iJET Wireless iPod Remote w/ Dock White

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4.0 out of 5 stars nice, but only controls headphone audio, December 22, 2006

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MR Gregory F. Welch (Carrboro, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: iJET Wireless iPod Remote w/ Dock White

I just purchased "iJet wireless remote with bottom dock". Overall it seems pretty nice. It is really nice to be able to pause/play my iPod from across the room, or even in a different room. This simply wasn't possible with any IR remove I tried. The RF remote is great.

One minor annoyance I have noticed is that the remote buttons seem a little unresponsive at times. It seems I have to click firmly and hold just momentarily to affect the iPod. A quick click feels like it should work, but it doesn't, at least not for me. It's fine, but it surprised me a little. I thought it wasn't working at first.

My greatest disappointment was to find out that it only controls the headphone audio levels, as opposed to the line-level outputs through the dock connector. I am surprised this is not explained anywhere on their web site (which doestn' say very much). I saw "Connect your iPod to your stereo and control it from anywhere up to 150 ft away!" and assumed it would work w/ my home iPod dock (w/ S-video out, etc.), which it does, *except* for the volume control. To their credit, they do include a stereo RCA/Phono cable (and several remote clips), but unfortunately for me the headphone signal levels don't match the available inputs on my stereo.

Overall I'm satisfied, and impressed with the combination of RF and dock pass-through aspects. For stand-alone iPod use (in a backpack or whatever) it seems like it would be really nice (it even works when the "hold" switch is enabled on the iPod). I'm a bit disappointed about the lack of line-level/dock audio control.