PartyBox Encore Essential

Jbl Encore Essential. You can get it refurbished on Amazon for $199. JBL portable party speaker with amazing sound, 6-hour battery life, and easy-to-carry handle for on-the-go fun. Others are loving it! https://a.co/d/0ikBYfTM

Don't think you're "missing" anything... The PB OTG ESS just isn't an amazing speaker-- I've heard most of JBL's lineup and the Encore / Encore Essential are much better. IIRC according to FCC filings the OTG is actually built with "off the shelf" parts from Eastech while I believe most other JBL's have somewhat custom parts.

If those are your only options, go with either one of the Encores but none of these will be ideal for filling such a large space with sound. For reference the Partybox120 would be the minimum I'd reccomend. The XTREME4 is not a bad speaker but it won't be able to fill the space and it sounds very sharp and compressed at high volumes-- not exactly a pleasant sound especially for bass-heavy music. The Encores get slightly louder IIRC and sound better at high volumes (given the area you're looking to fill, you'll probably be using them close to max volume). If you don't need the microphones or the easily replaceable battery, you can save some money and go with the Encore Essential 2. Alternatively, I think a portable PA speaker may be better suited for your use case. A small portable PA like the Alto Busker or Mackie Thump Go will likely get louder than the Encores while still retaining the portability sounding good enough. And if you have more room in your budget check out the Bose S1 Pro or JBL EON ONE Compact for even better sound.

Please note that the PARTYBOX is in a completely different category compared to the CHARGE5. If you're looking to **fill a large room or outdoor space with loud sound & bass, I'd definitely go for the PARTYBOX (JBL advertises the PARTYBOX to fill a tennis-court sized space indoors or outdoors)** especially since you already have UE BOOM for portable usage. The CHARGE5 is going to be an excellent & noticeable upgrade to your UE BOOM (and so will the CHARGE6, also going for \~30% off depending on location) but it's still a medium-sized portable speaker-- as far as I'm aware, there's no moores law or anything of the sort in the speaker industry: we've generally been getting & using the same principles to build transducers for nearly a century now. If you're looking for a good in-between option, the new BOOMBOX4 gets just as loud as the PARTYBOX CLUB 120 (albiet with some noticeable distortion on select tracks) but lacks the mic/guitar inputs: in exchange you get much better durability (IP68 vs IPX4).

Hello, personally for the same use as you I took a JBL PartyBox essential when I want big sound and otherwise for when I travel I took a Sony ult field 5 which costs less than 300 euros! I have a reloop mixtour pro controller and an iPad and I'm on djay pro

I just bought the JBL party box essential 79.99 at ross

Sucede algún curioso, tenía un jbl clip 4 de 5w y para uso personal era excelente, música de fondo o ambientar para 4 personas , al perderse compre un ult field 1 de 30w, este era más potente y portátil, lo lleve al río y sonaba muy bien ambientaba música como para 8 personas pero al llevarlo al mar cambio totalmente,en la playa apenas podíamos escucharlo bien a un par de metros, el Sony ult field 1 me lo robaron y considere comprar uno de 50w como el xiaomi-sound-party o ult field 3, el problema es la batería, tenía un party BOX encore essential 1 y ese no falla por sus bajos y potencia pero igual el problema es la batería, he leído algo y si quieres algo potente y buena batería podría ser el LG xboom xg9qbk ó soundcore boom 2 de 80w ambos lo he buscado en mi país pero cuesta parecido a un jbl boombox 4 y es mucha la diferencia de potencia, suerte