Bose SoundLink Color Review: Best Portable Bluetooth Speaker?

Bose SoundLink Color Review - Best Portable Bluetooth Speaker?

Bose was kind enough to sponsor this review of the Bose SoundLink Color Bluetooth speaker. If you’re looking for a high quality Bluetooth speaker that is extremely portable, keep watching.

The Bose SoundLink Color Bluetooth speaker comes in 5 different colors: blue, mint, red, white, and black. In the box is the speaker with a built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery, a wall charger, and USB cable. The majority of the casing is made of a strong plastic, while the top has a soft rubberized finish, making it both durable and simple. The speaker itself is approximately 5"x5"x2" so it's fairly compact. On the back there is the power connector and an AUX port in case your device does not have Bluetooth or you just prefer a wired connection. 

But let’s be real, one of the big reasons you’re probably interested in this speaker is its Bluetooth capability. This plays a huge part in the speaker’s best quality: its portability. Bluetooth pairing is easy, when you first power it on the voice prompts will walk you through the pairing process. Once it’s paired you can start wirelessly playing music to the speaker. You can also pair the speaker to 2 Bluetooth devices simultaneously so for instance if you have an iPad and an iPhone they can both be connected at the same time which makes it easy to switch between the two. The speaker will also remember the last 8 devices paired with it so when you power the speaker off and back on again, your device will automatically pair with it. And let me tell you, the Bose SoundLink Color has the fastest pairing out of all the Bluetooth devices I’ve used. Seriously, it’s Lightning quick.

The Bluetooth range is listed at around 30 feet. The portability also comes from how lightweight it is, weighing only 1.25 lbs it can easily be taken on the go. It easily fit into my girlfriend’s purse.

I haven't owned this speaker for a very long time so it's hard to judge how the battery will hold up as time goes by, but since I've used it the battery life has been fantastic. Bose claims it can get up to 8 hours of play time during a single charge, but I was able to reach 12 hours on a single charge. I wasn't listening to it on full blast, but even at a consistent 40-50% volume level 12 hours of playtime is awesome. Not only is it portable, but the sound quality is good for its small size. It’s definitely the clearest and loudest speaker in its size class that I’ve ever heard. I mean, this thing is loud. It has a deep bass for how small it is, maybe even too much of a bass for some people's taste. But I like it. I was a bit surprised by the loudness and clarity when I first listed to music on it. It was Chance The Rapper by the way. It’s best to have the speaker in a relatively open space though because if it’s backed up to a wall then the audio, mainly the bass, will sound a bit muffled.

Some of you may be wondering how this compares to the Bose SoundLink Mini Bluetooth speaker. Well I’ve never used one of those, but I can say that this Bose SoundLink Color Bluetooth speaker has at least one advantage and that’s the Play/Pause button. Along with the other standard buttons, the play/pause button is very convenient to have if you want to quickly play and pause music without handling your device, which is something the SoundLink Mini does not currently have. One thing I wish the SoundLink Color had was a USB port to charge your smartphone especially for a speaker that costs over $100. Other than that, I love everything about this speaker so far. In fact, I’m actually going to install this speaker on my car’s dashboard with a little help from some velcro. My car doesn’t have a way to play my phone through the speakers, but the Bose SoundLink Color Bluetooth speaker is good enough for me to use it as my audio source when I’m driving. A small thing I noticed was if a deep voice is talking, like on talk radio or a podcast, the speaker has a slight vibration noise during the voice’s deepest tones, but it's kind of a rare occurrence and not a huge deal for me. So with its clear and loud audio quality, compact size, and long battery life I would highly recommend this speaker to anyone looking for their next portable Bluetooth speaker.

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Bose SoundLink Color Review - Best Portable Bluetooth Speaker?

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[ImNHTV]

Just bought one for 15 bucks at a goodwill. I have a Sony xb31 that has a bit more bass but this works better as a work radio

[OOICU]

A friend of mine was playing one of the Bose Color speakers on his patio. From inside the house I thought it was a much larger speaker. I was impressed by the big sound that small speaker put out.

[SandraTDance]

I just bought this but I don't want to take it anywhere! Cuz it cost a little bit for me. I guess you could say I'm loving it the guy in the store said he had his for three and a half years, hoping to have mine longer

[mayurthapan]

Can we plug and play this speaker at the same time

[SandraTDance]

Did you use the bose speaker for this video? Can 25 people hear it in a backyard? Someone else said to lay it us against something to get the full effect of the base. Thanks for the update

[SeNniN]

It would have been great if you had included a small sound sample.

[wolfs.]

Testing a speaker without sound examples is worthless!

[playerish]

Can this bose soundlink color 1 be used to answer calls? Or practise singing? Thx

[chuckennuggett]

these speakers are pretty awesome for techno, electro, and has really good bass. almost sounds like a car door speaker . not sure how many watts it is.

[surya_dnb]

"Really deep bass"
What frequencies are we talking here? I'm a but skeptical given the size of this thing.

[yahyahra]

I have the Bose Sound link Mini, what do you think of that compared to this one?

[kimvargo]

I’ve had my speaker in a box for a few years. I got it for Christmas and knew nothing about it (generation gap I guess) it was everything you said. The only thing is I can’t use my iPad, when I do every key I press the speaker 🔊 makes the taping noise. Is there a way to fix that so I can use iPad without all that tapping.

[nowifi]

this is such a hard commercial to watch but I kinda might buy the speaker

[chillywang]

someone didnt have a password for there speaker i played death metal at 2 am i heard my neighbor freakout muhhahha

[niaalK-]

nice video, which camera u used to shoot video

[darondonmacamos]

I have this speaker.. the sounds is great but now is not charging.. can you help me sir how to fix this??

[joeklamut]

Hi Andy! I just ordered one yesterday from HSN. I just checked YouTube to find what people thought about them. Totally enjoyed your video and the way you explained things. Sounds like I made a good purchase! I just subscribed to your channel and looking forward to your opinions on things of interest. Great job 👍

[zappa]

Just got one yesterday and no wall charger was included. And it's not charging when connected to my PC (USB). Returning

[jeremymignolet]

Love the way u explain things. Very calm & just enough info.

[true]

Forgot my jbl extreme 2 at the beach found this bad boy in my closet and I have to say it fills a room just as well as the extreme 2 did and the bose outshines the jbl while I’m playing movies from my computer monitor