As I got these two speakers for reviewing at AMAZON.de,
which I did of course,
I wrote a review comparing those two.
After a while using both alternatively, I came to a decision.
But please these are only my 2 cents 
At least I do like the FLARE more.
Not because of that “light organ”
which is really not useful for an “old boy” listening to classical music.
There are two things which make the FLARE really special:
- The special feel. (German : Haptik (use dict please))
eg. If you take this speaker in your hand: It’s really fine and pleasant.
The human hand is build to take things upright.
So it’s much better than another speaker.
Like a bottle, like a can.
The textile coating is really touching fine, catchy I would say.
The bad chemical smell of this coating is vanishing after a while.
ANKER should really mention this!
There were some negative comments about, I have seen.
- The 360° sound. As you are invited to carry that speaker around,
you will do this a lot and really find out many places were to put getting a perfect sound.
In my opinion the ANKER’s development department should go for a Super FLARE ++ 
Adding a function as power bank would be perfect.
This kind of speaker’s type is the future!
