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JBL Charge 3 vs Sony SRS-XB3 - outdoor test

2016-04-25
hi today we are going to make another output test people were asking is the charge three loud enough for a beachbody can I hear it over the waves and so on so I came here this should simulate some kind of beach of course it's not summer yet so there are no naked ladies laying around yeah I'm sorry for that but I brought it along with the sony SRS xb3 which is maybe the only one which can really compete loudness wise also sound wise it's pretty nice as we've heard in the indoor test and I also brought the trusty old JBL charge tool so that we can hear how these two compare again outdoors everyone knows how the charge to sounds also knows how loud it is so we can compare the charge three again against the charge tool and you can see how much of an advantage they charge three heads in loudness so as always I will be of course using my binaural microphones also a head cam to give you a first-person view so please put your headphones up and let's check them out so we are sitting here on the empty beach with some noise of the street over there also the water is noisy and as always we also have some wind which hopefully can simulate the situation of a real noisy Beach I have set up the charge 3 in charge 2 here both are playing at levels above half so not maximum later on we will crank them and I will start with the charge 3 this should still allow for some wealth talking with friends and so on and it's definitely enough for background music a touch to know sounds a bit clearer but I think the charge 3 is a bit more pounding so let's stand up and walk around a little bit of course sound starting to disappear so I will turn both to maximum this is the charge tool well we can already hear it struggle a bit I will turn up the charge three as well the end you can hear that it's louder and more powerful yeah this cannot compete therefore let's try the Sony maybe there should be a better contender let's see if it connects yeah the bit and both playing and mix them again another song this is the charge three no I mean I'm standing away let's say six seven meters and it's really loud the sonic yeah you can hear the bear face from already distorts it's not very clean what we could also try is an extra base button which I usually wouldn't quite use but let's have a listen and let's turn it for maximum again there's too much it's louder now but it's unusable I mean they're the JBL sounds like it Ruth some droning mess so let's turn off extra bass again I don't know it's a gimmick I don't not sure what they were smoking when they did this but it's not extra bass but extra noise even without you can hear the distorts a bit more than the track screen let's try another song I will really try a bit higher - we'll have a listen how they sound off axis this is the Sony No and both become a bit muffled let's write a song so you can hear from some distance they are still pretty loud though although you can also hear that the Sony starts swallowing a bit of the drums and and again another song this has a pretty extreme bass drum which makes all the others most because like both sound opinions of this thought heavily but the JBL manages pretty well no distortion nothing and maybe definitely the source more much cleaner something just for fun we could try again extra base this is really more of an effect but it's louder yeah maybe we can try matching the loudness of the Sony no it comes better but the JBL still sounds more convincing this is I will turn it off again it doesn't make quite sense it is not anyhow and also some classic dis committee I will aim them equally so that I can walk away and we have a listen the Sony appears slightly louder here maybe let's try some red pageantry for the fainter haunted eyes themselves oh your business the heavy profit but also here's some distortion already remains really clean let's try some more noisy stuff so I'm exactly on axis with both the Sun it appears a bit more messy also treble is quite directional the charge there may be let's find on a song this is a very loud recording and I will try walking backwards I hope I won't follow something let's see how I can get a sonic we are also here even from 20 meters or something you can hear the distortion this is a bit too much I would say touch me again this sounds really clean okay I cannot go far away because I think there are some bushes in behind me this is the Sony no not that much difference in loudness and I may be thirty meters away let's try another song also very noisy one and you can definitely make some noise and annoy the people around you of a beach but it's not the boombox like all the larger units especially this distortion of the Sony is a bit well annoying I would say the JBL really means remains clean it's too much distortion let's turn them off again I think it was pretty obvious that the charge - and all the other current speakers in this class simply cannot compete with the charge 3 in overall loudness and also not in sound the only one being the sony SRS xb3 which can be in slightly louder with some songs but it applies more dynamic compression and it can distort more the big advantage of the charge free is of course that if it falls into water you won't damage it it's completely waterproof the sony is only splash proof also the sony needs a proprietary charger while the charge 3 can be charged through microUSB I think it's a matter of taste which you like more the zone is a bit more treble heavy but the charge 3 keeps a bit more punch so yeah tell me would you like more tell me for which one you decided I hope this was helpful a bit I wish you a nice time thanks for watching and bye bye
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