Our earlier comparison looked at two small Bluetooth speakers, so we stepped up in size this time and lent our ears to three much bigger speakers: Creative’s Sound Blaster Roar 2, Jawbone’s Big Jambox, and the beastly JBL Xtreme.
Jawbone recently slashed the price of its Big Jambox from $300 to $200, but Creative is being even more aggressive with its Roar 2, pricing the portable speaker at just $170. JBL’s Xtreme is indeed an outsized portable speaker with a price to match: $300. But despite the fact that I’m not enamored with its over-emphasis on bass response, the Xtreme would be my top recommendation if you’re looking for a large portable speaker that you can take outdoors.
You can read all three reviews using the arrows at the bottom of the page, or you can go directly to the speaker you're interested in learning more about using the links below: