Not recommended in the second generation

Not recommended in the second generation

Libratone ZIPP WiFi / Bluetooth Wireless Speaker (AirPlay, Bluetooth, DLNA, WiFi) black pepper (Electronics)

Customer Review

The new version provides Zipp except Bluetooth nothing really new that the old Zipp, which is available on the market for more than 2 years has not even offered. The sound is equally bad remained as before.

The Libratone Zipp sounds neither quiet nor loud really good. Even a Denon Envaya Mini, which is much smaller and cheaper, sounds quietly more natural but also more voluminous. Fun would the Zipp make only at higher volumes, but he catches because very soon and very unpleasant distortion. As a basis for comparison, I have a RIVA Turbo X and a point audio Pillar used, the Libratone Zipp had indeed played the loudest, but then even with such a strong distortion that it would be unreasonable, the other mastered the higher volume sovereign, and especially the Pillar sounded softly really fat.

The problem I see with the Zipp the strange sound tuning. Promised uniform 360 ° coverage area but depending on how you turn it, he sounds more bad than good. Partly arge frequency holes are inside, saxophones tend to sound like clarinets, one turns him on is and so on from the operative part a Old ... The transition from large main chassis to the ribbon tweeters just is not fluent, in addition, the tapes in some strange way internally ans exterior distributed by subjects, so what comes out there does not fit sonically simple treble hiss and sound thin, Hihats simply lack the additional "belly" below rum. Especially with classical music is striking that the Zipp "different" or "incorrect" sounds, he reminds me of a kitchen radio, in that the sound has also no stereo separation, everything is extremely monophonic, although the sound is right thanks to the all-round coverage diffusely distributed throughout the room.

Naturally beautiful, the app functionality, but this works! Only if a wifi connection, you are connected via Bluetooth with the Zipp, the app works not only, really stupid! If you want to change a setting fast times, you have to strive to be the speaker connects to the network, will appear in the list, etc, which will take before extracting the Wifi mode. In addition, this has often brought my router to crash. The router is working properly for years, but the Zipp always manages to force him to his knees.
In the app there are then a number of settings to adjust the sound to your liking. Libratone calls the "Full Room", in truth are the any presets that boost or cut certain frequency bands, the sonic results in compliance with very limited. Mostly small areas are changed by 1 dB, barely audible, if the direct comparison with previously missing. Much more useful would have been a real EQ where you could adjust really specific individual frequencies.

Problematic also the battery life. Many speakers create now well over 10 hours, the Libratone one comes with fortune on 6 and at more moderate volumes, to the charging time is too long.

The Zipp would not be quite so bad if the volume limit would not use such abrupt, but you want something outside turn louder, the sound failed already. Party atmosphere comes to no, for cozy evenings at home, I would much rather take the B & O BeoPlay A2 which, although not 100% plays neutral, but is much more fun and also more mature sound, not to mention the compact size. The Zipp's just been a ton, I think my trash can in the bathroom is not really small.

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