SOL REPUBLIC - PUNK Indoor/Outdoor Wireless Bluetooth Speaker - Black

The Sol Republic Punk is a Great little speaker for it's size. The only problem is the battery life. They say you get up to 8 hours of battery but I think that is for the AUX plug in because when I use my bluetooth the battery is cut in half to 4 hours. Again, great speaker but battery needs some work.

I first bought this as a Christmas gift for my sister. I liked them so much I bought one for myself. When they first came out Best Buy had them at $49.99+Tax and it was a steal. This speakers are great. Pros: Very compact size, amazing sound, excelente mid and high ranges. It has more than a decent bass for it's size. a huge plus is you can plug them in through AUX cable. Or you can even hook up another set of speakers through the built in OUTPUT and basically make any non-bluetooth set of speakers Bluetooth. They are also very sturdy dropped it a few times from about 2 feet and it works just fine. CONS: Battery life is not really good. In fact when I purchased it I got around 6 hours of steady sound at mid-volume. But as soon as the second charge cycle came. After about 2 hours of use you can hear the annoying "50% battery left " message. So I would say battery lasts about half the time of what they advertise it. Another con is; if you use the AUX input instead of a Bluetooth device to play your music, it actually sounds a lot lower for some reason. It won't be as loud. Overall I would recommend them as long as you can get then for a fair price. I WOULD NOT spend 69.99 on this. I'd rather put another $20 and get other rugged portable sound systems on the market that are out of this price bracket.

I am an artist using my Punk Bluetooth speaker in a gallery playing a poem we recorded into Bluegrass music in Russia. It was important that the battery held a charge and the bluetooth had a good range. I found the speaker met my needs perfectly at a really good price.

I've had my eyes on the deck for awhile but never had the money to spare, but when sol republic released the PUNK recently I knew I had to have it. It has an aesthetically pleasing design and it's light and small enough to carry with ease or tuck away in a backpack. It doesn't get SUPER loud, but the sound quality is unharmed at its highest volume. People complain about the battery life but if you keep the volume at a reasonable level and charge it every night you shouldn't have a problem(it's obviously not gonna last a whole day of continuous play but it lasts a decent time) Syncing to it is a breeze: turn it on, find it in your phone's Bluetooth menu, and connect in seconds(this only has to be done once before it begins automatically connecting to your phone when turned on) Charging it was confusing the first time because the directions are very vague in that department, but to my understanding: the light is red when charging and the light is off when charging is complete Sol Republic is a great brand all around. They don't have quite the advertising beats by dre has, but they provide much better quality and service.

It is a nice able to take a beating speaker for my phone. With it fully charged and hooked up to the phone with a cable I've yet to run the speaker down in one setting. If I connect the two using Bluetooth I get 3 or 4 hours. The sound is good, the bass does not sound artificially boomy it is just there, rest of the range has a nice full sound. It will not replace you home theater speakers but it is good for allowing more than one person to listen to something on your phone. Great if you are showing video and want everybody to hear or walking around a space and wanting to play something from your phone. It is rugged, it has been hauled around in my car center console, my jacket pocket, had water spilled on it and survived.

The goods: more volume and clearer bass than Altec Lansing or two other brand name bluetooth speakers I've used. I thought my idea for sound in the car would require a $125 speaker, but the Sol Punk works great for $50! The bads: shorter battery life than any of the other bluetooth devices I've used, however, this may be due to my use of higher volumes. Oh, for techies on the lookout for devices, this one is special in that it controls your iPhone or device volume, and vice-versa. Therefore, there are not two variable volume controls, but 1.

There is no doubt after three months of using my Punk Bluetooth speaker in my vehicle for phone and mobile music streaming- it exceeds the ability and sound quality of my BST-100 from A.Technica It was also cheaper: used my Best Buy rewards card to save $10! It is small, but all I need for our family. My wife can hear it well from the back seat with our baby when pumped up. Also, you can use the iphone/device to control the Devices volume.

Love that the battery lasts 8 hours. Sound could be better, and I can't stand that it tells you out loud that the battery is half full or almost dead :( this repeats several times, which interrupts the music when you're listening to it. Annoying. They got to work on this. A light indicator would be better or being able to disable the loud warnings.