Soundcore Motion+ Bluetooth Speaker with Hi-Res 30W Audio (Open Box)

This is such a beautiful speaker that sounds really amazing; especially for it's size!!! I haven't updated the firmware on any of the 3 Motion Pluses that I bought or downloaded the app yet; so my review is what I think of them straight out of the box. Anyway, when I first spotted these things on Amazon, I just knew that I had to have one (and then 2 more after I got 1 of them). Pros: 1) Really really great sound out of these things even with the BassUp feature "OFF". 2) For larger rooms turning "ON" the BassUp features helps just enough with the bass in larger rooms without bogging down the sound. 3) Tight punchy bass with or without the BassUp feature "ON". 4) Mids & highs sound fantastic, very clear with great instrument separation. 5) Pairing 2 speakers together makes these sound even better for increased stereo separation and fullness of sound—and the BassUp feature isn't needed as much when using 2 speakers. 6) Beautiful design, it's the best looking speaker that Anker has made to date, in my opinion. 7) IPX7 rated...so it's completely waterproof. 8) USB-C charging and cable (I think that the first charging time on one of mine was about 3.5 hours but charge faster with a better socket adapter, or so I hear). 9) Still has an 3.5mm stereo auxiliary jack and supplied cable. 10) Battery level indicator shows up on my iPod even without Soundcore Motion application installed. 11) Decent battery life (12 hours) however, one of mine, so far (haven't tested the others yet), has exceeded the 12 hour mark. I listen to it just below half volume and this is usually enough volume for me. 12) This speaker sounds better and is louder than the Soundcore Pro (the most comparable equivalent to this speaker). 13) You can turn the BassUp feature "ON" and "OFF" with this Motion Plus speaker but you can't do that with the Soundcore Pro. 14) There is an application download for this speaker that I hear has some nice features on it but you can still pair it up with another speaker to get a right & left channel stereo paring without the app.—totally unlike the JBL flip 4s and JBLs which require their app to get their pair speakers out of "Party Mode". 15) It's a little wider physically than the Soundcore Pro and the Boost so the stereo separation is still a little better than other models, even without having to pair it to another speaker, POTENTIAL cons but ONLY if these things are important to you (they are usually NOT a problem for me): 1) Although, it has good battery life the Soundcore Pro (another Anker model) has an 8000 milliamp battery (18 hours of battery life) and this one is only a 6700 milliamp battery. It might have been nice to get a little bit of a bigger battery in the Motion but it's not that disappointing to me that we didn't. 2) The Soundcore Pro has a standard USB port so you can charge your phone from the speaker. (This is not important to me as I would rather just carry an extra Anker battery charging bank to charge my phone rather than use the speaker's battery.) 3) It doesn't have quite as much bass as the Soundcore Pro—if you're primarily into really heavy bass, which I am NOT. This is NOT a con for me personally because I think that the Motion Plus has the perfect amount of bass with or without the BassUp turned "ON". I found that I always needed to EQ down the bass on the Soundcore Pro to get it where I personally liked it. I don't have to do that with this speaker. 4) This speaker is larger or wider than the Soundcore Pro and the Boost; so if you're looking for something really small, this speaker might not be quite as easy to carry around as the Boost or Pro. (This is not a problem for me at all though; I actually like this feature a lot.) 5) No multi light battery indicator on the actual speaker itself—but the power button does start flashing red when batteries are getting low. (It would have been nice to have battery level lights on the speaker but I am still okay with it showing up just on the iPod and/or on the application.) 6) Has sizable quantized volume increases for every click of the volume button however, these increases are NOT nearly as bad as the larger jumps in volume on the Soundcore Pro. Only 3 of these potential cons represented any problem for me: * the battery play time * no battery level indicator lights on speaker * the sizable volume increases However, these issues still haven't seemed to have been that big of a deal so far because I get more than the expected battery time because the speaker is loud enough so I can just listen to it at lower volumes and get longer battery life that way. Also, I can track battery levels on my device and/or application so this isn't much of an issue with me. And as far as the sizable volume increase, I seem to be able to micro adjust them when using my finger along the slider (at least with the newer iPods and iPhones, older ones seem a bit more jumpy). Anyway, this is a really great speaker and I highly recommend it!!! NOTE: If you like your mids and highs scaled back some, then I would highly recommend the Soundcore Boost and if you really like a lot of bass with a dip in the mids, I would then recommend the Soundcore Pro. All 3 of these are good speakers though.