Soundboks Go

High-quality, chic and extremely loud Bluetooth speaker with practical app, but unbalanced and too bass-heavy sound.

Compact, powerful and extremely robust: the Soundboks Go offers everything you would expect from a party speaker and much more. Its sound is best at high volumes and outdoors, its battery lasts a long time and is easy to charge. If you want to enjoy music indoors, you should probably opt for the Sony SRS XP700...

The Soundboks Go is not the best companion for a festival or camping trip. It delivers powerful sound, but struggles with peaky highs and distorted voice reproduction. With only one stereo input, the equipment is meagre and the operation quite minimalistic. For sound settings, for example, music fans have to use the smartphone app.

Each of the boxes presented here has its advantages. The Stormbox is particularly small, the Bang relatively inexpensive and easy to connect. If design is important to you, go for the Hear 2. The Soundlink Flex delivers the best sound for on the go, closely followed by the Roam, which also scores with AirPlay...