🇺🇸 Portable speakers · Amazon.com · prices in USD
Every quoted runtime assumes 50% volume, lights off and no bass boost — the way nobody uses a speaker at a barbecue. We publish the figure at full volume when the manufacturer gives it, flag the ones that don't, and organise the catalogue by what actually survives water, which is the second digit of the IP code.
Each one wins at something different. Open them and compare.
4.8 out of 5 from 85,483 ratings — the best-scored product on this whole site, and it came out in 2019.
$21.99, twenty hours, IP67, it floats, two years of warranty — and its numbers agree with each other.
«Specific Uses For Product: [INF]» — a placeholder token, published on a $120 product page.
Its listing gives it a 12-inch subwoofer. The speaker is 9 cm across.
Its Amazon page claims 180 watts and a 12-inch speaker, in a device 13 cm tall.
One kilo in your backpack, 24 real hours, and a power bank that will refill your phone twice.
This one isn't our call: these are the models Amazon flags as #1 in their category. We keep them separate on purpose, because the best seller and the best rated model are almost never the same one.
156,455 ratings — more than every other speaker on this site put together.
How we work
The 0-to-10 scores in the charts are ours, not the manufacturer's. They follow the same rule every time, so two models can actually be compared instead of judged by how well their listing is written.
How you'll use it matters more than the brand.
It cuts across the one above: there are handlebar speakers you can submerge and backpack ones that go no further than a splash. The digit that matters is the second one in the IP code, and either the manufacturer publishes it or nobody does.
You are carrying the battery anyway. Whether it also pushes power out over USB changes what else goes in the backpack, and almost none of them do.
Models below their usual price on Amazon.
4.8 out of 5 from 85,483 ratings — the best-scored product on this whole site, and it came out in 2019.
$21.99, twenty hours, IP67, it floats, two years of warranty — and its numbers agree with each other.
«Specific Uses For Product: [INF]» — a placeholder token, published on a $120 product page.
Its Amazon page claims 180 watts and a 12-inch speaker, in a device 13 cm tall.
One kilo in your backpack, 24 real hours, and a power bank that will refill your phone twice.
Its silicone strap is the whole point of the product, and the spec table says «Mounting Type: No Mount».
Ten dollars cheaper than the model it replaces, with a better water rating and an hour more battery.
156,455 ratings — more than every other speaker on this site put together.
The only listing on this site that says at what volume its battery figure was measured. It is also the cheapest.