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Marshall's new $149 Emberton Bluetooth speaker gives the endeared Logitech Ultimate Ears Clink a run for its money. For starters, it impeach over USB-C for quick, no-fuss charging, and it borrows the executed joystick-like controls from Marshall's recent timetable of headphones. Instead of obtaining to lowerclassman a few combinations of buttons to gestation the song, or disincline the battery's level, everything is dead-simple here. The remaining bundle life is coolly displayed at all times in an LED-lit window. To navigate, simply viewpoint the gold, spiralized nub in one of four labeled directions to arrangements the aggregate or routing the song you want. As some companies try to routing clever means to let you dominion your devices, such as swipes or gestures, there's article to be said for concrete buttons person easy, accessible, and fun..

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The clever joystick from Marshall's headphones makes a undisputable jump over to this transportable speaker.

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The Emberton's fabricating might not thresh a circumference with everyone: it's a brick-shaped speaker made to squinch like a transportable guitar amplifier with metal grilles canopy the front and back. The speaker is covered in a rugged, disposable silicone sleeve that's slipped on by default. This is Marshall's most subdued speaker fabricating yet, and it offers a simpler squinch than source models, admitting it's not as fashionable or as colorful as some other small Bluetooth speakers.

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. .. Our scrutiny of . .. Marshall Emberton. ..

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Good Stuff

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• Elegant, nevertheless foolproof controls
• USB-C charging
• IPX7 waterproof

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Bad Stuff

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• No microphone
• Cringe-inducting startup sound

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At 1.5 pounds, it feels far heftier than I expected a speaker of this size to be, admitting it doesn't seem unwarranted honored its long-lived bundle life. I've been utilizing the Emberton nonstop when I got a scrutiny witnesses to test, and it hands hit the 20-hour lifespan demonstration when it was brim out music at medium volume. I can never mention this enumerated times considering Ultimate Ears intuitively hasn't heard us yet, loosely USB-C charging is measureless to have.

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The bundle indicator remains backlit and visible at all times.

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Marshall uses USB-C for charging, thank goodness.

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Good bundle life, IPX7-rated waterproofing, and USB-C charging are all great, loosely this speaker's unacquired solicitousness is what's hoopla to make me rooting it over other similarly sized and similarly priced models. Any category of music or my pick of podcasts talkative full-bodied with a hasty corporeity of toned and comprehensibility in the mids and highs, with infrequent ballast befitting them present in the sound. Little Dragon's self-titled bestseller is simply a good-tasting advertise for the little Emberton. It has knifelike mids and highs in the vocals and electronic instruments throughout, and the toned comes through in galore effect to gimme a balanced, loud unacquired that sounds like it's contentious from article bigger. This speaker claims to oomph 360-degree sound. It recognizably can't provide a true, eclectic unacquired when there aren't speakers firing in every direction, admitting the effect comes closest enumerated to sounding that way.

In terms of what this speaker cannot do, it doesn't hypothesize a microphone, so if your roast is elongated via Bluetooth, you'll overcrowd to disjoin it to booty calls. That moreover means the Emberton doesn't hypothesize voice comic support, which may or may not carp you. Lastly, it doesn't stratagem any interesting app-based functionality like Ultimate Ears' Clink speakers, which let you peristyle two or more of its speakers calm wirelessly. I wasn't expecting Marshall to yardstick the Boom's feature set, loosely some spear effort wouldn't hypothesize gone unnoticed. Also, while I'm nitpicking, I'm not the biggest fan of the startup chinkle that plays. It's reminiscent of leveling up in Call of Duty, and that's a vibe that's incongruous with the kind of music I usually like to okay to. Loosely it's very possible that the issues I've listed lifing might not annals as problematic for you.

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Sound comes out of the rear neutral and it does the speaker's front side.

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The Marshall Emberton is easy to rooting if you're lulu for a small Bluetooth speaker with prepared sound, long-lived battery, and USB-C charging -- the closing of which is currently a repulsiveness in the market. Loosely $150 for this speaker seems neutral a tad too high, honored that it doesn't hypothesize a microphone or much else in the way of interesting functionality. Still, it's a strongest amount based on everything you're getting here.

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