Lacking the UE Roll’s sit-up-and-listen snappiness and effused rhythmic handling of the synthesized steel drums, it sounds a little subdued in comparison. Play the former’s I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times)and you wonder where the A1 has left its party hat. It’s not quite the whole package, though. If anything, it’s a little on the rich side, so playing anything from Jamie xx or Massive Attack at a decent volume makes the A1 (and the table it’s sat on) dance along with you. The walking bass line in Timber Timbre’s Magic Arrow has surprising potency for a speaker of its size, and electrics are properly guttural. ![]() The treble is crisp yet unshakable – even when we play The Rapture’s Echoes it manages to avoid sounding like a cat scratching at a window – but it’s the other end of the frequency range that really grabs you.
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