Sony SRS-XB13 Wireless Portable Compact Bluetooth Speaker, 2021 Model, Blue

Great Bluetooth speaker. Compact, easy to carry, easy to hide, easy to travel with. Clear, loud volume at its highest level, for my needs anyway. I use it in my garage during workouts. Modern colour, design, ease of use with soft control buttons. Good battery life and easily chargeable. The charging cable is very short though but works for me. It's a Sony, so it's quality.

For a small portable speaker this is very good quality. Connects easily in seconds and never drops out. The loop allows you to attach it to clothing/rucksack or hang from somewhere too. Size wise it is about as big as an average tea/coffee mug, and the sound is pretty good too for a small portable speaker. For those reviewers who say the bass isn’t very good I’ve got to disagree and think you need your hearing checking. The bass on mine is very good for its size. It makes the table vibrate due to the bass at about 1/3 volume and upwards. In fact the sound is comparable to my Google Nest mini home speaker. More than enough to fill a meeting room at work with sound. This is when I use it for speakerphone calls and listening to music at work. The only thing I didn’t like was the lemon yellow speaker. It’s not like the colour in the advertising and is more washed out looking. The Sony logo also looked like it was dirty rather than silver. Added to this was the fact it showed dirt underneath very quickly on the non slip bottom. I returned it and ordered the blue instead which is much nicer. Overall I recommend the product. I am not a member of any review program by the way. This was purchased with my own hard earned cash.Pros:* Works with voice assistants (Siri).* USB-C charging standard and comes with short USB-A to C lead (no plug though just use a phone charger).* IP rated and waterproof.* Works with Apple and Android devices.* Quick connect for Google.* iPhone users can see the speaker battery life in their device battery list.* Compact unit with good sound and bass.* Good battery life.* Good clear hands free calls.Cons:* Lemon yellow colour is not like it is in the pictures. Rather washed out and dirty looking.* At full price it’s a bit expensive. I got mine for £37 which is not a bad price for what you get and the Sony brand.* No audio input for when the battery goes flat.* For the price it would be nice if it came in a little drawstring padded bag to protect it with. A bit like the Sony bag that I got with my pair of over ear bluetooth headphones.* Would be good if it auto connected to Apple like it does with the Google connect feature. Just like when you first pair AirPods to your iPhone.

I find earbuds/phones physically irritating and wanted some quality tones from my shonky old netbook.I ordered a single unit, same day delivery. I`m old school and like a better than average sound from my systems but this was mostly for the bedroom(at first). Simple BT connection in under a minute I was ready to try. I watch a lot of music videos and streamed movies but laptop speakers are mostly awful so I was delighted at beautiful round bass tones and a crisp top end. So delighted I hit `purchase again` and ordered a second one within minutes. There`s decent stereo separation between channels but these speakers will expose poor quality low fidelity sources on sites like Youtube. I fix this with a free audio equaliser app from the Playstore.Test them out on `audiophile` or Hi Fi streams, Movie audio from streamed sources also sounds excellent.Buy one(or a pair) Great sound for the money.A quick edit.There is a noticable difference in audio quality depending on how old your device is ( to do with coding on older bluetooth devices). I paired them with a newer device and got even more bang for my buck.

This is a great little speaker, perfect for travelling and wanting to have a little music in your hotel room. It however isn't as loud as I would have expected it to have been for it's size as it's a bit bigger than the pictures make it look. It does however deliver good quality music for it's size and you'd have to jump up to one twice the size and more than twice the price for better quality sound (compared in stores who stock this and the next one up in the range), or potentially pair this to another of the same type for stereo sound.It's also advertised as being able to download an app to control its settings and see the battery life etc, but when you download it, the app doesn't support this speaker which was rather frustrating. The speaker also doesn't have a charge level indicator, instead a tiny light flashed every few seconds when the battery is getting low, which is really easy to miss.I have it connected to a Samsung S24 Ultra and it did however send me a notification telling me the battery was on 10% and you can check the battery percentage when connected to a phone by going into the Bluetooth settings on your phone and it'll tell you the battery level next to the device name.When it comes to charging, fortunately it has a USB-C charger on it which makes life so much easier having a phone with the same charger, meaning I don't need to specifically carry around another cable and another charger plug that takes the USB-A - USB-C cable that comes with it.You can charge whilst it's in use too, so that you can always have music - bonus when you're getting ready in your hotel for a night out and you've been using it all day.I would however say it was a bit misleading saying it has a 16 hour battery life as what they don't say is that to get that amount of time out of it, the music needs to be on a pretty low level. I would however say I certainly got a good 6 hours or more out if it on loud or full. So had the battery actually not have been capable of the 16 hours on a low volume, it wouldn't have lasted anywhere near as long as it did. So just bare in mind, if you play your music loud, the battery certainly won't last 16 hours.It will charge from a decent power bank though if you're out camping / on a beach or something where you don't have mains lower to keep it topped up though.