

Now when it comes to the design of this speaker…. Regardless if you want to pick any of these speakers up they’ll be linked down below… but I would wait for the Charge 5 to go on sale.

And now that the Charge 5 is here the Charge 4 is on sale for $130. It has a retail price of $180 but in a few short weeks it’ll start going on sale for $150… and maybe even a little less on major holidays. But then it would list for $150 making you think that you got a deal… So I wouldn’t be surprised if we see the same deal with the Charge 5. Now a few months after the charge 4 came out it got a price increase to $180. So today we’re going to check out the JBL Charge 5 and we’re also going to compare it to the JBL Charge 4 and JBL Charge 3.īut first we’ve got to addressing pricing… the new charge 5 has a retail price $180, which is $30 more than the charge 4 when it first came out. Some that are great and others that aren’t as good. It’s also worth noting that tracks from services that offer lossless streaming (such as Apple Music, Tidal, Qobuz, and Amazon Music) sound noticeably better on the Charge 5 than the lossy tracks available from Spotify or YouTube Music.At first glance the new JBL Charge 5 just looks like another redesign with an over done gaudy logo on the front… but there are actually some very major changes here under the hood. If your tastes run to more contemporary hits like those by Bad Bunny, Harry Styles, Kendrick Lamar, and Kate Bush, the Charge 5 sounds so good that I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that contemporary mix engineers use the JBL portables as reference speakers during their mix sessions. On notoriously low-fi recordings like Question Mark and the Mysterians’s “96 Tears” and the 13 th Floor Elevators’s “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” the Charge 5 doesn’t sand off the rough edges that give garage-rock classics like these their sonic teeth. Tambourine Man,” the Charge 5 delivers exceptional detail and separation between voices and instruments, whereas lesser speakers tend to turn the midrange into an indistinguishable wall of sound. On Apple’s ‘60s Rock Essentials playlist, the Charge 5 consistently impresses.
