kove commuter 2 portable speaker

So i couldn’t decide between the Oontz Angle 3 and the Kove Commuter 2. Both looked really good. I bought both and gave them both a run side by side on the coffee table.Water resistance/water proofBoth claim to be IPX7 rated. The Kove claims to be IPX7 water-resistant, however the oontz claims to the IPX7 water-proof. Though the IPX7 rating technically is for submersion in 1m of water for up to 30 mins. Who’s stretching the truth? I don’t know. But, both should hold up to a rain without issue. Not planning on doing the backstroke with them at any point. So I don’t really care about them stopping working if I drop them in the lake since they’re probably done anyway no matter what if that happens. If you need to play under water go with the oontz I guess.Oontz:Pros: clearer highs, ability to pair more than two in surround mode, meaning you can Daisy chain 4 of them together to surround you with sound on your deck. That’s a big win if you’re looking for that. Literature is misleading. I’ve seen anywhere from 10 to 20 hours battery life with 14 highlighted too. Not sure on total battery life, didn’t test to depletion. But better than Kove at 7-9. Slightly louder than the Kove by an insignificant pinch. Has a 3.5mm audio cable for connecting audio in. Robust build. Solid with rubber cushioningCons: uses a fiddly app to pair the speakers together I’m stereo mode. I did see both speakers in the Bluetooth settings and paired one and and the other separately. Didn’t work in stereo mode. Had to finally download the app and pair master and slave speakers. Worked great once done through the app. Two speakers to keep up with and charge separate. Poorer base and less full sound compared to the Kove. A more old school design compared to the Kove. Less smart, just big single action buttons on on the end for each independent function. Seems more brutish of a design.Kove:Pros: better bass compared to the Oontz, but the treble was less clear. Overall I think the Kove has fuller and richer sound with some expense of the highs. These two speakers hook together turning into one unit that still plays from opposite sides of the speaker. So a very clever design. It can sit as one unit on the center of the table and project audio to both sides of the table from the center unit. Or split and become a stereo pair. Supports L and R channels like the Oontz. One power cord to keep up with, with two USB C plugs, where the Oontz has 2 separate cords. I only have one device to grab and go when it’s party time. Not two with two separate chargers and cords to keep up with and fiddle with. Better technology than the oontz with white-ring beat-tracking led lights on the top that just look cool. They turn red when charging. Elegant button layout that serves multi functions depending on long press or short press, just overall more sophisticated design and tech. Both speakers instantly paired without apps and only one device in the Bluetooth settings to pair with. Even on power and power off it just worked without messing around. Both paired together instantly.Cons: treble not quite as clear with Kove, no 3.5mm input. Bluetooth only. Less battery life than the Oontz by 1-10 hours depending on which piece of oontz lit you read. Seems a pinch more delicate than the Oontz but not by much.All and all both are great sets of speakers. Like anything in life, it depends on your mission.If you value simple, elegance and a smart design. If you value one device to keep up with that can split and become a stereo pair. Richer sound,. Battery is good enough to last most parties. Kove wins.If you need full surround to saturate a whole deck with X speakers all chained together with possibly more battery life and possible better battery life then oontz is the better choice. But you have a fiddly app, (future app support worries me, may not enter stereo mode without it?) and multiple Bluetooth devices to deal with. Oontz could be your winner. It does have some solid pluses if that’s what you’re looking for.Hope that helps folks.

Love how you can split them up. Just wish they were a little louder

Bought this exactly a year ago and it’s already broken. Loved the idea of the two separate speakers and used it weekly until about 8 months in when one side completely stopped turning on but it would charge…now it won’t even charge. I continue to use the one side but not worth it.

 This speaker is AWESOME! Great sound! Long lasting charge! As you can see in the picture it can come apart or you can use it as one. This is our second Kove speaker because our teenage son took the first one. We highly recommend!!

I evaluated this and another wireless stereo speaker. These speakers have the best sound of any small, portable speakers that I've found. Others were very bright, but these are the best at handling strong, low notes (like from an organ), and I think it's because it's the only speakers in this class that I've tried that have a subwoofer.It's very easy to charge the two parts. It's also very easy re-pair the speakers once they become unpaired. I have a very minor complaint, a variable complaint, and a substantial complaint.• These speakers seem fainter than the others I've tried. Maybe loudness is a by-product of other speakers being brighter. Or maybe these speakers have chosen to be softer to conserve energy.• The battery life is not good. The battery life seems to maybe be somewhere 8-10 hours. I'm recharging them 2 or 3 times / week, and I'm trying to remember to turn them off when I leave. The specs say that the speakers should auto-shutoff after ten minutes of no use, but mine have not turned themselves off. And once one of the speakers reaches 20% battery life, the speaker starts playing an obnoxious, loud sound just like the busy signal we used to get on a phone. To me, this is a design flaw. I'd rather have the speaker continue working until it runs out of power. But playing the busy signal every 30 seconds makes the speaker unusable once it reaches low battery, and it means that the battery life is really only 80% of its maximum.• This pair of speakers has been wonderful for maintaining the bluetooth connection. All of the other speakers I've had or tested seemed to lose the connection much more frequently. These speakers RARELY lose the signal. But this is the variable complaint, because when I wrote to the company about the Busy signal once the speakers reached low battery, they sent a replacement pair to see if it was any better. There was no difference in the battery and the warning, but I noticed that the replacement pair lost the signal more frequently than the original pair. I ended up returning the replacement speakers and keeping the original set.I would buy these speakers again, and I returned the others that I was evaluating. But if better battery life were a top requirement for me, then I wouldn't choose these. And if I have a set that drop the Bluetooth signal (for just a second or two) more than about once / day or two, then I would ask for a replacement. But if the sound from the speakers is your top factor in choosing your speakers, then I highly recommend these.

Not impressed with the sound overall; the bass is distorted, not even at full volume (which isn't much I'm afraid). Here's the big flaw; I bought them because I was impressed by the separating into a stereo pair feature (so much so that I ordered them here in the UK and paid all the extra shipping and duties). When the units are operated at a decent volume they dance across the surface and eventually make their way to the edge of the desk and onto to floor. This happened already on day 1 with one half - luckily nothing broken but I will have to be extra careful where I place them otherwise they won't last long. The flashing lights on the bass speakers at the ends are annoying but these can be made solid although I'd prefer to switch themm off entirely! I note that one side goes red when charging but the other goes pink! After unplugging I'm left one lit and one not! Don't know quite what's going on there but, hey, they're made in China and they're not Bose or Sonos. Not worth the price I paid here in the UK but prob acceptable in the US.

Very happy with the Kove speaker. My friends were impressed with it as well.