Customer Ratings & Reviews

This review is on a JLab JBuds Party Speaker. I like the design with the light and controls at the top of the speaker. This is Bluetooth only so no other type of connections. Setup was easy with my phone. As soon as I turned it on, a picture of the speaker was brought up on my phone and asked if I wanted to connect. The light is bright but not too bright. You will see the lights on the wall if it is completely dark but not if there is already some light in the room. It has six patterns that it can display at different speeds that you can choose. There isn't names to the patterns but I would describe them as: circular, rainbow, intersecting circles, single flashing colors, full color changing and wavelength. All of these respond to the music you are listening to so if you stop the music then you get a bit of a different effect. The speaker is loud and I mean really loud. Almost too much for indoor use at full volume but sounds great outdoors. The bass has a little thump but because of the size it isn't great bass. There is not any distortion with the bass. There are 3 equalizer settings and one custom. In the app you can pull up the directions on how to control the device with the buttons on it. You can do updates through the app without using wires. I had to do one and it took about a minute. In the app there are some battery saving options you can set to make the battery last longer. There are also some ambient sounds in the app you can use to help you get to sleep. These are the sounds: Rain, Waves, Birds, Airplane, Fan, Creek, Music, Outer Space and Crickets. It says you can connect these with up to 100 other of the brands speakers through LabSync. I cannot imaging what 100 of these would sound like together but I know it would be awesome. They are synced easily by pressing the button on top and pretty much do the the same on the other speakers. This is a fun little speaker that I will enjoy playing my favorite songs.

I am writing this review for the JLabs JBuds Party Speaker. For a $60 speaker, the JLab JBuds Party Speaker does a solid job of delivering what you’d expect — and maybe a little more. JLab calls it a “party speaker,” but let’s be honest: it’s better suited for a living room, backyard hangout, or small gathering rather than a full-blown party in a large hall. In those smaller spaces, it holds its own just fine. Sound quality is about what you’d expect at this price point. Don’t look for chest-rattling bass or audiophile-level clarity. The low end is present but not deep, and the mids and highs can come across a bit “hollow.” That said, it still gets the job done for casual listening, background music, or keeping a friendly get-together lively. JLab rates it at 30 watts, and while it hits that mark, it doesn’t push much further. One nice bonus is the JLab app, which connects easily with the speaker. Through the app you can tweak the EQ settings, adjust the lighting effects, and fine-tune the sound a little more to your liking. It doesn’t turn the JBuds Party Speaker into a powerhouse, but it does give you a bit more control and flexibility than you’d expect from a budget-friendly model. Build quality is another pleasant surprise. The speaker feels sturdy and has more heft than you’d think, likely thanks to its internal battery, which gives it some staying power. The added LED lights are a nice touch — they give it some personality and make it more fun to use. And speaking of the battery, I have been very pleased by the play time of the JBuds. JLab says up to 12 hours. I haven’t tested it out to that 12 hours, but I left it on for a little over seven hours and it was still going strong. Overall, the JBuds Party Speaker isn’t pretending to be something it’s not. For $60, you get a durable, good-looking, and app-enhanced speaker that’s great for small spaces. If you want concert-level sound, you’ll need to spend more, but for the price, it delivers exactly what it should. Pros: • Solid build, feels durable • Fun LED lights • App support for EQ and lighting controls • Long battery life • Decent sound for small gatherings • Affordable price Cons: • Bass lacks depth • Mids/highs can sound hollow • Not powerful enough for very large spaces The JLabs JBuds Party Speaker easily earns a Five-Star rating, and I would gladly recommend this speaker to anyone looking for a good party speaker for small gatherings.

This is a pretty sound packaged into an easy to carry and really portable speaker. It is charged via USB C and a has an Aux input underneath a pretty decent rubber cover, so using this in the rain or potentially in the pool area looks like a pretty safe bet. I love the volume knob on top; it is easy to just turn versus looking to see exactly where the volume buttons are on other outdoor speakers. The other buttons include a forward, back and equalizer setting cycler. The volume button when pressed down is the play pause/button. The light bar is customizable in the app or you can turn it off though I really like the light. There are 6 different presets that change the light patterns, then you can adjust the brightness, speed, how many colors (up to 7), and which colors are used. The bass sounds great and is on the bottom, which is set off the ground with bottom portion of the speaker having a design that allows the bass to flow no matter what the surface you set this on is (besides water or something similar I suppose). Overall, I am really impressed and happy with the sound and speaker. We have a much larger speaker for outside, but this one gets just as loud and sounds just as good so has become the go to.

I like this!!!! Excellent sound!!!!! Easy to carry around with a little wrist strap hand holder. Ok, enough of the nice stuff. What I don’t like. As with every Bluetooth speaker I’ve had, it’s loud when you turn it on. Annoyingly loud. The annoying lights. The lights don’t go with the music- they just roll through the colors. How to fix this? In the in Quick Start Guide it says to download the app and you can control that. Well, after downloading it seemed to pair and play but it would not show paired on the app so no way to adjust anything. I’ve deleted the app and tried again…same. The control buttons are on top of the speaker (on/off, fwd, back, etc). That makes sense but the only lighted one is the power button . Guess what button you’re hitting in the dark because those annoying lights are below and not helpful to the top! So, use in daylight. Not a bad speaker but with the annoying issues I found makes me wonder if there are others out there with the features I like.

I’ve had one of the few first Jlab earbuds and Jlab have been so much better since then. These speakers build are made of very good quality. The construction is durable, the materials are of high quality, and even the overall design is solid. But like any other speaker, the sound is what is the most important. And that’s the challenge of this device, the sound quality is a mid. BUILD AND DESIGN Connecting is easy, though there is the app which I will discuss in a few, but straight Bluetooth mobile phone connection is easy. The buttons on the speakers’ top feel good to touch and it’s icons are easily visible and recognizable with a good amount of feedback on presses--- they are very responsive. So pairing, next tracks, EQ can easily be adjusted. There is even a volume knob, which is nicely made too. It is smooth and easily accessible making any sound adjustment done in a breeze. I think this knob is a win. The lights were cool; I had options to change them in the app. PERFORMANCE This is where this is most important though, the SOUND. Straight from default settings, the speakers were very imbalanced. The sound is not desirable at all, my wife had to ask me to turn it off. The mid range was way too overpowering so the sound was more noise than pleasant. Upon downloading the app, there was a firmware upgrade which was good that it updated the sound. It sounded more balanced however quality still was just so-so. In order for it to sound decent, I had to put the EQ on bass boost eq so the mids and highs were a little more at on the same plane with the bass. I can't go higher than 65% without distorting the sound. Even with high quality sound files, the sound at high volumes is rough. I can do custom eq but it doesn't make the sound range wider. Especially outdoors, I cannot really turn up the volume without the quality suffering. These have the option to daisy chain multiple Jlab party speakers. I have a feeling multiple of these could work well. Overall, the speakers look good but they do not sound as good as it looks. I am not sure if another firmware can fix the quality but internal hardware to me seems a little weak, so I am not sure if the sound output can be wider. These can be good speakers indoors, playing at decent 50-60% levels. These may work well with its other speakers—maybe one day I can try. Other than that, do not expect too much of these as a stand alone.

There’s not much to say about this speaker except that it works great. Setup is a piece of cake, taking my 10-year-old granddaughter less than a minute to pair it with her IPad. The sound is excellent, being very clear and crisp with a deep base (her mother is always telling her to turn it down). The colorful display (which she describes as “rainbow colors”) is fun, especially for a 10-year-old, and whenever she has a party or just has her friends over, she’s got something cool to go with it. Like everything under the sun these days, the speaker can be controlled by a phone app. My granddaughter can control it from her IPad. You can control lighting effects, equalizations, etc. To my mind, the lighting effects are secondary concerns. You buy a speaker because you want good sound. You don’t spend a lot of time looking at it. Yes, it’s nice that the colors can flash to the beat of the music, so I can see it for parties, but I’m perfectly fine with a good-sounding speaker no matter what it does or doesn’t look like when I just want music for me. This speaker fits that bill to a T.

Love this speaker!! Awsome buy wish I would of got another one while it was on sale!!