Marshall - Tufton

Soundboks Go if you want something more 'portable'. Super loud. Marshall Tufton more portable and still very loud.

Good bass and muffled treble is basically Marshalls trademark sound. It is the guitar amp feeling why you buy them. We have the Tufton at work, the biggest of them all with supposedly a front facing dome tweeter but it still sounds muffled with a hugely overemphasized bass unless you EQ it down. Guitar amps usually have super large fullrange speakers in an open baffle enclosure. The don't deliver treble above 5 or 8Khz and also not so deep base, but good kockbase between 70 and 300hz. People like that sound and marshall has made it its standard EQ preset. The emberton has 2inch woofers with two large PRs. It is obviously tuned for midbass. But the speakers being 2inchers, they should be pretty usable in the treble too. Just EQ the heck outa it! Another point might be directivity. Since these are not dome tweeters, they beam like crazy. So you have to place them on ear level with the axis facing you directly to get any high frequencies. To get any meaningful stereo, you need to place it a few centimeters in front of a wall, cause the second channel is designed with a delay for a larger sound stage and to reflect the second channel off a wall.

So marshall will soon release their own party sized, portable bluetooth speaker : the Bromley 750 Some stats, along with other relevant bluetooth speakers : ||Bromley 750|Partybox 320|Soundbox 3|Tufton| |:-|:-|:-|:-|:-| |Drivers |2x150W 10" woofers, 2x50W 5.25" mids, 2x7W 1" tweeters, 2x.8" 14W tweeters|2x6.5" woofers, 2x1"tweeters|2x10" woofers, 2x1"tweeters|1x40W 5.25" woofer, 2x15W mids, 1x10W .8" tweeters| |Total power |440 W|240W |215 W|80 W| |Freq response |20-20k Hz|40-20k Hz|40-20k Hz|40-20k Hz| |Battery |40 hrs|18 hrs|40 hrs|20 hrs| |Price|1000€|500€|1000€|450€| Althought it's pretty expensive, I must say i'm really hyped for this. On paper, it has the potential to be an amazing speaker. I did put the tufton here because i'm really used to it, and for me it's amazing for it's size. The lack of midrange has never been that much of an issue for me, mostly listening to quite bassy music, for example techno. Seeing that the bromley has 4 differents types of drivers, i think the frequency response will be much better. I have listened to the soundbox in the past, it goes pretty loud but the low end doesn't really follow at high volumes, so i hope this will not be the case here. On the tufton there is no problem on this side, so one can only hope. The bromley max volume @ 1m is announced at 127 dB! Seems very high, Soundbox is announced at 126 dB, but mesured at 110 (source : Rting.com). Tufton is announced at 102 for 94 measured, and the partybox is mesured at 105 by the same source. Speaking of look, i think they really nailed it. Feels less gimmicky than jbl speakers, for me at least. Excluding shitty AI slop, I didn't see any real conversation on this upcoming speaker online, so what do you think about it ?

I received the speaker yesterday, paid for the overnight shipping because I was so excited. Overall I'm pretty disappointed with the power of the speaker. Whether the speaker is plugged in vs running on battery, there's no difference in loudness or fullness of the sound. I reached out to support and they verified that plugging in the speaker does not increase the power or wattage to the speaker. Most battery powered speakers increase their power while plugged in which is what I was hoping for. I currently own the Marshall Tufton, JBL Authentics 500, and a JBL 320 partybox. The Bromley is much louder than it's smaller sibling, the tufton, but the JBL 320 partybox is louder than the Bromley at less than half the price (when plugged in). Unplugged, the Bromley does sound louder/better/fuller than the partybox 320. Besides this and not having wifi, the Bromely is a beautiful speaker and still has plenty of sound for a medium sized room. Oh, and aux or other wired connections do boost the sound a bit vs bluetooth.

Happy to help! I still love my tufton and probably never sell it. The Bromley still sounds great, it has the same lively sound of a Marshall speaker that you probably like. It's definitely louder than the tufton, but I know it's capable of being twice as loud if Marshall allowed it to use full power from being plugged in. After another day of use, the Bromley is growing on me and I think I'll still keep it. If they release a Bromley 2, I'd just ask for adding wifi for lossless streaming support and boosting the power when plugged in. That would make it a perfect speaker.