so i'm back taking a look at some more bluetooth portable speakers now this one here is from tribet
it's their stormbox blast 90 watts it has 32 leds application support with equalizer you can
even set up your own custom equalizer and it does have an ipx7 waterproof rating so this model here
can run also for up to 30 hours is their claim i'll be testing it all out and i'll let you know
exactly what i think this bluetooth speakers like and whether or not you should consider it
over other models out there included with the storm box blast you'll find our ac cable so that
is to charge it unfortunately no type c charging or any form of usb charging only output charging
and we do have this which is our instruction manual now if you do take a look at this there
is one page here which is the 11th page that lists all the product specs so just quickly show you
that so pause if you want to read it all maximum power output is 90 watts you can see the frequency
response range and the frequency band range there and it does have an 18-month warranty with tri-bit
the speaker's build quality is very good so it's made out of these solid plastics
it is heavy it's about well just under 5.5 kilos so for our controls this is a rubber cover over
all these buttons here so no water is going to get in this if you keep the gasket on the back of it
that it does have for the ports that i'll show you and where to charge it it then retains that
ipx7 so it's waterproof so we've got our power on and off bluetooth connection volume up and down
pause and play this is for the lighting on the front of it and then the x base mode which is
basically just boosting up the lows pumping out even more bass if that's what you want
the storm box blast does have this mesh over the top so this is painted metal we have our
drivers which are in here handling the lows in the mids now it's a little hard to see
them through that mesh but they're here they're 4.2 inches both of them and they're 30 watts so
with both of those combines that's 60 and then we get an additional 30 combined 15 each from
the tweeters that are just right here now you can see the lights there's also lights on the speakers
and i'll give you a very quick demonstration of what they look like here with the lights out
so it is all plastics and then this area here that is a metal mesh that goes over the top of it now
there's rub actually on either side here too just to help with it and then rubber feet at the bottom
so under this gasket here that is where you will find that we do have an auxiliary in
3.5 millimeter and we do have an output here which is type c that's five volts and only one amp so if
you did need to charge an external device you can do it with this and then to charge it you actually
do need to use that infinity style plug there to just fully charge it now that's going to take
quite a while it is a large battery the run times up to 30 hours now this is really my only con here
of this unit is that you can only charge it with the ac plug there you cannot charge it via type
c which is a bit of a shame then either side of the speakers you'll find this which is basically
like a base reflex like normally on speakers you'd have the port but this is sealed because
it is waterproof so this is going to be moving in and out a lot and you'll see where the turns
like right now you can see when i'm blasting out some tunes that that's moving quite a bit so it's
working and why is that well the way it's ported internally that when those drivers are moving
in and out they're pushing air and there's a bit of pressure inside there and that is why you see
this thing moving like crazy then it's just made out of rubber to the outside there is an app for
the storm box blast too so once you sign up and you're logged in you can then add the speaker and
go into it there's a lot of good things in here that you do get with the application that you
otherwise wouldn't have if you were just using it straight forward but you don't need to use
the app so the app is great to let us know the exact battery life you can see that you can also
adjust the lighting modes there and disable them all together but we do have the button as well
that is located on the speaker box itself so we've got our presets there for our equalizer
or you can go into customized and edit that and save it and set your own equalizer there which
is really good you got all the different bands there so the mints the highs and the lows and
you'll see too that we do have media controls and if you go over here into the settings you can turn
off the auto shutdown auto hibernate and there are firmware updates there's one right there that i do
need to apply for it which i'll be doing now but i am having a bit of a problem here it downloads it
but it doesn't seem to want to actually flash it over just keep saying unzipped success and that's
as far as i get with it so i have to try with another phone i'm not too sure what's up with that
you can see all it's doing is just well optimizing it right there i get this error that comes up
saying the reasons it may fail but it doesn't actually give me the reason so that's just a
minor there i hope that is fixed with the app this probably won't be most people's use case
scenario for a speaker like this you probably won't be streaming movies and connecting
up to it right but how was the latency i just wanted to test it out now a short little clip here
of the boys on amazon prime tv i do see that it looks pretty good that it's in time
with their mouse here which is what you want i can detect a slight little delay but it's not enough
to be irritating there it is running off bluetooth 5.3 spec and so you're not really going to see too
much of an issue there with delays however if you do intend to game and connect up to the speaker
that's when it is a little more noticeable when you're playing games what about the battery life
so this will go they claim for up to 30 hours now i did my own test here ran it for 10 hours
i lost 38 battery i have noticed too with the application that when i do plug it in to charge
that it will not actually reach 100 it's normally around 96 or 94 even though it stopped charging
because the light has gone off and that is probably the only real con that i do have with
this model here so the storm box it could do with type c charging or another form of charging so
you need to carry that cable cable around with you now it's a very common cable you see with a lot of
products that you probably have about 10 others in the household and i know i do tech reviewers do so
not a big one but i just wish i had another form of cable there so most importantly what is it like
what does it sound like so the lows that come out of this very good you've got the xbase mode
i'll just do a quick demonstration of that even though i'm just recording with the lav mic but the
mid sound really good if i was to criticize one area it's the highs now the highs aren't quite as
crisp as i would personally like it's all personal preference here so i go into the equalizer tweak
it up a little bit and i think for the price tag this thing sounds absolutely fantastic
so you're probably thinking what about competitors i know recently i did a review of soundcores
motionboom plus which i do happen to have right here and you can see that this is a
smaller unit it's nowhere near as heavy that's one of the positives it does have the straps
that you can put onto it comes with a shoulder strap this does not come with a shoulder strap
and you'll see that yet 5.5 kilos versus about i think it's two or just over two or two and a half
kilos huge difference there but when it comes to the sound quality hands down this thing just
blows it out of the water loudness the base and just general quality the tri bit so much better
right there now i'll just give you that very quick preview here because i'm recording with a lav mic
this is never it's not and doesn't represent the overall quality of what you're going to hear but
this is just a track here from carbon based live forms so i'll play it first without the xbase mode
pretty good base to start with anyway and that's only about 30 volume and here's xbase
well
all right that's really loud so great bass for bass lovers out there and i think this is going
to be that perfect it really is for the price point perfect speaker the only cons as i pointed
out the charging cable and the minor issue that i do have is that i can't seem to update
the firmware update that's there with the application i don't know what's stopping me i
have actually tried with another phone but it gave me the same error there so overall an excellent
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