Playdock Rocks - Brief Article

Industry Standard, The, August 6, 2001 by Harold Goldberg

IN THE HAWK-FILLED wilds near Maine's rocky coast, Hank Williams, Moby and the Soggy Bottom Boys played a perfect outdoor evening concert. It wasn't some hallucinatory hootenanny, but the sound of Cambridge SoundWorks' $200 PlayDock PD200, a stylishly curvy but hefty speakers-and-battery combo made for the Nomad Jukebox, a player with enough storage space for about 150 CDs' worth of MP3s.

While you probably wouldn't lug the 13-pound three-way stereo speaker system in your backpack, it's campsite perfect, capable of 10 hours of field-filling music on a single 48-hour charge. In fact, PlayDock's acoustics are as unsullied as a higher-priced Bose system (which isn't as portable). Just make sure the people in the tent next to you are cool with the idea. Available through www.nomadworld.com.