Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I find it incredibly suspicious that there are so many positive reviews of this speaker. And here's why: not the battery life (reasonable), or the water-proofing (seems to be perfect), or even the sound quality (impressive for an inexpensive BT speaker). It is the battery-saving "feature" (read "bug") that makes it impossible to enjoy any audiobook at all, and even some music. Here's how it works: in order to save battery (I assume), when there is a lapse in sound, the speaker pauses itself and displays "PAUS". So far, so good. The problem is that it does this after there is a lapse in sound that is a little less than a second. Then, instead of cranking the sound back up to full volume immediately, it slowly raises the volume over about another second. Here's why this sucks: every audiobook I've listened to on it is impossible to understand because the narrator has to breathe (like many humans do). And human breaths take pretty close to a second. Every time a narrator takes a breath, the speaker pauses itself. Then, when the narrator begins speaking again, the speaker slowly brings the volume up from zero. The end result is that I can't hear the first 2 or 3 words of the next sentence. Imagine trying to listen to someone, but the first few words of every single one of their sentences is inaudible. That's what listening to this speaker is like. It does produce some hilarious results, however, like in the video I took. See if you can recognize the song (it's by Green Day). To conclude, I'm going to have to return this absolutely ridiculous product and go back to scratching my head, wondering how so many people rated this speaker so highly...