 5 / 12.7
Tweeter (inches / cm) 0.75 / 2.0
Tweeter Design Silk Dome
Passive Radiator (inches / cm 6x6 / 15x15
RMS Power (watts) 2 x 20
Effective Frequency Range (Hz) 50 - 20k
Height (cm) 21.6
Width (cm) 48.8
Depth (cm) 21.4
Weight (kg) 4.2
