Gary W. Graley Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 As the title asks, I have both the iFi and the SXT, and they are wonderful but with the purchase of the iPod Touch, neither will charge the Touch. Also the SXT of course no longers has the video out, thanks to Apple changing the wiring SO, I would certainly like to see something from Klipsch that both charges as well as outputs video for the new iPod Touch devices. I'm certain it would be a hit, as searching around there isn't much in the way that does either. Thanks, G2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Thump Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Gary, You have some very valid points. Unfortunately I can't answer you questions for two reasons. We don't announce products until they are official. Also we can not easily comment on Apple authentication/compliance issues due to the conflict of interest with our buyers. This is a convoluted message so I apologize, but there are stories there if you know what is occurring in the industry and dig into blogs and the EFF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary W. Graley Posted March 21, 2009 Author Share Posted March 21, 2009 Ah, ok convoluted is by it's definition, a bit of a problem. Thanks for the reply and I'll wait and see what comes about, I don't read much blogs so I'm out of the loop, as you can tell ;-) Tempted to get another SXT before they are no longer available, the one I have is nice but from the carrying to and fro the cloth is frayed along the edges, being pulled in and out of a computer roll around bag, still sounds great of course! G2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Thump Posted March 21, 2009 Share Posted March 21, 2009 Gary, It is safe to say that we will have some form of mobile playback for you, but the SXT is hard to beat for it's size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary W. Graley Posted March 21, 2009 Author Share Posted March 21, 2009 That's incouraging to hear [] and for the time being I still have an oler 80 gig video iPod that I will also keep using until it crashes and dies the SXT charges it, allows Svideo out the back, what's not to like! Again, thanks for the reply, as you can probably tell, I'm a Klipsch fan, I've the RF7's and RC7 for my main front and center channel, need to upgrade to the RS7's if I can locate a couple but that's not a high priority, as the wife factor won't allow wall hanging speakers at this time, oh well ! G2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy W Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 We recently released the iGroove SXT-MFi which will charge the new stuff from Apple (and all but one of the old ones), and the video output is working too with the iPod models that must have "authentication" to turn on the video output. Unfortunately we engineers find out about the same time that the customers do that something new is coming out, and last fall it was the that Firewire charging was deprecated, and only USB charging was allowed. (Different pin, different voltage.) So in addition to a design crunch we also met up with the "Christmas Crunch" as far as our supply chain is concerned. Couple that with the economic slow-down and the fact that our retailers instantly had more stock than they thought they had, and you have the situation where the SXT-MFi only recently made it onto store shelves (I still don't know exactly when that was, but I don't think it was before Christmas). We also made it bi-amp and tweaked the sound character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary W. Graley Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 Thanks Andy, that sounds like the ticket! I'll check bestbuy out tomorrow here in Clearwater and see if the have one on hand! G2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy W Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Double check the sticker on the box "iGroove SXT-MFi" P/N 1010315. It is doubtful that they would replace the "floor model". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary W. Graley Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 Thanks, that's exactly what they did, left the old one out there, which doesn't charge the Touch, but I opened a box, p/n as you indicated and that one works fine, and bought it too, haven't had a chance to play it in the hotel yet, will do so in a short while and it seemed to also charge my older video Gen 5 iPod Question, will the Svideo signal be sent out by both the touch and my Gen 5 ? I'll test it soon, but was wondering if it was wired to get both? Thanks again for your help G2 Edited to say yep, it handles outputs from either my Gen 5 video iPod or the Gen 2 iPod Touch, nice and beautiful sound as well, Outstanding job Crew Klipsch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary W. Graley Posted March 26, 2009 Author Share Posted March 26, 2009 one additional piece of good news, compared to the previous SXT, this one doesn't have the pop when you unplug the power cord, nice touch guys/gals enjoying this again tonight, watching a few tv shows and a movie later on, hey, it keeps me out of trouble [] G2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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