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I'm David karna executive editor cnet.com and I'm here with the ultimate ears boom wireless bluetooth speaker ultimate ears is now owned by Logitech but this speakers fully branded as a UE speaker and follows the well-received Logitech UE boom box and UE mobile boom box which will remain on the market the list price for the speaker is 1 9999 so it's fairly pricey but it's being touted as a more powerful and durable version of the Jawbone Jambox and has a special acoustic skin plasma coating that makes it water and stain resistant that means you can wash it should it get dirty and you is marketing it as a speaker you can take with you everywhere you go indoors and outdoors at 1.2 pounds it's not heavy but it's also not light and has a little bit of heft to it it comes in two different colors and is designed to sit horizontally or vertically a one end there's an audio input as well as a hook so you can clip the speaker to a backpack with a carabiner if you unscrew that hook you'll find a threaded tripod mount the speaker it charges via USB and gives you about 15 hours of battery life which is very good for a portable Bluetooth speaker there are volume controls on the speaker itself but most people will simply use their smartphone or tablet as a remote and the speaker like the jam box has speakerphone capabilities behind the fancy fabric covering the speakers are 21.5 inch full range drivers and to two-inch passive radiators ue has designed the boombox to have 360° sound so it sounds the same whether you're standing in front of it or you're standing behind it I've listened to a lot of these compact Bluetooth speakers and the boom plays very loud for its size if it has a deficiency it just doesn't deliver a ton of bass though a few if any of these small speakers put out great bass well it's expensive to buy two of these speakers it's also worth noting that you can daisy chain two of them to help fill a larger space with sound or you can have one speaker act as a left speaker and one act as a rice bigger to provide real stereo separation I still need to test it more outside but I like the look in Fila the speaker and it certainly plays loud at $200 it's a little bit expensive but the fact that it's water-resistant it offers 15 hours of battery life as well as speakerphone capabilities makes it certainly worth considering if you're looking for a compact bluetooth speaker for both indoor and outdoor use I'm David Carr noise and that's the UE boom thanks for watching