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yes your phone tablet and laptop do have speakers but you know what they sound like crap that explains why separate bluetooth stereo speakers are trending really strong these days but man can they be pricey I'm looking at you Bose I'm Bryan Cooley with the top 5 Bluetooth stereo speakers that cost under a hundred bucks I've ranked them by a matrix of CNET rating score against current street price then weighted by user popularity scores yeah Cal Tech helped me let's go number 5 the sound freak sound kick sfq Oh for one of the newer ones we've reviewed it's got 7 hour playback time on a single charge oh you can also charge your phone off its USB port the sounds a little bit thin and it won't function as a wireless speaker phone but it's a good value with an attractive design and good performance for its size number 4 Logitech the z5 15 this one's interesting and then it includes a little USB bluetooth dongle so you can use it to stream from a computer let's say that doesn't have Bluetooth built in as well as from your mobiles that do it's very flexible 10 hour battery life that's up there with the best and it handles a wide range of music well doesn't do speaker phone functionality bear that in mind 78 bucks or so street number 3 is the logitech mini boombox now I'm not sure anything smaller than a toaster it can be called a boombox especially when it's such a cute little bean shaped thing but it's got cool illuminated touch controls on top 10 hour battery life again and quite good sound except with really bass heavy tracks which is ironic for something called boombox but at a current street price of around 78 bucks we're good number two the iHome IDM 11-hour reviewer called it attractively designed I called him high but if you can keep from mistaking this for your boxy box you'll find it puts out pretty good sound from such a small lopsided package it does Bluetooth speaker phone as well personally though when you just want to use an aux cable connection to your portable you have to use this speaker's proprietary cable we you will lose before I take you to number one here's the most compelling reason of all not to spend more than a hundred bucks on Bluetooth speakers because bluetooth streaming inherently doesn't deserve it it sounds good but doesn't sound great because when you do this the mp3 you're listening to has to be reconverted and recompressed as part of the bluetooth streaming process that kind of makes a mess of it so think convenience here not home theater okay the number one affordable bluetooth speaker we love this one is the creative d100 it's got an impressive vase which you almost never hear about a speaker in this category and it uses double-a batteries so you're never stuck without a charge those things alone make up for its lack of speakerphone ability plus it comes in four cooky colors uses a standard aux jack for when you want to wire up your portable and unlike many on our list doesn't look weird it also has the best scene that score and the lowest street price of any I'm showing you about 60 bucks right now by two okay folks that's it for this week thanks for watching and for more like this it's top 5 see Netcom you