Boult Audio Bassbar A4 Review

With TVs getting extra inexpensive, customers are additionally now extra inclined to spend cash on audio equipment to reinforce their house leisure expertise. While traditionalists will want correct speaker techniques, many consumers immediately just like the comfort of a soundbar. It occupies much less house, is simple to arrange, and affords an improve over the TV’s built-in audio system. But what in the event you may have each in a single product?

The Boult Audio Bassbar A4 affords precisely that. It’s a convertible speaker bundle that can be utilized both as a soundbar or as a two-channel tower speaker set. This versatile bundle comes at a really inexpensive value of Rs. 3,999, however what does the Boult Audio Bassbar A4 provide to make it well worth the value? We discover out in our evaluate.

 

Boult Audio Bassbar A4 design and specs

The key function of the Boult Audio Bassbar A4 is its type issue — it may be used horizontally as a soundbar, or vertically as particular person 2.0-channel tower audio system. When used as a soundbar, the 2 elements connect at their bases and might both sit on a table-top or be mounted on a wall. As tower audio system, the 2 halves use a pair of included stands to remain upright.

In both case, the appropriate unit is the lively speaker, whereas the left one is passive and must be linked to the appropriate tower utilizing a stereo RCA cable. There are two such cables included within the gross sales bundle — a brief one that’s appropriate in soundbar mode, and an extended one which can be utilized when the audio system are positioned aside from one another as towers.

The product itself has a easy design, with a plastic physique and metallic grille protecting the speaker drivers. There are additionally Boult Audio brand badges at each ends, which appeared to be weakly glued on; these have been already shifting about after we began utilizing the speaker, and certainly one of these ultimately fell off. The mechanisms that allow each halves of the unit keep connected to one another or their respective stands are effectively constructed, and we discovered them to be fairly safe.

The Boult Audio Bassbar A4 does not have a battery of its personal, and should be linked to an influence outlet utilizing its included adapter. The high of the lively tower speaker has the controls for energy, supply choice, and playback, in addition to a USB Type-A port and SD card slot. There can also be Bluetooth 4.2 and a 3.5mm socket for Aux connectivity on the powered speaker. Oddly, there’s a marking for a set of RCA inputs, however no precise sockets for this — our evaluate unit simply had a gap at again the place such an enter may have been.

 

A distant is included with the Boult Audio Bassbar A4, and it was admittedly very helpful for us throughout our time with the speaker system. It has all the mandatory controls and labored effectively. Unfortunately the lid of the battery compartment would not seal shut when batteries have been inserted, additional highlighting the poor construct high quality of the elements.

The Boult Audio Bassbar A4 has a rated energy output of 40W RMS, and Dolby Digital sound tuning. The two halves every have two wide-range…