Product Reviews, Experiences, and Technical Insights from Thomas J. Hesley
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Sony XE 200 Power Output
The XE 200 Sony Bluetooth speaker is a medium power, tabletop style column unit with enough power output to fill a typical living room with big sounding tunes. But what does the amount of output power a wireless speaker has, tell us about how good it is? Firstly, the watt is a measure of how…
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Sony XB 43 Extra Bass Mode
You can change how loud the bass is on the Sony XB 43, by turning on and off its extra bass mode. When switched on, this mode makes the side mounted passive bass radiators vibrate a lot more. Plus it adds a low rumble quality to the playing program, that travels pretty far from the…
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How to Pair Sony XB 43
This post shows how to pair the Sony XB 43 Extra Bass Bluetooth speaker with typical wireless devices. E.g. These include the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad line of Apple phones, media players, and tablets. How to Pair Sony XB 43, Step by Step Directions With your XB 43 powered OFF (power button is…
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How to Connect Sony XB 43 to iPhone
This post shows how to connect a Sony XB 43 wireless speaker to an iPhone smart phone. Doing so gives you a much bigger, and clearly better sound when you stream music from the iPhone to speakers like this one. How to Connect Sony XB 43 to iPhone, Step by Step With your Sony speaker…
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How to Tell if Sony XB 43 is Charging
How to tell if Sony XB 43 wireless Bluetooth speaker is charging? This extra bass speaker has an orange LED light in its top button panel, as shown in the following picture. This light that Sony labels as the CHARGE light glows steadily, without blinking, only when the speaker is in fact charging. See further…
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Sony XB 43 Power Button Not Working
When the Power button on your Sony XB 43 is not working, this likely means one or more things as follows. Sony XB 43 Power Button Not Working: Reasons Why Dead Battery. The internal battery is empty needs a recharge for continued speaker operation. Use a widely available AC charger to do this. Faulty AC…
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Sony XB 43 Blinking Orange Light
Many Sony speakers, including the Sony XB 43 powerbank BT speaker, have a blinking orange light that tells you when its internal battery needs charging. Sometimes though, this flashing happens even though you’ve just fully recharged the speaker, when it should not blink, assuming the battery recharged correctly. Thus in this piece, we offer reasons…
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Sony XB 43 Reset
Gives reset instructions for the Sony XB 43 bookshelf Bluetooth speaker to set it back to its default settings. Resetting restores the XB 43 to factory default state. E.g. Returns sound mode and light settings to their fresh-out-of-the-box values. Plus, it erases any earlier connected Bluetooth devices from memory. Clearing these stops this unit from…
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Sony XB 43 Not Charging
Most Sony Bluetooth speakers, including the XB 43, offer truly portable operation via their lithium ion batteries inside. And when said battery dies, you can recharge the speaker with an appropriate AC or car adapter. Sometimes though, you may notice that the Sony XB 43 is not charging fully, or at all, even when you…
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How to Turn Off Sony XB 43
We explain how to turn off the Sony XB 43 portable BT speaker here. Now most speakers have a Power button that Sony prominently places on the unit so it’s easy to locate. Indeed, this speaker is no exception to this pattern, as we find its Power button near the bottom in the button panel.…