JBL On Tour Portable Speaker System ( Black )
by Jbl
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Category: CE
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Manufacturer: JblModel: ONTOURBLK
Product features:
- Input - 1/8 (3.5mm) Mini Stereo Jack
- Drivers - Two Odyssey Neodymium drivers
- Power Output - 3 Watts per Channel
- Frequency Response - 100 Hz ? 20,000Hz
- Input Impedance - >10Kohm
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Customer Review: Average sound quality, poor usability design, disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought this on the hearty recommendations of the 190-plus reviews here, but I'm very disappointed in this product after I began using it.
I should have thought of it: look at the picture of this thing. The two speakers are set about 1.5 inches apart. Do you think two speakers located so close to each other will give you good stereo sound? It's just a matter of physics. The sound is not only barely stereo-like, but the audio quality itself is about average. I listen to classical music most of the time, and unless I play a "big-sound" piece like Beethoven's 5th Symphony, I have a hard time discerning most parts in a piece.
Also, the volume on this thing is really not loud enough -- which is a bane for classical music. This aspect is the single most disappointing and frustrating one for me. The volume on the Tour On is about the same as a $8 portrable speaker set I bought at CVS. For a quiet piece like Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony or the 1st movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, you need to max out the volume on the Tour On and on the audio source, and even then, in a room bigger than a college dorm room, you'll find the result less than satisfying.
The Tour On is also very poorly designed from a usability perspective. First, there is no power switch or button. To turn it on, you press either of the two volume buttons. That's easy enough. But to turn it off, you need to close the cover, but you can't do that with the audio cable or AC cable plugged in! There's no other way to turn off the Tour On, and it does *not* turn off automatically. So if you run on batteries and leave the audio cable plugged in and simply turn off your audio player and walk away, the Tour On will eat up your batteries. This is absolutely stupid. Even the aforementioned $8 speaker system from CVS has a handy power switch.
The audio jack and the AC jack are also a bit less than convenient to get to. The cover gets in the way. The battery cover is flimsy, and the opening mechanism is poorly designed. I almost broke the hooks on the battery cover when I tried to open it the first time.
Finally, the packaging also sucks. You need to cut out the hard plastic on all four sides, and the Tour On itself is (or at least was in my case) very difficult to take out. I was so afraid I would break it, but then I remembered Amazon's nice satisfaction guarantee...
Oh, BTW, the Tour On weighs in at 1.2 pounds, not exactly lightweight for a portable speaker system.
So, as you can see, I'm very disappointed in this product.
Description of JBL On Tour Portable Speaker System ( Black )
Enjoy high quality audio from a variety of devices including the iPod, iPod mini, MP3 and CD players, desktop computers (all platforms), laptops, and most portable devices. The JBL On Tour combines many proprietary technologies to provide the highest quality sound and playing time. The On Tour will provide astonishing bass and clear, accurate sound from a pocket-sized system. The two aluminum domed transducers are driven by powerful Neodymium magnets. This design provides a full, rich frequency response from the lowest bass to the highest highs. Signal-to-noise ratio is greater than 80dB. Voltage input is 100-230 VAC, 50-60 Hz, for use around the world.Digital Cameras & Photo Categories
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