The following device is one of those odd products that look bad at first glance, but then when you check them out, you get quite a surprise. That's exactly the case of the EOps i24R3Portable Wireless Waterproof Portable Digital Speaker Platform. This is actually an extension to the i24R3 wireless speaker project cooperation between EOps and MY studio. Rather than only creating a single product, the developers made the i24R3Portable into a family of portable speakers that surround the core portable speaker industrial design, but comes with various specific functional configurations to suit different user lifestyles.

Next up, let us see what Michael Young has to say about the project, “This project is about a serious portable waterproof speaker, I have always wanted one myself but there are big constraints to achieve the best sound quality while being waterproof and lightweight. The conventional waterproof speaker drivers are simply not up to the job. We have achieved a fundamental improvement in waterproof portable speaker design by using a totally sealed sound chamber design with light weight and powerful flat panel speakers and passive radiators that can provide really strong music performance. And the circular form and the thickness of the i24R3Portable speaker happens to be the most appropriate form that can satisfy the challenging engineering requirement and coincidentally also look nice with the original i24R3 wireless speaker system."

Sporting a waterproof design, this is going to provide peace of mind to users when employing it by the pool, in the kitchen and even yacht parties, while the versatile portability makes for an easy use everywhere employing either the built-in Lithium Polymer rechargeable battery or via AC adapter. Technical details tell us about the sound quality provided by the enhanced bass response, using 4 x 2.6 inch wide dispersion flat panel speaker exciters, namely two exciters per channel, as well as 2 x 4.5-inch passive radiators, namely one per channel. No pricing or release data available yet, but I can somewhat relate the pricing is going to sky rocket.


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