Advantages: Wireless A2DP bluetooth technology, design, good sound Disadvantages: Build quality feels a bit cheap
Gear4 have a nice range of iPod related products now, but with the HouseParty Blu they certainly seem to have upped the design ante. This sleek unit has a nice grill to the front, with some backlit touch sensitive controls. Yes, this is an iPod speaker system, with the mandatory dock, but it goes one step further by adding bluetooth.
OK, so the iPod does not have bluetooth as standard, although this can be added afterwards. Where the 'Blu' scores ... ...like your mobile phone and stream your tunes to it. In practice this work brilliantly. I am not a big mobile phone user, as I use my iPod all the time, but for the purposes of this review some of my fave tunes were transferred to my mobile. The quality was pretty darn good, not as good as docking my iPod, but certainly detailed and very usable.
The volume of this unit is pretty astounding too, with 30W of output it certainly goes loud and keeps ...
davomrmac 30.07.2008
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HouseParty Blu provides high quality stereo sound for all your music players, iPod, mobile ... more
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HouseParty Blu provides high quality stereo sound for all your music players, iPod, mobile ... more
phone or other portable music player. Free your tunes from your mobile phone with HouseParty Blue's built-in stereo Bluetooth transfer technology, or dock your ...
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