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Sep 30

JamBox ‘Sound Clarity’ Update Gives You A Cleaner High

Posted in: bluetooth, Home Audio and Video, Today's Chili

A post-update JamBox, ready to rock. Photo Charlie Sorrel

JawBone has issued yet another update for its little speaker with big sound, the JamBox. If you have been following along, you’ll know that the recent 2.0 software update added LiveAudio, a sound-processing based implementation of binaural audio which stretches out sound and makes it appear to surround you.

Used with an iPad playing Dolby surround movies, it’s pretty awesome.

This 2.1 update adds Sound Clarity which JawBone says “delivers clearer, distortion-free sound” when LiveAudio is switched off. Apparently there have been complaints on the Internet that v2.0 made some speakers sound cold and fuzzy, and generally worse.

I have hardly switched off LiveAudio since I installed it, so you can probably guess my take on the problem. I have noticed that it is a little quiet when watching some TV shows and movies, but that’s part of the LiveAudio processing. Switching it off makes things much louder.

The 2.1 update does indeed make the regular mode sound better. It’s warmer and clearer. I haven’t tested it at full volume because I still have some respect for my neighbors, even if one of them lets his grandchildren torture their baby sister while I’m trying to work, and another spends the entire day (not kidding) holding a (very loud) conversation with football (soccer) games on the TV. And then he sings hip hop (badly) to his daughter.

Jambox updater page [JawBone]

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