JBL - PartyBox Encore Essential 2

Poolside I found the JBL PartyBox essential encore 2 to be impressive. It’s bulky but $330 is cheaper than Move 2. And I have the original Extreme which also it impressive for similar size and less money. Assuming the newer extreme is bigger tho haven’t heard.

for the price you cannot beat the partybox 120, relatively light and small ish, battery is amazing and the bass and even sound clarity is best in class. i never need to use it with max volume as i mainly use it indoors, however if portability is an issue, get the encore essential 2, honesty with deeper bass it keeps up really well. if portability is not really a massive issue, but still keeping things at a decent price get either 2x 320s or one 520. yes they are bigger and heavier, but worth it imo. i have owned 2x 320s since launch and they have never missed a beat, it punches wayy harder at higher volumes and when plugged in, it will rattle your house, but if price is not an issue get the partybox 720, the bass is unimaginable, the clarity is still good even though there is a lack of midrange drivers, but the mids are well kept by JBL’s best in class DSP, or what they call “Ai sound boost”

I've got the uboom x but I would recommend something else (lack of bass). JBL encore essential has good bass and is way loud. Check it out

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 don’t do this but I have a JBL partybox essential (the single woofer one) and it slaps

Partyboxes are fine tbh, I don't see why audiophiles hate them

Yeah.  I've heard a few different PartyBox models.  For me it's that the $3000 partyboxes are hot garbage. but the $300-900 ones are REALlY good.

I agree. For the price and quality of frequency range. Other option would be a Yamaha HS3’s with a sub.

The JBL partybox series have zero delay - if you plug into the daisy chain port

Depends on the speaker. Some of the delay is caused by Bluetooth, and some by the DSP (signal processing) - aux will bypass the Bluetooth, but not necessarily the DSP. Some speakers have minimal-to-zero lag on the aux (Minirig, Tribit Stormbox Blast) and some still have significant. For example I believe some of the JBL PartyBoxes have lag on the aux in but not on the daisychain as that bypasses the DSP :)

I would recommend sone of the bigger JBL speakers (Not the Xtreme). The RGB Looks somewhat trashy bit they Sound alright

What Adam says, the smaller JBL series have a passive membrane which serves as the Subwoofer, but its in no way as controllable Like a normal Driver. the ones inwould recommend are from the partybox series, they have sizeable drivers and two tweeters for the high frequencies