Adventures in Black Friday shopping
I'm not one to be overly cautious in purchases. However, my last experience with a bluetooth speaker for use as an output device for streaming music from my computer was utterly unsatisfactory. This caused me to go into an extended period of comparative shopping prior to taking the plunge on yet another bluetooth speaker. |
I have since replaced the computer upon which this was in operation and whereas the old bluetooth was a USB adapter the new workstation has bluetooth built in.
It seems the battery on the Soundcore Motion+ was one short lived defective piece of junk and would not charge anymore. It was making the entire computer appear to fail as well.
Then I find the imbeciles soldered that defective battery into the component mountings within the case and voila I tossed it into the trashcan ... all one hundred ten dollars of relative newness.
What a bunch of idiots.
Of late I had been looking over bluetooth speakers to replace the Soundcore Motion+ thingie seeing how I had grown accustomed to remote music from my computer and all.
After about ten trips to Best Buy and pondering the Klipsch, Edifers, Polks, and of course the Marshalls at length ... I opted for the Insignia Bookshelf Bluetooth set for a hundred and a half plus tax.
Look ... the things are well constructed but MOST OF ALL don't have some hardware soldered inline battery to fail and are 110 AC powered with MUCH better bass, treble, frequency response, and fidelity.
I'm simply gushing over their performance ... well, as gushing as I can ever get which isn't saying much.
All in all it has been a wonderful black Friday and I didn't spend an arm and a leg. Just an arm.
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