Kanto Syd 5 : iPhone/iPod Accessory Review
July 5, 2009 by Cyprian
iPhone/iPod Accessory Review: Kanto Syd 5
Reviewed by: Cyprian Peters
-Official website
Price: $359.00
iPod and iPhone speaker docks come in all shapes and sizes, and sound completely different. Some are huge and sound terrible. Others are small yet sound amazing. The Syd 5 is definitely on the larger end of the scale size wise, and unlike some other larger docks out there, actually sounds really good. The size and sound do come with a price tag however.
When I first received the Syd 5, I was shocked at how big it was, I definitely wasn’t expecting something so large. The dock alone weighs over 10kg by itself! I was hoping it sounded good, being so large, and was not disappointed.
Excited at receiving this, I immediately de-boxed it, plugged in the power cord, found the right dock connector for my iPhone, and threw on some tunes. I was pleasantly surprised by the sound that came out. At low to mid-volumes, it sounded great. It definitely helps when you don’t need to crank up the volume to hear everything in the music. That being said, the next thing I did is crank it up. This dock goes pretty loud. Annoy the next door neighbors loud. I’m not going to lie, I like my music loud and this definitely does the trick.
The dock comes with a remote like most do but along with the usual play/pause/menu controls, there are a couple buttons that I think should be on every audio remote, yet I only see on a few. These are bass and treble controls. I find that it’s hard enough to find bass and treble controls on docks themselves, much less on the remotes. I was quite pleased to be able to change bass and treble for different genre’s of music from across the room. This dock has great highs and decent bass. If you want deep bass, this dock won’t give it to you. The music starts to distort when you put the bass to high. The bass is still decent, just not room shaking.
The back of the dock has different inputs and outputs as well as a master volume control knob. It has RCA inputs on the back and comes with a 3.5mm headphone jack to RCA cable which you can use for a non iPod music player or even a computer. Another nice feature is S-Video out, which is great if you watch movies on your TV from your iPod/iPhone. No need to huddle around the device to hear what’s going on. It even comes with an S-Video cable in the box.
This dock also looks really really good! I got the blue version but there are also green and black to choose from. The whole dock is shiny and has a really nice paint job. There is also a front cover that is easily removable so you can either cover up the speakers or have them showing. I prefer them showing. There’s more blue that way.
The Syd 5 is a great sounding, great looking dock that would look great in any living room. This dock I think is ideally suited to staying in one place and would work well in any room as the main source of sound. It can easily fill up a room with sound. Coming in at $360, but then again, it doesn’t look or sound cheap either.
Score:
8.5/10
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