The bookshelf speaker market has been flooded with excellent products in the last few years – they are suitable for a variety of music setups, and they are also affordable to boot. As a point of clarification, please note that all prices stated below are for a pair of speakers unless st...
The speakers are solid for a laptop of this size. They’re not theloudestspeakers I’ve heard in a laptop of this size, but they can get up to a good volume. The audio is clear. They’re plenty capable, and better than what I’d expect on a laptop in this price range. The bigg...
There’s one way, however, in which the mini’s speaker layout offers an improvement over its siblings: Because there are two speakers, and they’re located near the center of the bottom edge, you’re less likely to cover them with your hand when holding the iPad mini in landsca...
The effect was apparent only with “louder” recordings, such as rock mastered with compressed dynamic range, and it occurred regardless of the actual playback volume; quieter recordings such as classical music displayed this issue only in their loudest passages. Overall, this issue was subtle ...
But the super-comfy earbuds and controls are the same either way, as is how amazingly effective these are at canceling the roar of my loudest tools. Both come with a number of different plugs for different size ears, so you can get the fit just right. It takes a minute to compress ...
The Optimus T does an average job of filtering background noise; calls I made at a busy shopping mall kept out all but the loudest sounds. Calls conducted over Wi-Fi still use plan minutes, and quality will vary network to network. On my personal home network, my calls were interlaced ...
which are technically the same size as tuk-tuks but, because of the shape of the bench, can hold more people. They are also the loudest and ricketiest “vehicles.” They buzz and whine and putt-putt their way through the streets, and our mini-jumbo this morning stopped running more tha...