This Prime Day has cranked up the deals on Bose and Sony speakers

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Finding particularly bully deals connected Amazon Prime Day tin beryllium challenging (trust me, I bash it non-stop for our coverage) but the discount connected the Bose SoundLink Flex is simply a standout one. For now, you tin get the portable Bluetooth talker successful prime colors for $99 ($50 off) astatine Amazon and nonstop from Bose, oregon $99.99 astatine Best Buy. Amazon gates the woody down its Prime rank paywall, but anyone tin bargain from the different two.

This is the lowest terms to day connected the SoundLink Flex, which is our apical prime of Bluetooth speakers nether $200. Bose’s colorful talker has a tiny footprint, making it casual to propulsion successful a container and question with, but it sounds similar a overmuch larger speaker. It’s got a nice, bass-rich dependable that doesn’t transverse into the that’s-too-much-bass-why-are-you-rattling-my-skull territory. And its IP67 h2o and particulate absorption and 12-hour artillery beingness means it tin caput for the large outdoors oregon poolside and support the tunes going for astir of the day.

It’s an casual proposal astatine this terms if you’re successful the marketplace for a Bluetooth speaker, attraction astir dependable quality, and don’t privation to walk a full batch much to get thing similar a Sonos Move 2.

Bose’s SoundLink Flex offers pristine, elaborate dependable prime with a astonishing magnitude of bass for its size — each successful a rugged plan that you tin instrumentality anywhere.

Other notable talker deals for Prime Day

The Bose whitethorn beryllium 1 of the champion bang-for-the-buck talker deals going connected this Prime Day, but determination are a assortment of others moving that are worthy a information — some successful the Bluetooth satellite and adjacent successful the amusement sphere with soundbars.

The Sonos Roam 2, which came retired little than 2 months ago, is selling for $143 ($36 off) astatine Amazon and nonstop from Sonos. The retro-styled JBL Authentics 300 is $100 disconnected astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo, and presently selling for $349.95. Another JBL, the pocketable Go 3 is $31.53 ($18 off) astatine Amazon successful assorted colors. And the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 is different alternate that’s $56.99 ($44 off) astatine Amazon successful its unsocial pink, blue, and grey colour combos.

Like its predecessor, the Sonos Roam 2 is simply a compact and travel-friendly Bluetooth talker that easy syncs up with Sonos’ location audio ecosystem via Wi-Fi. While it looks overmuch similar the original, the Roam 2 has immoderate tiny quality-of-life improvements, similar a abstracted fastener for Bluetooth connections. Read our hands-on impressions.

The JBL Authentics 300 is 1 of lone a fewer astute speakers connected the marketplace with simultaneous Google Assistant and Alexa support. The ’70s-style talker is heavy, but it produces impressive, almighty sound, particularly astatine louder volumes. Read our review.

Perfect for the excavation oregon beach, the JBL Go 3 whitethorn not beryllium rather arsenic almighty arsenic larger models successful the JBL lineup but remains an fantabulous prime for a Bluetooth talker that tin acceptable successful your pocket.

The rugged Wonderboom 3 packs plentifulness of punch for its size, allowing you to crockery retired 360-degree dependable for up to 14 hours with oregon without stereo pairing. It besides floats, rendering it a imaginable excavation enactment mainstay.

And yes, for conscionable you Vergecast listeners, determination are adjacent discounts connected immoderate of Sony’s caller ULT enactment speakers. The Sony Ult Field 7 Bluetooth enactment talker is $398 ($101 off) astatine Amazon. The hourglass-shaped talker is astir boombox-like successful its size and has a claimed artillery beingness of up to 30 hours.

But if 45 watts of output from a 14-pound talker isn’t enough, the Sony Ult Tower 10 weighs successful astatine 64 pounds, pumps retired 1,000 watts, and is selling for $998 ($200 off) astatine Amazon. Both of these ULTs are matching their all-time debased prices, and diagnostic the coveted “ULT button” and colorful enactment lights. The Tower 10 adjacent comes with a wireless karaoke mic, and it’s imaginable by ordering 1 your section constabulary volition beryllium pre-filing the sound complaints.

Sony’s Ult Field 7 measures implicit 20 inches wide, with integrated handles and up to 30 hours of artillery beingness for taking the enactment everywhere. It features a seven-band EQ and, of course, RGB lighting.

The monstrous Ult Tower 10 has lights that sync to your music, an included wireless microphone for karaoke, omnidirectional sound, and 34 antithetic zones of LED lighting.

Over successful soundbar land, the Sonos Ray and Amazon Fire TV Soundbar connection immoderate reasonably affordable options astatine $199 ($80 off) and $99.99 ($20 off), respectively. The Ray has been discounted since the opening of Prime Day, but unluckily Amazon’s operation soundbar and Fire TV streamer was archetypal selling for a little $89.99. It’s inactive a decent worth astatine $100 if you privation conscionable 1 container for some audio duties and to watercourse the contented to your TV — but we privation you to cognize it’s sadly nary longer the amended woody it was.

And lastly, if you privation soundbars with multi-channel situation setups and large subwoofers, we’ve pulled unneurotic a brace of Vizio deals. The Vizio M-Series M512a-H6 is selling for $349.99 ($150 off), portion the Vizio Elevate is simply a pricier $549.99 ($250 off). Both of these setups are 5.1 surrounds with Dolby Atmos enactment and abstracted subwoofers. The Elevate’s instrumentality is that it points its broadside speakers upwards for amended coverage, and it has a larger eight-inch woofer.

The Ray is Sonos’ entry-level soundbar that’s champion for bedrooms and smaller apartments. It lone connects to TVs via optical cable, frankincense missing retired connected HDMI-CEC functionality. It besides produces balanced, dynamic dependable contempt its tiny size, easy besting built-in TV speakers. Read our review.

Amazon’s ain Fire TV Soundbar is simply a 2.0-channel talker that stretches 24 inches long. It’s got enactment for Dolby Audio, DTS, and Bluetooth and connects to a compatible TV via an HDMI larboard with eARC oregon ARC.

Vizio’s M-Series Dolby Atmos soundbar comes implicit with a subwoofer and wired rear situation speakers — each for little than $500.

Vizio’s Elevate is simply a high-end soundbar with unsocial rotating broadside speakers that crook upward erstwhile playing situation dependable audio. It includes 18 speakers, a wireless eight-inch subwoofer, and supports Dolby Atmos and DTS:X.