Emerson iTone iP100 Portable Sound System for iPods (White)

 (31 customer reviews)

So, I happened along this item, and thought "gee this looks cool and is a good price." I have been looking for one of these systems for my ipod, but have felt that they were too expensive. Natually, when I saw that this was under $50, I could not resist. Boy I sure should have! The item itself looks nice, and it is very easy to use, but the sound SUCKS!! No, I don't expect Bose sound, but I would'nt expect heavy distortion! Yes, as I listened to music, what accompanied it was a constant buzzing and humming sound. I found that the only way to make the sound to go away was to set the ipod backlight to be on all of the time! Besides the humming, the sound would "crackle" if you touched the unit while it was in use. The loud humming and distortion was louder than the music. I had to crank up the volume to almost maxium setting to overpower the distortion! I returned mine, got a refund, and bought the JBL Portable Sound System (totally awsome!!!) I guess you get what you pay...Read more

I have had the same experience with this product, which I received as a gift. Turning it on produces a low hiss, which is unaffected by raising or lowering the volume level or by switching from radio to iPod input. The hiss is audible in the background of whatever you listen to.

Fine, I thought, it's a gift. I'll use it as an iPod charger and alarm clock. That worked for 2 weeks. Then, at 10:45 pm last night, the thing's radio came on by itself. The alarm was set for 7:00 am, and the time was set correctly. And, I discovered, there is NO WAY TO TURN IT OFF now. I can turn the alarm off, and I can press the power button so that it's in the off position, but it stays on. It's possible to turn the volume all the way down (hissssssssssssss) or to unplug it, but leaving it unplugged all night didn't fix anything, as it resumed this behavior immediately this morning. I can only conclude that it has become the abode of gremlins.

I'm going to try to return it...Read more

Not only is this the worst iPod system I have heard, this is by far the worst "sound system" (it's more like a noise maker) I have ever owned. You're better off buying a ten dollar set of tiny unamplified speakers than getting this thing.

Like many others I have heavy distortion and a high pitched buzzing/humming. I have had these sounds since day one, but after the first week my system stopped turning off. Now it is constantly in either iPod mode or radio mode. The only way to avoid the distortion is to have the iPod EQ off, turn off the bass boost on the system, and put the volume at 50%; but then the high pitched sound is just as loud as the music.

My girlfriend has a smaller iPod docking alarm clock from some small company I've never heard of: she paid the same as I did for mine, and hers sounds like Bose compared to this. Look around, I would have rather paid the ten dollars more to get something that doesn't sound like a baby monitor.