Bang & OlufsenBeosound Explore - Wireless Portable Outdoor Bluetooth speaker, IP 67 Dustproof and Waterproof, Anthracite

Durable, fast to connect, great battery and beautiful.This is a clear sounding speaker not a bass machine. If you have your expectations in check (it is a quality over quantity thing)It sound so clean but there is no overemphasized bass (there are no passive radiators just two smaller full range drivers)Use this on your adventures for casual listening and you will be blown away over time as you will pickup on the accuracy and quality sound that is not flashy at first listen.The real star of the show here is the heavy duty build quality. This thing is the most “tank like” Bluetooth speaker I have ever experienced honestly.I think if you threw this at something or dropped it, something might get damaged but the speaker WILL survive. Its so heavy and dense..I think once you pick up the speaker, you’ll understand 100% of what it’s all about. It’s hard to explain with a review or words just go get one!

Wow, I couldn't be happier with this speaker, I had read reviews of so many different Bluetooth speakers and glad I bought the best one with notably superior quality in its design and fabrication. The sound stage was a major factor in choosing this, its compact but rugged portability, as well as the battery life and impeccable design. Do not settle for less.

Es espectacular, la batería no se acaba nunca, es robusto y la calidad del sonido es superior a todos los que he probado. Super recomendable

B&O makes posh high end audio gear….gear which showcases the most avant-garde design which would be at home in any modern art museum (MOMA indeed has some of the past B&O iconic products in their exhibits). Normally their gear is priced out of the range of normal-average-hard-working folk ($10000 speakers for example), but with this product, you can get to experience a slice of the life of the upper 0.1%!In all seriousness, this is a regular tiny Bluetooth speaker which has a price at least 5X more than your average tiny Bluetooth speaker. So what do you get for that premium? First, the whole shell is made of metal. It feels cool to the touch. It has hard “Type II anodization” on the aluminum shell which will help resist scratches, and should take the hard knocks while it’s hanging off your backpack using the supplied carabiner clip. The speaker is IPX67 meaning it’s water and dust resistant. You can immerse the whole thing into water for a very short period even.Soundwise, this is a tiny speaker so don’t expect much in terms of volume and thump. It will start to distort if you try to turn it up too high (it's not going to fill a large room in your house). It sounds smooth and the tonality is slightly warm (you hear less of the treble and more of the midrange). Deep bass is nonexistent, but there’s just enough of upper bass tones that you can follow the rhythm of the beat. Measurements on other review sites show that it doesn’t reproduce any content below 100Hz. Basically, it doesn’t reinvent any laws of acoustics and still sounds like a small speaker. But the overall sound quality is clean and the tonality is pleasant. it’s a portable speaker that you can carry with you anywhere, so you can have some music while boating, at the beach, hiking, camping etc. It just works!Battery life is good, at lower and moderate volumes, it easily lasts 10+ hours. Controls are simple: power, volume, play/pause/skip forward backwards. It isn’t necessary to install the app but the app is useful because it gives you the exact battery percentage, turn-off the auto-standby feature if you don’t want it, and has some presets to select a different sound signature or alternatively you can fine tune the strength of the treble/midrange/bass precisely by moving around a slider into four quadrants on the screen. I think it sounds fine with the default “optimized” preset. Also as a bonus, you can plug this into your computer with the USB and used it like a wired USB speaker. You can pair two Bluetooth devices to it, which is the norm nowadays.So is it worth it? By the way, I bought this at a 45% discount (check amazon price history for this product) and even though it’s still not inexpensive, I feel it is good value. Even if it had cost more, I would not have been disappointed. I don’t mind paying more for something that feels like it’s going to last, and with B&O, you get some cutting edge design with great sound engineering.This is a 5 star product, but minus 1 star just because I would have liked to have a microphone so that it acts as speakerphone. Also, because of the bluetooth profile, your device won't show the battery percentage on the phone itself, you have to view the percentage in the app. And the sound is good but it doesn't manage to break any laws of physics (not blaming the speaker but I had hoped that it would really stand out among other small speakers of this size with the bag of tricks that B&O geniuses have up their sleeves. The result is merely very good rather than exceptional). So result is 4 out of 5

Great sound quality for its size - even better when paired with another one. Very easy to pair. All colors were heavily discounted when I bought mine, so there may be a new version in the near future.

The one I received might be a defect or damaged during production... The battery life is good, the item is well made and sturdy, the volume and the sound stage are clear for most but the subwoofer and bass component was defected and whenever the lower tone or bass tone was playing the sheared and cracked sound made it not possible to listen nor acceptable, so unfortunately as much as I'd like this portable wireless speaker, this has to be returned. I might give it another chance another time...

Very pleased with my Explorer speaker.Instructions could be clearer on how to use this product, took me a while to figure out how to add custom music settings. Had a Doh moment when I finally figured it out. I bought it for the durability to go camping but it's so nice looking I'm probably just going to keep it at the house speaker. I love the brown color on it.