Tribit - StormBox Flow

Tribit StormBox Flow works well for me in the bathroom. 👍🏼

Bought a Stormbox Flow last week and my impressions thus far are positive. I'm keeping this speaker. My use case: listening at low to moderate volumes, basically speaking levels, to podcasts, game broadcasts, music, and movies/TV programs streamed to my laptop. The Flow's a jack-of-all-trades, fits-easily-in-a-backpack sized speaker for modest listening needs. Any speaker of the Flow's size is not meant for critical listening, it's a casual audio accessory. The Flow's single 2" driver (albeit with two passive radiators), sacrifices significant range and fidelity, no matter how well it's tuned or EQ'ed. But it does deliver surprising bass, enough that I don't bother with the XBass preset. There are three presets you can cycle through via a dedicated button: XBass; voice; and the default setting, which is where it typically stays. There's also recourse to custom EQ settings via the Tribit smartphone app. I find the Flow handles spoken word very well, its emphasis on bass and lower mids imparting a warm tone, where other small speakers tend to sound brittle and hollow. For music, the Flow's shortcoming is a lack of clear upper mids and sparkling trebles, which can make for flat, muddy listening compared to other speakers with multiple drivers and small tweeters. It's more at home at lower volumes; when approaching max decibels, which is shouting level, there's some distortion, and it sounds harsher. The Flow is designed to sit on either its bottom or back, quite a handy feature that makes laying it any- and everywhere more convenient. BT connectivity is quick; I've no second Tribit, so haven't tried TWS and Party modes. Battery life is indeed stellar. I deliberately avoided stereo speakers (like Anker Motion+) because the separation on mini speakers is so reduced that unless one's nose is pressed against the speaker grill, the stereo effect is lost, especially when going about your business with the audio source removed or around corners. There's no point to a feature with no practical relevance. Lastly, I didn't even consider the Motion+ because, here in Canada (@ Amazon), it's listed at $110, twice the cost of the Flow. For that price, I'd consider the Motion+'s competition budget-brand, small boomboxes, rather than the Flow.

Soundcore boom 2, jbl xtreme 4, tribit stormbox flow, tribit stormbox micro 2, bose soundlink max, jbl boombox 3 The best battery life speakers that i own.

Micro 2 gets really loud for its size. 10w sounds fake it sounds more like 15-20w. But I would rather get tribit flow for the battery life.

?? Tribit has the best battery of all the boombox out there.

Probably because of the lights. It gets really bright. You can turn it off anytime. This thing lasts a full work shift at 50% vol and will have 60% battery left in my experience

A lag free Aux like the Motion+ is the best you'll do or similar devices (some boomboxes like Tribit or Earful). Some Aux ports carry lots of lag so you need to look at test specs. Alan Ross at the end of his vids show the Aux lags. VERY useful info.