400 watts that fill the room: The HP130 is built for volume rather than background listening. Four hundred watts RMS driven through a wooden cabinet gives it enough headroom to carry a courtyard, a rooftop or a function room without the sound collapsing when you push it, which is the point at which most compact Bluetooth speakers give up.

Twin 6.5-inch woofers and dedicated tweeters: Two 6.5-inch woofers handle everything from 50Hz upward, so kick drums and bass lines land with weight instead of being implied. A pair of 2-inch tweeters covers the top end up to 20kHz, keeping vocals and hi-hats clear even at party levels. A Mega Bass button adds extra low-end lift when you want the floor to move.

Multi-colour LED light show: The two driver rings light up and pulse along with the music. Three modes - Breath, Flashing and Racing - let you match the mood, from a slow colour fade at a dinner to hard strobing when the dancing starts, and the lights can be switched off entirely from the top panel.

Karaoke and live instruments: A 6.35mm microphone input with its own volume control and an echo effect turns the speaker into a karaoke rig, and a separate 6.35mm guitar input lets a player plug straight in. Both can be mixed over whatever is playing, so one person can sing while the music keeps running.

Connect however you like: Pair a phone over Bluetooth 4.2, plug a laptop or mixer into the 3.5mm line input, load a playlist onto a USB stick, or tune the built-in FM radio between 87.5 and 108.0 MHz. Two USB ports double as 5V charging outlets, so the phone running the playlist does not run flat halfway through the night.

Chain two together: An RCA party chain output lets you feed a second speaker from the first and run both from a single source. For a long room or an outdoor space, that spreads the sound across two points instead of forcing one cabinet to cover everything.