Every published EQ preset referenced in these rankings, collected in one place: 17 speakers, 21 presets, each linked to its original source. Last updated: August 07, 2026.
Why This Page Exists
A modern Bluetooth speaker’s tuning is software. The drivers and the enclosure set the ceiling, but where the speaker actually sits under that ceiling is a DSP curve the manufacturer chose — usually to sound impressive in a shop rather than accurate in your room.
That means a good EQ preset can move a speaker a long way up these rankings, and the effect is not subtle. Three examples from the entries below:
- The Soundcore Motion 300 ranks #2 of 133 with a corrected EQ. Left on its stock tuning it is heavily rolled off in the treble and would sit around #50.
- The Soundcore Boom 2 would rank around #24 on its stock tuning, which is bass-heavy with rising treble.
- The Tribit Stormbox Blast would rank around #4 rather than #2 — and Tribit eventually shipped Oluv’s preset as the firmware 3.5 default, which is about as direct an endorsement as a tuning gets.
What EQ Cannot Fix
This is the important limit. You can pull a boost down. You cannot fill in a dip the driver never produced. Boosting a frequency the speaker does not physically reproduce just consumes amplifier headroom and adds distortion.
So a speaker whose problem is excess — too much bass, hot treble — is usually rescuable. A speaker with a genuine hole in its response is not. Both the JBL Xtreme 4 and Xtreme 5 have mid-upper-bass dips noted in their entries specifically because they resist EQ, and no preset here changes that.
How To Apply One
- Update the firmware first. Presets are made against a specific firmware, and manufacturers re-tune between versions. A preset built for one release can sound wrong on another.
- Find the custom EQ in the manufacturer’s app — Tribit, Soundcore, JBL Portable, EarFun Audio. Turn off any bass-boost mode (BassUp, XBass, ULT, Extra Bass) first, or you are stacking two curves.
- Enter the values by band. Most presets are published as a screenshot or a list of slider positions.
- Set the volume where you listen. Several speakers here tune differently at different volumes, and a preset made at 70% may not suit background listening.
A Note On The Sources
Most of these come from Oluv and Alan Ross, who do this work independently and publish it themselves. Some are behind a Patreon paywall, some are free YouTube or Instagram posts, and a few come from the wider community. Links go to the original in every case — this page collects them, it does not reproduce them, and the credit belongs to the people who measured the speakers.
If a preset link has gone dead, let me know.
The Presets
Small Size Portable Bluetooth Speakers
- Soundcore Boom Go 3i — #2 of 45, $79.99
- Oluv: Oluv’s EQ
Medium Size Portable Bluetooth Speakers
- Soundcore Motion 300 — #2 of 133, $79.99
- Soundcore Motion+ — #3 of 133, $80
- Community: this EQ setting
- Oluv: Oluv’s EQ
- JBL Charge 6 — #11 of 133, $199.95
- Oluv: EQ from Joy/Oluv
- Tribit Xsound Plus 2 — #32 of 133, $60
- Alan Ross: this EQ
- Soundcore Motion 100 — #39 of 133, $47
- Oluv: Oluv’s EQ
- JBL Grip — #74 of 133, $99.95
- Oluv: Oluv in his post
- Soundcore Flare 2 — #102 of 133, $80
- Alan Ross: Alan Ross’s EQ
Large Size Portable Bluetooth Speakers
- JBL Xtreme 5 — #2 of 75, $349.95
- Oluv: this Oluv EQ
- Tribit Stormbox Lava — #3 of 75, $100
- Community: this timestamp in his video
- Oluv: Oluv
- Soundcore Boom 2 — #10 of 75, $89.99
- Oluv: Oluv’s EQ
- Alan Ross: Alan Ross’s EQ
- Soundcore Motion X600 — #19 of 75, $150
- JBL Xtreme 4 — #36 of 75, $380
- Alan Ross: this EQ
Boombox Size Portable Bluetooth Speakers
- Earfun Uboom X — #1 of 68, $128
- Tribit Stormbox Blast — #2 of 68, $179.99
- Oluv: Oluv’s EQ
- Alan Ross: Alan Ross’s EQ
- JBL Boombox 4 — #16 of 68, $549.95
- Oluv: Oluv’s EQ
- Tribit Stormbox Blast 2 — #21 of 68, $300
- Alan Ross: Alan Ross at this timestamp of his video
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