The company has also reduced the footprint and scope of the remote control again, shifting from the candybar-sized Rz1 to the smaller Rz6-a unit that lacks iPod/iPhone screen navigation features. iHome has changed the top buttons to reduce the size of the volume and tuning rockers while preserving their functionality, and added dedicated “bedtime” and “wakeup” dimmer features, shifting the prior dedicated radio preset buttons to a single “presets” button in the process. In the “small but nice” department are changes to the clock, which now is closer to true black rather than a dark purplish blue, while retaining a multi-stage dimmer that reduces the white numbers’ brightness along with the illumination of the top buttons. Given how much else has changed inside, it wouldn’t be fair to focus narrowly on iA91’s sonic performance, so let’s consider what else has been tweaked here. Smaller enclosures typically mean weaker speaker performance, and as we’ll discuss below, that’s an issue here, albeit a minor one. While this is actually a really handsome evolution of the iP90 and iA100 designs, it comes at a cost: iHome has dramatically reduced the size of the rest of the enclosure, which previously bulged in the front, ran roughly an inch deeper in the back, and was just a little taller, too.

iP90’s front bezel has morphed into an oversized single leg that raises the iA91 speaker grille a half inch off the table, angling its top and back in the process. iA100 used two silver plastic legs to suspend its chassis above the surface of a table, and iA91 borrows the idea, with modifications. Though it mightn’t be obvious from the pictures, iHome has made quite a few changes to the iA91 relative to the iP90, and they’re mostly positive.

Ihome desktop clock radio