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JBL Authentics 300 portable speaker review: Large sound in a large package
A big way to blast your favorite tunes wherever you go
The JBL Authentics 300 is a hard-to-justify but easy-to-recommend portable speaker. As paradoxical as that sounds, it has some issues that can easily dissuade, namely its weight and price. But, the performance, design, and feature set overcome those shortcomings as long as you can afford it. The JBL Authentics 300 is good enough to receive mention among the best portable Bluetooth speakers. That's especially true if you need something powerful enough for a party. It also does a great job with its Alexa support – good enough to possibly replace your Echo or Echo Dot.
Anker Soundcore Motion 100 speaker review: The affordable portable to beat
Dual drivers, decent battery, and compact design combine to make an excellent, low-cost speaker
Anker is no stranger to the portable Bluetooth speaker market, and the Soundcore Motion 100 is just one of a slew of recent additions to the brand. However, this compact speaker manages to squeeze in the value, providing a lot for its $60 price tag.
Tribit StormBox Flow review: A tag-along speaker for all-day listening
The Tribit StormBox Flow can pump the jams for a whole day, but it does end up a little harder to tote.
Tribit has made a splash with its portable Bluetooth speakers, and the new Tribit StormBox Flow is positioned to offer powerful sound you can take with you and enjoy all day. Better yet, it's a steal at $80 compared to the many similar speakers that cost well north of $100.
Anker Soundcore Motion 300 review: A petite portable speaker with big sound
Petite, powerful, and cheap
The Soundcore Motion 300 is the kind of product that makes you question why everything else is so expensive. It’s not audiophile (though it has LDAC support), but it sounds very good, has lots of volume, comes with a robust EQ that adapts depending on its positioning, and does all this for a ridiculous price.
Sony SRS-XB100 review: A Bluetooth speaker made to tag along
Hang on tight, though really not all that tight
The Sony SRS-XB100 is an update to the company’s compact, carry-along XB12 and XB13 portable Bluetooth speakers. The new XB100 keeps a very similar design but has some under-the-hood upgrades and a new tether for attaching the speaker to your gear for on-the-go listening.
Live your karaoke dream life with this JBL PartyBox deal
Save $120 on your new JBL speaker, complete with a karaoke mic and instrument input
Tired of dull, lifeless parties? Desperate to get your guests really engaged? Make everyone the life of the next party with the JBL PartyBox On-The-Go portable speaker. Now available at a big $120 discount, this speaker can be yours for just $230, its best price ever. The last time we saw this speaker this affordable was back in early December, and you're not going to want to miss out this time around.
Devialet’s first smart portable speaker makes its stylish debut for 'only' $790
Portable excellence in sound and design has a price
You’ve probably heard of luxury French audio brand Devialet at some point, or at least seen its $2,300 Phantom series speakers somewhere on the internet. If you’re one of the few people who has seen a Phantom speaker in the flesh or bought one, you’ll be excited to know that Devialet now makes a portable speaker called the Mania. It lets you take the same audio experience and conversation-starting design places.
Today only: Sonos Move portable speaker down to just $299 ($100 off)
It comes with Alexa and Assistant and offers both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth streaming
Sonos speakers are popular thanks to their reliability and high-quality audio. Sadly, they're also known for being expensive. Thankfully, the Sonos Move portable speaker, which comes with a bunch of features, is currently $100 off, selling for just $299, making it much more affordable than usual.
JBL's 20W waterproof Flip 5 speaker drops to its lowest price of $70 ($20 off)
Muscle and sound, together at last — leave the excess cash out of it
If your holiday shopping cart is on a slow roll to filling up, then hear us out: JBL is kicking up a pretty decent discount on its powerful Flip 5 portable Bluetooth speaker for the next few days.The Flip 5 is a pretty good step above JBL's Flip 4 speaker that we also like: it's got a 44mm driver pumping out up to 20W of tunes and casts and a 4,800mAh battery that'll last up to 12 hours and charge via USB-C. Like most any portable speaker, it has a 3.5mm input, can be grouped with others to spread the sound far and wide, and an IPX7 rating to survive rain and flood.
Blast your tunes with the UE Megaboom 3 speaker for $99 ($100 off)
It's waterproof, stylish and powerful
The Ultimate Ears Megaboom 3 speaker is your best asset when throwing parties. It has a lot to offer, including powerful sound and a sleek design. It usually costs a whopping $200, but it's now down to half the price, making it worth your money when throwing parties, especially with Halloween approaching.
Ultimate Ears has done the seemingly impossible by managing to create, not one, but an entire lineup of recognizable, portable Bluetooth speakers among a crowded field of competitors. Right now, you can grab the Megaboom 3, the company's most advanced waterproof speaker, for an all-time low of $119.99 at Amazon and Best Buy — with the latter throwing in a free charging dock that usually retails for $39.99 on its own. And, if you happen to pick one up now, you'll save about $80 off the list price.With the exception of the recently released Hyperboom, the Megaboom 3 is the latest in UE's line of portable Bluetooth speakers and is sure to impress with its IP67 waterproofing and an internal air pocket, allowing it to float if falls in while you're listening pool-side. This model also includes UE's "one-touch" music button to get the tunes playing even faster, and you can even sync up with other Boom speakers if one, somehow, isn't quite loud enough.
It can be difficult to get premium sound without paying a premium price — if you're not shelling out the big bucks, things can sound tinny and thin. If you're on the hunt for a great speaker at a great price, you're in luck: Logitech's Ultimate Ears BLAST is on sale at Amazon for $60 ($20 off).The BLAST offers 360-degree sound projection and exceptionally clear quality, all while being absurdly loud, likely louder than you'll ever need it to be. It also sports IP67 water resistance, if you'd like to have an ear-crushing pool party. Ultimate Ears also claims the speaker will play for 12 hours on a charge and has a Bluetooth range of 150 feet.
Bluetooth speakers might not seem like the most exciting product category, but it turns out there's still room for a little innovation. At CES 2020, POW Audio announced two new speakers that fold up for increased portability: the Una Biz and Una Ultra.
Whether you're looking for a power bank, new wireless speakers, true wireless headphones, or a projector, Anker's range of products is known to be reliable and affordable. Thanks to a special deal on the company's lineup, you can save up to $175 on a bunch of products today on Amazon.
If you still have just a little bit of cash left in your pocket after the craziness that was the whole Black Friday week/month, and if I can find it in myself to write another one of these deals, let's have a quick chat.JBL makes really awesome speakers with great sound. We love them. This Pulse 2 isn't just a portable Bluetooth speaker though, it also lights up and changes with your music. JBL says it's an "interactive light show," I wouldn't go that far. It's more like a mood visualizer to go with your tunes. Perfect for outdoor and camping trips, but also for your smooth indoor dinner parties. It is splashproof, and the 6000mAh battery lasts about 10 hours. And it's well rated on Amazon.The MSRP is $199.99, but CCC tells me it's almost never sold for that price. The Amazon price usually hovers around $120-$150 and the third-party seller price has been around $120 for a while until it started dropping recently. It's now $95, the lowest it's ever been, sold by "AcousticSoundDesign Factory Authorized Dealer" and Fulfilled by Amazon. If you're interested, you can grab it now from the link below and if you want other JBL speakers, some of the deals we covered last week are still going on. Do check them out.
Fabriq is a relatively-new speaker brand. Its first product was the Fabriq RIFF, a speaker about the size of an Echo Dot, but covered with a soft fabric in a variety of patterns. Not only did it have the Amazon Alexa voice assistant, but you could connect more than one for synced multi-speaker playback (like Google Cast/AirPlay). The Riff used either a direct microUSB connection for charging, or the included charging dock.Today, Fabriq unveiled its second speaker, the Chorus. In most regards, it's a larger and more powerful version of the Riff, but with the added bonus of Alexa always-listening for commands (the Riff required a button press to activate Alexa). That makes it far more in line with products like the Amazon Echo and Google Home, especially considering the $99 price point. I think the Fabriq Chorus makes for a good speaker, but it does have a few issues.
Boom boom goes the speaker and megaboom goes its price. If you want big sound in a portable Bluetooth speaker, UE's MEGABOOM is a great place to start, especially if you have the dough to finance it. The waterproof and shockproof speaker is often a little discounted past its $299.99 MSRP, but it always hovers around the $240 mark like it is currently on Amazon.
One of the finest $200 Bluetooth speakers out there is the UE Boom 2. I own one and it is a benchmark device that I use to compare any speaker in a similar price range that is sent to me for testing. Few sound as good as it does, and none also boast all the other great features the speaker offers. Those features include an eye-catching design, long battery life, a waterproof and shockproof body, and Google Now voice integration.At $200 the speaker is a solid value, at its current price of just 0 on Amazon, it's a steal. $130 is the lowest price the speaker has even been sold at on Amazon (with the exception of Black Friday), and it's not likely to stay at this price for long. It's not just the black model that is on sale either, all the different color combinations are discounted. I will note that a few of them are on back-order and may take a little longer to ship.Grab one if you'd like using the link below. Remember, these might go quick, so don't delay if you really want one.Source: Amazon
Last week I reviewed the largest portable Bluetooth speaker I've ever seen. This week, the speaker we're looking at slots in at the opposite end of the spectrum. It's called the JBL Clip 2 ($60), and you'd need 44 of them to balance the scales with one Braven BRV XXL. Sure it's smaller, but its compact size makes it about a thousand times more portable, giving it a complete different set of uses. Is it any good? Read on and you'll find out.
The UE Roll may be the most diminutive member of UE's proud Bluetooth speaker family, but it's also the most portable. Weighing in at just 11 oz, the Roll punches above its weight class with surprisingly loud and clear audio for such a low profile device.In addition to sounding great, the Roll also is waterproof and has a permanently attached marine grade bungee cord that you can use to hang the speaker on things. Things like your backpack, skateboard, dog, or the side of your head (if you buy two, you can put one on each side of your head for true stereo sound). Be creative.UE prices their products at the higher end of the portable audio spectrum, and for good reason - they are some of the best Bluetooth speakers on the market. Finding a current generation UE device on sale is a rare event, and should be taken advantage of by anyone on the market for a new mobile music maker.The Roll just so happens to be on sale right now on Amazon, a whopping $30 off, bringing the price down to $69.99 from it's normal retail price of $99.99. Now, this price only applies to the black and orange model pictured above, but it's probably the one you would choose for yourself anyways. At least that's the one I would choose, some of the other color combos look like petri dishes full of salmonella and e-coli.If you want more info on the Roll before you enter your credit card info, then check out Cam's full review. He seems to know a lot about music and other such things. I saw a picture of him with a guitar one time, so yeah, there's some evidence for you that he knows some stuff. I also like the Roll quite a lot, and I happen to have the same name as a famous guitarist, which pretty much makes me an acoustic expert, so you should probably trust my opinion even more than Cam's.If you want to buy a UE Roll for yourself, follow the link below. I'm not sure how long the promo price will last, so click quickly if you want to grab one at a discount.Source: Amazon