When you’ve got tons of friends and family over for a backyard endeavor, a tiny portable speaker just won’t cut it. You need a speaker that can fill the whole area that’s loud enough for everyone to hear. The JBL PartyBox 130 is built for parties such as this. Heck, “party” is right there in the name. Amazon even happens to have the speaker on sale. The JBL PartyBox 130 normally sells for $450, but the 29% discount ends up taking the price down by $130. That means for a limited time, the speaker is only going to cost you $320. Thanksgiving hasn’t even passed yet, but we’re still getting a Black Friday-level price.
Both Portable and Powerful
So the manufacturers of Bluetooth speakers really like to stretch the definition of portable. When you see a product labeled “portable speaker,” that could really mean anything from the size of something that can fit in your back pocket all the way up to something the size of a suitcase. This one is certainly the latter.
The JBL PartyBox 130 is portable in the sense that you can move it fairly easily from place to place. It won’t slip into a backpack, but you can very easily load it into the back of your car. There are certain design elements that make that much easier, mainly a huge handle on top for easy carrying. That handle even can be folded back into the speaker when it is no longer needed.
Now the bigger the speaker, generally the more punch it packs. That definitely the case here. The JBL PartyBox 130 is fitted with a pair of 5.25-inch woofer that deliver 200 max watts of power in unison. That is bass you can feel across the yard. The speaker is also equipped with two silk dome tweeters that are able to produce clear highs. You’re getting a layered sound output that covers the full range of the audio spectrum with tons of depth.
Earning the name PartyBox, this JBL speaker even has it’s own built-in lightshow. You can enable a series of strobe edge and vibrant light effects that all gets perfectly timed to the beat of the music coming out the speaker. And it handles all that automatically.
You can listen to music for quite awhile with the JBL PartyBox 130 speaker. One single charge should keep it playing for as long as 15 hours. If that’s not enough, you can enable Playtime Boost which can stretch that out for another three more hours. In a pinch, a quick charge of just 10 minutes will give it as much as 80 minutes more of listening time.