If you want to sing along in the shower or enjoy your favorite podcast radio dramas in the tub, you’ll want a solid and waterproof shower-friendly Bluetooth speaker to be your bathroom companion. Here are our top picks for every budget.
Bathroom Bluetooth speakers are a bit of a curious (but fun) niche market.
At first glance you might think the niche and the buying criteria for shower-friendly and beach-friendly Bluetooth speakers would almost completely overlap, right? Except, water-resistance aside, the features that matter the most on a speaker you’ll use in a shower stall and at the beach are pretty different.When you’re at the beach, for example, you want a big beefy speaker with a huge battery and significant sound output so you can use it all day, maybe even charge your phone off it, and hear it above the din of a crowded beach.
But in your shower, though, you don’t need a huge battery (because you’re not going to be showering for 8 hours) nor does it need to be that loud (sure there’s the white noise of the shower spray to content with, but you’re also into a small tiled room with surprisingly good acoustics). With that in mind, we’ve selected a handful of speakers with a few shower-centric criteria in mind. The following speakers vary in terms of output power and battery life, but they all have key features that make them perfect bathing companions. The key features are:
- Ruggedized: Any speaker you use in the shower will, eventually, take a spill. A little rubber goes a long way in keeping your speaker in one piece.
- Water-resistance: Nothing is truly water proof under all conditions, but all of the speakers we’ve selected are at least IP-X5 (which means they’ll survive getting splashed by water in the shower).
- On-device Controls: If you have to get out of the shower to adjust the volume, skip tracks, or otherwise make minor adjustments it defeats the purpose of having the speaker in there with you. All of our picks have on-device controls so you don’t need leave the shower to adjust the volume or skip to the next song.
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