Kevin Hunt: Nuforce Cube's A Big-Time Little Portable Speaker
So what exactly did NuForce have in mind when it created the
Cube, an almost-perfect 2.3-inch square portable speaker?  It's
slightly too big for a prize in a box of Cracker Jack, too small
to entertain this weekend's block party and barely heavy enough
(5.6 ounces) to hold down a pile of napkins in a summer breeze.
The Cube, obviously, is a speaker. But NuForce, which made its
name several years ago with high-end amplifiers costing
thousands of dollars before expanding into affordable desktop-
audio products, envisioned something grander. The Milpitas,
Calif., company calls it a mobile audio center with rechargeable
speaker, a USB digital-to-analog converter that bypasses a
computer's built-in converter and a headphone amplifier for
enhanced private listening.  Good sound in a small form isn't
such an outrageous goal anymore with diminutive speakers like
the Soundmatter foxL ( and Logitech's Mini Boombox ( The Cube,
even with only a singular 1-in