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It looks tacky to run audio cables all over the house, but with the Bem Speaker Trio you can easily provide audio all over. The Bem Speaker Trio performed well during a recent New Year's party and is a good mobile solution.
I have been testing out a lot of speakers lately and most are large single units or ones that perform in pairs (left and right channel effect). Bem Wireless sent along their newly announced Speaker Trio for me to check out for a couple of weeks and I had the chance to use it over the New Year's holiday. This new speaker setup makes it easy to enjoy audio in one room or around an entire house thanks to its wireless technology and rechargeable speaker units.
The Bem Speaker Trio setup consists of a base platform (approximately 18 x 7 x 1 inches in size) and three portable wireless speakers. The base unit is plugged in with the included wall charger and then each speaker is placed down on one of the three available charging plates. There are aux in and aux out ports on the base unit with a power button and a Bluetooth indicator light. You will see a metal circle on the base platform and on the bottom of each speaker (about 6 x 6 x 6 inches in size) and this is the connection that charges each speaker up. When you first place the speakers on the base and start charging you will see a red light appear under the speaker during the charging phase and continue flashing. When all speakes are charged, about 3.5 hours, the light will go off.
After charging, you then need to connect the speakers to your mobile device and you can do this via Bluetooth or via a wired connection to the aux port using the included aux cable. There is no NFC in this speaker system so you have to pair using a standard Bluetooth setup process. Since there are three speakers to connect with, you have to first power on each speaker individually (there is a power button on the bottom) and then power on the base unit. Be aware, a LOUD, annoying tone sounds after you turn on the speakers before the base unit is powered on that had my dogs barking like crazy. After the base is powered on then you will need to connect your device to it via Bluetooth. Once the connection is established then you simply start playing your media.
Caption by: Matthew Miller
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