December 24th, 2007Review Of The VU Bluetooth Speakers
Here we have with us VU’s 2.1 channel Bluetooth Speakers. VU as a brand was totally unknown to us until we saw them at the lately completed Times AV display at Mumbai. VU is brought to India by Zenith. They assert to be a luxury technology brand for high-end computers, LCD displays and digital homes. Now that we have vacant all anxiety of an unknown brand, its time to dissect the product.
Performance & Design
The sound quality is good but nothing outstanding, not something which would conciliate an audiophile and even though it has a separate 2.5-inch subwoofer, the bass distorts. So if you listen to a lot of hip-hop otherwise hard rock, this is not for you. But the speakers reproduced the mids and highs pretty well and sounded good with other genres of music akin to classical, jazz, basically the ones by means of not too much of bass.
The range (between the speakers and the Bluetooth device or the speakers and the Bluetooth dongle attached to your PC) is attractive much as promote and the sound quality doesn’t deteriorate with distance when within range. We could go as far as 8 meters with a partition in between.
Out of the box it’s a neat looking device and can surely adorn your living room and just for that, it’s wall mountable and comes with a wall mount clip. Its indeed a lifestyle manufactured goods, future to blend method and technology.
Features
As before mentioned, it is a 2.1 speaker system. All the three speakers (two satellites and a woofer) are housed in the same unit and are covered by the front grill. The average output power is 20 watts RMS with the subwoofer giving out 12 watts RMS and the satellites outputting 4 watts RMS every. There are only three controls on the device- volume wheel, paring button and the on-off switch, making it simple to use.
Being wall mountable, it becomes crucial to include a remote. Sadly its missing, something which should be built-in for the price you are paying Rs. 10,920. Incase you don’t own a Bluetooth device or a computer you can still use the speakers, the wired way. It comes package with a wire with a 3.5mm jack..
How it works
The speaker system has an inbuilt A2DP Bluetooth module, more like a receiver. Next you have to look for a device with Bluetooth functionality that supports the A2DP profile. A2DP stands future for Advanced Audio Distribution Profile. It is a technology that lets devices put on the air and receive audio signals in high quality, stereo mode, as opposite to regular Bluetooth audio which is of not very high excellence and usually comes in mono. One of the most common devices that have Bluetooth is phones. Be cautious, not all phones that hold Bluetooth support the A2DP profile. There are some phones, though, so as to do support A2DP in this piece of writing. As of now the phone that hold up the A2DP profile are all above Rs. 10,000. Now that you have your A2DP capable Bluetooth device, you have to establish a connection between the device and the speakers, a procedure called as pairing. Pairing is very simple and your done within 30 seconds. Once paired you can straightaway start playing songs from your phone (we have taken the phone as an example of a Bluetooth device) on to the speakers, that to wirelessly! The operating diversity is up to 10 meters without obstacles i.e. if your speaker is in one room and your phone in another, the range will be less than 10 meters because of the battlements in between.
The speakers from VU are a true lifestyle manufactured goods. Think of this, you could mount it in your bathroom (no messy cables!) and stream music to it from your phone lying in your room. As mentioned before, sound quality is above average but sound tracks with heavy bass make the speakers distort. At Rs. 10,920, we would only pay that much for its independence other than if you be an audiophile then there are much improved 2.1 wired options, like Altec Lansing’s MX 5021 and Klipsch’s GMA-X. The VU Bluetooth speakers come with one year guarantee.
