Rating: 5/5
Review:
An excellent speaker
Audio Dynamix sent me this speaker for review and I think it
is excellent. At the time of writing it
costs under thirty quid and for build and sound quality I think it is the best
speaker I have tried in this price range.
The Swave is nicely proportioned, with a solid plastic case
and it looks very good. Control buttons
are on the top and work well: volume up and down, skip forward and back and a
multi-function button for pause/play and controlling hands-free calls. There is also a button to scroll through the
input modes. On the back are the on/off
switch, input ports for an AUX jack lead, USB
and microSD card, plus a micro-USB port for
charging. Bluetooth pairing was very
simple (conventional only – no NFC).
Everything works very well and I find this speaker a pleasure to use.
The sound is excellent for a speaker of this size and price.
Trebles are very sharp, middles are very nice and the bass is surprisingly
solid. I have tested this with a lot of music
including my standard playlist of Test Tracks and it does well on everything
from Tudor Polyphony to modern high-production music. It's very well balanced with very good
articulation; string quartets and orchestral music both sound very good, rock
comes over very well, acoustic music sounds very fresh and even things which
really test the bass response sound good, like a solo theorbo or London
Grammar's Hey Now. (You don't get the
real resonant depth of bass that you find in the ADX Pulse V4, for example, but
that costs twice as much and is quite exceptionally good.)
Scrolling through the different inputs is just a little
slow, but it's not a problem for me, and I like the voice with an English
accent which tells you the status. The
FM radio is, to my slight surprise, excellent even without an external antenna,
although with no presets, scrolling upwards through every channel to find the
one you want can be tedious, especially with no display to let you know what
you are tuned to. Similarly, trying to
navigate a micro-SD card full of music with just skip-forward and skip-back
buttons is pretty hopeless, but that's a problem with all speakers. All the external inputs give very good sound.
ADX are developing a very well-deserved reputation for high-quality speakers. This is a worthy addition to their range. I don't think you can do better at this
price; it's solid, durable and stylish with very good sound and I can recommend
it very warmly.
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