(NEW) JBL Clip 5 Portable Bluetooth Speaker (Open Box)

I have an awful lot of bluetooth speakers (and a lot of HiFi for that matter). Stereo sound is more than twice as good as mono. It makes a huge difference! Most of the high-value brand Bluetooth speakers like Tribit and W-King do a fantastic job of pairing in stereo. Set them up in stereo the first time and then every subsequent time you turn them both on they find each other and pair in stereo automatically. I have the JBL Clip 4 and I was astonished to find out that it would not support stereo pairing. When the Clip 5 came out, I was thrilled that it finally would do stereo. So I bought two of them. Do they do stereo? Barely. The Auracast button is very convenient for getting them to pair together in dual mono. Why do I want that? I bought two for stereo. Because stereo sounds good, right? Unlike the cheaper brands, these expensive JBL's don't automatically pair in stereo. You have to turn them both on. Then go into the app and wait quite a while for it to connect to one of the speakers and then engage stereo mode in the app. Every single time you turn them on. That is a dealbreaker. That is bad design. The guys who design the small JBL speakers need to talk to the guys who designed the big ones. I have a pair of JBL Partybox Ultimate and they pair together in stereo quite nicely every time. If the cheap brands can do it right, why can't an expensive brand like JBL? Bose also sucks at this. They require about six button pushes every stinking time you turn the speakers on to get them back in stereo mode. Otherwise, I'm quite pleased with the Clip 5. I'm debating whether to send one of them back though.