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hey everyone Jimmy with Jim's review room you guys asked for it and you guys got it thanks to those who asked me for this review here I wasn't aware of this little Bluetooth speaker coming out but I'm glad I finally got my hands on this so I personally paid for this a whopping retail price of two hundred and forty nine dollars making this one the most expensive small bluetooth speakers on the market but like anything else prices do fluctuate and I'll place my links in the video description below click on that and it will give you the most up-to-date prices so without further ado my channels here to help you make a purchase decision welcome everyone to jim's review know of the physical features B&O or Bang & Olufsen does make some very nice stuff if you're unfamiliar with their brand they usually make some very clean designs and give a very premium feel to their products now it's no different with the a1 as the entire upper casing is made of aluminum and it's made to withstand being used outdoors now one things that you can't see and more Bluetooth speakers are coming with this feature this is dust sand and splash resistant now I've tested a bunch of Bluetooth speakers over time and during my water test which I do admit is a bit more on the extreme side every speaker has performed perfectly fine with the audio being uncompromised however with the a1 once this thing gets pretty soaked the audio sounds very muffled and distorted but the a1 is perfectly fine though let this continue playing for about 15 minutes or so and let the water dry out or move on here and the speaker has worked perfectly fine thereafter so just a heads up on that it's not broken for my test here but oddly comparing to other speakers the audio does become affected when wet so now you guys know now the bottom is a hard silicone a polymer that is to keep this speaker in one place and a leather strap is a nice touch too that will age over time give this a bit of character now regarding its size the diameter is nearly identical to the Yui roll about 13 centimeters or about five and a quarter inches across making this one be more portable speakers on the market now it's about the size of my hand here and it weighs in about 1.3 pounds which doesn't sound like a lot but when you do pick it up for the first time it's not necessarily heavy but it feels really solid now going over the physical layout on the right you have an LED indicator to determine if this is on or off the power button is next far right is your volume up and down and then rotating to the bottom here you have a three-and-a-half millimeter port to physically connect this to your device which you know oddly didn't include the wire for but right next to that is the latest and greatest USB type-c this is basically the future of USB ports here for those who don't know and B&O does provide a nice long wire for this but for my experience you gotta buy another wire this in case you ever go to the beach or if you're traveling somewhere you might forget this wire at home buy a second one they're usually pretty cheap since we're on the topic of charging the unit takes about three hours to recharge from a dead battery and the a1 is claimed to last up to 24 hours of moderate use which sounds phenomenal now like every one of my speaker reviews I leave the speaker on at about 50% volume to get a milder Road result and I performed four different tests here essentially fully charging the speaker and then playing it until it died and I'm only getting about eight hours and 53 minutes on average I'm not sure what's going on here but over those four different tests it's been consistent and nowhere close to 24 hours at a casual listening level now if I didn't show up this speaker layout on the far left you have this very convenient button where it will pair with your last known device and play from the last source the middle button is to pair your device which I had no problems with any devices here and it bluetooth arranged works from one side of house to the other what's phenomenal now the last icon is for answering phone calls and from my test here the speakerphone is one of the best though standing a few feet away was very loud and clear enough while standing about eight feet away and just even naturally speaking the a1 microphone didn't make me sound echoey and it didn't make me sound like I was really far away now it still sounds like a speakerphone but compared to many other Bluetooth speakers out there it's very good performance so now to the moment that you've been waiting for here I'll play several samples for you guys and then I'll give you my verdict afterwards hahahaha Oh Oh Oh I want you to breathe me and maybe your head let me wrong your body go in efficient fear I wish your love and there you have it folks now sound recorded on my end and then play through your speakers are not the best depiction of audio quality but let me start off by saying this Wow I would have never expected this kind of sound from a small bluetooth speaker the sound is very much comparable with mid-sized speakers like the UE boom to the JBL charge - and maybe even the 3 when it's released it's just not released here in America just yet but for its size the a1 is still able to fill up a medium-sized room that's not pushing large speaker territory like how the JBL Xtreme can fill up an area but for its size simply amazing the next thing based on this thing is pretty impressive clean distortion-free it's deep enough and more bass than the UE boom - and all other smaller Bluetooth speakers without sounding muddy or droning the same with the Mint's offering clarity detail not so much in regards to sound separation or depth like these the bose sound like many too but the bass and the clarity combined just makes this one immersive speaker to listen to the highs are not taking an ear ringing but on very loud uses cymbal crashes or a lot of the beats that has beat that s sound gets slightly jumbled and you do lose a slight clarity on the top end but overall I think you guys can already tell very very impressive speaker all around now one thing that I do want to mention though and notice this and they created for - a while back here since the creative or - is tap firing the sound on the creative world wasn't as direct and lack some authority because of that now although the a1 faces up at the ceiling the audio sound basically spread out through the room rather than directional that's a great positive to have the only other issue or the only issue that I've noticed though and maybe of concern over time I notice the speaker does get hot when near maximum volume and oddly it still gets warm at medium volume again all in a matter of maybe thirty minutes of use or so and in regarding better life from my personal experience it was a bit disappointing if you have the speaker yourself let me know down below in the comment section if you're getting much less than a twenty four hours overtime and the fact that the speaker does get slightly distorted here when soaked and other Bluetooth speakers all of them that I've tested on the market so far doesn't suffer that it's kind of a bummer but other than that I will admit the price is very high but the audio quality again beats the Yui boom to the JBL charge three hasn't been released yet again here in America but we'll have a review on that soon and this for sure beats every again every small bluetooth speaker that I've tested so far now if you're looking for portability something to expand the outdoors and audio quality is your utmost priority get the a one I personally highly recommend it so that's it for this review here be sure to LIKE and subscribe to my channel if you haven't already done so follow me on Facebook Twitter in or Instagram you guys will see me update you guys on what new products I'm getting in here you guys can also message me on there I'm pretty active on social media in general and again I'm Jimmy with Jim's review room you guys take care and I'll see you in the next one bye