JLab Launches New Pop Party Speaker with RGB Lighting

A JLab Bluetooth speaker on a blanket on a beach. — JLab’s new Pop Party speaker is small enough to fit in your pocket but still includes RGB accent lighting. | Image: JLab

JLab has announced a new Party line of wireless speakers that continues an industry trend of adding animated RGB lighting to devices that play music. The new budget-friendly JLab Pop Party speaker is compact enough to fit in your pocket while still featuring customizable LED lights.

The $19.99 Pop Party is the lightest and most affordable option among four new speakers, all of which are available now through JLab’s online store. It delivers up to 5W of sound through a two-inch full-range driver, paired with a matching two-inch passive woofer to enhance lower frequencies. When not tucked away in your pocket, it can be easily hung from a bag or strapped to the handlebars of a bike using a detachable loop. The RGB lighting can be customized with various animations, your favorite color, or set to flash and pulse in sync with the music. Battery life is claimed to exceed eight hours of playtime, although this reduces to over five hours when the RGB lighting is in use.

A JLab Bluetooth speaker being held in someone’s finger using its carrying strap.

The Pop Party’s IPX5 rating ensures that splashes or rain will not damage it, although the speaker is not designed to withstand complete submersion. The other three speakers in the lineup feature a slightly improved IPX6 water-resistance rating, but they too cannot be fully submerged.

A person adjusts settings on a mobile app on a smartphone next to a JLab Bluetooth speaker sitting on a wood table.

The larger $29.99 Go Party speaker doubles the sound output to 10W, utilizing a pair of two-inch full-range drivers and dual two-inch passive woofers, while extending battery life to up to 16 hours, or up to eight hours with the lighting activated. This model also includes speakerphone functionality with a built-in microphone.

A person turns a knob on top of a JLab Bluetooth speaker sitting on a table full of food.

The $69.99 JBuds Party speaker features the same number of drivers as the Go Party but increases the size of the dual full-frequency drivers to 2.5 inches, delivering 30W of sound with 12 hours of battery life, or up to 10 hours with the lighting activated. Like the rest of JLab’s new lineup, the JBuds speaker’s sound profile can be adjusted using a mobile app, and it adds a media control knob along with additional buttons on top for easier access to frequently used functions.

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The $149.99 Epic Party speaker is the most expensive model in JLab’s new lineup, significantly boosting sound output to 100W in all directions. This is achieved using four 2.5-inch full-range drivers, a five-inch passive woofer, and a larger 5.25-inch subwoofer. The Epic model offers the longest battery life in the new lineup, providing up to 16 hours of sound playback or up to 14 hours with the accompanying light show.

All of JLab’s new Party speakers include the capability to pair with a second speaker for a stereo sound experience. Utilizing the company’s “LabSync technology,” up to 100 speakers can be connected together, synchronizing their sound and lighting effects to fill larger spaces.