How portable is portable enough? When you’re dealing with most audio equipment, bigger tends to be better. It’s something you can notice when comparing the difference between the speaker inside a singing birthday card, the speaker on the back of phone, and the speaker on a full-sized TV. When sound quality matters, you want to …
High quality audio can burn through a lot of electricity. In the interests of being portable, it would be a little ridiculous to build Bluetooth speakers with a 5-pound laptop battery. Similarly, you’ll find it’s easier to get great audio under specific conditions. The acoustic properties of a room will change from one space to …
We all have different ideas about what portable Bluetooth means. A hunter who’s headed into the wilderness might count every single ounce in their bag. Someone setting up a speaker in their front yard probably doesn’t care if it weighs four pounds instead of two. And someone who plans on physically carrying a Bluetooth speaker …
Choosing a portable speaker is about balancing on-the-go needs against the basic qualities you want from a sound device. Things like portability and battery life are a good start, but it doesn’t matter how many neat things your Bluetooth speakers can do if they ultimately don’t sound good. Finding the right audio equipment isn’t quite …
Finding the right Bluetooth speaker is mostly about knowing where you’ll be doing most of your listening. Different spaces have different acoustics. Audio equipment that sounds incredible in your living room can sound terrible when you take it outdoors. Even great gear can start to underperform under the wrong conditions. Just because you can take …