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Klipsch Groove Bluetooth speaker review: Long battery life doesn’t compensate for poor sound quality

Jarvis

July 28, 2019

Klipsch is well-known for its fantastic home-audio and home-theater audio system, which have been designed and manufactured within the USA for greater than 70 years. Of course, the speaker market has advanced over the many years, and Klipsch has advanced with it, including new kinds of merchandise to its spectacular lineup.

The Klipsch Groove is an ideal living proof. Small although it’s, this moveable, battery-powered Bluetooth speaker packs in surprisingly massive sound. Unfortunately, that sound was fairly closed in and congested on nearly each monitor I listened to.

Features & person interface

Measuring solely 4.56 x 5.51 x 2.65 inches (HxWxD) and weighing a mere 1.7 kilos, the Groove is so tiny you’ll be able to actually maintain it in a single hand. Its 2200mAh lithium battery can energy the speaker for as much as eight hours on a single cost.

The included charger connects to a micro USB port on the again, which may additionally accommodate different USB energy sources that present 5V/1A, which most do. That’s a mighty helpful characteristic I want extra portable-speaker makers would implement.

A single 3-inch, aluminum-cone, front-firing driver is joined by two side-firing, 3.25 x 1.5-inch passive radiators behind a perforated steel grille. Powered by a 10-watt amp with superior DSP equalization, the frequency response is specified to increase from 65Hz to 22kHz (±3dB) with a most acoustic output of 97dB SPL at a distance of half a meter.

klipsch groove x ray — The Groove’s enclosure homes a 3-inch, front-firing driver and two side-firing passive radiators.

Of course, the first enter is Bluetooth—on this case, model 4.0. The Groove helps the A2DP, AVRCP, HFP, and HSP profiles and SBC and AAC codecs despatched from nearly any Bluetooth-enabled cellular system or pc. The solely different enter is a 3.5mm analog-audio enter on the again.

The micro USB port and three.5mm aux enter are hidden behind a rubberized cowl, serving to the Groove obtain a splash-resistant IPX4 ranking. As the product’s webpage says, “Don’t dump your beer on it, but don’t be afraid to splash and play around either.”

klipsch groove back — The again panel contains a micro USB charging port and three.5mm audio enter behind a rubberized cowl.

In addition, the top-mounted controls are shielded from splashes by a rubberized outer layer. The six buttons embrace energy on/off, Bluetooth, aux, play/pause, quantity up, and quantity down. Lighted indicators seem above the ability, Bluetooth, and aux buttons. Naturally, you may also management playback and quantity from the supply system.

When you energy the unit on and/or choose Bluetooth, it performs a depraved guitar lick, letting you already know it’s time to rock and roll. (After a interval of no exercise, it routinely powers down with one other guitar lick, which is a bit startling; I want it merely powered off with none thrives.)