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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
speakers to go for mobile music, June 25, 2008
Recently i purchased the Bluant M1. The design is simplistic, effective and i think elegant. The backlighting on the analog dial is very cool and i do like the analog dial as the quality feeling is higher than a bunch of buttons. Soft-touch music controls are nice as well. In general, very pleasing. The size is quite nice...big enough to get some bass out of the product. It is not audiophile quality but that is not expected for $170. You could actually make it a stand alone music device for a small size room/kitchen too. The travel bag is effective. i think it lacks in true portability enhancement but it works well enough. Bottomline - this is a highly portable, good sounding speaker that you can hook up to an ipod or music phone with a wire or wirelessly using bluetooth. you should have no worries getting this product if you want music on your deck, poolside/beachside, etc.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Decent But Compromised, June 19, 2009
The speaker has pretty decent sound for its size. It supports wired (via 1/8" TRS cable, included) or bluetooth operation. (The iPhone 3.0 OS update includes the A2DP profile for all iPhones. I've tested it with an older model iPhone, and it works perfectly well.) The speaker has a bass boost feature which I've never been compelled to use -- the bass sounds fine without it, and, to my ears, gets a bit muddy and boomy with it on. The speaker seems pretty well constructed.
I have two complaints about this speaker. First, it has a very quick auto-shutoff feature. This is enabled even when the speaker is used fully wired -- plugged in to an A/C socket and receiving the audio signal by cable. This is undocumented by the company, and there's no way to bypass it. The upshot is that if you use it with your computer, it does not behave like a regular speaker. Occasional sounds -- an incoming message, an application notifying you of anything -- are never heard. Instead, the speaker just pops as it comes on, and then moments later, shuts off again.
My other complaint is that, often, when used with bluetooth, the sound crackles intermittently. It doesn't matter if I have the speaker 3 inches away from my computer's bluetooth antenna, or several feet away, the crackling is the same. I've not been able to find a fix for this.
Keeping the speaker is a difficult decision to make. When it works, it's lovely. But the two annoyances I mention can be terribly aggravating.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Bad sound..., September 18, 2009
1. the charger is too weak to mantain playing at highest volume
2. The high frequency definition is practically non-existant (say goodbuy to high-hats)
3. The mids resonate the grill into an ugly distortion (mids sound bathroomy)
4. The bass is impressive for the size, but very frequency selective (some bass notes will rattle the table, others will be barely audible)...
Now, I know, these are small speakers, and I shouldn't expect much. But Motorola Q5 (much smaller BT speaker) had much better sound, both: better high frequency response and better mids(although no bass). And my Creative T20 (small computer speakers), blew the M1 AWAY in every single category (tighter bass, natural mids, and actual high frequency response). I'm dissappointed. For 150 bucks I didn't expect audiophile, but I expected something decent. The M1 sounds like a cheapo GPX boombox to me. I've gone through a lot of small portable audio in my life - and this guy is just below average in my book. I wish they spent a little more money on the drivers, because these things are really sub-par. Too bad they cheaped out on the most important part - the actual speakers. Interestingly, the power supply will NOT keep it running at full volume! So you can't blast music all day, even if it's plugged in. You have to make a break, and let it charge for a couple of hours. Retarded (I'd like to see someone get fired in the company over this).
On the positive side (yeah, I know): the design is very nice, analog volume, relatively small size, and they're pretty loud for the size. Before I turned them on (and realized that they have to be charged, cause they won't play even when plugged in with a dead battery), they were everything I wanted size-wise and design-wise.
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