Sonos's One has substantially better very low bass power, but the Link 20 embarrasses the Amazon Echo, which just doesn't have the low - bass punch to
make kick drums sound right.
Geoff liked the bass enough to say that he might recommend this pair to someone who really wants more low - end in their cans, but John, Phil, and I thought that the bass
made kick drums feel «flappy - sounding,» as John put it, or «boxy,» as Phil suggested.
Formless, lackluster bass
made kick drums sound as though they were being played through a speaker that had a piece of cloth in front of it.
The Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 and Plantronics Backbeat Pro 2 are more aggressive here,
making kick drums stand out and seem more powerful.
Not exact matches
The month - long ban on
drumming and noise
making ahead of the Homowo celebration in Accra
kicks off today, May 14,...
When switching back to the «beats audio» sound enhancer you get a really natural sounding boost in the low end of the sound,
making the bass thicker and
kick drum more pronounced and weighty.
We had Stro use two Joy - Con to
make different
drum sounds and then Questlove had the Robot Kit on, controlling both the
kick drum and high - hat.»
To
make matters worse, in our tests,
kick drums sounded lifeless (like «puh puh»), and very low notes had an odd overtone quality.
Placing them on the bottom mean audio is best when the laptop is sitting on a hard surface, but even then it can be hard to
make out
kick drums and basslines at all but the highest volumes.