Bose
Bose SoundLink Max Bluetooth Speaker - Portable Wireless Party Speaker, IP67, Blue Dusk
Best for: music that moves with you — battery hours decide whether the speaker outlasts the party, and the IP rating decides where it can go.
Tip: add it to your Amazon cart while you decide — it stays saved there, with no obligation to buy.
Score breakdown
Where the 4.1 comes from
Each bar is this model's min-max normalized position across the 8 bluetooth speakers we track. Missing specs are excluded and the remaining weights rescaled — never treated as zero.
Official spec sheet
Every number, cited
| Brand | Bose |
|---|---|
| Battery life | 20 h |
| Ingress protection | IP67 |
| Weight | 2,223 g |
| Bluetooth version | 5.4 |
| Rated output | — |
| Key feature | Bluetooth 5.4 with aptX Adaptive; biggest sound in the Bose portable line |
| Spec source | View spec source ↗ |
Strengths in the data
- Top-4 ingress protection in the category
- Top-4 Bluetooth version in the category
Flaws but not dealbreakers
- Bottom-4 battery life in the category
- Bottom-4 weight in the category
Both lists are derived mechanically: a metric makes the list when this model finishes in the top or bottom four of the 8 bluetooth speakers we track.
Who shouldn't get it: Skip it if the speaker travels in a backpack — at 2,223 g this one moves room to room, not door to door.
Tip: add it to your Amazon cart while you decide — it stays saved there, with no obligation to buy.
All data above is publicly available spec data from the official brand page linked in the table — we don't lab-test. Prices and availability are shown on Amazon. Compare with all 8 bluetooth speakers ↗