Perfect for parties

Love it

Sound is pretty decent and the lights are pretty. However, the energy saving feature is the deal breaker. Speaker shuts off ever 20 minutes and you CANNOT disable this feature. ION gave recommendations on how to overcome this issue but none of them work. Extremely dissatisfied and too late to return.

I'm a pro DJ who uses pro gear, but thought I might find a use for one of these. I love everything about this speaker except for one thing: a microphone just doesn't sound good on it. It seems there's some kind of feature that nulls the audio unless there's an audio signal coming in. If the person is speaking/singing loudly, it's fine. But quieter speech just isn't reproduced clearly. For me, that's a deal-breaker. If you're just looking to play music and maybe karaoke, this speaker will do great and I recommend it. But for pro-grade vocal clarity, this isn't your speaker. Rats.

I wanted something with great sound to listen to my music on my phone. Yes we are still old school and have a rack system, that sounds sweet I must say. This speaker is great! The app is a must, especially since it has an adjustable equalizer. The reason I gave it 4 stars….the stand sucks! Ours will not lock into the open position, we must be super careful when moving it because it tries to close. It definitely has a fuller, richer sound when it's on the crappy stand. Glad I got $50 off when it went on sale after purchasing it, I don't feel as cheated.

Sounds great, but it's purposly built to not work. No matter how you slice it, after 15 minutes of use it shuts down. In the middle of a song? Doesn't matter, just shuts off. They say this is a function for preventing power draw when not in use, but that's 100% false. You can be playing as much music at whatever sound level you like and it will still just shut down into power saving mode. Once you "wake it up" it doesn't do it again. If this was an actual power saver, it would go into power saving mode anytime it sits idle for whatever timeout period it's set for, but once you wake it up it never goes back into power saving mode again. Note the information direct from ION below, where they tell me that this is in fact an intentional design of the system. Best advice if you buy this - Turn it on, wait for it to sleep, wake it up and THEN start using it. FROM THE ION SUPPORT: The intent of the power-saving feature is of course to avoid drawing power while the speaker is not being used. Once it's in ERP mode and you power it back on, the feature is then seemingly disabled. I wasn't entirely aware of that detail of ERP mode to be honest! Some users have submitted feedback with complaints of the extra step and knowledge to avoid the speaker doing this. So I have a sense of the inconvenience it can cause - but I do assure that this was an intended feature. I apologize for the inconvenience.

My mom bought one of these speakers and loved it. I decided to have mine delivered. Out of the box, it had a terrible static noise. I gathered it up and returned it to the store to exchange it for another one. The second speaker also had static, albeit not nearly as a badly as the first one. I know other people who have this product with no issue, so I don't know why I ended up with two lemons, but twice burnt was enough for me. Plus I purchased this product when it had a holiday discount and now I'm realizing they didn't apply it either time. I had no issue with bluetooth or the device shutting off as some reviewers have reported. I really enjoyed the speakers that other people have without the static. Your mileage may vary, but I had to send mine back.

First of all I didn't have any issues with the speaker turning off every 20 minutes. I bought it on Friday, Unpacked it in the afternoon, connected my amazon alexa through bluetooth for a couple of hours ( no issues), then switched it to aux input for another 6 hours for a karaoke night, I have a separate 4-channel wireless microphone system connected to a 6 channel mixer where I had connected the 4 microphones each to one channel and channel 5/6 to the TV stereo digital audio output. all of that mixed to one output to this ION speaker. sound was very good and loud, the volume is more than we could handle indoors. The previous time we tried a karaoke night with our own home theater the voices coming from the microphones were distorted probably due to the small speakers. This speaker really made a big difference.

Awesome sound and great value for the money, however I recommend not moving it around too much for transport or travel. This speaker is really great to use around the house for parties and gathering also my grandkids love the mic "let it go, let it go"

I followed the online user manual and it works much better than expected. If you have trouble using yours, I recommend reading the online user manual to avoid any unnecessary frustrations. A lady I met at our shopping mall store heard it playing music and said she is going to get one for herself.