Vanzon V40 Bluetooth Speakers, Portable Wireless Speaker V5.0 with 24W Loud Stereo Sound, 24H Playtime, TWS & IPX7 Waterproof, Suitable for Travel, Home and Outdoors-Light Green (HIJ)

Many of the differing opinions posted here for these speakers, and even my review, are influenced by how many BT speakers we have actual experience with. I have a big old BT speakers, old as in 2014 ;-) Its battery life is fading. Its size & mass probably help it produce its good bass. Since it's that old, it lacks the benefit of newer BT technologies; it connects slowly and it's too agressive at disconnecting, presumably to save energy.Compared to that big old thing, my pair new X5 Pro BT-5 speakers seem great. They're smaller, lighter, and sound great. Being able to space them apart for wider stereo effect is REALLY really nice too. At the price I paid (a little below current price), getting two was not very expensive. BTW, I think any TWS pair should have the same benefit of wider stereo separation (duh). People have different tastes in volume and bass. For me, these are plenty loud and have good bass, with great sound quality, especially if I can use an equalizer to increase the bass sent to them. They can't compete with my car or home stereo systems, but I never expected them to. They are for convenience for me. Pairing them together then pairing with my BT-5 phone works well, as I expect.I've been frustrated by how two sets of BT features are very often mentioned but poorly explained, CODECs and PHYsical Layers (PHYs). I wish we could share URLs here; I'd point to some articles on the subjects. The problem is how your devices will NOT make use of good new CODECs, and how your devices will NOT makes best use of the newest PHYs, if at all.Digressing briefly, it's interesting to note is how long it takes new BT specs to reach market share. BT-5 spec was established circa 2017.CODECs: By default, and most commonly used, is a CODEC called SBC, which BT requires in all BT versions. It doesn't matter if your audio source is FLAC, OPUS, AAC, or MP-3 (I think Spotify uses Vorbis!). BT will (almost always) decompress the audio stream and recompress it in the inferior SBC CODEC, before transmitting to the receiving device. Many of you can appreciate decompression/recompression with lossy formats will result in decreased quality. It's analogous to making a photocopy of photocopy of a photocopy. Detail is lost each time. You'll see references to yet other CODECs, used mostly I think for BT, being available in some devices, CODECS like aptX, aptX HD, LDAC, and even AAC. These other CODECs are to varying degrees better than SBC. But unless both the transmitting device and its software and the recieving device and its software will make use of the same BT related CODECs, they'll default to using SBC. Which is almost always the case. In theory an Apple AAC user could transmit BT without conversion to an AAC capable devive. Heck, in theory, any of those superior audio source formats (except maybe FLAC) COULD be sent without conversion if the BT receiving device supported the CODEC. Apparently none are so equipped. I'll let the reader reflect on why that might be ;-)PHYs: Without delving into what a PHY is, just think of PHYs as hardware features that can potentially provided enhanced performance. BT-4 introduced low energy (LE) with a good 1 mbit/sec data, made possible by what is called PHY LE 1M. BT-5 adds among other things, two more PHYs, LE 2M (doubles the data rate potentially for better audio quality) and LE Coded (quadruples the range, potentially).But implementing PHY LE 2M and PHY Coded are OPTIONAL. So a manufacturer can make a few enhancement required by the BT-5 spec, but essentially sell a BT-4 device as BT-5.And like with the CODECs, the devices may not support the same PHYs, thus preventing their benefit.Very few phones support all the PHYs yet. Most support either PHY LE 2M or PHY LE Coded, or neither. I have read of very few supporting BOTH yet. And those that do are both cheap and expensive models, so it's not obviously a cost issue.For Android owners, there's an app called nRF Connect for Mobile that can be used to identify which of these PHYs your BT transmitting device (phone, tablet, etc.) supports. My phone doesn't support PHY LE Coded. It does support PHY LE 2M (high speed). As required for all BT-5 devices, my phone DOES support BT low energy (BLE), but that's not a PHY by itself. I'm not sure, but I think all BT-5 devices must support PHY LE 1M. BT-4 with PHY LE 1M is actually pretty good, including distance/range.Speakers and earbuds and headphones support various PHYs, without telling you which if either of the two new BT-5 PHYs they support. I have yet to see a speaker description identify which PHY it implements. But there are hints. If the description mentions extra long distance connectivity, then there's a good chance it uses PHY LE Coded (long range).I wanted BT-5 for enhanced connections and the possibility of the benefitting from the better CODECs and PHYs. I cannot (yet) tell what these speakers support. While, as stated above, I was able to use nRF Connect for Mobile to determine my phone's features, I could not figure out how to use it to tell me about these Vanzon X5 Pro speakers.I wonder what the speaker manufacturers use to accomplish this speaker-to-speaker TWS connecting. But again, I digress.I just know my X5 Pros sound great in TWS mode, very good standalone, they connect fast, and (so far) have good battery life. I'm very happy with them. Other than specs, it's hard to know for sure how well they really compare to other similar speakers. People's opinions are so subjective and sometimes biased, it's hard to rely much on reviews.

This little beast blew me away! The sound is LOUD and clear, with surprisingly deep bass for its size. I brought it out for a backyard hangout, and it didn’t miss a beat—even when someone accidentally splashed water on it (shoutout to that IPX7 waterproofing!). Battery life is solid—I jammed for hours and still had juice left. Plus, the RGB lights give it a cool vibe at night. Honestly, for the price? Total win. Highly recommend for beach days, hikes, showers, or just vibing anywhere.

The Good: There are a ton of inexpensive BT speakers around these days, but two features on this one make it pretty nifty.The days of microUSB are fading fast and it's increasingly annoying to find working cables for them around my house and car. We committed to USB-C so all the phones, tablets, laptops, etc. are USB-C and it's great to finally see a speaker charge from the same. The nice thing about USB-C cords is that you can replace them with whatever length you want and never worry about which end is which.The other feature that I really like is the MicroSD socket. You probably have some older 1-2-4 GB microSD cards from older phones or cameras while new ones (8-32GB) are $4-$9 here all the time. Yes, it's almost that cheap to receate your 10 y/o MP3 player now. ;-) Honestly, a small one might be better. I can't find a seek or shuffle, so you have to play the songs in order. Most computer apps (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, YouTube) make it fairly easy to fill a card with some focused group of music so you can rotate it around there instead of clicking zillions times to skip two albums.. The addition of a shuffle would make that easier. (Without adding key chords, I don't know how they'll do it with this keyboard.) Still, fill up a card and turn your phone off to save data and you have a tiny little boom box with many hundreds of "tapes" in it and no dependence on cell coverage or data plans.I don't have a second to try the TWS, but sounds like a neat way to solve the stereo problem.The Meh. The battery life is very good, lasting three work days. The one I'm replacing was physically larger, but was old enough that it was only getting through one now. It also started to break up on the far side of the garage through a door (I know, don't do that.) The Vanzon delivered a rock solid Bluetooth signal between the same computer and the same wall that always gave my green one (no name) problems, so hooray for range. The clip is handy to bungee to things or to use a carabiner. (Pro Tip: Use the biner to keep a USB cable and the 3.5mm jack all together.)The Nits: the necessary combination battery and magnets make it heavy. No problem for using around the house for projects, but backpacking it to a camp site could be a drag. Some of the reviewers report massive sound and I didn't observe that, but sound it very subjective. It filled a nice sized room and small outwork are fine, but with music as background and not turned to 11. I wasn't actually disappointed for the price and size, but I'm skeptical on the 100db/20W claim. My meter shows that the Vonzon didn't implement the USB3 Power Delivery spec. On a device like this, a C-C cable _should_ offer to charge your phone, but this one doesn't seem to. As a manufacturing nit, the contrast on that manual and way too low. Make black #000. Make the print larger. There are too many very tiny words on those pages. Fellows: long press on +/- will skip the song or rewind it.I'll be listening to mind. Rock on!