Catz Donut Bluetooth Speaker Review: Delicious design and sound!!!

CATZ is not a very popular brand name in India as a manufacturer of Audio products, but whatever they offer is pretty much good and efficient both in design and performance wise. We received their delicious donut speaker not to eat but for review.

CATZ Donut Design and specifications

Out of the box, the interesting thing that attracts about this speaker is its Donut design. The donut or ring shape design of this wireless speaker has a flat base with rubber feet for better grip. The upper portion has 3W speaker covered with metal grills whereas rest of body is of plastic that feels durable. All the control buttons and ports are placed along the rubberized edge of the speaker: There's a power toggle switch, Micro-USB port for charging, 3.5 mm audio input jack, a micro-SD card slot, LED indicator and microphone.

Buttons for volume control and switching between different modes such as FM radio, auxiliary input, Bluetooth input and music from the micro-SD card are placed at the bottom or back side of the speaker. Further, for different indications such as low battery and modes switching, there’s a voice prompt that can also read out the phone number of an incoming call.

CATZ Donut Performance

Catz Donut is capable of playing different music files such as MP3, WMA and WAV from its micro-SD card slot and we have tried 32 GB card, which was worked just fine.  The impedance rating of this is 4 Ohms and frequency range between 120Hz to 18 KHz. One needs to have patience while charging this speaker because it takes 2-3 hours to get fully charged but your patience will not go in vain. In our testing, the speaker successfully stood for more than 5 hours at full volume. We played various song genres ranging from Bollywood songs to Hollywood hip-hop. The sound it produced is rich and has the great fidelity of bass. At high volume, both the vocals and bass are decently punchy, but at low volume bass-heavy tracks aren't very enjoyable. The speaker also does a very good job with the treble and clearly audible in different songs.

The donut shape speaker is very easy to handle and can easily switch from one mode to another. The controls buttons are touch-enabled and very sensitive. In FM mode, tapping the play button will automatically scan and save all the stations it can find. Songs can play from the Memory card as soon as you switch to Music mode (via micro-SD card). We also didn’t find any difficulty in pairing it with our phone via Bluetooth. For using its Microphone over the call, you have to be near the speaker, as it’s tough for the caller to understand the speech if you placed it a little farther. The speaker is very loud and there is no distortion at maximum volume.

The Catz Donut is a very good Wireless speaker option as it's not only unique in design but also produces great sound with good battery backup.  You can easily enjoy at friends’ or family get together with this Donut, which is sufficient to play your all songs efficiently. Finally, the price feels a bit high i.e. MRP Rs 3799/-. We think you can get some other option at a low price such as Boat Rugged Shock Proof Bluetooth Speaker (No FM).