I haven’t found this issue when sampling any other bluetooth speaker on the market. would be extremely distracting where each track is met with a bit of a click when the music is playing. Any album where tracks blend into each other classic Pink Floyd for example, live albums, classical concertos etc. You can put your ear to the speaker and clearly hear how the noise gate kicks in when you pause a track – a split second of hiss before it kicks into silence, along with a static click. There is a background noise floor which is very distinct during quieter passages of music (listening to dynamic classical music on this speaker would be a total no-no).

I think this has been included as the unit is noisy. Effectively, this is an auto audio on/off switch. The speaker uses a kind of noise gate where you can hear a funny clicking/static sound when moving from track to track, or pressing play or pause (from reading info on forums online, this issue wasn’t apparent in earlier firmware versions). Despite my mono issue, this isn’t one of them though. Having said that, there are some very nice stereo portable speakers on the market for a similar price. How so many consumers have regressed to accepting such low audio quality over the past few years (mp3, 99% of streaming, bluetooth headphones etc.) is very sad. Despite many producers’ best efforts to avoid this, you will always at some point hear “phasing” issues when listening to stereo albums in mono too. Sometimes, vital things that are heard perfectly in stereo will totally disappear with just one speaker, resulting in some major albums that will just sound either weird or unlistenable. With stereo panning in particular, the whole mix of an album is often out-of-whack when squeezed into mono as the central audio (vocals, snare, bass) can overwhelm any instruments that are panned left & right (central audio gets raised by a few db – more than enough to ruin a mix!).

will nearly always sound awful and muddy when summed to one speaker. However, some very popular genres of more modern music which may be densely layered with hard L-R panning, double tracked guitars etc. Nothing wrong with mono (older music from the Beatles to Miles Davis can sound fantastic in their original mono format). Firstly, beware of the false statement: 'Experience impressive STEREO sound with your all-weather companion' – on receiving my Flip 5, I found that the unit has a single driver & is MONO. It baffles me how the Flip 5 has gained so many glowing reviews.

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