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Secondary considerations are construction quality and aesthetics, battery life, volumeī&O did a Good to Very Good job with this. What I care about is, almost to the exclusion of everything else, the quality of sound, especially bass reproduction.
Listen to music or movies at moderate volume. It's a personal speaker - I use it on my desk, put it on the dresser in a hotel room while on business travel. I'm not buying a tiny speaker like the Bose or B&O to fill a gym or crank it out for a block party. Many reviewers gravitate towards "it gets very loud" or "it doesn't get loud enough". The biggest engineering challenge in a speaker this size, in my evaluation, is the ability to articulate bass. The ultra-portable category has been dominated in sound quality by the Bose Soundlink Mini / Mini II for more than 4 years - and that's for having tried a number of high-end competitors, including the Bowers & Wilkins T7 and KEF Gravity One, both of which were, frankly, abysmal in comparison to the Bose. Unfortunately, all of those except the Aiwa are discontinued.
#Beoplay app discontinued portable
In the portable area I like the B&O Beolit 15 and absolutely LOVE the Klipsch KMC-3.
#Beoplay app discontinued Bluetooth
In the bigger bluetooth speaker area I like the Polk Woodbourne and Aiwa Exos-9 best. I tend to test them out, return the ones that aren't good, keep those that are. Although I'm clearly not an audiophile, I do enjoy the best sound - in the car, at home, in the office - and I have a lot of side-by-side listening to provide solid A/B feedback. I've tested a great many bluetooth speakers (non-portable, portable and ultra-portable) and headphones over the years. For those having stereo pairing issues do it without the app:ġ) Turn on first A1 then press & hold Bluetooth button for 5 sec until light flashes white.(This is now the master speaker and the LEFT channel)ģ) Turn on second A1 then press & hold Bluetooth button for 5 sec until light flashes white.(This will pair as the slave speaker and the RIGHT channel)Ĥ) Wait until both speakers beep and the lights sync up and remain steady white.ĥ) Pair your phone with the FIRST A1 (The master speaker) then play your audio. Took a while to figure out the pairing mode and found that pairing without the app is much simpler and more reliable.
I bought one A1 and I liked it so much I decided to get another one.
The Charge 3 isn't that far behind and doubles as a portable phone charger as well but I wasn't too fond of the design and the quality of the bass was less than that of the A1 (boomier but not as tight) Ultimately, the audio clarity and design won out and I decided on the A1. So it was between the Charge 3 or the A1. I eliminated the Bose on also having the weakest volume among the 3. The new Bose Revolve just didn't match either in sound quality, but it did have better 360 dispersion outdoors and hung. The JBL was the cheapest on the list and is arguably louder than the A1 and Revolve, but the A1 just sounded so much clearer and the bass, although sounded slightly lower, was more accurate than the Charge 3. That narrowed my list down to the Beoplay A1, JBL Charge 3, and the new Bose Revolve.
#Beoplay app discontinued upgrade
I've had an old Bose SoundDock Portable for about 10 years now and I've been looking to upgrade it to something smaller but sounded better but was just as loud.