The 14 Best Bluetooth Speakers Our Testers Have Jammed With in 2024

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The champion Bluetooth speakers person a spot adjacent and beloved to our hearts, adjacent arsenic we've seen astute speakers improving their dependable and portability. It's convenient to inquire an Amazon Echo oregon Google Nest speaker to play your favourite way oregon archer you the weather, but astute speakers necessitate unchangeable Wi-Fi and updates to bash their champion tricks. By (mostly) forgoing dependable assistants and Wi-Fi radios, Bluetooth speakers are ultra-portable, capable to task into the world, and tin withstand rugged conditions similar a sandy formation oregon steamy Airbnb jacuzzi. They'll enactment with immoderate smartphone, and the apical options dependable conscionable arsenic bully oregon amended than the mean astute speaker.

We've tested hundreds of Bluetooth speakers since 2017 (and galore earlier that) and they amended each year. Here are our favorites close now. Be definite to cheque retired each our buying guides, including the Best Soundbars, Best Wirefree Earbuds, Best Smart Speakers, and Best Bookshelf Speakers.

Updated June 2024: We've updated our apical prime to the latest mentation of the Ultimate Ears Boom, added the Brane Audio Brane X speaker, and added the Sony Ult Field 1 to Honorable Mentions.

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Best Overall
Ultimate Ears Boom 4
We've had an Ultimate Ears Boom talker atop our database for years now, and for bully reason. The mediate kid of the UE portable lineup is amusive and convenient, and puts retired immoderate of the astir pleasant and balanced dependable for its size connected the market. The Boom 4 is our latest pick, with the lone notable quality from 2018's Boom 3 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) being a USB-C charging port. Why messiness with adjacent perfection, right?
We've spent a fewer days listening to the latest version, and adjacent arsenic the satellite has changed astir it, the latest Boom inactive hits each the close notes for smooth, clear, and groovy sound. As before, the waterproof cylinder comes successful aggregate colors, is arsenic durable arsenic a chunk of wood, and gives you up to 100 feet of Bluetooth range. It has a two-year warranty and connects to the UE app to unlock an EQ, transportation to different Ultimate Ears speakers, and more. —Ryan Waniata
15-hour artillery life, USB-C charging, IP67 dust/water resistance
Best Pocket Bass
JBL Charge 5
If you similar to shingle the country adjacent if the “room” is the Great Outdoors, the latest Charge from JBL is an ultra-portable banger. The talker is IP67-rated against particulate and moisture and offers a large artillery life. It has up to 8 antithetic finishes and the quality to complaint your telephone portion disconnected the grid. Its tubular signifier is designed to acceptable neatly into your hand, and conscionable arsenic important, it’s susceptible of kicking the enactment close disconnected if you privation it to. It’s not a blunt instrument, but its prodigious and frankly improbable low-frequency effect ne'er stops surprising. If it’s portable enactment clip you’re after, JBL has you covered successful good style. —Simon Lucas
20-hour artillery life, USB-C charging, IP67 dust/water resistance