JBL Pulse 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker Reviews: Outstanding And Impressive

Impressive design

Some users find JBL's Pulse Bluetooth Speaker Series to always feel a bit gimmicky, but we found the latest Pulse 4 to be really impressive. While the JBL Pulse 4 Price may seem a bit steep, it delivers powerful audio performance to users along with an improved LED light display with hypnotic contours. There's a lot for you to like here: waterproof, long-lasting, and more.

Pulse 4 is designed with a circular cylindrical structure, 8.1 inches tall by 3.8 inches all around. JBL Pulse 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker weighs more than your typical portable speaker - 2.8 pounds. The JBL Pulse 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker is available in black or white models, but this shouldn't matter too much to us because its real star is the internal LED panel that surrounds the middle part of the speaker case.
We were impressed with the sound - from a single driver projected beyond the top grille. The bottom panel houses a passive heatsink and is designed to be raised slightly above the surface on which it rests. The JBL Pulse 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker has an impressive IPX7 rating. You can use it outside and/or by the pool because it can be submerged in water up to a meter.

JBL Pulse 4 Best Price owns many different control buttons arranged around the top ring of the speaker. These buttons include Bluetooth pairing, volume up/down, power buttons, and play/pause. In addition, JBL Pulse 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker also surprises users with an LED control button and a PartyBoost button. This helps link the speakers with other Pulse 4s to form a stereo pair or multi-room system with up to 100 speakers. This product arrived in our hands with a USB-C port near the base for charging only and a cable.

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What's surprising given the Pulse 4's size and portable construction is that it doesn't offer speakerphone functionality. So that users will handle incoming calls on their own mobile devices. We can only stream audio to it because it has no aux input. Certainly, the omissions will inconvenience some users. The JBL Connect app allows users to switch the speaker into PartyBoost mode and control the LEDs. We tried setting it to Stereo mode - synced with another Pulse 4 and they became left/right speakers. While these are useful, it seems like a missed opportunity because there is no EQ in the app. Your battery life will vary with volume level and LED usage, and JBL estimates around 12 hours.

Our experience

Read our JBL Pulse 4 Review for more details on this waterproof speaker's impressive sound and design. We found that the light show offered by the Pulse 4 was very impressive even for a gimmick. The colors of the JBL Pulse 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker blend seamlessly together. The light remains entertaining with its steam-like shape even if the sound isn't always in sync with what you're seeing. The color of the JBL Pulse 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker is a combination of neon and pastels, glowing and constantly changing. Various available light patterns: small jumping dots explode, re-link and change direction. Some of our test team members say that the JBL Pulse 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker looks like a color-coded graphic EQ that's dancing to the beat and dimmed for effect.

In short, the JBL Pulse 4 Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker gave me a pretty long LED light show, impressed with the work that must have gone into it. This is the first time I've actually found myself staring at a speaker for that long. Sometimes the JBL Pulse 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker looks cool and even sophisticated. We tried shaking the speaker to make it switch the color scheme, especially since it also synchronizes the lights with other Pulse 4 speakers nearby. When we press the Light button, JBL Pulse 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker will switch between different models. Pulse 4 makes us really assume people will buy this for lights first and audio second.

Speaking of which, the sound quality of the JBL Pulse 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker is solid for a mono speaker. The JBL Pulse 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker's bass depth is no joke thanks to the built-in passive radiators that vibrate the panels. This design clearly plays a role in creating a sense of perfect synchronicity with the lights. The lights change patterns fast enough to be sure there's something to the beat even when things are a bit off, and we can feel it. The speaker reproduces low-frequency depth convincingly on tracks with intense bass content. The majority of users agree that the passive radiator is clearly useful, and this is a powerful, bass sound for a speaker of this size.

We'll get a better sense of the Pulse 4's overall tonal characteristics with a track with less deep bass in the mix. We hear drums on this track with some oomph added in the bass unit. The singer's baritone also improved by receiving some additional richness and depth. Some people may feel that something is missing if the mids and highs of the speaker are not adjusted and corrected. The bass and highs are enhanced equally, and it's not a sound notation for purists. We feel everything is still balanced and relevant. We hope our JBL Pulse 4 Portable Bluetooth Speaker Reviews are useful to you!