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A lot of sound for a mini-speaker – Bassboomz Review

March 8, 2013 by Tricia

I’ve been listening to quite a bit more music lately. It’s not just because I’ve suddenly become interested in new musicians or bands, no, it’s because I’ve been lucky enough to have been given some very cool music related items to review. Do you remember the Bassbuds Earbuds that I was given a couple of months ago? Well the same company that makes them – BassBuds, sent me a BassBoomz mini-speaker and let me tell you, I love it.

Bassboomz

The Bassboomz mini-speaker arrived about a week and a half ago and I’ve been putting it through it’s paces testing it out in various ways. The Bassboomz mini speaker is only 2 inches high but for a mini speaker it can broadcast sound quite a distance. I was quite impressed by both the quality of the sound and it’s volume/depth levels.

The speaker is meant to be used with smartphones, mp3 players, laptops and tablets. I quickly and easily connected my brand new blue Bassboomz speaker to my Nokia smartphone via Bluetooth in a matter of seconds and moments later music was pouring out of the speaker in rich bass tones. The volume was quite loud when it first came on and that really startled me. It also impressed me because I really did not expect this mini speaker to be able to produce such volume. At full volume I’d be able to hear the music playing out of this speaker in my living room from my bedroom upstairs! Mind you I have a small house, but still, that’s loud! Oh and at full volume they say the speakers battery will last about 4 or 5 hours and at 70% of the volume you should get 5 to 7 hours of battery life.

I connected the BassBoomz speaker to my laptop via Bluetooth and it worked seamlessly as well.

The speaker is designed with an innovated Bass Expansion system for an impressive volume to size digital amplifier. This is what gives it those deep rich bass tones. The speaker twists closed for easy transport, but with a simple twist and release the bass expansion system in activated.

If you’re fortunately enough to have two of these lovely wireless mini-speakers you’ll find that you can use two speakers on one device. That’s right, dual connectivity is available. Two times the fun!

I can easily see myself using my BassBoomz in various ways! I’m picturing taking it to the beach this summer or using it outside in the backyard when I’m gardening or just simply spending time on the patio enjoying a beautiful summer day. It’s small enough to easily throw in my purse.

If you’re interested in learning more about the BassBoomz minispeaker visit the BassBuds Website. You might also be pleased to know that you can save 50% off the retail prices of a BassBoomz minispeaker during the month of March by using the voucher code – BBZ649106





Filed Under: Cool stuff, Entertainment, Music, Recreation Tagged With: backyard, bands, bass sound, bassboomz, battery life, beach, bluetooth speaker, broadcast sound, colors, connectivity, cool, discount, duel, easy, fantastic, loud, mini speaker, Music, musicians, outside, portable, purse, review, sale, small, tones, voucher code, wireless, wireless mini speaker

Replacing the TV in the bedroom

February 20, 2013 by Tricia

I’d like to replace the TV in my bedroom. I have one of those old anolog televisions and it barely works. It never really worked all that well and because of that I never watched TV upstairs very often.

I know they say you shouldn’t watch TV in bed, don’t they. Who is “They” anyway? However, sometimes it is nice to have a TV in your bedroom. You know, when you’re sick in bed and can’t move – those are the times when a TV comes in handy!

So .. sometime this week I might go looking for a small flat screen TV. Not too small but I mean it will be smaller in dimensions overall than the analog TV and a whole lot lighter! If I find something I like for a good price I’ll have to check out the Premier Mounts Store for a TV mount that will fit the new tv. I don’t think the TV mount that’s holding the current TV will work.

Do you have a TV in your bedroom? Do you watch a lot of TV or do you only watch TV occasionally?

Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Television Tagged With: bedroom tv, flat screen, sick, tv mount, upstairs

Let the renovations begin – Again

February 20, 2013 by Tricia

It looks like we’re starting to finish our renovations again. Last year we began finishing our renovation work .. the renovations that we’d started several years ago in our living room, dining room and well .. all over the house. Unfortunately several things happened and we ended up taking a long long break from completing the job and our house didn’t look so great for quite a while, but now we’re back on the job.

Yesterday my husband finished fixing an area of our hardwood floor at the end of the stairs that had needed repair for quite a while. Did you know that old hardwood floors had tar paper underneath them? We didn’t either until we replaced part of the floor and found that it seemed lower and saggier in that area than it didn’t in the rest of the room and that’s when we realized the paper that he’d pulled out when he took out the old floor boards had been important and started researching how they used to put in flooring in the 1920’s. The floor is in good shape now, but sometime in the not too distant future I think I’ll be putting in a new floor.

Chris has two more days off work this week so I expect that we’ll be doing a lot more reno work. I know we need to get some supplies and I think a replacement part – something called malleable iron handle nuts for an old piece of equipment.

Some day we’ll have all of our reno work done and I’ll get to truly enjoy this house.

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Home Renovation, Items to Try Tagged With: 1920s, dining room, finished, fix, flooring, hardwood floor, house, living room, renovation, supplies, tar paper, work

Running around but not getting much done?

February 13, 2013 by Tricia

Do you ever have one of those busy days (or weeks) where you feel like you’re just running around all day but you really haven’t managed to get much done at all? I think I’m having one of those days. Or weeks …

I’ve been going non stop all day. Doctors appointments, getting work done on my sites, running around getting stuff for the house/shopping … so busy that I didn’t even get home in time to make dinner and I almost always make a nice home made dinner.

Chris had today off work but he wasn’t around too much today. He was out with some friends doing some “music” related stuff. When he did manage to come back home – much later than expected all he could do was talk about this guitar shop that he’d visited and tell me about all the hand crafted guitars and cool equipment he’d seen like something he was calling the exceptional qchord which is an instrument that can apparently have anyone playing music in minutes .. I’m not sure how but he said it was pretty cool.

Anyway once he finally got home we had to go out to the pet store to get a special light for our turtles. Yes we have box turtles .. and while we were there we ended up getting a new harness for our dog because she’s a real puller and she can be very hard to walk. I’m hoping it works. She’s a great dog but it’s such a pain to walk with her when she’s dragging you along!

Ok I’m going to rest because tomorrow is yet another busy day. I had a thyroid biopsy a week and a half ago and it’s time to find out how bad the news is going to be. It wasn’t good last time and I know things have likely gotten worse. I’m just trying to hold off getting surgery again. I have a tumor and now a new tumor has shown up and both are quite large – for where they are … plus last time the biopsy results weren’t that good … so … we’ll see what happens.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Music Tagged With: biopsy, busy, dinner, Doctors, dog, drag, guitar, harness, pulling, Shopping, sites, thyroid, tired, work

Time to start thinking about the future

February 9, 2013 by Tricia

It seems it’s time to serious start thinking about the future and investing what little spare money I might have to invest. By this I mean investing in my future so that I have a decent retirement income. It would certainly help if I manage to get back to work soon! I’m still working on that. I should have news on that front soon.

My husbands bank has been calling on and off for the last week or so. They seem to want him to reinvest his retirement savings in a different way. They’ve suggested a few things but we told them to hold on for a few days while we thought about it. This of course means we’re doing a little research on their suggestions.

The problem is that the interest rates they are offering are fairly low. Some of the products have higher interest rates than others. One of them is something called a hybrid annuity. I’m just learning about annuities but it seems that hybrid annuities combine aspects of fixed and variable annuities so that you get the best of both worlds investment wise if you like annuities as an investment.

My husband will probably make a decision as to whether he’ll change his retirement savings over to some other type of investment that earns him better interest in the next little while. I think I’m going to see what my bank is offering as well and see if I can do better on my savings too.

Filed Under: Finance, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try Tagged With: annuities, bank, fixed, future, gic, hybrid annuities, interest, mutual funds, retirement savings, rrsp, savings, variable

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