Product Reviews, Experiences, and Technical Insights from Thomas J. Hesley

  • Sony X 11 Reset Instructions

    Sony X 11 Reset Instructions

    Gives Sony X 11 reset instructions, to return this speaker to its default fresh-out-of-the-box settings. Resetting restores the X 11 to default factory state. Plus, it erases any earlier paired Bluetooth devices from its memory. Clearing these stops this speaker from pairing to said devices whenever they come into range. Also, you might reset this…

  • Sony X 11 Buttons Guide

    Sony X 11 Buttons Guide

    The Sony X 11 Bluetooth mini speaker has several buttons across its top panel, including the Volume, Phone, and Power-Pairing buttons.   We also have the Add and Reset buttons at the rear of the unit. So here we offer our  Sony X 11 buttons explained guide.  We show you where each control is on the…

  • Sony X 11 Hard Reset Instructions

    Sony X 11 Hard Reset Instructions

    Explains the Sony X 11 hard reset instructions, to return this cube speaker to its default fresh-out-of-the-box settings. This hard resetting restores the X 11 to default factory state. Plus, it erases any earlier paired Bluetooth devices from its memory. Clearing these stops this speaker from pairing to said devices whenever they come into range.…

  • How to Tell if Sony X 11 is Charging

    How to Tell if Sony X 11 is Charging

    How to tell if Sony X 11 personal Bluetooth cube style speaker is charging?  This little yet powerful speaker has an orange LED light on the back panel, on the bottom edge of the unit, as shown in the following picture.  This CHARGE light flashes orange when the battery is nearly dead. So it tells…

  • How to Connect Sony X 11 to Alexa

    How to Connect Sony X 11 to Alexa

    This post shows how to connect the little Sony X 11 cube Bluetooth speaker to Alexa smart speakers. Since this pairing happens between the Sony and Echo devices directly, you need not turn Bluetooth on in the mobile device you’re using to set up this connection. How to Connect Sony X 11 to Alexa, Step…

  • Sony X 11 Watts RMS

    Sony X 11 Watts RMS

    The X 11 wireless Sony speaker is a low power, one-person style, small unit with still enough watts RMS to hear comfortably in a small room or personal space with strikingly full sounding speech or music. But what do the watts a Bluetooth speaker has, tell you about it?  Firstly, the watt is a measure…

  • Sony X 11 Battery Indicator

    Sony X 11 Battery Indicator

    The Sony X 11 Bluetooth mini speaker has a rudimentary battery level indicator LED on the lower back edge, as shown in the following pictures.  This displays battery status. E.g. Whether it’s draining or charging, or whether it’s critically low or not when discharging.  But it neither reads out charging progress, or how full the…

  • Sony X 11 Charging Instructions

    Sony X 11 Charging Instructions

    This article gives Sony X 11 charging instructions. Recharge this speaker easily through the micro USB DC power input port, on the back of the unit, shown in the pictures below. Note that you can still play your X 11 while juicing it up, without increasing the replenish time too much, especially if you are…

  • How to Hard Reset Sony X 11

    How to Hard Reset Sony X 11

    Show you how to Hard reset your Sony X 11 personal cube speaker to its default settings. Hard resetting restores the X 11 to factory default state. Plus, doing this erases any earlier paired Bluetooth devices from memory. We might want to clear these to prevent this speaker from pairing to any nearby Bluetooth devices.…

  • How to Put Sony X 11 in Pairing Mode

    How to Put Sony X 11 in Pairing Mode

    To pair your Sony X 11 speaker with a Bluetooth source device for the first time, or to refresh old connection info in that device, you have to know how to start up pairing mode on the speaker.  Furthermore, in this mode, the speaker broadcasts its name and currently valid connection information over the Bluetooth…