Bluetooth speaker recommendations

[Acousticado]

Originally Posted by RedJoker

Could you add a bluetooth receiver to an existing stereo? We did that to our 1972 console stereo and we always get surprised compliments on how good it sounds. Cost us $30 to make the worlds heaviest bluetooth speaker!

I recently did this. Bought a UGreen Bluetooth device for around $35 and can now stream anything I want through my mid-70s Yamaha CR1000 receiver and ADS L810 speakers. Sounds great. So OP, if there’s a stereo in the space, buying such a bluetooth device is an inexpensive way to listen, possibly through a much better stereo system.

[jp2558]

I was always skeptical of Bose, as most audio aficionados slagged them constantly as over hyped and overpriced.

That was until I heard my buddy's top of the line Bose Soundlink Revolve speakers. They are round and he has two of them and I've only heard them outdoors when we go camping. He places them about twenty feet apart, on opposite sides of the campfire. When both speakers are paired to an iPhone they are hands down the best Bluetooth speaker I've ever heard. I have one of them, a step down from his model and I got it basically for free with credit card bonus points.

[imwjl]

Originally Posted by jp2558

I was always skeptical of Bose, as most audio aficionados slagged them constantly as over hyped and overpriced.

That was until I heard my buddy's top of the line Bose Soundlink Revolve speakers. They are round and he has two of them and I've only heard them outdoors when we go camping. He places them about twenty feet apart, on opposite sides of the campfire. When both speakers are paired to an iPhone they are hands down the best Bluetooth speaker I've ever heard. I have one of them, a step down from his model and I got it basically for free with credit card bonus points.

They are very nice. Contemporary Bose and Beats products can get some undeserved or bias from past times or reputations out there.

I thought really hard about those and a Sonos commitment but felt diminishing returns for the point of a travel speaker and we got unexpected appreciation of those small Apple globes in the house when we discovered the way you can tune and mix and match it all.

This is another example of richness that goes unrealized or appreciated. Not long ago we marveled at the expensive small original wireless speakers. Now we have wonderful amounts of choice.

[tinnitus]

Saw a JBL Charge 5 at Costco today. It has volume up/down buttons, but nothing on it for physically adjusting tone/EQ.

Curious, I looked it up on the interweb and found a tutorial. This might be handy for some folks, but I have several hundred tunes on my phone (collected legitimately) from dozens of sources. The EQ can vary widely from song to song.

When plowing through a songlist while I play ping-pong, I'd prefer to reach over and simply bump the bass/treble up or down on the device itself - instead of going into an app on my phone.

Perhaps I'm just an ancient throwback.