While the speakers fire off to the sides, an acoustic decision that anticipates the fact that the iPad would likely be physically blocking front-firing speakers in a base of this size, they sound acceptable-midrange-focused with hints of bass and treble that won’t blow anyone away, but dramatically improve upon the comparatively low-volume, limited-frequency integrated speakers inside the iPad.
Sonically and functionally, Rocker is good enough for the price.
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A bigger problem for us, and any other iPad user with a case, is Rocker’s case-unfriendly cradle design, which requires the tablet to be inserted bare rather than inside any sort of protective skin or shell. Plugging the iPad into Rocker automatically starts music playback even if the iPod application isn’t running, a behavior that some users may like, but others won’t. The other two issues are different but similarly unfortunate.
Some patches are going to be needed to make this as good as it should be it’s currently not even in the same league as iHome’s iHome+Sleep app. While the concept behind this app is great-turn your speaker into an iPad clock radio-it’s currently only an iPhone application that upscales with the 2X button to the iPad’s screen, and the features are somewhat wonky the Internet Radio feature didn’t work properly in our testing, for instance, and as is the case with all alarm apps, you need to be actually running the app in order for the alarms to function. Plugging an iPad in leads to the first of three related issues with Rocker: it downloads a free application from Jensen called Jensen Rocker, which is a nicely designed clock, voice message recorder, alarm, sleep timer, Internet radio tuner, and weather station all in one.
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