The rubber feet are the same ones you can go down to your local hardware store and glue to pretty much anything, when / if one of them falls off, you're kind of screwed. I still have to press much harder to get the volume to go up compared to down, so I'm guessing the button mechanism on my review unit may be a little bit defective. Eventually I just pressed (a lot) harder, and it worked. For 10 minutes, I tried to turn the volume up on the Phoenix, holding down the correct button, to no avail. The two problems with build quality I did find are the control button on top and the rubber feet. The channel separation on the Phoenix is also a lot better, owing again to that non-traditional speaker layout. With a device like the Jambox at max volume, you may get noise that's a little louder, but at that point, it sounds a lot worse. At max volume, you get a device that can easily fill a small room, but I wouldn't count on it for much more than that. Either way, the sound you're getting is consistently clear, even at maximum volume. The speaker layout is probably playing its part, as well.
#CUBETASTIC BLUETOOTH#
This is pretty rare for a Bluetooth speaker at this price point, and is probably in part owed to the quality of construction and aural characteristics of the Phoenix's enclosure (more solid = less rattling / tinny-ness). The Phoenix puts out pretty crisp audio (noticeably better than the Jambox for mids and highs), with very little distortion at high volumes in the mid and upper frequencies.
#CUBETASTIC PORTABLE#
If you want a good, very small portable speaker for $100, I'd still say the answer is "yes."
How much? $99 on Beacon Audio's website.What is it? A portable Bluetooth speaker - shaped like a cube!.Really, these speakers are only portable with planning, the sort of thing you'd use for providing the tunes at a party, or a day at the beach - they're more more new-age boombox than personal audio system. Stuff like the Jambox Big or Supertooth Disco. Yes, it's wireless, and you could probably fit it in a suitcase, but it's not something you'd travel with, let alone carry around on a regular basis. Then, you have the not-really-actually-portable, but "portable," Bluetooth speakers. Definitely carry-aroundable, but not necessarily something you'd keep in your bag all the time. But generally, this increasingly common accessory comes in one of three form-factor flavors.įirst, you have the Jambox-sized devices. The market for portable Bluetooth speakers is growing more competitive by the day, with various manufacturers spitting out the rectangular prisms in a wider variety of sizes and price points.
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