Stylish BT speakers with many passing opportunities.  Ordinary life.  Surface "out of the box" completely scratched.

Stylish BT speakers with many passing opportunities. Ordinary life. Surface "out of the box" completely scratched.

DBPOWER® BX-200 Portable Wireless Bluetooth Speaker Portable Transparent Speaker with Clock for iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy, Nokia, HTC, Blackberry, Google, LG, Nexus and other Bluetooth devices, support MP3 / WMA / WAV / APE / FLAC, 10 - 20 m Bluetooth range, with German manual, Black (Electronics)

Customer Review

The DBPower BX-200 Bluetooth speaker is supplied with one 3.5mm jack cable and a micro USB charging cable.
Both cables are each about 100cm long, black and designed as a flat version.

The included Quick Start Guide is available formulated and quite understandable in German, English and an Asian language.

The speaker is 19,6cm wide, 8,4cm high and 5.5cm deep.
It weighs only 371 grams, making it well suited for mobile applications (eg in the swimming pool, vacation, school etc.).

The largest part of the surface of transparent plastic is at first glance an eye-catcher.
At second glance, but unfortunately falls on really bad scratches, which are totally unacceptable in the delivery state, in my opinion.
This speaks not just for quality assurance at DBPower.
Too bad because it gives directly a smooth star deduction from me!

The foot of the speaker is fortunately made of black matte plastic and is pleasantly soft.

The control buttons are well structured placed on top.
There you will find the buttons for Power / Play / Pause / answer, skip buttons / Skip +, the microphone, the mode button and two additional buttons for volume up / down.
Skipping and Lautstärekregelung are so separated from each other, which I personally always prefer because otherwise easily lead to incorrect operation.

Volume changes are not signaled by a confirmation tone annoying as with many other speakers in this way to happiness.
Bad is against the fact that the Speaker, the last volume setting is not noted and again starts from 26 at level 15.

A 3.5 mm jack input is also on the back as the micro-USB charging port, a microSD slot and a USB input A for USB sticks. Thus, the device has actually all the usual ways of playback devices.
Prima!

On the front left is the mono speaker.
On the underside of a subwoofer is apparently installed, there are some vents in the plastic can be seen ..
In the lower right pane, a red LED indicator is integrated, indicating the Bluetooth mode, radio frequency, time, volume or the selected track of the micro-SD card or USB stick.

The radio works surprisingly well. After selecting via the Mode button can be performed by pressing and holding the mode button, an automatic station search ..
This works even without an infected microUSB cable, which is in other BT speakers often requires an additional antenna.
The radio receiver is thus settled well above the average.
With an inserted cable as an antenna improves the reception but once again felt.
A great pity, I find that you can not sort the channels or delete according to his taste.

The integration of a clock is a good idea. This is also easy to read.
However, it would certainly have been easy to use the clock as an alarm clock.
Unfortunately this is not possible here. Here the manufacturer has presented a cool feature.

As file systems for storage media are unfortunately only accepts FAT32 and exFAT, NTFS is not readable.
Also a pity as the lack of ID3 tag display and a shuffle mode.

Pairing (Pairing) with the desired Bluetooth device such as a smartphone or tablet works simple.
Simply start the speaker and then manually activate Bluetooth on the smartphone / tablet.
The speaker is then found in the device list as "SDY033" and connected.
After a successful pairing, the connection is saved and is automatically produced at the next start.
With S3 Mini I certainly have connection problems, it could not be made Connect.

NFC for an even faster connection provides the speaker not to.

The sound quality of the speaker is not outstanding for a mono speaker in order, but surely.
While voices and instruments and bass come over clean.
However, I am now very spoiled and I simply lack the spatial representation of the stereo operation.
Even at high volumes, and even at the maximum volume (step 26) the sound distorts not at all practical.
About the quality Bluetooth audio technology aptX the speaker does not have, unfortunately, with which one can obtain a considerably clearer sound in my experience if the player device supports it (like my Grade 3 and S5).

In live 6-7 meter range are possible, then there will be interference and crashes.
Across rooms are equipped with an intermediate wall just over 5 feet in it.
These are slightly worse values ​​than I have found in other high-quality BT-speakers in the price range.
The above 15-25 meters are complete nonsense and borders almost on a conscious deception of customers.

The integrated speakerphone works very neatly.
In both directions a conversation without difficulty.
This is not just a feature-gimmick, but an actually usable and meaningful function.

The term is more than 7 hours, which I find perfectly fine.
If being surrounded maximum input current of 1A are a good 3.5 hours are necessary for a full refueling of batteries.
Contrary to statements in the manual, the device can load / run in the on-state.

I can DBPower the BX-200 only conditionally recommended in total.
He is cool in design, has many passing opportunities and a decent sound.
However, it lacks some features such as aptX and NFC and the scratched surface is an absolute no-go.
I therefore give so just 4 stars and ask the manufacturer to a much-improved quality assurance in the Plexiglas.

I hope this review could assist you in your buying decision ...

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