I brought a Bose, Sony, and JBL speaker to the beach - this one's my new outdoor essential

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As a Georgian, it's customary to travel down to Florida to get some sun on the beach during summer vacation. I figured this year, I'd take a few of the latest Bluetooth speakers with me to better gauge their performance.

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As with the many headphones I test, it's easy to form a positive opinion of a speaker in controlled environments such as my home office, front porch, or parents' backyard. But throw that same speaker into some uneven loose sand, uncontrollable ocean waves, and a nearby naval base and you have some totally different conditions.

I took the Bose SoundLink Plus, JBL Charge 6, and Sonos Play, outside with me while I relaxed on the shores of Pensacola Beach,...

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