In preparation for the Hundred Island trip, I got a JBL Micro Wireless mobile speaker. It’s a small UFO-shaped speaker. The speaker grille is black and body is silver which makes it, from an aesthetic perspective, compatible with most mobile devices. It looks great whether beside my MacBook Pro, my black iPhone 4S, or even Jeanne’s iPad mini rugged OtterBox armor and all. Under the speaker grille is a status LED which glows blue when powered on, blinks blue during pairing, and glows red when low on power.
Along the silver body you will find a power/Bluetooth pairing button, volume dial, a micro USB port, and a 3.5mm audio output port. A short cable for a 3.5mm plug is discreetly wrapped around the body and the 3.5mm plug itself is nestled in cutouts at the bottom. Very elegant as you can see in the photo.
The subwoofer of my old Logitech 4.1 speaker system had given up the ghost a few month back. I haven’t found a reason to replace it then. But lately I’ve been listening to music. And with the holy week then coming up, there’s the inevitable marathon of TV show episodes. Listening to limited-bass sound for a lengthy duration, though quite feasible, is not entirely palatable. So I decided to get an