SuperTooth Disco 2

SuperTooth is known for its speakerphone accessories for phones. The company's SuperTooth HD ?earned our Editors' Choice for hands-free Bluetooth speakerphones last year. The Disco 2??is SuperTooth's new portable wireless speaker for music, and at $99 (direct) it's affordable, and sounds pretty good. But in an era when nearly every portable Bluetooth speaker doubles as a speakerphone accessory, the Disco 2 lacks that function. Coming from a company like SuperTooth, that absence is more surprising than the speaker's attractive design and decent sound quality. It just seems like something's missing.

Design
With a distinct slight hourglass profile, the Disco 2 stands 7.2 inches tall, 4.3 inches wide, and 2.8 inches deep. It's available in multiple colors, including black, blue, red, green, and pink, all of which share the same black plastic base and controls surrounded by a colored fabric grille that wraps around the speaker. It weighs a scant 1.2 pounds, making it easy to carry around in a bag despite its slightly larger-than-Jawbone-Jambox size. The top of the speaker holds Power, Volume, and Playback buttons that light up when in use. The base of the speaker has a power port, a 3.5mm audio input, and a charging light.

You can pair the speaker to your smartphone, tablet, or other A2DP-enabled Bluetooth-capable device by holding down the Bluetooth button until the buttons' lights flash. You can pair up to eight devices with the speaker, but like most Bluetooth speakers and headphones you can only use one paired device at a time. If you pair more than eight, the oldest pairing will be deleted from the speaker.

While SuperTooth is best known for its speakerphone accessories, the Disco 2 won't handle your cell phone calls. Most Bluetooth speakers throw this feature in, including the Editors' Choice Logitech UE Mobile Boombox?,?and the Jabra Solemate.

Performance
Music sounds relatively clear, but treble notes sound overly bright and loud songs suffer from slight vibration and distortion that lends a radio-like quality. The guitar notes in Jonathon Coulton's "You Ruined Everything" were slightly muffled, and the singer's voice was slightly bright and buzzy. Our bass test track, The Knife's "Silent Shout," suffered from significant distortion, while not feeling particularly powerful. The speaker does fill a small room with sound, however. The Disco 2 is certainly louder and clearer than your smartphone or tablet's speaker, but compared with, say, the Jabra Solemate it doesn't sound particularly good.

According to SuperTooth, the Disco 2 can last up to 10 hours at medium volume or four hours at maximum volume. Curiously, the speaker uses a 12V power cord and not a microUSB cable like most portable Bluetooth speakers. This is slightly inconvenient, because you need to bring that cable and a power outlet to charge the speaker instead of using a USB port or USB adapter like almost every other portable electronic device you have. That's an extra plastic brick to carry with you.

The SuperTooth Disco 2 is eye-catching and inexpensive for a portable Bluetooth speaker, but its oddly phone-free feature set and disappointing sound make it a harder sell than the Logitech UE Mobile Boombox, our Editors' Choice, which costs the same $100 as the Disco 2.

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