So the new soundboks is perhaps my most favorite thing that I reviewed in 2019.
Ever since it came out this soundboks has been my go to speaker for almost everything.
Whether im listening to music while im getting b-roll or if im going to get together with
my friends the soundboks is usually my first choice.
But now the new soundboks has gotten a significant firmware update and a new app which brings
new features to the Soundboks and quality of life improvements.
So the first most notable thing this new firmware update brings to the Soundboks is that it
now automatically pairs to your phone when ever you power it up.
So now whenever you power up the your soundboks you don’t gotta go into your bluetooth list
and manually pair it up.
Now obviously this is very simple but for some reason the soundboks didn’t do this
before.
So its really nice that it does now.
Its also very nice that you now have full control over the control panel straight from
your phone… so you can now remotely raise or lower the volume of this speaker and you
can even toggle between the teamup settings.
Now just keep in mind that with the soundboks has a local volume setting and then there’s
the volume on your device that your playing from.
So even if your phone is set at max volume it doesn’t mean that the soundboks.
So if you want to crank the volume on the soundboks all the way up, you can do so through
the app now.
And you can also now adjust the gain on the two XLR input on the pro panel on the back.
So over like I said this new firmware update and app brings a lot of quality of life improvements
the soundboks.
Cause another major quality of live improvement that I want to point out here is that you
can now also remotely power off this speaker through day app.
So now when you’re done using this speaker you don’t gotta get up to turn it off.
The only thing that I feel is that still missing on this speaker is being able to tell at what
battery percentage its at.
Cause the app doesn’t show that.
So the only way to tell how the battery is on this speaker is by pressing the button
found on its battery.
But one more improvement that I want to point out about this speaker is that ive noticed
that it no longer has any latency issues when I watch videos with my phone.
So thats nice even though I rarely play watch videos with this speaker.
But now lets talk about the new sound modes on this speaker.
Now Power is the default setting that the Soundboks has always had.
And if you want to get the best performance out of this speaker then power is the way
to go.
But now there’s an indoor mode which basically does two things… it reduces the amount of
bass this speaker has and as a result it extends the battery life on this speaker.
And then there’s Bass+ which doesn’t the opposite of Indoor mode.
Bass+ increases the amount of bass this speaker has…
I want to say basically double of whats found when this speaker is set to Power mode…
but the trade off here is that it reduces its over all battery life.
But over all, these new sound modes don’t change the sound signature of this speaker…
all they really do is change the amount of bass its putting out.
But so that you can see for yourself we’re going to jump into a sound test.
But as a heads up I also included the JBL Partybox 300 as a reference point.
So like you may have just heard… the new sound modes doesn’t change the sound signature
of this speaker which I think is great cause the soundboks just has great clarity and a
very open sound stage.
And I would hate for any of that to change.
So in general these new sound modes are just increasing or decreasing the amount of bass
this speaker has.
But still if you want to get the best performance out of this speaker Power is still the way
to go cause thats when it can get the loudest… where as indoor mode is the quietists.
Actually I want to say that when this speaker is set to indoor mode it starts to perform
very similarly to the Partybox 300.
They get just as loud and they’re putting out the same amount of bass.
But I will admit Bass+ is pretty fun.
Its complete over kill and it can get overwhelming if you’re using it indoors but Bass+ can
be pretty useful for when your using it outdoors.
So overall I’m very happy with Soundbok’s new sound modes… but I wish they included
a dedicated out doors mode like with what found on the JBL Boombox.
Have the Soundboks set to brighter sound signature and reduce the bass a little bit so that this
speaker can get louder and so that the sound can travel farther.
So overall im really pleased with this new firmware update and App from soundboks.
The majority of it is quality of life improvements which im a really big fan of cause it just
makes using this speaker a lot easier than before.
And then there’s the new Sound modes which I really appreciate but personally im going
to still be sticking with power mode.