We don't seem to have a category or thread for these so I will start one with the Sony BT-M8 Bluetooth Handbag I have just bought. Having found that the battery life on my John Lewis Radio with Bluetooth isn't great I decided it was time for something else. For some reason most recent Bluetooth Speakers seem to have lost a feature designers of portable radios from the 1950s onwards realised was very handy: a handle. The only current ones I could find were a LG with a combined stand and handle at the bottom, and a couple of expensive Marshall ones styled like little guitar amps. Looking through Ebay I spotted this interesting looking Sony model from 2013 which looked to be far more practical for carrying around the house than modern cylinder shapes etc. Reading some reviews people were also saying that the use of four AA batteries in the base is an advantage as when they go flat you can just swap them. I am using the Fujitsu equivalent of Eneloop Pros. As the only bidder I think I got a bargain for £19 including postage. Sound quality is good compared to 1980s radios of the same size. Does anyone else have any interesting portable speakers ? I know Mister X has posted a few in the past.
Yep, I have a few sitting around since I love the accessories. There's basically two styles: two speakers that hooked to a Walkman or some older boomboxes and newer bluetooth speakers. Here's the Hitachi HS-01 Micro Speaker System. $24.00 USD when new, these are really neat, all metal and very heavy. Hitachi put a lot of love into these, even the tiny Hitachi Badge is cool looking. These are not battery powered, they are .4W in with 20 ohm impedance. They came with a Y-mini jack cord and you could also attach to bare wire but I imagine many were blown from kids hooking up to a larger stereo.
For some reason I'm drawn to the tiny ones, here's the AIWA SC-A3's. That's a shadow on the box, not a stain. These are really neat, the front grill is metal, they take 2 x AAA batteries and there's a wall-wart female jack. There's also two speaker inputs, one from an amp and one for headphones. The speakers are connected in the photo but they can be separated by sliding apart if you want maximum stereo effects.
