FInally got GrooveTraveller Complete Car Kits Back!

After several delays we finally have stock again of Cygnett GrooveTraveller Complete Car Kits for all Dock Connector iPods. These littel beauties charge your iPod while allowing you to wirelessly play music through your car stereo and also provide a nice little seat for the iPod. Cygnett GrooveTravellers are available for £34.99 cheapest at time of pricing in the UK with many selling them for £34.99, get yours today and remember they fit the new Second Generation iPod Nano!

SUperb new Headphones from those Clever People at Sennheiser!

This beautiful set of earphones comes to us courtesy of Sennheiser, these are part of a new Style range released to compliment the Sport range from Sennheiser. This particular model the OMX90VC includes a fitting kit to ensure optimum fitting for comfort, they also make use of a damping system to ensure optimum sound quality and provide absolutely thumping bass. The design is one that you will feel comfortable wearing on the way to work, not stand out like Sennheiser Sport but very much still stylish and noticeable to a degree.

As a bonus to our blog readers we are offering a discount to anyone ordering this weekend, just type in RW1 at the checkout and have your iPod Accessories by Tuesday!

Wishing you all an enjoyable weekend.

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Guide to Purchasing iPod Cases

The iPod Case:

The iPod Nano was an absolute marvel from Apple, a tiny bit thicker than a credit card and about the same length, so light you barely knew you were holding it yet it had one thing that was the bane of many Nano owners, it scratches like crazy! This prompted many owners to search out a protective case immediately but with over 500 available just for the Nano it can be a minefield to choose yours. Here we want something that will stop the Nano scratching, give it some protection if it falls and of course it must look good!

XtremeMac have been making iPod accessories since 2002 and are dedicated to producing cases and skins of the absolute highest quality. No where is this more recognizable than with their XtremeMac Microglove, a phenomenal invention for the iPod Nano that will go down in iPod Folklore by many of its devotees, available in 5 colours including a gorgeous red and tasty bright green the case provides ample protection for the Nano’s Aluminum casing and has a fantastic look that is instantly recognizable from a distance, they even were generous enough to include a Carabiner for clipping your Ipod nano in its case to your belt loop or rucksack, this case certainly does enough to get our award as the best iPod case on the market.

Another excellent Nano offering from XtremeMac is their Tuffwrap Accent pictured on the left, these are aimed to appeal to all age levels especially younger trendy iPod users. Available in 6 different colour combinations they really did make one for everyone and the protection for your iPod nano is nothing short of outstanding with a firm silicone protecting almost the whole iPod leaving good access to the click wheel and screen and the headphone socket uncovered. Both cases from XtremeMac provide excellent protection as well as great access to the headphone socket.

Our number one case for the 5G Video iPod simply has to be the Tunewear PRIE Tunewallet. Tunwear are a niche company producing a range of accessories from Japan for Apple iPods that are of the highest quality. Never has the iPod been integrated so well into a protective case with room for cards and money as in the case of the PRIE Tunewallet. Made of genuine Nappa leather and priced at £24.99 at most good stores these are also superb value and would not be out of place protecting the Video Ipod of a student or Chief Executive of a large Corporation, they really are wonderful to look at, offer strong protection for the Video iPod and have room for your cards and some money, unbelievable!

For those that like something high tech for their Video iPod and like their accessories strong Matias offer something very special. A full cover case made out of Aircraft Grade Aluminum! Matias have been making their Armour range for Laptops for years but saw an opportunity with the iPod range to get something very special made. They certainly succeeded, a Video ipod incased in a Matias iPod Armour gives the appearance of something completely bombproof and if your iPod gets dumped n a bag or you are accident prone this will certainly keep your Video Ipod in top condition. Inside is a very neat tough almost suede like material to cushion your iPod in the event of any accidents. The headphone port is clear for your listening pleasure but the rest of the iPod is as safe as Fort Knox.

When the iPod Shuffle was released many wandered whether the idea of listening to your music in random order would catch on, it is hard to say what people’s true feeling about random order music was but one thing is sure they bought the value iPof in their thousands as they flew off of our shelves and continue to do so. There are less cases offered for the Shuffle than the Nano and Video but fortunately what we are offered is quality as opposed to quantity in the form of the Griffin iVault. This case is so far ahead of the competition that it is not a competition. Offered in five very eye catching and appealing metallic colours it certainly makes your Shuffle stand out from the crowd. The case screws shut with 4 screws leaving your Shuffle very very secure and still allowing access to the headphone port, control wheel, usb port and LED light. The Shuffle incased in an iVault weighs in at less than 1.5 ounzes so it is still the featherlight Shuffle that you bought it for, a great case from Griffin Technology.

Brilliant New Products for your iPod!!!!!!

After seeing customers happy with their purchases from us the most enjoyable part of runnign MP3 Additions is seeing all the wonderful new products that are released for iPods. It is very satisfying to discover a new product that we know will benefit our customers in their iPod use and comes at a great price. When we saw the Cygnett range we believed they were too cheap, something made us supicious of the quality so I wanted to test their products before putting them on sale. To say they passed our stringent tests is an underestimation of the century, their in car FM Transmitter kits are out of this world for useability and reliability and their chargers for travel are simply superb, the leather cases aren't bad either! To see the vast away of products thtat have come to us this week please visit our new arrival section where you can browse until your heart's content!

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Trying to juggle fulfilling everyone's orders that are coming in every day plus making sure mp3additions.co.uk have all the latest and greateest iPod accessories in stock, with a little help form my colleagues it can be done but still seeems to involved 16 hour working days.

New Cygnett products have been added to www.mp3additions.co.uk and also some new Altec Lansing Speaker and Docking Station Units, hope to serve you all soon.

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Burninve Love Pouches Flying off the Shelves!

Our Burning Love pouches are becming more and more well known and with that comes more and more demand, the Cotton Candy model on the left is our most popular followed closely by the Zebra pattern pouch, we are not suprised they are in such demand as well as looking great they have superb build quality being hand made from scratch.

We will have some more exciting designs to be released shortly from them, we look forward to showcasing them here, you'll hear about our products here before anyone else!

Nice to see so many of our customers purchasing Cygnett GrooveTraveller products for their in car audio, an absolutely cracking range of products for wireless in car audio, they look the part, provide a seat for your iPod and keep it charge all while you listen to your favourite tunes. The range can be seen at:

FM Transmitters

Weather Changes Now it Really Starts to Feel Like Christmas!

And for us at www.mp3additions.co.uk it feels very much like Christmas is upon us, we are getting reviews sorted out now in magazines and newspapers to tell people about our wonderful products and look out for your chacne to win an http://www.mp3additions.co.uk hamper full of iPod accessories. Pictured here is an XtremeMac Tuffwrap Accent fo the Video iPod, the Nano ones are extremely popular so we thought we would bring the Video ones on board, hope you all like them.

Take note we do gift wrapping now for just £3 and you cna choose to have your accessories wrapped ina selection of colours or select one specific colour, so when purchasing soem presents this Christmas if you want to ship somethign to someone far away or to get there before Christmas just select gift wrapping and make a note in comments box that you want the receipt out of the package as it is a gift so it arrives just as a ready wrapped present!

Another tasty new product we have in is the Holster Case from Belkin for the iPod Video, we expected when we took a couple to check them out that they would be bog standard cases but thse are lucurious very nice cases and superb value for money when bought from MP3 Additions. You can take a look at them at:

Belkin Holster Case for iPod Video

Wishing you all a merry weekend and look forward to serving you soon!

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Its been a week! Sorry!

Been very busy but have written a hopefully helpful article for my readers on selecting your iPod speakers, enjoy!

More and more people are purchasing a set of speakers for their iPods, some to replace their current home audio set ups in order to get rid of the cd collections that take up so much room, some to have a portable audio source for when they are away on holiday, some just for having some iPod speakers because everyone else is buying them! One of the problems we come across the most is people being faced with a huge selection of choices and feeling bewildered about what to buy. What I am aim to do is make your choice that little bit easier.

We can break down the different sets of speakers into the following categories:

Portable and powered by batteries.

Portable and powered by mains adapter.

Home Set up powered by mains adapter.

For those of you looking for a portable set that is powered by batteries there are a variety of excellent options at varying prices. Personally I am of the belief that whatever amount of money you are spending it is important that sound quality is pretty good as what use is a light speaker set that has crackily sound! If you are looking to spend under £50 then we highly rate both the Logic 3 i-Station 7 and the Monster iSpeaker. Both of these are very light to carry, are of a size very conveninet for putting ina backpack or suitcase and run for a good amount of time on batteries, sound from both is exceptional for this pricepoint with great clarity.

If you are looking to spend a little more then a lot of options open up in the £50 to £150 bracket. If lightweight is your number one problem then you will not go far wrong with the JBL On Tour, this is an incredibly lightweight unit that what it lacks in bass it makes up for in the sound clarity department. If you would prefer better sound quality then a step up to an Altec Lansing IM5 or Logitech MM50, Saitek A250 and for iPod Nano Owners the XtremeMac MicroBlast. All of these provide excellent sound alongside good looks and a highly portable structure. Once your budget is going over £150 you are in to the realms of a great portable system in the Altec Lansing IM7, thumping bass, crystal clear treble and a great portable structure, definetly the daddy of portable iPod Docking Stations and Speaker units.

If you would like something that can be considered portable but don't mind having to use a mains charger then there are a couple of good options available. One of our favourites is the Macally IceTune, this is indeed one of our top 5 iPod accessories altogether, when stacked up it looks like a coke can and has two separate speakers that can be removed and pointed to send sounds in different directions, the sound quality is excelletn for only £39.99 and it is very much portable but does require mains power. The JBL On Stage is another wonderful compact and lightweight unit that can be plugged into the mains for power and will charge your iPod while you listen to it, very high quality sound, lacks bass a littel but you are compromising bass to have such a small portable unit, clarity of sound and loudness are both very impressive. Another excellent unit in this bracket is the Logic 3 iStation 8, newly released and keeping up the fabulous reputation of the iStation 7 this really is worth the money, great combinations of bass and treble and very much a portable size and weight.

For the home set up there are a variety of options and in honesty the best value speakers in our opinion come at this price point. For just £59.99 you can have a pair of JBL Creature II's, these are surely one of the greatest home electronics products to ever hit the market, the bass is phenomenal and the clarity is superb, vocals sound great for many types of music, they also look very appealing and are bound to interest visitors who glaze their eyes upon them! Also in the JBL range are the Encounters, these expand on the Creature philosophy of an alien themed set of speakers and have even stronger bass, they are quite simply phenomenal! At this price point we also have the Harmon Kardon Soundsticks, for a long time these have been my individual favourite speakers, they are see through so you can have a look at what is going on inside and provide possibly the clearest vocals you will hear from iPod focused speakers they are simply outstanding, perhaps not as strong bass as the Encounters but still more than enough for most pallettes. For anyone considering a home iPod set up I strongly suggest a very close look at the Harmon Kardon Soundsticks they are oustanding and will fit in to 99% of home settings in the living room, dining room, kitchen etc!

Hopefully this guide has been of some use to you choosing your speakers, firstly establish which of the three categories your requirements for speakers come into and then you can use the above advice to direct you to some great units, we wish you the best of luck in your choice!

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