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The Groovy JBL Pulse 3 Bluetooth Speaker -- REVIEWED!
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May 30, 2025
Bluetooth speakers are a dime a dozen, there are so darn many of them in the marketplace. But can your new speaker offer up a fancy light show synced to your music? The JBL Pulse 3 is the latest generation of the popular JBL portable wireless bluetooth speaker and while it doesn't have breathtaking sound, it's a solid option and the lights? Yeah, they make it pretty darn fun. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the speaker and even tests its IPx7 rating to ensure that it really is waterproof. Does it survive? Does he start disco dancing afterwards? You'll have to watch to find out! Learn more: http://amzn.to/2fBv8b3
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is this the coolest Bluetooth speaker in
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the market let's find out Dave Taylor
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here and this time I'm looking at the
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JBL pulse 3 waterproof Bluetooth speaker
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with light show and that's what you're
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seeing here is there's a bit of a light
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show but it's all controlled by an app
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so let's go ahead and I'm gonna change
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the settings right so let me just get
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things right on my phone and okay so you
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can see I've paired the app with the
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speaker so now let's go and tap and this
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is jet let's change to explosion and
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it's a little hard to see these
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obviously work better in the dark but
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there are eight different settings this
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is equaliser not very exciting when I'm
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not playing music we'll come back and
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play music in a sec this is rave this is
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rainbow which actually is one of my
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favorites it's just nice and cheery and
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fire fire and then you can actually
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customize it yourself with all sorts of
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different options I haven't really
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experimented much with that let's go
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back to rainbow there we go that one's
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nice now let's see let's give it some
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music shall we so let's go ahead and I'm
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gonna put on some music and you'll see
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that it should give us some nice visuals
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and of course you'll get to hear it too
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which is probably the most important
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part let's see what should we listen to
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let's listen to let's try this song
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and turn the volume up
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it's not bad you can see the speakers
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reacting to the music
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now bring it down a little bit I'm gonna
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go back to the app and I'm gonna put it
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on equalizer so we can actually see what
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happens when it's explicitly trying to
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react with the music so here we go
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hopefully you can see this because it's
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pretty cool actually different colors
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represent different frequencies and as
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the music goes through different
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sequences you can see different lights
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going on here so particularly in a dark
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room this would be super effective we go
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ahead and put this music on pause okay
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so there it is it is the JBL pulse 3
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speaker let me tell you a little bit
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about it
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so it is ipx7 so it's completely
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waterproof which we'll test in a minute
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and it's 3.8 pounds so it's pretty
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substantial as you can see it's a pretty
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big speaker actually it's 20 watts with
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340 millimeter transducers gives you 65
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to 20,000 Hertz with a sound noise ratio
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of greater than 80 decibels but let's go
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back 65 to 20,000 a lot of speakers are
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20 to 20,000 so there's a little bit of
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low missing and that's actually my
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biggest complaint with the speaker
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overall well come back and talk about
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sound quality cuz I want just tell you a
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little bit more about it so the light
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show is all the way around which is
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really nice and the audio is designed to
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go all the way around - so you can put
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it in the middle of a room and
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everyone's gonna hear it and everyone's
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gonna get to see the kool-aid show man
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has a pretty hefty 6,000 milliamp hour
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battery that gives you 12 hours of
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playtime and not only that you can use
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it as a speakerphone now I love the idea
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of being on a conference call and having
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this light up as the other person talks
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that might make some of these boring
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conference calls better maybe maybe not
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more importantly and more interestingly
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as this concludes something called JBL
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connect plus and you're ready for this
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you can pair this with up to 100 other
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speakers also running connect plus a
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hundred speakers that's crazy
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that's like you can have it scattered
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throughout your multi acre estate and
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every song every speaker is playing the
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same song all in sync now if you pair
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just two of them then you can get
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left-right stereo so that's really nice
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but you want to do more than two super
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fun now of course you have to own
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speakers that have JBL connect plus
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features but if you pick up a couple of
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these pulse threes you're gonna get just
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that now what else can I tell you the
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light sequence as I said is customizable
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and let's go and give it a quick water
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test while we're here you ready you
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ready JBL I hope this works a lot of air
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bubbles but I'm still working and hey
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now we're getting some good bass I can
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feel the bass it's pretty cool but
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here's the idea is that you could even
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just do weird things like put this at
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the bottom of your pool for people that
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like to swim underwater they would hear
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the music kind of bizarre but it
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certainly can do all that now as you saw
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worked perfectly fine in the water no
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problem there and now I just need to
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sort of let it dry out but it's still
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working it's totally fine that's what
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the ipx7 is is that it's not dust proof
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or anything but it is completely
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waterproof so it should be waterproof
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down to about thirty or forty feet so
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definitely the deep end of a pool you
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can drop this thing and let people
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struggle to bring it up while they're
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listening to music how awesome is that
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so the only other thing left to do
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before we talk about the audio is to
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also talk about the price but let me
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turn that in the different order but
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before I do that let me ask you can you
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go ahead and click on that subscribe
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button and subscribe to my channel thank
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you awesome now the sound is not great
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that's what I'm gonna say is that if you
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imagine that there's sort of a sound
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frequency from bass all the way to
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trouble you really want a speaker that's
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good in all of those right and some
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speakers tend to do this so you get lots
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and lots of bass looks like a little
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thumping disco but there's not much high
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and a lot of speakers do this where
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there's just no bass at all and it's all
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this really bright tinny treble and you
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know for some stuff like for audiobooks
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and
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that's fine and for music that's like
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this if you really want to have it sound
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like you're at the local discotheque or
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nightclub then that's great because
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that's kind of how they tune their
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speakers but I like to have a nice even
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response and this just doesn't have a
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whole lot of bass going on so it's just
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a very high-end sort of strong sound and
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I've messed with the equaliser and tried
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to put on bass boost and everything and
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it's just not there this speaker should
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have more bass than it does particularly
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for the price point but even for the
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size there's a fair amount of
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electronics in here but it still sounds
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good I mean I'm not gonna say it's not
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an enjoyable listen but we have other
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speakers in the same price range that
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give you a little more on the low end so
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that's worth knowing now the other piece
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here is the price and you know this is
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really about the light show the people
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that are gonna get this are never gonna
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turn the lights off because that's an
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integral part of enjoying this speaker
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so the music's good but the light show
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is really awesome it's really fun and
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they've done such a beautiful job and
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all the pairing with multiple speakers
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you want to pick up a bunch of these you
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can do that which would involve some
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investment because it's a hundred and
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nine hundred and ninety nine dollars and
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ninety five cents you can get it in
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white which is what this is or you can
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get it in black obviously this screen is
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the same pick them up at amazon.com so
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199 95 that's on the higher end for
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wireless Bluetooth speakers and I really
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like it I the light shows fantastic I
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can just tell on a dark evening when I
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want to just really relax this could be
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really good really good mood lighting
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too if you want to put on some Barry
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White or something that's when I'd use
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the flame mode because that seems like
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that would all work very well but if you
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want to have a really good full
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listening experience then go in with
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your eyes open on this this is the JBL
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pulse 3 I'm Dave Taylor and I'll catch
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you in my next video
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