Sony SRS-XB43 EXTRA BASS Wireless Speaker (Grade A Refurbished)

I regret buying these speakers because there appears to be no way whatsoever to adjust the sound equalization/bass boost settings on two speakers at once when using as stereo computer speakers. You have to adjust the sound individually for each speaker. I'm giving them two stars because of all of the time I've had to spend trying to troubleshoot this to no avail. The problem here is that you have to use the phone app to change sound settings on the speakers. There is no corresponding computer app so no way to do that from the computer when the computer is connected to the speakers via Bluetooth. But as soon as you use your phone to connect via Bluetooth to change the sound settings, it drops the Bluetooth connection from the computer! GAAAAH! So you go buy audio cables and splitters so you can split the left and right audio out from the computer to the corresponding left and right speakers so you don't have to use Bluetooth audio. So now you can connect to the speakers with Bluetooth to change audio settings... but only one speaker at a time, never both at the same time, not to mention the fact that you've lost the convenience of them being Bluetooth speakers in the first place! Now, you might think if you use the phone app to group the speakers into a stereo pair then you can adjust the settings for both speakers at once, right? Nope. Doing that completely cuts off the audio jacks from the computer and switches the audio input to Bluetooth from the phone. The developers have confused and entangled two completely different concepts of control input vs audio input. If these were Bluetooth only speakers and there was a computer app that you could use to adjust settings, then that would be fine. But they are not. They are Bluetooth and audio jack speakers so there should be some way to use these speakers as a stereo pair via the audio jacks and adjust the sound settings for both speakers at once. In every way it feels like these speakers started out as Bluetooth speakers and then at the last minute someone through some audio jacks on them without bothering to actually modify the software support that in any intelligible and reasonable manner. It's pretty obvious that nobody on the Q/A team actually tried to use these speakers as computer speakers because these problems would have been immediately apparent. Or if they did and they reported these glaring defects, then some product owners or business managers must have decided to not spend the time and money to correct these issues. You might think I'm being overly harsh since there is a work around of just adjusting the sound individually, but that is a real pain because when you have two speakers, in the Sony software they both have the exact same name, so it is impossible to tell which one is which! And besides, why should I have to do that anyway? I paid close to $500 for this pair of speakers. At that price range I expect the associated software to be of commensurate quality and this software is simply not there yet. It does not deserve to bear the Sony name in its current state. But in the end, the longer this issue remains unfixed (it's been several months now and I've kept the software updated) my impression of the Sony brand is rapidly deteriorating anyway.