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the de boom boom box outdoors a compact water-resistant wireless bluetooth speaker that's designed you guessed it for outdoor use at $99.99 it's the step-up model to the booms hockey-puck sized boombox travel and produces good sound for both its size and price point hi I'm David Carr noise and welcome to another CNET video tour of a portable bluetooth speaker as I said this to voom is a ruggedized model and comes in a few different trim colors including the red you see here as well as blue olive green and all black weighing in at one point six pounds or 726 grams the speaker seems solidly built and has a set of sealed rubberized buttons on the top of the unit including a pause play button and volume controls to prevent water from entering the microUSB charging port and audio input on the side there's a rubber gasket that seals everything off unlike some speakers that are completely waterproof this one is only rated as being splash proof as far as other extras go there's a built-in speakerphone and the speaker's equipped with bluetooth 4.0 which makes pairing with your Bluetooth enabled smartphone or tablet that much easier battery life is rated at 12 hours at moderate volume levels that's above average for this type of mini speaker I thought it sounded good for what it is it's got a pair of combo mid sub drivers and a single tweeter along with two passive bass radiators it's rare to see that many drivers in a speaker this size and it does play very loud for a mini speaker you do get some distortion with more complicated tracks and bass heavy tracks at high volumes but so long as you don't push it too hard it offers reasonably detailed sound it does have its limitations however after all the speaker this size can only produce so much bass so don't expect it to mimic a larger fuller sounding speaker still for the money you can find it for closer to $80 online you'll be hard-pressed to find much else that sounds better I also like to voom smaller voom box travel and think it's a better choice for people who want to carry a speak around in their laptop bag or luggage in general but this boom box outdoor while a little generic looking is a better choice if you want to see that can output more volume to a larger space like the travel it's a very good value and it's one of the better wireless speakers you'll find for less than $100 I'm David karna and that's the boombox outdoor thanks for watching