“Does not contain a tiny, nude Steve
Guttenberg”
Price: $795.5
Website: denon.co.uk
Cocoon? Does it have Steve Guttenberg
in it?
Sorry. While we’re sure nothing would sound
sweeter than the star of Cocoon, Three Men and a Baby and Police Academy
singing your favorite tunes on demand, Steve can’t be replicated quickly enough
for mass production. Also, he’s too big to fit inside this Cocoon’s curvaceous
form, packed as it is with clever networked music tech and top-notch
hi-fi ingredients.
Denon
Cocoon
Ingredients? So it’s a sort of huge
bean! Time for a cassoulet…
A tastier alternative would be to allow the
Cocoon to employ its automatic network setup, which connects via Ethernet or
Wi-Fi, before pumping out some delicious tunes. It will play from just about
anything – your iPadPodPhone via its pop-out dock or AirPlay, and your PC, Mac,
NAS or smartphone via network streaming. Android and iOS phones get a very nice
app to control the Cocoon, but there’s also a lovely remote and touch controls
atop its bean-like form.
So basically it’s just a nice,
somewhat bean-shaped dock?
Denon
Cocoon
Nice doesn’t cover it. Technically it might
be a dock, but with four 25W amps powering two 100 mm woofers and two 40 mm
tweeters, its talent for lossless audio and those luscious beany looks, it all
adds up to make the Cocoon a true hi-fi replacement. Tests are yet to show if
it’ll make you younger à la Cocoon, but we wouldn’t be surprised.
