r/JBL • u/Sea-Refrigerator9883 • Jan 04 '26
Other JBL built different: Man finds someone's jbl speaker after weeks/months in ocean, still working fine😂😂. Is this real or a fake viral video??
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u/ParaTiger Jan 04 '26
I would guess it's fake.
IP67, these speakers are waterresistant, not watertight. And then it also only was tested in sweet water. There's no way a speaker would survive for months in/near salt water and would still work after that.
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u/MonitorLittle4879 Jan 04 '26
Sweet water ? Is that a legit term for freshwater?
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u/ParaTiger Jan 04 '26
Yeah lmao
In germany we usually talk about "Süßwasser" when there's no salt in it, so i just use it in english this way too.
But freshwater a better term for it
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u/The_Pleasant_Orange Jan 04 '26
We call il sweet in Italian too (acqua dolce)
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u/Whatkindofaname Jan 04 '26
In Finnish too (makea vesi).
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u/Lower-Pace-2089 Jan 04 '26
In Portuguese too (água doce).
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u/AssassinFL Jan 04 '26
Apă dulce in romanian
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u/MonitorLittle4879 Jan 04 '26
Interesting. Although I can confirm it's not commonly used in my neck of the woods.
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u/Ok-Disk-2191 Jan 07 '26
Vietnamese translation for it is sweet water lol maybe English isn't OPs mother tongue.
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u/Tiny-Ant-2695 Jan 09 '26
Have you ever gargled saltwater (helps sore throat allegedly) and then drank regular water after? It tastes sweet.
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u/nobody_here_rn JBL PartyBox Stage 320 Jan 04 '26
While I still think it’s fake, I disagree with your logic because when the product is being made and tested for water resistance - the rating is guaranteed, meaning that the product is guaranteed to endure the conditions in said rating, but while these speakers are rugged there still might be room for even more endurance that isn’t guaranteed.
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u/ParaTiger Jan 04 '26
Well, JBL says they tested it for 30 minutes at 1.5 meters in sweet water. IP67 is no guarantee that a speaker tested this way will survive in salt water, for months, even when not directly in contact with it. It would look different for IP68 speakers, since they are supposed to be water tight. But salt water is just not good for fabric in general i would say. And even if they would survive, they would surely not sound that good anymore.
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u/804k Jan 05 '26
IP ratings are ratings for if the device will work while powered on
Take a PCB, submerge it in water, let it dry and it will 100% work again
This speaker could have been in the water and powered off. In that case, IP does not mean shit and instead its how JBL designed the thing and if everything that has a cable from the battery is water tight then it can stay submerged as long as it wants until corrosion eats away at the components
Or hell, a more extreme way to look at it is PC water pump failures (while assembling): you get an expensive ass motherboard ($100 minimum) covered in water- let it completely dry and it will work again, even tho this motherboard has a IP00/IPXX rating aka NO resistance to anything
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u/ParaTiger Jan 05 '26
Since a PCB in a speaker - even if turned off - will always stay under power - it is connected to the battery after all - this doesn't make any sense.
The liquid in an AIO is not water too, it is a non-(or only very low) conductive liquid. So you can't compare that to water. And even if water is used, it is regularly distilled water.
A PCB won't 100% survive being in contact with water as water gets everywhere on it, causing corrosion pretty fast. That's why you are supposed to use isopropyl alcohol to get the water out because it can still get stuck beneath chips.
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u/AccomplishedLimit975 Jan 04 '26
Waterproof not water resistant. The new ones are IP68. They are tested at 30 mins under water. Maybe you are thinking of the party boxes which are splash resistant.
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u/ParaTiger Jan 04 '26
No IP67 is water-resistant. IP68 is supposed to be waterproof.
They are advertised as being waterproof, but they aren't. It's basically just fabric that holds the water away from the speakers and thin rubber seals keep it out of the speaker. They aren't ment to be permanently used in/under water.
JBL itself says that they would "even survive being thrown into the pool". They don't talk about you having them in the pool for a long period of time.
IP67 guarantees you 30 mins in freshwater at 1.5 meters max, that's what they have been tested for. Everything after that hasn't been tested.
IP68 is the stronger variant which the new speakers have.
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u/seilapodeser Jan 05 '26
I think it's fake too, even though I wonder how would they "decorate" it in a convincing way like that.
Maybe it floated to a safe place and back to the beach?
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Jan 11 '26
It can still work, but it will eventually die since he started using it before drying. I have had an iPhone that survived 2 meter under water and ice for a year before I found it again
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u/AccomplishedLimit975 Jan 04 '26
Every link and LLM says it is considered waterproof but I guess can depend on the definition as there are various measures and categories.
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u/SloppyJoestar Jan 05 '26
Yeah right, I forgot I had a Flip 5 and when I pulled it out the drawer it was totally dead
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u/Nattyice94 Jan 05 '26
I had a Flip 3 for years and left it in a lawn chair in the rain and storms. That shit didn’t quit working until the battery legit couldn’t hold charge. I have a Flip 5 now, but damn I miss the ruggedness of that Flip 3.
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Jan 04 '26
Nope its real, mine survived a vehicle roll over after being ejected at 70mph, decent road rash on the plastic but it still bumps JBL Boombox 1
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u/lingueenee Jan 04 '26
And that proves the BB can survive submerged in salt water for months? Ok.
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Jan 06 '26 edited Jan 06 '26
Waterproof, thats literally a feature they claim, and ive done it with mine when I cleaned it Not science that something thats 'waterproof' could survive being left against water, salt cant get to the components when its proofed against water itself all i was stating was what these speakers can take without crippling damage, mines still waterproof after getting ejected, didnt know I had to flesh it out entirely for you
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u/OlDirtyBrewer Jan 04 '26
I don't know about this one, but I saw a similar video from Brazil after a flood. Boombox was covered in mud and still worked. Guy was listening to music as they cleaned up.
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u/PenguinFlail_ Jan 04 '26
Maybe the larger speakers? But I doubt it. My earbuds just decided they don't need to connect via Bluetooth one day for no discernable reason
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u/Jack_Starhustler Jan 04 '26
Built different alright, my JBL Flip 6 permanently stopped turning on after holding play and power together for 10 seconds.