JBL - Boombox 2

JBL boombox 2 or 3 they sound amazing and 24 hours playtime

oh and I forgot to mention that I have the JBL Boombox 2 and tbh I will only buy W-King from now on. The price difference is too much for how little the sound difference is.

I found my mates charge 5 sound OK but it is not comparison to my xtreme 3 as the xtreme plays lower with more bass and it goes a lot louder unless it is just my xtreme but it gets almost as loud as my boombox 2

If you want to hear the bass get the JBL Boombox 2 or 3. It’s such an awesome speaker and the battery life is top notch.

Pair of boom2 they’re the best dollar value now at Costco

Bass wise the bb 2 and 3 are pretty much the same the bb3 gets louder and has more separation of the lows,mids and highs the bb2 is still a great value speaker in 2025 I have both also the bb2 can be played with the bb3 which is a big plus

I've had a JBL Boombox for 6 years, gone through every version, 1, 2, and 3. Without a doubt my favorite speaker on the market. My first one I got refurbished and it stopped charging after about 8 months, JBL support replaced it for free and upgraded me to the 2nd gen. That one got stolen out of my car, I emailed JBL to see if they would help me replace it and they replied in 2 hours with the biggest coupon they had available for me to replace it, I got the 3rd gen which is what I currently have for $300 instead of $500. It's louder than I could ever need, I used to max out the volume on the last two frequently, this one seems to hit that loudness at half volume. It has 2, 4 inch subs built in that SLAP, I've tested songs against many of my friends speakers and mine is always louder with more sub. It sounds great, I produce dubstep and check my masters on it. The battery lasts 24 hours, I take it on long camping trips and to festivals all the time and it's always up to the task. And JBL customer support are angels that will go to any length to keep their customers happy. 10/10 speaker that I will replace with the same thing if anything ever happens to this one. I would HIGHLY recommend the JBL Boombox 3 esp for EDM but it's really just a fantastic speaker.

It's trash, other than being way larger than the xtreme 4 or killburn 2 which have a realistic bass response to their size. Just get a boombox 2 or 3.

I have a JBL charge 4 and a boombox 2. Love them both.

Yessir 👍 you can often get them on sale for $180.00 to $240.00 !!! It's got the best sounding bass and best sound quality of every speaker that's been mentioned in these comments, to me it's sound quality is unmatched by far of any Bluetooth speaker that's out there! I had a JBL Boombox 2 and after a couple songs my ears were bleeding, plus the bass and sound quality was nowhere as good as the bb3. I've owned a bb3 now for about 4 months and it's a beast. The bass is waaaaay stronger than the bb2 and sound quality is amazing. You can make it shake your walls and floors, take it with you in your car and it will rattle and vibrate your car ! Try it out, I guarantee you will not be disappointed!!! I give it five stars 🤩***** ...

For fun get these and swap out the speakers , super easy QFX PBX-61081BT/RD Portable Bluetooth Party SpeakerQFX PBX-61081BT/RD Portable Bluetooth Party… they connect to each other also I have two Jbl 110 party boxes very nice in sync 1 cammo Jbl boombox 2 very not bass loud for the money but waterproof handle easy to transport long battery Jbl clip 3. No bass great for golf quick music etc Dewalt clip on speaker is great for golf or sticking to something for some tunes while working

I'm curious how it compares with the JBL BoomBox, which I already have and have been pretty pleased with. As another audiophile, it's not top of the line sound but it does exactly what you describe. The JBLs are considerably more spendy (I probably paid $200-50ish I imagine for mine a number of years back, I have the v2), but I've always been curious how good these soundcores are.

If you need it big, get sth like the jbl boombox If you want something you want to carry, get a minirig setup with 2 mids and one sub

A lot larger than you want to. Nothing which you can just toss into your sports bag is going to do the trick (even the JBL xtreme which you think is massive). It’s jbl boombox or Sony ULT field 7 at a bare minimum.

I’ve had numerous bluetooth speakers and my skullcandy barrel xt beats them all. For the price too! Its sorta tied with jbl boombox but because of the huge price difference, skullcandy takes the cake!

The JBL Boom box is probably among your best bets, but it won't play a full weekend on full blast.

I use the JBL boombox to record/play sets in public spaces. Sounds great, if you don't mind latency (I mix mostly in headphones to counter). To soften the blow of latency, try an alternative with an "instrument in" channel.

JBL boombox is the loudest and clearest speaker I’ve owned

I’ve had my boombox for almost 4 years now with no issues

I’ve only used it for a couple hours at a time. It’s a first gen and I think they are up to gen 3 now. I don’t charge it until it’s dead. Think I use it 3 or 4 times before I recharge it. So somewhere between 6-8 hrs total play but never at full volume. That would probably eat up battery quicker

First of all the negativity and ignorance here on Reddit is simply shocking. Especially in this Bluetooth speaker sub it would seem as if some bored kiddies were trying to spend their spare time here instead of going out playing football, pretending being smartasses having the need of spreading their vomit around... It is sad to see what happens here in regard to brand fanboyism and nitwit-ism with no background knowledge at all. I couldn't care less about all this as I don't give a shit about it, but as Reddit has a huge reach it can lead to some huge misinformation or let's call it "fake news" due to these ignorant hobbists who simply have nothing better to do than trolling around apparently. Please let me explain how the Uboom X developed and what my part was, to clear up all the confusion and misinformation. About a year ago I was approached by Earfun asking if I would like to create some tuning for this upcoming speaker. After the experience I did with the Uboom L some years ago and everyone attacking me calling me to be fake and some shill I was really hesitant to do anything like this again. In reality meanwhile the Uboom L became a kind of classic among music enthusiasts, but I was dragged through the mud back than. Let me say that my youtube channel was built up on sound samples which took me years to optimise in order to reach the most realistic and unbiased sound quality. From my sound demos it was immediately hearable which speaker performed better or worse, even when listening through some crappy headphones, the differences were always perceptible well, if listened over a referened headphone you were basically listening to the real thing, or let's say 95% of what it sounds in real life. I could have missed out my comments and verdicts from all my videos as people should have heard on their own, but these trolls were still pretending the obviously distorting, boomy, muddy speaker was better... So I tried teaching them how sound should sound like, as obviously they didn't know. Many of my viewers were thankful for that, they contacted me and are still contacting me how much I changed their view on bullshit marketing, overpriced audio junk etc etc. Back to the UBoom X: I thought it could be an interesting experience to tune a larger speaker out of my personal interest in this topic and I was not sure what the outcome could be as it would have been the first and maybe last kind of product like that I had the chance to work on. Prior to Earfun only Tribit ever approached me to help them with their products (this was when Earfun engineers were still part of Tribit), So aside of the UBoom L before I also did the tuning for the 360° UBoom as well as the first Tribit Stormbox, or Tribit Xsound Go, I also tuned the Earfun Wave headphone and the old Tribit Xfree Tune and some inears... But tuning a "boombox" with all the competition on the market could be challenging and although the contract between me and Earfun really sucked, offering me just some one-time tuning fee and some commission only when purchased over my own links, I neverthless decided to take this challange which turned out to become quite an odyseey for several months with the most negativity I could even think off. I quickly noticed that the hardware was quite capable, the 80W of rated power just didn't mean anything, and I simply tried to push the speaker to the limits with my settings. I really wanted to offer something unique and outstanding, something people always seeking for good sound quality would appreciate, how wrong was I... Initially I planned to include 3 different settings: indoor, outdoor and "insane". Unlike mentioned everywhere these "EQs" are complete DSP programs, consisting of several sections no only EQ, but the entire compressor/limiter, dynamic EQ, psychoacoustic effects for stereo enhancing and bass, volume curve etc etc. Each of my settings has different 3-band compressor settings, with different crossover frequencies, different volume curves EQ etc. And it took endless listening sessions outdoor at maximum volume to squeeze out the maximum out of this speaker. The outdoor modes have a completely different approach to compression than the indoor modes, which are rather conservative and should retain most bass up to maximum with overall volume not being pushed that much. I also tried to get the most kick out of the outdoor modes up to maximum volume and you should notice that the UBoom X has more attack with more basskick than most other similar speakers, neither does it become as harsh at high levels like others (e.g. Stormbox Blast, which becomes just treble at maximum). This took lots of effort to optimise and the current outdoor mode has treble pushed more than the other modes at high volumes to simply allow for even higher output and loudness to be heard from farther away or higher listening angles. My first indoor was similar to the current indoor+, outdoor was something between the current outdoor and outdoor+ and insane was similar to the current outdoor+ but with bass pushed even more which made it more comparable to some way larger JBL Boomboxes. It looked quite funny seeing this rather compact speaker competing with much larger heavier speakers during my tests. Unfortunately the DSP was quite limiting and while I could optimise every single volume step for the UBoom L with different compression values, there was no way to achieve the same for the UBoom X. I would usually dynamically adjust either the highpass for high levels to avoid too much distortion, or optimise the compressor for higher levels compared to low levels. All this was not possible here and I always came into distortion with too high bass levels and volumes. I also noticed that just 3 modes were not enough to cover most use cases, as the speaker was still pretty bassy with "indoor" and "insane" became too uncontrolled at higher levels due to the limitations mentioned above. So instead of trying to do another "boombox" I thought it could be nice to have a speaker for serious listening which could do both, be some kind of portable studio monitor and some boombox for outdoors if needed. In the end I created several different tunings like that: \- indoor should offer a pretty neutral response similar to studio monitors with some psychoacoustic stereo enhancing and dynamic bass and treble adjustments for lower levels (I kept this rather subtle not to make the speaker appear boomy by no means, I would have liked to boost treble even more for the lowest levels, but the DSP didn't allow it. I would have needed to tune the speaker brighter to begin with and then tone down treble with the compressor at high levels which doesn't work as precisely. \- indoor+ adds even more stereo width and has some slight boost at the lowest and highest frequencies. I tried to achieve something that JBL or Harman is usually doing, boosting bass before rolling off, at the same time I wanted to avoid that one-note kind of bass from JBL, and the boominess of the go+play. This mode should sound quite similar to a go+play but with a more even frequency response and a higher volume with less bass reduction at the same time (not even talking about the much better battery life) \- outdoor has upper bass slightly reduced to avoid the speaker to appear too boomy when placed at the ground while midbass around 60hz boosted more, at the same time lowest bass is cut quite a bit more as usually outdoors these frequencies are not heard that well anyhow, this together with the less aggressive compressor for treble allowed for the highest SPL levels with less distortion than outdoor+, Boom xXX etc. Stereo enhancing is disabled for the outdoor mode, as this created some weird effects in the response when listened off axis, so outdoor should sound better from high angles than the other modes. \- outdoor+ is similar to indoor+ just with the most stereo enhancing the most bass boost in the lowest region and some stronger overall treble boost compared to indoor+ Unfortunately outdoor+ can still become a bit uncontrolled with bassheavy recordings if pushed to the max. You can always try to reduce volume 1-2 steps and it should be still loud enough (much louder than the Stormbox Blast) while becoming cleaner and bassier at the same time. \- Boom xXX was meant as rather fun for those who simply love that boominess. It is still listenable unlike some Sony speakers that are just knocking and humming with mudiness and IMO Boom xXX works best for maximum volume with the most overall bass and slightly less distortion than outdoor+ while being louder at the same time. \- Ground O which stands for ground omnidirectional should offer you the most bass possible when placed at the ground due to the boundary effect without the boominess you would get with Boom xXX, at the same time treble is boosted a lot to allow for omnidirectional listening when the speaker is aimed upwards. This works fairly well and due to the reduced upper bass it gives a more controlled result than Boom xXX with a cleaner, deeper bass due to the ground reflections. \- studio was included due to my Patrons asking for a completely neutral mode with no stereo enhancing, no dynamic EQ etc. This came quite late, and as all my other settings were based on some stereo enhancing which also had a strong impact on the overall frequency response, I had a hard time to tweak this mode to really offer the results I was longing for. I personally prefer indoor for a more neutral reproduction as this opens up the sound stage and gives you more satisfying results for low levels. I also had ideas for other settings although seeing now people complaining already now about too many EQs. I wouldn't care less for the included EQs from Earfun which are really plenty, but Earfun didn't want to give me further slots for additional modes, one of them being "desktop". The problem with portable speakers is that they will change the sound a lot depending on where they are placed and most people do not care how or where to place them. Usually you should place a speaker at the edge of some boundary to avoid any effects with the surface underneath. So a speaker which sounds correct standing free will color the sound a lot when placed in the center of some table, ground etc. To overcome this I still created an own desktop mode which should give more satisfying results with the speaker placed on some larger table or even at the ground. It should still offer a rather neutral uncolored result compensating for the reflections of this surface. Earfun created an own custom firmware for me including this setting replacing studio, which I personally hardly used at all. Those interested can always grab that on my Patreon: [https://www.patreon.com/oluvsone/shop/earfun-uboom-x-custom-firmware-with-mode-560004?utm\_medium=clipboard\_copy&utm\_source=copyLink&utm\_campaign=productshare\_fan&utm\_content=join\_link](https://www.patreon.com/oluvsone/shop/earfun-uboom-x-custom-firmware-with-mode-560004?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=productshare_fan&utm_content=join_link) I have put the Uboom X against much more sophisticated, more expensive speakers and it was on par or outperforming those easily, then reading comments from some deaf idiots claiming it to sound worse, having less detail than their Motion+ or worse bass than their Motion Boom is just completely crazy. People are attacking me repeatedly being a shill for Earfun. Honestly I get a shit from them. From November until now I "earned" 300$ of commission... Others like Flossy who contributed nothing to this probably earned 100 times as much in the same time with his own affilate links and nobody has a problem with this. With all the work I put into this, hoping to satisfy also more demanding listeners, offering something no other company even thought about in a speaker that costs a fraction of the competition and then getting all the shitstorm by some weirdos here, just made me lose all motivation to contribute anything anymore. If you want to support me in some way, you can always use my discount code UBOOMXXX which works on the Earfun site directly . Only then I get some percentage of the sales. So seeing all this negativity, all these claims about Earfun bots flooding Reddit, me being some shill for Earfun is just nonsense bullshit. Earfun doesn't even want to pay me for my work, let alone some others. And yes, I am to some degree satisfied with the result I achieved, so why shouldn't I promote it in some way to those who are new to this topic, unlike others who promote speakers that someone serious about music wouldn't even consider when being deaf!

Play them at the same volume indoors. The xtreme will destroy it. The bass is deeper but not powerful enough to be noticeable outdoors. The charge 5 plays upper bass frequencies which are easily heard in almost any environment even outdoors. Deep bass needs hard surfaces to bounce off or more power to hear it out in the open. It’s really just a logistics issue with size and power and what frequencies it plays because the boombox doesn’t have this issue since it’s more bigger and powerful.

I’ve always been an JBL fan but over a 3 year period I’ve had a JBL Charge 4 and a JBL Charge 5 just randomly stop working. My husband has a JBL Boombox that is a tank and never misses a day on the job site and it’s been working like a dream for 3 years but I can’t always lug around a speaker that large.