by Ken Zindle
"HOW BIG? SOOOO BIG!"
Ever play the children's game "So Big"? Asking the question of the baby "How Big?" and then providing the answer: "Soooo Big" with your arms raised to the sky and the child laughing along with your own glee?
I want to play an alternate kind of the "How Big? Sooo Big!" game here.
But first, give me a moment for some background. I grew with what I'll call the "Rectilinear" Generation. Do you recognize that at all? If you're too young, possibly not. For those of us audiophiles, music lovers who grew to maturity in the 60s, the Rectilinears were the speakers to have.
Why? In a word, that is clearly understandable: Big! They were huge, standing a good four to five feet from the floor, and they could roar with the best of them! If you were putting together a sound system in the 60s, you likely wanted a pair of Rectilinears. I know that I did, and I had a pair of them for years.
So, imagine my thinking, with that kind of background, when I saw the adverts for the "boomCAN" by Scosche (http://www.scosche.com/consumer-tech/product/2188). They looked (forgive me, Rectilinear lovers everywhere) cute! It was my plan to try one out. They were not overly expensive, only $24.99 from Scosche plus shipping. After my curious glances were quite finished, I ordered one for my wife's iPhone, reasoning that a coffee can-sized speaker might be just okay.
Now, imagine my surprise (Rectilinear lover that I used to be, when bigger was always, always better), when she opened the package and the speaker was more like an enlarged thimble than a coffee can!
Boom Can indeed!
(Yes, of course, it serves me right for not reading the fine print!)
But when the "CAN" was plugged in and played, it pleased the cockles of my former Rectilinear heart. The sound was big and lovely!
So, let's hear it for the "boomCAN", like the red one that lives at our house. Portable? Yes, of course, and I admit that the Rectilinears never were! Not even when I was younger and more hardy than now.
The "boomCAN": lovely sound!
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