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The Anker Soundcore Flare Bluetooth Speaker -- REVIEWED!
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May 29, 2025
With its surprising sound, rich bass and fun LED lights on the bottom of the unit, the Anker Soundcore Flare speaker is a great addition to any gear bag. But it's waterproof too, and can even pair with a second unit to give you wireless stereo! Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the new Soundcore Flare speaker and finds it a great buy for the money! Check it out at: https://amzn.to/2Itk7ko
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is this the best budget Bluetooth
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speaker on the market let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at this
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this is the anchor sound core flare this
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is a really nice budget bluetooth
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speaker in fact let's just take the word
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budget out of this this is just a really
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nice Bluetooth speaker has a ton of
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features one of which is it has really
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good sound let's start with that right
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now my microphone but there's a lot of
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really nice rich sound and it's a
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360-degree soundscape so you're gonna
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hear it the same regardless where you
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are and it has something called face up
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boost but let's just get here what my
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kids would say I don't know maybe they
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call this the truck go ahead and pause
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that now you might have noticed that
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there's an illumination source
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underneath now this is actually there's
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a bunch of different light modes they
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call it LED light show and it has five
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color themes and five illumination
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patterns and what you really want to do
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is you really want to control it all
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from the app so there's an iPhone and an
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Android app called sound core flare and
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genius and with that you can get to all
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sorts of things so we can go to party
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mode or I like energy mode let's switch
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to energy mode and now we'll go to the
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same music and see
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the lights are a little bit more
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exciting so there's lots of different
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light modes I think that stuff's really
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fun if you don't like it one of the many
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controls on the top is to actually turn
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off light mode let's see if I can turn
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that off there we go
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turn off light mode the other one is to
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turn on and off the bass boost and then
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of course they have the traditional plus
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or minus which is volume up volume down
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forward track previous track and pause
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play it also has a microphone so you can
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also take calls with this I would think
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that the people on the other end never
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sounded so good as they did with this
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sound core flare now one of the other
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fun things is it's waterproof
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so we have a bowl of beer beer I poured
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tons of beer into here not really but
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let's see what happens so I mean for the
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party it's the kind of thing that
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happens right so low someone dropped it
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in the pool and so it's kind of pretty
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wet right now so I have a towel so let's
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take it out see beer I told you it was
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beer man obviously still working
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everything's just fine with this and
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part of the reason for that is that the
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actual like charging controls and stuff
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are all hidden underneath a rubber seal
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so if you pop that open then see here we
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go so on the side or the back you have
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four buttons you have bluetooth you have
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power on/off you have aux-in
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which is really nice if you want to use
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something else as the music source and
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then you have the microUSB charging and
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you close the flap and you're back to
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waterproof on the top like I said there
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are five buttons that give you various
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levels of control and on the bottom
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there ain't nothing just the light so
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that's pretty much it the sound core you
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can get two of them and they'll
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automatically pair as stereo and then
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you just work
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with one and the other ones that
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automatically working with it that's
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really cool as a 12 hour battery life
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depending on the volume you're using if
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you're cranking it way up like I am then
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you're probably going to get a little
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less battery life but seriously to have
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this or maybe two of these at the pool
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at your next pool party and someone says
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hey dude jug those up they throw it and
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it goes into the water no problem you
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don't have to freak out and say oh my
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god my new speakers what have you done
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dude so I am a big fan and then just us
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talk about the music quality it sounds
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really good really surprisingly good
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particularly at its price point this
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rivals other speakers that we've tested
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that are twice the price and it's really
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a budget affordable unit Oh said I
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wasn't gonna use the word budget but
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when we get to price we really have to
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talk about that but that's really pretty
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much all I got for you I like that it
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has the app you don't need the app if
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you want to just use the speaker
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directly you're good to go with that and
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before I tell you the price let me just
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ask if you can click on that subscribe
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button really appreciate that cool now
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this anchor sound core flare 360-degree
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Bluetooth speaker with LED light show
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thanks a lot will actually cost you
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$59.99 at amazon.com that honestly is a
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heck of a price for something that has
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this quality sound and all these other
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features I'm a fan this is gonna be one
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of my outdoor speakers for sure and I
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will catch you in my next video
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