Ion Flash Cube Bluetooth Speaker with Ambient Lighting
- Speaker cube bigger than your head unless you’re Andre the Giant
- 50W of power, so much you need to plug them into an AC outlet
- 4" woofer, 1" tweeter, 10" per side: now, what time will it pass the 3:15 train from Weehawken?
- Play from Bluetooth or 3.5mm aux-in sources
- You should buy two, so you can connect them via Bluetooth and they’ll play in stereo
- And OK, yeah, they do this light-show thing that’s probably the whole reason we were able to get them so cheap
- Model: ISP40 (short and to the point, no hyphens or leading zeroes, and the only Google confusion is with a sump pump that is impossible to confuse with this product - so, nothing fancy, but a solid B+)
Bigger is bigger.
We know amazing things have been done in getting big sound out of small Bluetooth speakers. We’ve sold many of them right here. But nobody will ever - could ever - invent some Tardis speaker that’s bigger on the inside than the outside. Beyond a certain point, bigger sound requires a bigger speaker.
That goes double for those big bass waves, which get louder and deeper as the speaker cabinet gets more spacious. Sound, after all, is a phenomenon of physics. Something vibrates, it makes the air around it vibrate, those waves reach your eardrum and make it vibrate, and your brain takes it from there. Bigger is bigger.
Hence these, the first speakers we’ve ever sold bigger than your head. They’re not quite blasting-early-Aerosmith-while-lifting-weights-in-the-garage big. But by the standards of the typical Bluetooth speaker these days, they’re enormous.
Each cube is 10" to a side with 4" woofers and 1" tweeters, and if that sounds small to you, you’re either in denial about the size of your current speakers, or you’re our burnout uncle who’s had the same massive stereo setup since 1973. With 50 watts of power, you’re going to need to plug them into an AC outlet - how many of your Bluetooth speakers even have the capability to do that?
To really remind yourself what loud is, you’re probably going to want two, which you can connect via Bluetooth, and they’ll magically know to be stereo. We’re pretty sure, in raw thump terms, that a pair of these beasts is the most Bluetooth bass you’re gonna get for a hundred bucks.
And yes, OK, these have some cheesy ambient lighting effects with various mood modes. We’re glad one of the modes is “off”, but if you’re among the very few people who wants their speakers to put on a visual show along with the audio, this is your dream speaker.
The main thing, though, is that it’s big for a Bluetooth speaker. It won’t be as “surprisingly” loud as every small speaker claims to be. But it will be a lot louder.
