NFC Bluetooth Portable Boom Box Speaker System

Edit: LCD went out litterally a couple weeks after the warrenty expired. Pyle customer support is terrible. Simply terrible. I have been using Pyle products since I was 16 (for 30 years), but they lost a long time customer over this. I will never do bussiness with them again. A great boombox, with 2 little niggles. I have only had this a few days, and I am certainly no audiophile. That being said, here is what I think about this little boombox: Construction: 1. Easy to carry. There is enough room to slip your fingers in to hold onto it, and not press any buttons (the buttons are concave, and just a teensy bit below the plastic). Meaty fingers might have another thing to say about this, though I doubt they would still press any buttons. 2. Rubber-y concave touch buttons. Feel nice, and dont have to press very hard to get them to activate, and they are recessed like stated above. 3. Antena: Starts off about the same level as the handle (sticking out maybe an inch, but flush with the top of the handle). Telescopes out easily. Also will rotate if you pull the whole thing out (you can leave the rotating part inside, and just have the telescoping part outside, or fully pull the antena out and rotate it any way you want). 4. Display: A bright blue, that has (3?) levels of brighness, and an off. The whole display dims, not just the letters, and not just the background, both of them dim at the same time. Not overly bright, but then again its not in my bedroom. :) You can see it very well from a few feet away. 5. Power cable is the round-with center hole-type. When plugging it in, its almost like having to force it in, in a good way. This means the 'clamping' mechanism is going to last a long while, and still be tight (I hope). 6. SD card: I put in a 64gb micro sd card, and it has PLENTY of spring to it. I think this will last a long time, and will propel the card out maybe too much. :) 7. USB: I havent used the usb port at all. I am assuming (yes, I know what that means, hehe) that it will work as well as the sd. 8. 3.5mm jack: Works as expected. What can you say about it? Construction seems very well done. Nothing feels 'cheap'. It feels solid, from the antena, to the buttons, to the display, and the power cable. Inputs: 1. First I tried the FM. I found this to be the worst sounding (expectedly) on the device. Doesnt pick up stations as well as my old boombox did/does (yes, I have a REAL boombox from WAY back in the day, that plays cassets and cd's). Doesnt pick up signals as well as a car either. Scratchy sounds came out of most stations, with 1 station being ok to listen to. My Zune (the original, brown brick, 30gb) picks up better signals that this boombox does. 2. Next I tried the Micro SD card. Sounds great. Not a single complaint. 3. Here I tried the 3.5mm jack, with my Note 4 phone. I noticed that the sound was exactly the same as the sd card, but the volume was decreased. I increased the volume via my phone, and then by the boombox, and it played loud, but not as loud as with the sd card. I blame both devices for this though, as my phone does this even with earbuds plugged in. 4. Last to try was the BlueTooth. Synced up easier than any device I have tried so far (car stereo's, mini speakers, etc). I set the boombox on BT, and then clicked BT on in my phone, clicked the boombox, and bam, that was it. I was connected. Sound via BT was the same as sd card, and 3.5mm jack, but the loudness was the same as the sd card! So, it is louder through bluetooth than through the 3.5,, jack. :) Sound: I tried a variety of songs, from heavy metal, to soft rock, to (speed) punk, country music, and pop rock. For the most part, this boombox seperates all the instruments and vocals VERY well. Everything sounded good, except the heavy metal. There was a noticable lack of mids in the heavy metal, and the bass wasnt very strong (and, the EQ setting was on Rock for the metal). I dont know why the metal sounds weak with this boombox, but everything else sounded good (I didnt try any hip hop or rap). Everything sounded as good as it did on my Ihome2go, on my computer (headset and 5.1 system), in the cars. Very crisp brass, bells, electric guitar, etc (basically the highs). The mids were good in most of the music I played, although it 'could' have been better (being so small, I didnt ding it for the mids, as most music I listen to is fine with it). The bass was either good (most, but not all, of what I listened to), or not really there (seemed to be drowned out by the mids, which is weird. but, this only happened in a couple songs, and it could have been the ripped music itself instead of the boombox). The sound went pretty high (I think 60db is the loudest it goes), but around 26/27 it started distorting on most of the music, and around 29/30 on the rest of the music (I didnt go any louder than 31 though, so I dont know what the max volume is, I didnt want to blow the speakers). If you like the softer music, pop, rock, soft rock, rock, this is the boombox for you. Crystal clear seperation across the board. If you like punk, this thing handled punk just fine. Crystal clear seperation across the board. If you like heavy metal, you may not want this boombox, as it just sounds muddy with the 3 heavy metal bands I played on it (the highs do still sound out well though).