Tribit Stormbox Blast 2 Speaker Review

Tribit Stormbox Blast 2 – Sound!

I will concentrate on the main preset which is the XBass on mode. This is a hugely bass dominant speaker. The problem is that the boosted bass is concentrated in a small frequency range centered on 75hz and in almost every track bass is going to sound the same. It does play deep but you won’t hear that deep bas due to the huge mid bass boost. XBass off does tame this somewhat but you also lose a tad of high end when you do this. Even with XBass off you will still get a sense of that ever present mid bass. its all compounded by the frequency response being mids light and the highs being reliant on two peaks around 5.5khz and 12kz. These two peaks appear to be due to the woofer not properly rolling off and cutting in again at these two points smothering the tweeters somewhat. As i mentioned previously it’s hard to know how much of this is simply due to the 3d processing it seems to have in all presets. The tuning means this is not a speaker for low volumes unless you use a custom eq. It is quite muffled sounding at lower volumes. However when you crank it up the relative bass drops off a bit and what you get is a very bass heavy but less muffled sound at the higher volumes that is a good party driven and fun sound. It certainly out-bassed everything in my comparison video at 70% volume (W-King X20, JBL Boombox 3, Soundcore Boom 2 Plus and the original Stormbox Blast. At maximum volume only the W-King X20 could out bass the Stormbox Blast 2 but if you stick the mains power lead in to the Blast 2 it will go louder and then can beat the bass of the X20 once again.