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oh hey what's up tube Willington here and welcome to this video we're going to be taking a close look at the JBL extreme 2 and we're also going to be comparing it to the JBL extreme that goes for what features have been changed or upgraded or downgraded and we're also going to be comparing the sound so the review and sound battle if you're interested in that stay tuned okay so the unboxing experience is going to be like any other JBL speakers nothing fancy and in the box you find the JBL extreme to a power adapter the paperwork stuff and a strap which is kind of been improved it now has a bottle opener and why are you giving me a black strap to go with a blue speaker it just kind of looks like a knockoff just doesn't look right as far as design there are a few touch-ups here in there this extreme 2 is slightly bigger than the extreme but the main frame or skeleton if when I call it that is not changed as you can see the speaker look pretty much the same with just minor touch-ups here and there you still have your buttons up here the only difference is that instead of the JBL connect you now have the JBL connect plus on the new JBL extreme 2 which is fantastic because that means you are able to connect all the new JBL connect plus enabled speakers with this new JBL extreme to the key ours have a new design on them with a 3d JBL logo print and I'm personally conflicted on this I thought I liked the design of the old pr's but the more I loved and use the new speaker and look at these ones the mom like I kind of don't mind them so it's kind of a toss-up of that one you still have your strap hooks up here but they are slightly redesigned they look bigger beefier and I personally think they actually look better than that the old ones here and since this is the waterproof speaker they now have all your ports behind here behind this flap and this is where you will find your charging ports and yep they still have no USB or micro USB charging or even USB C charging not cool JBL and next to that is one USB port for charging your power-hungry devices a service port and lastly a 3.5 millimeter audio input and as always always make sure you have this completely sealed off pretty tight before you submerge or expose the speaker to water otherwise it's gonna go kaput and your warranty will not cover it so always make sure that's sealed before exposing the speaker to water that's a pro tip right there they still have your power indicators right here down at the bottom just like the extreme they have different feet here if they look a little bit nicer so that is a nice touch there's not really any difference in the grip on the surface but they are different and the material as we all know that's what JBL has been doing for the last few speakers that they've been making with the fabric material so that is still there but I think well they have the cool JBL extreme - logo on there so that is new but I think that's it for the outside now let's focus on what they have housed inside the speaker and see what's the difference between the two internally the JBL extreme two is slightly heavier than the JBL extreme by about half a pound and they updated from bluetooth 4.1 on the JBL extreme to bluetooth 4.2 I was hoping for something like 5.0 as far as Bluetooth version but we're still rocking 4.2 or more speakers I'm not sure why because it's been out for quite some time now but Bluetooth manufacturers or makers are still running 4.2 at the most so I'm not sure what's going on there and I don't know the extreme two is now completely waterproof you can submerge it into water and it will not be affected at all that's in comparison to the JBL extreme which only is splash proof IP x5 raining whereas this one has ipx7 rating they have shuffled around the sizes of the drivers to hear a little bit we now have 17 millimeter drivers in the JBL extreme to comparable to the 65 millimeter no 63 millimeter drivers that we had in the JBL extreme and we had 35 millimeter tweeters in the JBL extreme and they have downscaled that to 20 millimeter tweeters in the JBL extreme 2 now the next thing that is probably affected by the changes in the drivers is the frequency of response rating now we only had 70 Hertz lowest rated on the JBL extreme but now the lowest rating on the frequency curve on the JBL extreme tube is 55 Hertz which is good don't get me wrong that is really good at least when it at 70 but I honestly was hoping for something a little bit lower than that on something like maybe 20 Hertz or at least 40 Hertz at least 40 Hertz I mean Sony is doing that with the x-term speed speakers the XP 40 the XP 41 the XP 31 they can all go as well as 20 Hertz not as loud like you can barely hear it but it is there and I was hoping for something like that for speaker this big a new wasted version I don't know why JBL could not go at least lower than 55 but disappointed but I'm happy that at least they went lower than the extreme and talking about frequency response maybe this is a good time that we get a sound sample of these two speakers so we can compare and contrast and see which one maybe sounds better and we will start that with a frequency response test as usual I will record this using a high quality binaural microphone so for the best experience please use headphones and with that said let's hear the speakers speak enjoy basically nothing there it's barely anything there you have to win you okay so as you could hopefully tell the best performance of the GBO extreme - is better than that of the JBL extreme surprise surprise overall I think the JBL extreme - sounds better it's it has a wider dynamic range in its sound it sounds cleaner and overall I think the JBL extreme - sounds better and you're asking which one is louder well that's where things start to get a little bit funky see when the extreme two is plugged in it's about as loud as the JBL extreme they're about the same but when this is running of its batteries when the JBL extreme 2 is running of battery no cords attached the extreme is louder than the GFDL extreme - why they would do that I have no idea my guess is they didn't want to cut down the playtime hour or the advertised playtime hour on the JBL extreme - so they wanted to keep it at 15 hours play time on the box but since this has bigger drivers and they have it has bigger bears which means will drain power a little bit modernist so instead of putting in a bigger battery they thought well we just cut down the consumption of the speaker during the battery mode so it does not drain the battery which will make it less hours to get out of it compared to the JBL extreme so instead of going that route so because they want to save that they just cut down the power consumption the power output of the extreme - just to keep the power I mean they play time the same on the two speakers I don't get it I would up with father speaker to at least have 12 hours to play time advertised and have it loud because when someone is buying these speakers here it's not because they want to keep it plugged in if you go outside you want the speaker to be as loud as you can get it you know what I mean instead of coming inside plug it in or so loud when you plug it in but I'm gonna be indoors I don't want it to be as loud as it gets I want the opposite go outside you can make it as long as you want and when you come inside you usually tell the speaker down because it's a confined smaller room than the outside but what JBL did here I have no idea what they were thinking I don't know okay so I think those are the notable differences between these two speakers I'm not sure if I missed something here so the big question is is it worth it to upgrade personally yes I would upgrade in a heartbeat I mean I kind of already did and I'm gonna get rid of this but here's the thing I'm the new upgrade the improved performance in sound and you know that better best performance is good for me I like this most of you already know and we now have a fully waterproof speaker which is another plus I hate the battery on the JBL extreme I suffer a lot they stupid thing will tell me to go charge it and I will go charge it two minutes two SEC's for when I take another look at it I would say it's only got like two like two bars on there so the battery issues on the JBL extreme are not very very enticing like welcoming but I like this one here because at least so far it's Barry performs better wolf I mean I hate the fact that it has the stupid different performances doing the AC or DC mode but overall I think it's a better speaker if JBL can put out maybe of a firmware update to where they take out that limitation during the battery mode I would be very very happy with this speaker otherwise if you're someone who is looking for the loudest of the loudest when you go outside I think this would be a better deal here I mean it's still what up I mean splash proof and it's louder outside it's smaller and you will be getting it cheaper because now this one is out you're probably sitting about at least a hundred dollars getting this so there is that in addition to wait I think that's it that's cut that covers this video please let me know what you think about this two speakers in the comment section below if you're not subscribed make sure you do subscribe because I'm gonna be pushing out a lot of sound battles comparing the new JBL extreme 2 to all the other speakers that you guys have requested a lot so many so if you're not subscribed please make sure you do so if you liked the video leave a like if you didn't like it feel free to leave a dislike I just want to get some sort of feedback from you because you watched the video yes I think that concludes video thanks for watching I will see you in the next video peace you put the whip skip booty skip you didn't anything that