Zebronics Zeb-Rocket Bluetooth Speaker Review

Budget Bluetooth audio system are a dime a dozen today, and so they are available all sizes and styles. Audio accent maker Zebronics has an enormous portfolio of transportable Bluetooth audio system priced under Rs. 5,000 and at the moment, we now have the Zeb-Rocket Bluetooth speaker for evaluation. With an MRP of Rs. 2,399, the Zeb-Rocket is able to taking part in audio from quite a lot of sources and even has built-in FM radio. It’s time to see if the Zeb-Rocket can ship adequate sound high quality to make it value contemplating.

Zebronics Zeb-Rocket design and specs

The Zeb-Rocket is constructed fully of plastic however the high quality is sweet and the end of the elements would not really feel crude. The black and gray trim provides it an understated look and it is solely out there on this one color. The Zebronics Zeb-Rocket has a cylindrical design, with the 2 drivers positioned on both finish. It additionally has a leather-like rubber deal with for carrying it round. The speaker will be positioned horizontally or vertically. It’s not very giant and at 912g, it would not really feel very heavy.

The Zeb-Rocket has two drivers — a 3-inch and a 1.4-inch driver — positioned on both finish. The controls and ports are positioned on the top with the smaller driver. You have buttons for media playback, equaliser management, and mode choice. The buttons for altering the tracks additionally double up as quantity controls, in the event you long-press them. A rubber flap covers the On/ Off button, Aux enter, USB Type-A port, and Micro-USB charging port.

The Zebronics Zeb-Rocket can be utilized in a horizontal or vertical place

The two drivers are able to producing a most output of 10W (RMS). The frequency vary is little restricted at 100 to 16,000Hz, and the signal-to-noise ratio is round 65dB. The Zeb-Rocket makes use of the older Bluetooth 2.1 normal however Zebronics nonetheless claims a variety of 8-10m. It’s a bit bizarre to see such an outdated normal nonetheless getting used, however fortunately, aside from consuming extra energy than the present variations, it would not have any impact on the sound high quality itself. 

The USB port can settle for pen drives of as much as 32GB and solely MP3 audio information are supported. There’s no IPXX water resistance and no in-built microphone, so you’ll be able to’t reply calls via the speaker. Finally, the Zeb-Rocket solely helps the SBC Bluetooth audio codec.

Zebronics Zeb-Rocket efficiency and battery life

Setting up the speaker so simple as flipping on the ability change and discovering it in your telephone’s Bluetooth pairing record. The speaker can solely be linked to 1 gadget at a time. We examined it utilizing an iPhone XR (Review), iPad mini, and MacBook Air. Despite utilizing the older model of Bluetooth, we did not have any bother with the vary or audio dropping out.

The very first thing we seen is that the Zeb-Rocket will get very loud. With the amount maxed out on the speaker, we discovered a 30 p.c quantity on our gadget comfy sufficient when listening to music indoors. Even once we pushed the amount all the best way up, we did not hear any distortion. The 3-inch driver is louder…