JBL Partyboost Vs JBL Connect Plus - It Really Is Better 

Ill stay with my connect + speakers. Indoors connection is great and I dont need anything else

I'm surprised nobody ran by and grabbed a speaker , great vid btw I'm hoping for the JBL Pulse 4 review and please compare it to the Pulse 3 and 2

Bluetooth didn't change just the strength of the transmitters. They could've let the new ones run on either software - I'm guessing. There are only 2 products they are selling with Part Boost at this moment so wth? It's a terrible marketing idea to obsolete the connect+

Always am interested in how far you can pair 2 speakers from each other. Excellent video, thanks man. 👍

didnt expect that..

Just dont understand why they couldn't upgrade the charge 4 at least or the Xtreme 2 that's a let down

charge 3 is the only speaker that had a firmware update to connect+

Great analysis and test you showed us. You're definitely the best out there. I watch your videos more for the entertainment and curiosity factor than the actual purchasing advice. I think JBL did a great job ipgrading to party boost. Technology is all about innovation and improvement and they hit it right on the nail with this one. I does however suck balls that they didn't upgrade the Charge 4 and Xtreme 2. Especially since they haven't even been out for a year.

I wished I had seen this video before I purchased the JBL pulse 3. I had seen other videos on the same product. This is one of the best reviews out of all the ones I have seen. I like the way you utilized the football field in comparing the blue tooth frequency range. This what I wanted to know what the range was. I'm impressed with the range of the JBL pulse 4 wow amazing. I would have purchased that model but due to the price of $200 was way too much I wanted to spend. I was going to buy the pulse 3 in Walmart of almost $170 and when I did a search on Amazon they had the pulse 3 at $120 I was sold and just recently purchased the pulse 3 on Amazon.

You cleared my all doubts, excellent work

Good Video.....I have to JBL Extremes 1 and just bought 2 JBL Pulse 4 and love them .... cheers

Thanks man. The other reviewers bashed JBL without considering this.

All my speakers are connect + and they all work perfectly anywhere in my home but every once in a while one of my speakers may crackle or pop but overall he connection is pretty solid

Pulse 4 looks dope.

My friend has a JBL Charge 4 and I have a Xtreme 2, I can confirm the range is amazing, I work in a warehouse, we tested how far it would go, there's literally no place it wouldn't reach

I recently bought 2 flip 5's thinking they'd be a great stereo pair. It's been mostly frustration every time I use them since they periodically just cut out for a couple seconds and only 1 speaker will be playing until they reconnect. Really kills the vibe, I'll be returning them soon.

great test. really good info. Thanks!

Pulse 4 needs a firmware update for backwards compatibility.

i was wondering why my coworker and i couldn't connect our 2 speakers, now i know about the different pairing technologies. annoying to find out but at least now i know

GREAT JOB DUDE!!

I know using connect + has a lag when using RU-vid between every song. Does partyboost fix this?

GREAT GREAT VIDEO, well done. Keep it up!!!🤝

The range has nothing to do with it. JBL wants to render your $500 speaker from last year useless.

Id love to see an update that includes Soundcore's PartyCast 2.0, any any other speakers that can support pairing more than 2 speakers

cant even connect the charge 4 and pulse 4 togehter via aux cause jbl pulled an apple on the pulse 4.

Anyone know where Altec Lansing's House Party mode stacks up? looking to move away from Altec as my waterproof stereo speakers. Not satisfied with the range, looking at JBL Extreme with Connect+ but wondering where it will stack up.

How did you measure those range tests? Cause officially the range between 2 paired speakers in partyboost is only 5 meters (6 yards), for best resulst recommend only 2,5m (3y). A friend of mine who has 2 Flip 6 said sth similar about his experience. My 2 sony xb33 (party connect) have a range about 10-12 meters (13y) with frees sight, for best results with people standing between 6m (7y).

I have a charge 4 do you think I can get another one and use the connect+ and being able to watch movies with both ? Would it have issues with latency Thanks I’m not an expert but I know you are

Great video. Are there are portable speakers that can pair together like this, but also double as home entertainment speakers? Guessing like a wireless Sonos speaker option

Okay what I'm hearing is that I should ditch my charge 4 for a charge 5 just in time for the charge 6 to come out and have a connect platform that isn't compatible with the charge 5.

But why they dont put like to be conpatible with all the connect and + and patyboost..

I'm already having problems W Connect+ range, as my speaker was connecting to my neighbor's speakers instead of my other XTreme 2, there's no way I want more range... They should have focused on solving that kind of issue, as nobody asked to make a new technology to throw parties in a stadium...

I was wondering why my boombox 2 wouldn’t connect to other jbl speakers.

With partyboost, mine will disconnect from each other after around 20-30 minutes leaving only the master one playing. Do you have this issue as well?

Solid video!

Innovate and improve is fine but at the same time they should have dome something to make it backward compatible. I understand there might be a new hardware involved but still they should have provided a way to insert old hardware to support at least connect+. This will be very bad for sales as the dissatisfied customer like me will go for some other brand since any way i can't connect this with my older collection and this is terrible. most importantly, was planning to buy charge 5 but dropped the idea just because i can't connect it with other speakers and i cant just use one.

They are only able to make small to none improvements over the older gen speakers so they force consumers to upgrade using this. You very well can make better connectivity new gen speakers while keeping them backwards compatible. Sure once older speakers connected to chain quality and range would go down but that would be acceptable it won't effect new gen speakers but allow older ones to get in. So they are either lazy or sinister take your pick.

Partyboost is all about stable and quality connection. 👍🔥 Good job.

With Partyboost, what happens with additional speakers? Do they all connect to speaker#1 (paired to the phone), or do they connect to the nearest speaker? In the first case, it would be possible to have a 200 yard diameter wheel with the main speaker at the center and other speakers 100 yards out, at the end of the spokes. With the second arrangement, it would be theoretically possible to arrange speakers in a line spanning many hundreds of yards, with one speaker handing off to the next. So can you clarify how this extended arrangement would work, and whether latency ever becomes an issue? Thanks for a great video and clever graphic illustration on the football field. You answered my initial questions perfectly!!!

Since bluetooth connection allows two different devices to pair up. Can you use a connect + and a partyboost connection at the same time? Then use all your connect + devices?

Actually the distance might be even less because there might be a buffer of the music data still playing while the connection has already lost.

They should upgrade speakers that came with connect+ already So R.I.P Xtreme, Pulse 2, Charge 2+ and 3, and Flip 3 users including me using Charge 3:(

I have a question on the range you can achieve with a third, fourth speaker and so on. Could you line them up an extend the range this way? or do the range have to be measured from the first speaker to any other speaker? We are wondering if we can skip alot of sound equipment on pour sport events in future this way. Here are my scenarios: 1. Speaker A on 0 yard. Speaker B on 60 yard. Speaker C on 120 yard. Phone connected with speaker B. Will all speaker work? 2. Speaker A on 0 yard. Speaker B on 60 yard. Speaker C on 120 yard. Phone connected with speaker A. Will speaker C work? 3. Speaker A on 0 yard. Speaker B on 60 yard. Speaker C on 120 yard. Speaker D on 180 yards. Phone connected with speaker A. Will speaker D work? I hope someone has tested something that special or could to it.

I hate that the flip 5 and charge 4 are mono. Im happy with my flip 4 and charge 3.

Does it remember? By this I mean if you connect to speakers with partyboost and put them in stereo, will they stay in stereo when you turn them off and on again? Connect did this but connect plus did away with it

First off, JBL needs to drop party Boost until its backwards compatible with older gear. Second, and this is an idea that should be kicked around at JBL, being able to connect two speakers in stereo ( you pick which ones ), and have the rest play in "party mode". I'm actually surprised we don't the ability to do 5.1 or 7.2 surround on Bluetooth 5.2 yet. I think being able to add a Bluetooth sub-woofer would also, really add punch to many of JBL's smaller speaker lineup. The boombox is awesome, there no denying this, but its not a dedicated sub-woofer and its quite expensive. I have two extreme 2's, and if I was able to use them as dedicated subs (LFM) via the app, that would be awesome. I'm sure JBL could find a way to use them as such (safely), without damaging the drivers. The upper suits that run the Bluetooth speaker division over at JBL need ideas. They are dropping the ball here big time on party boost, and forgetting about the customers/products that got them where they are today. Don't shun connect+ as if its a redheaded stepchild JBL, keep it as part of the family.

How many speakers can you link with the party boost tho? I can’t find that info anywhere it just says ‘multiple’ 🤷🏽‍♀️

That's a nice test and a fair opinion. Kudo's all the way!

They did this with JBL connect, and now they’re doing it with ConnectPlus. If they really want to do this, they’ve got to refresh every single solitary one of their speakers at the same time. Or, they should put both technologies into the connect plus speakers, and put all three into the party boost speakers. This is insane. This is why Sony wireless party chain is better. It’s backwards compatible. Another way that JBL could make their protocols backwards compatible by using the same signal frequency, but just boosting it.

Very disappointed JBL partyboost not compatible with JBL Connect +. I got JBL Pulse 3 and recently bought JBL Pulse 4, I expected them work together in PartyBooost or JBL connect +. Unfortunately Pulse 4 PartBoost not compatible with Pulse 3 Connect +. So they don't work together. Pulse 4 only work with Flip 5. that's it. I wish JBL upgrade Firmware make PartyBoost backwards compatible with Connect +. Otherwise you all know. .

With my flip 4, two charge 3, one charge 4 and one xtreme 2 I'll never change connect+

Do you know if JBL said anything about upgrading to partyboost on the charge 4 or Xtreme 2 ? I mean those two aren’t even out a year with Connect plus nd know there is something new that’s kinda stupid they at least need to upgrade those two in my opinion

They should at least maintain backward compatibility with Connect+. Pretty sure it's mostly a software limitation, maybe in a bad bid to make the previous products feel obsolete. Even the latest Wi-Fi AX routers maintain compatibility with wi-fi AC/N/B/G. The latest bluetooth technologies are also able to connect to older bluetooth devices. Seriously, This type of behaviour is what will cause JBL to lose customers over the long run - They're doing themselves a big disfavour. I have an Xtreme 2 and would have considered buying the Boombox 2 if there was backward compatibility. Too bad their engineers didn't bother to make that happen...So not buying any new JBL speakers for a long while.

But no one would go 80 yards, I just need my charge 3 to flip 5 to connect together

Of course it's programmed obsolescence, rendering a new line-up totally incompatible with the previous one for the sole benefit of extending the connection from 40 to 80 yards... who TF are you kidding.

Yeah this is planned obsolescence. They could have released a wireless repeater if range really was an issue, which for the vast majority of customers it is not.

so, the question is: HOW MANY PARTYBOOST SPEAKERS CAN I CONNECT SIMULTANIASLY?

Kind of ridiculous that partyboost isn't backwards compatible with connect + I'd have to purchase two new boombox 2s to achieve what i want in my yard. Smh

That’s annoying I have a charge 4 and just got a pulse 4 smh I didn’t even know

Yea i pared a flip 5,charge 5 and pulse 4

i donot have any jbl device now but want to have one which one do you recommend flip 4 or 5

Can you connect JBL PartyBoost speakers in stereo mode to a PC or laptop?

Why the hell can’t they just let us join backwards. Such a cheap way to make you buy more speakers

Yeah, there are only 3 scenarios here: scenario 1: It's just a new encoding method. - you can update the software that defines that, that is what the JBL app is for scenario 2: It's a hardware change. - what did you change? 1. The antenna - okay, the older speakers will have a smaller range, but whatever 2. The chip that encodes it. - okay, then MAYBE, if there truly was no way to make it compatible you have a point, but you can't seriously believe that there was no way scenario 3: You changed the frequency on which it transmits. - did you do this on purpose? just to make it not compatible? really?

Some extra range? Come on at least make the XTREME 2 compatible

Hello the boomboc is compatible with flip 5 ?

Can we connect Xtreme2 with Pulse4 ?

I have the boom box and was going to buy a party box and a flip 5 today but if Jbl is trying to con it’s customers I’m out. Don’t sell me connect technology that no longer connects to a system that I’ve already sunk hundreds of dollars in to. Rip off, rip off, rip off.

How many speakers can you pair together ?

pulse 4 is the bezelless

I prefer connect plus

I have a Charge 3 and a Charge 4. Both have connect+. I was looking foward to grab a bigger one, but both the boombox 2 and the xtreme 3 are not compatible with the ones I awready have, so nope, I'm not buying this bullshit.

Pulse 3 best speaker of all time

This not good Jbl.. I disappoint

This is a real bullshit move by JBL! I have the charge 4 and this speaker at least should’ve been upgraded to partyboost.. I wish somebody was able to create some kind of custom firmware to side-load.

Wow just released this now, JBL u srs...

Fuck me. I just bought the jbl flip 5. I have the jbl charge 4

Sony can barely go across my pool sadly.

I think I am just going to buy another pulse 2 and use that pair with my JBL Extreme.

I really liked my JBL Flip 3. I sold a ton of friends on it, because being able to connect all the speakers together was great. But in a year the battery tanked. It can barely play for a few hours. Now a mere two years-ish later, they're repeating the exact same planned obsolescence garbage. I appreciate your perspective, and that JBL are trying to innovate, but I only see a company trying to make poor quality goods that will quickly make their way to a landfill for years. Where are our replaceable batteries? Why not have a fallback mode to connect/connect+. The reasons are obvious.

Damn dude hit sony hard , that was a great ending lmfao!!!😂😂😂 (Then your gonna end up like sony and not even make it to the 18yrd line!!!) Innovation baby!!!😋

QUESTION: Who on earth wants to make a party, friends only, in a football field? I'm just buying BB1 w Conect+, so I can connect w my 2 XTreme 2s that I can already spread all over my houses w their respective sizes... 👍

100

not worth

WHHHYYYYYY :D

2nd

Pure Greed.

Flip 4 is still better than Flip 5.

Partyboost🗑