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The Party-Ready iClever BTS08 Bluetooth Speaker - REVIEWED!
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May 30, 2025
Looking for a bluetooth speaker that can fill up a big room or keep your outdoor event rockin? Then you'll want to check out the budget-priced, but big sound iClever BTS08 speaker. Roughly the size of a brick and weighing in at a hefty 2.2 pounds, there's lots to like about the latest from the iClever design team. Tech expert and audiophile Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks it out and decides that there's a lot to like about the BTS08, starting with the easily recycled packaging and, of course, the room-filling sound. Learn more on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2hG2qGa
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is this your next party speaker let's
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find
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out Dave Taylor here and this time I'm
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looking at the I clever wireless speaker
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with the slick name of the IC BTS 08 now
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don't let that name fool you it's a
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pretty sweet speaker it's 2.2 lb so it's
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fairly heavy but as you can see it
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actually is fairly big too now as with
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any speaker the real key question is the
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sound so let's just jump right into that
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so let's like try out some funk and I'm
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going actually point it at my own
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microphone so hopefully you get a little
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better
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sound and I'm going to turn it up
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because this thing gets crazy
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loud I'll just do this
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that's a lot of music coming out of this
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thing and not only that there's a lot of
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bass coming out of this too so let me
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now turn it forward so you can see what
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we're listening to so like I said this
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is the BTS 08 and you know
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what I don't want to compete with that
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funk I'm sure there's a song there
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somewhere but this is actually a really
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nice little speaker it's a nice design
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design and the Finish is really nice
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it's a metal grill that wraps around all
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four sides and then the top is this sort
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of soft plastic I don't even know how to
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describe it it's sort of a rubberized
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plastic it's very nice and on the top as
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you can see here there's a row of
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buttons that give you all the
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functionality you want and you can
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switch between aux and Bluetooth and
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this is running Bluetooth 4.2 so it's
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not Bluetooth 5.0 but it's awfully close
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and on the back you have your usual um
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micro USB connector for charging you
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have aux in and you have something that
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I really like it's an onoff slider and
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the reason I like that is because it's
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impossible to turn it on accidentally
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now not only that but this IE clever
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speaker also automatically turns itself
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off if you leave it for 10 minutes
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without any music and that's great now
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having said that it has a pretty hefty
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4,000 milliamp battery which gives you
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14 hours of playtime so I don't care
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what kind of party you have if you're
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jamming for 14 hours you going be really
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tired and so it's not unreasonable that
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your speaker might need to charge now
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from totally dead to totally charged
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just 3 hours but obviously you probably
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aren't going to get down all that level
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so it's all good because you plug it in
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30 minutes while everyone's having some
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pizza you put the music back on you got
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another 6 Seven 8 hours so really
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rocking speaker and I really like it um
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like I said 2.2 lb I like the design a
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little confusingly there's another BTS
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08 that I clever has that's red and
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black same design it's a little lighter
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and it's a little less expensive so I
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don't think it's quite the same speaker
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this has um two 10 watt speakers in it
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and a passive driver so it's a lot
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coming out and like I said a lot of base
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and the sound is actually really good so
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you know there's not a huge Pres from a
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single speaker but you do have two
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different speakers in the unit so you do
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get a stereo effect and like you heard
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it gets pretty darn loud so you can have
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this on your picnic table and you can
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enjoy some tunes while you're playing
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frisbee or whatever it is that you want
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to do while you're outside and of course
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in an indoor room this is going to be
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plenty enough to jam as much as you want
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now the only limitation I will say is
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that people report that if you are
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charging you can't also listen at the
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same time so this is not the kind of
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speaker that you can just use as a
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plugged in device but it's not designed
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for that and with 14 hours of battery
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you really don't need to worry about
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that so charge this and then you can
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listen to it all day at work plug it in
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when you leave the next morning you
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unplug it and you're good all the way
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even if you're burning the midnight oil
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it's going to work great so how much
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would you pay for this eye clever
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wireless speaker before we get there let
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me ask you go ahead and click the
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Subscribe button please awesome thank
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you now this is the IC BTS 08 and when
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you check it out on Amazon you'll find
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that it originally was listed for 99
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bucks but it's actually only
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$44.99 so BTS 08 iclever wireless
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speaker $44.99 at amazon.com and it's a
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pretty nice looking unit and a really
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nice sounding unit so I say check it out
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so
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this is Dave Taylor and I'll catch you
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in my next video
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