Dynamic headroom

Listeners highlight how the LS50 Wireless II scale from quiet passages to explosive peaks without obvious compression, delivering big orchestral swells and punchy pop climaxes that feel surprisingly effortless and unconstrained for such compact stand-mount speakers.

Reviewers note that driving the Charge 6 with hi res audio over its USB C input opens up the soundstage and increases dynamic headroom, helping it handle quiet to loud transitions with more punch and control than over standard Bluetooth connections.

For a pint sized speaker, the Flex 2 is noted for punchy, dynamic playback, with bass lines and drum hits that rise and fall convincingly and good energy through the mids, although some listeners hear the sound flatten slightly and lose ease when pushed to the very top of its volume range.

Listeners report punchy shifts between quiet and loud passages from the SoundLink Max, though the speaker tends to sound fairly loud even at lower levels, so the perceived gap between soft and very loud is smaller than with some rivals.

The LS50 Meta is dynamically lively and expressive with soloists and small ensembles at moderate volumes, but it has finite headroom for large scale material, sounding somewhat constrained in the power range and losing some drive and foundation when full bands kick in at very high levels; some reviewers find the Meta version a bit more energetic than the original LS50 yet still not as explosively dynamic or exciting as the best rivals in its price class.