![]() True Story: Rohan Marley from the House of Marley once played pro football for the Ottawa Rough Riders. NudeAudio’s Move range comes with a cord attachment for hangin’ around. Panasonic’s Tough Outdoor Wireless Speaker has a genuine point of difference – it’s stronger than the average speaker. Perhaps not visually, but Philip will guide us audibly with this lantern-esque speaker. The Camden Square from Polk Audio – definitely a standout design – would surely have been popular with Camden’s favourite daughter. Samsung looking very serious in silver at an angle of 45. From a distance, Sol Republic’s Deck looks like a river flowing through a desert. Sony pink and purple offering is great for listening to bubblegum pop. TEAC’s offer in this space is for those that users that still like a lot of buttons and dials. Toshiba – not normally a brand you associate with audio – unveiled this flying saucer at IFA. And that would be impossibly ordinary for this category. If it weren’t for all those circular apertures, Yamaha NX P100 would be a white rectangle. Beats Pill is a distinctive speaker that we can’t stop promoting in music videos. Blaupunkt Voss, for the Patrick White fans out there. ![]() ![]() Even ultra-premium brands like Bose are slumming it with the speakers with its SoundLink. ![]() Congratulations to one and all! Pure’s Jongo range is designed as colourful family of “big sound you can move around”. Each speaker is accompanied with a YouTube link to a tenuously appropriate video for playback via that speaker. To celebrate the Year of the Bluetooth Speaker, UnderCurrent presents its Top 25 Bluetooth Speaker Brands of 2013. Just like the high concept headphone craze of 2012, there is a wide a gamut of designs, and what they may lack in celebrity endorsements they make up for with an array of colours. 2013 was undoubtedly the year of the Bluetooth speaker. In past years we have had docking stations coming out the brazoo, a robot vac-athon and the heady days of headphones. Without fail, every year, as sure as Rihanna will have a #1 hit, the All Blacks will win the Bledisloe and a tier 2 brand will be accused of trying to kill an Apple iDevice, one piece of gadgetry will reach its zenith and all brands even remotely associated with technology will cross a rubicon to compete fiercely where once they couldn’t have cared less.
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