If you're looking for a simple iPod dock, you should probably look elsewhere. But if you're looking for a way to put audio wherever you want, this may be just the thing.It plays and charges your iPod. You can string up to four rCubes wirelessly together f...
Abstract: I really enjoyed the time I spent with the rCube, and if you're looking for a dead-simple, all-in-one solution for streaming audio from that's also portable — you should probably give this thing a listen. The big question for most consumers considering ...
Abstract: British audio specialty manufacturer Arcam invites you to take their act on the road with the r-Cube, mobile, wireless all-in-one audio system. Weighing only eleven pounds and including a rechargeable battery, the portable r-Cube can be used outdoors i...
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Published: 2010-11-18, Author: Nick , review by: techworld.com
The design is intuitive, and the controls simple enough for any hi-fi novice to get the most out of their money....
Abstract: Arcam's most obvious superpower over the other docks here is its portability — you can slip your hand behind the top-mounted dock-flap into a hidden grab handle, and off you go, taking 5kg of Arcam hi-fi performance on the trot. You shouldn't do this with...
Abstract: Portable players (there I go again) are, by and large, not a hugely evolved breed. They usually sound a bit tinny (or muffled) – or need plugging into the mains, which somewhat defeats the object. Even the greatest one-box stereo music player of all, the ...
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Published: 2011-11-25, Author: Simon , review by: macworld.co.uk
Superb acoustic fidelity; recent price drop; connect up to eight rCubes
rWave and rWand+ cost extra; remote must be aimed at a strict angle
It's hard to put into words just how good the Arcam rCube sounds – with pretty much any genre of music. It's a cliché to say the sound has to be heard to be believed, but we really weren't expecting the superb level of acoustic. At £500 it was a luxury pu...
The Arcam rCube may have come too late to be entered into our 2010 Awards, but for me it would have been my product of the year. As it stands it is day one of 2011 and it will take something truly special over the next 364 days to displace it in my heart....
