Hi!
So how small is this beauty?
I broke the aux connector on my bose soundlink mini II but the bluetooth seems
to work.
A friend of mine made it fall on the flor with the aux cable down so sadly it
broke.
I may buy these speakres you’re talking about but not now as i got me a
Focusrite Scarlet 2 gen.
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> 22 okt. 2016 kl. 13:53 skrev Dane Trethowan <grtd...@internode.on.net>:
>
> Yep, proudly bought the baby home this morning though I didn't have time to
> listen and fully aprreciate what this darling of sound could product, in a
> word? stunning!
>
> So first I think it best to mention what you're not going to get from this
> speaker.
>
> No, it doesn't have a hands free speaker phone.
>
> No, it does not have overpowering bass as the Bose Soundlink does - not to be
> confused with the latest Soundlink Mini. -
>
> No, the speaker cannot be charged from a USB port though the speaker does
> have one for servicing and firmware updates, the external power supply that
> comes with the speaker has to be used for charging or powering the speaker
> from a mains outlet.
>
> No, at $549 Australian the T7 isn't a cheap Bluetooth speaker system.
>
> So with all that in mind we soon realise that the T7 is catering for a
> particular person, those who enjoy listening to their music collection on the
> go.
>
> All the B&W products I have are detailed even from the point of unpacking
> that's obvious, anyone would think that we're talking about a gold bar here
> when it comes to the packing of the T7, foam padding as part of the lid and
> the bottom of the T7 box for instance.
>
> The T7 looks like no other Bluetooth speaker I've seen thus far, a metal
> frame at front and back bulging out from a rubberised frame in the middle.
>
> On the top of this are your control buttons, the bluetooth pairing button,
> transport control buttons, volume up/down buttons and so on.
>
> Of course this led to some confusion on my part as I thought the power button
> would be on the top with the rest of the controls but no, the power button is
> a concave button towards the bottom right hand side of the unit, well out of
> the way and not likely to be knocked I thought, when I finally discovered
> where the power button actually was.
>
> Turning on the T7 presents the ears with a lovely musical introduction to
> tell us that the T7 is ready and yet a further melodious tone is heard to
> indicate a connection with a Bluetooth device.
>
> Another distinctive sequence of notes is heard when the Bluetooth pairing
> button itself is pressed and further short musical scores sound when the
> Bluetooth is disconnected.
>
> So what you say, many Bluetooth speakers sound tones but not short sequences
> of notes.
>
> For the tests I used two devices paired to the T7, the Samsung Galaxy S6 and
> the Apple iPhone 6 so before we go any further - if you're thinking about a
> B&W T7 and you have an iPhone - even though the iPhone doesn't have AptX - -
> you wn't be disappointed, more on that later.
>
> So what do we get when selecting the music player on the Samsung S6,
> double-tapping the "Play" button and turning up the volume of the T7 to a
> comfortable listening level? A well defined sound from the T7 and when I say
> well defined that's exactly what I mean, one could be forgiven for thinking
> they're listening to a pair of well spaced bookshelf speakers.
>
> The presence of instruments in a track is well heard on the sound stage.
>
> The bass is there though - as I stated before - if you're looking for
> something with overpowering bass then you're going to be disappointed, I call
> the T7 a system that produces the bass honestly.
>
> The mid range is excellent and the highs? Well obviously not as good as a
> system with dedicated tweeters perhaps but they're certainly there to be
> heard, the DSP of the T7 truly shines.
>
> I noticed something else when putting my hand on the desk the T7 was standing
> on, no vibrations from the T7 of any sort so the T7 doesn't rely on the
> surface its standing on to allow you to hear bass notes, have you ever
> thought your house might sustain serious structural damage from all those
> bass heavy notes going through your walls and floor? I know with some systems
> I've used I can feel the bass coming through the walls and floor a few rooms
> away from where the speaker actually is but not with this little beauty,
> absolutely incredible.
>
> Listening to the speaker paired to the iPhone 6 was also a pleasure, the same
> characteristics of the speaker are to be heard though the sound from the
> iPhone 6 didn't sound quite as airy as that from the Samsung Galaxy S6 with
> its AptX encoding though perfectly listenable and perfectly understandable as
> to the slight difference in sound so come on Apple, not all your users are
> deaf to the sound of good audio, please give your users AptX as part of your
> Bluetooth functionality.
>
> The B&W T7 claims to give 18 hours of music from a fully charged battery?
> We'll see but - if that is indeed the case - then its one of the best
> Bluetooth speakers for battery life.
>
> The battery is an internal Lithium ion type which cannot be replaced by the
> user.
>
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