The Dio Node sounds great for a single Wi-Fi speaker, but a lack of stereo pairing and the extremely close proximity of the HomePod mini to the price point make it a tough choice.
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Dio Node review – one Dio Node
For the longest time throughout the 2010s in another venue, I’d joke that we were hazing new writers by bombarding them with wireless Bluetooth speakers. They were cheap, easy to write, and generally were pretty terrible beyond some of the multi-hundred dollar systems.
Just ask Amber about this. She probably bore the brunt of that when she first got hired.