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For 70 bucks it rocks. Easily fixed by turning it off and on though. I bought this for my dorm and it's totally great. The only issue is that it takes a few seconds to connect and when it's on and not playing music it buzzes alot. Great Product. I can watch movies on it or take it out into the hall and have a hall dance party. It meets all needs and I was actually really surprised at the sound quality.
but overall sound quality is not great. For causal listening to music and the news out on the deck these are fine. The obvious advantage is the lack of wiring - but the sound is a bit fuzzy and you can get interference from dogs and people walking around. Takes a boat load of batteries - but found some generic ones that were not too expensive but plan on spending 25+ for rechargeable batteries per speaker.
Probably "operator error" however, as I have not seemed to have that problem again.We have XM on one of our "boomboxes" (in the kitchen) and all the wires and the antenna were a pain to move from room to room - we simply did not move them. Let's see, Old Time Radio is monoaural anyway, isn't it. Auto-shutdown feature (during non-use) is good but one time I seemed to struggle to get the thing to "wake-up". Do I want to buy a second one for stereo. I did not pay for "enhanced" shipping and the delivery took a while but once it was here I am very happy with it.
You really don't need to read the manual (mostly intuitive) but it is so small you will finish it in one sitting in the "main reading room". The manual specifies that you should not have non-rechargeable batteries in it if you used the 110V power supply. Have to think about that. It is closer to the base than the office). Color me "Very Happy" with the purchase. (Why didn't I test it in the workshop. In fact I almost believe that the "Old time radio" that I like to listen to is clearer on the remote speaker than on the boombox itself. Next purchase - 8 rechargeable C batteries - the 110V power supply for the portable speaker will keep them charged when the thing is the in the home office (vast majority of the time) but we can also then just move the speaker itself to the patio or the workshop / garage.
It worked great just out of the box. hmmm. Think about that last statement. The speaker is about 40 feet from the transmitter and works GREAT. Now.
I bought it knowing this, but this may bother some people. It has a convenient, built-in handle. I have been very pleased. I believe there may be a way to use an audio splitter so you can play the wired and wireless speakers together, but I have not tried this yet. Although I am not an audiophile, I think the sound is very good. I became interested in an indoor/outdoor wireless speaker when I went into Brookstone and noticed how they had their wireless speakers set up around the store.
The Brookstone speaker was about 3 times more expensive, so I decided to give the Acoustic Research a try since I could buy more speakers for the same price. BUT this speaker does NOT work in addition to your other wired speakers when you plug it into your computer's headphone jack; the sound only comes out of this speaker, just like it would only come out of headphones. I like to play internet radio at home but grew tired of having to crank up the computer speakers so I could hear the music in my kitchen. The music is clear, and the bass is adequate. I will update this review if I decide to try to get all the speakers working together. I also wanted the speaker to be weatherproof so I could put it on my porch or deck.
The unit was very easy to set up, is small and unobtrusive, and works as described.
I would give it less than one star. Unfortunately I had to return this product. The sound quality was too poor even for the backyard.
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