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.

I've had the JBL Clip for maybe 2 years and it's been working great with no problems untill now. Just stopped working out of no where. Will not charge or turn on. So for short term use it's good.