Customer Ratings & Reviews

Middleton delivers!! Best bluetooth speaker!! Spunds incredible

Good sound quality the bass and sound system is very clear

This is a great handheld Bluetooth. Sounds is great

Love this speaker! Excellent sound and amazing depth!!!

Great Compact Design/Style. Perfect for the beach, backyard or the office. Protection from the elements is a definite plus!

The sound is awesome!!! We are enjoying this purchase.

Great sound and very easy to use and carry around.

Great sounding speaker compared to the competition

Outstanding performance. JBL/Megaboom no more.

The Marshall Middleton Bluetooth Portable Speaker is a nice speaker with great sound in a smaller size package. Following are the pros and cons I found with this speaker. Pros: - I would call it a smaller size speaker. The measurements are 4.29" x 9.06" x 3.74", and it weighs 4.0 lbs, so while on the smaller side of portable speakers, it is still a good size and big enough to produce a good sound. - It is a very sharp looking speaker, all black with gold trim, and it feels very rugged. It also comes with a nice strap so it is easy to carry. - It is IP67 dust and water resistant, so good for indoor or outdoor use. - It can be controlled using the Marshall Bluetooth App, or the physical controls on the device, or you can also just connect via Bluetooth and control the songs and volume with your phone without the App, so the means of controlling it are very flexible. - It is nice to have the top panel controls on the speaker, which include a multi-directional control knob that allows you to play/pause, skip forward or backward, control volume, turn on/off, activate the Bluetooth pairing button, view the battery and volume indicator and control treble and bass levels. - The App allows for all the same controls as the physical ones on the device, but also adds in the ability to update firmware and provides an online instruction manual. - The Middleton was extremely easy to pair with my iPhone and the Bluetooth range is listed as 30 ft. - The Middleton has a stackable feature which would allow you to stack multiple Middleton speakers or have multiple speakers set up around the room and pair them all together to control them all from the same App. I only have one speaker, so was not able to test this, but seems like a cool feature. - The battery takes 4.5 hours for a full charge and will then provide 20+ hours of playback. You can also charge it for 20 minutes to get an additional 2 hours of playback time. - I really like the fact it has multi-directional sound. There are speakers on all four sides, so you get true 360 degree sounds. This will be great for camping, parties or any use where you want to be able to hear from all sides. - There is a 3.5 mm input jack and it comes with a USB-A to USB-C charging cable. - More importantly than all these features is the reason for getting a speaker in the first place - the sound. I tested the Middelton out with a wide variety of music - multiple genre's, heavy, acoustic, men and women singers, loud and soft, etc. In my opinion, the Middleton performed very well and the sound was great in each scenario! For a smaller sized speaker, I was impressed with the amount of bass I could get. The Middleton filled the room very well and sounded good outside also, but also sounded equally well at lower volumes. Cons - it was hard to find many cons to share, but here are two suggestions that are pretty minor overall: - Instead of just providing bass and treble control, it would be nice if it had at least a 3-band or preferably a 5-band equalizer on the App. As I already mentioned, I feel the sound was very good and I like having the treble and bass control, but it would be nice to be able to customize the sound to your specific liking for various music with an equalizer with more bands. - The battery indicator button, Bluetooth pairing button, and treble and bass control buttons on the physical unit are hard to find in darker rooms, as the symbols and buttons are the same black color as the unit and you can't really feel them. It would be nice if a touch of the main control knob would perhaps provide some small LED lights so you can see the buttons in darker rooms. Of course, its not a big deal as you can always control these items from your App also. Overall, I am very impressed with the look, design and sound of the Marshall Middleton and feel this is going to be a very durable speaker I will enjoy for many years to come!

For those looking for a neutral, audiophile type sound, read no further – this speaker isn’t for you. But if you want a clean, rich sound with lots of volume, easily to use controls, and a rock-solid cabinet, then the Marshall Middleton is an excellent choice. The first thing you notice about the Middleton is the classic Marshall amplifier look. Everything from the Tolex-like texture to the Marshall logo script screams rock concert. Carrying the image a bit further, the included wrist strap is designed to look like a guitar strap. The controls feel solid and intuitive, and the central knob is refreshingly simple to use. Push for on/off, tap lightly for pause/play, press up/down for volume, left/right for next or previous track. The only other controls are to adjust the treble and bass levels and pair with Bluetooth, and a button to check the battery level. Built-in lights show you the volume, treble, and bass levels. The cabinet is the previously-mentioned amplifier look, with IP67 dust and water resistance. One thing I saw is that sand and other small particles can get behind into the small mesh around the front of the speaker and are difficult to clean out. Otherwise, it’s easy to wipe down and a small amount of dirt or water won’t damage it. The sound is quite good, with plenty of available volume (Marshall advertises this as the “heaviest” portable speaker you can buy). The Middleton has two tweeters and two woofers, with an additional two passive bass radiators. The unusual thing about this is that the speakers are arrayed in the front, back, and both sides of the amp, with the right channel playing through the front and one side, the left channel through the back and the other side. While this appears to be an odd arrangement, it works really well. The sound is remarkably spacious, with outstanding stereo separate that defies the small size of the speaker. There’s a point to make about the available volume. While the Middleton will really fill a room with sound, the real advantage to having lots of volume available is when you don’t use it. Pushing any amplifier to its volume limits causes distortion, but the extra volume available here means you probably won’t be doing this. The result is a really clean, distortion-free sound at any reasonable listening level. If you should find that a single Middleton isn’t up to your space, Marshall also allows “stack mode,” a simple way to combine multiple Middleton speakers into a single wall of sound, or to spread them out over a wider area. Marshall claims up to 20 hours of playback with each full charge, and a partial charge in as little as 20 minutes. Based on my experience, this seems about right. There are a couple of negatives to note here. As mentioned earlier, Marshall calls this the “heaviest” portable speaker. While they clearly meant this to refer to the sound, it could just as easily apply to the heft of the unit. At four pounds, it’s noticeably heavier than my similarly sized Sony speakers. While not too heavy for most uses, carrying four pounds for an extended distance, particularly using a wrist strap, can be tiring. The other downside is the lack of multiple CODEC support for Bluetooth. The Middleton supports only SBC, the lowest common denominator of CODECs. It works and is reliable, but there can be some data loss. In most situations, you probably won’t notice the difference, but if you want higher quality data transfers, they simply aren’t available here. (The work-around to this is to use an audio cable when you don’t need portability.) Overall, this is an excellent unit. With great sound, easy to use controls, and adjustable bass and treble controls, a solid build, and plenty of volume, the Middleton is an outstanding portable speaker.

I absolutely love this speaker, it was my last purchase of 2024 and I’ve been using it almost everyday since, so far so good. Battery life could be better, I just charge between uses so I can listen to more tunes.

Great sound and nice base...its loud and clear soynd.

Decent speaker good for roadtrips a little over priced in my opinion from other options out there

See my review of the black version of this. I bought them both but preferred the look of the black with gold accent

Battery life at full volume is not as good as they say I basically only got 6 hours out of it before I had to put it back on the. Charger besides that it's an awesome speaker

Nice design/aesthetic overall. The sound doesn’t do justice considering the fact that incompated it to a $100 soundcore motion plus I bought most 5years ago. Its louder for sure, but with the thinniest of margins. If you have anything closer to the JBL charge 3 soundwise, then I wouldn’t encourage the uograde Unless you are just going for its acoustic aesthetics

Good product, overpriced. Maybe around 200$ would be a good buy.

Item works well. Light enough to carry around when out and about.

I returned my initial speaker & it may be the volume the speaker gets played at but the battery does not go for 20+ hours, it’s maybe 4 hours before it needs a charging or at least needs to be used with it plugged in if you’re using all day. Great performance otherwise.