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Griffin 9757-IKAROKE iKaraoke Microphone for iPod
Product Description Bring the fun of karaoke into your living room with the iKaraoke from Griffin Technology. Designed to interface between most iPods with dock connectors and your home stereo, the iKaraoke works by silencing the lead vocal track of your favorite songs, letting you step up to the mic in your own voice. It's particularly great for parties, as you aren't restricted to traditional karaoke favorites but can instead sing along to any song you want. If your iPod has it, you can sing to it. Controlling the selection is easy thanks to the integrated buttons on the microphone, including buttons for pausing, scanning forward or backward, and even temporarily adding the vocals back in to help you find your place. And thanks to the built-in reverb effects, you can make your plain- jane voice sound fresh and intriguing--just like the pros. The iKaraoke--which hooks up to your iPod with a dock-connecting cable and to your stereo vie either a line-in cable or wirelessly through your FM receiver--works with the following iPods: iPod 4G, iPod 5G with video, iPod nano 1G and 2G, and the iPod mini. Included with this Product iKaraoke microphone, cable with line-out jack, user's manual. Product Description iKaraoke sends the music from your iPod to your stereo minus the lead vocals, so you can step up to the mic and sing the lead in your favorite tunes. iKaraoke makes it easy to pause the music, scan forward or backward, or temporarily add the vocals back in to help you find your place. It even includes reverb effects to enhance your performance. iKaraoke hooks up to your stereo via line-in cable, or wirelessly through your FM receiver. 
Reader Reviews Griffin always has great ideas, but I think all too often they rush things to market before they are ready for prime time. Of all the Griffin products I own, this is one I was immediately disappointed with and planned to return after fiddling with it for an hour. The controls are counter-intuitive and not always responsive. I did read the directions, and followed them, but I still get problems getting it to pick up on a static-filled, unused FM station. The transmitter is so weak (probably a limitation by the FCC, not necessarily Griffin's fault), you have to be really close to the radio. When you're really close to the radio, you get really bad feedback. I had to turn the volume on my stereo up all the way and then practically shove the microphone in my mouth to get it to register my voice through the speakers. The packaging says you can use it as a PA system, which is why I got it. I cannot sing well and had no aspirations of being a karaoke singer... but I did try to fake my way through a tune and my summation is either that this was rushed to market too soon just so it could be ready for Christmas, or I could have just gotten a dud. Considering the other 1-star review already posted, I am tempted to believe it's the former, not the latter. Like all their products, the execution on the design is flawless - it is a beautiful device and whoever designs the outer casing gets a gold star in my book - but good lucks don't cut it when you plunk down fifty bucks and the gizmo does not work. Like the first iTrips that needed you to install 99 .mp3 files on the iPod to work, this is a product that just hasn't been field tested enough. After about a year or so, they came out with iTrips that had LEDs that you could control externally without putting a bunch of crap on your iPod... I have hopes for this device in a newer model of this mic, but this one is of poor quality in functioning. Some of their products, like their PowerMate, are executed flawlessly, but this one did not make it through my own QC. The company does excellent retail packaging. The devices they make are beautiful to look at - but they all need to work! Can you tell I'm irritated? I remember seeing this device as a 'coming soon' on their site for the past month or so and I was chomping at the bit to get one... I was so tickled when they were finally available, not now I wished they had just finished working on the thing and did a push for Valentine's day or something. Ok, enough horse beating - suffice to say, no worky. Comment | Permalink | (Report this)
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