JBL Go 5

JBL Go 5 review: Small speaker, surprisingly big ideas

The JBL Go 5 is tiny enough to go almost anywhere, but sounds considerably bigger than it looks. There is only so much you can reasonably expect from a Bluetooth speaker small enough to disappear into a handbag. Apparently, nobody told JBL. The JBL Go 5 costs S$95 in Singapore, weighs just 230g and is compact enough to bring along without having to decide whether it deserves precious bag space. Yet somehow, ...

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JBL Go 5 turns a pocket-sized speaker into a portable karaoke setup

The JBL Go 5 arrives in Singapore with louder sound, improved bass, new ambient lighting and a particularly neat trick called AirTouch, which lets two Go 5 speakers pair in stereo simply by touching them together. The Go has always been JBL’s grab-and-go proposition, and the fifth-generation model does not stray far from that formula. What has changed is the amount of sound JBL is trying to extract from the compact enclosure. ...

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