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The V-Moda Remix offers booming bass, warm highs and mids, plus a built-in headphone amplifier and a slew of customization options.

The V-Moda Remix may be the prettiest speaker I’ve found in my profession as a tech commentator. Clad in beautiful anodized aluminum in a removable, C-formed unibody case called a C-Shell, the Remix is immediately a friendly exchange and a masterpiece. What’s more, if sparkling metal isn’t your thing, you can get the base model of the speaker in dazzling dark vegetarian calfskin. It’s the best bluetooth speaker for the plan disapproved. 

However, how can it sound, and is this speaker something other than a lovely face? Continue to peruse our V-Moda Remix audit to discover.

V-Moda Remix review: Design

The sides of the gadget are made of dark plastic, while the front is made of dark 3D-printed fiber. The aluminum case has a slight depression along the two sides, which house the two rectangular “Remix Rings” that help the discretionary sides fix appropriately on the speaker. 

There’s an enormous rectangular opening cut out in the top for the column of catches (Power, Volume Down, Multifunction, Volume Up and Pair) made out of lavish delicate touch material. My #1 complement is the adapted V image situated beneath the catches. The back of the C-Shell uncovers another rectangular opening, this one uncovering the dark metallic grille. There’s a shimmering V-Moda logo in the lower left corner with a USB Type-C port and jacks for the VAMP/Aux Out and Aux In.

Weighing 1.9 pounds and estimating 8.1 x 2.5 x 2.5 inches, the Remix is greater and heavier than the Fugoo Style (1.1 pounds, 7.4 x 2.9 x 2.3 inches). The Fugoo has an IPX67 rating, which means it’s waterproof and dustproof, something the Remix can’t gloat.

V-Moda Remix review: Customization

It just wouldn’t be a V-Moda if there wasn’t some sort of customization. But the company has really pulled out the stops for Remix — starting with the C-Shell. If you’re not into vegan leather or aluminum, you can get a C-Shell made from 3D-printed fiber in black or white with two design choices. In addition, the front grille can  be customized with three designs and two material options: fiber and steel 

You can also purchase a pair of custom sides available in three different patterns in several mediums, including fiber. However, similar to the V-Moda Crossfade Wireless and Crossfade 2 headphones, you can customize the speaker with premium materials such as steel, brass, sterling silver, rhodium,14k yellow, rose and white gold as well as platinum.

Keep in mind that all that finery doesn’t come cheap — the steel jacks the price up  while the platinum option brings the price tag. The sky (and your bank account) are the limit.

While not as extravagant as the Remix, the Fugoo Style offers a measure of customization in the form of three different jackets: Sport, Tough and Style. You can give the Fugoo a new look whenever you see fit. Fugoo also offers bike mounts  in case you want to make the speaker even more portable.

V-Moda Remix review: Special Features

Not substance to simply make a beautiful speaker, V-Moda added a lot of fancy odds and ends to the Remix portfolio. It’s the principal Bluetooth speaker to include a coordinated earphone intensifier utilizing the organization’s VAMP innovation. For the unenlightened, earphone amps are utilized with audiophile-grade high-impedance earphones (25 ohms or higher) to accomplish better detail, clearness and dynamic reach by giving more force which to drive sound. 

However, earphone amps can improve the sound on most earphones whether they’re top of the line or deal container. You should simply plug your jars into the VAMP/Aux Out jack, and you’re prepared to shake. Taking into account that purchasing an earphone amp independently would cost in any event $99, it’s a decent worth add. 

V-Moda didn’t stop the high-constancy party with the VAMP. The Remix can likewise play high-goal sound configurations (FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, WAV and DSD), so don’t hesitate to whip out the Pink Floyd, Kendrick Lamar or Anita Baker the manner in which they were intended to be heard. It certainly let me capitalize on my Hi-Fi Tidal membership. 

One Remix is pleasant, yet I’m a firm adherent to the more, the merrier – and obviously, so does V-Moda. Like different rivals in the space, you can daisy-bind numerous Remix speakers to improve sound. Lamentably, daisy-anchoring implies the speakers will be fastened by means of a sound link, which executes any expectations for a multiroom arrangement.

V-Moda Remix review: Sound quality

More ricochet to the ounce, the low-end hypothesis – anyway you depict your bass, the Remix has it. Because of its back mounted bass reflex port, the speaker conveyed profound lows without overwhelming Lamar’s energetic appeals on “DNA.” 

The bass was profound to the point that I could feel the vibrations through the sleeping cushion when I put the Remix on my bed. The Fugoo Style has a decent measure of thump to it, yet not even close to the Remix. In any case, the Style had a more open soundscape, which gave the individual pieces of the track space to move around. 

In spite of the fact that I could hear the unmistakable playing of the bass on the two speakers when playing Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey”, the Remix had the hotter sound. The two-section congruity sounded sweet as the strawberry wine Stapleton sings about. A similar measure on the Style was a little misshaped on the top of the line. 

Another thing to remember when you’re tuning in to the Remix: it gets boisterous – stronger than a speaker this size has any privilege to. Be that as it may, what truly found me napping is the manner by which adjusted the sound is at most extreme volume. Where the highs will in general get screechy and twisted on different speakers, the Remix keeps all that well close by.

V-Moda Remix review: Call quality

At the point when it wasn’t filling my kitchen with shockingly amazing bass, the Remix worked really hard filling in as my speakerphone. On the off chance that a call came in, the music promptly stopped and was supplanted by a lovely ring. A speedy press of the multifunction catch, and I was visiting with my guest. Most calls conveyed completely clear sound on the two finishes, yet there was one occasion where my mother griped of a slight reverberation.

V-Moda Remix review: Battery life and Bluetooth

V-Moda claims the Remix’s 3,400-mAH battery will last as long as 10 hours on a charge. I put the speaker under serious scrutiny while I went through the day profound cleaning my condo start to finish, with some clothing tossed in for great measure. Despite the fact that I tapped out following 6 hours and 48 minutes, the Remix was all the while siphoning out the jams. 

Like other Bluetooth gadgets, the Remix has a scope of 33 feet. Notwithstanding, I had the option to walk 50 feet down a passage before the sound cut out. The sound cut back in when I ventured back in range.

V-Moda Remix review: Verdict

V-Moda never disappoints. The Remix conveys boisterous, adjusted sound deserving of a speaker twice its size. You get the special reward of the earphone amp, which can extraordinarily improve your private listening experience, or you can share the audiophile love and stream some high-res sound with your companions. Also, in case you’re truly extravagant, you can enlarge your speaker for certain valuable metal accents that look incredible. 

You can get the Fugoo Style speaker, which conveys strong sound. It’s additionally dust-, drop-and waterproof and has some customization, because of its sleeves. For hell’s sake, you can even mount it on your bicycle in the event that you need to take the show out and about. In any case, in case you’re searching for a top of the line sound insight, at a moderately reasonable cost, you’d be unable to beat the V-Moda Remix.