LEMEGA M5P All-In-One 35W Premium Music System,CD Player,DAB/DAB+/FM Digital Radio,WIFI Internet Radio,Spotify Connect,Bluetooth,Headphone-out,Clock Alarms,Colour Display,Remote Control -White Oak

 

Looks and sounds superb
Easy to setup and install
Very happy with my purchase

 

In early January 2021, I bought this new, updated version of the LeMega M5+ music system (walnut-finish version) and am very pleased with it. I have owned the closely-related but now-discontinued LeMega M4+ for just over two years and was sufficiently impressed with it that I wanted to add a second LeMega.

This new version of the M5+ was introduced in November 2020 and was an easy choice for me, as it looks great and is now the only stereo LeMega music system with both a CD player and a large base-mounted subwoofer – the 4 black rubber feet of the unit are slightly tall to allow the subwoofer the space to work, sonically. There is also a single bass reflex port on the back of the unit. Back in late 2018 when I bought my first LeMega, the M4+ (also CD player and subwoofer-equipped), I’d also considered the previous-style M5+ as I liked its sloping front design with brushed aluminium centre panel and silver speaker grilles with rounded outer edges (the M4+ is plainer, vertical-fronted with a yellowish-cream plastic centre panel and cream, square speaker grilles). However, the first-type M5+ was more expensive and I couldn’t see much difference in the specification – also, I wasn’t keen on its black control knob on top and the row of small, round, black function buttons across the bottom of its metal front panel (trivial I know, but I’m shallow that way!).

The new M5+ retains the aspects of the styling that I liked, and has been improved as its function buttons are now arranged in a ring around the power/volume/snooze/mute knob on top of the unit, leaving the front panel button-free. This top control array on top is similar to that on the M4+ but whereas that cheaper model had all of it in cream plastic, the new M5+ has it finished in silver – in fact, the large knob/dial itself is machined, polished aluminium. The walnut finish is real wood veneer on all these models. Though the older M4+ that I have is discontinued, the still-current John Lewis Cello is a version of it with slightly different styling (paler cream plastic, a large rectangular button panel on top, different shaped front panel and a display panel of the shape and white text colour of the M5+, but unfortunately lacking the bold colour and legible design of the small icons that both LeMegas have, whilst also having the narrow viewing angle of the M5+ display, unlike the M4+ – see below). The Cello has a solid walnut cabinet rather than a veneered one but is clearly made by the same company – but very unfortunately, unlike the M4+ and both M5+ variants, it does not have Spotify Connect, which is one of my favourite features on the LeMegas.

My new M5+ seems to me to sound even a little better than my older M4+, but both sound great to me! Its DAB reception strength and wifi signal strength are both a little stronger than my older M4+ (I have it sited in exactly the same place that my M4+ previously occupied) – unfortunately in my house, both units have rather weak FM reception with their built-in aerial, but these days I never need to listen to FM radio anyway. The M5+’s aerial is longer than the M4+ aerial when fully extended.

The M5+ (like my older M4+) offers Bluetooth connection to devices, internet radio, a slot-loading CD player, DAB radio, FM radio, access to music on my local wifi network or a USB device (it has a USB socket on the rear), Aux in via a pair of gold-plated sockets on the rear (there is another pair for line out connection to an external amplifier or active speakers if required) and Spotify Connect to play tracks from an iPhone, iPad or Android phone or tablet for instance (a Spotify Premium account is required for this). The M5+ has worked flawlessly with Spotify Connect (sometimes the older M4+ was a bit reluctant to be found by it) and I find Spotify Connect usefully straightforward – the colour display on the LeMegas shows the cover art of tracks playing and the volume is more consistent with other sources than Bluetooth connections tend to be. The M5+ (in both this new and the previous versions) doesn’t have a wired LAN connector (oddly, the cheaper M4+ did, though I never used it). Both my LeMegas have a headphone socket on the front, easily accessible, and come with a nice little infra red remote control with full functions including a number pad – useful, since there are 20 presets available for DAB radio, FM radio and internet radio – all are separate, so you can have up to 60 different presets between them. Though I assumed the remote was identical to my earlier one for the M4+, I discovered that there are some useful new features on the new M5+ (which the original M5+ did not have either) – there is now a button to step through the available equalizer presets with each push (previously these were accessible only by bringing up the system menu or the Undok app – see below) and a button to turn the subwoofer on and off (which wasn’t possible before). These new controls are also included in the buttons on top of the M5+ itself. There are 9 choices for the equaliser – presets of Normal, Flat, Jazz, Rock, Movie, Classic, Pop, News, and My EQ (the latter gives you control of bass, treble and loudness – an on or off effect that when on considerably boosts bass output – to your own preference).

The CD player works well with slot loading and remote load-ejection if required; tracks can be selected with the number pad on the remote but it is otherwise fairly basic (not programmable as such but it has repeat and shuffle functions). The sound is again very good.

The colour display on the front of the unit is fairly small so the font for menu settings and so forth is quite small, though the standby digital clock is large and legible (an alternative analogue clock is selectable). The display has options for brightness – High, Medium or Low for when it is being listened to, and Medium, Low, Very Low or Off when it is in standby – you can also pick a timed period since last operating a control for it to switch to the selected standby brightness whilst the unit is still being listened to. Here there is another of the new button functions on the remote and on top of the unit – a button marked “Dim” will cycle with each press through High, Medium and Low whilst the unit is active, which previously was only available by going to the menu (you still can). Text appears on the display in white against a black background, with extra icons and symbols which though small, are colourful and easy to differentiate. The black background unfortunately polarises to a brighter grey at certain angles (strangely the older M4+ doesn’t do that, perhaps because its display, although identical in style, has the text in yellow?).

The M5+ (like the earlier version of the M5+ and the M4+) also has a sleep timer and two alarms, which can be set to buzz or play the music source of your choice (CD, DAB, FM, internet radio etc.) and there is a snooze function accessible from the main knob on top of the unit or the remote.

In addition to the infra red remote control, the M5+ (like my older M4+) can be operated from a phone or tablet with the free Undok app, which works well and actually allows easy access to the equaliser presets and settings, even on the older M4+ too. It also allows access to station presets and most other functions.

All in all, the LeMega M5+ is a very well-specified, lovely-looking and great-sounding mains-powered compact music system.

 

Le M5+ est un appareil musical connect abordable et trs complet.
Souhaitant un point musical connect dans la chambre ce combin rseau coche pratiquement toutes les cases de mon cahier des charges.
Les plus :
– Combin rseau trs complet
– lecture des flac
– radio internet
– rveil entirement paramtrable
– extinction de l’clairage de l’affichage
– lecture rseau, Dab, CD. radio FM
– application UNDOK
– Capte bien le wifi et rapidement
– Rglage des graves et des aigues

Les moins :
– Son correct mais pas hifi et lgrement agressif
– Menus encore un peu confus (traduction franaise quelquefois approximative)
– Pas de pochettes affiches des fichiers audios
– Un affichage couleur des menus et de l’horloge analogique aurait t mieux et surtout une meilleur distinction de l’aiguille des minutes de celle des heures.

Deballage, l’ensemble est bien fini, pas de pile fournie pour la tlcommande et un mode d’emploi en franais est disponible sur le site du constructeur mme s’il concerne l’ancienne version.
Les finitions sont correctes, et aprs quelques tatonnements tous les rglages sont rapidements effectues.
n’tant pas utilisateur de spotify, pas de commentaire pour ma part sur cette option. (un compte premium est requis).
premier test : clef usb fat ok, exfat :ko ntfs :ko, donc ce sera exclusivement du fat.
Deuxime test : un disque ssd externe de 480 go est branch en usb et bonne surprise le M5+ n’a aucun soucis avec, tous les dossier et fichiers sont prsents et accessibles. la navigation est fluide.
Pour moi point important les flacs sont lus sans soucis, ayant ma musicothque sous ce format c’est un plus pour moi. Par contre les qualits limits du M5+ ne vous permettront pas de voir de diffrence entre des mp3 bien encods et du flac.
Autre point positif une entre et une sortie rca c’est toujours de pris pour le ct volutif de l’installation.
La radio internet est rapidement charge et lu sans soucis (pas de perte ou de coupure).
Pour le son c’est honnte mais cela aurait pu tre mieux surtout si je compare au Sharp xl-b710 qui ne possde pas de sub mais qui finalement se rvle plus quilibr et plus agrable l’coute. Le M5+ en plus des rglages du sub, du grave et de l’aigu devrait proposer un rglage de type galiseur paramtrique sur au moins 10 frquences pour amliorer son rendu sonore.
Un mot sur l’affichage avec le regret de ne pouvoir voir les images des fichiers audios lus, par contre un bon point sur la dsactivation complte du rtro-clairage de l’cran (pourtant rglable sur trois niveaux, mais encore trop fort sur le niveau le plus faible) qui permet de n’avoir aucune gne la nuit et de malgr tout avoir les infos affiches toujours visibles. L’horloge analogique est une bonne ide, mais il est difficile de diffrencier les deux aiguilles. soit une couleur diffrente soit un dessin plus diffrenti. .
Bref une update logicielle serait la bienvenue pour remdier cela et corriger les quelques erreurs de traduction.
L’application UNDOK est simple et va l’essentiel et fonctionne sans soucis (en wifi).

Pour moins de 270 voil un combin rseau tout en un complet, comptitif, simple et agrable utiliser pour une coute honnte mais pouvant tre amliore tout comme certaines petites imperfections logicielles.
Pour moi ce M5+ (qui est un clone du NUMAN two 2.1) est parfaitement recommandable.