Amethyst 'The Mini Block' Bluetooth Portable Speaker - Black

Brilliant ...well worth the money, sound quality is great. I would definitely recommend. Only thing negative is the velvet case is difficult to put on as it sticks but still a great speaker

we'll see how long battery lasts but for £25 it's a bargain. Obviously not great sound for that price - pure vocals won't sound good but the bass is way better than I'd hoped. It's a brick!

Having tried out the larger version of this in a large retail store I was struggling to justify the £50 it would cost me.Seeing this one, I wondered....... its smaller - but it weighs the same, will it have the same oooomph as its "bigger brother"?And oooh - its £20 cheaper.My finger fluttered over the buy button until in a moment of madness I went for it.It arrived a day later, I plugged it in, it paired instantly and now its playing tracks from "Friday Night in San Francisco" with clarity, depth and .... yes oomph.Because that's the danger with all these types of portable speaker that they end up sounding tinny, you just cant get a quart sized sound out of a pint sized pot.This thing manages that trick admirably. It even has a genuine and noticeable stereo separation.Doesn't seem to matter if its running off battery or mains.Its not hi fi of course but it really does sound several times as good as its entitled to for its size,The looks are your decision, I like my giant blue singing Lego brick.In short ,,,,, superb .... it hereby claims a significant portion of my meagre 5kg baggage allowance on Easter's flight to Turkey; socks? who needs socks?Mind you, at a push it will fit in a large coat pocket........Now Its playing Imelda May's "Kentish Town Waltz" .... here comes that trumpet riff ... yep .. spot on ...... :)

Battery Ok didn't come with a usb charger which would have been really handy for me. Sound quality is good but can get abit distorted when it's at its loudest setting. There better for the same money E.G anker's speaker

I bought this as I couldn't afford a Jambox, and it is a great substitute for it. Great sound and connectivity - I've used it with iPhone's and Samsung's. The only downside is that it is rather heavier than I would have liked (and the Jambox), you can definitely feel its weight when you slip it into your handbag. Good product though.

Great sound quality when it is working. It can at times decide it's not going to connect. Also the touch buttons on top make people prone to accidentally turning it off when they go to pick it up.

An excellent little speaker. Worth much more as sound quality compares well with other units 3 times the price. My family have bought 3 based on what they saw and heard.

It looks almost exactly like the portable bluetooth Jawbone Jambox but has the great virtue of being half the price. Its quite a bit bigger and heavier than the Jambox, so you'd expect a deeper and richer sound, more bass maybe. But less portability doesn't come with better sound.While small portable speakers by Jawbone, Fox L, and Bose, cant match audiophile standards, they do provide a solid full sound.Amethyst comes no where close to doing so. With the exception of some acoustic songs, Amethyst distorts music by pushing some frequencies far harder than others, and lacking base -- even in not very demanding music, such as classic rock and some pop, the sound kind off 'falls apart'. The base is weak, which is often a problem with portables, but some of mid-range frequencies are overly strong and spring forward in a weird way I've never heard before. for classical music is sounds colourless, or without out vibrancy. I want to say the sound is tin-like, but that's not really it.From £50 to £100 is a big jump, but assuming you'll keep the portable speaker for a few years its worth the investment. And if you cant spend more than £50, give Elf or a non-blue tooth portable a try.