Authentics 500 Wireless Home Speaker

This speaker is a monster; the box weighs 13kg (that's more than my son weighs currently). It's a shame that the weight and heft of the speaker enclosure was not put to better use. The Harman Curve was developed to provide a frequency response that would be pleasing to the average music listener. JBL own Harman, so I had high hopes that this speaker would provide an engaging listening experience. I was wrong. I assume JBL were aiming at people who prioritise bass over anything else about music. Nevermind the mids where you get vocals. Never mind the treble where you get higher range instruments like rhythm guitars. No, bass is what you get, and you'd better like bass. There is an EQ within the app, but it is a three band eq, which acts as more of a shelf than targeting individual frequencies. EQ cannot save you from the bass. The array of connectivity options are very selective in when you are allowed to use them; it took a day to connect the speaker to my wifi network, and even then I had to connect via ethernet first. Chromecast does not work, it will not allow you to group with other chromecast devices (despite the app pushing you to do so). The bluetooth lacks hi-res codec support, which in a speaker this large is unforgivable since you can hear the compression clearer than you can on some smaller bluetooth speakers. If you like bass, you will get more bass than you ever wanted from this speaker. The only recommendation I have for it is if you really want to tick off your neighbours.