Mix 2.0 - Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker with Strong Bass, Portable Speaker for Travel & Outdoor Use, 100 Foot Range & 20 Hour Playtime, Black

I have 2 of these speakers for my 73 inch toolbox and they work great. I pair them together and they are super loud. Battery life seems to be good when I move them around. Be careful about forgetting the chord in the charging port. I did and it broke the charger off. Luckily I was able to fix it and it works like a champ again

I’ve been a huge fan of Altec Lansing audio for years now and I bought a small speaker from them years ago “life jacket “ and it’s still going strong but I needed to get me something a little bigger and more powerful!! This speaker really does the job!! It has great sound and it’s built with quality and the sound is so clear without distortion even at full volume!! If you want a speaker that is compact but definitely a crowd pleaser or a party then please buy this and I promise you that you won’t regret it!! It’s so worth buying!!

This is an awesome speaker! I purchased it after seeing someone at the beach with it in the water. This speaker not only bumps, but it's clear too. We use this for our BBQs, when we go to the beach, or even just getting things done in the house. The battery last for about as long as it says, of course the LEDs and strobes will shorten the time, but it lasts long enough. It also charges my phone which is awesome. It connects right away, no issues, and is Bluetooth 5.0 (I think), so it controls the volume on the device, no having to worry about turning up two different volumes. I don't really have any complaints, I never turn the thing all the way up, so I'm not sure what it sounds like at peak volumes. I have already convinced two other people to get one too. Oh and if you have more than one, you can pair them for spreading the music out and being louder. When you control the volume on one, the other syncs as well. If you're reading this, JUST BUY IT!

Edit two weeks later - Up front I can recommend this speaker. I have had it near a month now. Confess I have not listened to it as much as I probably should have. But I turned it on today and was pleasantly met with good sound. Perhaps stepping away for a few days was a good idea to clear my ears LOL. Stereo is one big reason for liking this one. A mono speaker just irritates me for some reason. Clean sound for both bass and treble. I haven't seen side by side comparisons for portable Bluetooth speakers in stereo. My comparison is for many years of having my own stereos and listening to music since I was a kid. I'm raising from one star to four (5 stars would require having this longer and feeling very confident about longevity) for the following reasons: I was shipped a new one which went smoothly, customer service was good. This works very good as a TV speaker. Just connect your auxiliary cable to and from. Note you can't control the volume remotely. You have to get up and adjust the speaker manually. With Bluetooth connectivity yes you can control the volume for playing music for example from your cell phone. Turning on the loudness option (additional bass), is something I will be doing every time. Note every time you turn it on, the volume resets to 50% and the loudness option is off. I have been listening to music all my life, the additional base setting provides a much better balance with trouble, whether high volume or low, but especially at low volume. Playing at about 70% volume, fills my slightly rectangular approx. 20 ft by 15 ft living room up certainly past conversational levels. 50% is a good volume and you can carry on a conversation. Going from 70% to 100% is really almost like a 40 to 50% increase in volume. From 0% to 70% is sort of like regular acceleration on a car. 70 to 100% would be like when you step on it to pass a Mack truck LOL. Listening to a blues song right now, the bass guitar comes through clear, and the guitar, symbols, conga drums, and other travel items come through equally clear. At lower volumes, the bass setting is a requirement to ensure that you get some depth. It still sounds good actually. Don't compare pre-80's recordings, because they (many-to-most) were recorded with less bass. You start getting into the 80s, 90s and 2000s, the bass is much more rich. The bright red volume LED (much brighter on "bass" option) is still annoying sitting in front of your face. I cover it up. Crackling noise I heard on one song was duplicated on another Bluetooth device, so I don't think it was this speaker. I suggest turn off any app equalizer. I think my Spotify app was causing high volume compression, that loud quiet loud quiet annoying issue when set at max volume. -------- Review from two weeks prior -------- Do not recommend. I've had stereos and music all my life. My initial impression was good overall, but has since gone downhill... The first one I ordered was dead on arrival. Initially I would say that the sound was good overall. I actually did an entire video review but maybe I just won't post it. I got another one a few days later and had my son listen to it. He rated it lousy because at maximum volume the volume would fluctuate up and down. I just got through testing it a few minutes ago and it did have the same problem with volume fluctuating. Running Spotify app flat, the speaker produces high treble. You must have the single option, bass on or off, turned on at all times. This is a large bulky item in depth. It has the handle strangely toward the front and does not allow for your hand to wrap around. Your fingers get cramped up against the plastic in an odd carrying way. It's fairly heavy, appears to be built well, I mean if it can float in the water. But who's going to do that? Your 15-year-old who hangs out in the pool once in awhile? I noted if you want good booming sound, you have to have it up all the way. The first one I had, it sounded good but would only work when it was plugged into AC power.

Didn't know that this little box can produce such a big sound and so clear....but for some reason the battery doesn't last that long

UPDATE: It's August 2023 and both of our speakers are still great!! I use mine daily with my laptop, and I pair it with my Bluetooth for music. The one I gave as a gift has been dropped multiple times- once the cage came off from a hard fall & he just popped it right back on! He wears his out with the bass and has gotten it wet... it still sounds like it did brand new! I am very impressed with the quality. This would be a great gift for almost anybody! This speaker is convenient, has a great sound, and has cool light options. I first saw this speaker on the river while floating in my kayak. A random group passed by and the guy in the back had one strapped to the back of his "sit on top" kayak. The lights were changing colors to the beat of the music. The bass was kickin'. The most impressive part was the amount of water soaking the speaker and it was unphased. I came home and logged into Amazon hoping to find it and voilà! My fiancé loved it so much I bought him one. We'll be able to pair them in the house thanks to the Bluetooth option.

I absolutely wanted to love these. I bought two of them so that I could link them and toss them in the river or pool while paddle boarding or hanging out with friends. I bough the used like new options with damaged packaging, units were perfect upon arrival. I use them on mine and my wife’s paddle board so that we can enjoy full sounding music while on long trips down the river. Worked fine and lasted all weekend listening to music. They are fine for splashes and light submersion. DO NOT toss this in the pool thinking it’s waterproof. They absolutely are not. In a kayak or on a board they are fine. I linked two together one night at a friend’s house and tossed them in the pool with the leds glowing and in about two hours both of them shorted out and glitched. I brought them home and took them apart dried them out and cleaned them up. Luckily they both work fine after drying them. As I was putting them back together I put a bead of silicone along the seam they do not leak any longer. The sound quality is ok at lower volumes. Decent bass and hours of playtime. But…. As soon as you turn the volume up over 75% the mids and highs clip out and dip in volume so the amp can handle the bass. They are heavy which is to be expected with the size of speakers and battery needed to run this unit for hours on end. The weight wouldn’t bother me if there was some kind of shoulder strap instead of the small awkward handles that hurt your fingers as soon as you pick it up. Poorly thought out device, trash build quality, and if I hadn’t got them for $60 each because of package being damaged I would have returned them. I kept them because they are durable now that I’ve sealed them up myself. They are decent sounding at moderate volume and link up for stereo sound which is a bonus. They are worth it if you want to dissect them, seal them and find them on sale. Otherwise save your money and get a name brand Bluetooth speaker. Just remember,If it’s cheap…. It’s cheap

Update: I've updated this review to 3 stars from 2, with amended review at end. I am still leaving the original review because the experience was unsettling and it seems like you have a 50/50 shot of getting a speaker or a lemon. This speaker lasted literally less than a day. Did it work? Yes, and it worked quite well, for an hour or two. Then, it just stopped and made a strange sound and the lights started going haywire. We tried to turn it off and could not. When I picked it up from the pool, I noticed it was about 3x as heavy and filled with water. The seal on the back was still very tightly locked. We then noticed a very small tear in the fabric of the right speaker, where we assume the water had gradually made its way in. The light show kept going, and there was no turning it off. We left the unit in the car overnight and when we got in the vehicle to go back to the pool the next day, one of our children cried, "Mom, the speaker is boiling!" The speaker began roaring out garbage static, like an old television with the volume on max tuned to a channel with no signal. The volume knob was all the way down, and yet, it still churned and gurgled, frightening the children. "It's gonna explode!" one of them cried. We took the beast out of the car and left it on the side of the driveway to die. The extra star in this review is for the battery, because it took two days for it to finally die. Great battery life! We are not sure if the speaker had been torn before we received it or during playback, but in any case, the quality is definitely of concern, because we hadn't had it to the max and the speaker is inherently its own amp and should have some sort of self-protection mode, if it wasn't already damaged prior to shipping, which is of equal concern. Had this incident not happened, we would have certainly raved about how cool it was to have a floating speaker, and commented that the sound, for a bluetooth portable, is definitely decent for a basic outdoor family gathering. But once the speaker begins drowning and having a robotic disco light-show meltdown and starts screaming like a techno banshee at your children, you need to Old Yeller the sucker. I tried to write a review on Amazon before, but they suspiciously would not allow this item to be reviewed there, citing there were some suspicious reviews of this product being made, and only verified purchasers could review it. I found that more suspicious than the suspicious suspicions that they suspected being so suspicious was the fact that I did purchase mine directly through the website and still got that error for a few days. Maybe it was all the people who bought it on Prime Day and found they wound up with a lemon? In either case, I don't want to entirely discount this zombie Rainbow Brite technogeist. It was quite fun, before it churned and gurgled and shot laserbeams into the stars. So, being the gluttons for punishment that I am, I did ask for a replacement unit, and I will give my Mix 2.0 2.0 a fair chance, because we do have an upcoming trip and that was the original purpose for the purchase. If we get another lemon/demon, I will be done with Altec Lansing, and will be back to decree it so. But, if it goes well and survives the remainder of the summer, I may be back to update and add a star or two to my review. So, in summary - great fun, and decent sound, until the colorful disco-death spiral, and then, a somewhat comical, but overall pesky electronic poltergeist that needs to be taken out back and shot in the face. Updated review: I was able to take the replacement speaker on vacation with me and used the speaker at poolside. The sound is better than I would expect for a bluetooth speaker and the ability to have great music playing right next to the pool is nice. I did not feel comfortable placing the speaker in the pool, after the previous experience. Because I feel as though I have to treat this speaker like it is made of fine china, I can't really take the stars up beyond 3, as the point of this speaker is to be a rugged and robust unit to cart with you on rough and wet terrain. Overall, great sound, but treat it as you would a normal boombox from the 80's and try not to get it wet or rough it up.