Evanston: sound system; the photos they
should have used
Evanston: sound system; the photos they
should have used
A small boat calls for a small sound system. They don’t get much smaller than this. Particularly with such acoustic quality.
“Unbelievable.” “For serious audiophiles.” “Amazing clarity.” “Profoundly good sound.” Such claims are often bandied about, but these come not from SoundMatters who make the FoxL v2, but from independent reviews. I read them with skepticism, but decided to give it a try rather than install full size boat speakers, probably the same BOSE 131s I have in THE HAWKE OF TUONELA’s cockpit, on GANNET, where they would have gone inside, not out. And my surprise is that the reviewers are right. Particularly for a unit that fits in my pocket: 5.6 inches long, 2.2 inches wide, and 1.4 inches thick.
Before deciding to keep the FoxL v2, I tested it on a dozen tracks, from classical to vocal, and on most I really am amazed that the sound is so big and clear. On some, it must be admitted, I could wish for more bass; but when I had the speaker on the coffee table on which Carol and I were both resting our feet, we could feel the vibrations.
That the unit was on the coffee table while I held the iTouch in my hand was because I bought the Bluetooth version.
The FoxL cost nearly as much as the Bose 131s and is worth it.
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I was disappointed with the photographs that ran with “The Big Empty” article and told the editor so. They were uninteresting and did not relate to the words. They didn’t say THE HAWKE OF TUONELA; they didn’t say Australia; and they didn’t say ‘empty’, which was, after all, in the title.
As a couple of emails have shown, I am not the only one to hold this opinion.
I have been asked which of my photos I would have preferred. In fact I’ve already posted them. The entry is June 3, 2008.
There aren’t any captions on that page.
The second picture from the top was taken at the Low Islets.
The fifth at Bushy Islet.
The sixth is of Restoration Island, where Capt. Bligh touched land at the end of his open boat passage following the mutiny.
The seventh at Portland Roads.
The eighth at Cape York.
I rest my case.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011