Rating: 5/5
Review:
An excellent speaker
This is a really good speaker. It was sent to me for review and I am very
impressed with both the look and the sound.
The unit is billed as a "home stereo" and that's not a bad
description; it sounds and looks as good as some full-sized stereos I have
owned.
The package contents are just the speaker, a standard micro-USB
lead for charging, a 3.5mm jack-to-jack lead for wired input and a good user
manual. The speaker itself is a very
nice looking object. It's nicely
proportioned at roughly 25cm x 12.5cm x 8cm and it is faced and backed with
bamboo which gives a very pleasing, sophisticated slightly retro-look (and it's
environmentally sound), with a dark grey fabric top and sides. It looks very classy on a shelf or desk; the
controls are simple and clear and the power and AUX sockets on the back are
easily accessible. It's a very nicely
designed unit.
The sound is excellent.
It has an especially powerful bass, which when on a solid surface really
rings out. In some genres (classical
especially) it can even be a bit dominant, but sound is a personal thing and
that's a matter of my taste rather than any fault of the unit. Tops and middles are also very clear; I've
played a lot of music including my Test Playlist which runs from 16th
Century choral music to London Grammar and it all sounds very satisfying. Rock and other modern music sounds especially
good with tracks like The National's Sorrow and Hey Now by London Grammar which
have a deep, solid bass sounding really great.
Volume goes loud enough for a decent-sized room or a small party and the
battery life is good – the stated 10-11 hours at 50% volume sounds reasonable
to me.
The build quality seems excellent and functionally this
speaker works extremely well. (It
doesn't support hands-free calling, by the way, but that's not an issue for
me.) It's a very good unit all round,
and one of the best I've tried in this price range. Personally, I still marginally prefer the ADX
Pulse V4, but if you like a really powerful bass and the look of the Archeer
A320 appeals to you (as it does to me) then it will do you very well. Warmly recommended.
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