Customer Ratings & Reviews

The mids and highs are pretty good in this unit.. Bass is good. With some songs when the bass is high the unit vibrates. The tall construction in my opinion is not a really good one. The buttons are touch and the design and build is pretty good. Getting a battery backup of around 8 hours.

Pairs easy and sounds great! Nice and portable. Love it

Went to Best Buy with my wife and we listened to all of the products on display using the same song from my phone via Bluetooth. This product sounded the best to us. Used for about a month now and still love it.

Good size. Like the color. Does just about everything I need. Great for date night.

This thing is so small yet it's so loud. The sound quality is terrific and it doesn't distort at higher volumes. It can also charge my phone if I need to, which is a nice bonus.

I love this speaker. It has a nice sound and it is easy to connect with other Bluetooth devices. It's portability, appearance and big bass is worth the cost.

This is such a strong speaker. It's battery lasts a long time and I am amazed at how loud it can get and also the base that comes from this little box. I would totally recommend it. It's super portable too.

After testing all the models i could in the store, this one gave the best all around sound, hands down. The built in sub edged out the bose units i tested.

nice sound from a little box and price was good too

I bought one of these for home and then ended up buying another for the office. Between the Bluetooth connectivity and the NFC Connect feature it plays music for me any time I want from my phone. At home I also connected it to the Bluetooth on my desktop to use it as a replacement for my normal computer speakers and I am able to get rid of the wire. It is loud enough to rattle the windows if I was to turn it all the way up.

We tried out many in the stores and it sounded good but when we got home this thing is LOUD! and pristine sounds to it. High quality and I've told so many people about it. Love it!

Nice speakers for a good price. I was debating between this Sony speaker and the mini Bose, but tested both and fell for the Sony loudness. My BF loves it and says it's been working great.

I went to the store to test out as many bluetooth speakers as I could. I tried comparable speakers from Bose, JBL, and Beats. I felt this one was the best of the bunch. My friends are surprised at how good it sounds.

Actually we would like to buy 2 beats pills, but the Sony Guy in the store convinced - and it was good to decide to buy the Sony Speaker - they are absolut amazing, and the sound is way better than the beats sound!

For the price, product is great, it does the job, bass is comparable only to bose products with much higher price

This item has surpassed our expectations...we rehearse in our church with our Praise Team and quality of the sound for our practices from our tracks is really more than good. It's outstanding!!!

I still have much more learning and tweaking to do on this speaker. That said, I can't give a real review on it. I can give my first impressions and beginning experience from it: I am a music lover and quality of sound is very important to me. This speaker is built to allow some advanced features to enhance sound quality. Sometimes I absolutely love how my music translates through this speaker. And other times, the quality of sound downgrades. I am in that process of figuring out why this happens. So far, I have experienced awesome potential from this speaker.

I don't consider myself an audiophile, but I am a critical listener with several excellent audio systems in my home. I'll qualify this review by saying that a portable speaker just won't EVER come close to the sound you get from a good 2ch. system. That being said, the sound that is possible from these little boxes is really impressive. Consider my review comments below to be framed in the context of portable speakers ... not multi-thousand dollar systems. This review is really more of a comparison between the Sony SRSX55 and the Bose Soundlink III, because I believe folks looking at one should also be looking at the other. I chose the Sony. Background: I wanted a bluetooth speaker for home and travel. Performance was more important than price. I listened to everything I could find. The majority of speakers either lacked low end and/or audio detail. Most sounded "boxy" or "throaty" due to their small size - especially when pushed to higher volumes. The field in my search quickly narrowed to Bose Soundlink III, Bose Mini Soundlink and (to my surprise) the Sony SRSX55. Shopping/Listening Tip: Bring your smart phone with music you're familiar with loaded on it. Pair your phone with the bluetooth speakers and listen to the music YOU know and like...not the stuff they pump through as demo music. That way, you're hearing something familiar and know how it "should" sound and you can listen to the same material on different speakers for a true "apples to apples" comparison. I don't like the demo stuff on these speakers and I don't trust that it hasn't bee tweaked to make the speakers sound "their best" while on display in store. Bose Fever: If you go hunting for reviews, you can't help but find folks gushing about their Bose speakers. I've never been a fan, but they've got two good contenders in the Soundlink III and Mini. For me, it came down to a shoot-out between the Soundlink III and the Sony SRSX55. Both are well reviewed online (For Sony, its mostly the SRSX5 - last year's version). Listening Comparisons: In the Bose SL III, I heard incredible deep bass (too much, actually), good reproduction of high frequencies, but most everything in between was warm, rich and muddled. Instruments lacked separation. Vocals did emerge well from the soup behind them, however. The British A/V magazine "What Hi Fi" Gave the Bose SL III a 3 star review for this very reason. I have to agree with them, there is a lack of detail and presence to be had in the SL III, however vocals do manage to cut through. Bass is so overpowering, its just in the way. You may like that sort of sound, but if you're listening for more than a few minutes, it may become fatiguing. If you're looking for even sound across the spectrum, you just can't be OK with Bose for this reason. In its favor, the Bose does not sound boxy or woody as so many portable speakers do. The SRSX55. I had no idea Sony even had bluetooth Speakers. The first thing I noticed in switching to the Sony after playing music through the Bose speakers was a very smooth and even presentation - from punchy lows to crisp highs. Bass was there, but to a proper level (not booming). Mids were clear and vocals sounded good. High sounds (cymbals, vibraphone attacks, etc.) were clear and crisp but not strident. There was greater separation between instruments (meaning, I could hear each more distinctly vs. the wash of sound from the Bose). On a Sting recording I played, I could actually hear the reverb tail on his voice...nice. There's a button on the Sony that creates an expanded sound...very nice addition, creating an acceptably wider sound with perhaps a bit more high end signal as well. The speaker didn't sound boxy and delivered a smooth, even sound without being too forward or strident. How Loud?: While I played music from one phone, I used a dB meter app on another to measure output of both the Bose and Sony speakers. Both delivered good, clear sound up to the 70-75 dB range. From 75-80 dB strange things started to happen. For the Bose, it got louder across the audio spectrum, but the bass started to "break up" and distort some. Otherwise, the speaker kept up and cranked loud. The Sony must have some sort of DSP (Digital Signal Processing) in it that limits bass as the unit plays louder. I had fine bass up to 75 dB, but as I pushed above this level, the sound remained crisp and clear, but the bass dropped in presence. I'm guessing this is by design to keep the speaker from blowing at levels that are too high for it to handle (not a bad feature). Both speakers delivered a suitable level of sound for indoor or outdoor use. I've read online that the SRSx55 will get less loud on battery vs. AC powered. I have yet to observe this in my home use (I've tried). Other features: Both units require AC charging and are similar enough in size for that to not be a point of comparison. The Bose is a wee bit bigger and heavier. Bose battery life is longer than the Sony, but not sure the "real life" difference between 14 and 10 hours, respectively really matters much. I found the Sony was faster to pair with my phone than the Bose. Speaking of phones, the Sony works as a speaker phone, the Bose does not (if that's important to you...I haven't tested this yet). Summing Up: Its easy to be drawn by the siren's sound of Bose with their deep bass and legions of rabid fans. If you're willing to consider breaking from the crowd for better sound, SERIOUSLY consider the Sony. To my ears, its a Bose slayer and a much better audio performer. ...and that's before the large price gap between the two. This (I guess newer and improved) version of the SRS X5 hasn't had many reviews yet, so I thought I'd help it along because IMO, its a sonic force to be heard. Bonus: Secret Sauce: There's a very cool music player app that enables you to apply one of many DSP modes to your music. It also includes a wonderfully flexible EQ function. The app is called Bongiovi DPS and I highly recommend it, regardless of your speaker or headphones. The DSPs add excellent performance to your recordings and the EQ can be used to address any minor issues inherent in your speaker. FWIW, I used this app during my demo work above. With minor EQ tweaking, the Sony sounded better. With heavy EQ use, I still struggled to tame the bloated bass of the Bose. Final Disclaimer: Listening is subjective...your ears are your ears and your opinions may vary from mine. That's cool. Have fun on the journey and love whatever you buy.

Great product for the price. Considered buying a Bose, but am very satisfied with my Sony! I carry it all over the house with ease!

The sound of this speaker is incredible. Especially if you like vocals crisp and clear. Would highly recommend this speaker to anyone in the market for a portable speaker.