"Bass: some speakers have it, and some don't. It's like charisma or generational wealth, except probably less important in determining your future. I've never personally found bass to be the most important metric for whether a wireless Bluetooth speaker is worth the money, but I'm fully aware that not everyone shares the same taste in bass as me, and even so, when it's there in force, I can still appreciate it."
"The problem is, especially when it comes to Bluetooth speakers of the portable variety, bringing the bass is harder than it sounds. There's a reason why, in your home theater, the low end is usually incumbent on a big-ass subwoofer, which is a dedicated box kept separate from everything else. Bass is hard to generate without a large enough speaker that can move high volumes of air and generate proper low-end frequencies. It's just physics."
"Brane claims this is the first portable speaker with a true subwoofer built in. If you're like me, your alarm bells are probably going off; if it were possible, why hasn't anyone done it before? That's what I thought too, until I heard the Brane X for myself, or more specifically, felt how it shook the table I put it on."
Bass preferences vary among listeners, but producing deep low end in portable speakers is difficult because low frequencies require moving large volumes of air. Home-theater subwoofers provide that low end with large drivers and dedicated enclosures. The Brane X is a $500 portable Bluetooth speaker that integrates a claimed true subwoofer using proprietary Repel-Attract Drivers (RAD). RAD uses magnetic coupling to cancel internal air-pressure forces that normally inhibit deep bass, enabling the speaker to move substantially more air and produce pronounced low frequencies. The speaker delivers powerful, table-shaking bass but has weaknesses in app functionality.
Read at gizmodo.com
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