I tried the Anker Motion+ and found the sound to be quite lacking. Thankfully, I have finally found a way to buy a new battery for my old iLoud, which must be getting on for 12-13 years old now. Some robot vacuums use the same battery, so as soon as mine arrives I’ll be back in business.
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Agreed, consistency is their trademark.
Geez, I really really want something I can take out with me to a park and jam out on a groovebox, maybe with friends and a mixer… something somewhat between the quality of your average mono battery-powerable speaker and some nutso QSC KC12 column.
I wonder what is the best possible quality and balance of loudness in an actually portable (not in the military/tank sense) speaker right now?
My Zoom L6 will handle the mixing/recording at least.
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Ari@home has 2 sets of 2.1 minirigs and his setup is loud. Maybe consider just a single set lol.
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I’m very surprised with the low end on Marshall’s Middleton speaker. I kinda hate the buttons on it and its cheesy on/off sound, but I’ve enjoyed listening a lot of ambient music through it.
Oh and btw, it’s quite heavy
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Tempting, less distribution here but Amazon seems to stock ‘em.
I will A/B those and the EarFun UBOOM X.
Edit: Looks like I can pick up a 1.1 Minirig from Amazon for 428.89 or Juno (because fuck Bezos) for $340.60.
Not too bad! I’ll pick a set up (probably 2.1 from Juno) for my birfday later in the year.
Thanks for the nudge 
Hi, I bought a JBL Boombox 3.
Boombox 4 are coming soon so you can find a new 3 for 250 euros, which seems like a pretty good price to me…
Has anyone used one of these things with a usb/power adapter Ripcord to use it on the go with a Dt mkI, a Dn MkI or an A4 Mk2?
Wired, is the latency close to zero ?
Thanks.
Just to update my own experience, I picked up the minirig (3?) from someone on Craigslist and wired them together. Unsure if it was just the state they were in but too noisy to be useful and I wasn’t a fan of the audio pass-through between the three separate speakers, I’m sticking with the Uboom-X as a boombox.
If anyone has tips for the Minirigs I’d be glad to fix whatever but otherwise these are going to a charity shop for someone else.
Thankfully I picked them up for $30 sans shipping label so no real loss!
Oof where did you see that price? I saw the drop but can only find 300
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249€ Mediamarkt Belgium.
https://www.mediamarkt.be/fr/product/_jbl-enceinte-portable-boombox-3-noir-jblboombox3blkeu-1996229.html
269€ directly @JBL webstore.
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Thanks 
Way cheaper (€100+) than JBL direct or MediaMarkt in Austria. JBL direct blocks my address, though, which is a shame because they throw in a bonus dry backpack.
Makes me think I should be looking at prices EU-wide more often, although I haven’t found a smart way to do that yet
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Two people in that thread saying no noticeable latency, RCA to 3.5 jack
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I had the v1 and wired latency was about 5 days
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After playing with the B3 this afternoon, I’m very happy with the latency.
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They’ve improved it in v3, according to that Reddit thread
FWIW, I’ve had no latency issues using Bose speakers w an aux in — every other major brand I’ve had issues. I have one of those rubberized soundlinks that’s flat-ish looking and it’s always in use — super easy to throw in my bag when traveling and don’t worry about it getting dinged up in the environment. Fairly inexpensive as well.
Mini? Flex?
The one I bop around with is the Soundlink Color II I think, I also have a Revolve, both great. I would expect most of them would present the same latency, but those are the ones I can attest to personally. Newer ones I’m sure are good too
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I’ve got the 2 x Minirig 3 + Sub combo as well. Love it. Right now I’m using them for my bedroom setup.
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Latency is fine, but it is absurdly distracting for me that there is no input switch for the aux input, but only an automatic detection.
If there is no input signal it switches back quite immediately and takes a little to go back to the aux input again. This annoys me far more than it should which is why I don‘t use mine with my M8 Tracker 
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What does it take to lose the connection, low signal, or absolutely no signal at all (like connected device switched off)?
Paging @simonbradford on this too 
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