I reached out to Jim…and then he called me. I shared a diagram of my sunroom, with the current placement of my Totems (worked out to a millimeter), and noted that it was a very “lively” room, with lots of windows and hard surfaces. I explained the predicament I was in with my MA8900 and Totem combo, and told him that I was looking for a speaker with a smoother top-end. I am not John Atkinson, and don’t have any sort of scientific measuring equipment. The design is so free of distortion at any volumes that it is remarkable. As expected by a design with this sort of focus, your brain will be focused on the sound of the humans behind each recording, rather than the speakers themselves. The sound of the combination was amazing – but the MA8900 is a decidedly airy and analytical amplifier – and the Hawks’ MB Quart titanium tweeters were a tad too harsh a match at higher volumes.

While the speaker drivers remain the same, the Qualcomm chipset that powers the speaker has been upgraded (the speaker uses Bluetooth 5.1), bumping the sound quality up a tad, particularly at higher volumes, with better digital signal processing. It remains one of the best-sounding mini Bluetooth speaker models, with richer more tonally balanced sound than other Bluetooth speakers its size -- and it should sound good, considering its elevated price point.

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To connect a set of USB (universal serial bus) speakers or headphones, insert the device's USB connector into one of your computer's open USB ports (as shown in the picture). The device should be automatically recognized by the computer. For additional information, consult the user manual for your device. Laptop users Consumer Electronics:TV, Video and Home Audio:Home Audio:Home Audio Components:Other Home Stereo Components You're only seeing about half the room. It's 11x22. Arguably, the Totem Hawks were a tad too small for the space. The plants and furniture (as well as the Persian rug) help to soften up the room, but in my experience they don't affect imaging in any way (they certainly don't affect soundstage!). I move plants in and out throughout the year to change things up (some plants just need to summer outside). It does take a while to figure out the placement of new speakers in the space, but everything I have owned seems to work within a certain few inches within what you see in the photo. Moving speakers just a half of an inch left or right in this space can make a very noticeable difference to the overall presentation, so patience is a virtue.

But…I had to ask Jim: with a 9.5” woofer (and a single one, at that), were these speakers going to be distractingly large in my room? As it turned out, they were a fair amount taller than the SS 8s. I hemmed…I hawed. I wondered: with a baffle supporting a 9.5” woofer, what was going to happen with diffraction effects from the diminutive tweeter and midrange? Jim was a little coy, but he shared, “We are likely to chamfer the cabinet edges so that the wider front baffle will be no issue.” I never knew what this chamfer was going to look like until he revealed the initial design several weeks ago. But what I did not expect was that the drivers also present several distinct opportunities for credible toe-in options that present equally compelling soundscapes (oh!) for different performance demands. Consumer Electronics:TV, Video and Home Audio:Home Audio:Receivers and Amplifiers:Amplifiers and Preamps I should note that I grew up listening to my brother’s setups in the 1970s, which were first powered by Large Advents, replaced with Polk Monitor 10s. If you read me, I have an affinity for non-ported designs, and I like bass that scales with volume.) Electronics:Home Audio Stereos, Components:Speaker Parts and Components:Speaker Building ComponentsThe Hamburger Mini Speaker is a 3W economical speaker option for any project needing stand-alone sound with a small footprint.