JBL - Charge 5

I got the non wifi charge 5 for $80 the other day. It sounds amazing for its size. I can't compare it to my boombox 3. Return it if you don't like it.

Getting the charge 5 at Marshalls for $80 was the best. I see minimal difference on the charge 6 vs 5. Gaining 10watts isn't worth it.

Most of my speakers, and I have plenty of them, the sweetspot sits somewhere around 70 - 75% volume. With the Charge 5 at 75%, it sounded like a kitchen radio. Luckily I got it during Black Friday for "only" $103 USD. IMO still too expensive for what it is. Forget about the retail price at $179, you must be insane or don't care about money to drop that kind of dough on this speaker.

Long story short, it's overpriced and under delivers. My OG Motion Boom absolutely destroys it See my [comment here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bluetooth_Speakers/comments/1i8ycpg/comment/m90dpd4/)

If it does sound indeed better, than the regular Charge 5, $140 is fair. But yeah, I will never recommend the Charge 5 to anyone, after my experience. Matter of fact, I will sh\*t on it continuously if I see it recommended here.

Just be aware, the Charge 5 rolls off bass after 50%. Anything above this, and the bass will not increase. At least that was my experience.

Well most, if not all of my speakers have a sweet spot around 75%. With the Charge 5 at 75% volume, all I heard was mids and highs and a tiny amount of bass. For a retail price of $180 dollars, the Charge 5 is useless for me outdoors.

Way overpriced. The Charge 5 cuts out bass after 50% volume. My Soundcore Motion Boom, which I got for $80, goes louder with deeper bass.

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.

I own both Dummy.. they ARE the same in loudness, bass, and even quality. Nothing has changed on the wifi exept chromecast streaming and Dolby atmos (which is bullshit). They have the same driver layout, same battery, same charging speed, and they removed partyboost.. THEY ARE THE SAME SPEAKER.

105db? Thats complete bullshit, i got a jbl charge 6 louder and that clocks at 101,3db(A) and for the 250$ price tag it has worse specs/performance then a charge 6/5. It has worse SPL, worse clarity, worse battery, and worse bass response although durability is mostly equal as far as i have abused both (ranger and charge 6).

Would perhaps you care to specify the exact specs of the speakers and the amp? I got the Flip 6 recently which is pretty much identical to the Flip 7 sound wise and I was vastly disappointed with its' outdoors capacity. It is a small room/apartment speaker at most. The Charge 5/6 delivers great performance/portability ratio. The Xtreme 3 was a huge letdown outdoors as well, you just expect more from a speaker of that size. I never owned a Boombox but from what I read it is a huge upgrade on the Xtreme. So if size/portability is secondary to you - don't cheap out and get the Boombox. If portability is important go with the Charge 6.

I use the charge5 a lot Travel and outdoors. At home i use bigger speakers like the marshall acton 3 or the Stormbox Blast.

JBL Charge 5/6 good sound quality. UE MegaBoom 4 good 360 sound. If you need it louder it goes up in size...

People is saying the opposite but i had the same experience. It loses all of its bass past 70% and the overall detail and clarity is not as good as on the Charge 5, strangely, and it doesn't even sound THAT loud.

I recieved my new Ult Field 1 yesterday and i've been doing some tests comparing it to both of my JBL Charge 5's, TL and TT versions. Today i wanted to test the bass so i put my usual bass test video wich goes from 100hz to 20hz with 5hz steps and i discovered that when the Charge 5 goes below 60hz, the volume decreases significantly when in the other hand, my Sony Ult Field 1 kept almost the same good volume on the bass up to 50hz. Below that, on 45hz the bass on the Charge 5 completely dissapears when the Sony still kept reproducing the frequency at a reasonably audible volume. Any thoughts about this? Has anyone tested it? This shocked me because many reviewers and people in general tend to say that the JBL FLIP 6 has a deeper bass than the Sony and even though i don't have the Flip 6, taking in count what the Sony managed to do here, it just cannot be true that the Flip 6 has a better bass response. The Sony basically reached the JBL Xtreme 3 frequency response being a quarter of it's size. On rtings.com page, the Sony ult field 1 reached a low-frequency response of 55.8hz, the Flip 6 reached 75.5hz, the Charge 5 reached 58.2hz, and the Xtreme 3 reached down to 55hz. I saw those charts before recieveng my Ult Field 1 and i thought that they did something wrong in the tests but it just proved me wrong. NOTE: both of my Charge 5's we're equalized with the bass turned all the way up and tested on the same phone and same place so there's no excuses here.

JBL basically aims for everything but it is widely known for it's bass and volume for the size. Even though in this test the Sony won, i still think that JBL is the king of the bass on portable speakers nowadays because this is only one speaker and JBL wins in any other size or model. Sony older portable speakers are just bad and can't compete with current JBL models, this was an exception. Though i think that the possibly upcoming Sony Ult Field 3 and 5 have the potencial to be the best portable speakers.

I literally made my entire post saying that i TESTED it and compared it myself, i heard it myself. It does go deeper. And i know about sony's 20hz claim on their page, i'm not basing my facts on that at all; the page that i mentioned is RTINGS.COM wich is a page that does detailed speaker reviews, they have a whole speaker testing method and even tell you the level of distortion of them.

I actually think that this happens because JBL optimized their Charge 5 to go only up to 60hz because is already a good frequency range and maybe that leaves enough room to give the speaker more volume without distorting the bass or something like that.

I can agree that the Charge 5 is a better overall speaker but there's a size difference wich plays a huge role. I was just commenting that it's still an amazing achievement for a speaker that size to reach 45hz. Thanks for your opinion!

You use speakers only for white noise? That's a lot of money just for sleeping. Well, both have great battery in my use tbh there isn't much difference, i've used both for an entire day playing loud music in my school and house and neither of them died on me, that's from 8:15 am to 12 am.

No problem, and yeah though it is technically true that if you use it at 50% volume it could last you 12 hours, a speaker that sounds so good just makes you want to crank up that volume! If you want any opinions/recommendations though, right now my favourite and the one that i'm gonna stay with is the Earfun Uboom L (i've had Soundcore motion 300, JBL flip 6, Sony ULT Field 1, Soundcore Motion+, JBL Charge 5, etc). You might be surprised, but that single 10 band equalizer is what makes it so good, because you can have the clarity and brightness of the Flip 6 while having the strong deep bass of the Ult Field 1. Just to compare, it goes deeper and way louder than the ULT Field 1, and i think that on indoor Mode it has a deeper bass than the Charge 5, while in outdoor mode it gives an amazing party soundstage, and i also think that it goes the same loudness of the Charge 5, at least with high volume equalizers. The battery life is a bit better than the Sony too!

Man, i literally mentioned that the Ult Field 1 mantains a good volume on bass down to 45hz while the Charge 5 died at that same frequency, you didn't even read my post at all, or do i have to explain that 45hz is a deeper frequency response than 60hz? It seems like you don't know what is deep bass. You are extremely biased.

I had a charge 5, after 11 months barely held a charge for 2 hrs.

Personally i find the x600 awful. Charge 5 comes to mind given your requirements or even soundlink max.

Have the same jbl charge 5, love those speakers with the jbl app for stereo mode. Nice portable gaming setup!