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I'm David karna executive editor for cnet.com and I'm here with the H MDX Jam Plus this is the successor to the original Jam which is one of the most popular Bluetooth speakers a lot of it had to do with the way it was packaged it was packaged to sort of look like a jar of jam this comes in multiple colors and the key thing about this speaker is that it's a little bit bigger and most importantly you compare it with a second jam plus speaker and put it into stereo mode that's right one speaker can be the left speaker on one speaker can be the right speaker that feature is pretty new this is one of the first speakers to offer it but it is going to become more prevalent with Bluetooth speakers it is very easy to set up you simply set the switch for one of the speakers to left on the bottom of the device and the other one to right and you can set them up they are fifty dollars each so that turns it into a hundred dollar purchase but at least you can expand the system if you want to the jam plus does sound a little bit better than the original Jam it is a little bit bigger speaker so there's a little bit more bass doesn't sound fantastic it's a little bit thin and placement of this speaker is important you'll get a little bit more bass if you place it in the corner of a room for instance or against a wall but it does sound a little bit better than the original Jam so that's a good thing in terms of battery life you get about four hours of battery life that isn't great for one of these speakers but it's okay this is as I said a wireless bluetooth speaker so you get about a 30-foot range from it and it does have some controls on the front but most people will use their smartphone or tablet as the remote there also is an audio input so you could use this as a computer speaker or use it with devices that don't have bluetooth so all in all this is a nice sequel to the original Jam does sound a little bit better and the fact that you can pair it with another speaker definitely is a nice feature to be able to go into stereo mode you will get a bigger sound with that and get that stereo separation I'm David Carr noise and that's the H MDX jm+ thanks watch