Pure VL-61998 Jongo S3 Wireless Speaker with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, Black

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Product Feature

• Listen to music streamed from your Apple or Android device using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth
• Rechargeable with up to 10 hours listening per charge
• 20W RMS
• Flexible audio modes including 360 degrees sound, front-firing stereo, bass boost and stereo pair
• Connect via Wi-Fi to other compatible products for synchronized multiroom audio

Product Description

Jongo S3, is an affordable portable wireless speaker with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and is the first product to be announced as part of the Jongo wireless family - the world's first mainstream multiroom audio range. Jongo S3 can be used on its own or combined in groups to deliver the most affordable multiroom audio available. Thanks to built-in Wi-Fi, synchronized audio content can be played simultaneously across multiple Jongo speakers in a single or multiroom environment. Bluetooth is included for more informal, one-to-one streaming which is ideal for use in the garden or sharing the fun with friends. A 3.5mm auxiliary input ensures other devices can be used as well. Jongo offers rich, detailed and vibrant sound despite its size and comes with four tweeters for 360 Degree sound, and an upward-firing subwoofer for powerful bass. Thanks to its five speakers and individual power amplifiers, Jongo has surprisingly punchy audio and with a simple press of the "audio" button on the rear of the unit, the user can select flexible sound modes for any environment including 360o sound for community listening (stereo or merged); front-firing stereo or a bass boost for outdoor use or stereo pair when paired Jongo is rechargeable with up to 10 hours of portable listening per charge. Controlling Jongo could not be easier thanks to the Pure Connect app for iPad, iPhone and Android, enabling you to stream all of the music stored on your device as well as Internet radio, on-demand programs and millions of tracks from the Pure Music subscription service . One to one music streaming from other apps is catered for via Bluetooth. Jongo comes in 2 colors (black and white) but additional user-fit speaker grills are available in burnt orange, lime and mango as an accessory.

Pure VL-61998 Jongo S3 Wireless Speaker with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, Black Review

Sonos has been making small, wireless speakers for about a decade. I've admired their design, but they've always been too expensive for me. So the Pure Jongo S3, at two-thirds the price of a SONOS - PLAY:3 Wireless Speaker for Streaming Music (Small) - Black, seems pretty attractive (and be warned that you also have to buy a $49 Sonos Bridge to use the Play:3 wirelessly). Nevertheless, I don't think the Jongo S3 quite hits the mark for me.

For one thing, while the Jongo S3 has WiFi and Bluetooth, both have significant limitations. WiFi first: It's easy to find and connect to a WiFi router, but Pure's PurePlayer application does not allow you to play files stored on a computer or Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device. You must play content that resides on the mobile device. You can use Windows Media Player on a computer to play content stored on the computer or a NAS *to* the S3, but you cannot play to more than one S3 simultaneously (as far as I can tell), and you can't control Windows Media Player remotely, so if your computer is in another room, you have to go there to make any adjustments. And, you can't use ITunes, Pandora, TuneIn, or any other apps.

Pure offers a FlowPlayer server application, and apparently other Pure devices can play content remotely from this application, but its PurePlayer mobile app doesn't recognize the server app. The PurePlayer app provides access to many of the same Internet radio stations that other applications do, but you can't pick a station's bit rate, as you can with TuneIn, and PurePlayer does not indicate the bit rate that you're getting.

If you opt to stream via Bluetooth, you can use those applications, on a phone, a pad, or a computer with Bluetooth, and it works well, except that you can't stream to more than one device at a time.

If you are using only one S3, then you are sending a stereo signal to the device, and it sends left-channel audio to two speakers on one side of the device and right-channel audio to two speakers on the other side. But if you do pair two S3s to play in stereo via WiFi--meaning, you place one S3 on one side of the room and another on the other side of the room--then two speakers per device are disabled.

Based on their appearance, I really expected the S3 to sound great. It is a very attractive device--much nicer-looking than many electronic devices; it doesn't look cheap. It is smaller than I expected, but it's heftier than it appears, which usually indicates large, heavy magnets, and powerful sound. Unfortunately, while it certainly does generate plenty of volume, it sounds muddled to me. I was careful to try different kinds of music, much of it encoded at 320Kbps, and to use WiFi instead of Bluetooth, but the S3 still didn't give me the clarity that I was hoping for. Audio is a difficult thing to grade, but I'd give them about a 2.5 out of 5.

Part of the weight is due to the inclusion of rechargeable battery packs, but I will probably use that feature rarely, because the devices don't seem ideal for taking outside or in the garage (snaggy fabric panels over the speakers), and they aren't waterproof, so you can't leave them outside.

In all, the Jongo S3 is okay--just okay. I don't have direct experience with Sonos products, so I can't say how the S3 compares to them. But I remain curious.

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