GOgroove SonaVERSE BX Wired Portable Speaker with USB Music Player - Cube Speaker with USB Flash Drive MP3 Input, 3.5mm AUX Port, Playback Buttons, Rechargeable 5 Hour Battery (Wired AUX Only)

Compact size and good sound quality. I am not saying it would blow your ears off but it has enough volume and a rich sound for the kind of music I listen to. The battery was defective. Swollen and leaking some kind of liquid. I ended up getting a two pack which I was going to do anyhow. Probably been on the shelf awhile and these things happen. To me it was not worth reaching out to the seller. My wife ended up ordering another one for our daughter and the battery was fine. For the money, it meets our needs.

I got this for my mom for Christmas last year and she's been using it regularly all year. It's a great fit for what she wants to do, I was looking for something that sounded decent, was portable, had decent battery life, and the ability to play directly off storage media was a huge plus. It's generally used with one of several different smaller SD cards that each have an album on them, but she occasionally uses it with her laptop when listening to a teleseminar/podcast around the house, and it's easy to move around and take with her in the car somewhere else. It seems to last longer than 3 - 5 hour battery estimate playing from an SD card. It sounds awesome for something in the $20 - $35 bracket, I don't know that I would still recommend it at the "full retail" that Amazon shows, but it has good volume, a bit of bass, sounds quite good, and on paper, includes a lengthy 3 year warranty if you register the product with them. I haven't had any issues with it requiring contact with the manufacturer, so I can't personally comment on their responsiveness, but it sounds like others have had some good experiences with them. I'd love it if there was some way to check the battery level, and it'd be nice to have more control over media played through the USB or SD slot, but playing straight through an album works for our purposes fine. Bluetooth compatibility would substantially add to their potential audience, but wasn't something that my mom would ever use. This time last year, I think the portable speaker market was different, now there are lots of Bluetooth speakers that cost a bit more than you can get this for with decent reviews, but I'm not sure they'd sound any better. I think the charger it came with died on us after a few months of use, but being USB there are plenty of other chargers and cables we can use instead. I jumped on this near when it was first released, taking a flier on a company I hadn't heard of before, but this has exceeded my expectations in every way. After being carted around and used for more than a year, there's a bit of black paint worn off one of the corners, and I think we're out a charger, but it's held up well and everyone has been impressed by it when they hear it. I'll be keeping an eye on their other products in the future, I'm curious what their larger budget speakers sound like... One thing this has that my own more expensive Bluetooth speaker doesn't is a volume knob! I've come to realize this is an awesome thing after always having to bump the volume on my speaker up a few presses every time I pair my phone to it. Having a real volume knob means you can set it to whatever you want, and it will be that same volume next time you turn it on, sounds silly but I wish my speaker did that.

Not a 5 star because of imperfect and unknown information. I would recommend this radio for the sound quality and recommend reading this review. I bought this because I have my music on USB's and I didn't want to use my P.A. system, laptop or buy a tablet. I figured this radio was a better option. The sound is really very good as mentioned from other buyers, so that's a big plus. $29.99 is worth a try. On the product page I asked Alexa ... Any known issues reported by customers. One thing Alexa said, issues that the unit may not work with the battery. I found out 3-5 hours charge. I did 5 and it doesn't work. With the cord that came with the radio it works ok with a wall charger block ( Amperage: 2.1A LUOATIP or I have this one .... AILKIN adapters at 5V/2.1A. Alexa also said the speaker had a separate battery and that is known to malfunction. FYI, if ask Alexa 2 or 3 times the same question about issues you may get more info, that how I found out about a separate battery to the speaker. Well, guess what I had the radio plugged in while writing this review, I unplugged it and it's running off the battery. I tuned it off for about 15 minutes and turned it back on and it works off the battery. In the box was a yellow warranty card and mention's STOP do not return to the seller. I went to website to sign up and they want your name, email address, phone number, billing/shipping address. As far as I'm concern they will sell my information. Buyer beware.

Almost all portable speakers on the market today either dock with an iPhone or require bluetooth streaming to function. But I don't want to walk around with a $600 boom box (cost of phone + cost of speaker) and also don't want to rely on two devices having a full charge (phone battery + speaker battery) to stream via bluetooth. So what is a consumer to do, but a portable CD player? Enter this GOgroove self-powered speaker. Why Sony, Panasonic, et al, do not have a product like this is beyond me, it's perfect for portable music and there are 1,200 Amazon reviews for this product in the past year alone, showing very strong consumer interest. The GOgroove speaker is fantastic for portable music. The use of a standard-sized removable battery is fantastic, and it can use a Nokia BL-5C battery (which is smarter than Apple's planned obsolescence permanent battery approach). The battery charges via the included USB adapter, and you can also bring along extra batteries to the beach for music all day long -- try that with a bluetooth streaming device + phone. Extra batteries are fairly cheap. Music plays off an SD card, or a USB memory stick. It plays MP3 files only, and the files must be located in the root folder (files in subdirectories are not read by the player). I believe the SD card limit is 32GB, but have used a 16GB without a problem. The construction is very good, with an MDF (wood particle board) exterior on 5 sides and a 6th side with a volume knob and LED-lighted controls. When the unit is turned off, it will resume playing at the song at the same spot when you turn it on later; this is a great feature. The prior volume setting also resumes when the unit is switched back on. As for sound quality, it meets my expectations for a battery-powered speaker. I have a home stereo system costing many thousands, and also high-end headphones, but this is a portable speaker system, and a portable speaker system at this price will not sound like a concert hall. But it does sound pretty good! There is no high frequency speaker (tweeter), just two small speakers (one on each side of the cube) so the high frequencies are a bit flat. The bass can sound a bit muddy, but overall, for what it is, the sound is very good, and it plays fairly loud. This is perfect for a picnic lunch, in the kitchen, or a day at the beach. Note that the sound is greatly affected by where the unit is placed. If you place it near a wall, it will sound louder with more bass. In a corner, yet more bass (too much for my taste). The point is, experiment with placement, and also where you aim the speakers (face the wall, or at an angle to the wall, or parallel to the wall, etc). Experiment. Overall, after one week of use, I'm very happy with the product and would purchase again. Will update this review if anything breaks.

The good: Honestly "for the money" it sounds pretty good. Also surprisingly heavy. I've not opened mine but I'm half expecting to see a lead weight in it. It doesn't get super loud but for sitting a few feet away at a reasonable volume, it has a nice full sound without being too muddy in most music. Spoken word can be slightly "boomy" at times. The volume knob feels pretty good, it's smooth and linear. Line in and USB work but USB has some issues for my particular use case. I've not tried running it off the battery, but I'm glad to see it can run directly off Mini USB power without the battery installed. Like... overall, happy with the purchase.... But... The bad: While I like this little speaker overall, there are some things that are annoying about it. I originally got this to insert a USB flash drive and have it play 1 guided meditation MP3 for me as I went to bed. However, it will just play it over and over on a loop, there is no way to change that. It also has a dang blue LED inside it behind the buttons along with a very bright red LED on the side. Fine for daytime use, but bad for night time use. Also it will not play anything off the USB stick if you turn it on with the USB already inserted. Instead, you have to power it on, wait a few moments THEN insert it and it will start playing. I was hoping I could crawl into bed, power it on, and it play the 1 MP3 then stop. So instead I have a CD player plugged into the line-in. It plays the 1 track then shuts off. A low tech solution but it works. I also found that while playing an MP3 if I turned it up too loud while running off USB power, it will eventually reset and restart. I think it's a power brown out. Not sure if it would do this running on battery. In the end, I think if you want something that can play music at a reasonable quality that's for personal listening or like background music in a bedroom this is fine. It also has a shuffle function that I think would be super useful, but I've not tested it. I love that it has a removable battery and can run directly off USB power should you want to. USB-C would have been ideal, even if it's "FAKE" USB-C that does a "dumb fallback" to 5V like so many other no-brand devices from China. For the money there may be better options, but having a removable battery is a big bonus for me. Hope this was helpful.

Cheap but excellent. Small but sounds great. Plays USB fat 32 partitions with high sound quality. Simple to operate and portable with ease. A good product. It won't blow out the windows but the sound is suprisingly crisp. My best purchase in long time.

In February of this year, we bought the GOgroove SonaWAVE portable speaker to use as a white noise machine in our two year old's room. We LOVED it. You could play white noise off of a flash drive, so no iPod needed to be attached. It ran off of battery power which was great for car trips, and it automatically recharged with outlet power. Plus, it had pretty good sound if we wanted to use it for music. However, we really just used it for white noise during the night. So we bought a second one in May for our newborn's nursery. But wait! Did we? It seems that this is now the GOgroove SonaVERSE, and Amazon has ported over all the positive reviews. Unfortunately, this is an inferior product for our needs. After a few hours of usage, it turns off. So when you've finally gotten your baby to sleep, it turns off at midnight and he wakes up. Then you can recharge it and get it going, only to have the entire process repeat at 3am. It's fun. When we contacted the company, they told us that they had built a "feature" to protect the battery that ensures the speaker runs off of batteries even if plugged in. Then, once the battery dies, it just turns off. Even if it's plugged into the wall. BRILLIANT. Below is the email from their warranty service representative: "We say your speaker is operating normally becuase the speaker is deisgned to protect the battery. Once a full charge is recognized, the speaker shuts itself off from the power in the cable and runs off battery power. This is why the speaker will stay on for 6-7 hours before dieing. Given your use of the speaker, we understand how this could be cumbersome. Rest assured however, your speaker is running as intended." So now we have an awesome speaker if you want to listen to it for 3 hours - and a make-my-baby-cry-machine for anything beyond that. If they let us return it, I'll update my post to reflect positively on their customer service (which was at least prompt), but if you are thinking about using this for music or white noise while sleeping, don't.

Purchased for use with a tablet, phone and mp3 players and so on, for personal use around my apartment, social settings, camping, etc. Sound - the speakers on each side and the small echo chamber on the back give clear sound in every direction. Distortion only at very high levels and its loud and clear enough that I never turn it high enough to have that problem. Nice treble and bass, I am not an audiophile so I can't give you a comparative review but it sounds much better (and better priced) than comparable portable speakers suck as the jam speakers. I've yet to use it in a party or camping setting, but I'm confident it will perform just as well. Size/portability - it really is surprising how something that sounds so nice can be so small and light, and the rechargeable battery just makes it that much better. Tuck it anywhere, its no bigger than a tissue box. Battery - it does get an average 3-5 hours, of course I wish it could be longer because I use it so much but when the LED flickers and the sound stutters just plug it will still run while charging. The door to the battery compartment doesn't close flush on mine when the battery is inserted (its probable that the battery is OEM) but I like that its replaceable in case it eventually wears out. Aesthetic - classy and classic black goes with any decor. The LED light is only on the front between the buttons and the rest is blue accent (I had thought from the photo all of the blue was LED but its no bother). My only qualm is I would have liked the buttons/indicators on the front to either be LED also or a higher contrast paint, they're a bit hard to see. Features - I prefer the aux in (3.5mm m/m cable included) to bluetooth for a few reasons: better clarity & no lost signal, more uses since not all of my devices have Bluetooth - for that matter anyone can plug in and share their own tunes easily (very fun to do at parties) and less drain on a battery. Plus since this is cordless you don't need Bluetooth for portability. There is the con of tethering your device to the speaker but if it bothers you that much just stick in a flash drive or SD card instead and the speaker is all you need. Purchasing Experience - great price, arrived promptly & perfectly, and the seller sent a very courteous follow up email checking on my experience & satisfaction. Overall I love it and all its awesome features, I definitely recommend it and I will be buying more stuff from them :-)

Justo lo que quería, algo sencillo de utilizar y con buen sonido. Muy satisfecha con la compra

Volume does not works and there is not sd card slot. In regards to the above product which I have purchased , I could not able to increase or decrease the volume in the speaker, Secondly there is no sd card slot in the speaker. Please feedback and give the positive reply in this regard. regards, a.krishnaswamy

It plays mp3s from a stick and this probably corners the market as a lot of other setups will only play from bluetooth connection or use a remote control or wont play usbs as they are so out of date. The sound quality is not quite as good as a very expensive setup but it is loud enough without much distortion and the speaker works on a rechargable battery and is very portable. In all much better than some of the more expensive and complicated systems where ease of use has been forgotten. its a positive that it is easy to use and actually works to play mp3 recordings

Alles bestens, gerne wieder.

Bon produit, avec son efficace. Musique utilisée principalement avec une clé USB.