Creative iROAR Go powerful, weatherproof Bluetooth Speaker with 5 Drivers, black

Tons of features. Sound quality is better than Bose or the Jbl compared to its size. Sound can be adjusted to your taste using EQ or the presets by Sound Blast mobile app. Great battery life. Most important thing is the price point. I grab it for 70$ during Nov sale. Totally satisfied with the product.

Finally I've found the perfect bluetooth speaker after going through a fair few brands. I'm very fussy when it comes to sound quality and none of the speakers had the oomph I was looking for. Most would distort fairly easily or had extremely tinny bass even though reviews mentioned "powerful bass" etc. From the speakers I own none provided a good nutral sound signature with an emphasis on hard hitting mid and deep bass. I push my bluetooth speakers pritty hard as I prefer to run them through the line out of my Sound Blaster E5 headphone amp with SBX surround processing enabled and using a very bass heavy custome EQ. The Creative Iroar Go is a true beast of a speaker you have to truely hear this beast to appreciate how powerful this speaker is it can truely pump out a lot of sound for its size as well as pushing insane levels of bass. Even when running this through a bluetooth connection or a line out jack from a computer etc it pushes a lot of bass for its size its truely impressive and the audio is crisp, punchy and hard hitting without getting distorted at moderate to high volume levels. When connecting this to my E5 amp it transforms into a monster portable system at low volumes the passive radiators on both sides of the speaker pulse nicely to the bass even at loud volumes there is no distortion what so ever which is truely impressive. I've tinkered with the Sound Blaster connect 2 app on Windows 10 with absolutely no issues the Iroar go was detected within seconds and works flawlessly with the app and drivers using both my Chuwi Hi10 Windows 10 tablet running October 2018 update as well as on my 7 year old Dell Vostro 3550 running build 1803 from a 500GB bootable SSD. Before purchasing this I ordered the Creative Roar 2 which is just as powerful though as other reviews have confirmed the Iroar Go is slightly louder than the Roar 2. I'm now using the Roar 2 as my laptop/tablet speaker of choice at home and taking the Iroar go out with me when required. Personally I have two slight issues with the Roar series in general firstly I wished they supported micro USB charging the Roar 2 only pulls 0.75A when the speaker is turned off and takes an age to charge the battery and the Iroar go doesn't support micro USB charging at all so you must use the 15VDC mains plug to recharge the unit. I also have the SB Axx Axx200 which happily pulls over 1.8A when the unit is connected via USB and charges up very quickly. This isn't a major issue for me as I have a 38 DC tip set which works with the Omnicharge 20 powerbank and one of the tips fits the Iroar go's charging input perfectly and charges fine through the Omni 20's DC output set to 15V. One positive of the size of DC charging tip used is the Iroar go and Roar 2 plugs fit my Albrecht AE 2990 AFS transceivers battery charging input so finally I've finally found an adapter that pulls enough current to charge the 2990's 9 AA batteries at a fast rate as well as being able to power the radio even during transmit. My second issue with the Iroar go is the low volume cut off. As I use screen reading software if know keys are pressed for a few seconds audio is muted completely and the speaker takes a couple of seconds to wake up once the TTS kicks in which can be slightly annoying though I have seen similar behaviour on some bluetooth devices to save power. One way they have improved the internal electronics of the Iroar go compared to the Roar 2 is when roar mode is enabled if applying DC power to the Iroar go the volume level remains the same so the internal battery is strong enough to handle the extra power of roar mode whereas on the Roar 2 there is a marked increase in volume when switching to DC power. Overall, deffinatly buy this speaker you wont regret it one bit I should finally mention I've tried the super wide imaging profile and it is outstanding you can really pinpoint instruments in complicated passages of music. This is truely the speaker to put all other bluetooth speakers to shame I'm going to have a lot of fun with the Iroar go when out and about with the E5 connected to it it is a true portable hard hitting bass monster.

Auf der Suche nach einem Bluetooth-Lautsprecher der gehobenen Klasse habe ich einige probiert, bevor dieser mich überzeugt hat. So ziehe ich meine Vergleiche zu dem UE Boom 2 und UE Megaboom, sowie dem Teufel Bamster pro, welche ich je über Tage getestet habe. Haptik/Optik: Der iRoar zeigt keine Verarbeitungsmängel und wirkt durchdacht und sauber verarbeitet. Die Box wirkt sogar edel mit den silbernen Akzenten, aber vielleicht ein wenig langweilig. Nun bin ich keine 20 mehr und weiß inzwischen ein edles Understatement zu würdigen. Das Gewicht ist nicht ohne, aber es steckt ja auch eine Menge drin. Was tatsächlich etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig ist sind die Schutzkappen über den Anschlussmöglichkeiten/Kartensteckplatz, da diese keine wirklich Kante zum Öffnen bieten - das kann fummelig sein. Der Sound: Keine Box die ich getestet habe hat mich so überrascht die der IRoar, der Bass ist beeindruckend und auch das Räumlichkeitsgefühl ist präsent. Durch die App, kann man verschiedenste Soundprofile auswählen die auch merklich einen Unterschied machen. Manche schreiben, dass der Bass nur im Roar-Modus (sowas wie Loudness) zu merken sei, was ich so nicht teile. Es ist aber so, das der Roar-Modus den Bass deutlich anhebt und stärker in den Vordergrund treibt. Es gibt per App u.a. auch noch einen Wide-Modus der einen größeren räumlichen Effekt bringen soll. Was er auch tut, aber auch deutlich das Klangbild ändert - das kann toll klingen, aber auch nach hinten losgehen. Ferner kann man die Box per grafischen Equalizer selbst einstellen. Die Lautstärke würde ich als echt laut bezeichnen, aber mir geht es in erster Linie um ein gutes Klangbild und nicht um eine hohe Lautstärke. Ich werde wohl kaum die Box über 50% aufdrehen. Leise kann die Box übrigens ebenfalls sehr gut, das ist für mich wichtig, da ich gerne Hörbücher zum Einschlafen höre. Es gibt im unteren Lautstärkebereich keinerlei Rauschen und mit der Einstellung "warm" auch keine unangenehmen Höhen-Spitzen. Was man wissen sollte: Leider kann man die Box nur mit beilgelegtem Landegerät laden. Die seitlichen Treiber liegen frei und könnten theoretisch beim Transport beschädigt werden (dafür sehen die in Aktion echt gut aus ;-), aber gleichzeitig wirken diese so stabil, dass dies eine Theorie bleibt. Viele Anschlussmöglichkeiten, z.B.: Per Klinkenkabel, per USB am PC als externe Soundkarte, Per USB an die PS4, Mikrofoneingang für Karaoke, Speicherkarte zum Abspielen und Aufnehmen. Outdoorfähig, da Spritzwasser geschützt Fazit: Viele Pluspunkte machen den iRoar zum Gewinner: Sound, vielfältige Anschlussmöglichkeiten, recht lange Akkulaufzeit, durchdachtes Design, aktuelle Standards. Negativ empfinde ich, dass es nicht möglich ist das Gerät über USB zu laden, aber da das vor dem Kauf bekannt ist kann ich dafür keinen Punkt abziehen. Die fummeligen Kappen sind mir keinen Punkt Abzug wert, da für ist das Gerät Spritzwasser geschützt. Für mich zur Zeit das beste Gerät in der Preiskategorie bis effektiv 200 Euro.

Excelente altavoz,muy buena calidad de sonido y potencia para el tamaño que tiene,conexion rapida,conecta perfectamente con windows 10, otra cosa que me a gustado mucho es que puedes actualizar el firmware gratuitamente desde la web oficial! el tener salidas para usb y card de musica lo hace unico en su categoria y el mas completo, por ahora no puedo ponerle ninguna falta, una compra totalmente recomendable!!!

Item delivered as described. Well made. Value for money. I am not aware which other portable speaker has similar features for the value and performance.

After several years years listening to my JBL Charge 2+, and bemoaning its lack of upper mids and anything resembling a treble range I decided I needed to do better. Much Better. I was to the point where I was no longer enjoying listening to the Charge 2+. After months of going through the myriad of reviews, and listening to others at Bestbuy and other retailers, I decided to purchase, unheard, a bluetooth speaker by Creative Labs, the iRoar Go. It's previous bluetooth speakers had gotten very good reviews and held up quite well on YouTube videos when compared to others. I still wanted good sound in a small package, portability, lasting battery, and balance. Well, I seem to have found that in the Creative Labs iRoar Go. I am mighty impressed with this solid little performer. In just 2 days, I have retired the Charge 2+ forever. It took 5 hours or so before ithe iRoar Go started to sounds it's best. So yeah you will want it to burn in some before you really test it out, but the waut will be worth it. I can hear all of the music that I sorely missed listening the the JBL. While the Charge2 + excelled in lower end grunt, it was overly so at the expense of everything else. It sounded like a wet washcloth was over it. The iRorar Go, not so much. Sound was open, clear and detailed, AND had bass. There was balance there, except perhaps when listening to certain voice settings that emphasized the upper range frequency's. There are several options for tailoring the sound and it didn't take long to find what I liked. Again, for the $150 I spent, I am extremely satisfied already. Another feature I found useful and necessary is the app that allows me to alter the sound to my liking. It is very helpful in the initial stages of locating the sound that appeals to you. All of the main voice settings, along with EQ options are done from the app. My only regret is that Creative did not give me the ability to change speaker settings when using my laptop via Bluetooth. For some inexplicable reason the app will only work when the iRoar Go is connected via USB, not bluetooth. That was a mistake that I hope gets corrected. I also would have liked to see more EQ options directly on the unit itself to allow toggling between at least to voice options in case I didn't want the "superwide" voice to be my only choice. I love this little perfectly sized speaker for its sound above all, but there are many many other features that you will enjoy should you need them, so yeah, put this one on your list of under $200 Bluetooth speakers to audition. Especially if you own a JBL Charge of any generation. It just blows it away. At $150 you can't go wrong. For me at least , it rocks!