JBL Boombox - Waterproof Portable Bluetooth Speaker - Black

4 year review!!Okay so I use this every single day. I listen to loud white nose when I fall asleep. This speaker has been amazing since day 1. I am now at the point where it needs to be plugged in all the time or it will disconnect randomly from blue tooth. Battery still lasts quite a while and I’ve used it as an emergency power bank during hurricanes several times. Goes with me everywhere I travel. Has been used as my main source of audio when I have had cars without sound systems. For its age and the price, very hard to beat. Only complaint is the glowing blue light on the power button is annoying at night but that’s it. Planning on buying again when this one stops working completely. Might take another year or two.

I have owned many Bluetooth radios through the years. Bose,Klipsch,Altec Lansing. The Bose is great had a internal baterry, it is light, the battery lasted a few hours but the bass was lacking and in a beach if you wanted to blast it it didn’t go i high I wanted to. The Klipsch sound great when I had plugged in with the charger but when I took it to the beach or outside the volume decreased way to low for my liking. The Altec Lansing has great bass and sounded really good at high volume but I had to buy constantly 8 D cell batteries which was way impractical.This JBL Boombox is wonderful the best Bluetooth radio I have ever bought. I tried it in my house with the charger connect to it and the bass was incredible love to see the side woofers moving when playing a song and only had it like 50% of the volume because it was blasting. So I thought to myself hopefully it passes my outside torture.I took it to the beach and was floored on how amazing this boombox sounded. The Bass was impactful you can fill it in your chest if you are close enough. The back bottom works increíble you can change the settings for inside or outside listening( you can tell the bass sound better on this setting if you are outside). My friends where Very impressed on how loud and clean it sounded it had no distortion no matter how loud we force it to. I don’t have to worry on D cell batteries anymore. On a full charge I had playing for 6-7 hours and of the 5 lights that it had when it was fully charged it finished with 3 lights on. So i do believe it can go for 24 hours playing None stop. I even charged my phone and my friends phones while we where in the beach, so now I don’t have to Bring my external battery charger this works great for charging many phones while you listen to music. One less thing I have to worry about is when it rains this is waterproof I’ve seen many videos on YouTube of people throwing the JBL boombox to a pool and it was still working. Now I’m not planing to do this, but what I want to do is get one of those floating things to put my ice , cups whisky or beer and have the JBL boombox on top of that and have a party on the water at the beach.A cool thing that JBL Speakers do is that they can be link together and play at the same time. So if your friends have more JBL speakers you can have a party.One thing to note this thing is heavy. But since imma hometheater buff I know that good quality woofers and magnets are heavy. So if you want to get great bass and loud spl with no distortion this is the way to go. If you find it to heavy try out the one that comes before this one i believe is the JBL extreme( not sure) but if you want to get the best bass, loud clean with no distortion, increíble battery durability for those long outside Beach parties this is the way to go.

Pretty sweet. 😎👍 When they say built like a tank they weren't kidding. Solid construction has a little weight to it. Quality materials and build. Button press is good backdoor flap is tight no worries about it accidentally getting open. Nice handle with rubberized texture on the bottom.Sound quality is NICE. Clear crisp with loads of bass. It sounds good. Here's something interesting though. I put it in LFM and it sounded like the bass got turned down. 🤔 its suppose to be the other way around. The highs are crisp the mids are clear and the bass is thumpy and boomy depending on what you're listening too and the volume you're at. It's good. Plenty loud indoors and loud enough outdoors as long as you're within a sensible distance. The bluetooth connects quick n easy to my phone but is having difficulty with my BT transmitter. 🤔 Battery charging takes a few hours. The one thing I am worried about in a portable is the exposed radiators. May rig some speaker grills.Is this worth $450? ... Its a steep price. I think $300 is a better price point. This whole thing is waterproof it floats and it has a long battery life. 😎I like it and if they come out with a Boombox 2 that's a little bigger n better I'm all over it as long as the price isn't to sky high. So for around the price of a GoPro this is a sweet speaker. May pick up another bc you can hook up 100 of them with the connect + 😯 That's another thing other boomboxes can't do and from what I have seen it sounds even better when there are multiple units connected. And if you want deeper bass out of this thing put it in low frequency mode. 🤫 Just make sure you dont go to high on the volume 😉 or you'll blow the speakers.UPDATE: So good I got another one. Decided to get the green one. They connect plus easily and fast. Sounds great. Green looks good but looks a little more plasticky 🤔. It's not as elegant looking at others have said. Still good though but I think the black probably looks best. At least I can differentiate between the two instead of having the same color. 😁