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sound which is one of those things that manufacturers claim that often makes me
kind of I can't really do it but whatever raise an eyebrow because huge
sound is not the same thing as good
sound however Ultimate Ears has enough of a reput
for sound that isn't horrible that I was like okay normally when manufacturers
contact me they're like wow yeah we've got this Bluetooth battery powered
speaker you guys should totally unbox it and check it out I'm kind of
like because who cares there's so many
of them so I tend to focus on the ones that offer something interesting like
the Ruckus which is solar powered uh the rugged Ruckus which is solar powered and
is like Splash resistant and drop proof and all that kind of cool stuff so with
Ultimate Ears I was like okay I'm interested in you because you've got a
brand name to protect here so it better not sound bad the jam box from Jawbone
sounds bad it was one of the first ones though so I guess it can get a bit of a
pass but let's cover the features of the Mini Boom it has a 10hour battery it's
Bluetooth it supports for iPod iPhone iPad and pretty much anything else
that's Bluetooth but oh branding um it's got a 50t range it obviously has a
built-in speaker phone just like all of them do it's available in variety of
colors I think like four or five different colors but you can see them all on the website and uh it has kind of
a unique shape to it it's pretty rugged looking I guess it's not actually meant
to sit like that there you go it it knows it knows what's up get it what's
up cuz the buttons go up so speaking of the buttons you've got volume up volume
down these are nice little tactile buttons as well as your Bluetooth
pairing button on the side over here you've got some ultimate ear branding on
the bottom you've got some information that's hard to read some more ultimate
ear branding speaker Grill power switch as well as 3 1/2 mm and micro USB for
charging there's a port there for base presumably and then the front is yet
another speaker Grill so we got a couple colors because they have another feature
that we've seen before but again I'm have high expectations for something
Ultimate Ears wants you to pay $100 for and that is that you can set them up
using the free downloadable app how many times have we heard that before a free
downloadable app you have got to be kidding me so you can use the free downloadable app to set them up in
Stereo mode that they're claiming actually sounds pretty darn good so
we're going to set that up and we'll be back in just a moment oh yeah hidden away in the little compartment here is a
micro USB cable that you can use to charge it but they do not include an AC
adapter so you're going to have to already have one or a computer or something in order to charge it so why
don't I just give you guys some idea of what to expect in terms of volume with
one of my favorite alltime songs so this is at about
70% this is where my mic is so that should give you some idea when I'm
talking like pretty loud it's about like someone kind of yelling at you now let's
Crank It Up so now you probably pretty much can't
hear me over it which should give you some idea how much volume we're talking
here they are extremely loud we definitely give the edge to them in
terms of that and there is a fair amount of Base the only issue that I have with
them in terms of the bass is that it can tend to overpower the mids a little bit
and it does make the vocal sound a little bit muddy but with that said if
the intention is to grab one of these or a couple of them and take them with the
at to the beach with you and create as much sound as possible with as little
actual space taken up as possible these might be pretty much the way to go so
let's go back to the app for a minute here here we go uh MINI BOOM and let's
go to ah yes the the settings so I was going to show this to you guys before
shows you the battery life you can set up the speaker name EQ settings out loud
is the loudest vocals um personally I didn't like that much but intimate
actually is probably the best balanced one in terms of how it sounds to me can
set up alert sounds don't forget yes you can use it as a speaker phone and all that good stuff but ah yes this is where
things start to get interesting double up mode so you press the Bluetooth
button twice on another one after you click Start here we go and you can
either run them in Stereo or just run the same sounds off both of them there
we go in order to just get more sound and it gets pretty darn loud so
Distortion wise there's actually not much even at maximum volume which is
quite impressive if we had Awards around here
we'd go ahead and probably give these an editor choice of some sort because they
sound pretty good they get Extremely Loud as advertised and the app actually
just works it it it was it was Flawless even while music is still playing we can
switch between double up mode single mode stereo mode without any difficulty
I don't know if stereo mode is what I would really use it for I think it's
more like stack them up double them up get more sound out of it and get an
extremely pleasing and crowd-pleasing
experience out of a very small form factor before we were so rudely
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