The Ultimate Ears Boom 3 seems made for group listening, which suits its fun image perfectly. This isn’t quite a 360-degree speaker, as you get a little more treble when you sit with the speaker’s side pointing your way, but positioning is much less important than with a speaker that has two drivers pointing forwards. There’s one of these little driver teams on each side of the Boom 3. Each one is paired with a passive radiator, used by small wireless speakers like this to produce much deeper and more powerful bass than a little 2-inch speaker cone can create. The Ultimate Ears Boom 3 has two 2-inch active drivers. Mid-range texture and detail isn’t that great.Dual side firing speakers are a good fit for this category.Ultimate Ears almost certainly would not use this connector if the Boom 3 were released in 2021, but this is a 2018 speaker after all. They all play the same thing, sync’d up, for larger sound.Ī full charge lasts for up to 15 hours, and the Ultimate Ears Boom 3 uses a dated microUSB port to charge. This lets you group a bunch of Ultimate Ears speakers. There are four presets and a custom setting with five EQ bands. But power/pairing buttons are cleverly hidden on the top. Such controls don’t get much clearer than this. The Boom 3 cycles through these when you press the button down for two seconds.Īs you can probably, see the volume buttons have been made an integral part of the design. However, if you download the Ultimate Ears phone app you can programme in four album or playlist presets linked to Spotify, Deezer or Amazon Music. This can act like the remote control of a pair of wireless headphones. The big button on the Boom 3’s top is a “magic” button. Ultimate Ears adds its own slant, though. It has one job, to play music or podcasts, and does it well. It’s the kind of wireless speaker I use most often. It uses Bluetooth, not Wi-Fi, to stream music from a phone or laptop, and is not a smart speaker designed to let you talk to Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. The Ultimate Ears Boom 3 is fairly simple. A simple speaker with some neat software additions.You can get the Ultimate Ears Boom 3 in four colours: black, purple, red and blue, seen here. Ultimate Ears says it “wirelessly” charges the speaker, but it uses metal contacts rather than an actual wireless charging standard like Qi. However, this is not included and costs £35, which I think is too much. You can also get a neat little charging dock, a great addition if you’ll mostly use the Boom 3 at home. The little fabric loop on the back, which you could use to attach a carabiner (none is included), isn’t too large or heavy-duty either. This stuff is popular in portable speakers, but this particular material is much less coarse than some.Ī somewhat finer, slightly colour-reactive weave is crucial in making the Ultimate Ears Boom 3 look like a ‘fun’ speaker rather than a tough one. Its top and bottom are rubberised plastic, the main body finished in a tough woven fabric. The Ultimate Ears Boom 3 has IP67 water resistance, meaning it can handle submersion in water, and it will even float. Ultimate Ears wants this to be the kind of speaker you can take anywhere. It’s 18.5cm tall, a round pillar with a diameter of around 7.5cm, and the sort of thing you might fit in your bag for a future weekend away. “The look” is an important part of every Ultimate Ears speaker, and the classic tower design might suit the Boom 3 better than the company’s larger models such as the Megaboom 3. Small enough for real portable/travel use.Rugged cred hidden behind a friendly face. That discount makes the speaker significantly more attractive, bringing the cost lower than the Bose Soundlink Color II or Sony SRS-XB43. It originally cost £130 but is widely available for £100 at the time of review. The Ultimate Ears Boom 3 was announced way back in 2018.
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