My Favorite Bluetooth Speaker Is on Sale for $50 Off Right Now

JBL makes a mean Bluetooth speaker, and the brand's Flip bid has been my all-time favourite for aggregate generations. The JBL Flip 7 is its champion yet, with bully sound, a travel-ready size, and subtle but effectual upgrades implicit the erstwhile 2 models successful some dependable and features. I emotion this talker and its astir indestructible design, and present it's yet getting immoderate bully sales. Right now, you'll find it for $50 disconnected its $150 retail price, the lowest we've seen it yet.

I utilized the Flip 5 arsenic my go-to audio companion astatine location and connected the roadworthy for years. The Flip 7 is better, providing adjacent clearer and much almighty dependable to heighten everything from barbecue jams to dialog arsenic I ticker movies from my PC successful the blistery tub (what tin I say, I similar to multi-task!). The Flip's plan works large for the blistery tub since it's afloat dunkable, and offers convenient controls for my slippery hands erstwhile I request to set the measurement oregon intermission the fun.

The Flip 7 offers immoderate chill caller features, including a caller detachable loop that breaks distant with the property of a fastener (just marque definite you don't suffer it), upgraded IP68 particulate and h2o resistance, and a caller shockproof casing tested for three-foot drops. The Flip enactment has ever been beauteous drop-friendly, and I tin personally attest to dropping this happening a lot with nary sick effects.

JBL has besides begun to adhd Auracast to its caller talker line, a future-looking diagnostic that uses a caller Bluetooth protocol for latency-free transmission of an infinite fig of devices. Auracast is inactive new, but it's an highly promising technology, and presently lets you link the Flip 7 with different JBL Auracast speakers successful tandem. The lone downside is that JBL has done distant with its older PartyBoost feature, truthful you tin lone radical the Flip 7 with newer speakers similar the Charge 6 and Clip 5.

As acold arsenic dependable prime goes, this is simply a much refined Flip, with insignificant upgrades to instrumental definition, noticeable successful instruments similar brass, strings, and vocals. It's not a large alteration implicit the Flip 6, but it's bully to spot improvement, and the talker has mislaid immoderate of the much assertive interaction that sometimes led to insignificant distortion successful older models. Like virtually immoderate Bluetooth speaker, it volition inactive distort if you propulsion it excessively hard, but I clocked it astatine implicit 75 dB successful my reappraisal without immoderate audible issues.

You'll besides get a spot much artillery beingness this clip around, going from 12 hours successful erstwhile models to 14 (depending connected volume), truthful you tin instrumentality it disconnected the grid for a spot longer. You tin adjacent propulsion that up to 16 hours with its caller Playtime Boost mode, though that cuts retired immoderate bass.

It each adds up to a saccharine small package. It's my archetypal proposal erstwhile anyone asks maine astir a large portable speaker, offering the cleanable compromise betwixt size, sound, and durability. While it's been bouncing up and down successful terms lately, now's a large clip to drawback it astatine the lowest terms we've seen yet.

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