Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Hello... So I searched high and low for the review I am about to give. If you go out there and search you will end up just as confused as I did but I have your golden ticket right here. I am also going to make it quite succinct.. Now. For you folks with a MAC... Run to the app store and grab an app called Boom. It is $7 an completely essential. Basically, it gives you an EQ for your MAC output. Without it you are going to have a hard time making a decision. Now the bottom line. The Bose, when placed about 6 inches from a solid wall and if you have a MAC, eq'd with Boom, is capable of a far more high fidelity sound that the BIG Jawbone... I tried multiple genres of music in a side by side comparison. The main complaint about the Bose is the Bass is overpowering at low levels... It can be. That is what the EQ is for. However, the Big Jawbone has a terrible bass response. On several occasions I found it completely unlistenable because of bass distortion. Louder is not necessarily better. The Bose is simple. It has no extra features like a speakerphone. I honestly think the Big Jawbone and its speakerphone are quite a gimmick. It may be useful for other people but I simply wanted the best sounding speaker. Outside of sounding like a LOUD tinny version of the Bose. The Big Jawbone had another deal breaking issue for me. The Bluetooth connection dropped and had to be re-paired more times than I'd like to admit. The Bose remembers my mac every time. I just have to turn it on.The BJS 'Live Audio' feature was interesting and made some genres sound better. The two positive perks of the BJ I will point out are the shape and loudness... It really gets up there. If you are listening to any kind of acoustic, latin or fusion it actually sounds pretty good. Anything with deep or droning bass will illustrate major sound issues it has pretty viscerally. The square shape is a little more portable than the Bose. it can be set up anywhere but the Bose really needs the bass reflection. My final verdict is I wanted the best sounding speaker and that is the Bose with some tweeks. I will add one caveat... Mp3s are really compressed as-is. They get even further degraded over bluetooth. Streaming songs from Grooveshark and Pandora are almost unbearably bad without EQ. Neither of these speakers will impress an audiophile. However, they are handy, portable and great at what they are. Now you may go out, much like I did, and read a bunch of reviews..Most of them say the BJ is superior soundwise. However, I believe the Bose is engineered to be more capable. It is not as loud. If you get the bass reflection off a wall right there is just no comparison... Neither will WOW you but on the same token they are both pretty good. Great for Singer Songwriter Instrumental Ambient Electronic LAtin Jazz Fusion Rock <90s Classical Music Ok for Modern Rock Ska Metal House Punk Vocal Pop Streaming Audio Bad for Rap Dubstep Industrial Dance Driven Pop Remember the Eq. If you listen to it flat on a MAC you are going to scream Whiskey Tango Foxtrot and send it back... Also, if you do use the BOOM EQ make sure your itunes eq is off. If you use both at the same time You are going to have a bad time...