Review: Brookstone Big Blue Live and Studio speakers combine performance and value
Brookstone may not be a name you associate with good Bluetooth speakers—or quality speakers of any type, for that matter—but the $150 Big Blue Studio and $100 Big Blue Live are two well-designed Bluetooth speakers that offer surprisingly good performance, especially for the price.
Both the Studio and the smaller Live are available with gloss-black or -white outer frames. (To tell them apart in this review, remember that the Live is the Little one.) Each model is accented by a silver grill with a blue, glassy circle—actually a button—in the center. The HAL-reminiscent circle lights up in brighter blue on the larger Studio when powered on (though you can optionally turn that LED off); the circle doesn’t light up on the Live.
The Blue Studio
The larger Studio measures 9.5 inches wide, 5.6 inches deep, and 5 inches tall and weighs 6.6 pounds. The Live looks like its baby brother, measuring 5 inches wide, 2.5 inches deep, and 2.4 inches tall; it weighs in at a mere 1.4 pounds.
Pairing with either speaker is simple. You just hold down the big, blue button on the front until the speaker beeps, which puts the system in pairing mode; you then pair it with the device of your choosing—iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, what have you. I successfully paired each system with my Mac and several iOS devices.
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