JBL Flip 6-Portable Bluetooth Speaker,Powerful Sound and deep bass, IPX7 Waterproof,12 Hours of Playtime,PartyBoost for Multiple Speaker Pairing for Home,Outdoor and Travel (Squad),Camouflage

I wanted to review three JBL speakers, comparatively, in one go. I have in front of me now the Flip 6, Xtreme 2 and Xtreme 3. I started with the Flip 6, to replace some aging Bose soundlink Micros (Flip 6 is way better than both Bose Micro and Flex, IMO). Overall, of the three the Flip 6 is the best bang for the buck…great range of sound, decent volume and bass for indoor use. Does distort a little at max volume. I then got the Xtreme 3 with high hopes. It has tremendously crisp highs, deep lows, but it is VERY lacking in the midrange…the sound feels hollow, empty. Might be OK for synthetic music, but for anything instrumental I was disappointed. What I did find is if you pair the Flip 6 with the Xtreme 3 in party mode, they together sound very good. The Flip 6 fills the holes in the sound of the Xtreme 3, the Xtreme 3 expands the sound of the Flip 6. A great pairing…but now you need two speakers. So then I got the Xtreme 2…which I will be keeping instead of the Xtreme 3. The treble isn’t as crisp, the base maybe not quite as low, but it has good midrange, a much more balanced sound. A good way to explain it might be that the Xtreme 3 is better for drums/beats but the Xtreme 2 is better for bass and rhythm guitar. I wish that the Xtreme 2 could do party mode with the Flip 6, I bet that would be awesome, but the Xtreme 2 doesn’t pair with the newer ones. The Flip 6 I think has slightly better range than the Xtreme 2, but it isn’t as powerful sounding. Xtreme 2 gets louder and doesn’t seem to distort at high volume. In conclusion, from my perspective: the Flip 6 is the better overall, bang for the buck, for indoor use. The Xtreme 2 is really good, would take if over the Flip 6 for outdoors and wouldn’t be sad to have it in the house. The Xtreme 3 alone is just plain lacking…but if used in conjunction with the Flip 6,together are quite good. Xtreme 3 plus Flip 6 is louder and crisper than Xtreme 2 alone, a bit better range but not as powerful of a tone and still not as balanced in the mids.

Using it as a speaker for my gaming PC and just for playing my music aloud. Incredible sound quality, booming bass, amazing battery life, and no problems connecting with Bluetooth. It also matched my pink setup, lol! My husband and I both have one for similar purposes and I could not recommend these enough. Worth the price!

Replaced an older speaker for the garage. Sounds good and lasts a while. Quality seems good and connects easily. Has an app if you want to make fine adjustments to tone, then remembers the settings

So let start off by I’m old school when it comes to selecting speaker. I have a massive surround system that sound great! I stumbled across the little speaker by accident. So I was doing a cell phone upgrade and they asked if I wanted a Bluetooth speaker versus 2 wireless stands… I opted for the Bluetooth speaker as I had 2 wireless stands that work great. So I hooked this little flip 6 up and was amazed by the sound of this little thing. So I was doing a bit of research and finding that I could hook other speakers. So I opted to pick up another flip 6 and put them into stereo mode. I was floored by the sound out of these little speakers and the stereo field was amazing too!!! So then I was wanting to see how the charge 5 would stack up and then combine them. The one charge 5 has an edge on the bass but the mids and highs of the flip 6 held there ground and sounded a bit better to me. Now I starting thinking of 2.1 sound and this is where everything just shined very bright. Have the best of both worlds highs mids and lows in 3 small speakers!!! Some of the music that I demonstrate in this set up was Rush – The Weapon.. this has some really nice percussion section with some stereo left to right separation. I also played Led Zeppelin’s- Stairway To Heaven for the same reasons or the stereo left to right separation and over rounded sound. Great news it passes with flying colors and I give these 5 stars all day long. I’d like to pick up the extreme 3 and give it a go in this set up as it has the AUX jack that would make it useful enough to hook up external AM/FM with USB and SD card. In closing don’t overlook these speaker I really enjoy my little speaker and I’m sure you’ll love too!!!! Update with about a week of playing some music and experimenting. The flip 6 turn on its end with tweeters up will produce the best sound and great sound stage. It does better in the vertical position cause the woofer and tweeter vertically aligned give better sound stage hence the vertical axis. Now pair it with a second and you’ll have killer stereo mode. And the charge 5 to the center and you will love the sound as it acts like a sub reinforcement.

It’s hard finding portable speakers that don’t sound distorted or tinny when I listen to the different of genres metal I like. Brand of Sacrifice sounds almost as clear as with headphones, and the heavy bass and vocals of Lorna Shore is picked up clearly, Disembodied Tyrant’s many awesome riffs sound almost crystal clear, same goes for Begat The Nephilim, even Cradle of Filth’s high notes and symphonic/orchestral sounds are almost good as with headphones. Plus, even though this thing is roughly the size of a tall beer can, I can still hear it pretty clearly in the next room. Feels like it’s made out of silicone or rubber or something, like if it got dropped on the ground it probably wouldn’t damage it much. Can’t believe it’s only ~$100 for this awesome little thing.