![]() ![]() And from Sony’s app you can select from a few different lighting modes and you can even use Sony’s fiestable app to somewhat customize the color of this light feature. Now this isn’t the best light feature out there and you can barely see it when you're outdoors… but it is something. Now even though the XB33 doesn’t feel as premium as the Charge 5… something that it does have going for it is this light feature. Now this shouldn’t be a deciding factor for a speaker but it is an observation. So the charge 5 does feel more premium in your hands. However I do gotta point out that the fabric weave on the Charge 5 feels more premium and much more tightly woven than the fabric on the XB33. They both have these exposed passive radiators on either side with these hard plastic end caps, they both have their control buttons up top and they both have a mostly fabric wrapped body which should be able to stand up to constant abuse without any problems. ![]() Now minor size difference aside, the Charge 5 and XB33 still share the same design characteristics. However I can’t help but notice that the Charge 5 is a little more compact than the XB33. Now first lets talk about the designs of these speakers… like I mentioned earlier these are both mid sized speakers so you can easily throw them into your back pack and take them on the go with you. But regardless if you want to pick either of these two speakers up they’ll be linked down below. Now even though the Charge 5 is a little more expensive… it does feel more premium and has a better real world battery life than the XB33. Where as the Charge 5 has a retail price of $180 but I do expect it to go on sale for $150 on a regular basis. One of which is going to be their pricing… the XB33 has a retail price of $150 but you can routinely find the XB33 on sale for $130. Now both of these speakers sound good but if you’re looking into getting a mid sized speaker lets see which’s ones right for you cause the Charge 5 and XB33 do have some crucial differences. Specifically the Charge 5 is rocking a new tweeter over the Charge 4 where as the XB33’s speaker set up is drastically different from its predecessors cause it has new triangular drivers and passive radiators that shoot out its sides. It’s also worth noting that tracks from services that offer lossless streaming (such as Apple Music, Tidal, Qobuz, and Amazon Music) sound noticeably better on the Charge 5 than the lossy tracks available from Spotify or YouTube Music.Both the new JBL Charge 5 and Sony XB33 are rocking all new speaker set ups from their predecessors. If your tastes run to more contemporary hits like those by Bad Bunny, Harry Styles, Kendrick Lamar, and Kate Bush, the Charge 5 sounds so good that I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that contemporary mix engineers use the JBL portables as reference speakers during their mix sessions. On notoriously low-fi recordings like Question Mark and the Mysterians’s “96 Tears” and the 13 th Floor Elevators’s “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” the Charge 5 doesn’t sand off the rough edges that give garage-rock classics like these their sonic teeth. Tambourine Man,” the Charge 5 delivers exceptional detail and separation between voices and instruments, whereas lesser speakers tend to turn the midrange into an indistinguishable wall of sound. On Apple’s ‘60s Rock Essentials playlist, the Charge 5 consistently impresses.
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