Warm, clear sound signature; portable; sounds great with wireless dongle.
Expensive; wireless attachments add to cost; bass could be a tad deeper.
If you're after a portable iPhone/iPod dock that gives good quality sound, the rCube will be a frontrunner. However, it has less bass than similarly priced systems and can get even pricier with the additional wireless addons. ...
Abstract: Portable players (there I go again) are, by and large, not a hugely evolved breed. They usually sound a bit tinny (or muffled) – or need plugging into the mains, which somewhat defeats the object. Even the greatest one-box stereo music player of all, the ...
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Published: 2011-11-25, Author: Simon , review by: macworld.co.uk
Superb acoustic fidelity; recent price drop; connect up to eight rCubes
rWave and rWand+ cost extra; remote must be aimed at a strict angle
It's hard to put into words just how good the Arcam rCube sounds – with pretty much any genre of music. It's a cliché to say the sound has to be heard to be believed, but we really weren't expecting the superb level of acoustic. At £500 it was a luxury pu...
The Arcam rCube may have come too late to be entered into our 2010 Awards, but for me it would have been my product of the year. As it stands it is day one of 2011 and it will take something truly special over the next 364 days to displace it in my heart....
The design is intuitive, and the controls simple enough for any hi-fi novice to get the most out of their money. The Arcam rCube is a desirable and great-sounding gadget, although it's far from cheap. Nick Spence, Macworld.co.uk ...
Compared to B&W's Zeppelin or Philips' DS9000 Fidelio, the extra £100 is peanuts when you take into account the increased quality of sound the rCube delivers. Lest we forget forget that it’s also very small, with an internal battery and wireless opti...
Loud volumes, portability, design, build quality, multi-room and streaming possibilities
Acoustic music, fiddly remote
With millions of us having ditched our CD collections this kind of product ought to do well with people searching for a modern hi-fi system. Small, perfectly formed and portable, the rCube’s promise of lossless music streaming dimension is exciting and...
