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JBL Charge 3 Waterproof Bluetooth Speaker - REVIEWED!
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May 30, 2025
Looking for a speaker that can really push out the sound, a speaker that can fall in the pool or get hit with a water pistol or sprinkler and come out sound terrific? There are lots of waterproof bluetooth speakers, but once you add the criterion of sounding not just good, but great, there are few left standing. Which is why tech expert and audiophile Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ is so impressed with the JBL Charge 3 speaker, as explained in this informative video review... Check it out on Amazon: http://amzn.to/2gVL2gh
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an outdoor speaker that could fall in
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the pool and still be okay let's talk
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about
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it Dave Taylor here and I'm going to
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talk about speakers this time more
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specifically I'm going to talk about
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this a pretty hefty speaker this is the
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JBL Charge 3 and it's just a shade under
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2 lb and you can see it's 9 in long it's
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a pretty substantial speaker but of
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course the coolest and most important
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thing is that it sounds really good and
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JBL man they've been making speakers
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since well a long time I won't even
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reference how long they've been making
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speakers but they really know what
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they're doing so this is a waterproof
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Bluetooth speaker you can connect up to
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three devices at a time if you get a
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second one of these it also has JBL
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connect so you can have two working off
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of a single Sound Source pretty cool I
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will note this is not JBL connect Plus
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which actually gives you more than two
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devices but one assumes that The Charge
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4 will have that capability um I only
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use it Standalone and boy it sounds
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great in fact let's get it a little bit
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of a sound test so it's already hooked
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up to my iPhone let's see what it sounds
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like so you can hear there's a lot of
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clarity there and there's a pretty
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thumping base I can feel hold on so it
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is definitely room filling sound and you
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know you take it outside and you have it
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in the middle of a huge field you're not
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going to hear it from the other side of
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the football field but for parties for
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picnics for impromptu dance parties
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around the pool in the backyard and yeah
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if it falls in not a problem it's
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actually waterproof this is a really
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nice speaker and speaking of which on
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the top you can see here there's
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Bluetooth there are play pause power
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volume up and down you know all the
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standard buttons you would expect and
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then on the back there's this little
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flap and you pop it open and it reveals
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one of the cool secrets of the charge 3
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and why it's called the charge 3 is it
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has a USB port on it so not only do you
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have that aux s where you can plug in
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Old School devices that don't have
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bluetooth not a problem but you can plug
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in a device via USB and charge it how
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cool is that and of course it has its
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own charge port So speaking of charging
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it runs 20 hours and takes about 4 hours
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to do completely dead to fully charged
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um 20 hours is a long time to listen to
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a speaker just want to say that it is um
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2x10 watts and it's 65 to 20,000 hertz
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frequency response it's really it's nice
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I mean it does have that characteristic
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of these sort of speakers where there's
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a lot of high and there's a lot of low
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and the mid-range might be something
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where you want to adjust the
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equalization on your Source device um
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really cool it has an echo cancelling
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speaker phone so even if you don't want
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to go outside you can actually use this
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as a really nice speaker phone next time
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you're talking to Grandma and she's
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going to sound Dynomite she's going to
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sound really good and it's ipx7
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waterproof which means you can have it
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in the pool on the shallow end up to 30
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minutes so if this thing Falls in you do
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not have to freak out and say oh my God
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you just ruined my spe speaker not a
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problem this is going to be able to
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handle that also would mean that if it
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starts raining get that food before you
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worry about your speaker that's
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important and let's see so the other
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thing I want to mention is that JBL also
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has something called the flip three and
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the way they Compares this one's a
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little larger and it's fully waterproof
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instead of water resistant and of course
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it has that charging capability now you
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might not really need to charge devices
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off of this but it's nice to know in a
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pinch that this is there this is the
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Black Version it also comes in blue gray
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red and this really cool turquoise which
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we kind of were hoping to get but we got
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the black one it's all good and how
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orange is this charger this is so nice
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if you don't like orange then you're
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kind of up a creek but JBL likes orange
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so you get an orange Charger and cable
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too so that's nice now before I tell you
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the price let me ask can you please
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click that subscribe button and join my
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happy family fantastic so this speaker
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this JBL speaker will set you back only
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129 bucks at
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amazon.com so this is the JBL Charge 3
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waterproof Bluetooth speaker and this is
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moved immediately into our favorite
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portable or mostly portable speaker out
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of all the ones we have so nice job JBL
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you can learn more at jbl.com or of
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course you can pick one up for yourself
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for $12 bucks at amazon.com this is Dave
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Taylor and I am out of here so let's go
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back to that music
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