shop tunes..,ipod dock

balibalistic

balibalistic

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Hey guys,

What do you all listen to your music on in the shop??
i use an older jvc baboom!! killer sound and i just could'nt live with out it.
But...,my better half just got a new ipod so i took the older one and am looking into getting a docking station so i can use it in the shop.are there any reasonably priced docking stations that make some serious noise? i cant deal with the no bass,wimpy little units :D

So what are you guys using,and any advice??
 
I just sing to myself... If I listened to music, I'd probably play air guitar and strum into the grinder
 
Before I got married, my lady gave me an ipod clock/radio dock. It's got speakers on either side as well as a clock and AM/FM radio. When we got hitched and I sold the house, I didn't really have a place for it, so it went to the shop. I've got an iphone, so I just dock it in the radio and blast away. It's got a remote so I don't have to walk all the way across the shop to change songs and volume.

I got it several years ago, and I can't seem to find it for sale out there anymore. It's got really decent sound with full range. I'd go by Bestbuy or somewhere and see if you can listen to what they have. The cheapie units will have cheapie sound, most likely. Before I had this one at the shop, I had a Wal Mart bought unit that really sucked. Spend a few dollars more and you'll be happier.

--nathan
 
mrnewberry said:
I use an ipod with the earbuds under my hearing protection.

Allen
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I do this too, I use an ipod shuffle because it's light and the battery charges quickly and lasts all day. Both mine and my wife's shuffle's have developed problems though, sometimes they don't recognize the music I put on them and need to be reset, hers stopped working at all, unless the planets are in alignment.

A shop stereo is almost useless unless I want it at deafness inducing volumes since I almost always have something loud going on and am wearing hearing protection.
 
Ive got an old pioneer home stereo circa 1987:) but I picked up some Bose speakers. I throw is some Metallica and grind away.
 
I do not have an ipod but in my former life as a home automation tech I installed a few forms of Ipod docking stations. I personally am not a big fan of Ipods but if you have one and want to use it with a big stereo sound find a docking station with rca plugs or at least a mini plug and hook it up to normal stereo. None of the all in one docking stations are going to sound good. Any way you look at it an mp3 player or ipod is not going to reproduce good quility music.

In my shop I Just listen to cds on an old yard sale radio I am to worried I would mess up the good stuff out there. Fortunatly for me I have a fantastic stereo inside my house all free stuff from my tech days. Marantz reciever Walsh speakers, and a B&W sub.

If you have a laptop and a safe place to put it I would recomend just hooking that up to our shop stereo. Its easier to build a play list with better quality music on a laptop. If I ever manage to build a better shop I plan on building a little cabnit for my laptop. I do have one of those another freebe from my tech days:)

Oh and IMHO Bose is the most over rated over price suff on the market. We had a customer buy a Bose theater system and he needed us to install it because he could not figure it out. This was my first experience with any bose and I was shocked with how crappy it was. Of course because this is how people are he was happy as a clam and convinced he had a great system.

In the end it does come down to how inportant it is to you and what you want to do.
I just wanted to share some of my thoughts as an ex A/V tech.

Good luck
 
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I just turn my movies and music rig up enough to hear it in the garage...With the door shut....And the grinder on...And the dust collector on...:)


Seriously though, if you hit craigslist and buy an older receiver, a set of bookshelf speakers and then hook up your ipod with a "stereo mini to RCA" cable, for very little money you will have better sound than any dock/speaker set you are going to find. Thats what I do and even though I am used to sitting down for critical listening on something much, much better, I am still pleased with the music I have in the shop.
 
4 years ago or so, i bought a Jvc unit for IPOD. it is a small circular unit w/a
remote. charges the unit too. check one out i think it will do what you want
 
When I am using power equipment I absolutely have to hear the machinery as I use it. Sounds and vibrations of the motors, the belts, the gears, the pumps (compressors and vacuums), the saws, the planers, the drills, the routers, the grinders, the sanders, the welders, the torches, etc are as much a part of working as are the visuals. Of course, if the machine and process is too loud I wear hearing protection, but I can still monitor the sounds (or, perhaps more accurately, the changes in them).

My students often want to put tunes on, but I don't permit it. (Unless the bring in Bluegrass. So far no one has taken me up on that offer.) I can not afford to have any of them lose what little focus they muster while in my charge. They can get giddy too easily as it is.

I like to listen to the silence when the equipment isn't running. To the crickets, birds and breezes, but then I am easily distracted too.

My daughter on the other hand makes a new mix for each new day on her ipod every night. She listens to it nearly perpetually no matter what she is doing.
 
I had a set of computer speakers with subwoofer layin around, so I though why not? My boombox took a dump so I rigged this deal. I have the headphone jack plugged into the speakers and a charger into the wall for the ipod. I figured the computer speakers were the best bang for the buck considering it comes with a subwoofer and remote for around $100. The remote obviously is only for the speakers themselves, but that matters not to me cause I pretty much hit play and leave it. I could turn it up enough to seriously piss off the neighbors with the garage door open if I wanted, and the bass level and volume is adjustable.

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Sweet set-up!! can i buy a plug to just pop the ipos into say a headphone jack?? or does the steroe have to be ipos compatible??
 
balibalistic said:
Sweet set-up!! can i buy a plug to just pop the ipos into say a headphone jack?? or does the steroe have to be ipos compatible??
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All you need is a stereo receiver with right and left auxilliary or tape inputs on the back. Use the male stereo mini to RCA cable to connect from the ipod's headphone jack (which is female stereo mini) into the aux or tape inputs and you are all set. No ipod compatability required.
 
yup, like he said. the headphone cord goes from the Ipod headphone output to the input on the computer speakers - which happens to be a 1/8" ("headphone")female. so if you were to do the computer speaker setup the only thing you would need is a male to male "headphone" cable which is the same thing you use on your actual computer to connect from the tower to the speakers.
 
Cool!!

picked up the aux plug today and shes just a pumpin :) now to remove all the girly track's and put some good stuff on!! thanks for the help,guys :thumbup:
 
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