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I have two jbl charge 3 speakers like this one i put in front of my rush mh5 light—
—and one of them alone is already loud enough with a substantial amount of bass. But when i connect both Charge 3s together they sound amazing and can get louder than you even want. Of all the JBL tube speakers that look like this the charge 3 has the highest comprehensive rating. The bass response is actually better than many of the newer, more expensive models like the charge 4 or extreme 1 or 2. Also its great if your car doesnt have a good stereo or if it doesnt have a way to connect to your phone to play music; you can just chuck a charge 3 in the passenger seat and it will sound great.
Question- does anybody know if you can connect charge 3s with a jbl partybox 100? The partybox gets fantastic reviews and is only like 200$. Sony makes a competing product that is nowhere near as good and sells it for 350$. So its hard to not get the sense that the partybox 100 a good value.
TOAST.If the almighty Dolan doesnt know how would any of us low IQ peasants know?
I dont know why you think i have such a large opinion of myself. Most of my friends irl think im very funny. If i met you in real life i would probably want to make you laugh as my first priority, and you would probably like me.
the internet distorts things.
if the mainstream media wasnt so predatorily vicious in their assaults on trump he would be much less corrosive in his statements.
if i meet a cool guy irl i will want to make friends with them. Im not going to lie about the fact that most people who think socialism would work in america are of subhuman tier intelligence, but assuming i meet a person irl who doesnt support socialism we would probably get along well.
Nice thread Dolan. First, you ask your techy question, then you jump down someone's throat about their opinion on your opinion of yourself, and you even find a way to bring in your political views into it!
For the actual question: I believe you actually can connect the Charge with the Partybox but I'm not 100% sure.
What Eheath said. Investing in better quality audio gear is definitely worth it. From what I can tell you like music with a heavy bass line - might as well have speakers that do that kind of music justice.
You can get yourself a few powered monitors and a sub with a driver big enough to actually make high amplitude low frequencies for about $500.
TheMoostafianWhat Eheath said. Investing in better quality audio gear is definitely worth it. From what I can tell you like music with a heavy bass line - might as well have speakers that do that kind of music justice.
You can get yourself a few powered monitors and a sub with a driver big enough to actually make high amplitude low frequencies for about $500.
Unless you want to get into the bonkers world of DIY audio...
Yeah for a home setup that's a good deal for a 15" sub. I've got a QSC 18" sub and a couple k12 monitors lol but most people don't need or want anything like that for their house.
TheMoostafianYeah for a home setup that's a good deal for a 15" sub. I've got a QSC 18" sub and a couple k12 monitors lol but most people don't need or want anything like that for their house.
Now thats a subwoofer lol. 3600 Class D watts is no joke. Do you only use it for music?
I have a basement setup with Klipsch LaScalas and a 15'' Dayton Audio Reference sub in a vent ported enclosure for low end. Those LaScalas are crazy, they are horn loaded so they can put out 112 db with 1 watt.
SuspiciousFishNow thats a subwoofer lol. 3600 Class D watts is no joke. Do you only use it for music?
I have a basement setup with Klipsch LaScalas and a 15'' Dayton Audio Reference sub in a vent ported enclosure for low end. Those LaScalas are crazy, they are horn loaded so they can put out 112 db with 1 watt.
Shit that's a pretty badass setup to have in the basement! I've looked at those la scalas before but fuck that's a lot of money for a pair.
My QSC setup is stuff that I had for setting up small stages when I was in college. Its too much for inside a house, but it's pretty badass for parties or outdoor events. Sometimes I hook it up in the living room to watch movies.
I have yamaha hs8 monitors and sub in my office that I use for making music.
TheMoostafianShit that's a pretty badass setup to have in the basement! I've looked at those la scalas before but fuck that's a lot of money for a pair.
My QSC setup is stuff that I had for setting up small stages when I was in college. Its too much for inside a house, but it's pretty badass for parties or outdoor events. Sometimes I hook it up in the living room to watch movies.
I have yamaha hs8 monitors and sub in my office that I use for making music.
If you buy them used you can get a pretty good deal. If I can remember right I think I paid around $1,300 for mine and they had new crossovers and tweeters. It was a lot but I worked a second contact type job on the train on the way to work and had the money. Its all taken apart now because I had to paint the basement but I had it set up as a dedicated room with sound treatments etc. Its pretty spooky how real they sound sometimes. Infected Mushroom is my favorite on high sensitivity speakers, there is so much punch and detail in their music its like getting hit in the face.
Thats sweet you have a studio, what kind of music do you make?
SuspiciousFishIf you buy them used you can get a pretty good deal. If I can remember right I think I paid around $1,300 for mine and they had new crossovers and tweeters. It was a lot but I worked a second contact type job on the train on the way to work and had the money. Its all taken apart now because I had to paint the basement but I had it set up as a dedicated room with sound treatments etc. Its pretty spooky how real they sound sometimes. Infected Mushroom is my favorite on high sensitivity speakers, there is so much punch and detail in their music its like getting hit in the face.
Thats sweet you have a studio, what kind of music do you make?
Damn that is a good deal, usually those go for like 3k+.
I used to make a lot of hip hop beats and I play the drums, too. Now that I dont work in the music industry at all I just occasionally mess around and make random instrumentals. Sometimes I record live stuff but not much anymore.
Bened_notnilNice thread Dolan. First, you ask your techy question, then you jump down someone's throat about their opinion on your opinion of yourself, and you even find a way to bring in your political views into it!
For the actual question: I believe you actually can connect the Charge with the Partybox but I'm not 100% sure.
Fair point. Idk why i get so tangential so often.
eheathWhy do you have a $1500 light and $50 speakers?
The charge 3 used to be 200$ and they were 150$ each when i bought them. I used to be a basehead in high school with 2 15” rf power dvcs with 2000w power handling and a 12” mtx sub and a 1200w amp. If i played a track of thunder sounds with my windows open on my suburban it the entire school would shut down sports for the day because they would have thought the thunder was real. Thats how loud it was.
But for whatever reasons i dont get as excited about bass as i used to, as long as the sound is well balanced and not to trebly which i cannot stand and have never been able to stand. The bass from the charge 3 is actually pretty impressive for the size of the speaker. But it should be impressive; each end of the charge 3 is a small woofer that has alot of travel. The full package produces a sound that is fairly well balanced but surprisingly a bit heavier in bass than in treble, which is optimal in my opinion.
TheMoostafianWhat Eheath said. Investing in better quality audio gear is definitely worth it. From what I can tell you like music with a heavy bass line - might as well have speakers that do that kind of music justice.
You can get yourself a few powered monitors and a sub with a driver big enough to actually make high amplitude low frequencies for about $500.
I would agree that a full sound system would probably outclass and outblast 2 jbl charge 3 speakers, but for what they are, the jbls are actually quite incredible. You wouldnt believe how full and deep the sound that comes out of them is. Its not going to set off car alarms, but it sounds fantastic and very high quality. And for those who need to hear the bass line to enjoy the music, trust me, you will hear it and then some....
The charge 3 actually doesnt seem to have a bass crossover (cutoff frequency) of any sort. The larger and newer charge 4 and extreme 1 and 2 only go down to like 55hz at the lowest. The charge 3 will on the other hand keep flapping its woofers all the way down to 20 hz where the bass gets too low frequency to even hear.
The other jbl speakers get almost as glowing reviews but they dont really kill it the same way the charge 3 does. They are fantastic, but the charge 3 is still probably the most impressive for its size speaker jbl has ever made. If you read the reviews, pretty much 97% of ppl say something like “its the best sound quality ive ever listened to”.
Granted that they probably dont know sound systems as well as you guys here do, but i think the jbl charge 3s and other jbl speakers are at least deserving of the label “impressive”. And with 2 of them in stereo on bluetooth, I dont think you could reasonably desire more sound unless you are a total speaker head who likes making their ears bleed. 2 of them together is loud as fuck and even more deep sounding with 2x the woofers pounding away.
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haha you know whats up!
SuspiciousFishThis is the best value Subwoofer IMO:
Unless you want to get into the bonkers world of DIY audio...
That looks sick. I convinced my dad to get this sub for our house yrs ago called the sunfire true subwoofer. It had like 3 inches of travel or something stupid like that and a passive radiator on the opposite side of the powered woofer that was weighted to resonate at like 20hz. If you turned the base up while watching a movie it literally sounded like the whole house was going to collapse.
stereos and especially subwoofers are such an intuitive and fun thing to fuck with if you have any enjoyment of physics. I was obsessed with bass in high school. Its cool to hear you all’s enthusiasm about this stuff.
TheMoostafianYeah for a home setup that's a good deal for a 15" sub. I've got a QSC 18" sub and a couple k12 monitors lol but most people don't need or want anything like that for their house.
Nice
SuspiciousFishNow thats a subwoofer lol. 3600 Class D watts is no joke. Do you only use it for music?
I have a basement setup with Klipsch LaScalas and a 15'' Dayton Audio Reference sub in a vent ported enclosure for low end. Those LaScalas are crazy, they are horn loaded so they can put out 112 db with 1 watt.
112 db is an insane sensitivity for a sub. I remember when the whole world was drooling over infiniti kappa perfects that only had 96 db sensitivity in a car enclosure. I have no idea how a sub could have a 112db sensitivity. Thats crazy.
yungonaholy fuck your house is disgusting clean it up you pathetic slob
Its just toys. Disco light, electric skateboard, and jbl speaker.
“He who dies with the most toys, wins”
**This post was edited on Oct 14th 2020 at 9:01:21pm
eheathWhy do you have a $1500 light and $50 speakers?
It was only 1300 for the light fixture.
The light is incredible though. Like literally i dont even resent spending 1.3k on it at all. It makes listening to music almost like mushroom synesthesia. It moves totally in sink with the music you are playing and makes it a more enjoyable and deeper experience.
If anybody is interested in getting a really good light for under 700$ pm me. Ive researched alot of companies and the best bang-for-buck moving heads come from the thomann music company in germany that makes lights under the brand name “stairville”. The 2 american companies that make cheap dj lights are pure piles of shit. American dj (ADJ) and Chauvet. They produce unreliable garbage because american Dj light engineers apparently suck dick.
In Germany, reliability isnt an “added feature” to the products they produce. It is fundamental, and has been since before ww2.
DolanReloadedFair point. Idk why i get so tangential so often.
That looks sick. I convinced my dad to get this sub for our house yrs ago called the sunfire true subwoofer. It had like 3 inches of travel or something stupid like that and a passive radiator on the opposite side of the powered woofer that was weighted to resonate at like 20hz. If you turned the base up while watching a movie it literally sounded like the whole house was going to collapse.
stereos and especially subwoofers are such an intuitive and fun thing to fuck with if you have any enjoyment of physics. I was obsessed with bass in high school. Its cool to hear you all’s enthusiasm about this stuff.
Nice
112 db is an insane sensitivity for a sub. I remember when the whole world was drooling over infiniti kappa perfects that only had 96 db sensitivity in a car enclosure. I have no idea how a sub could have a 112db sensitivity. Thats crazy.
Its just toys. Disco light, electric skateboard, and jbl speaker.
“He who dies with the most toys, wins”
**This post was edited on Oct 14th 2020 at 9:01:21pm
Damn, that is a monster sub. Sunfire makes top of the line subs. Passive radiators are good too because it allows them to tune the box to 20hz without a Port which can make 'chuffing' noises under heavy bass. Many manufactures dont because its more expensive to have a passive than a hole in the box.
The 112 is for main speakers, not the sub. You would probably need a monster 20' horn loaded sub to get that kind of sensitivity. The Car enclosure is kind of cheating because the cabin gain (Small space) of a car increases the response by a lot.
Looking at the Big Boys this is the most I could find:
The Klipsch Pro Cinema horn sub with a 18'' driver is about 102 db/watt:
The FunktionONE Subs are about 107 db/watt:
The biggest you can build at home is probably the Cinema F20 with a 15'' Dayton Reference Driver. Im not sure how sensitive it is buy I imagine probably around 100 db/Watt:
If you want to geek out on the build and freq specs etc here is a good build thread from AVS forum:
SuspiciousFishDamn, that is a monster sub. Sunfire makes top of the line subs. Passive radiators are good too because it allows them to tune the box to 20hz without a Port which can make 'chuffing' noises under heavy bass. Many manufactures dont because its more expensive to have a passive than a hole in the box.
The 112 is for main speakers, not the sub. You would probably need a monster 20' horn loaded sub to get that kind of sensitivity. The Car enclosure is kind of cheating because the cabin gain (Small space) of a car increases the response by a lot.
Looking at the Big Boys this is the most I could find:
The Klipsch Pro Cinema horn sub with a 18'' driver is about 102 db/watt:
The FunktionONE Subs are about 107 db/watt:
The biggest you can build at home is probably the Cinema F20 with a 15'' Dayton Reference Driver. Im not sure how sensitive it is buy I imagine probably around 100 db/Watt:
If you want to geek out on the build and freq specs etc here is a good build thread from AVS forum:
**This post was edited on Oct 16th 2020 at 5:11:29pm
Nice. Where are the subs hidden in those big boxes? Is there an image showing a cutaway/xray view of the whole sub enclosure?
those sensitivities are insane.
do you remember the 32 inch clarion sub?
if that driver was strong enough to give a 32” sub any reasonable amount of travel that thing would be extremely loud. I never saw one in person but i always wanted one.
Also i was going to say i cant believe how much more expensive Home audio subs are than car audio subs, but some of the most powerful car subs are even more expensive than home audio subs.
do you think you can get good enough sound for home theatre by just getting a decent quality car audio sub in a big sealed enclosure? I think theres so many great car audio subs out there that arent too pricy.
OregonDeadthat is not a tube speaker OP. I waited to click but then thought oh I will see if they are getting some sweet tube speakers but no
Well what would you call these cylinder shaped speakers like my charge 3? Audiochoads?
Also, i just ordered a jbl partybox 100 for 250$. anybody have one or have listened to one?
It gets great reviews and ppl say the bass is very solid, and it has 3 bass modes if you really want to crank it up.
for 250$ i think this thing is a pretty good value, because jbl is on the harman team along with infinity and a bunch of other top quality audio firms. Also, Martin, the brand of my disco light, is owned by harman which is kind of funny.
i dont think harmans brands are permitted to shithouse the quality on their pricepoint products like the partybox 100. Everything from jbl seems to be at least on par with bose if not better.
just from the fundamentals the partybox 100 has two 5 inch subwoofers in a decent size rear ported enclosure. The bass from them should probably be great; you can move alot of air with two 5 inch woofers if theres enough travel. It wont be shaking the foundation but it should be more than enough for me.
I just came back to say that anyone who puts anything more than a single 12" sub in a vehicle is a fucking madman.
Car audio in general is just kind of silly; so much of sound is determined by the space its contained in and a small metal and glass box is just an acoustic nightmare.
TheMoostafianI just came back to say that anyone who puts anything more than a single 12" sub in a vehicle is a fucking madman.
Car audio in general is just kind of silly; so much of sound is determined by the space its contained in and a small metal and glass box is just an acoustic nightmare.
You dont think you can make a car stereo that sounds great?
Also the partybox 100 came today. For 250$ its fucking incredible. Very clear sound and a ton of bass. The house starts shaking when i put the level 1 bass boost on, and thats not even the top; it has a level 2 bass boost which is pretty much too loud to use.
I cant believe how far money goes these days.
if this speaker was sold in the 90s it would cost over 1000$ without a doubt.
harman is a fucking awesome conglomerate, at least product wise.
