Video: Aiwa Exos-9 portable Bluetooth speaker

A modern-day Bluetooth boombox

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Aiwa's Exos-9 Bluetooth speaker brings back memories of boomboxes of our youth. It's powerful, loud, and gives you rich bass. Plus, it's portable and has a 5-band EQ for getting your sound dialed in just right.

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Hi, I'm Christina, I'm here to talk about the Aiwa Exos-9 bluetooth speaker. This one has 5 speakers built into it. There are two one-inch tweeters, two 3-inch midranges, and a six-and-a-half inch rear port-firing woofer. It's got 200 watts of continuous power, and it does play true stereo by itself so you don't need anything else. It will play the both left and right stereo channels.

For hooking up to this Bluetooth speaker you've got aptX CD-quality audio from any compatible device. It also has NFC pairing, so you just touch your phone to it for any device that is compatible with that. You've got a stereo minijack in the back for hooking up any device that's not Bluetooth compatible. You also have a USB for charging, and a USB port for firmware updates.

Some other really cool features that this one has that a lot of other Bluetooth speakers don't, it's got a five-band EQ that you can customize for your own or you can just use the four presets that they give you. There is also the ability to pair this one with another in a kind of daisy chain to double your sound.

There is a battery pack that gives you nine hours worth of battery life at full blast, or you can just plug it into an outlet and have it powered that way. If you'd like to know more about the Aiwa Exos-9 or any of the other products that we sell, please don't hesitate to give us a call, we're more than happy to help.

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