Remember the 80’s when we all had our portable boom boxes stacked with cassette tapes. They were a necessity back then and a mainstay of the music culture.

They still exist today though, albeit not as chunky but battery powered speakers are still out there.
Altec Lansing’s new iMT800 aims to bring together the best of the old and the best of the new. It has the image of an old school, but it boasts and iPod, iPhone dock which is also GSM shielded so there is no need to flip the iPhone into airplane mode.

The Mix includes a 3.5 millimetre line inputs, and also has a little remote that you can easily clip onto a belt loop if you wish to. A full review of the Mix is still to come but it has been said that this is good and loud, which may have something to do with the side firing subwoofers. Source – news.cnet.com