As it?s said??Music exists because people create it, perform it and listen to it!? Bose is no exception, They have created yet another SoundDock for the iPod. Bose?s romance with iPod first started in year 2004, when they introduced SoundDock Digital Music System, offering iPod owners a new way to listen to their music.

In pursuance of their romance with the iPod, the engineers at Bose?s developed this SoundDock10, delivering audio performance previously unheard from a monolith speaker system. But this SoundDock-10, unlike its predecessors, is no minnow! It is a big boy with big sound, measuring approximately 9-inch high, 17-inch wide and 10-inch deep and weighing more than eight kgs.

And all this girth and tonnage is the outcome of encompassing a heavy woofer with 52-inch of winding integrated waveguide channels and a pair of twiddlers. The new waveguide and custom made woofer are connected by a proprietary multi-purpose metal cap that seals the waveguide and woofer and also provides magnetic shielding, directs air through the enclosure while reproducing deep low notes.

A pair of specially designed transducers, a marriage of high-frequency tweeter and mid-range driver, what Bose calls twiddler, are placed in the front to virtualise the accurate musical rendition. For electronics, it has proprietary digital signal processing algorithms and an efficient power amplifier.

The switching power supply has also been incorporated within the enclosure, eliminating the need for an external AC adaptor.

The elegantly designed metallic silver mesh front serves as a backdrop for the iPod- seated on its interchangeable docking station that is designed to be future-proof. A bluetooth receiver-dock is also available as optional accessory to stream music wirelessly from a bluetooth enabled music phone.

There are no control buttons or knobs on the dock and the provided infrared remote looks very basic and just good enough to handles power on and off, volume, track search from the iPod play lists and switch between devices.

For a change, a 3.5mm auxiliary audio-in socket?to connect other music devices like MP3 players or portable CD players, has been provided on the rear of the dock along with a video-out socket to stream video from your iPod to a TV while listening to the audio-track on the SoundDock10.

With its weight of eight kgs and matching girth, it?s big for an iPod dock. But then it makes big music too and is loud enough to fill a big-size room or a mid-size hall with music and can easily pulverise the occupants to dance to its tune all night.

It reproduces powerful deep bass without getting flabby and manages exceptional clarity across the full musical range including soaring mids of a vocalist and sharp highs of the strings. While it can handle Western classical music with predictable ease, the Indian classical music too sounds angelic on it.

I tried a tabla jugalbandi by father-son duo Ustad Allah Rakha and Zakir Hussein and did not miss a single thap or beat. Even vocalist Kishori Amonkar sounded as convincing as ever while rendering Ghat Ghat Mein Panchi Bolta!

But when it comes to heavy metal or rock music, it lacks the channel separation for the stereo effect and music tends to get whirled a bit. The SoundDock 10 is compatible with any click-wheel iPod or iPod Touch, and the iPhone3GS, 3G and original iPhone models. A price of Rs 40,388 may not sound sweet to the ears but the SoundDock10 will definitely do!

Pros

• Elegant design and good build quality

• Very high music volume without distortion

• All round clarity of musical range

CoNs

• Very heavy

• Bit expensive