Jawbone Mini Jambox Wireless Bluetooth Speaker (Graphite Facet) Standard Packaging

I've been searching (and buying) near and far trying to find a decent BT speaker for my room. I have a Bose Soundock (5+ years old) and it sounds great in the living room. I didn't want to spend the $199 for a Bose mini since the bass was simply overpowering the treble and for a small- to- mid-sized room it doesn't work terribly great. I tried a JBL Flip and found the audio overly compensated in treble and no bass. However, I liked the design and button layout and didn't care for the proprietary power plug.Be gone with you Flip and enter the JBL Charge! Ugh, no. Not what I expected. It had a tinge more bass than the Flip at bigger. I expected somewhat more decent bass considering all the positive reviews about the unit. The Charge left me unsatisfied hungering for better. I ordered the Mini Jambox on a whim and anxiously compared it side-by-side to the Charge.Wow, the difference between the two was quite noticeable. I was amazed when I first turned on the unit and played the same music with the Charge. The Mini Jambox exhibited better, richer bass than the Charge and the tones I found were very well balanced. The output on the unit is rich and full compared to the other two JBL anemic sounds. What's more amazing was that the diminutive size of the Mini Jambox outperformed the Charge and the Flip!Now setting expectations for those readers expecting booming bass from the Mini, it will disappoint. It's just enough to make your music pop from a small unit. I find the Mini Jambox a fantastic little unit for a small room. A medium sized room may be pushing it. This unit is not designed for big sound from larger, more expensive units. I did find the max volume a little limiting. However, given where and how I'll be using the unit I don't find it to be a concern. Later I'll be looking into something with more volume and bass for outdoor use.I highly recommend putting the Mini Jambox in your list of BT speakers to consider! If you know what you're looking for the Mini Jambox will not disappoint. For anything bigger there's always the Jambox (regular) and BIG Jambox.

Overall, this is an excellent product. It's great for its size - decent sound quality, decent size, not very heavy, good features, and comes with a very reasonable price tag. Bluetooth integration is dead simple and very reliable. I was pleasantly surprised by the fact that it's a mic as well as a speaker, so it also serves as a speakerphone (when connected to your phone via bluetooth).All that said, don't expect huge, amazing sound, or absurd amounts of volume. It's very good for its size, but it is quite small, so it isn't great. It has a surprising amount of bass for such a small speaker, but it will be easily outdone by your home or car audio system. The same can be said for its overall volume. As an alternative to your phone's external speaker (or maybe a speaker built in to a computer monitor), this thing is absolutely amazing. As an alternative to a home stereo, or a good set of PC speakers, it's not so great.What is great about this speaker is its convenience. It's small and light enough to fit in your pocket. Its batteries seem to last forever. You can connect to it via bluetooth or analog line-in (like you would with PC speakers). It has its own volume controls that will change the volume of your bluetooth device or attenuate the analog signal.I purchased it to listen to audio books while dragging a uhaul trailer on a 9 hour trip. The truck only had am/fm radio, and the little FM transmitters I've used in the past don't work well when traveling through cities. With this speaker sitting in the seat next to me, running at full volume, I was able to clearly hear the book (but it did require full volume from the speaker). I also listened to some music, but the small size and lots of ambient noise (from driving) meant that the sound fidelity was just so-so... definitely better than listening to AM radio talk shows, but not as good as the truck's own sound system on FM radio with good reception. However, now that I own it, I sometimes turn it on in the house when I'm doing chores where there isn't otherwise a radio, and I find the sound to be perfectly acceptable. It's nothing to write home about, but it gets the job done.I would absolutely recommend this product, but don't set your expectations too high when it comes to sound quality.