Products: Multi-Room AV: Tuners, iPods® & Media Servers: iBase & iBase Extender Kit

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iBase & iBase Extender Kit iPod® Docking System

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To permit you to fully enjoy your iPod portable media player throughout your home, ADA offers the iBase iPod docking system. While many docking systems exist, the iBase (and iBase eXtender Kit) are a unique solution with several benefits. First, docking your iPod into the iBase makes it possible to both listen to and control it from any room in the home when using ADA keypads with a display, ADA TS-5000 touch screens as well as other touch screen systems. The keypads and touch screens will display the text information that you would otherwise see on the iPod itself letting you surf your music (or book collection) from any room. ADA engineered the iBase to sound as good as an iPod can possibly get. Also, because the iBase and iBase eXtender are addressable, several iBase setups can be deployed in a single system making it possible for everyone in the home to dock their own iPod and listen to them wherever they wander through the multi-room system. Look Ma, no headphones...how about that.

The iBase is all-metal and is solid enough to permit you to dock and un-dock your iPod with one hand. The plexiglass support can be set to glow a specific color when there is no iPod inserted and another color or color-organ mode when docked and playing. There is a push button on the iBase that toggles it between control from keypads & touch screens or local control from the iPod's wheel. The iBase also features right & left audio outputs as well as composite and S-Video outputs.

The iBase connects to the iBase WP Wall Plate using a thin white RJ-50 cable. The iBase WP, flat-wire and iBase eXtender box are included with the iBase eXtender Kit. This kit makes it possible to locate the iBase several hundred feet from the system mainframe as well as integrating the iBase for control from keypads and touch screens. ADA suggests running both an 8 conductor Cat.-5 wire (for balanced audio, control & META data) in addition to an 18 Gauge 2-Conductor wire (for power). If there is only a Cat.-5 wire in place, the iBase can be powered locally at either the iBase Wall Plate or iBase. Each iBase that is integrated into the system requires its own iBase eXtender Kit.

For those who wish to mount their iPod in the equipment rack, ADA offers an iBase Rack Kit. It measures 7 inches tall (4 rack units) and can hold one iBase.

A complete iPod system integration solution

White tabletop iPod docking base
iPod universal docking connector
Audio, composite video and S-video outputs
8 maximum iBase units per system
Local and remote control pushbutton
Color organ and fixed light modes pushbutton
Requires iBase Extender Kit for integration
4.75"H x 6.25"W X 3.5"D

iBase eXtender Kit

Kit includes iBase eXtender, Wall Plate, and iBase to Wall Plate flat wire.

iBase eXtender WP Wall Plate

Single-gang wall plate with RJ-50 connector
Front panel local DC power jack
Phoenix screw terminal connector on rear of wall plate
8' RJ-50 flat interconnect cable

iBase eXtender

Allow iBase to be connected with over 500' of CAT-5 cable
With additional pair of wires, powers iBase from ADA Bus
Superior audiophile balanced audio over CAT 5
2.25"H x 3.5"W x 5"D

iBase Rack Mount Kit

4U mounting kit for iBase
All aluminum with black anodized finish
iBase rack mount kit can be retrofitted to existing iBases
7"H x 19"W x 7"D

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