JBL Charge 5 Portable Bluetooth Speaker

The Charge 5 sits in the mid-size portable Bluetooth speaker segment — above the pill-form-factor Flip tier and below the full-room ambitions of the Xtreme series. At $139.95, it competes directly with the UE Hyperboom's smaller sibling the Wonderboom 3, the Sony SRS-XB43, and the Tribit StormBox Blast on value. The Charge 5's defining hardware choice is the dual-driver passive radiator configuration: a racetrack-shaped woofer paired with a dedicated tweeter, plus two opposing passive radiators for bass extension without a ported enclosure. That topology is a deliberate acoustic engineering decision, not a cost-saving one, and it shows in how low the speaker actually reaches. …More info