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hello and welcome to the long-awaited comparison video of the XL versus the JBL extreme that all were asking for please take some time as I will be playing lots of music with different genres this time to give you the best possible impression of how both compare what their weaknesses and strengths are I also thought about going outdoors but it's so windy that I will have to do this another time this time we will concentrate on sound indoors but first please let me give you some facts about the Foo XL I didn't quite know what to expect from the speaker because of the comments on YouTube and also some reviewer who claimed that the mega boom has more bass I don't think this is true that fugu XL is a pretty sounding speaker with class-leading bass response it has very deep reaching base below 45 Hertz even here 40 Hertz while the JBL extreme may have more bass but it simply boosted its booming bass boost at 75 Hertz but below there is hardly anything that we excel has nice and clean response to 40 Hertz the only thing I'm missing is a little bit of treble sparkle I mean the treble is there and it's smooth but it's missing this brilliance it sounds as if it was packed or wrapped into something and in reality this into the jacket here if we take the core out I think it sounds a little bit better still I would prefer it with more treble and I think this could be done with some future update but as you can see the core itself is not very large and these two parts here are only some some bumpers so if you think them away it becomes even smaller so it's quite a bit smaller than the JBL extreme and quite impressive if you keep in mind how well it performs what the JBL extreme of course does better is play loud it can play quite a bit louder and outdoors that bass pounds much more so it's perfect for dance music hip hop and so on if you need high loudness the Fukui Excel doesn't play quite loud it has an auto outdoor and indoor mode but the auto mode pushes meats a bit forward it becomes louder but also these thoughts quite a bit so if you are loudness junkie and want the the loudest speaker around ya I wouldn't probably choose the fugu excel and although it's an outdoor speaker ract waterproof and so on I think it sounds much better indoors than the JBL extreme that JBL extreme becomes Bumi very boosted drowning sound while the flu XL sounds really decent also because of the 360 degree sound it sounds very open very broad you really get some nice stereo separation which is rather missing from the JBL of course to show you all this I will be wearing my by normal microphones for the audio recording and you have to listen with headphones to get the best results because listening from speakers to binaural recordings doesn't sound true for the best and most realistic impression you have to wear headphones so please put them up and we will have a listen as you can see I set them up slightly offset this is because the main drivers of the fuga are at the sides here so this way they have a little bit air to breathe I will start with something classical a barack title from Henry Purcell because many always complaining that I don't play any orchestral music so let's have a listen I'm starting with the fool Oh here a much broader sound from the FUBU you let's try something else Oh listen how open the sound is you have the impression of having large speaker in front of you that JBL is very narrow you're from behind it loses quite a bit and then one day I'll go away living high living in some other way if you awesome you can hear that after switching the food we Excel always ramps up the volume a little bit this will become hard to compare both at maximum because the fugu will always start lower so we will have to look for some solution but first another trick again with the food starting first you already hear some droning in the JDL we are slightly about half volume on the JBL the pace is there deep but not as boosted without this hump Hey yeah bass-heavy song with boosted bass leads to look to some problems let's listen to something else and I put them aside this usually enhances bass a little bit so we can hear how both compare regarding bass response you can hear that the JBL bass is simply not asleep the fugu which is quite a bit deeper more than half an octave this sounds a little bit to me now let's see if we can improve the high frequencies as well I already mentioned that the four we excel for my taste sounds a little bit covered so we will try to take it out of this of this jacket here as I think it sounds a little bit clearer better let's try another crack it sounds more refined now I'm not sure if you hear is difference for the recording I mean it's it's a nuance but you'll definitely hear it slightly more a well clearer better without any jacket I mean it's not meant to be used like this but for home use you let's try the obligatory track from some persona this moves really nicely pick up some movement that you're feeling they'll take it you Walter Eli the spikes and after that you see you see occurs the best is like this warming already positively starting you know right and I know nothing the garden one is perfect without giving you free diving moment all the people said sir I'm not sure if you will hear the difference with the jacket or without let's try it yeah I think it's obvious the treble is much finer without without any jacket or color so for critical listening at home and so on I often prefer using it without any jacket I think it also looks quite cool and in fact get my half of season six and buybacks JBL is not that clean either this is this you're quite shrimp ducks here listen how the Kubik cell manages to feel the whole room Hey again something else again the base becomes a bit unclean with the GPL listen how deep the bass drum sounds another JBL if you hear distortion with the bass drum already some aqua talk either yo-yo they're based on really pump let's try another house trick it's nice how separated the star effects are again the bass drum is struggling already let's listen to something else and I will increase volume this is maximum bottom on the to Excel web in your mind you'll hear some stretching this distortion the extreme as well maximum here it's louder there's aspirin pop I was talking about but it's simply much lower morning the nice thing is that it keeps pace even at maximum there is a healthy amount of base it doesn't reduce base that much but the distortion starts becoming a bit out of control JBL is simply much louder I will try turning on outdoor mode it will become louder but even more distorted let's turn on loudness again to maximum let's listen to some rock tune but I hope this could give you a first idea about the sound qualities of the fool as already mentioned and I think you could hear it the bass is really deep and nice but it's not as boosted as on the JBL extreme but we will also see next time when I manage to go outdoors how it sounds outdoors I mean the JBL becomes really very powerful sounding it has simply an advantage outdoors because of this boosted bass response so thanks for watching I hope you liked it and yeah I hope the weather will become nice again to allow me some recordings also outdoors until then yeah please be patient and have a nice time bye bye