Monday, November 17, 2014

Merit Shok Mini Wireless Portable Bluetooth Speaker - Review





Today we take a look at the Merit Shok Mini Wireless Portable Bluetooth Speaker.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L271V8K

$31.99 on Amazon

Three Colors :

Blue and white
Green
Red and white

The feel and the quality of the product is great and I’m impressed with it.
On the weekends I walk with my friends and my kids and we often listen to documentaries and different pod casts.  Often times the speakers on our phones isn’t loud enough for all of us to make out what is being said and this solves the problem.

  • Rugged and Compact design with ultra portability, an optimal mini speaker for both outdoor and indoor
  • Solid zinc alloy surrounded amplifier, enhanced bass, pumping out 360-degree clear and powerful sound
  • Outstanding connection range of up to 100 feet with latest CSR Bluetooth V.4.0(fully backward compatible)
  • Rechargeable polymer battery enjoys up to 10 hours of uninterrupted wireless play on a single charge
  • Package includes: Merit™ Portable Bluetooth Speaker, Bike Holder, Carabiner, Rain Bonnet, Micros-USB Charging Cable, Aux Cable, Lanyard and User Manual

What immediately got my attention is this one is in a holder that is designed to clamp to handlebars. It's detachable from that, and ships with a D ring and a blue lanyard, so this is clearly designed for people on the go.

Included with the speaker is a USB to Micro USB charging cable, a rain bonnet, bike mount, neck lanyard, and carabiner clip. The bike mount easily attaches to many but not all handlebars. If you have a thicker carbon fiber handlebar, this will probably not fit.

A cool feature is that this can play music from a Micro SD card. And if you group your music into different folders, you can switch between folders. This is a much nicer method to playing music because it gives you more control over what music will be played if you're using the memory card. This is also great if you don't have a bluetooth device around to connect to. Now you can always have muisc as long as you've got some loaded onto the memory card.

This is NOT waterproof or even water resistant. The directions expressly state to keep it away from water. It comes with a small pouch to put it in if it rains--but that's just an extra item I have to remember to bring with me.


Impressions : 

 I've had this for almost a month now use it everyday. Works great!
Very loud with impressive bass considering the size.
Audio quality is excellent.
Reception hasn’t been an issue.  Works within a 15ft radius.
Pairs with iOS and Android very easily.  Simple locate it under your bluetooth settings, connect to it and go.

While this can be used as a sort of external speaker and mic for phone calls, I haven’t tested this feature.  

Merit claims ten hours of battery life and this is accurate.

One the device you can pause and play your tracks and you can skip or go back.
To turn the volume up or down, simple press and hold the up or down button.
To skip a track or to go back, hit the button once in the desired direction.

The feel and the quality of the product is great and I’m impressed with it.
On the weekend I walk with my friends and my kids and we often listen to documentaries and different pod casts.  Often times the speakers on our phones isn’t loud enough for all of us to make out what is being said and this solves the problem.


Just clip it on or shove it in your bag and enjoy.  You can either control it from you phone or from the speaker.


5 comments:

  1. Hi Luke, nice review... a quick question is there any battery indicator on it ?

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  2. Luke. Have you continued to use the product and if so is the product still performing up to the initial review? - Thanks Scott

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