PartyBox On-The-Go

JBL is hard to beat. I’ve had and tried soooo many and pound for pound the JBL Partybox on the go is amazing.

There's also the Partybox On The Go. It's smaller but still.pretty loud. Also comes with a microphone and you can find affordable second party duffle bags that are made specifically for it.

I had a flip 4 for years my buddy bought a boombox and I was blown away by it, but I wanted to one up him so I got the partybox on the go and it’s been the perfect living room speaker

JBL charge series is always a great buy, With a $150 budget. I have had my JBL charge 3 since 2018, only recently upgraded to the party box series, because I wanted something bigger and with way more bass. For a desk speaker the charge 4-5 is perfect, it has enough bass with EQ added. The flip and the other smaller ones that you can clip on, are going to be slightly quiet compared to the charge series. The charge series is the happy medium between good sound and portability.

Ty for following up and addressing this. I have 10+ battery powered JBl speakers from flip to PartyBox in my house

Joke lang, OP! Haha. JBL PartyBox lang kasi gamit namin. Pero di ko siya feel sa movies. Mas ok pa rin soundbars.

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

You can't go wrong from any of the JBL Partyboxes

basically all partybox models.