I got a Minirig 3 as a Christmas gift, and another Minirig 3 as a birthday gift a month or so ago. I gotta say these are really nice little speakers, and they are definitely way better when you have a pair.
- First of all, when cranking up to higher volumes there is quite a bit of distortion that doesn’t sound great at all, so obviously with two you can go much louder before hitting this.
- The battery life is also really impressive. I can comfortably listen to them fairly loud for 2 or 3 days.
- Room positioning is important, in a given space it’s worth experimenting with but generally low to the ground close to a wall is a good start, as mentioned above.
Pairing the speakers is really annoying. The way it works is, your device should only be paired to one of them. Otherwise if you turn them both on, it will just connect to both and not play stereo. You have to connect to only one, have the other one turned on (but not paired) and then start playing music… then you double-tap the button and it will start searching for the other speaker. This can sometimes take a while or even fail on the first attempt, the music will suddenly cut out and come back super loud if you’re in low gain, before dropping back down. Lately it has also started disconnecting my phone once it pairs in stereo, so I have to reconnect (and mercifully it is still in stereo at this point).
I am all for minimalist design but only when it works, I can’t help but feel like this whole experience could be streamlined with a little switch on the back of the unit… like “MONO - RIGHT - LEFT” so that it knows what to do as soon as it turns on. It is also tough to keep track of which speaker is left or right if you are moving them around a lot.
Still, the most important thing is, they do sound great and people are always impressed by them. I have mostly adjusted to their little quirks and overall I would definitely recommend them.