Customer Ratings & Reviews

This speaker is awesome! I didn't think it would have bass like that. Great for barbecues in the yard.

This speaker is closer to the Bose mini than the Beats by Dre pill. The music is crisp and clear with great hi's and mid's and leveled bass.

Much more powerful sound than I was expecting from such a small unit. With the built in subwoofer, has plenty of sound for casual listening.

Lots of sound from a little package. I would highly recommend it.

Speaker is easy pairing on NCF and via bluetooth. Long battery for 7 hours on continues usage. Crisp and clear audio for a portable speaker.

Love the sound and easy to use. Some concern about battery life but way enough to a few hours a day

Sound quality is really superb. I am loving it and getting it in Best Buy deal double happiness .

This speaker is fantastic. The sound quality is amazing and is perfect for outdoor and indoor use.

speaker sounds great for the size and price. Sound rivals the high end bose sound link mini but for a fraction of the price. Only issue I have is that the Bluetooth pairing continually fails, making it impossible to pair a new device. This can be fixed by resetting the speaker (long hold the down volume and power button). This is a pretty big annoyance and happens quite often. Other than that it seems to be a solid unit.

I got this for my boyfriends dorm room and he loves it! He says the sound is absolutely great!

Bought thisb item for my son and he has used the speaks to listen to music Skype and audio books.

This speaker packs a punch! Great sound, great range, excellent quality, and fantastic value!

Would recommend it. Would be nice if it charged while playing, however battery life is good.

This sony speaker is great! the sound quality fills a room and phone features work excellent.

Good little speaker. Not as nice as the Bose, but also doesn't cost as much as the Bose.

I really like it. Great sound and I have never had an issue with the Bluetooth connection.

It may not be Bose, but it sounds just as good. I love the sony speakers. Infact my home theater system is also a Sony CT260H.

This speaker almost deserves 5 stars but I went a bit lower because of a few issues I will describe below. 1st the appearance. It looks like an adult's speaker should. No weird pill or cone shapes in neon colors. Just a nice rectangular speaker. The black one is really dark grey though. The front is where the speaker drivers output and the back is where the bass port output is. The sides and bottom are just enclosure. The controls are all on top so you don't end up pushing the speaker around to press buttons. The buttons feel rather like rubber and the top is easily cleaned. It has a significant weight to it too so it won't slide around. It has rubber feet that keep it elevated a tiny bit above any hard surface it sits on so it won't rattle when lots of bass is playing. Canned air could be used to clean the front and rear grills. This unit is also small at 7" X 2.5" X 2.5" and easy to put almost anywhere that is flat. Now the controls: The only function on the back is the recessed reset button in case the Bluetooth settings get so screwed up you want to reset everything to factory defaults. I've never had to use it. The top left of the speaker is where you can lay an NFC phone to automatically make the Bluetooth connections for you. The right side includes a charge indicator light, power on/off button with LED, volume up/down buttons, a sound button to increase the separation of stereo sound for more realism, a pairing button to manually force the unit to pair with a Bluetooth device, and audio in button to choose between Bluetooth or Aux input, and a phone button to handsfree answer your phone. Using NFC, the connection to your phone is extremely simple to make. If you don't have the NFC function on your phone just set your phone up to start a Bluetooth pairing and then press the pairing button on this speaker and it almost always gets it the first time. Also the range is great. I often have the speaker more than 15 feet away from the phone and it still is flawless in sound. I get about a 25 foot range before the signal starts breaking up. There is one issue though. Do not expect to use this speaker for gaming sound effects unless there is some constant sound output. The speaker takes about 2 seconds to activate when it hears sound. It will tend to miss the 1st second or two of sound if some sound output is not constant. For instance, I have a phone game that rolls 5 dice. It does so every 5 seconds or so. It will often miss the dice roll sound because it takes that couple of seconds to recognize there is sound. This speaker works best for music or videos or sounds that are always there. The volume controls are very responsive and have a good range of control for each button press. I usually run my Galaxy Note 4 phone at about 2/3 volume and this speaker still has lots of volume at 2/3 of it's way up. The sound quality is great. The bass can boom and the treble sounds are clear. Using the sound button in the off position gives more bass but less sound separation. Using the sound button on still produces good bass but somehow fools your ears into thinking you have sound separation. I recommend leaving the sound button on most of the time. The auxillary input, power input and reset buttons are all on the back. You can use any standard mini-usb chargers that put out 5V and one is included with the speaker. It can run from the charger if the battery is dead. The speaker lasts me about 5 to 7 hours running it at 2/3 volume. The battery is not user replaceable. So I assume when the internal battery wears out, you'll have to run it from the power adapter. I've had mine for about 4 months before doing this review and have not noticed any battery problems yet. The phone answering thing is actually a bit annoying. The person on the phone can be heard clearly. But I just don't like having whatever is playing being interrupted and the voice being projected out the speaker. Also if you are listening to music at a louder volume, you will get an earful if the phone rings during this time. It's downright deafening. Also answering the phone at the phone causes weird issues with the speaker still going with the caller's voice. I wish they would have just left this phone button off of the speaker and just muted the speaker when ringing. Maybe this would have been too hard to implement though? In summation, this is a great speaker that looks good and takes up very little space. It has a few minor quirks but is well worth the price. I like the sound of this X3 even better than its big brother the X5. I also compared it with the other usual small Bluetooth speakers BB has in their stores and found this one superior unless you are willing to pay a lot more. I highly recommend this speaker.

Solid construction and room filling sound for $60. Nothing can touch this for the price!

The simplest, best system at a great price! For music-on-the-go it couldn't get much easier!