Rockville ROCKBOX 6.5" 100 Watt Portable Rechargable Bluetooth Speaker w USB/SD

I love a lot of things about this; long battery life, good powerful volume, clarity, durability and portability. I use one next to my table when I am working out or cooking in the kitchen. The other one I keep in my practice room when I play keyboard against songs on Spotify. One of the two I bought in 2018, the other was last year. The only drawback is the FM radio. I can't say it doesn't work, I have picked up stations, but you can only dial them through scanning. (It does not pick up AM stations.) You can't dial in the station manually. I would hope they would modify this in the future. Another problem is that there's no antennae, so you have to shift the whole speaker around to try to angle it to receive a station without static. One solution is to have an FM radio with 1/8" output to connect to the Rockbox. The AUX connection works great. So I rate it highly for the bluetooth compatibility and AUX connection. If the bluetooth does not connect right away, the thing that always worked for me was to switch off the Rockbox, enable bluetooth on the device, then switch the Rockbox back on, it should find it. The drawback is the difficulty of tuning FM stations, which I never do. I have over forty Spotify playlists with thousands of songs, I don't need anybody to DJ for me...

A-W-E-S-O-M-E product!!! I 100% recommend getting this "Rockville ROCKBOX 6.5" 100 Watt Portable Rechargeable Bluetooth Speaker with USB/SD". This has a built in FM radio tuner with memory presets (Radio requires an aux cable to be plugged into getting reception). This comes with a rechargeable 6000mAH lithium battery lasts 24 hours (exact battery operation depends on volume, and what source you are using, but this battery is about 500% larger than our competitors). 100 Watts Peak Power / 50 Watts Program Power / 25 Watts RMS Power, and you can charge it while u sleep. I also love that the range that this has (65ft), and a crisp clear reception as well. My husband is very meticulous and says only great things about this speaker! We were looking for a relatively wireless Bluetooth speaker to replace a fun looking BIG “boom box” style speaker that only lasted us for about a year (we used that one so much that it wore out with all the traveling that we did with it, and the wear and tear that we used it for). Our primary use is for streaming music from our favorite music stations, and internet radio services such as Pandora and Spotify, Youtube, Sirius XM, and iHeartRadio. We love that this can be used as a versatile listening device by the pool, lake, backyard, eating at the dinner table...you get the point, lol!This ROCKBOX has "Exceeded" our expectations by far, and I highly recommend!Product Dimensions 10.1 x 13.8 x 7.4 inchesItem Weight 5.9 poundsThis is my review for the "Rockville ROCKBOX 6.5" 100 Watt Portable Rechargeable Bluetooth Speaker w USB/SD"I try to review items I need or have a strong interest in so in order I can provide a review based on a real genuine trial. My opinions and experiences with the product are an actual true reflection of my personal experiences with the item. These reviews that I write are not in any way influenced by the seller or website that the product.Because many of the products that I review, I have not been discounted or given this product for free. I chose to review so others can see what a great product this is. I do though still try to supply as much information as I can in terms of my initial experiences with the product, and the contents of the product as well.

Great sound for the size. Great for a portable sound system I have only had issue with the power cable getting broken and the port getting damaged.

This thing has a lot of great features for the price, but the poor design and cheap build quality just about sink all the good stuff. Let's get the negatives out of the way first:This speaker has a very narrow base and is pretty tall which makes it very easy to tip over. Barely nudging it a bit makes it wobble and the tall carrying handle just makes it worse. If this is placed where people need to reach around it or work around it, it's gonna fall.Speaking of falling, if it lands on any hard surface, it's going to crack and it's going to crack badly. First day in a shop environment it fell off a waist high counter and busted the handle off, and cracked the body in 5 different locations,and dislodged the Aux port out of the back connection plate. This speaker looks tough in the photos - it's not, the entire housing is cheap, brittle plastic. It could probably take a fall into a grassy yard or onto a carpeted area inside but a drop on any kind of hard floor is probably going to end with frowny faces all around.The on/off switch is placed on the back for some ridiculous reason, which makes it a giant pain-in-the-butt to reach. That might seem nit-picky but it's really annoying to me.To sum up the negatives; bad design, easily damaged, annoying switch placement.On to the positives:Lotta bang for your features buck. Bluetooth pairs easily and works well. Plays thumb drives up to 16gb, though there is no shuffle/random option for this mode. It'll only play your thumb drives in the order you transferred them in. It'll also play SD cards up to 32gb - I haven't tried the SD card slot, only the thumb drive. It has an Aux port so you can connect devices by a cable if you lack bluetooth. An FM radio is built in and it pulled in a couple of local stations without using an antenna dongle. YMMV on the radio reception, I suspect it's going to be bad w/o the dongle if you're anywhere in the sticks.The volume button is on the front of the unit and all of the relevant other buttons are on the top of the unit.The sound is good, not great. Bass is ok (there are bass and treble knobs to tweak the sound) but it seems shallow considering the size of the unit. It also plays loud enough to hear clearly in a shop environment.Battery life is good, I was able to play it for about 12 hrs at pretty decent volume before recharging.All in all, a good list of features.Final thoughts:The price is this unit's selling point and its Achille's heel. At $55 bucks you're getting a lot of features but you're also getting cheap construction and a sloppy design. I would not recommend this as a portable shop speaker as it's too easily tipped over and too easily damaged. It would be fine as a speaker for the backyard or the beach or it would be fine as speaker to put on a shelf somewhere as long as it was held firmly in place by something (which makes it less portable, I know).Despite breaking my unit I was able salvage it with some duct tape for the cracked housing and new handle that I slapped together from some stuff I had laying around. It still works and it still sounds fine.