No doubt your personal shower singing is so spectacular it needs no backup singers or music, but just in case you might want to think about the ShowerPOD. Whether you need an early morning pick-me-up tune cranking or you want to make the most of your shower time by listening to that podcast you downloaded the ShowerPOD fits the bill. The ShowerPOD wireless speaker is manufactured by Audio Unlimited (also known as Cables Unlimited) and is designed to hang on your shower head using a rotating rubberized shower hook attached to the top of the speaker. It is of course designed to be water resistant and has two speakers built inside the case.
All of the controls for the speaker are located directly on it so you can adjust the volume, power, bass boost, or hit the auto tune button without having to put down the soap. It is powered by 6 AA batteries or you can use an AC adapter but it would probably be a good idea for you not to try the adapter in the shower. The speaker itself is solidly built and weighs about four pounds.
As with any wireless speaker system you also have a transmitter which connects to your music source. In this case the transmitter for the ShowerPOD can be powered by batteries or an AC adapter. The option to run the transmitter with batteries gives you even more flexibility in where you want to locate your MP3 player or stereo system in relation to the shower, but at a 900MHZ frequency you should theoretically have about 150 feet of range available from the transmitter to the speaker. The transmitter gives you two channels to switch back and forth just in case you have a device such as a cordless phone that is causing interference with the speaker. You can connect your music source (MP3 player, stereo receiver, etc) using a standard headphone connection, or use an adapter to connect the transmitter with RCA cables or the larger 1/4 inch stereo plugs. If you are using an MP3 player you can actually rest it directly on the transmitter on the included rubber surface which helps to keep your device from sliding off. Once you have your device hooked up to the transmitter there is a blue indicator light on it that will illuminate solid indicating that the sound is being received by the transmitter. The auto tune function of the speaker will continually scan until it detects the signal from the transmitter and that is all you have to do to get everything set up.
The most common issue you might run into is if you don’t have your MP3 player or stereo device volume high enough to provide adequate signal strength. If this happens, the transmitter will actually switch off and the blue indicator light will flash. This is generally easily resolved by raising the volume on your music device and typically you’ll find that it needs to be somewhere around 75% of maximum volume to transmit cleanly.