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The Most Bullsh*t Specs List I've Ever Seen [Wtf]

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The list of features on this $200 Bluetooth speaker is absolutely remarkable. I've never seen so much bullshit on one page, and I look at bullshit about shitty products all day. The marketing materials for Croon Audio's The Original are pretentious mound of meaningless jargon. Even the name, "The Original," clumsily falls off your tongue like an unexpected belch. Let's review and translate some of the nonsense: • Bluetooth® connectivity allows for all-digital-sound-transfer" - Indeed, Bluetooth is by definition a system that can be used for digital audio transfer. But what does that even mean for the quality of the sound in this product? Well, actually nothing really. Does it have a very good digital-to-analog converter on board that turns ones and zeros into sound? Or are we supposed to be really excited that two devices can talk to each other digitally? At least it's all of the digital sound and not, you know, some of it. • VLD - very low distortion...