PEBBLE MAX BT SPEAKER

I was sent a Pebble Max Bluetooth loudspeaker to try by the folks who look after Tangent in the UK, and had a proper go on it.

The Pebble Max is a weighty item and feels lovely in the hand. The instruction sheet is in fourteen languages and used a term I have never seen! DID you know that SD card was originally called TRANS FLASH? And that the letters TF were used? I didn’t. So it says it takes TF cards as well as having a 3.5mm audio input auxiliary socket and the USB C socket. It means SD.

Pebble Max really does feel like a little doorstop..here is my video try out of it… it took a lot of takes to get the levels right as it was able to crush my camcorder’s audio input section like a grape, deep into ugly compression.

Just a few buttons are all it needs to control it, with some doing two functions with different numbers or duration of button press. And it was pretty straightforward to connect via Bluetooth. I like that it doesn’t use a voice sample, like my Bone Talk Adder headphones that announces triumphantly ‘Connected’ and then in a sad descending-tone voice, ‘disconnected’. Aww bless, it does get on your wick after a bit.

It is water and dust resistant and highly portable. The rechargeable battery power is hench and supports up to 10 hours of playback we are told. The support for the clever stereo Bluetooth system is kinda cool and answered the boss’s daughter’s query right away. YES, you can have two for stereoI wasn’t keen on the three built-in sound modes, finding them to be filters I didn’t need and found it enjoyable and not oppressive but merely exciting at a decent full on level.

Here’s the quote…

Highly recommended for the money. Better than many fancier-name brands and GREAT sound!

I reckon Tangent have done a clever thing with Pebble Max and it should be that giant-killer they hoped for, for Christmas