Best iPad Speakers

What constitutes the best iPad Speaker System? One would think that’s not really a question let alone a difficult one, but after I bought my iPad from Apple and a nice cool cover for it a really got stuck. I am one of those guys that can’t really stay put in town over the weekend. So I really needed something that I could take along with me, definitely wanted something with batteries and with a decent amount of decibels. However with great sound quality came greater mass. With battery out went the ability to charge my pad. Not to mention that the prices ranged from very cheap yet great for the price to extremely expensive. So my search for the best iPad Speaker System generated an entire list of choices.

The first on my list was the simple option of keeping my old iLuv iSP100BLK Mini Portable Speaker. I have had it for a couple of years now with my iPhone. It sounds ok for both my rock moods and my Vangelis collection given its ridiculous small side, you would never imagine how good it can sound. Yet when I went in search for the best iPad Speaker System I knew I wanted something better, perhaps designed specifically for it.

Second choice in my quest for the best iPad Speaker System were the iHome iHM60 Rechargeable Mini Speakers. They are great with their rechargeable battery and ergonomic design and all the searches I did came out saying how good these speakers sound. Still when I tried them out although a perceivable difference could be heard from my initial choice I found the sound lacking and not a match for the quality of the iPad. Simply although nice they were not the best iPad speaker system because of their petit size.

So I scaled up and started looking at the Jensen JiPS-250i Docking Station for iPad. It is definitely not the best iPad speaker system out there but I actually bought this one. Not as an end result and an end to my quest but actually to have it in my bedroom as a charger/alarm system. Now I program my iPad to wake me up with an episode of How I Met Your Mother and I can watch it with my eyes barely open as I wake up. Not bad but not great either because it does need to be plugged in to work and I would still like something cooler.

This could have been the Altec Lansing MP450 Octive Stage if it was not so expensive. It sounds better than the Jensen, looks better and it is dearer to my heart since my first great sounding speakers were a pair of Altec Lansing. But is it the best iPad speaker system? I think not. First of all although there are two speakers powering it they are so close together that they might as well have been just the one. And second it still only works if plugged in.

In the end I did what I had promised myself I wouldn’t do and that is I went ahead and bought the best sounding system out there and by all means the most expensive. But when it comes to the best iPad speakers system, which is what I was intent on buying there is no replacing the Philips Fidelio DS8550 Speaker System. It has a rechargeable battery, remote control, can work plugged in and then it also charges my iPad, has an extremely cool app design.

In all fairness if I had taken in to account the price tag in my search for the best iPad speaker system then I should have gone with the iLuv iMM747 Audio Cube which does almost the same thing and has a cool retro look and feel to it. But I was going to for the best and business has been going good this past so I decided to pay no attention to money and I went for the Philips solution which to my mind is the best iPad speakers system.