However, the people on the other end of the line had trouble hearing me. Thanks to its bass and big sound, it made the voices of the people I spoke with much easier to hear compared with the built-in speakerphone on the iPhone. Like most current Bluetooth speakers, the SRS-X55 includes a microphone for conferencing. I measured the max volume at 90 decibels, but it sounded much less distorted at 85 decibels. With each driver rated at 5 watts, the speaker puts out enough power to fill a large room. When listening to a 96-kHz/24-bit version of Miles Davis' "So What," I found the horns brighter and the cymbals crisper than on the 320-Kbps MP3 version. Sony uses a proprietary compression technology called LDAC, which it says doesn't compress high-resolution music as much as traditional Bluetooth does. Jimmy Page's distorted guitars and John Paul Jones' bass blended nicely with Robert Plant's vocals on Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy." Florence Welch's impassioned singing on Florence + the Machine's "What Kind of Man" soared above the guitars and horns in the background, and the bass provided a strong drive to the song. ![]() The same was true for other songs I listened to. The horns on the "Uptown Funk" sounded brighter and sharper on the SRS-X55, and the vocals resounded clearly, for an all-around balanced sound. The Bose SoundLink Mini produces comparable bass levels, but the Sony eclipsed the Bose when it came to midranges and treble tones. On Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk," the bass thumped with tactile impact - I could feel it vibrate in my chest more than I could on most Bluetooth speakers. PerformanceĪll types of music sound great on the SRS-X55, which is impressive for a speaker that costs less than $200. If you press the Sound button on the top of the unit, it engages Clearaudio. There's no app to make adjustments to the sound, like you'll find with the UE Boom. Sony doesn't state the wireless range for the speaker, but I found it maintained a strong connection to my iPhone at 25 feet, even with walls between the speaker and the phone. ![]() For manual Bluetooth pairing, you simply press the Bluetooth button on top of the unit and find "SRS-X55" under available devices in your device's Bluetooth settings menu. It includes NFC for quick pairing with Android devices that support the technology. The SRS-X55 paired easily with iOS and Android devices.
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