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This is the first time I've ever felt moved to review a product on the web.
I picked a Jamo to replace my lounge stereo (running my ipod through the aux would have been awkward). I've had it for a week now and am delighted with the sound quality and the elegance of the ipod / jamo combination.
The sound is definitely good enough to replace any but a really top end audiophile CD setup - fantastic at all volumes, can really fill the room and looks very cool indeed.
Build is to a high standard and the 2 aux inputs give a lot of flexibility for the future. Different class from the Bose, the Apple or anything else I could get a demonstration of - complete no-brainer once you've heard it.
Well done Jamo!!

I listened to about six I-Pod stations in John Lewis, including the Bose system. The very helpful assistant said "theres only one choice really" and proceeded to play each one. When we came to the Jamo we both smiled! There really was only one choice but unfortunately for JL I checked the price on Amazon later and there was only one choice there too! Amazon delivered spot on time as usual and the Jamo sounded even better at home. People are literally astounded when they hear it. It delivers a thumping base sound and great top end accoustics. This was meant to be a short term solution to me buying a more expensive system but my Jamo isnt going anywhere! Fantastic product!

If you're looking for a speaker dock, look no further.

I'm a Bose devotee, but this offering from Jamo is phenomenal - if what you want is good sound from an ipod system, buy this.

tip - turn your EQ on your ipod to 'treble enhance' and let the Jamo sub make up for it.

I feel compelled to write a review for this absolutely marvellous iPod docking system. I received it today, spent maybe 10 minutes connecting everything up, then played my 'test' music on it and was stunned!

Like other reviewers, I was looking for a product to replace the ludicrously expensive seperates system I purchased in 1996. Back then, I paid £2000 for my hi-fi and have been thrilled with the sound I got from it, over all genres of music, ever since. Today it would probably cost me closer to £4000 to replace it, like for like. It included Arcam amp and CD player, NAD tuner, Yamaha cassete deck and TDL speakers, all of which were voted best product in the 1996 What Hi-Fi awards. Not to mention a Soundstyle rack to place them all on.

When I bought this hi-fi, I took with me certain CD's to test the bass response, distortion, breadth of sound and overall quality of sound. I played the very same tracks on my iPod through the Jamo i300 and I can honestly say that I couldn't tell the difference. If anything, the Jamo was even BETTER!

In my rush to set up the Jamo and play it, I placed the two tweeters on top of the floor-standing TDL speakers of my 'old' hi-fi and the sub-woofer on the floor, roughly between the two. Seriously, you would think that the sound was coming from the TDL's. In fact, you would think that I'd had my TDL's serviced in some way.

I love listening to music of all kinds. I listened to Motorhead, Meatloaf, Handel, Bach, Rod Stewart (the American Songbooks series that he's produced recently), Pachelbel, Bob Dylan. The sound quality was out of this world! The warmth of the bass tones is superb and you crank it up as loud as you like with no distortion whatsoever. The detail is almost ridiculous!

I remember listening to my original hi-fi in the shop I bought it from - one of those fabulous, one-man shops with a room in the back that you could chop and change the amp, CD player and speakers and the owner coming in half way through with a sound meter and telling me that I was listening to the music at 90 dB. He told me that a full-blown 40-piece orchestra at full-tilt only reaches 85 dB and that I'd never need to turn the volume knob higher than '9 o'clock'. He was right! 10 o'clock would make your bones rattle and 11 o'clock would make your ears bleed!

This system from Jamo goes one better! Not only can you play music at ear-bleeding level without any distortion but you hear things that weren't there even when you listened to the CD.

This music system is astonishing - for the price of the stand that I placed my extraordinarily expensive hi-fi on, you can listen to music of the same, if not better quality. My aold hi-fi is now relegated to the loft!

The only warning I would say is that this marvellous system from Jamo will higlight the quality of your iPod download. When I first got my iPod, I downloaded loads of CD's onto it and did that as quickly as I could. The quality of these downloads is not as good as more recent CD copies which I have downloaded at the highest quality possible. In order to get the best from my Jamo, I am going to re-download many of my CD's at the highest quality - beleive me, it will be worth it.

I can do no more than agree with every other review on this site. But one of these and you will not regert it. Forget Bose, Logitech and all the others. I considered buying the B&W Zeppelin, but that has only half the power output and is more of a portable hi-fi. We recently bought the Klipsch SXT and that, also, is astonishing for such a small system. Absolutely great for room-filling sound at a reasonable volume.

But if, like me, there are certain peices of music that you simply have to listen to as though it was being played live right next to you, the Jamo i300 is an absolute must.

Well, after being a Bose devotee for many years for discrete systems (and I still am for my home AV) I was just about to buy the Bose sound dock when I did a back to back with these Jamo speakers. Okay, they may be about £[...] more expensive, but the base, mid range and treble are all much much better than the Bose. In fact, the Bose sounded tinny compared.

After three or four weeks in the house, these Jamos keep getting better and better.

Not a hard choice in retrospect