5 of the best iPad speaker docks

The Apple iPod spawned speaker docks by the truckload but tuneful chairs for its tablet-brother, the iPad, have been much slower to emerge. From budget speakers to posh penthouse airshifters, here is the pick of the five finest iPad docks your spondulicks can buy.iLuv iMM747£90, www.i-luv.comIf you're on a tight budget, the iLuv is worth a punt. For a dock sniffing around the sub-£100 mark, its audio set up looks quite impressive; each of the two channels boasts a tweeter, mid-range driver and a radiating subwoofer for low-end clout. An adjustable docking wall provides much needed back support so the iPad doesn’t topple over.Buy Now Continues... Altec Lansing Octiv 450£130, www.alteclansing.comAltec Lansing has good form when it comes to iPod docks so expect a solid sonic performance from its debut iPad desktop system. Its docking stand rotates 90-degrees to flip your iPad landscape, so you can watch movies and enjoy a fuller soundstage through the double 2-inch speakers. Lovely.Continues...  Philips Fidelio DS8550£250, www.philips.co.ukThe £400 top-of-the-range Fidelio proved to be a B&W Zeppelin-baiting, high-class premium dock, so fingers crossed its music talent hasn’t been diluted too much on this more affordable model. Its ‘SoundCurve’ concave cabinet is certainly eye-catching but is also designed to deliver a distortion free sound.Buy NowContinues... Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 8£900, www.bang-olufsen.comThe Danish designer outfit is renowned for fashioning pricey but outrageously cool-looking audio kit and this dock is another engineering miracle. It’s also a bit of an audio clever clog with three adjustment switches that modify the bass boom according to its position in the room. Up against a wall? Let’s tone down those low-end rumbles.Continues... Denon CEOL£600, denon.co.ukOk, it’s not strictly a dock but this wild card system makes uses of the iPad’s iOS 4.2 AirPlay update. Part with £40 for a firmware upgrade and you can update the CEOL to support Apple’s new works-with-iTunes wireless streaming technology and beam your lossless or compressed music from the iPad to this quality mini system. It’s the future, or so we’re told.Buy NowMore from Stuff.tv- 2.5m Kinects sold in 25 days- News Nugget – Pure Twilight dawn sim alarm clock- British Black Friday bargains- Stuff Christmas Gift Guide – gaming- Acer teases its 2011 touchscreen bounty- News Nugget – Altec Lansing Octiv 450 iPad speaker dock- Rumour Mill – Xbox 360 app explosion coming- Gadget Flashback – Xbox 360- iOS 4.2 hits iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch- 15 CGI movie milestones