That on-paper promise materializes in practice, too. Like a mutt suffering from small dog syndrome, the flip 5 demands to be heard (the difference is, you’ll actually want to hear it).
Whether we subject the mini speaker to mac miller’s languid –yet-sharp rapping or Explosions in the sky’s post-rock intrumentalism , the jbl delivers it with stark clarity, lashings of detail and more than a hint of dynamics.