The room has to be pretty dark for the light show to be effective. The last button on the right side controls the light show – you can turn the lights on/off, leave on a single color, or allow the bass to drive a light show. If you have 2 Flare Minis, pressing the Bluetooth button on both simultaneously “pairs” the two speakers – only 1 is connected to your device, the other is connected to the “anchor” speaker. The last two are not lit up, but they are raised so you can find them easily. You have the usual set – on/off, Bluetooth pairing, volume up/down, play/pause/next/previous control. There is no microphone so you can’t take/make calls from the speaker. Just remember that the connection is only as good as the stuff trying to stop the connection is bad, and open space is always the best for distance.Īll of the controls for the speaker are on the top. To be expected for sure, and not an ordinary example by any means. The connection to the speaker was flaky at best – the connection would drop and then almost immediately reconnect. On the other hand, I left the speaker in the master bedroom and went into my office – in between there is an open bathroom and a walk-in closet but no brick walls. ![]() That’s about 30 feet with a brick wall in between, a scenario you would think would be terrible. ![]() For example, I could leave the Flare Mini on the patio in the backyard, go into the house to the opposite end of our “great room” the music would not miss a beat. In practice, a lot will depend on the material between your phone and the speaker. The Flare Mini uses the Bluetooth 4.2 standard, so theoretically you can have your sound source up to 66 feet from the speaker. Still, be aware of this omission if you are old school on your connections. There is no line-in jack, most likely to squeeze in more speaker and battery. As you can see in the picture, though, this is a Bluetooth-only speaker. Using an Anker wall charger, I was able to get just shy of 13 hours playtime at half volume from a 2 hour charge. Other than the branding on the “front” of the speaker, the nice fabric cover is only disrupted by the charging port on the “back”. I wish I had a second speaker to test this as it sounds like a great feature. Instead of a true left/right split, you get the same sound from both devices. Although this is called stereo, it is really a way to have two Bluetooth devices consume a single source and keep the sound synchronized between the two speakers. One of the tricks the Flare Mini has up its sleeve is the ability to “pair” with another Flare Mini. Each song came through perfectly, giving the impression we were listening to a much more expensive sound system. So, for an hour we had a Latin dance party on our back patio: Gente de Zona, Enrique Iglesias, Daddy Yankee, Luis Fonsi, CNCO/Meghan Trainor. To put the speaker through its paces, I played a bunch of reggaeton music because it has everything – great bass lines, guitar riffs, and vocals in all ranges. The mids are clear and bright, and the highs are anything but shrill. Thanks to the Bass-Up technology built-in, the lows are vibrant – you can feel them at volume, and it isn’t a muddy thumping like the low-cost cousins. This is where the Flare Mini really shines. When the music (or podcast or Gregorian chants) hits your earspace, it has to sound good as well. Getting the sound there is only half the battle, though. Nice touch, and one that guarantees you’ll hear everything no matter where you are. This is thanks to twin speaker arrays that cover 180 degrees each and pump out 5 watts of sound per array, the music pours out in every direction. No matter where I was in the space, the sound followed me as if someone was pointing the speaker in my direction as I moved. ![]() The claim to 360 degree sound is accurate – I placed the speaker in the middle of our large open floor plan, cranked up the volume and wandered around. The first question to ask in a crowded market like this is “how does it sound?” In a word, spectacular. Only slightly bigger than your average soda can and weighs about the same, too. We’ll take on these claims, but first a comparison in size: And it says it has a light show that keeps time with the music. Soundcore says that it is IPX7-rated so you could drop it in your pool and not have to run out and buy a new speaker. It claims to have a full 360 degree sound so that you can place it anywhere and still hear as if you were standing in front of a traditional speaker. The Flare Mini is an attractive and attractively small Bluetooth speaker.
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