Wednesday, 16 March 2016

Bluetooth Speaker Westrom BT074 Review

In this review we'll take a look at a simple, small, low-cost bluetooth speaker Westrom BT074. Such a device can come in handy, for example, if you want to listen music or other sounds from your laptop while being in different room. At least, this was my motivation for buying a bluetooth speaker and this model attracted me mainly with its quite low price, about 7 Eur.

Package content and connection


Nothing really suprising is waiting for you in the package. The speaker itself, micro-USB cable for charging and instruction manual.
After unpacking you can switch the speaker on and immediately pair it with your laptop or mobile phone. Just make your portable device visible and the speaker will soon appear among available device. Pairing should be done by one click and, of course, once paired, the next time speaker will connect automatically, whenever your paired device in range.

Good quality, with one “but”


Although the speaker is pretty compact, it can produce music of acceptable quality. If you don't have any high expectations (or extremely good ears) and want the speaker to play some “background” music, I think the quality will be satisfying for you.
The speaker has Bluetooth version 3, with the standard range up to 10 meters. This value stands in open-air, rapidly decreasing with each wall or door.
The dark side of this speaker is for me the accumulator. First, it needs to be charged every few days (while the speaker being in use about 1 hour per day), which is a bit annoying but probably understandable at device in this price level. What is worse is the signalization of low battery level, when the speaker stops playing the music, beeps once and starts playing again, every approximately 10 seconds. Maybe it's good protection against running out of the battery completely, however, I would prefer a signalization in form of red light or something similar, to be able to continue listening even if the battery is low.

Conclusion


I would recommend buying this speaker to everyone who is not searching for extra quality but wants a simple, cheap and quick solution how to listen to music from laptop or mobile phone in any room of the house.

Advantages:

+ low price
+ bluetooth
+ compact size

Disadvantages:

- small accumulator
- low-battery signalization

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