Customer Ratings & Reviews

This was a childish mad gift, and it was perfect because it’s waterproof so this item is a great to use and even better as a gift...

Great to use. Easy to use. Nice that the app shows the batter Life

I absolutely love this speaker! Great sound and can take it outside while I am working or wherever I go!

My son really likes his new speaker and can’t wait to use it at the soccer field. It sounds great and can be used with other speakers.

love it! getting plenty of use out of it. great quality for the price

I have tried and compared do many speakers and no one sound laun and cleer than the BOOM

Great speaker hooks up ezy to phone or our outdoor projector. Wish it came with wireless charger put it not expensive to get on amazon.

The volume control is super easy and if i have it charging in my living room I can hear it in my kitchen or even outside where my dryer is. Super easy to connect to my phone.

Logitech, well-known for its ultra-reliable computer peripherals like mice and keyboards, has a superb portfolio of audio and video equipment subsidiaries. Among these is Ultimate Ears which started as a supplier of custom in-ear monitors for Van Halen, The Rolling Stones, Faith Hill and other famous professional musicians. In the past three years Ultimate Ears has created a new line of wireless/Bluetooth speakers. The latest of these are the Ultimate Ears Boom 3 and MegaBoom 3 wireless portable Bluetooth speakers. This review will focus on the Boom 3 speaker, a surprisingly powerful unit with very nice sound quality and some great bonus features. After extensive testing of the Boom 3 speaker in a wide variety of applications my conclusion is that this very compact unit has a superb combination of features, power and sound quality which surpass the vast majority of its competitors in its price range. First, consider that the Ultimate Ears Boom 3 is packed with a great set of features and specifications: • Spatial 360 degree stereophonic sound radiation • Maximum sound level 90 dBA (VERY LOUD!) • Frequency range: 90 Hz to 20,000 Hz • Two 38mm drivers, Two 40mm x 80mm passive radiators • Amplifier provides 10 watts of power for each speaker (at 4 ohms) • It is very compact, 7.2” tall, 2.9” diameter • Weight: 1 pound, 5 ounces and feels very solidly built • Shock-resistant: Survives 4 foot drop test • IP67 certified water proof in fresh or salt water to 3 foot depth for 30 minutes and it floats! • Dust proof and tight-weave on fabric exterior is very easy to clean • Total Harmonic Distortion of just 1% • Bluetooth connectivity with up to 150 foot range • Power supply: lithium ion battery, micro USB recharge cable included • Battery life up to 15 hours (6 hours at maximum volume level), recharge time 2.75 hours • Supports wireless charging with optional Power Up stand • Ultimate Ears app may be used to control all speaker functions • Two year limited warranty The Boom 3 comes very nicely packaged in a slip cover and beautiful storage box wrapped in great artwork. Included is an elegantly simple illustrated getting started brochure, the usual safety warnings (Don’t smack yourself in the head with it! Don’t try to swallow it! Blah, blah, blah …), and one of the nicest micro-USB cables you are likely to find. There is also a link to the Ultimate Ears Boom 3 app. Most electronic devices today offer phone apps and most of those apps are a waste of your phone’s memory and screen space. But the Ultimate Ears app is one that you will want to download. It gives access to a nice equalizer, “PartyUp” – a way to connect up to 150 Boom 3 speakers in a daisy chain to really add sound to your party, “Block Party – a means to allow multiple phones to link into your speaker so that each can play their own music, one touch access to your own playlists, a full owner’s manual and FAQ. Lots of good stuff and all of it very well explained. The Boom 3 speaker is very solid and quite attractive. It can survive the usual rough handling that portable speakers have to endure. The IP67 rating means you can submerge it in 3 feet of water for 30 minutes without problems and it is essentially dust proof. It will float if you knock it into the pool or toss it in the lake. And the tight weave on the iridescent fabric makes it very easy to clean. The USB charging port is carefully sealed behind a block of rubber at the back. You can attach the charging cable and it will be unobtrusive while you use the speaker or you can buy the optional wireless charging dock. But the long battery life (15 hours) means that you won’t be recharging very often. The controls are very simple. The top has on/off and Bluetooth connecting pressure switches, positioned on either side of the “Magic Button” which controls play, pause, skip and access to playlists. My favorite controls, however, are the great big volume controls on the front. You won’t fumble around looking for the up/down volume controls because they are a bigger-than-life plus and minus sign. Very cool. There is also a little loop tab at the back of the top which can be used to hang the speaker or secure it with a carabiner. The Bluetooth connection was effortless and solid from every device I tried (phone, tablet, laptop). It held the connection steady up to about 90 feet from my music source. The claim of 150 feet for Bluetooth connection range is optimistic unless you have an absolutely clear line of sight between source and speaker. But realistically, when would you ever need that kind of range? One nice bonus feature is the ability to connect a chain of up to 150 Boom 3 or MegaBoom 3 speakers which can extend your music throughout a large home or provide multiple sound sources in the same room. If you add just one speaker they function as traditional left/right stereo speakers. OK, so that’s the basics, but the big question is, how does it sound? In a word – awesome! My ultimate test for a speaker is to play a complex jazz classic on it and compare that sound to the very expensive reference speakers on my old school, top-of-the-line stereo system. For the Boom 3 test I chose the album, “Kind of Blue” by Miles Davis, perhaps the greatest jazz recording of all time. It features the Hall-of-Fame legends, Miles on trumpet, John Coltrane on tenor sax, Bill Evans on piano, Cannonball Adderly on alto sax, Paul Chambers on bass, Jimmy Cobb on drums – a dream team before anyone ever thought up the term, playing some of the most important jazz compositions ever created. With this amazing music the Boom 3 showed me what it can really do. The Miles trumpet solos were clean and bright, I could literally feel the bass strumming and drum solos as though they were right in front of me, the piano riffs were perfect and the brilliance of Cannonball and Trane was undiminished. The Boom 3 transported me back to that historic 1959 recording date. If I walked into my study and turned on my five figure stereo system to the same music I might be able to isolate some minor differences from the reproduction achieved by the Boom 3. But considering the cost differential, I could buy four Boom 3 speakers to play this music simultaneously for perhaps 5% of the cost of my main system. And if I did that I am not sure that I would be able to consistently tell the difference even in pieces like “Kind of Blue” for which I know every note. I really cannot give this wonderful Boom 3 speaker a higher compliment than that. Compared to the alternatives available I believe that the Ultimate Ears Boom 3 Bluetooth speaker is one of the best values on the market. It has my whole-hearted and enthusiastic recommendation!

Very nice speaker. Great sound and love you can use the app to customize the sound. Also love the giant volume buttons on the front, so easy to adjust the volume.

Great speaker .. love the sound… battery life is around 10 hrs

We have loved our UE Booms. Have owned three of them. The sound quality is amazing, pretty durable. We use them all the time. Great purchase!

Wanted a bluetooth speaker to take outside when doing yard work and also take to the basement when doing laundry. This one was recommended by the Best Buy associate and we are very pleased.

For the price of this speaker and the size of it it gives you sound quality and loudness.

This is the perfect speaker for the beach. I had the previous version and loved it. The new one is just as good with clear and loud sound in a compact shape.

Sound quality is clear and crisp. Does not distort at high volume. Ability to connect with other UE speaker gives that surround sound feeling. AWESOME SPEAKER!!

Sound quality is good, worth the price. But the price was a sales price, not displayed at the store. Looked it up on line on my phone, showed it to sales person, and he gave us the online price. Can't complain, we use it a lot.

Everything works great. Sound quality is extremely high for the price

this was the greatest speaker until I bought a Bose because my Boom3 was stolen 2 weeks after purchase unfortunately

my grandoughter love this set it on her bed by her pillow at night takes it to shower to,