We’ll accept it: we’re jaded. There is so much bad, middling and merely ok stuff floating around in the mobile speaker cosmos that we’re tired of even thinking about it. We’ve had our unique beloved– the Tivoli iPal– for almost 10 years now, and it takes a ton to knock it off its unglamorous, but distinctive, pedestal. And we anticipate that it will certainly continue to stay there. But newcomer Beacon has a warm little number in a soft-touch red dress that we’re eager to put right next to it on a somewhat even more diminutive pedestal. The $ 99, baseball-sized, Bluetooth-packing Phoenix has gotten under our aggregate skins, and we might like to inform you why.