January 29, 2016

Vifa Helsinki Portable Wireless Speaker Review

January 29, 2016/ Nir Schneider

Vifa might not be as big or as widely known as Bang & Olufsen, but it's easy to see why they're just as good when it comes to uncompromised audio. Vifa is a Danish company and like all good Danish brands, Vifa's Scandinavian design prowess is unquestionably embedded into every one of its beautifully crafted, one-of-a-kind products. The Helsinki is one of three wireless speakers under Vifa's umbrella, which were all named after Nordic city capitals – the $449 Helsinki, the $799 Copenhagen, and the $1,699 Stockholm wireless soundbar. Vifa's Helsinki is the most portable of them all, features a leather carry handle and a fashionable chic design with a total of six drivers under that petite Nordic body for authentic sound reproduction. So can this finally be the portable speaker to beat the JBL Xtreme, and is it really worth its price in sound? Catch out full review to find out!

January 15, 2016

Paww SoundBox 10 Portable Wireless Speaker Review

January 15, 2016/ The Gadgetmac Team

We like getting our hands on products from brands we've never heard about before because it gives us the opportunity to feature gadgets that a lot of people may have never heard about either. In this case, were taking a close look at a portable Bluetooth speaker that comes to us from a company called Paww. Paww's Soundbox 10 is its first and only portable speaker to boast a compact aluminum build with a sleek touch-sensitive interface and unusually boomy sound. And best of all it's rated highly on Amazon so it must be a great, right? Priced in at $100, this speaker has some serious completion and we're about to find out if the Soundbox 10 is as good as it claims to be.

November 04, 2015

JBL Flip 3 Portable Wireless Speaker Review

November 04, 2015/ Nir Schneider

The Xtreme is a great and powerful speaker, but not everyone can afford a $300 Bluetooth speaker. Fortunately, JBL's new Flip 3 is one wireless speaker that's affordable and very portable too. The Flip 3 improves upon its predecessor using two 40mm drivers flanked by dual external passive bass radiators for much better sounding bass, has double the battery life and features a rubberized water-resistant fabric design for greater outdoor durability. And like JBL's Xtreme and Pulse 2 speakers, the Flip 3 can also be used in a multi-speaker setup by wirelessly connecting to multiple JBL Connect-enabled speakers for an amplified audio experience much like UE's Double Up mode. In short, the Flip 3 is JBL's greatest Flip speaker the company has ever made. Could this be the the best new super portable speaker to get for under $100? You'll have to read our full review – complete with a UE Roll and UE Boom 2 speaker comparison – to find out!

October 30, 2015

Beats Pill+ Portable Wireless Speaker Review

October 30, 2015/ Nir Schneider

If you're in the market for a supremely stylish portable Bluetooth speaker, chances are that you're seriously considering the new Beats Pill+ right now. The Pill+ is the first portable speaker to come out of Beats since Apple purchased the brand a few years ago, and unlike the original and hugely popular Pill 2.0 speaker, the Pill+ has Apple's DNA written all over it. But as popular as the original Pill was, we never thought it sounded good enough to recommended. So how will the new Pill+ stand against some of the best portables you can buy right now? Let's find out!

October 09, 2015

JBL Xtreme Portable Wireless Speaker Review

October 09, 2015/ Nir Schneider

Are you ready for some aural stimulation? We know we are. We've waited a long time for this to arrive, and today it finally has. This is the new Xtreme by JBL. It's JBL's most powerful model to date, and it's packed full of awesome features and of course exorbitant amount of audio goodness. It might even be the best sounding portable wireless speaker we have tested so far. Released a few months early in Europe, the Xtreme has finally made its North American debut where it is expected to go head-to-head with some of the leading brands like Ultimate Ears, Bose, Sony and even Bang & Olufsen. How good is JBL's new Xtreme speaker and how does it stack up against the competition? More importantly, how will it fare against Fugoo's new XL speaker. Find out all that and more in our in-depth review down below!

September 29, 2015

Sony SRS-X55 Wireless Portable Speaker Review

September 29, 2015/ Nir Schneider

The first ever portable speaker we reviewed from Sony, the SRS-X3, had some of the best sounding bass we've ever heard, but it also left us wanting a little more. The new SRS-X55 is the slightly larger cousin of the SRS-X3/X33 that is surprisingly inexpensive considering the fact that is sounds so good...although not perfect. It's one of Sony's smaller, compact portable wireless speakers to boast refined audio performance and a bunch of drivers that spit out powerfully loud 30W audio in a true 2.1 channel arrangement. It even rivals Bose's similarly sized Soundlink 3 at nearly half the cost. So is the SRS-X55 worth buying? Let's take a closer look!

June 26, 2015

Ultimate Ears UE Roll Portable Wireless Speaker Review

June 26, 2015/ Nir Schneider

Ultimate Ears has recently introduced a bold new portable wireless speaker to replace its cheeky little $100 UE Mini Boom that is supposedly the company's "most adventure-seeking speaker yet". The UE Roll as it's called is a small, spherically-shaped and ultra-compact portable Bluetooth speaker that blasts beats in a full 360-degrees and is designed to be used in all sorts of tasking environments thanks to its durable, shock/drop-resistant and IPX7-rated waterproof construction – including its ability to attach onto almost anything using a built-in marine-grade bungee cord feature. In other words this is a miniature UE Boom waiting to be tossed around and played with. The UE Roll borrows a lot from its larger and more expensive brother – the UE Boom, but the question is how does it stack up in the real world? More importantly, is the UE Roll an improved UE Mini Boom successor at $100? Let's find out!