The JBL clip 2 is durable and reasonably loud. However, nine out of every ten times I use it, my computer "detects" it and... goes right on using its own speakers, unless and until I open my bluetooth connection and manually disconnect and reconnect it. This would be bad enough, but when there is no sound coming into it from my computer, it always- ALWAYS- turns itself off after a few minutes and forces me to go through the whole reconnection process all over again. I imagine this was meant as a powersaving measure, but I have no control over it, and as a practical matter there are always long stretches of time when I want it at the ready but I am not actively using it. This is a "feature" that might as well be a bug. Also, even with this feature, the battery life is not very good. In fact, I habitually leave the speaker recharge cable plugged in, as I can never tell when it has merely "timed out" or has run out of power- which is quite often. I hope future versions of this thing are better. Its big advantage when I bought it was that it was cheap.

I bought a clip 2 and it won't turn on so I returned it. Then the 2nd clip 2 had the same problem.

The orange charger that came with it broke, which is another issue. I bought a new charger and now it will not charge.