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hello dear friends and welcome to another sound comparison with the Teufel Boomster last time we've heard it against the JBL Xtreme this time I have a Klipsch KMC 3 here that was kindly lent to me by a friend I think both units are nicely comparable due to similar size the Teufel Boomster is a bit akwardly constructed thanks to the offset part here otherwise it would be even more compact the Klipsch KMC 3 has no built in rechargeable battery you have to fiddle around with a coin to open the cover put in 8 batteries which will finally make it a portable speaker you could also power it with an external power bank but such a power bank will cost you another 100€ to get a suitable model which will provide enough running time the Teufel Boomster has a built in rechargeable battery hidden behind this cover you can easily replace it and, what I didn't mention last time, you can extend it with additional batteries which means you can extend running time of course the rechargeable battery won't have any space inside anymore you will have to let it hang outside or something but you simply put in some AA-batteries inside which will result in a longer battery life so far I haven't mentioned battery life yet I forgot it the last time but I got more than 5:30 hours at maximum volume with bass at maximum level I cannot say much about the Klipsch so far I only had it playing from batteries but it can already happen that the power-light will start flashing after half an hour with strong bass content and the bass will start cutting out as energy saving mode the subwoofer will be turned down if we have a look at the frequency responses of both you can notice that both will play very similar, especially if the Boomster has bass turned up to maximum both have some kind of treble emphasis too the only difference is, the Klipsch being much more powerful according to the specs according to the spec sheet it should have 90W I think up to 130W maximum the Boomster is specified with 30W I guess up to 40W maximum when simply looking at the output, the KIipsch is the much more powerful unit of course we would like to hear this, that's why I will be using my binaural microphones as always first we will go indoors and have a listen inside at normal listening levels but later we will also go out and listen to both at maximum volume to get an idea how much of a difference in loudness there really is so please put up your headphones to get the best impression from binaural recordings we will go inside and have a listen to both as you can see I put them above each other, that's because the table is too small but you will also hear them more centered to be able to judge the stereo image better I will turn the subwoofer to maximum with the Teufel, to make it better comparable with the Klipsch because the Klipsch is basically very bass heavy But I'll start with the Teufel Boomster first and some smoother tracks the problem with the Klipsch is that it has a very directional treble dispersion when I stand up you will hear what happens the sound becomes rather muffled the Teufel doesn't show this effect to such a strong degree something different Despite bass turned to maximum, the Teufel Boomster sounds somehow more balanced than the Klipsch the Klipsch even sounds droning quite a bit Klipsch again a bit of "Hammond Jazz" Hammond organs have a particularly extreme bass this is also a very bass heavy piece and maybe again that House-track which mostly causes distortion or makes the bassreflex ports fart let's hear the Boomster first and then the Klipsch OK, this wasn't it, this is it... yes, you can hear it slightly, now the Klipsch yeah, doesn't sound funny so I would say let's go out and hear how loud they can play you can see I am again at my usual forest place unfortunately wind upset my plans I'll turn both speakers to maximum the Boomster as well and then control volume from my mobile phone the subwoofer is already at maximum Now I matched both loudnesswise more or less this means the Teufel is playing at maximum the Klipsch at around 3/4 I will play some tracks then I will also turn the Klipsch to maximum, so that we can hear the difference in loudness I will start with the Boomster full volume as mentioned before it is at around 3/4 and slowly I can turn up the Klipsch to maximum this is maximum volume now and the Boomster plays at maximum as well yeah, the difference is pretty big I will go farther to the back you can really hear the Klipsch still pretty well the Boomster is disappearing slightly let's try another title both are still playing at maximum yeah, this is simply much more powerful although the Klipsch is not very clean anymore you don't hear that the Boomster is playing at maximum I have always the impression as if it could play louder and louder it doesn't distort at all it also sounds completely unstrained the engineers could have definitely pushed it farther a bit more dynamic compression, a bit more distortion simply all all that's possible yeah, the Klipsch is not very clean let's try another track, maybe... some Rock or something this is the Boomster yeah, here the difference is huge again with this title the Klipsch remains even pretty clean and the difference is really... let's listen from the side how this sounds the Klipsch becomes quite dull you notice that eventually treble gets lost yet another title this is from "nocopyrightsounds" you have to look them up, they have really nice stuff a real summersong it's called "Entropy" yes, fully clean the Klipsch isn't here anymore. I will reduce volume to be at the same level again I think you can clearly hear that the Klipsch packs even more punch but on the other hand mids and treble get a bit lost yeah, that's it for now! I hope the video could give you a first rough impression of the sound qualities of both speakers on loudness alone the Boomster doesn't come close to the Klipsch the Klipsch is simply much more powerful but if not maximum loudness is important but comfortable listening at home etc. I found the Boomster more convincing it sounded more refined more sophisticated the Klipsch sounded a bit rude the bass was boomy to some extent it didn't convince me completely also the fact that you need batteries or some external power bank to power it is a downside you have to trade in what is more important to you maximum volume, party: definitely the Klipsch for Hifi-sound I would say Boomster I thank you for watching, I hope we'll see us in the next video until then bye bye