VAF Octavio 1 Zune Speaker Dock
Australian based company VAF, which is the company behind the beastly Zune sound dock system, Octavio 1, have released some more info and specs on their up and coming Zune accessory.
Legendary VAF sound.
VAF Octavio 1â„¢ is a genuine high-end home entertainment system.Inbuilt zuneâ„¢ player cradle. As a licensed zuneâ„¢ partner, VAF Octavio 1â„¢ is designed to play music and videos directly from a zuneâ„¢ player. A video output can also connect to a TV so that videos and pictures may be viewed on a big screen to share with others.
Integrated home entertainment. Connect VAF Octavio 1â„¢ to your TV, DVD player, game console or other home entertainment source and enjoy a simple unified high-end home entertainment experience.
One single button. Hassle free switching between all sources as well as volume adjustment, all from one simple control. Of course fully featured remote control is also provided.
Customisable colours. Shipped with each VAF Octavio 1™ are three patented acoustic skins. From a sleek, powerful, leather style object of desire, to a colourful elemental form, change the look of your VAF Octavio 1™ to compliment your mood or décor.
Category leading power and performance. VAF Octavio 1™ delivers pure and powerful music and movie sound. Technical features include 100 real watts of inbuilt power amplifiers, a huge 200 mm (8�) bass diaphragm, two 130 mm (5.25�) long linear travel woofers with high damping synthetic rubber roll surrounds, low stray magnetic field, very powerful magnetic motors, and high power voice coil. Two fluid damped, fabric dome tweeters with powerful, linear neodymium magnetic motors, and high power voice coils. Electronic response equalisation, for natural accurate sound response from under 40 Hz to over 20,000 Hz. Finely constructed from first grade MDF and uniquely clad in a beautiful leather style finish with damps unwanted cabinet resonance. PC upgrade ability of firmware is also provisioned.
Dimensions. 600 mm wide, 260 mm high and 110 mm deep (without zuneâ„¢ player). Shipping weight 11 kg (23lb)
The VAF Octavio 1 should be available in the US market for the Microsoft Zune in late 2006, hopefully in time to get on some peoples Christmas wish list.
[…] We first saw these speakers from VAF, a company based downunder in Australia and since have seen it at many Zune launch partie and events. The Octavio1 speaker system which can hook up the Zune, TV, game console, or DVD player is now on sale at Amazon.com. Octavio1 speaker system also boasts an 8-inch bass driver, two 5.25-inch woofers and 2 fluid-damped fabric dome tweeters all in one. […]
[…] We first saw these speakers from VAF, a company based downunder in Australia and since have seen it at many Zune launch partie and events. The Octavio1 speaker system which can hook up the Zune, TV, game console, or DVD player is now on sale at Amazon.com. Octavio1 speaker system also boasts an 8-inch bass driver, two 5.25-inch woofers and 2 fluid-damped fabric dome tweeters all in one. Like the Zune it will also come in different colours, but they are more of sleves that can go over the speakers to change from black, white or brown pink and all 3 sleves will come included, as you would hope so as this baby will set you back $499.99 […]
Way to expensive needs to be cheaper and smaller more compact kind of like some of ipods ones there should be more of a selection!
way to expensive