If you’ve ever tried to play music via the built-in speaker on your smartphone in hopes of fueling a party, then you know firsthand how big of a failure that can turn into. You’re just not going to get the high-quality sound needed to throw a rager from a phone—not even close. This is where portable speakers come in.
With a Bluetooth-enabled speaker that can link up with your music source with a simple touch of a button, you can literally turn up the volume on your favorite beats at any time. Better yet, given their portable nature, you can take your music with you virtually anywhere you’d like. All that’s missing is the soundtrack to your life.
The endless options littering the market make it really tough to narrow down which Bluetooth speaker suits you best—we know this. So we’ve done the heavy lifting for you by comparing some of the more popular speakers to see which ones live up to the hype and which ones fall flat.