JBL Charge 5 Wireless Speaker

Bought 2 of these for Christmas, one for me and my dad. I actually took time to research this size speaker and this jbl sounded great for the price comparison to others and the name says it all “ Charge”!! 5! They market this product proclaiming that it will last 20 hours at 50% volume and you can connect your phone as well to have it charged if need be. Hence the name… (Charge 5). Well………. sorry folks! At 100% this speaker lasts 2-3 hours tops , I lowered the volume a bit to about 80% and same thing, it didn’t matter 100% or 80%. Not sure when your suppose to connect your phone to charge bit I’d make sure the speaker was plugged in. So what’s the point when you obviously plug your phone into the socket right next to the JBL 20hr speaker /charger. Does it sound good? Yes! Does it hold the charge they proclaim? No! Is it a great compact speaker with great looks? Yes! Should you just keep it plugged into AC when using it? YES But that’s not the point of a portable speaker right? I gave a 3 because of al the pro’s I mentioned and it sounds great. Does it hold a cbarge for 4-5 hours or 20 hrs. ? No!

bought this 2 months ago and hated it.. thing literally broke after i used it and knocked it in my pool "20 hour" battery life is a lie. only good thing its its audio quiality.

it’s really good and plays a lot of institutionalized by suicidal tendencies i feel like the speaker has its own personality

havent bought it yet,but it seems fantastic and pretty loud

I have bought 2 they sound great. I may be too picky here but it would be good if you could switch them on and off with the app!

I bought this about 2-3 months ago. I use it daily. The sound is great. However the battery life is worse than my charge 4 by a long shot. I’m lucky to get 5-7 hours of ply time from it. Very disappointing.

Bought this to use as a car stereo in my otherwise music-free fleet vehicle at work, as well as for camping. I will say that the sound quality is good. Distortion free, full range from the high notes to the bass. And it can take a beating, as advertised. Didn't get a chance to put the water resistance to the test, but it stood up to a range of high and low temperatures, and heavy winds carrying dust, and even falling off the dashboard a couple times without faltering. However, that's where the legitimacy of its claims end. Even at full volume, I couldn't hear the music if I walked more than 80' from the truck (engine off, no competing noise). Similarly, camping in the middle of nowhere I had it sitting on the hood of my rig and it wasn't loud enough to make out from the perimeters of camp. And the battery life is abysmal. Far from the advertised "up to 20 hrs." I was lucky if I made it through an 8 hour workday before it quit on me. Never tried to charge my phone from it, because it couldn't even hold a charge itself. I should have listened to my coworkers, who said JBL's quality has gone downhill in recent years. Instead I went with the "known" name. Learned my lesson. Will not buy from JBL again.