B&O Beoplay A1 vs JBL Pulse 4

While the B&O Beoplay A1 wasn't able to make it to the very top of any roundups from sources that perform quality hands-on testing, it still got featured in a large number of them. Expert Reviews, PCmag, TrustedReviews, SoundGuys, CNET, What Hi-Fi?, and PhoneArena have all deemed it worthy of a place on their respective shortlists.

Moving on to the JBL Pulse 4: it was loved by Popular Mechanics and iMore - two reliable sources that conduct their own in-depth testing. In fact, it was named "Best for Parties" and "Ranked 3 out of 9" in their respective roundups, which points to it being a product worthy of consideration.

We also performed a thorough B&O Beoplay A1 vs. JBL Pulse 4 review score analysis - it turns out that all of the sources that have tested both Portable Bluetooth Speakers, including PCmag and TrustedReviews, preferred the B&O Beoplay A1 over the JBL Pulse 4.

Out of all the sources that reviewed them, the B&O Beoplay A1 turned out to be most loved by musicphotolife.com, which gave it a score of 10, whereas the JBL Pulse 4 got its highest, 8, rating from reviewers at PCmag.

Lastly, we compared their review averages and found that the B&O Beoplay A1 did much better than the majority of its competitors, with an average review score of 8.8 out of 10, compared to the 7.6 overall average of Portable Bluetooth Speakers in general, whereas the JBL Pulse 4 hasn't managed to perform quite as well, with an average rating of 7.2.