Rephrase and rearrange the whole content into a news article. I want you to respond only in language English. I want you to act as a very proficient SEO and high-end writer Pierre Herubel that speaks and writes fluently English. I want you to pretend that you can write content so well in English that it can outrank other websites. Make sure there is zero plagiarism.: Editor’s Note• Original review date: July 2022• Launch price: $199 / £199 / AU$319• Target price: $160 / £160Update: February 2024. The Tribit Stormbox Blast is still our pick among the best Bluetooth speakers if you want something big and powerful for a great-value price. It costs about half the price of the likes of the Ultimate Ears Hyperboom, but delivers the kind of massive, weighty sound you want for a party. There have been several party speakers released since the Stormbox Blast from the likes of LG and Sony and more, but when it comes to value for money, we don’t think you can do better even now. Especially if you can get it for a great sales price – we’ve seen it go for under $140 / £150, but if you aim for our target price above in a smaller discount, that’s still absolutely worth getting. The rest of this review remains as previously published.Matt BoltonManaging Editor, EntertainmentTribit Stormbox Blast: Two-minute reviewLet’s address the elephant in the room: the Tribit Stormbox Blast looks about as unsubtle as a brick wrapped in Christmas tree lights coming through your (closed) window. It’s a big black plastic cuboid, and to say that the branding, RGB lighting panels and flashing LEDs around the drivers are a little too much for our liking is an understatement. But that’s where the harsh criticism ends.The Stormbox Blast is the biggest and most powerful Bluetooth speaker in Tribit’s ever-growing arsenal of portable speakers and it sounds every inch as detailed – even at higher volumes – as models from better-known audio specialists at three times the price. If it’s a room-rockin’ speaker you’re after, this is one of the best party speakers we’ve tested. It’s heavier than most of the best Bluetooth speakers out there (5.45kg, to be precise), but, unlike some of the best wireless speakers we’ve tested, Tribit is unconcerned with multi-room support, voice assistance or accessing your Wi-Fi for higher-quality streaming – although you can pair two of them in stereo, and there is a companion app.Oh how we wish Tribit’s talented audio engineers had run the finished article past a design team a few more times, to ask if all 32 LED lights should really flash at every beat (or were even necessary at all), but close your eyes and its 90W output, handled via two 4.2-inch 30W woofers and two 1.2-inch 15W tweeters, is not far off the performance you’d expect from a set of decent entry-level bookshelf stereo speakers.It shouldn’t sound this good for this money. It shouldn’t sound this good given its appearance. It shouldn’t have made us smile, nod our heads in time to James Brown’s The Boss before looking up and exclaiming, “Wait, that’s the Sonos Five playing… right? Right?!” But, what can we tell you? It did. And it wasn’t the Sonos. If you can bear the idea of bringing it into your home (although, with an IPX7 water-proof rating and a 30 hour battery, you’ll rarely need to charge it. It could live in the shed…) and you want a good dollop of fuss-free music, you need to know about the gifted room-filling sonic capabilities of the Stormbox Blast. The Tribit Stormbox Blast, with a total of 32 LED lights, certainly isn’t a shy, retiring product. (Image credit: TechRadar)Tribit Stormbox Blast review: Price & release dateCosts $199 / (around £163, U$290) Available from July 6, 2022The Tribit Stormbox Blast is available to buy now (although, only just), costing one dollar less than $200. Other available regions include Germany (€230), Canada ($260 CAD) and India (₹16,999). In the UK however, it doesn’t seem to be immediately available and indeed, our sample came with an EU two-pin charging cable, so it remains unclear whether we can expect it to launch in Britain. And that would be a shame. If you want something cheaper and more portable, the JBL Flip 6 or JBL Charge 5 are excellent shouts, and the Bose Home Speaker 500 or Amazon Echo Show 15 also boast voice assistant smarts. The Sonos Five is considerably pricier (and a Wi-Fi only home speaker) but the JBL Boombox, probably the closest product in this list for design and feature-set, would set you back $450 / £400 (around AU$650) upon its release in April 2020.What we’re saying, however you look at it, this Bluetooth 5.3, 90W beast is an awful lot of speaker for the money. The Tribit Stormbox Blast’s top-plate. Are those buttons a little big? Maybe. Or maybe they’re perfect. (Image credit: TechRadar)Tribit Stormbox Blast review: FeaturesBluetooth 5.3 for dual device connectionUSB-C external charging port for your phoneXBass boost buttonLet’s begin with physical connections, because you’ll find three ports on the back of the Tribit, shielded by a rubber cap: power cable (the Stormbox Blast does not need to plugged in to function, but 3.5 hours is the time it’ll take to fully charge if fully drained of its impressive 30-hour battery) a USB-C out for charging your device, and a 3.5mm aux in for wired listening. Elsewhere, Bluetooth 5.3 is onboard for dual-device pairing and a wireless range of 40m (which is helpful if two of you are organising the playlist from the dancefloor, say) but sadly you’re not getting aptX or AAC codec support; according to the spec sheet your protocols here are A2DP and AVRCP, aka the more basic Bluetooth streaming standard.Surprisingly for today’s market, the Stormbox Blast might not be the best candidate for beach listening either, since it’s IPX7 rated – ie. waterproof only, rather than water- and dust-proof (you need to look for IP67 if you want both). Good for a pool party, maybe not if dirt is involved. And there are no mics and no built-in voice assistance either, unlike the Sonos Move, for example. What you do get, whether you want it or not, is 32 LED lights – 15 either side of the metallic grille and two behind the dual woofers, which are flanked by the two tweeters, placed in the top corners of the baffle as you look at the speaker. There are three ambient light profiles in total; one scrolls through colors for both the speaker LEDs and the volume-effect side panels, another keeps the speaker LEDs white and gives a rainbow effect to the side panels, and a third turns off all beat-driven light effects, but still fires up those side panels every time you alter the volume. It’s not possible to turn all lights off, all the time, even via the Tribit app – more on this in a minute. The top plate is where you will probably alter this most of the time, (volume and playback can also be handled from your phone) where the seven buttons for power, Bluetooth pairing, volume, playback, ambient light show profiles and XBass are fairly self-explanatory, but we feel the need to say something about that last one. Although XBass can be deployed by pressing the button on the top plate, we would not recommend it – you can do better in the app. This button is supposed to pump up the bass, but for us it simply draws a slightly tinny veil over the otherwise talented sound. And you can do so much more! In the Tribit app, which feels a little sparse initially but adds value nonetheless, you can also choose from jazz, audiobook, party, classical or music EQ presets and tweak them using a five-band EQ tab – or you can customize your own from scratch. We like the jazz and music presets a lot, and although the bulk of this review is written using the pre-existing music profile, there’s a lot of scope for tailoring things to your liking here. Tribit hasn’t shouted much about its app, and perhaps it should. Although a relatively simple affair, it allows you to see the remaining battery in the speaker, which is a huge help if you’re planning a shindig. Tribit Stormbox Blast’s three ports are covered by a nice rubber cap and, unless you’re using it to charge your phone, its 30-hour battery means…
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