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hey everyone Jimmy with gems review room Ultimate Ears or what many people call Yui has recently made available the Yui roll to now unfortunately we don't have the redesigned mega boom just yet I'll keep you guys updated now jumping right into this review these second generation comes in at the same retail price off last year's model at $99 and as always I'll place my amazon links in the video description below if you're watching this video later in the year prices could fluctuate my links will give you the most updated prices so without further adieu my channels here to help you make a purchase decision welcome everyone to gems review going over the physical features it is identical to last year's model it's literally the same thing the size is the same with fitting in one's palm and it's still super lightweight coming in at 330 grams or about three-quarters of a pound now if you're looking for a slim profile something light for portability the roll is perfect in that sense and I guess with Yui if it's not broken why fix it now you includes a very simple design with volume up and down with buttons being slightly improved over the last years though being a bit more sensitive and tactile I'm pressing both buttons at the same time gives you your battery life which is highly convenient 60% charge more I'm a battery test a little bit later now rotating through the rear a bungee cord is offered so you can hang this in a shower or wrap this around a pole if you ever need to power on an office also in the rear with the bluetooth pairing button below moving all the way down lifting up the cap offers a two and a half millimeter input for physical connections at a microUSB port for charging the roll - since we're touching on better life here the roll - still takes a crazy five and a half hours to recharge from a dead battery which is quite long compared to the competition and better life stays the same as last years with up to nine hours of use for my testing leaving this on at 50% bottom until the unit died just like get a medium result here very similar results again with last year's model I was able to achieve 10 hours and 50 five minutes to be exact now looking at other small portable Bluetooth speakers the roll is up there with a competition except for the fugu of course that thing's a freak of nature but one of the biggest selling points of the roll - this thing is built like a tank though it's ipx7 certified meaning you can submerge this in water up to one meter or basically three point three feet of depth for up to thirty minutes not only that the rugged melon bread shell encasing is stain resistant and tossing this into mud spreading it down the speaker isn't stained and a speaker keeps going with no issues now the one and only feature that I would think should be on every ipx7 certified Bluetooth speaker the roll - unfortunately doesn't float it actually sinks if you ever drop this into the lake but Julie does include this little flotation device here in the package and great for the pool but again if you're at the lake this thing might be a goner so just a heads up on that now other features of roll 2 includes comparing with last year's model the only thing that I can find that is an improvement is the Bluetooth range it has increased from up to 65 feet or basically 20 meters and it's now been increased to up to a hundred feet or thirty meters worth of range now my testing I was able to get about 75 to 80 linear feet until the signal started to die and last year youie offers an app available for both Apple and Android devices you can double up and have two of these speakers going on at the same time which does help tremendously an equaliser makes a return which works okay and there's an alarm feature to wake you up in the morning so very simple here very rugged speaker all around but let's test the audio quality I'm sure you guys have been waiting for that here's my sound test I play several songs and I'll give you my verdict afterwards shadows something yeah and there you have it folks now sound of course recorded on my end and then play through your speakers are not the best depiction of audio quality but hence my review here now the speaker sounds very familiar with the role one when comparing this to the JBL flip three fugu and these small and portable Sony speakers the roll has the least amount of bass but there's not enough authority to make music as immersive or as enjoyable from my experience when you do compare this with the aforementioned letting mid-range however at moderate volume does well with great vocals it's clean crisp you can say and the high notes isn't screeching and high-pitched now when you do blast us at maximum volume though for entertaining outdoors let's say be very high it gets a little jumbled so you do lose a slight bit of clarity now there isn't any audio separation or a soundstage but how loud this can get though for a small speaker it's still great for general use and general family entertaining from my experience the biggest selling point though is how rugged this thing is how slim and how portable it can be the attached bungee cord does help with attaching this to let's say your bike your boat or some sort of pole or even hang this in your shower if you already own the original roll there's absolutely no reason to upgrade since nearly everything is identical if you're not needing a super rugged speaker but looking for something that may have better audio quality the JBL flip 3 can be had for the same price so looking out for you guys here I hope this review helped you in some way be sure to LIKE and subscribe if you haven't done so already and find me on Facebook Twitter and or Instagram or if you want my personal accounts I'm at jimmy long official at all three social media channels except for Twitter but the headdress is on your screen there so I'm Jimmy with Jim's review room you guys take care and I'll see you on the next one bye