Customer Ratings & Reviews

The Sony wireless speaker worked great on the lake. Very clear at high volume.

Excellent value for the money. Upgraded my portable tunes. Worth the price

GREAT SPEAKER FOR THE PRICE AND IS MUCH BETTER THAN OTHER SPEAKER BRANDS!

I will recommend this product everyday 100% for sure

It shuts off too oftentimes without me turning it off

Poor batery life, low max volume and horrible app. It does sound great though just wish it could go louder.

I love the sound quality but this product has a major flaw, and Sony support’s recommendation is unacceptable! When listening to music paired to my iPhone 16 Pro Max, the speaker will pause the music when a notification is received on my phone. I unpause to listen again and another notification comes in only to pause the music again. Yes, you heard that right! I finally got tired of this happening so i reverted back to my inferior Bose Soundlink speaker. Sony recommended that I put the iPhone in DND mode and that simply isnt an option, the speaker shouldn’t behave in this manner. Yes, the firmware is up to date. What a major FAIL!

speaker rounds out my full Sony lineup from the ULT 1 through the ULT 7. Each speaker has its strengths and weaknesses but the ULT 5 really feels like the sweet spot. ULT 1 is a great backpack speaker, ULT 3 is a great small/medium room candidate, and the ULT 7 is a beast for larger rooms or outdoor events. The ULT 5 feels like the perfect combination of all of these but volume is your friend. Anything below 40% seems to sound a tad muffled (even with ULT 2 mode selected) the speaker starts breathing like a dragon once you get to 50% and above up to about 90% when you lose a major majority of your bass and compression starts engaging. This speaker can get loud so it’s honestly too much if you want to get it loud enough to reach its full potential sound and eq response wise in a smaller apartment or bedroom. If you want a living room speaker that will hit in the living room as a party speaker or outdoor event speaker, this speaker will do you wonders! Lighting differs depending on which color you buy. I loved the ULT 5 so much that I bought a second one in white after my initial purchase of the black model. Lighting definitely seems brighter on the white model as you get more of a reflection off of the side LED’s mounted around the passive radiators. The black model doesn’t show the lighting as well unless you are in a darker room and the speaker is placed in a corner. 4 stars you ask? Well that is because the Sony apps just straight up won’t connect or work sometimes. The Sony fiesta app hasn’t worked at all (a general app for features such as lighting and dj effect controls) even after many uninstall and reinstalls. I just get a black screen after opening and it’s been a problem for weeks now without an update. While you can work most of the controls in the Sony connect app, it’s sometimes slow and clunky and the deeper options are really buried in the settings. Feels like a majority of the features are too difficult to mess with on a consistent basis. How does this speaker compare to the XG300 or the xb43? In my humble opinion, the ULT 5 blows them both out of the water in not just sound, but also looks and functionality. While I love my old faithfuls (both still work fine for me and will serve as great options for years to come) you really feel like you are getting a premium device. While I do love this speaker in comparison to my other Jbl and Bose on the go faithfuls, I would wait for a sell of some sorts on any of the Sony models. It’s normal for Sonys to routinely go on sale randomly and I’ve gotten great discounts on all of my models by not buying day one or rushing to pay MSRP.

Sony makes the best speakers, the quality of build and sound is amazing, easy to setup and not to mention the heavy bass and the trebs are the perfect combo, pick this over JBL and Bose respectively.