Sonoro Eklipse clock radio / iPod dock gets official, priced

This one's been making the rounds in Europe for some time now, and finally passed through the FCC late last year, but it looks like Sonoro's Eklipse iPod dock / CD player / clock radio has only just recently gotten fully official in the US, and given a price. Unfortunately, while it has dropped a bit compared to the Euro conversion, it is still a fairly hefty $550, which will buy you 7.5W of power output, a nice little OLED display, a compact remote, and an auxiliary jack in case the iPod dock and slot-load CD player aren't enough options for you. There's still no official word on a release date, however, but it looks like at least one retailer is now taking pre-orders for it.

[Via OhGizmo!]

[TITS @ Jun 13th 2009 3:46AM]

More like overpriced amirite?

[jiggles @ Jun 13th 2009 4:08AM]

waffles plus citizen cope at 4am = amazing.

this shit is overpriced.

[JZ @ Jun 13th 2009 5:13AM]

It all depends how much you are willing to pay for the design. Specwise this is just like a lot of hardware the ussual but then it looks rather sleek though the iPod stand makes me wonder how they finnish off the top. I do like the more retro version a bit more though with the wood cladding but then.. just as most here I'm just as little willing to pay that much for a bit of design.

[BAWWW @ Jun 13th 2009 5:07AM]

you could get a pretty badass sound system for $550
:S

[ian @ Jun 13th 2009 7:02AM]

nice dock, powerfull and elegant

[R. @ Jun 13th 2009 8:50AM]

"Badass"? You must mean "bad" + "assinine"...where's the speaker? Take a look... did you find it? It's that single little 2 1/2" after thought up on top. My daughter has a Hello Kitty iPod dock with 2 2 1/2" speakers!

I wouldn't call that good design or even a good sound system, they don't seem to care about sound quality...

[cduran01 @ Jun 13th 2009 9:02AM]

That display looks mighty familiar......http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/23/xtrememacs-luna-ipod-alarm-dock-a-better-mouse-trap/

[martin @ Jun 13th 2009 9:09AM]

blah blah blah

http://www.readmycrapsite.org

[ybd @ Jun 13th 2009 10:27AM]

I'm very witty

please help me get Highest Ranked so I can go to bed satisfied

[Mister The Plague @ Jun 13th 2009 1:43PM]

Why create something that beautiful and expensive and then put an analog radio into it? Something this high end really should have an HD radio tuner built in.

[asuka @ Jun 13th 2009 10:08PM]

Who listens to ANY kind of terrestrial radio these days? Rather than have a radio, it should be able to stream internet radio.

[asuka @ Jun 13th 2009 4:10PM]

That glowing dial will be very annoying while you try to sleep. The Vers 1.5 is much nicer at 1/2 the price (though its missing the CD player).

[Donovan @ Jun 13th 2009 4:45PM]

Doesn't really seem like anything great for $550.

[Lazarpandar @ Jun 13th 2009 11:56PM]

@ydb

Its almost as if you're deliberately describing exactly what you're doing.

[fin @ Jun 14th 2009 1:11AM]

I like the display

[Jackie @ Jun 15th 2009 12:30PM]

No HD Radio? For that kind of money that's a major oversight. For a lot more info on HD radio and a great selection of <a href=&quothttp://www.hdradiotuner.org" title="HD Radio Receivers"> HD radio receivers, HD radio tuners, and home audio go to http://www.hdradiotuner.org </a>