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Creative iRoar Go Bluetooth Portable Speaker Review

Audio/Speakers&Amps by stefan @ 2016-11-28

The iRoar Go Bluetooth Speaker is another impressive release from Creative which was built upon the already successful design of its older brothers, but features a smaller footprint, while keeping the active drivers at the same diameter. We can play back music on it via Bluetooth, have it connected to our PC for listening to music and conferencing thanks to the integrated microphone, connect an external sound source via Aux In, use an USB Flash Drive with audio in order to play it back easily but it is also supplied with a microSD card slot as another resource from where we can listen to music. Additionally, we can use the internal battery to charge our mobile devices on USB (up to 1A output), install a 3rd party microphone in order to enhance the recording quality and also work with the audio profiles thanks to the Creative Sound Blaster Connect desktop and mobile applications. As Creative does mention, the newly-released iRoar Go is not afraid of water and is splash-resistant with an IPX6 rating.

Sound Blaster Connect (Portable)

This is not all! The iRoar Go speaker can be also utilized with the portable version of Sound Blaster connect, which can be installed on both Android and iOS platforms. The main Dashboard screen does display the available sources we can use, but also recently played music, where we can choose to shuffle the playlist:

We can also select the inputs from the Sources screen:

What we did really like with this application is that we can actually see now the playlist titles and artists, no matter if the audio content is placed on an USB Flash Drive or microSDHC/SDXC card:

The player interface can be also expanded and from here we can also access the EQ setting, record audio content from the integrated Mic or 3rd party from the Aux In and, of course, access the ROAR mode:

The EQ features the same complexity as we have seen with the desktop application, with Speaker Voicing modes, but also EQ settings / Bass / Treble:

Several application settings can be also customized:

Lastly, we have the About tab where the application is showing its current version along with the speaker firmware version:

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