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

  • Sony XB 43 Pairing Two Speakers

    Sony XB 43 Pairing Two Speakers

    Pairing two Sony XB 43 mini BT speakers allows you to form a stereo (L + R) set.  So in this piece, we show you how pairing two copies of this speaker together lets you enjoy more life like sounding music from them.  The only extra cost is that you must have two XB 43s…

  • How to Charge Sony XB 33

    How to Charge Sony XB 33

    This piece covers how to charge the Sony XB 33 BT speaker. Do this easily through the USB-C power in port, shown in the pictures below. Note that you can still play your XB 33 as it recharges, without raising the charging time by a whole lot. First, pick a powerful enough USB adapter, as…

  • Sony XB 41 Bluetooth Pairing

    Sony XB 41 Bluetooth Pairing

    This post offers Sony XB 41 Bluetooth pairing directions, for common smart devices, including practically all tablets and phones of the Apple and Android platforms. Sony XB 41 Bluetooth Pairing, Step by Step With your XB 41 not running (status light is dark), run through these steps to pair it to your source BT mobile…

  • Sony XB 41 WPC Button

    Sony XB 41 WPC Button

    This WPC button on the Sony XB 41 lets you join from two to a hundred compatible speakers together, such that they all play the same program. Why do this?  Because, as with the Connect Plus and Party Boost features on JBL speakers, you get a wider coverage area when you have more than one…

  • Sony XB 41 Watts RMS

    Sony XB 41 Watts RMS

    The XB 41 Sony Bluetooth speaker is a small to medium power, desktop style unit with plenty of RMS watts to fill a typical room with full sounding tunes. But what do the watts a Bluetooth speaker has tell you about it?  Firstly, the watt is a measure of the amount of  power the speaker…

  • Sony XB 43 Specifications

    Sony XB 43 Specifications

    Here, we list Sony XB 43 Extra Bass Bluetooth speaker specifications.  Firstly, these data cover the unit’s length, width, weight, battery recharge time, output power, and music play time per charge.  We also include the frequency response, driver size, Bluetooth support details et al. Secondly, it’s clear from the published specifications, that the Sony XB…

  • How to Make Sony XB 41 Discoverable

    How to Make Sony XB 41 Discoverable

    To pair your XB 41 Sony Extra Bass speaker with a Bluetooth device for the first time, or to refresh stale linkage data in that device, you need to understand how to start up discovery mode on this unit.  Now in discovery mode, the speaker digitally announces its name and connection data over Bluetooth, so…

  • How to Hard Reset Sony XB 41

    How to Hard Reset Sony XB 41

    Show you how to hard reset your Sony XB 41 portable wireless speaker to its default settings.  Resetting restores the XB 41 to default state. Plus, hard resetting erases any earlier paired Bluetooth devices from its memory. Clearing these stops this speaker from pairing to any nearby Bluetooth devices. Also, you might hard reset to…

  • How to Turn Off Lights on Sony XB 41

    How to Turn Off Lights on Sony XB 41

    This speaker comes equipped with a set of LED party lights that, by default, blink, scan, and pulsate in all sorts of colors to the beat of whatever you play on the speaker.  However sometimes, you may not want a party atmosphere, like when you want to listen to the speaker while drifting off to…

  • Sony XB 41 Reset

    Sony XB 41 Reset

    We give here the reset directions for your Sony XB 41 Extra Bass portable BT speaker to restore its default factory settings.  Resetting returns the XB 41 to default fresh-out-of-box state. Plus, it erases any earlier paired Bluetooth device linkage from memory. Clearing this stops this speaker from pairing to any nearby devices. Also, you…