Ikarao Break X1

Ikarao is an awesome, portable all in one Karaoke machine.What I like:1. Small, light, compact and portable2. Chargeable Battery3. Wireless chargeable microphone4. YouTube installed - you can find all songs5. You can listen to music and connect your phone or other devices via Bluetooth6. Quality is excellent - made from the company who makes JBL speakers7. Sound quality is incredible8. Tablet touch screenWhat I don’t like:1. Doesn’t come with a power cable / only a charging cable2. No Karaoke scoring system - kinda loses the fun out of karaoke competition3. You Tube / KaraFun - there’s a monthly cost subscription to use4. Tablet touch screen can lag and is slow5. Searching for songs, artists etc can be tedious -6. When you use HDMI to connect to TV - there’s a Lag or the tablet and TV freezesBUT, still an awesome machine, I LOVE IT. I give it a 4 star. If it had the SCORING system, I would give it a 5 star. IKARAO OR KaraFun I hope you’re reading this, software upgrade to include a scoring system!!!

Delivery is fast and item is safely delivered. Loving it . I give 4 stars because some times software is quiting maybe a software update will fix it thanks

it does not seem to allow customizing vocals or instrumental tracks.

UPDATE: After testing out a few more karaoke machines, and giving this one a longer try, I'm updating my review of this to add back more stars.This is definitely the luxury brand of karaoke machine. The speaker sounds great, it provides a lot of connectivity options, and the microphones sound excellent. I also really like that the microphones charge while set inside their slots in the box.The built in tablet is what sets this apart from most other machines. You can run the Karafun app directly on this machine without needing to use another device like an iPad. That makes it truly an all in one solution.There is an HDMI output so you can connect a TV and the lyrics from the Karafun app will show up on the screen. However, this is the feature that prevents this from being a 5 star review. For whatever reason, when an external screen is connected, the performance of the tablet absolutely tanks. The animations on the lyrics get super choppy, and the touch screen lags a lot. This was the cause of most of my frustrations from my first review after using it only for a few minutes. I realized later that I had been testing it entirely with an external screen connected. As soon as I unplugged the external screen, the performance improves again and it's great. So sadly it's not the best way to get the lyrics onto a large TV screen.The workaround for the HDMI output is to run Karafun on an iPad or computer, and connect via bluetooth to this machine. Then you can run the HDMI out from your iPad/computer to a TV and everything is happy.It is nice that the machine has a bluetooth mode so you can always fall back to not using the built in software on the tablet if you want.I just wish they had used a slightly more powerful CPU for this, and one that could also handle HDMI out well!-------------ORIGINAL REVIEW BELOWSo this thing is definitely fun, and sounds great and is nice and loud, but I was not super impressed with the touch screen.First, the good parts. The microphones sound good, and they charge and store in the box, which is super convenient. Getting this running took no time at all, just turn it on and choose which app you want to use (I used KaraFun) and go! The HDMI output is also great in case you want to put the lyrics up on a larger TV.But, it turns out there are some major downsides to bundling the screen with this.The screen is basically a built in Android tablet. They've done a good job of covering up all the Android-ness so you barely notice it. That's how it runs the Karafun app which was one of the reasons I got this in the first place.I tried a few songs in Karafun, worked fine, then started a download of the top 500 songs. After the download was finished, the app was running super slowly. Some of the buttons on the box were unresponsive. Finally I got the Android notice "Karafun isn't responding / Close app / wait" popup, but even that was unresponsive. I also had one time where the little side menu just disappeared completely and I had to restart the device to get it to come back.I tried running KaraFun on my iPad and connected via Bluetooth to the amp and it worked a ton better.

My only concern is the app, hoe they have a home screen button. Other than that, works great for me.

The speaker has a good sound for the music but the microphones are not as clear. Also, when another microphone is connected, it is unable to utilize the different voice changes as the microphones that came with the system, such as professional, karaoke, cartoon, monster and so on. So if you have a party in which you want to use more than two microphones, the additional mics won't sound the same as the mics that came with the system. Also, there is no way to change the "key" on the system itself.There is no way to change the "key" on the system so if a song is too high or too low you can't lower it to fit your voice. You can change the key in the karafun app but you have to pay for the service. There isn't a way to add or change the "echo" feature on this system, which is a big part of the karaoke experience. All in all it's a good system and the sound of the music is great and gets loud, but for people who are really into karaoke, two of the main features are the "key" and the "echo".

This little unit is a beast it’s got incredibly powerful sound for how compact it is and a built-in screen that axes a lid that keeps everything protected. It really is a nice machine and for a portable entertainment center. It’s eminently workable. And that’s what I’m using it for, basically Playing video.I suppose you could just get a tablet to do that and maybe a Bluetooth speaker and that’s true so it’s probably too expensive to be used exclusively for that. But it really does have phenomenal powerful sound.The problem with using it for karaoke is the fairly significant latency between the wireless mics and the audio. That’s going to probably be a dealbreaker for most people. You do have the option to plug-in wired mics, which I have not tried, but probably would solve your latency problem but then create the problem of not being able to move around as freely so you’ll have to make the judgment of that. For the price, though I think it’s an excuse that the wireless vocal system has much lag. This is a very expensive unit and despite having excellent build quality and a premium looking feel, it should function equally consistent with that and it doesn’t quite do it.