So the JBL Pulse 5 has an amazing looking light feature that’s really going to liven up your room or its just going to look very cool on your porch at night. However, with the Pulse 5 you’re mainly paying for the light feature. Now yes, the Pulse 5 has a new speaker set up which has improved its instrument separation… but if sound quality is very important to you, then you’ll still might want to go with either the JBL Charge 5 or the JBL Flip 6. Nonetheless, lets see how the Pulse 5 stacks up to its older brothers.