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I have an xtreme 2 and it's a very convenient and enjoyable device. My pet-peeve is that when I bought it, its sound-signature was very close to my JBL studio

I have an xtreme 2 and it's a very convenient and enjoyable device. My pet-peeve is that when I bought it, its sound-signature was very close to my JBL studio monitors. I was astounded by the quality. It could give you goose-bumps. Unfortunately people started complaining that it does not have enough bass and with every firmware update since then, JBL increases the bass response and destroys everything else. There is no way to downgrade the firmware. It's still a good speaker but nowhere near what it can do when tuned for fidelity instead of bass. :(

wheels 6y ago
Interesting. Since Sony, whose Bluetooth speakers I'd been using for most of a decade, discontinued most of their higher-end stuff, I tried out the JBL Charge 4 earlier this year and was astounded at how bad the sound quality was. There was a very ugly rumble in the low mids that was grating. I'd wondered if I'd gotten a defective unit since the sound quality was so bad, but was disenchanted enough to look elsewhere. From what you're saying, it sounds like they may have been another victim of the bass wars. I ended up going for the Anker SoundCore Boost, which I genuinely thought sounded better and is a third the cost.