It also
offers bigger bass, dropping beyond its principal lower register a full octave or more into the deeper realms to support kick drum and bass lines.
Not exact matches
Costing $ 35, the Genie is a little
bigger than Amazon's Echo Dot, which retails at $ 50, but claims to
offer stronger
bass and double the volume of Amazon's equivalent device thanks to a 2W speaker.The Genie's list of features pretty much tallies with Echo Dot's abilities, so it can play music, control other smart home devices, order products, answer questions, set calendars, report the weather and news, and more.According to Anker, it's also possible to use the Amazon Alexa app with the Genie to access over 10,000 skills and services, such as Pandora, Domino's Pizza, Uber, ESPN, NPR News, and more.
Based on simple physics,
bigger speakers tend to
offer better
bass, because the subwoofers can simply move more air.
A side - by - side comparison with the also awesome Sony WH - 1000XM2 (the wireless earbuds»
big brother) showed that the more focused sound of the WF - 1000X
offers a little bit more fidelity than the
bass - heavy WH - 1000XM2.
This is to be expected because producing
bass requires a
bigger speaker, or dual speakers that Samsung isn't yet
offering in this segment.
It too is compatible with Amazon Alexa allowing you to speak commands to it like the Sonos One, and it
offers big sound and
bass for its small size.
Put simply, a
big driver is harder to control, and
offers no guarantee of greater SPLs or deeper
bass than a small subwoofer.
If being able to adjust the sound signature is less important to you than just getting the right balance for under $ 100, the Klipsch R6i
offers a balanced sound signature, while the Audio - Technica ATH - CKX7iS and JBL Synchros Reflect provide
big, boosted, clean
bass response.
It
offers big, dynamic sound, but I give a slight edge to the HyperX Cloud Stinger, which delivers cleaner highs and mids by dialing back the
bass a bit.