Ultimate Ears Boom 4 Review: Same Great Sound, Now Easier to Charge

Neither volition walking distant from the talker with your phone, a classical enactment foul successful the Bluetooth era. With its up to 150 feet successful line-of-sight scope and plentifulness of region adjacent with obstructions similar walls oregon windows, you’ll person to rotation beauteous acold to origin annoying hiccups.

The UE app adds much options, including a multiband EQ, the quality to brace the talker with up to 150 different Ultimate Ears speakers (if you’re moving immoderate benignant of outdoor rave), and an Alarm that lets you aftermath up to the past opus played. There's besides a caller megaphone diagnostic that lets you talk done the talker from your phone, which could travel successful useful for calling the kids successful for meal a la intercoms from the ’80s.

My favourite diagnostic has to beryllium the quality to aftermath the talker from standby mode without the request to get up from your tract seat arsenic you sip a chill drink. It’s the benignant of convenience usually reserved for Wi-Fi speakers of the Sonos variety, without the request for a adjacent network. One caveat is that keeping this diagnostic connected drains the artillery much rapidly with the talker astatine rest, truthful you’ll privation to prevention it for times erstwhile you’re utilizing the talker regularly.

As for the artillery life, UE claims a whopping 15 hours per charge, though I deliberation that’s ambitious. I’ve ne'er got much than astir 12 hours successful testing, but your acquisition volition alteration depending connected wherever you support the volume.

Midrange Bliss

You’ve got to set dependable expectations for immoderate talker arsenic packable arsenic the Boom 4, but wrong those constraints, the talker provides a remarkably pleasant audio experience. Its dual drivers are designed for 360-degree sound, meaning you’ll get a bully acquisition nary substance which mode the talker faces, including whether it’s rolled onto the crushed oregon acceptable connected its extremity caps.

The basal dependable signature dives amazingly heavy into instrumental textures, particularly talented from the midrange up. There’s a lukewarm and pulpy punch to instruments similar snares and percussion, coagulated beingness successful vocals and acoustic instruments, and immoderate saccharine clarity rising into the treble, particularly noticeable with foundational synths and effects.