PowerConf S500

After seeing a few reviews which said this didn't work with Linux, I did some research before purchasing. It would seem that ALSA/Pulseaudio doesn't support Bluetooth audio very well, but the solution is to switch to Pipewire. With this knowledge in mind, I took the plunge and bought this microphone/speaker.As expected, this device doesn't work with ALSA/Pulseaudio, so I found a walkthrough to install and switch to Pipewire on Ubuntu 20.04, and it works!I have tested the device as both microphone and speaker and it performs really well!It is loud enough to be easily audible in a conference of 12 people, and it picks up audio from anywhere within the conference room. (About 3 metres radius).Very happy!

Very simple to set up and makes zoom calls so much better as the sound quality is excellent.

Well packaged, solid feel. Performed very well.

I never had nor touched a better conference speaker. Great build quality, feels expensive to the touch. Definitely luxurious and takes the stage. Extremely loud, numerous connectivity options. Handled with ease by older users as well. Big visible touch and physical buttons for main functions.

Quality product. Quick and easy to set up and good sound quality

Very handy.

I bought this because I wanted good sound for both calls and music. This speaker is sold on these features but it doesn't deliver elsewhere.I connected my phone by bluetooth and the computer by USB. This unit was not happy about this. One device would steal the connection from the other for no reason.Each day, and sometimes each call, the volume would reset to max and need adjusting immediately.The music quality was good but not amazing and definitely not on par with a dedicated speaker of similar size. I gues this is due to all the extra electronics in the device taking up the sound box, so maybe forgivable, or at least it would have been if this wasn't the devices USP.The touch controls were hard to use, or more correctly, hard not to use by accident.Even when I wasn't using bluetooth, the sound would drop mid call on Zoom and teams and the only way to resume it was to turn on bluetooth and connect to something else and then back again (or wait about a minute and it would sometimes revert).The device is quite big for a portable speaker phone and it is quite heavy which makes it feel solid and good quality. If this is your only mic and speaker and is only connected to one device then it might be ok but for me it was too difficult to use and the app is totally unhelpful.The worst feature though was the noise cancellation, because mostly, it doesn't cancel noise, and when it does it also cancels the speach so people cannot hear you.I do not recommend this product.

Wanted something that we could use for our small zoom group this was perfect, easy to setup, clear voices in a medium to large room.