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. 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. Forget adding extra features and focus on the core product and main reason people buy your speakers, to listen to some dang music.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. you have some solid underlying physical engineering that the app doesn't do justice and even detracts from. Ignore the completion from the likes of Bose, beats, JBL etc. Requiring the app to parry up may look cool with the dots and all, but functions 10x better and consistently on the cheaper wonderboom models (which sadly are limited to 2 max otherwise I'd just buy 8 of them). EQ, nice to have but I'll trade it any day for rock solid audio with no cutouts. If I need to physically get up and walk over to turn one on/off or adjust the volume so be it. The app looks nice and all but at the end of the day all I'm looking for is a high quality stable connection between multiple speakers. It shouldn't be an iterative process to successfully get 3 speakers partied up and by no means should any have audio cutting out while sitting next to one another fully charged playing music (5G WiFi, downloaded tracks, whatever, there's a codec issue here). Audio quality and connection should be paramount over all of the other convenience features. Spotty Audio Connections on Party Up, App is Style Over SubstanceĬart before the horse here on execution. Otherwise, if it is in the budget, get a pair of PSB, ELAC or Klipsch active speakers if you do not necessarily need portability. Spend you money JBL if you want to connect via cable. This should be considered an absolute embarrassment for a company such as this. AND burn the draft boards it was written on. RECOMMENDATION: Burn this disaster of an attempt at a bluetooth app. Yes, my bluetooth function works because I writing this message with my Logitech K760 Solar Keyboard via bluetooth. This is worse than the KEF LSX attempt at a bluetooth app. The software, once downloaded onto my iPhone, never shows the MegaBoom in the bluetooth window. I tried to return the speaker but it was beyond the return date. Also, it will no longer connect via bluetooth to my MacBook Pro. It is bad enough that there is no way to extinguish that obnoxious sound that it makes when turning on or off and no AUX jack/port on the UE Megaboom to connect directly but this is putting rock salt into a gunshot wound £ stitching it closed. While I dont have an original to compare it to, having heard my friends UE Boom before, I have a feeling that the 90Hz isnt limited by the size of the drivers, but by the DSP to prevent the drivers from bottoming out or distorting. It is unfathomable that Logitech is associated with this nonsense. The original UE Boom 2013 UE Boom had two 1.5in drivers and twin 2in passive radiators. It’s too bad one cannot give negative stars! Everyone involved in developing this worthless drivel need to be given Pink Slips £ escorted to the exit immediately.
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