Apple speakers

Apple Inc. has produced and sold numerous music and multimedia speakers, available for standalone purchase and bundled with Macintosh products.

Although primarily intended for the Apple IIGS which it cosmetically matched and better suited for its advanced audio capabilities, the speakers were also made available for early Macintosh models.

Both were powered with an AC adapter and could be attached to any audio output source, with two separate inputs for the computer and an external CD player.

Both had a headphone jack in the front of one speaker along with the volume control and an optional subwoofer connection port on some models.

[citation needed] Apple bundled a pair of model M7963 clear spherical/globe Sound Stick 2.1 based speakers with the Power Mac G4 Cube, which was released on July 19, 2000.

They were designed by Jonathan Ive & created in partnership with Harman Kardon, and were enlarged versions of the Odyssey speakers built in to the iMac G3.

[3][4] Apple announced the iSub in 1999, a 6-inch subwoofer produced in partnership with Harman Kardon, designed by Jony Ive.

[12][13] The iPod Hi-Fi received criticism due to its high price,[14] lack of an AM/FM radio,[15] and the limited functionality of its remote control.