JBL Charge 5 Bluetooth Speaker Review

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In this video I'll review the JBL Charge 5 Bluetooth speaker. • (affiliate) JBL Charge 4: https://amzn.to/3svpx5w • (affiliate) JBL Charge 5: https://amzn.to/3sBhDHW • (affiliate) JBL Flip 5: https://amzn.to/2P1mFQb • (affiliate) JBL Xtreme 3: https://amzn.to/3duXNJZ • Timestamps: • Introduction: 0:00 • Build and Form Factor: 0:54 • Button Access: 2:30 • Sound Comparison: 3:55 • Power and Ports: 9:04 • Additional Considerations: 10:07 • My Recommendation: 10:40 • Conclusion: 11:45 • Support this channel by becoming a member: / @maxdalton • Video Transcript: • Now let's dig into the JBL Charge 5, and start by taking a look at the build and form factor. • The JBL Charge 5 sits in between the JBL Flip 5 and the JBL Xtreme 3 in the JBL portable Bluetooth speaker lineup. The Charge 5 is just under nine inches long, 3.7-inches tall and 3.7-inches deep. The speaker feels sturdy and has a good weight to it, checking in at a little over two pounds. From a purely physical standpoint the Charge 5 is only slightly larger than the JBL Flip 5, but is significantly smaller than the JBL Xtreme 3. For a sizing comparison, this image shows the JBL Flip 5, JBL Charge 5 and JBL Xtreme 2. • Similar to the rest of JBL's line of portable Bluetooth speakers, the JBL Charge 5 is built to take on all conditions in the great outdoors. The exterior of the speaker is an attractive but tough wire and mesh combination that does an amazing job keeping the speaker components safe. Again, similar to current and past JBL portable Bluetooth speakers, the JBL Charge 5 boasts rubber end caps that protect the exterior passive radiators from damage in the event it gets dropped or otherwise banged up. • Finally, the JBL Charge 5 improves on the IPX7 rating earned by the JBL Charge 4 by rocking an IP67 rating, which means it's dustproof and can be submerged in up to three feet of water for up to 30 minutes and still work just fine. • Next let's take a look at button access. • The buttons on the JBL Charge 5 are laid out in the same easily accessible fashion as on the Charge 4, resting conveniently along the top of the speaker. From left to right you've got the buttons for PartyBoost, Volume Down, Power, Bluetooth, Volume Up, and Play. The volume buttons just control the volume and don't perform any other core functions. The PartyBoost button lets you connect your speaker to other portable JBL Bluetooth speakers that support PartyBoost. If you've got older JBL speakers that you connect to each other through the legacy JBL Connect or JBL Connect+ technology, know that you won't be able to connect the JBL Charge 5 to those speakers and that you can only connect it to JBL Bluetooth speakers that support JBL PartyBoost. JBL speakers that support PartyBoost currently includes the JBL Flip 5, JBL Charge 5, JBL Xtreme 3, and JBL Pulse 4. PartyBoost lets you connect up to 100 speakers together over a distance of roughly 50 yards. The Play button lets you start, stop and skip songs, and while there are older JBL portable Bluetooth speakers that let you configure the Play button to activate either Apple's Siri or Google's Assistant, you can't do that on the Charge 5. • Next, let's do a quick sound comparison between the JBL Flip 5, JBL Charge 4, JBL Charge 5, and JBL Xtreme 2, and discuss audio quality. The setup inside of the Charge 5 is the same, with a single long driver, a separate tweeter, and dual bass radiators. • For this sound comparison I'll play the same 20-second sound clip from a song with deeper bass on each of these speakers at fifty percent volume under the exact same conditions. Additionally, these audio files won't be manipulated in any way. • And finally let's listen to that audio clip played through the JBL Xtreme 2. • For its size, the JBL Charge 5 is good middle ground between the Flip 5 and the Xtreme 2. You get bigger volume that you don't get out of the Flip 5, and cleaner high tones that you won't get out of a JBL Xtreme speaker. It's obviously a closer race between the Charge 4 and the Charge 5, but I think the Charge 5 is a close winner there, in that the audio, overall, sounded cleaner. One other audio test I did was to take the speakers outside into a large open space to see how the sound carried. In that scenario the JBL Charge 5 really shined, pumping out audio that sounded great even from modest distances. But as a reminder speaker audio is experienced differently by everyone, so you'll want to listen to the JBL Charge 5 in a store to make sure the audio quality is something you're comfortable with as it relates to any other Bluetooth speakers you're considering. • DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commission. This help support the channel and allows us to continue to make videos like this. Thank you for the support!

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