Sources have indicated to MacScoop that Apple's first hi-fi product, namely, the iPod Hi-Fi, could be discontinued.

Released by Apple in February 2006, the iPod Hi-Fi is an integrated, boombox-factored stereo system which includes an iPod dock and provides high fidelity sound through three drivers which fit in an "acoustically tuned enclosure", as stated in the product's specs.

It appears that the $349 product will stay in Apple's catalogue for just enough time to let Apple to sell the last pieces of its inventory.

No information has filtered on a replacement product. If there is a replacement item, we expect the product to be very different and probably to carry a different name.

The iPod Hi-Fi can't be called a flop though, as it had been quite well received by the press and had virtually no user-complains. On the other hand, the Hi-Fi hasn't exactly been a runaway sales success either.

A few days ago, another report [1] by ThinkSecret, first mentioned the possibility that Apple would discontinue the Hi-Fi. Maybe the special event scheduled [2] by Apple on September 5 will tell us more.