▶▶▶ X-Mini II Capsule Speaker

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

X-Mini II Capsule Speaker

X-Mini II Capsule Speaker Review

Does the X-Mini II sound as good as your surround sound home stereo? Not even close. Does it sound as good as the subwoofer system you have hooked up to your desktop computer? Of course not. What this little gem *does* deliver is impressive sound in a very portable package. It's great for your MP3 player, cell phone, or netbook/laptop, and generates enough sound to fill a small room. Placing the speaker on different surfaces will change the sound quality, so experiment with the placement for best results. Overall, the sound this little thing can generate is remarkable and surprising.

Despite its superb capability, the X-Mini II is not perfect. For starters, it's very small and light, so bass-heavy songs will cause the entire speaker to rattle or bounce around on hard surfaces. It also has a VERY short cord, so it has to be placed right next to the audio source. This can create problems. For example, if you wanted to connect it to a standard tower-style desktop computer, it would dangle a few inches under the headphone jack--not a good arrangement. I also didn't like the fact that it has relatively large open areas on the top. Even if you keep it in its carrying pouch, pieces of crud can collect on the speaker cone and be hard to remove. A screen or something there would have been nice.

Overall, I consider this speaker to be well worth the price. It's an impressive gadget; so impressive, mine got stolen less than a week after I got it. (Yeah, be careful. It's easy to lose small portable things.) However, I liked it enough to buy another one almost immediately, and that's rare.