**A Detailed Review of the Skullcandy Barrel XT and UE Megablast**

As I sat in front of both speakers, my nipples flared up, indicating how excited I was to test these two Bluetooth boomboxes. The Skullcandy Barrel XT and UE Megablast are two popular options for those looking for a portable speaker that can deliver big sound and impressive features. In this review, we'll dive into the details of each speaker, comparing their sound quality, bass output, and other features.

**Sound Quality Comparison**

The UE Megablast's sound quality is impressive, with a clear and detailed audio reproduction. The Skullcandy Barrel XT also delivers a clean sound, but it lacks the clarity and nuance of the Megablast. However, when it comes to bass, the Skullcandy edges out the UE, producing a more substantial and rumbling low-end. I was particularly impressed with the Megablast's ability to produce a clear and crisp sound, even at high volumes.

**Bass Output**

Speaking of bass, both speakers deliver impressive levels of low-end frequency reproduction. The Skullcandy Barrel XT has twice as much bass as the UE Megablast, making it the winner in this department. I was blown away by the sheer amount of bass that the Skullcandy could produce, especially considering its compact size and lightweight design.

**Multi-Point Connection and Features**

One feature that sets the Skullcandy Barrel XT apart from the UE Megablast is its ability to connect up to 99 speakers together using a multi-point connection. This allows for some serious party-crashing potential, as you can easily expand your sound system to accommodate more friends and family. The UE Megablast also offers this feature, but with only one speaker at a time.

**Design and Build Quality**

The Skullcandy Barrel XT has a sleek and sturdy design, with a ruggedized exterior that's perfect for outdoor use. The UE Megablast also has a durable design, but it lacks the ruggedization of the Skullcandy. I was particularly impressed with the handle setup on the Skullcandy, which makes it easy to carry around.

**Battery Life and Charging**

Both speakers offer impressive battery life, with up to 12 hours of playback time on a single charge. The Skullcandy Barrel XT also has dual USB charge outs on the back, making it easy to charge multiple devices at once.

**The Verdict**

Overall, I'm giving the Skullcandy Barrel XT a major thumbs-up, especially considering its affordable price point of $180. While the UE Megablast offers some impressive features and sound quality, the Skullcandy edges out in terms of bass output and overall build quality. If you're looking for a portable speaker that can deliver big sound and impressive features, I'd recommend the Skullcandy Barrel XT.

**Special Shoutouts**

I want to give a special shoutout to my YouTube mic, which may not have done the speakers justice, but helped me bring this review to life. I also want to thank Mark Rubier for allowing me to record the official song "Floss" using both speakers. Without that track, this review wouldn't be possible.

**About the Author**

I'm Jerry Springer, aka Flossy Carter, and I'm a full-time tech enthusiast with over 2 million subscribers on YouTube. My channel is dedicated to bringing you real reviews of the latest gadgets and technology, so you can make informed decisions about your next purchase.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyo what's up everybody it's your boy floss back again with another video and today we're going to take a look at the Skullcandy Barrel XT now you can pick this one up online I'll throw the link up in the description the price on this one is 180 bucks all right so let's go through the specs real quick now this one only comes in one color black it's Bluetooth version 5.3 and it features multi-point connection that means you compare two devices at the same time that's ipx5 water resistant so you can submerge in some water up to three feet for 30 minutes now it features multi-link you could pair up to 99 Skullcandy speakers together and you also got true wireless stereo so if you got two barrel xt's you can pair them together and get left and right Channel now it features bass boost mode you got a built-in power bank so you can charge your phone your tablet your camera whatever you got you got an LED light show that syncs with your music and the battery life is 12 hours on a single charge and it features fast charge all right so all of that for 180 bucks let's unboxing and see what it is first things first shout out to White Shoes back in the building calm down I had to give shoes to reach around you know what it is okay Skullcandy Barrel XT 180 bucks now one quick side note there's some serious competition for the best Bluetooth Boombox under 200 bucks because you got the tri-bit stormbox blast now that's arguably the best Bluetooth speaker you could get for under 200 that one is on Amazon right now for 175 bucks y'all see me put it side by side with a JBL Boombox 3 it lost but it's hold its own all right it held its own against the JBL Boombox 3 so the Skullcandy Barrel got some big competition let's go ahead and unbox it all right so here's what you get in the Box you got your usual books and plug them and follow them you got some Skull Candy troll stickers get and save those and you get the plug so it's gonna be this kind of end and of course the barrel boombox now this is definitely a big heavy boom box on the front you got a little Skullcandy logo it does have little hooks right here so you can add a strap unfortunately it doesn't come with the strap Gotta Buy that separately here's all your controls so on the top you got your four LEDs that's your battery level indicators you got your power on and off you got playing pause volume up and down Skip and reverse tracks there's your Bluetooth pairing button and your LED light button now you can also activate bass boost by holding down the play button for two seconds and if you also want to sync up other speakers you press play and pause together and you'll uh put it into sync mode let's switch to the back you got a little flap right here since it is water resistant you got a 3.5 auxiliary input for non-bluetooth devices you got a usba out so this way you can charge up your phone your tablet your camera whatever you got you got USB type-c out and there's your plug input so you got USB a and USB type-c for charge out that's pretty dope on the bottom you got a big rubber stopper that's going to keep it in place and on the sides you can see those radiators they're going to be rumbling same thing on this side and on the front of course you got a big LED light strip okay so this is the barrel XT let's get impaired up all right so one quick side note just for size comparison it is a little bit bigger than the tri-bit storm box blast so maybe it will be louder let's find out all right so now let's pair this up for the first time also I forgot to mention it does have a big obvious carrying handle at a time let's hit that power button okay LED light show ready to pair voice prompts Skullcandy Barrel we'll hit pair connected just that fast all right so I'm gonna play some music I'm gonna start at 50 volume with bass boost turned off here we go oh foreign thank you okay ladies and gentlemen finally finally Skullcandy made another product that's kind of blowing me away now y'all know how I feel about the Skull Candy crushes those are my favorite active headphones with that vibrating Bass bro the bass on this speaker is crazy now I got it at 50 volume with bass boost turned off I'm gonna start the song over again this time we'll turn on bass boost and we're gonna leave it at 50 volume here we go foreign thank you thank you okay now one quick side note when you turn on bass boost mode you see the play button is illuminated so if I press and hold it you see now it's uh dark so that means bass boost is off press it again it's illuminated bass boost is on now I'm going to be honest with y'all I'm sitting here right in front of this speaker and this speaker at 50 volume already sounds better than the UE uh epic Boom for 350 bucks come on bro this is already sounded incredible now I'm gonna play that song One More Time this time let's turn it up to max volume here we go good bass boost on yo that base is bumping let's try another song Here We Go thank you okay I'm just cycling between all of the different LED lights here we go one more thank you this is insane foreign foreign ladies and gentlemen I don't remember how my drive it sounds right now off the top of my head but I think we might have a new champ in the under 200 Department this speaker sounds incredible like I said it's already destroying the UE epic and I'm gonna do a little side-by-side test just so you can hear for yourself matter of fact let's keep it going all right so now let's test out multi-point connection I got an Android phone and an iPhone appeared to the barrel let's start off with the Android now let's switch to the iPhone just like that instant switch so multi-point connection Works flawlessly now you got a built-in power bank that has USB a and USB type-c that means you can charge two devices at the same time so let's grab two phones we got USB type c charging right up let's grab another phone charging right up how dope is that you could charge two phones two tablets two cameras whatever you got right from the speaker now you got four LED lights that's gonna let you know your battery status but you can also check it like this whole volume up and down battery 20 and you get the voice prompt now as you can see I'm on 20 battery if I wanted to save some battery I can turn the LED lights off just press and hold the LED light button and there it is now to turn it back on press and hold it again there it is and if you want to cycle between all of the different light shows press the button one time just that simple all right so now let's try multi-link we can pair up to 99 multi-link compatible Skullcandy speakers together here's what you got to do so we're going to start with the barrel we're going to press play and volume up together sharing multi-link okay now it's in multi-link mode we'll grab a Terrain same thing ready to pair joining multi-link and we're doing on another one connected ready to pair joining multi-link connected just like that so we got three Skullcandy speakers let's just play on some music good okay they're all They're all playing volume watch this oh this is crazy thank you all right now this is crazy you can have up to 99 speakers paired together let's keep it moving all right so now let's do some comparisons first we'll start off with the 350 UE epic boom versus the 180 Skullcandy Barrel XT let's start off with the UE thank you now here's the Skull Candy bro right now this is an old school word we used to use called roof I remember somebody Ball come in your yard and they keep coming in your yard you say I'm gonna roof it I'm gonna take that ball and throw it over the roof I want to roof this UE speaker so bad this might be one of the worst speakers that I paid 350 for do y'all hear the difference both of these are max volume the UE basically has no base the Skull Candy is destroying it now I'm gonna let it play for another 10 seconds here's the UE listen closely thank you here's the Skull Candy the UE sounds Hollow compared to this and this has twice as much bass so let me work on my arm real quick I'm about to roof this let's try another test how many times okay here's the Skull Candy oh I got a question for you yeah how many times you came by myself okay now this YouTube mic is not gonna do it the complete justice but I'm sitting right in front of both of these speakers my nipples are like this okay because I am actually hyped ladies and gentlemen I think I'm going with the Skull Candy now the tri-bit might sound a little bit cleaner but the bass the bass is hitting harder on the Skull Candy matter of fact we gotta break out the official song to test these out all right so I got the official floss recorded sound test by my homeboy mark rubier here we go we're gonna start off with the tri-bit max volume both of them have bass boost turned on does it sound big does it sound loud here's the Skull Candy houses that's a sound test baby okay now I gotta be totally honest with y'all the tribit does sound a little bit cleaner and if I had to choose based on the clarity of the music I'd probably go with the tribit but the bass the bass to me sounds a little bit better on the Skull Candy let's do that one more time here's the try bit how's the sound white shoes baby okay here's the Skullcandy how's the sound white shoes how's that sound baby okay definitely the the try bit has more clarity okay but the bass has more of that role and that Rumble to it in my opinion with the Skull Candy but either way these are two crazy dope Bluetooth speakers for under 200 bucks you can't go wrong with either one of these I'd probably go with the Skull Candy because of the Dual USBS on the back okay and be connecting up to 99 speakers together that's a dope feature the tri-bit the RGB lights do look a little bit better on the inside but these ones right here look a little cheesy to me like this is one thing I hated about the tri bit I hate these lights on the side like this this one little subtle light on the front looks way more classy in my opinion anyway let's kind of wrap this video up all right so overall on a scale of one to ten I'm giving the Skullcandy Barrel XT a major major major go and at 180 bucks as Bob Barker would say the Price Is Right This is arguably one of the best if not the best portable Bluetooth boombox that you can find for 180 bucks now the difference between this and the tribit is minimum but again I do like the RGB lights better on this I like the handle set up on this better it does have optional strap hooks okay you got multi-point connection you could pair up to 99 speakers together 12 hour battery life and dual USB charge outs on the back bro this speaker is an all-around win and this is my second favorite Skullcandy product in the history of Skullcandy products number one the crusher evos okay those have that vibration bass I love those for the gym and I've been kind of lackluster a little disappointed with a lot of the Skullcandy speakers lately but this speaker right here this is the truth okay you heard it from me right now if you got 180 bucks and you want a dope Bluetooth Boombox it's between this and the tribit either way you're gonna win but I would go with the Skull Candy anyway Skullcandy Barrel XT hit me up in the comments let me know what y'all think about this one shout out to everybody rocking with me on Facebook four squid Twitter Google Plus shout out fellow Google gangsters I see y'all holding down that Facebook page shout out to everybody hitting me up on Boxer and a special shout out to everybody rocking with me on Instagram y'all know that's where I'm at full time 100 Full Throttle and a special shout out to everybody rocking with the new stream on Sundays y'all already know stream gangsters on Deck get your drinks ready to laugh over here special shout out to everybody following me on Snapchat flossy underscore Carter that's where I'm at and a special shout out to the notification Squad I see I was in the comments section early hashtag salute oh yeah one more thing I almost forgot fellas ladies say it with me all y'all haters all your trolls close your eyes and pitch and bro it's your boy hey guys Jerry Springer here uh subscribe to flossy Carter for the real reviews uh he has a tech Channel on YouTube and he already has over 2 million subscribers so uh give him a look uh you may like it and it could be very useful take care of yourself and each otheryo what's up everybody it's your boy floss back again with another video and today we're going to take a look at the Skullcandy Barrel XT now you can pick this one up online I'll throw the link up in the description the price on this one is 180 bucks all right so let's go through the specs real quick now this one only comes in one color black it's Bluetooth version 5.3 and it features multi-point connection that means you compare two devices at the same time that's ipx5 water resistant so you can submerge in some water up to three feet for 30 minutes now it features multi-link you could pair up to 99 Skullcandy speakers together and you also got true wireless stereo so if you got two barrel xt's you can pair them together and get left and right Channel now it features bass boost mode you got a built-in power bank so you can charge your phone your tablet your camera whatever you got you got an LED light show that syncs with your music and the battery life is 12 hours on a single charge and it features fast charge all right so all of that for 180 bucks let's unboxing and see what it is first things first shout out to White Shoes back in the building calm down I had to give shoes to reach around you know what it is okay Skullcandy Barrel XT 180 bucks now one quick side note there's some serious competition for the best Bluetooth Boombox under 200 bucks because you got the tri-bit stormbox blast now that's arguably the best Bluetooth speaker you could get for under 200 that one is on Amazon right now for 175 bucks y'all see me put it side by side with a JBL Boombox 3 it lost but it's hold its own all right it held its own against the JBL Boombox 3 so the Skullcandy Barrel got some big competition let's go ahead and unbox it all right so here's what you get in the Box you got your usual books and plug them and follow them you got some Skull Candy troll stickers get and save those and you get the plug so it's gonna be this kind of end and of course the barrel boombox now this is definitely a big heavy boom box on the front you got a little Skullcandy logo it does have little hooks right here so you can add a strap unfortunately it doesn't come with the strap Gotta Buy that separately here's all your controls so on the top you got your four LEDs that's your battery level indicators you got your power on and off you got playing pause volume up and down Skip and reverse tracks there's your Bluetooth pairing button and your LED light button now you can also activate bass boost by holding down the play button for two seconds and if you also want to sync up other speakers you press play and pause together and you'll uh put it into sync mode let's switch to the back you got a little flap right here since it is water resistant you got a 3.5 auxiliary input for non-bluetooth devices you got a usba out so this way you can charge up your phone your tablet your camera whatever you got you got USB type-c out and there's your plug input so you got USB a and USB type-c for charge out that's pretty dope on the bottom you got a big rubber stopper that's going to keep it in place and on the sides you can see those radiators they're going to be rumbling same thing on this side and on the front of course you got a big LED light strip okay so this is the barrel XT let's get impaired up all right so one quick side note just for size comparison it is a little bit bigger than the tri-bit storm box blast so maybe it will be louder let's find out all right so now let's pair this up for the first time also I forgot to mention it does have a big obvious carrying handle at a time let's hit that power button okay LED light show ready to pair voice prompts Skullcandy Barrel we'll hit pair connected just that fast all right so I'm gonna play some music I'm gonna start at 50 volume with bass boost turned off here we go oh foreign thank you okay ladies and gentlemen finally finally Skullcandy made another product that's kind of blowing me away now y'all know how I feel about the Skull Candy crushes those are my favorite active headphones with that vibrating Bass bro the bass on this speaker is crazy now I got it at 50 volume with bass boost turned off I'm gonna start the song over again this time we'll turn on bass boost and we're gonna leave it at 50 volume here we go foreign thank you thank you okay now one quick side note when you turn on bass boost mode you see the play button is illuminated so if I press and hold it you see now it's uh dark so that means bass boost is off press it again it's illuminated bass boost is on now I'm going to be honest with y'all I'm sitting here right in front of this speaker and this speaker at 50 volume already sounds better than the UE uh epic Boom for 350 bucks come on bro this is already sounded incredible now I'm gonna play that song One More Time this time let's turn it up to max volume here we go good bass boost on yo that base is bumping let's try another song Here We Go thank you okay I'm just cycling between all of the different LED lights here we go one more thank you this is insane foreign foreign ladies and gentlemen I don't remember how my drive it sounds right now off the top of my head but I think we might have a new champ in the under 200 Department this speaker sounds incredible like I said it's already destroying the UE epic and I'm gonna do a little side-by-side test just so you can hear for yourself matter of fact let's keep it going all right so now let's test out multi-point connection I got an Android phone and an iPhone appeared to the barrel let's start off with the Android now let's switch to the iPhone just like that instant switch so multi-point connection Works flawlessly now you got a built-in power bank that has USB a and USB type-c that means you can charge two devices at the same time so let's grab two phones we got USB type c charging right up let's grab another phone charging right up how dope is that you could charge two phones two tablets two cameras whatever you got right from the speaker now you got four LED lights that's gonna let you know your battery status but you can also check it like this whole volume up and down battery 20 and you get the voice prompt now as you can see I'm on 20 battery if I wanted to save some battery I can turn the LED lights off just press and hold the LED light button and there it is now to turn it back on press and hold it again there it is and if you want to cycle between all of the different light shows press the button one time just that simple all right so now let's try multi-link we can pair up to 99 multi-link compatible Skullcandy speakers together here's what you got to do so we're going to start with the barrel we're going to press play and volume up together sharing multi-link okay now it's in multi-link mode we'll grab a Terrain same thing ready to pair joining multi-link and we're doing on another one connected ready to pair joining multi-link connected just like that so we got three Skullcandy speakers let's just play on some music good okay they're all They're all playing volume watch this oh this is crazy thank you all right now this is crazy you can have up to 99 speakers paired together let's keep it moving all right so now let's do some comparisons first we'll start off with the 350 UE epic boom versus the 180 Skullcandy Barrel XT let's start off with the UE thank you now here's the Skull Candy bro right now this is an old school word we used to use called roof I remember somebody Ball come in your yard and they keep coming in your yard you say I'm gonna roof it I'm gonna take that ball and throw it over the roof I want to roof this UE speaker so bad this might be one of the worst speakers that I paid 350 for do y'all hear the difference both of these are max volume the UE basically has no base the Skull Candy is destroying it now I'm gonna let it play for another 10 seconds here's the UE listen closely thank you here's the Skull Candy the UE sounds Hollow compared to this and this has twice as much bass so let me work on my arm real quick I'm about to roof this let's try another test how many times okay here's the Skull Candy oh I got a question for you yeah how many times you came by myself okay now this YouTube mic is not gonna do it the complete justice but I'm sitting right in front of both of these speakers my nipples are like this okay because I am actually hyped ladies and gentlemen I think I'm going with the Skull Candy now the tri-bit might sound a little bit cleaner but the bass the bass is hitting harder on the Skull Candy matter of fact we gotta break out the official song to test these out all right so I got the official floss recorded sound test by my homeboy mark rubier here we go we're gonna start off with the tri-bit max volume both of them have bass boost turned on does it sound big does it sound loud here's the Skull Candy houses that's a sound test baby okay now I gotta be totally honest with y'all the tribit does sound a little bit cleaner and if I had to choose based on the clarity of the music I'd probably go with the tribit but the bass the bass to me sounds a little bit better on the Skull Candy let's do that one more time here's the try bit how's the sound white shoes baby okay here's the Skullcandy how's the sound white shoes how's that sound baby okay definitely the the try bit has more clarity okay but the bass has more of that role and that Rumble to it in my opinion with the Skull Candy but either way these are two crazy dope Bluetooth speakers for under 200 bucks you can't go wrong with either one of these I'd probably go with the Skull Candy because of the Dual USBS on the back okay and be connecting up to 99 speakers together that's a dope feature the tri-bit the RGB lights do look a little bit better on the inside but these ones right here look a little cheesy to me like this is one thing I hated about the tri bit I hate these lights on the side like this this one little subtle light on the front looks way more classy in my opinion anyway let's kind of wrap this video up all right so overall on a scale of one to ten I'm giving the Skullcandy Barrel XT a major major major go and at 180 bucks as Bob Barker would say the Price Is Right This is arguably one of the best if not the best portable Bluetooth boombox that you can find for 180 bucks now the difference between this and the tribit is minimum but again I do like the RGB lights better on this I like the handle set up on this better it does have optional strap hooks okay you got multi-point connection you could pair up to 99 speakers together 12 hour battery life and dual USB charge outs on the back bro this speaker is an all-around win and this is my second favorite Skullcandy product in the history of Skullcandy products number one the crusher evos okay those have that vibration bass I love those for the gym and I've been kind of lackluster a little disappointed with a lot of the Skullcandy speakers lately but this speaker right here this is the truth okay you heard it from me right now if you got 180 bucks and you want a dope Bluetooth Boombox it's between this and the tribit either way you're gonna win but I would go with the Skull Candy anyway Skullcandy Barrel XT hit me up in the comments let me know what y'all think about this one shout out to everybody rocking with me on Facebook four squid Twitter Google Plus shout out fellow Google gangsters I see y'all holding down that Facebook page shout out to everybody hitting me up on Boxer and a special shout out to everybody rocking with me on Instagram y'all know that's where I'm at full time 100 Full Throttle and a special shout out to everybody rocking with the new stream on Sundays y'all already know stream gangsters on Deck get your drinks ready to laugh over here special shout out to everybody following me on Snapchat flossy underscore Carter that's where I'm at and a special shout out to the notification Squad I see I was in the comments section early hashtag salute oh yeah one more thing I almost forgot fellas ladies say it with me all y'all haters all your trolls close your eyes and pitch and bro it's your boy hey guys Jerry Springer here uh subscribe to flossy Carter for the real reviews uh he has a tech Channel on YouTube and he already has over 2 million subscribers so uh give him a look uh you may like it and it could be very useful take care of yourself and each other\n"