2-for-Tuesday: Ion Audio Clipster Outdoor Bluetooth Speakers
- You get a pair of these tough little Bluetooth bastards
- Hook it somewhere or use the bike mount for noise pollution wherever you go
- Splash-proof speaker and rugged rubber coating so you can take it on your wild adventures, or at least look like the kind of person who has wild adventures
- It’s this Clipster model, not the earlier one that’s not quite as good
- Model: ISP34 (Concise, easy to decipher - Ion Speaker 34 - plus it’s Google-unique. A+ model number, would buy again)
So many questions.
The concept of a Bluetooth bike speaker raises certain questions. What makes a good Bluetooth bike speaker? Staying on your bike is a start. If it falls off, is it even a Bluetooth bike speaker anymore? Or at the moment when it hits the pavement, does it become a Bluetooth pavement speaker? There’s no market for that, not even a tiny one. (Trust us. If anybody would know about products for tiny markets, it would be us.)
The Ion Clipster comes with the one of the best bike speaker mounts we’ve seen - and certainly the best for $8 per speaker. No, we don’t mean that big hook. This won’t be swinging around on your handlebars. It comes with an extra piece to firmly attach it to your bike. Throw in the rain-proof speaker and the rubber armor casing and what better speaker are you gonna find for, again, eight bucks apiece? None. Nada. Jack.
So then the question becomes, do you need a Bluetooth bike speaker? Might you ever need a bike speaker? Is there some chance you will actually rouse yourself to do all that bike riding you always promise yourself you’ll do?
Or, say, about that hook: could you see hanging a Bluetooth speaker up in your bathroom? Or your garage? Or from your backpack? Or tent?
If the answer to any of those is “yes”, you’ve got one more question to answer: would you rather pay eight bucks per speaker than much, much more? The fact that you’re reading the long-winded product descriptions on a daily deal means that question should be pretty easy for you to answer.