You heard me, the reviewers don’t seem to know what they’re talking about when they refer to the sound quality. Yes, this speaker plays loudly, yes, it’s easy to pair, and yes, it sounds amazing for most songs. But this speaker seems to be missing the melody that would normally play out of either a left or right speaker. It’s like it’s in stereo but without the second speaker.If you try and listen to a ballad like Dream On by Aerosmith for prime example, right at the beginning of the song during the instrumental, there’s a little trill they do on guitar leading up to the vocals that’s normally only heard from one side speaker in your car or in your headphones, well, it’s completely missing with this speaker and it ruins so many songs because of that! Another example is Poison by Bell Biv Devoe, right at the beginning before the vocals the “tap tap tap… WHAM” 2 of those WHAMs are meant to be in a different speaker from the other two and you can’t hear them! You can only just barely hear it because the speaker they’ve chosen (left or right, I’m not sure) to designate this speaker to wasn’t meant to play that part of the song so it goes missing or incredibly faint. Not many people seemed to pick up on that before leaving a review, and I’m paired to an iPhone 13 Pro Max with the latest update, so I doubt it’s my phone.Now, I did request an exchange to see if I just got a bad speaker, turns out no, that’s just how it is apparently, and I don’t like that considering the old cheaper shower speaker I’m replacing plays all sounds of a song just perfectly, just not as loud as this speaker. While I had both the exchange and the purchased speaker in my possession I noticed the instruction said you could pair two speakers together. I followed the instructions and… I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the two speakers to pair together. I was hoping this would solve my problem and designate one as a left and one as a right speaker, then I would just let the return date run out and let them charge me for the second speaker. But no… I can’t seem to pair them together as instructed, they only want to either play from one or the other.In conclusion, speaker sounds absolutely fantastic until you get a song that plays different elements in the left and right speaker, that’s when this speaker shows its ugly head in bad programming. It’s like it’s set to “stereo” when it should be set to “mono” if you recall speaker settings on an old tv. It makes certain songs too difficult to listen to and ruins the vibe, I do not recommend this speaker for that reason alone. Everything else is just fine, even the forced 24hr clock that updates once you pair your phone, I can live with it. But the missing song elements is a major foul for me!Edit: I found the perfect song example that just sounds comically ridiculous on this thing. The Rolling Stones: “You can’t always get what you want” if you play the radio version, after the choir at the beginning, there should be a nice little melody followed by Mick Jagger singing… well… all I get is a brass horn solo all by itself, followed by vocals… and nothing else lol until a bit later when you hear some maracas… and then when the song opens up you hear all the rest of the instruments, it’s so bad it’s actually hilarious!