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iHome iDL100 Lightning Clock Radio Review
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May 30, 2025
Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ reviews the new iHome iDL100 clock radio with dual Lightning Dock connectors and terrific sound. And offers up a rather embarrassing faux pas near the end of the recording. Listen for it, you'll know when it shows up...
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hi Dave Taylor here oh jeez hang on a
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second hi that's better hi Dave Taylor
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here with the iHome IDL 100 this is a
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clock radio I know that sounds old
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school but this particular clock radio
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is actually pretty cool number one has
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really nice sound as you just heard
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hopefully number two as you can see I
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have my iPad Mini plugged in here it
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actually has two lightning docks and a
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USB port on the back and it's an amfm
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and what's really great about this and
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really iHome has been spending years
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trying to just like get this down to a
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science is that when you have to deal
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with things like synchronizing time it's
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literally as easy as putting your iPhone
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or putting your iPad any lightning
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device putting it on one of the docks
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and boom the device itself is completely
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synchronized there's no buttons there's
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no special Fe features there's no app
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you have to download it's just knows how
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to do it and this is because the
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lightning connector protocol actually
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has all sorts of capabilities this is
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why Apple's put so much effort into
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licensing things CU it tests stuff and
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in this case it is a really really nice
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device it's 149 bucks so it's certainly
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quite affordable and this is really I
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can't imagine anything else you would
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want out of a device sitting on your
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bedside table it has AM FM
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obviously you can play off of any of the
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docs you can wake up you can have
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multiple alarms you can have playlists
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on one device and generally when you put
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a device on as soon as you put it on it
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just starts playing now obviously you
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can turn that off cuz that would be
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annoying but um generally super easy to
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work with the only criticism I have is
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that previous generations of this sort
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of iHome clock radio have come with a
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remote control and this one doesn't so
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my guess is that they actually ask
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customers and most customers said we
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don't use the remote or we lose it so if
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you can live without a remote control
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and honestly if this is on your bedside
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table you probably don't have to reach
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very far to control it this is a really
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nice clock radio and this is really some
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of the best sound that you're going to
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get out of your bedroom short of
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actually let me rephrase that this is
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going to be one of the best sounding
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stereo systems you can put in your
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bedroom short of having component units
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this is Dave Taylor this is the iHome
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IDL 100 $49 at the Apple Store at Amazon
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at anywhere online and I hope you check
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one
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out
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