Stereo with IPOD dock

Hello,
It is time for me to update my home stereo. I am looking for a nice to good mini stereo system that sounds great and has an IPOD dock on it. I want to be able to use the radio with it as well as play CDs if I need to (just in case I need something that's not on the IPOD). Some of the systems out there seem pretty cheap so I am looking for some advice. Also, I don't really want to spend more then $300 bucks.
I have a brand new IPOD Nano 8GB 3rd gen. What do you suggest.

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When I think of a shelf system, what I really want is something stylish that will fit with my home decor. In looking into what’s currently available, I found a range of products that vary in appearance from functional to futuristic and in price from very affordable to quite high end.
The products I researched had the key component that you requested: an iPod dock – almost a necessity in our portable-music world. I found at least 20 different units on BestBuy.com with name brands like Denon and Polk Audio on the high end, Klipsch and Sony in the midrange, and extremely affordable units by JVC, Philips and Insignia. They all have the functionality to play CDs of most kinds (CD, CD-R, CD-RW, etc), and mp3 and WMA formatted music; some have a radio tuner built in too. In appearance they vary from efficient (although somewhat boxy) boom-box systems to rounded modern designs that would look nice in any home – and not necessarily tucked away on a shelf!
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I've seen lots of mentions that the dock connector on the nano is "standard". So I plugged the nano into my older iPod dock at home (came with my 40GB monochrome iPod). Power charging works, but with the nano plugged in I get no sound through the line out port on the dock. The 40GB iPod sound works fine through the same dock.
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Eric,
I noticed an odd behavior trying to use my nano with my friend's docking station the other day. I would get no sound out of the dock unless I reset the nano. In playing around with it, it seemed that plugging in my headphones caused the audio out through the dock connector to stop. lf I simply reset the nano before connecting to the dock (after unplugging the headphones), then the audio out through the dock worked fine.
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When I press the play/pause or either skip forward or back on the remote, the iPod, while on the dock, lights up and responds to the command as it should. But when I press volume up or down on the remote the iPod does not respond at all.
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Anyone have any ideas on this one? It's an older Ipod so I'm sure there's some kind of fix for this by now... and I see alot of issues with this on the net in general (but no fixes....wait, now I'm worried...).
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(didn't we already meet off in another thread about this sort of thing?)
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refer to this Apple support Article, on Universal Dock which retail at $59 at Apple store.
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I have an 8GB Black 2nd Gen iPod Nano. I want to connect it to my stereo. I was told that the Apple Ipod Universal Dock would be a good solution.
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The website says that it is compatible with my nano, so no big deal right? I just wanted to make sure it would work fine with my iPod nano before I went and bought one. Does it come with the AV cable to connect the dock to my stereo / tv? DOes the dock have a graphical menu interface like some of the third party docks/remotes have?
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I was looking at the review CNET had for that Kensington dock.
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"We were impressed by the remote's ability to take control of our iPod; most of the third-party iPod-dock remotes we've seen only pause the music or video, skip tracks, and adjust the volume, not browse the menus. That said, the Entertainment Dock still isn't perfect. When you navigate the menus, your TV screen will be blank, so you must rely on the iPod's screen for your visual cues. Our other gripe is that the remote seems cheaply designed: The buttons on our review model looked misaligned (if usable), while the battery cover was annoyingly difficult to pry open. We got about 30 feet of range from the remote, which is more than adequate for most living rooms."
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