And it uses a proprietary format for archiving.
#Arq review software#
The software is funky and inconsistent, as I’ve found on two different Macs (though it runs fine on others in my family’s network). Treble, on the other hand, was handled well – when we listened to Live And Die by The Avett Brothers, the string counter-melodies and harmonies sounded distinct and clean, although the aforementioned lack of bass did throw off the balance a little.However, CrashPlan’s home flavor relies on Java after promises years ago to migrate to native software as the firm has done for its business customers. In particular, lower bass frequencies felt disappointingly weak – when we listened to tracks like Hard Candy by Counting Crows it felt like the bass-line had been stripped, leaving just a chord sequence, and although songs with higher-pitch bass-lines like Electric Feel by MGMT remained relatively intact, we still felt that the bass was lacking throughout.
The Wicked Audio ARQ true wireless earbuds are passable in terms of audio quality, but there’s still room for improvement. When the earbuds are paired with your phone you’re told the charge of one bud on the phone, but for some reason the two buds lost power at different rates, so we frequently found one earbud cutting out unexpectedly when we thought there was loads of charge left.Īll in all, the power case is useful for its bulky battery, but it’s a little too fiddly for our liking. There’s an LED bar on the side of the case that gives a rough estimate of the battery level (emphasis on rough), so it’s hard to know exactly how much power the case has.
Charging is a little awkward too, since it’s not automatic – instead, you need to put the buds in the case then hold a button to get them to start, which is time-consuming and fiddly. Similarly, it takes 30 minutes to power up the earbuds when they’re in the charging case, which will get you a mediocre 3 hours of playback. That’s because you have to charge with the outdated microUSB, which takes a lot longer to power up than the more modern USB-C. It takes a while to top up the charging case though Wicked Audio estimates 5 hours and that seems about accurate. While we found Wicked Audio’s battery life estimates a little high compared to how much use we got, it wasn’t a huge difference, and this massive power pack will be really useful for people who don’t get many opportunities to top up on charge.
#Arq review portable#
This case is big because it’s also a 2,600mAh power bank, so it can provide 60 hours of play time to your earphones (about 20 recharges for the buds), or charge any other portable device, like your smartphone, via USB. It is fairly light though, so it doesn’t feel as much of a burden in your pocket as you’d imagine. The case is a cylinder, with a radius of roughly 1.5cm along with a length of about 13.5cm – in short, it’s not short. If there’s one thing to be said for Wicked Audio’s ARQ True Wireless earbuds it’s that they come in a distinctive charging case, that looks wildly different to most other true wireless earbuds if there’s another, it’s that their case is obnoxiously massive. In theory this is a really useful feature, but you have to push the button quite firmly to get it to work, which we found rather painful when trying to answer a call – we quickly learnt to ignore this button. There’s a button on the housing of each bud, which can be used to pause and play music or answer and hang up phone calls.
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