This colorful Bluetooth model has a small and lightweight design and comes with a carrying strap, making it easily portable. However, there isn't much compression present at max volume, so your audio sounds clean and pure when the volume is maxed out. Like most speakers its size, it doesn't get particularly loud. Since it's a 360-degree speaker, you'll perceive its soundstage as open and spacious from all angles. Its mid and treble ranges are well-balanced, meaning vocals and lead instruments reproduce clearly and accurately in the mix. If you're looking for a more budget-friendly option, the Ultimate Ears WONDERBOOM 2 is the best UE speaker we've tested in this category. It's also well-built with an IPX4 rating for water resistance that certifies it to withstand small splashes of water, and its long-lasting battery life of almost 24 hours is great for lengthy listening sessions spent outdoors. Though this portable speaker is a bit tall and heavy, it comes with a carrying strap to help transport it. It gets loud with little compression present at max volume, so you can blast your favorite tunes without degrading the quality of your audio. Fortunately, it has a graphic EQ and presets to tweak its sound to your liking. It lacks some low-bass, so you can't feel the deep rumble typically present in bass-heavy music like hip-hop or EDM. With Adaptive EQ turned on, its sound profile is neutral and well-balanced, making it suitable for listening to different types of audio content. This stereo speaker comes with a room correction feature which Ultimate Ears calls 'Adaptive EQ' that adjusts its sound according to the acoustics of the space it's placed in. Swapping between these presets didn’t have a huge effect on the audio output, although you can create your own custom equalizer settings with the adjustable tuner – simply move the sliders up and down on the bass, mid, and treble tuners until you find a sound you’re happy with.The best UE speaker we've tested is the Ultimate Ears HYPERBOOM. If you are unhappy with the default equalizer settings, you can amend them in the dedicated app - it comes with four different presets ‘The Standard’, ‘Cramped Spaces’, ‘Voices’, and ‘Bass Jump’. Treble frequencies had the same problem, with a generally lack of clarity in the top notes - we tried out guitar heavy tracks like Belle and Sebastian’s ‘Your Cover’s Blown’ and we felt that the highest frequencies could have benefitted from a sharper kick. The conical design allows for 360 degree audio, and we found the sound to be spacious, with good frequency separation.Īlthough bass frequencies sound good (if not lacking in a little depth) for the speaker’s size, we weren’t blown away by the mid frequencies, which feature heavily in vocals and keys - they felt slightly subdued in comparison to the bass. With a maximum volume of 90 decibels, this little speaker certainly packs a punch, and it has a two 2-inch drivers and two 4-inch passive radiators for room-filling sound. While this looks far more aesthetically pleasing, it does make the volume buttons a little harder to push down, particularly if you’re using the speaker in the shower. The rubber casing that housed the buttons on the UE Boom 2 is gone, with the large ‘+’ and ‘-’ volume buttons integrated directly into the fabric grille. You can also used the magic button to directly access your playlists from a select few music providers - to do this you will need to set this feature up in the accompanying Megaboom app.ĭisappointingly, this feature only works with Apple Music if you’re on an iOS device, and Deezer Premium if you’re an Android user - with so many Spotify users out there, the experience would really be improved with Spotify integration. On the top of the speaker you have an on/off button and a ‘magic button’, which can be used to pause, play, and skips tracks.
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