Marshall Speakers have SERIOUS Competition! Orange Box Bluetooth Speaker Review

Awesome review. How would you compare to let's say Sonos Move? I need something mobile for the house and garden, and I quite like both of these

Zzound actually own Marshall now, they bought them less than a year ago. But the marshall bluetooth speakers were made before the deal went through.

Thanks to you, from now on, every time I see an Orange Box I will think about your first day in NYC 💩

Was the piece of poop larger than the orange box?

Marshall does sound better too me

Regarding your trip to NYC, I live here and all I can say is "Welcome to Joe Biden's America", we've been flooded by illegal welfare migrants from the third world as well as a massive homeless problem and that's probably where that poop came from. You better watch your back as you can be attacked in the subway, pushed onto the tracks or stabbed without provocation as occurred recently with a (White guy) who was asked for money by a (Black) begger and was stabbed to death without his provoking the miscreant. We're fucked 🤮

Doubling the wattage adds only 3dB output. Need about 10dB increase for something to sound twice as loud :-). And that's assuming the same speakers in the same cabinet. I think the efficiency of the drivers used in each speaker is going to quite an impact on how loud they can actually get. And a class AB amp these days? That's just marketing, as modern class D amps are very capable as well as efficient. A class AB amp might be easier to repair though.

New York is a den of iniquity. I think I'll be fine going the rest of my life without ever being there.

Why are companies still using barrel jacks and custom wall warts in 2023? No USB C power kills it for me… I just want to pack one power supply if I’m travelling with gadgets these days.

Where's the Stanmore 3?

Excellent speaker and sounds really nice, not sure about the shit ending. Quite literally.

The acton III looks really great in brown.

Bro threw in a life changing story at the end of a speaker review that no one asked for but I'm sure everyone listened too👀 then said bye like he didn't just hit everyone with a left hook that no one was prepared for😂

Your first time in NYC 😂😂😂😂😂

I’ve been looking at getting the Orange box but saw this review and the Acton 3 definitely does sounds better which got me thinking about that instead . The thing is I’m looking for a portable speaker so still thinking about going back to the Orange.
Would you recommend another speaker in that price range that sounds great , looks cool but also is portable and has a lithium battery ? Sorry it’s such a specific question 😂

Exellent AB of the bluetooth speakers. We have been using the Amplifi 75 for music streaming and love it. Whant to add another but they stopped production. The Kilburn II sounds the best on your comparrison but you know that live you may be disapointed. Have you looked at the Spark 40 as a bluetooth speaker? Lots of demos on it as a guitar amp but I can't find any featuring it a a bluetooth streamer.

Killburn 2 actually sounds much better than Acton 3.

I know you are a big fan of Acton 3 but that speaker just sounds hallow compared to Killburn....

Only match Kilburn has is against Tufton.

Orange was a big part of my childhood, to be ale to have their sound in the future is all I ever wanted.

At first I thought the vocals sounded kinda nasaly...so I listened to the original song to find that it was mixed with a weird vocal quality. Excluding that, I thought it sounded alright.

The Orange simply didn't sound great....not sure what the X600 was doing there...must've taken a wrong turn when entering the room....I have one...wish I didn't.

Klipsch sounded very muddy...Kilburn 2 sounded really nice. We'd really need to be where you are, minus the interesting dance moves! 😜

Brill comparison 👍 👏 👌 😀

Danny, ime torn between buying the orange box l or the jbl authentics 500, could you give me some advise please.

Thank you so much Danny, that’s made my mind up ,

Have you had a chance to listen to the larger Orange box?

Right to fix is Big, so glad to hear that!

That wasn't Poop smell, thats just NY. Its a pile of Crap and gets worse the closer you get to that cesspool nyc!

It seems to have the British speaker polite sound. Less fatiguing. But still its more of a relaxed listening speaker than for intent/analytic listening. Which BT speaker (at any price range) would you say is the best for audiophile, intent listening? Balanced and dynamic.

This is a very cool looking bluetooth speaker.

Positive Grid does all this and it is still a guitar amp!

You have a really great comparison between the different speakers except, you use a difficult choice of music. Before I looked the song up on Yiutube, I thought the vocal clarity on all of these speakers was crap but the original song has distorted vocals.

Wow, thats disgusting lol

I can't agree to your resumee at all. Did I maybe have a bad monitoring listening to your recordings?

No way, the Marshall has more upper mids and orange has more low mids just like the real amps wtf hahaha

I have just bought a record player with Dual Audio as I want to run the player though two speakers in a stack formation - the aesthetic is important in this. I’m going to use the Orange Speaker as you would a Head in a Head and Cab stack. If I were to buy a “cab” for my “stack” what would you recommend? I need a Marshal Bluetooth speaker that is bigger proportionally to the Orange that will compliment the sound. Any thoughts?

Is it just me hearing wrong or do these speakers lack midrange. I don't think the vocals can be enjoyed, specially on the Klipsch according to the sound. I think It's only Orange and soundcore are good at delivering midrange adequately.

700$

The Acton 1st Gen. sounded the best hands down. But what did Klipsch do? It's all muffled, meh...! 😵‍💫

And as always marshal has really weird mid range that sounds boxy 😂 even in speaker form

How would you compare it to the Tufton?

Thanks for the review. However Zound have purchased Marshall so effectively they are Marshall

Marshall sounds more clean n crisp - orange sounds grittier or muddied but not necessarily in a bad way

Marshall does sound better

Can you review the orange box L Bluetooth speaker?

Glad I watched the entire review. Definitely a bonus. Thanks! 💩

This is a regualar Orange Box. So the question is which are the best between the Marshall Acton III and the bigger Orange Box L... what do you think?

For a normal size living room, Stanmore III, Acton III or the Orange box ?

How does the audio of the Orange compare to the Marshall Stanmore 3

Strange results. The Middleton sounds best here (to me) but it really is not as good as the Acton 3 in real life. The Soundcore sounds horrible in this test, but it is rather nice in person. So ignoring the video test and listening to what you say, the Acton 3 is still the one in this size category.

i like the midband better on the x600, then on the Marshal Middleton in 2nd spot, then the orange ... Marshall Acton IIi in 4th spot, then the Marshall Kilburn II in 2nd to last spot and the Klipsh just forgot there is actually a midband in songs. and most music is in the midband. I like the Acton III the most for a good job at balancing bass and midband from these sound clips

Idk man, Marshalls got it figured out. .