Anker - Motion X600

The absolute best option mantaining a fairly decent portable size is the Bose Soundlink Max, and it has great soundstage because the drivers are angled to the sides, but it's hella expensive. The Soundcore motion x600 is also a good option, cheaper and directly focused on spatial audio with dedicated modes. And the smallest option is the Soundcore motion+, also has a good soundstage and it is the cheapest.

Denon envaya 150/200/250, Sony srs x55, x77, Harman Kardon Onyx 3,4, Xiaomi Sound Move, Créative Sound Blaster Road 2, Marshall Stockwell, Marshall Emberton 2, Harman Kardon Go + play (the one from 2016), Riva S, Riva Festival, Bose SoundLink Max, Bogasing S8 Pro Max, soundcore x600, Doss soundbox XL, Jambox, Sony srs xb33. I made "widest immersive stéréo imaging soundstage" one of my first point when i buy a speaker, and i like to try the most possible. they have all différents sizes, from différents years ,but all of them have insane soundstage with great stéréo separation for the size. Seems that older bluetooths speakers was better on point than recents ones (except for somes).

Do not buy it, it's gutless. Got one as a gift and couldn't return it because it was bought over 14 days ago. Price was $100 and they are $60 on ebay. It is a speaker for a young kid's room. I went and bought a Soundcore X600 on their website refurbed for $139 total and it was on my porch the next day. The Soundcore X600 easily beats my retired Bose Soundlink Mini 2. Yes, it has GOOD BASS.

Soundcore Motion X600 has great sound quality, I thought the spatial audio was going to be a gimmick, but I like it so much I bough a second speaker. They have good bass but it's not the "boomy bass" type. The sound is more natural sounding with great clarity, and the speaker sounds bigger than it is, because of the 5th speaker that adds the spatial audio.

Yeah if an accurate soundstage is what you're looking for, you'll benefit from a second speaker so they'll act as left and right speaker, but even not doing that, the soundstage is surprisingly big. I'm a bit of a sucker for audio equipment with exactly the sound quality it offers. Good clarity, big soundstage, good, but not overpowering bass. It's blows away my old BT speakers, which are a Bose Soundlink Mini and a Sony SRS-BTX500. They sound awful compared to it, but then again I think that's probably true for a lot of todays BT speakers, they've come a long way.

Kinda criminal that the Soundcore Motion X600 is left out. When I compare the sound quality to my Soundlink Mini and Sony SRS BTX500 it sounds MUCH better, in a whole different league in clarity, sound stage, good balance of highs/mids/lows, excellent highs actually, good bass, not as boomy as most BT speakers...The Spatial Audio feature actually works, it sounds much better with it on. Battery life is pretty decent, not great but not bad either. Build quality is superb for the money you pay, with it's all metal housing. Features are good too, supports high res LDAC, has an actually useful app with functions like setting brightness of the buttons LEDs, a 9 band customizable EQ, settings for sleep timer (which can be set of off as well)... And it's often available for way less than the $200 MSRP, often on sale for $150, I've even heard people seeing it for $99, which is ludicrous for a premium BT speaker.

Soundcore Motion X600 has a Spatial Audio feature that sounds like a gimmick, but actually works. It makes the speaker sound much bigger than it is by utilizing a fifth speaker that augments the other 4 speakers (2 tweeters and 2 mid/bass speaker, plus a passive radiator) and the sound fires upwards. They used some clever DSP tuning to make it sound really nice. You can also upgrade it later with another unit, they'll play in stereo and will sound even bigger, with an ultra wide sound stage (for BT speakers anyway). I bought 2 myself on sale for about $130 each.

BT speakers with overblown, boomy bass is my pet peeve. Not sure why I would enjoy listening to bass that overpowers everything else, drowning out things like sound stage, clarity and the little details that make you go "nice!". The only BT speaker I've ever heard that I would describe as having clarity and good vocals, is the Soundcore X600. It has an extra speaker for what they call "Spatial Audio" that handles exactly the frequencies that vocals tend to be in. It's tuned via a DSP to sound noticeably better with the extra speaker on, than off. Try it. I think you'd like it. It has an "Xbass" feature that boosts the bass, but it's best left off.

Not really, I just replaced a Soundlink Mini and an SRS BTX500 (used to be Sony's top end model) with a Soundcore X600, and I'm blown away how much better the new one sounds than the two old ones. It's not even close, the new one has clarity, musicality, well balanced sound and an actual sound stage. In a BT speaker.

100% AGREE, this guy must be playing a low bitrate stream for the X600 to sound better.

I also owned both and returned the X600 after using both for 30 days indoor and outdoor. My EARS and those of my guests are the basis. X600 needs tweaking when genre changes - not consistent in SQ. No need to tweak on the sound link, sounds great at all volumes

Jeeeeez that is bonkers! Let me know when that happens if you happen to catch it. That's cheaper than my current Bluetooth speaker which I got at Walmart for 149.99. Soundcore Motion X600. I didn't have the money to get anything more expensive. Soon I'll probably get 2 Go+Play 3's though.

Oh man, X600 Soundcore for sure. I am really impressed with the design, great features and quality. Few standouts: - aux input under the waterproof connector cover - great EQ control via snappy mobile app, also battery level in there - aluminum handle and case design are beautiful  - top notch listening experience. Works great as a portable monitor for electronic instruments.

Soundcore x600 absolutely rocks for this.

I have the charge 5 and soundcore x600. I pick the x600 everyday for souls quality, the charge 5 sounds mono but has more bass.

There’s zero chance a soundcore x600 sounds better than a soundlink flex even up close

Sound core motion x600 is audiophile grade

I agree, it's a great sounding speaker and fills the room well with spatial audio so you don't need to sit in one place unless you want a decent soundstage. It's also not too picky about placement. 

But you can get a soundstage with imaging. For example, my Soundcore X600 is one of them. The stereo soundstage is probably 2.5 times larger than the speaker and imaging is pretty decent within that space. I'm not talking about a 6 to 12 foot wide soundstage like with separate speakers, just a soundstage that is wider than a single speaker.

I don't have any background hiss with my X600, but I can tell you my Harmon Kardon Go + Play 3 is in a different league when it comes to sound quality. Better bass as well. The play 3 is both punchy and chill at low volumes. I can't recomend it enough.

For only $15 more, I chose the Soundcore Motion X600 (2 woofers + 2 tweeters + upward full range driver) w/ LDAC. Ordered two, for wider soundstage and TWS true L & R stereo separation.

I priced (2) 300s, for under $100. Though I already have (2) X600s, for TWS Stereo mode, a packable travel carryon ready BT with LDAC for TWS/Stereo use in a hotel room, is quite tempting.

Playing Queen GH 1-3 CDs on (2) Soundcore X600s ($115 each) in TWS/Bass Up/Xtra Bass EQ settings currently. The thumping bass and wide stereo soundstage is amazing!

I have the emberton II but my x600 blows them away.

I agree. I tested in a music shop and I don't like the sound quality.

Go for Soundcore X600. No portable speaker is even nearby in terms of sound at the price range!!

The Ankar Soundcore x600 is in your budget. It has a very smooth and natural sound.

I'm a big fan of the Ankar Motion x600. It has an interesting spatial processor but the end result sounds really good. Instruments sound clear. Plenty of punch.

Its gotten quite strong treble

If you have strong ears and like higher treble and clarity its probably a good pick for you

you should try two Soundcore Motion X600 in TWS mode , Soundcore Motion x600 will beat all speakers you mentioned

The X600 is also the speaker I would recommend. While I own and enjoy the JBL Authentic 300 and the Harman Kardon Go + Play 3, I am cautious about taking them outside and I have no worries about the X600 outdoors. It's also is an extremely good sounding speaker, although no where near the bass of the other two speakers, it does great considering it's size.

This is making me want to finally buy a second speaker. I have Soundcore x600 and always been on the fence is it worth getting the second one. Been happy with just one People here keep.saying how great it is having 2 of the same for true stereo

It sounds good at higher volume and over 10' away. Close up and quiet, it is rather unimpressive. The soundcore X600 is much better for that use case. At $400 after the widely popular Soundlink Flex, I expected a bit more. The voice response for actions like Bluetooth pairing is embarrassingly bad, loud, and uncustomizable. There is no microphone or WiFi connectivity for voice calls, smart home integration, or music streaming services like Spotify connect. It's a good speaker for next to the pool if you stay within Bluetooth range but it's lackluster in use cases that are important (to me at least) and surprisingly lacking features that one would expect in a speaker of this caliber.

I said it sounds better than the Soundlink Max, actually, specifically at low volume up close.

I agree but the X600 actually gets shit on a lot here and don't think this is a very strong situation to make your point. I don't like the Max at low volume or up close and think that's the one thing the X600 is good at. The rest of my comment had nothing to do with soundcore

I also vote for the brane x...but only as a single. I was personally disappointed in a stereo pair and chose to sell my second one. As a pair my soundcore x600s are simply fantastic.. and budget friendly.

Hard to describe.... For the expense just did not find them a wow. The x600 pair which I can compare with.... Was a wow and fraction of the price.

Maybe a Earfun u-boom L if you want a bit more bass than the Flip and about the same size. Grab a pair of them for under $150 I have a motion+ and that would work well for what you are using them for. The Soundcore motion plus can get fairly loud if you want it to. (The bigger speakers like the motion boom have much more bass) The newer Soundcore Motion x600 get's good reviews and has a eq function. (Competes with the popular Bose flex) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyaGa3I53zM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyaGa3I53zM) That would be a nice upgrade from the Flip imo.

My motion + is great for that but I think the slightly larger x600 will sound better.

Soundcore Motion X600 Decent amount of power and bass, great sound overall, spatial audio, and its app has a 9-band parametric EQ. Oh, and LDAC Bluetooth codec for hi-res audio. And waterproof. While spatial audio presents an excellent soundstage, you can also pair two for optimal stereo separation. All this for the surprisingly reasonable $200, and occasionally on sale for $150 I own a pair of them and find them to be quite satisfying; perhaps even "audiophile-adjacent" sound quality,

Soundcore Motion X600 is amazing for the price, and I managed to EQ it to a really good sound speaker. You can also connect it with 3.5mm cable so there is no lip-sync problem.

So far I like my Soundcore Motion X600 which you can find for under $150. If you want louder speaker, you can get the Soundcore Boom 2 Plus which sometimes on sale for $200.

Soundcore x600 or Sony xv500 Bogasing G4 I have all three , all of them have low latency over Bluetooth.

I agree with you about the X600. For close up and low volume, the X600 is clear and can be EQ'd for great bass response. There are many haters and I'm not sure why. I'd be interested to hear from those that have listened to the X600 for at least twenty hours and tell me why they don't like the sound especially with a customized EQ.

Size matters. I have a variety of Bluetooth speakers and home audio equipment. I loved the sound of that EarFun UBoom X but it was too large for my purposes. That may not apply to you. I kept the Boom 2 because of the size and weight. Normally I'd want something heftier but was quite surprised of the profile considering how little it weighed. I kept the Harman Kardon Go+Play 3 because I'm not planning on moving it around a lot. Yes, it's similar in size to the UBoom X but it serves a different purpose. I also have a Soundcore x600. I like it for near field listening. Good luck and report back what worked for you.

Probably your best bet if you dont need to max your budget is something between the bose flex and the soundcore x600. I’ve Read a lot good about the ultimate ears boom but never saw one. Today I’ve actually bought one Sony xb-100: it’s good enough. For indoor is enough powerful for when I’m alone (main use) and for a room with 4/6 people. Only “issue” I had was the sound too thin when i first turned it on. Really too thin. i went on spotify settings and i noticed it had reduced bass EQ, after i put boosted bass it’s great. I like to have a smaller speaker than the JBL flip since most of the times i wouldnt need that and it’s half the size and weight. But it’s a 25€ speaker. I could easily buy another orange one in the future to just swap em when one is low battery or to pair em for stereo. But if I didnt wanted a small speaker to just trash around I would went straight to the x600 imo. Anyway, the best one for 300 is probably the bose max.

Soundcore x600 hands down.

I'd suggest the anker soundcore x600! I just got one of Walmart for 139 after almost buying it from Amazon for 159. It's got surround sound from a fifth speaker aimed up so it's supposed to immerse you in sound. Hopefully it does what people say it does lol! But I'd check it out, I hope it sounds as good as the reviews did! It checked all my boxes

One thing that I cannot overstate enough is the superb build quality of this device. It is super sturdy and the handle is solid. Nothing cheap or chintzy about it. I have no doubts in it's waterproof rating although I've not personally tested this, but it feels so premium in every other way.

Absolutely, man! I will say I looked at that marshall acton 2 and while it is 10 watts more powerful (60 vs 50) so it may be slightly louder, it doesn't look nearly as portable and isn't waterproof. I used my x600 today at my mom's house, which sits on a very busy 4 lane road and even in the backyard, we hear every car that goes by. However, the 600 drowned all of it out. I was able to run it at about 70 percent volume, and it was able to fill our backyard (id say 25x20 feet) just fine. Louder was too loud for us and im sure loud enough to piss off the neighbors so it was only on max for a minute o two to test it. Clarity was still perfect to my ears. I listened to baseball, classic rock, modern rock, and country, and all were great. I bought it for outdoor surround sound and it delivered this on all fronts. It will work great for our projector! It's highly portable, and if it findits's way into the middle of a splash war, when we get the pool up, im not worried. It also has a FULLY adjustable EQ as well as 10 presets. I did not try these. Might have been nice for the voices during the baseball game. Also the 5th up firing speaker for the surround sound can be turned off although I probably will always use it and there is a bass boost which did increase the thump factor, but I found no need for what I was listening too. Let me know if you have any other questions, my guy, but for the price, I don't believe there's anything better. I also can pair with a second one but, again it would blow us out of the water quite literally 🤣. I looked long and hard before I pulled the trigger on this one and I'm glad that I did! The only thing that would be an interesting comparison would be that new beats pill that has 100 watts. It has great reviews as well. But it's not really a surround sound one as far as I know. That fifth speaker really makes a world of difference on the soundcore x600

Soundcore X600 by far. Sounds like a 50k speaker while costing15k. Spatial Audio feature just hits different.

Are you talking about the max? If so that's a pretty innacurate and false perspective of this speaker. I had if for half a year now and it sounds the best at lowet volumes, it sounds the best when you're listening on axis in front of it, the lack of mic is not a big deal for most people. A pool speaker would be a boom 2, but hell nah the bose soundlink max has a great tuning for indoor listening so that's hogwash mate. X600 is funny to even mention, a speaker that has the most aggressive marketing by soundcore, the saptial mode is more than terrible for those who understand sound, and distorts with bass heavy recordings at higher volumes. The voice response of the battery and welcome tones are unique, and by the way can be turned off for those who don't like it. I own over 40 speakers, x600 is one of them, and hell no the x600 will be returned soon.

We were talking about the max, not the flex. And bose soundlink max wipes the floor with the x600. Boom 2 is a different conversation. The boom 2 is a cheaper speaker than the x600 but it's funny how well it competes against the max.

I don't think there is another speaker that is as good as the bose max when it comes to stereo proccessing. The x600 is also fine, but distorts at high volumes and simply inferior to the bose..

Got the x600 for $48 brand new. Check ur nearest costco.

I recently purchased a Soundcore Motion X600. Reviews were raving about it. I read many reviews, then went onto YouTube and heard good positive reviews there, too, and like I said, I purchased it only to find out that it just wasn't for me. I couldn't find the right EQ setting or anything. So the best advice, and I wished I had done it myself, is to go to an established HiFi store, ask the customer service if you can listen to their Bluetooth Speakers, in order to help you choose. I am sure they would oblige.

I have and love the Soundlink Flex 2 (a pair), and they fill my needs with sonic clarity, decent bass extension, and portability. I always travel with a single Flex, which doubles as my on-the-road music source, and white noise generator at night. I also have a pair of Beats Pills, and really like their sound signature. You can buy a pair for the $200 you set as a budget limit. I had the Soundcore X600 but just sold it. I liked it...but didn't love it for how I use my smaller (and it's not small) BT speakers. But, for the money, its sound output is quite decent. If you get one for under $100, it's a good deal.

The X600 is rubbish....I have one. Over promised, overpriced, and full of fake recommendations and reviews. Those are my own subjective thoughts and experience with the speaker. Go for REAL quality instead. You won't regret it.

I have and X600....Worst speaker I ever had! Overhyped, over promised, over priced and they paid off reviewers for good reviews....mine is locked away in the box collecting dust....akin to how the Annabelle doll is kept😜🤣🤣🤣

See then me personally I love it. I think it has a nice sound.

I don’t have much experience with newer Bluetooth speakers, but I have the x600 and I’m enjoying it. I found a custom eq I really like and it sounds great to me. I will say I only use it indoors in one room at low to mid volume. It is a terrible outdoor speaker though imo

get a Soundcore x600 instead.

I compared Bose SoundLink, Jbl charge 5, Jbl flip 6, Soundcore Motion X600, Klipsch Nashville and HK luna. I chose Luna from all. The best balanced sound for this price range. I found JBL highs to harsh, bose pretty good but not so open , Klipsch missing any lows, and Soundcore...I liked it but when I listened side by side with Luna...well..I ended up with Luna :)