Buying a Bluetooth speaker this festival season? Read this first
Get the right waterproof speaker, like the JBL Flip 6 here, and a soaking in the pool won't be a problem.The great outdoors and electronics are rarely firm friends: there’s water, there’s dust, and there are accidents. Most outdoor speakers offer some kind of water and dust resistance, and there are lots of great waterproof speakers these days, but it’s important to know the different standards.
Speakers have 'IP' ratings to describe their environmental protection. The first digit after IP tells you the dust resistance; the second, water resistance. Some speakers list one but not the other, with an X replacing the missing number – so for example a speaker rated IP5X has a dust protection rating but not a water one, and a speaker rated IPX7 has a waterproof rating but no certification for dust or sand ingress.
That’s the environmental hazards taken care of. Now for the human ones. Portable speakers’ biggest enemy is us: they can be dropped, they can be accidentally kicked, they can be knocked off tables and they can be banged around inside a bag or onto hard surfaces.
There's no handy rating system here, but it's clear quickly that the rounded shape and slightly soft outside of the
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