INTRODUCTION

   With Christmas just around the corner and with everyone scrambling to find the perfect present i decided to scout the internet and find some of the "hottest" bluetooth speakers. Of course, "hottest" doesn’t quite help when looking for a bluetooth speaker, you also have to set other search terms such as price, design and of course audio quality, power output and battery life. This however is where things get a bit dicey since the best speakers almost always cost quite a bit and are certainly not what most of you reading these lines would call affordable. Still if you dig deeper you can always find that special "gem" and one such model is the Venus Wireless Speaker by Gravastar which is what today's review's all about.

   The story of Gravastar has begun with some of sketches. Gravastar team includes engineers, designers, craftsmen, cartoonists, game lovers, music fans, explorers and etc., who worked together to create Gravastar. We are tired of with the similar design of the products in the market. We wanted to be different and create something crazy, cool and interesting for the global trendy players. We hope people can feel and experience totally different products. Gravastar Mars is our first products. When we released Gravastar Mars in Indiegogo, we got a lot of supports from the backers in the world. They liked our design very much, shared our project with their friends and left very positive comments on the review. The crowdfunding was ended very successfully. We were so touched by the result and it inspired us continue to walk the path of innovation no matter how difficult it is.

   The Venus is currently available in 4 colors (shadow black, dawn white, flare red and aurora green) and is the 2nd bluetooth wireless speaker by Gravastar following the huge success of its larger brother the Mars released just over a year ago. Now as Gravastar states the Mars was designed for desks and bookshelves whereas the Venus was designed to be portable so that alone reveals that the Venus is a "cut-down" version of the Mars. Both speakers however resemble robots and are aimed towards consumers who enjoy playing games (like Borderlands and Cyberpunk 2077) and why not even watching anime (Gundam and Macross come to mind) so they are unlike anything else in the market today. In terms of specifications the Venus features a body made out of zinc alloy (according to Gravastar that adds stability) which houses a 1.75inch (45mm) 10W speaker (complete with a bass reflect port), Qualcomm Bluetooth v4.2 chip (v2.1+EDR - 15 meters range), 6 RGB LEDs and a 1500mAh Lithium-Ion rechargeable battery pack (up to 8-10 hours of playback). Gravastar also allows you to pair a Venus with a second one for stereo sound (10 meters range) and has recently made available a dedicated charging base (sold extra) which looks really cool (intro picture).