Gear4 Houseparty Blu

It took me a while to find a piece of equipment that I was happy to play my ipod through, that was untill I discovered Gear4 products, i've since bought another as a present due to the products great features. We all like to have a party, and now theres a cost effective and very portable (needs mains supplt to operate) way to inflict your music choices onto others! Whether its cheesy pop or heavy rock this could be the system for you! Firstly its worth noting that the speaker system is very simple and classic looking with the front of the system consiting of the speaker grill (the grey area in the photo) and the basic touch controls that are ...  Read the complete review

Gear4 have a nice range of iPod related products now, but with the HouseParty Blu they certainly seem to have upped the design ante. This sleek unit has a nice grill to the front, with some backlit touch sensitive controls. Yes, this is an iPod speaker system, with the mandatory dock, but it goes one step further by adding bluetooth. OK, so the iPod does not have bluetooth as standard, although this can be added afterwards. Where the 'Blu' scores is that you can hook up any A2DP Bluetooth device, like your mobile phone and stream your tunes to it. In practice this work brilliantly. I am not a big mobile phone user, as I use my iPod all the time, but for the ...  Read the complete review