Portable Speaker Recommendation

Ohhhh, after watching the video I realise that’s a Unit 4, which costs €800. I thought you meant it’s €4800 per unit :joy:

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Yeah, well 800 seemed a bit but I am still tempted, that would have been absolutely insane :joy:

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I use a Soundcore Motion+ with my Digitakt. I love the sound, nice deep bass, decent stereo spread for the size. Biggest issue is using the Aux In. If there is only a second or two of silence or even just really low volume in the incoming audio, the sound cuts out until a louder threshold is reached. It is really annoying as a lot of my music has pauses and soft/quiet parts. Totally kills the flow and playing/listening experience. There is no way to disable this. I am curious to know if the x600 has the same issue. I’ve tried a couple different JBL speakers and they have the same issue but is actually worse than the Soundcore.

Oh, interesting to know. I’ll check and report back.

I have owned 2x JBL Partybox 110’s for over a year, and been almost flawless.

They have a lovely deep warm bass down to 40hz or so. Too much when you add the bass boost imho.

Nice reliable app that with a bit of eq adjustment sound good, and using them wirelessly in tws mode work flawlessly.

The 3.5mm inputs have no lag and work fine with dj and music equipment. Also mountable on speaker poles.

Battery life remains decent at 5-15hrs depending on volume, and even go a bit louder when mains plugged.

They have taken a beating and keep impressing.

I don’t like the light show stuff, but it’s easy to turn off. Also might be too big for some, but it’s a good sweet spot and they impressed so much a bunch of friends have picked them up as well.

The other one I considered was the soundbok 3. Maybe I’ll upgrade one day but for now the jbl’s do everything required.

Just bought a audio pro addon T3+, after searching high and low for a speaker with:

Line input

Good battery life (check 12-30hours)

No automatic gain compensation or compression (check)

Flatish response (good enough, see graph below)

Build quality seems great, solid and around 2kg, strong built in handle, nice and compact, no fuss controls, although I’d prefer a volume dial to -/+ buttons.

Available in a variety of colours, I went for the grey one.

Frequency response chart.

I also considered a Mackie Freeplay Home, but their technical support guy was neither knowledgeable or helpful, after 5 emails he still did not seem to grasp what I was asking, nor did he know if their product had automatic gain control or compression. First the mackie guy suggest I buy one of their PA systems, then a pair of studio monitors, after me already going to lengths to explain I wanted a portable speaker, for home use, and I had already told him I had studio monitors.

By contrast the audio pro tech support answered my question right away and gave me the correct information.

I think the price of the T3+ is pretty good (£150 RRP, but can be found for less, I paid £129) and it sounds very nice, and goes plenty loud enough for portable jams.

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A couple other things I forgot to mention:

It has removable user replaceable battery pack.
It can be used as a USB power bank to charge phone or whatever.
It has reasonable stereo due to having 2 tweeters, but temper expectations as they are only about 15cm apart, still better than nothing.
Swedish.

But yeah, highly recommend for anyone looking for a speaker suitable for portable jams.

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Bought this thing based on your recommendation and it’s da bomb :smiley:

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Great aren’t they?

Yes I’m thinking of getting a second one at some point :laughing:

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The UK shop has them (white/black/grey) for £99: Addon T3+: Portable Bluetooth Speaker with Exceptional Battery Life

UK addresses only. I just tried to order the Peter Eugen edition to US. No luck.

Nice find!

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Try Amazon?

Sorry, should have clarified… I can get then to the US from a couple places, but not the limited edition one, and not at the sale price.

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Any latency using the Aux port? Last cheap speaker I got was unusable to use with gear.

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I have several C10 mk1s dotted around the house. They are most excellent.
Multi room audio on a budget.

For those interested, there´s a Valentine`s Day Discount
on their homepage right now.
For the T3+ it´s 160,- €, free shipping (to Germany)

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We take our JBL Boombox everywhere…long battery life and sounds great.

None, and no annoying trigger happy power save mode, and no loudness protection nonsense either - all surprisingly common on lots of other speakers.

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You should get a commission from Audio Pro on these :grinning: After reading your post this morning, I found one of these on the second hand market (an unused speaker for 80 euros) and then proceeded to embark on a 50 km bike ride to go get it.

I’ve been in the market for a portable speaker for some time, and I have actually owned this specific speaker (or a very close iteration) some years ago. I sold it then because I was in the market for something with more punch, but for a portable, temporary setup (where you’re not going to do your final mixing and mastering) it works great.

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I couldn’t find the power very easily … can anyone tell me ? Looks like it might be 10-15 watts from the size (total guesswork).

EDIT: Found the manual. Turns out the ‘woofer’ is in fact 15 watts.

A straightforward setup. I like it :star_struck:.

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