
We were a little disappointed by the connection that was required between the two speakers, which uses a proprietary jack on a relatively short cable. Of course these are computer speakers, so it’s likely you won’t need it to stretch much further than to each side of your Mac, but the option would have been nice. In terms of sound, the Cubiks do, as we said, produce sound of such clarity it genuinely feels like the artist is in the room with you. Sitting at the desk and pressing play on the first track we experienced an odd feeling that the sound was surrounding us, as if we were wearing headphones. We could hear every note of the music, and the quality shone bright.
It was a shame, then, when we reached a particularly bass-heavy track. The small speakers, though powerful, couldn’t deal with the lower frequencies nearly as well. The Cubiks have a bass-boosting button that works relatively well, but causes tracks to distort at high volumes. It’s a shame that Palo Alto didn’t include a sub-woofer in the package, as it would have solved the
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