Review: Ultimate Ears\' EVERBOOM Bluetooth Speaker Packs a Punch With a Rugged Design

Logitech subsidiary Ultimate Ears has been in the portable wireless speaker market for over a decade now, gradually building a full set of models across a range of sizes, power, and price points. The most recent addition to the lineup is the EVERBOOM, a mid-range speaker that debuted a few months ago. I've been testing one out and I've found it to be a handy and capable speaker in a variety of settings.

Priced at $249.99, the EVERBOOM sits in the middle of the Ultimate Ears lineup, which currently ranges from the WONDERBOOM 4 at $99.99 all the way up to the HYPERBOOM at $399.99. Like many of Ultimate Ears' speakers, the EVERBOOM is designed for an active lifestyle, offering IP67 water and dust resistance to stand up to not just splashes but full dunks in water. The speaker even floats, and it's been drop tested from a height of one meter.

The EVERBOOM is more or less an elliptic cylinder, measuring a little over 8 inches (200 mm) high, 4.3 inches (110 mm) wide, and 3.25 inches (85 mm) deep. Aside from plastic toward the top and bottom of the speaker, it is wrapped entirely in a speaker mesh, with Ultimate Ears touting 360-degree sound. In reality, the audio largely comes from the two sides of the speaker, but with them firing in opposite directions, you do indeed get pretty solid sound projection all around. The EVERBOOM includes a pair of full-range transducers paired with two customized passive radiators to help deliver full sound from the relatively small form factor.

I found sound quality to be quite good, with the 360-degree sound easily filling even a fairly large room and remaining quite audible and well-balanced outdoors. It can get quite loud if you turn it up, although distortion becomes a bit of an issue as you start to max it out in more enclosed environments.

Volume is easily controlled right from the speaker with the huge iconic plus and minus buttons on the front. They're a bold design decision, but they make an Ultimate Ears speaker pretty much instantly recognizable. Pressing both of them simultaneously while the speaker is powered on gives you a general sense of battery level with some lights hidden behind the mesh up at the top.

An Outdoor Boost mode can be activated with a button on the speaker or from within the UE | BOOM app, offering a bit more punch with the sound output optimized for outdoor spaces. The increase in bass is definitely noticeable when it's turned on.

Speaking of the UE | BOOM app, it offers an array of functionality for managing one or more speakers from the Utimate Ears lineup. You can of course use the EVERBOOM as a standalone Bluetooth speaker right from the options on your iPhone or other device, but the app includes features like an equalizer, the ability to link multiple speakers, and more. With PARTYUP mode, you can sync up to 150 speakers from the UE lineup to maximize your sound. The app also offers convenient controls for changing tracks and volumes, turning the speaker on and off, activating Outdoor Boost, and activating a Microphone mode that lets you broadcast your voice over the speaker via your phone.

The equalizer panel offers five preset configurations: a flat Signature curve, a Bass Boost setting that does just what you'd expect, a Cramped Spaces option that drops the mids a bit, a Deep Relaxation mode that drops the treble way down, and a Podcast/Vocal setting that drops the bass. Any of these presets can be customized via five sliders spanning the various frequencies.

Another handy aspect of the UE | BOOM app is management of the Magic Button, which is a function of the play/pause hardware button on the speaker itself. The play/pause button offers the usual functionality with a single press playing or pausing music, a double press skipping forward, and a triple press skipping backward. But there's also a fourth function, and that's a long press to activate the Magic Button.

アプリでは、Apple Music または Amazon Music のプレイリストをアクティブにするようにマジック ボタンを設定できます。 UE | を接続する必要があります。これらのサービスに BOOM アプリを接続すると、保存したプレイリストをすべて表示し、最大 4 つを選択してマジック ボタンにリンクできるようになります。スピーカーのボタンを長押しすると、設定した最初のプレイリストがすぐに開始され、その後長押しすると、選択したプレイリストが順番に切り替わります。

全体として、このアプリはユーザーから中程度のレビューしか得られず、いくつかの引用は含まれています。 Bluetooth 接続の問題と、重要なコントロールを覆う広告が表示されますが、テストではこれらの問題は発生しなかったので、解決されていることを願っています。

EVERBOOM の上部にあるボタンは、Android デバイスとの素早いペアリングと切り替えを可能にする NFC チップです。現在、iOS デバイスでは動作しませんが、Apple がデバイスの NFC 機能を徐々に開放していくにつれて、おそらく将来のある時点で動作するようになるでしょう。

EVERBOOM は最大 20 時間のバッテリー寿命と最大 55 メートル (180 フィート) の Bluetooth 通信範囲を備え、外出先でも確実な柔軟性を提供します。スピーカーの背面にある小さなループと付属のカラビナにより、EVERBOOM をバックパック、テント、その他の便利な場所に簡単に吊るすことができます。充電は USB-C 経由で行われ、デバイスのポートは水の侵入を防ぐフラップの後ろの下部にあります。

EVERBOOM は現在、Ultimate Ears と Amazon から 249.99 ドルで、アジュール ブルーまたはチャコール ブラックで購入できます。ライラックとラズベリーのカラーオプションは現在完売しています。 6 月の EVERBOOM の発売と並行して、Ultimate Ears は、USB-C ポートと 100% 使用済みリサイクル生地を使用した新色を備えた WONDERBOOM、BOOM、および MEGABOOM スピーカーも刷新しました。 BOOM と MEGABOOM には強化された重低音ラジエーターも搭載され、WONDERBOOM にはポッドキャストに最適化されたオーディオ モードが追加されました。

注: Ultimate Ears は、このレビューの目的で MacRumors に EVERBOOM を提供しました。それ以外の補償は一切受けていません。 MacRumors は、Ultimate Ears および Amazon のアフィリエイト パートナーです。リンクをクリックして購入すると、サイトの運営を維持するために少額の支払いを受け取ることがあります。

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