The Rock-It is an extremely cool little device. One end detaches and sticks to most surfaces, and vibrates the surface with the audio that you feed it, turning whatever you stick it to into a speaker. I have had a great deal of fun turning various items into speakers. For instance, I stuck it to a thick hardcover book and was able to play music for a room full of people. I stuck it to a lamp and the music started emanating from the lamp body.There are several reasons why the previous reviewer might have complained about weak audio quality: perhaps s/he was not sticking the device to anything and instead trying to use it as a traditional speaker, or maybe they were sticking it to surfaces that tend to absorb vibration and therefore dampen the sound. It's possible they got a defective device. Whatever problem they were having, I didn't experience. The sound quality you get is extremely variable depending on the properties of the surface you stick it to but then, that is what you would expect from this device. Some surfaces are better at communicating the vibration from the device than others, and some vibrate more easily at higher or lower frequencies, meaning you'll get better high pitch or low pitch sound with different surfaces. But the device actually works quite well.
The previous reviewer was correct in saying the cords are short. For the next generation of the device, I recommend giving us a little more room between the audio source and the Rock-It. It is difficult to move my iPod around for instance, to pick a new song without having to worry about the Rock-It as well. But this is only an inconvenience, not a total failure of the product.
In brief, this device is lots of fun to play with, and is great for letting you play audio loud enough to be heard by several people without having to carry much equipment. It is not, however, going to produce audio of a high enough quality to pick up the subtler tones of finer music. After all, whatever you stick the device to probably wasn't designed with audio in mind. It's hard to make Bach sound good out of a trash can...
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