On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:53:26 -0400, Michael Black
wrote:

The good thing is that if they want good sound, they can always
revert to headphones, which of course puts them back into portable mode.
It's just that if they want speakers, they won't do so well. Even a
boombox with auxiliary inputs have bigger speakers (relative speaking)
than many of these docking stations.

The WEB can provide anything with research and an ability to build a
multimedia computer. Everything I bought for a new audio system,
including the computer I built for streaming a red laser modulated
output audio carrier (S/PDIF) into a dedicated rack-mounted (pre-amp)
pro sound processor came from online musician's supply houses. Over
$500US, but well under $1000US, which is quite a good price
considering it'll deliver demanding stereophile quality grade
reproduction. Identifying and finding around a $150 sale on Alesis
speakers retailing for $600, at the time, was the hardest part, but
once added, they'll EQ-in well enough to reproduce the pro headphone
experience.