Scosche BoomCan MS review: M is for magnet (not marvelous)

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$49.99

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The Scoshe BoomCan MS Bluetooth speaker methods stocking-stuffer degrees of advantage, portability, and simplicity.

This speaker is as simple as they arrive: a 2.5-inch vast disc made to give a very little burst of audio anywhere you happen to will need it. The hook is that the again is magnetic, so you can stick it to any ideal surface—including the bottom of an Iphone 12 or bigger, via the phone’s flawlessly sized MagSafe relationship. (Observe that it will not adhere if your cellphone has a non-MagSafe-accredited situation.) As a very small reward, when snapped to the again of your cellphone, the speaker works like a landscape-oriented kickstand (albeit a person with a viewing angle that simply cannot be altered).

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There is a single 3-watt driver and a 500mAh battery. Scoshe promises battery existence of 5 several hours on a entire demand in my tests I defeat that mark by additional than an hour. Housed in plastic—white or black—the grille is covered by a smooth, grey material mesh. Even with this material masking and a straightforward rubber flap to cover its USB-C charging port, the unit features IP67 temperature resistance, indicating its impervious to dust ingress and can face up to becoming submerged in up to 3.3 ft of h2o for 30 minutes. You will learn all about IP codes at the previous website link. A USB-C to USB-A cable is involved, but no A/C adapter.

Controls are as fundamental as they appear: A twin-operate button for energy and Bluetooth pairing. This button can also be made use of to pair two BoomCans jointly to develop stereo, but we had been not able to examination this aspect because we gained only a one unit for overview. Notably, the speaker does not incorporate any onboard media controls or volume-altering ability you are left to your own machine(s) for essentially everything. On the plus facet, the pairing procedure was seamless in my screening.

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When Scosche promises a frequency response of 20Hz to 20kHz, there is obviously some wishful wondering in that spec. Bass is nonexistent, which is probably unsurprising specified the size of the driver. I uncovered the audio clarity and highs to be satisfactory in a small house, only the slightest little bit tinny, but the lack of any sort of minimal output was an straight away evident letdown that remaining the overall knowledge on par with generic, portable units that price half as significantly. Finally, $50 is asking a lot for a 3-watt speaker, magnet or no. Although I appreciate the portability, the seem high quality merely isn’t significant sufficient to justify its asking rate.