I got this speaker for my boyfriend for Valentine's Day and he loves it. The volume goes up nice and high and the sound is increadable. You can hear it from the end of a driveway and it was in a garage. It's clear and loud and gives a surround sound effect. It's nice size and it's portable and the life of the battery is amazing it lasted quite some time before we had to change it for the first time. It's great and I 100% recommend it.