UE Boom 2: The Best Bluetooth Speaker Is Now Waterproof for the Same Price

 For a few years now the UE Boom has been the Bluetooth speaker I prescribe to individuals. With the UE Boom 2, it shows signs of improvement, and considerably harder to contend with in an undeniably jam-packed field of contenders.
The UE Boom 2 holds quite a bit of what made the first so incredible. For $200 you get a rough, compact remote speaker. Its twin-speaker configuration effectively occupies any sensibly estimated room, and it sounds extraordinary for something so little.

 At a glance the UE Boom (left) and UE Boom 2 look basically identical

 The UE Boom 2's greatest new advancement is a completely waterproof structure, which it imparts to the two other UE Bluetooth speakers that dropped since the Boom's unique discharge: The Megaboom and the Roll. The Megaboom is a $300 brute that resembles a humorously air-swelled rendition of its small kin, while the more versatile Roll speaker is a $100 dessert plate-sized flying saucer.

 Similarly as with the Megaboom and Roll, the UE Boom 2's IPX7 waterproof rating implies you can leave it submerged in a one-meter pool for 30 minutes despite everything it'll work. (I dunked it in a couple of crawls of water for a couple of moments and it played fine and dandy a while later.) The new Boom's additionally intense enough to be dropped, and conveys in a rucksack similarly as easily as a full water bottle.

The line's getting some totally new highlights with the Boom invigorate as well. Most quite, the Boom 2 gets some outer controls as tap signals. At the point when the Boom 2's on, grasp it and give it a slap on top and it'll begin playing. Slap it twice, and it'll jump to the following track. A solitary slap while it's playing stop the sound.

For what reason do you need to grasp it? It's a cunning stunt. The Boom 2's motions possibly work when an accelerometer inside recognizes that the gadget isn't sitting still, so you stay away from unintentionally activating playback controls. The signals are a push to give clients more control from the equipment itself, without upsetting the wonderfully straightforward interface and tasteful plan that made the first Boom a hit.

 As in the past, the Boom 2 has a discretionary application that gives you a chance to match it with other UE speakers you may claim. The speaker sets with pretty much any gadget, state your telephone, utilizing just the telephone's Bluetooth settings. Be that as it may, on the off chance that you need to utilize highlights like motions or the morning timer, you'll have to introduce the application, which is accessible for the two iOS and Android.

 Regardless of its well-known plan, you'll see a couple of corrective changes on the Boom 2. There are presently minimal elastic folds that spread the USB charging port and the 1/8-inch input. Try not to be tricked, the ports are waterproof without anyone else. The folds are there to keep sand and different particles out, the organization let me know. The sewing on the outside texture is additionally more tightly now, empowering the organization—UE, Ultimate Ears, is claimed by device goliath Logitech—to print higher-goals plans on the speaker down the line.

 Fortunately the too amazing Bluetooth speaker I would have suggested yesterday is better today at a similar cost. All things considered, for less cash there are choices that may suit you better. I discover the UE Roll beautiful for bearing the house in case I'm simply utilizing it for better stable while watching web recordings. The Boombotix Pro is boisterous, extreme, and convenient for $100. Also, Sol Republic's Punk is minor, light, and keeping in mind that not so much defective, costs just $60. Need to go through more cash? There are a huge amount of alternatives, yet the point here is that UE nails an incentive for the money. You'll feel like you ransacked someone.

I’ve only toyed with the new UE Boom 2 a bit, so I’m not 100 percent sure that its real-world performance is as solid as its progenitor’s. (I should note that some people reported connectivity problems with the original model. I never had more than the occasional Bluetooth SNAFU—par for the course.) You just never know where problems might arise with more thorough testing. But from the looks of it, the UE Boom 2 is the all-around Bluetooth speaker to beat.