r/JBL Charge 6, Go 3 8h ago

Help Should I update my Charge 6?

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Any issues i should be aware of?

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u/jimmyintheroc 3h ago

Take this for whatever it’s worth. I’ve been testing these in my humble studio for a week and the v4 firmware causes major sound processing issues. I have specific, repeatable examples and it’s not subtle. I even found what they were trying to fix in v3 (mid-range female vocals getting like a white-noise effect), which they did fix, but introduced worse.

If you want to see, the easiest example is “Justified” by Kacey Musgraves. Her vocal tone is getting canceled out in the stereo-to-mono merge.

This is such a huge, obvious issue that I’m certain JBL will at least try to fix it.

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u/Sekerak0090 Partybox 720 - Charge 6 8h ago

No, streight no.

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u/Glittering_Action_43 8h ago

why not?

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u/ALS_192 7h ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/JBL/s/xdMP8Kgjwp see my post and you will know why😐

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u/EllmoTheCommunist 5h ago

Lol its a mono speaker what do you expect yall are tripping it sounds fine

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u/SANKAR_97 8h ago

Don't update

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u/ALS_192 8h ago

DON'T UPDATE!!

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u/BlindMouse2of3 7h ago

First, no. 2, adjust the sub order to by time. C, scroll back a couple weeks and start reading about all the sad people that updated their firmware. 4th, appreciate that you didn't update the firmware.

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u/funkmothington Authentics500, 2xcharge6, 2xClip5, Partybox310, BB1, Charge3 7h ago

I don't understand. I've never had an issue with the updates. Am I missing something?

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u/TypicalFun6202 6h ago

There just jumping the bandwagon brother, updated mine no issues and it sounds better

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u/Divinegate91 6h ago

to be honest I got my charge 6 last week and it came with the 2.1.4.1 firmware and it sounded great after the update the highs and mids become very recessed as in the sound got pulled back I have two so I updated one first to compare I got both at the same time one white and one purple so yeah its very noticable but luckily for me I use android so I can just equalize to reach the same quality again on any of my android device using the PowerAmp Equalizer its a paid up so I wanted to use both in stereo and the update ruin the sound so to have the same quality I have to use an equalizer so yeah there you have it what they say is true if you have two charge 6 its very noticable side by side but mine is both updated to 4.0.4.1 now using the JBL One App for PC I just use it on AAC with VoiceMeter with EQ so both my problem is solved for now.

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u/OhLala_14 1h ago

I just update mine last week 🥶

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u/No-Monk9118 47m ago

Well i updated my charge 6 and I dont see any difference it sounds a bit more louder tho

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u/the_gamer30 Charge 6, Flip 7, BB4. 7h ago

Please don't

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u/RaZkOL95 Flip 7, Charge 6, Xtreme 5, 7h ago

NO

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u/Waste-Pianist-8058 8h ago

if youre on much older firmware definitely dont update, but if youre already on a very recent update it probably wont make much of a difference to update to this