I’m a self-professed music nerd. I take finding new songs with glistening vocals and thumping bass as seriously as I take finding a speaker that can do my music justice. With so many speakers out there — with varying degrees of audio quality — it can be overwhelming to find one that suits my particularities.
But is the JBL Xtreme 4 one of the best bluetooth speakers out there? Oh, yes. EQ? E-Z! I take customizable EQ seriously, and I don’t just mean EQ presets. I mean the EQ settings where you can adjust sliders for each frequency setting.
I’ve tried good speakers from prestigious audio brands (*cough* Bose *cough*) that were utterly let down by their lack of customizable EQ. What if I want to have a bedroom dance party with bass powerful enough to vibrate through the floorboards? In comes the Xtreme 4. Whomping bass made only more formidable by a custom EQ setting.
.. melodic, evocative treble that doesn’t pinch your ears.
.. crystal-clear mid-range sections that balance everything perfectly.
It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this kind of love for an audio product. Not since I got my first Bose SoundTrue around-ear headphones when I was 18 — a horribly long time ago now. Music to my ears Every song I play through the Xtreme 4 is.
.. well, it is, quite literally, like music to my ears.
The dominating, sometimes even overpowering bass of ‘flight fm’ by Joy Orbison transcends the capabilities of the human ear. Grimes’ ‘shinigami eyes’ is piercing, a.