Yamaha PDX-50 or Zeppelin Mini?!

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Hi

Looking to get a dock for Christmas and following the awards issue was quite impressed by the Yamaha. However shortly after the Zeppelin Mini arrived and after a short wait for it to be featured on here it I read what turned out to be a very favourable review! This puts me in a bit of a dilemma now - the Yamaha won the best in category for docks up to £300 but at the time the Mini wasn't around. Now that it is, would it be likely to rate higher than the the Yamaha, or would the current title holder remain in position?!

I have a maximum budget of £300. I know that the Yamaha can currently be found below £150 already, given at the time of the review it was closer to £200, but the Mini seems to be sticking to it's £299 price tag wherever you look. I'd dearly love a full-size Zeppelin but unfortunately space (and sadly budget!) don't really work in my favour for that, but if the Mini is a worthy alternative then I'd be interested to hear what people think, or indeed if there are any alternatives around this price range at the moment?

For info, it's going into a large'ish kitchen (some comments about the "bread-bin" appearance of the Mini were amusing!) and will play from both iPod Classics and an iPhone.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Si

 

[Simon Lucas]

The Zeppelin Mini and PDX-50 are part of a docks round-up in the February issue. It's not on sale until January 6th, I'm afraid, which doesn't help your plans for Christmas... but if you can wait until then, at least the sales will be on. Although VAT will have gone up. Damn.

Unless your idea of large-ish is very different to mine, neither will sound lost in your kitchen.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi sfrench

Have you consider the Pure avanti flow, it's far more flexible media player, dab, and plays your ipod, And it sounds great

Paul.

 

[Anonymous]

My wife has bought me the PDX 50 for Xmas. This may be a silly question (apologies if so) but presumably the system will be OK with radio from the Ipod? I was toying with getting a dock with built in DAB Radio but for the money (£130) the PDX apparently has cracking sound. Any thoughts?

 

[Anonymous]

Hi,do you know if either work with or is there a update so to work with 3rd version of ipod touch as they only state 2nd version(HAVING NEW IPOD 3RD VERSION FOR XMAS),thanks.