Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

The JBL Xtreme 2 has come in very useful over the month I’ve now had it for. I have noticed it is a little quieter than the original JBL Xtreme at max volume. I’ve watched some YouTube videos about it and they explain how because the drivers are bigger, the speaker uses more energy. But JBL didn’t want to make a new (larger) battery for the speaker, and they didn’t want the new speaker to have a worse battery life than the old one (15 hours) so they just reduced its peak performance. They have already done one update to the speaker however that made it louder at max volume, and I expect more to follow as more people buy the speaker and complaine about the same issue. Ignoring that though, the speaker is (e)xtreme(ly) clear and has amazing sounding base. It does not get any less clear the louder it gets. If it wasn’t for the max volume issue, I would give this speaker a 5/5, but because of it I gave it a 4/5. Edit: They’ve updated the speaker and it no longer has this issue, I’ve changed my review to 5/5 and highly recommend! Something to now keep in mind is that this speaker will not connect with the new JBL party boost on the new JBL speakers, it only works with JBL connect+.