soundcore Anker Boom 2 Bluetooth Speaker, Outdoor Speaker with 80W, Subwoofer, BassUp 2.0, 24H Playtime, IPX7 Waterproof, Floatable, RGB Lights, Custom EQ, USB-C, Portable for Camping, Beach, Garden

Compact, sturdy, great sound, deep base, long lasting battery. Lights are added bonus. Which magazine recommended.

Got my Boom 2 today from Amazon. I am running it in at the moment. The sound is crisp and the bass is there. The bass seems to have a sweet spot of me being very close or being about 8 feet away. Anywhere in between the bass seems to fall into a black hole but this is most probably my hearing and placement of the speaker. Placement is very important to sound quality as I have learnt over the years. The sound will get better when the speakers loosen up after several hours and days of playing. I have the blue one as I think the black one would look too generic. Playing 'Who You Are' from Jessie J. right now and her vocals are sharp and piercing like they should be. The bass drum drop is thumping. The lead guitar is there I cannot have this on maximum as it would burst my ear drums out. 'Roar' by Katy Perry always tests speakers and the Boom 2 passes with flying colours. The rumbling bass in this tune rumbles the desk, floor and everything in range from the Boom 2. The passive radiators constantly shaking. The light show going crazy. 'Unconditionally' - the Boom 2 has found some bass notes I did not know were there before. 'Dark Horse' by Katy Perry - just wow. The bass would re-arrange my internal organs if I let it. Passive radiators a blur like something out of The Matrix. 'This Is How We Do' by Katy Perry lead guitar and bass drum vocals subtle background all there and present. The soundtrack to Braveheart with it's nuances and raging majesty is all there with the Boom 2 (just for change in music styles). 'Vide Cor Meum' on the Hannibal Soundtrack is orchestral and emotional. 'Interstellar' with its organ and singular piano notes and rumbling bass in the background is perfectly presented here. 'Turn Out The Light' by the Investigators the Boom 2 drops the bass as it should be for lovers rock. The vocals on 'Lost Without You' by Freya Ridings are heart-breaking as they should be. I have the sound settings to SoundCore Signature with Bass Up and use PowerAmp with flat settings in that app. I know I could boost whatever I want with PowerAmp but just don't need to. One tune that it does struggle a bit with is 'Venus As A Boy' by Bjork. The bass is more felt then heard with this song as though there is a range that is playing that I cannot hear but is there. Or maybe it's just my hearing and placement again as it sounds better from about 10 feet away. I reckon this will sound better once the speaker has been run in. 'Unravel' by Bjork is my signature song for testing any speakers and headphones. I had to stand up and listen literally. I have not head the vocals like that before from this song even though I have played it a thousand times. jeez it was like hearing it for the first time. One thing that the Boom 2 could not do is the floating bass notes from left to right speakers towards the end of the song as it needs further stereo separation to do that. But when I buy a second Boom 2 (the green one) I'll have them set up in TWS mode and I'll see how they deal with it then. If you like 'Unravel' then there is only one cover version that comes anywhere close as the original - by Turkish artist Selan Ozan a live performance. The echoes of that live performance. You can hear the acoustics of that concert hall affecting the audio. The sometimes not perfect alignment of notes just makes it more perfect and it is all there in the sound stage wide and haunting. The mellifluous floating echoing vocals and the thumping electronic bass drum. The Boom 2 it's not just a bass head speaker. It delivers with the mids, uppers and vocals as well. To summarise. It's a great speaker that has already started to sound better after a couple of hours of running in. The light show is great for watching the radiators go off. It is light ad I have not tested how water proof it is. Two of them in stereo mode will be a blast and hopefully will sort out the bass stereo separation of 'Unravel' by Bjork. I am fast becoming a SoundCore fanboy as I have 4 Liberty 4 NC's, Space One, Soundcore 3, P20i and Life P2 mini. I did have problems with my first set of Space Ones but the second set are a lot better. And I just did not like the Q45's so sold them. So SoundCore does it again. I'll be amending this review when I have the second Boom 2 speaker paired to it to see how that affects the overall sound. And after I have finished running them in. Also, I did have a discount code that failed on the SoundCore website when I tried to order the Boom 2 there and I informed them about it. They told me to order it here on Amazon and they would honour the difference in price and they have done just that. So brilliant customer service as well. Bravo Edit 31/05/24 Got my second Boom2 in green from Amazon today using the £20 discount code. Paired the green one with my blue in TWS mode by pressing the Bluetooth buttons on both at the same time for 2 seconds which worked. But before that I paired the green one to a spare phone just to update the firmware and then unpaired it again. The second one cannot be paired to anything before setting it as TWS. Also, now when I turn them both on they automatically go into TWS mode so I don't have to do it each time. (Sony could learn a lesson here) One Boom 2 sounds brilliant. Pairing two together takes it to another level. Stereo separation is important to me and having two delivers on this in spades. But the sound is louder with 2 (obviously) so I don't have to turn them up as much compared to when I had one. I have been running in the green one today as it was sounding a little tight in the bass (same as the blue one when I got it but it is now rumbling sweet in the low notes). So now after about 3 hours the green one is now on par with the blue one. I was toying with the idea of getting the Boom 2 Plus and having that paired with blue Boom 2 but I am glad that I did not as for less than the price of one Boom 2 Plus I have 2 Boom 2's in full TWS stereo mode. 2 Sub Woofers, 4 Tweeters, 160w in total with bass up on - just wow. 'Unravel' By Bjork - floating bass between left and right now delivered flawlessly. Also 'Funkin For Jamaica' by Tow Browne - all sorts floating between left and right. Vocals on the right. Vocals on the left. Bass guitar (I think) floating from right to centre to left and back again. Hell, maybe I'll just buy the Boom 2 Plus for the heck of it. But when it comes to dynamic space filling spital sound it's my two Boom 2's in TWS. Damn. Soundcore. Jeez. Wow.

Wow, it’s a WOW product, weighs little, sounds big. I replaced an portable Anker speaker i’ve had for 7 years, it’s battery gave up after daily use and had been left in the rain many times through the british summer. I was rusty battered and still sounded great so I was going to buy another Anker. I didn’t think technology had moved much but the sound is unbelievable audio books are crisp at low volume (don’t put bass on). Music is superb, from Katy Perry, Wu-tang, Prodigy, Sound garden, Drake, Horse Face, every genre sounds amazing. Tip: You can press the bass button twice, on the double press (100 watt) the sound is so big, it will be heard by the neighbours (if not felt). The side speakers vibrate and move, it looks ace but I wonder if they could every get damaged, they feel strong but that is my only concern. That said it’s impossible to get this good a sound without this speaker freedom. I have a 25 year old Teac Hi-fi, It was thousands when houses were £50k. I gave it the side eye the other day, It knew what I was thinking.

Unbelievable sound for the money. Excellent bass boost, if needed. Feels well made, solid with a nice bit of physical weight. Doesn't feel hollow. Good Bluetooth distance.

The perfect bedroom bluetooth speaker! The lighting is awesome when listening to music and smoking with friends. It can really pump when it needs to with BassUp and sounds great when watching movies. Connects to both my Mac, iPhone and Pc instantly with no disruptions and is waterproof. 100% Satisfied.

Most important things first - it feels well made, it sounds great, it goes quite loud with decent tight punchy bass. Not "fill a field or huge hall with sound" or "shake the walls", naturally, but for the size, more than good enough. The light show is a cute addition, albeit of limited use outdoors in bright sun of course. I've had some stuttering sound issues, but I think that's my phone rather than the speaker. When it happens, turning Bluetooth on & off on my phone (a Moto G75) usually seems to cure it. I can't give it 5 stars though because of some silly missing features: * no battery gauge - there's no way to see how much power it has left. My JBL speaker has a series of 4 lights to show approx 25/50/75/100% remaining power. Even plenty of cheap speakers I've seen have one. This unit has nothing - especially an issue if you want to use its power output to charge up another device, and have some idea how much power you've got left in it. * no 3.5mm aux input - yes, sadly quite a few phones are doing away with 3.5mm headphone sockets, but including an aux line input would cost pennies and be a useful feature so you can connect other devices to it - but no, none to be found here.

I absolutely love this speaker, the sound is nothing short of amazing, good clear sound with excellent bass, I'm sure I've heard nuances in the music that I'd never realised were there on tracks ranging from tunes from the 80's, Metal, and R&B. Controls are clean and concise without any 'nonsense' buttons and the app is excellent. Battery life is also excellent I've used this for many hours now and still haven't had to recharge it. The volume (and sound) quality from such a relatively small unit blew me away. If it had a Micro SD card slot that would be the 'icing on the cake'. If you're looking for a Bluetooth speaker I can thoroughly recommend this without reservation.

There are probably better ones on the market at higher prices, but for the money, this is great. Very solid construction, easy to handle, and sounds good. Excellent bass boost. Battery apppears to last well. Don't know how it would fare at a party or on the beach. Probably not loud enough, but plenty of welly for a normal garden/terrace/garage situation.

Les matériaux sont robustes, design très simple et épuré agréables à regarder. Pour la taille le son est vraiment excellent ( véritable stéréo) : des basses bien présentes, mais jamais trop excessives, donnent de la profondeur au son et une belle rondeur. Les médiums sont très agréables, les voix sont très bien reproduites et naturelle. La puissance est importante : certes, nous sommes loin de vrai 80w, mais il y a beaucoup de volume. Peut être utilisé sans problème même à l'extérieur, dans de grands espaces, ainsi qu'à la maison pour écouter de la musique à faible volume, en profitant d'un son agréable et rond. La batterie dure très longtemps, surtout lorsque vous éteignez les lumières, gadget pour faire joli sympa mais pas très utile. Dans l'ensemble : excellent produit, à tel point que je n'ai commandé une deuxième, en jumelant les deux enceintes on atteint une puissance max de 160 w pour une valeur max de 200€ (2 fois 99€) très rentable. Excellent pour regarder un film sur tablette. Enceinte polyvalente qui se prête à tous les usages et à tous les espaces. Bien au-dessus de la marque JBL de même gamme, plus léger, moins cher et meilleur son. Deux petits points négatifs (mais vraiment parce que je suis chiant) il n'y a pas la possibilité de brancher une clé USB, carte micro SD ou prise jack dommage et pas d'encoche pour mettre une sangle. Vous pouvez en faire l'acquisition vous ne serez pas déçu.

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Good base. Good price. Good bluetooth speaker. 10/10. If your on a budget a must have while on sale. I bought 2 for stereo mode while watching 120 inch projector at my room. Like watching movies in cinema cuz of boom base

I bought this expecting a decent portable speaker, but I was completely blown away by the actual performance. It goes significantly louder and hits harder than I ever thought a speaker this size could. The sound quality is genuinely awesome across the board. What really surprised me, though, is the bass. A lot of portable Bluetooth speakers sound hollow or lose their low end when you turn the volume up, but the Boom 2 has incredibly deep, punchy bass that actually fills the space. It gets loud enough to use outdoors without losing any clarity, and the battery easily lasts all day. If you want something portable that sounds like a much larger system, you will not be disappointed.

Cok başarılı. Fiyat skalası dahilinde daha iyi bir alternatif yok diyebilirim. Eko ayarlarını yaptiktan sonra daha da iyi oluyor. Sahilde kullandik bu yaz 6 yaşındaki afacan kızımız ile, üstüne dökülenler kuma gömülmeler vs viz geldi. Sarji dayanıklı 2 gün boyunca, ışık ve bass acik 6-7 saat kullandik bitmedi. Ayrica powerbank işlevi de var. Bir telefonu %25 ten 65e sarj etti.Benim adima tek negatif özellik. Ayni anda 2 cihazin bağlanabiliyor olmasi. Normalde bu arti bir özellik. Ancak sahilde muzik savaşları yaşayan ekip& arkadaş ortaminiz var ise, surekli muzik değişikliği sansi ortaya cikiyor. Uygulamadan istediginiz bt cihazini ana bağlantı cihazi yapabiliyorsunuz ancak yine de beklenmedik bir anda baglanan birisi ile muzik kesilme durumu yasanabiliyor. Tecrubelerim dahilinde fiyati ile ses kalitesi ve gücü ile rakibi yok diyebilirim.. teknik kalitesini bilmiyorum. Miknatisi vs bilgim yok. Ancak görsel malzeme kalitesi hissiyati cok iyi. Not: cocuklar ozellikle sag&sol taraftaki isikli hareketli ses cikis noktalarina bayildilar. Özellik olarak suda yüzüyor deniliyordu tecrübe etmedim, ama üstüne herşey döküldü damladı. Denizden cikan çocuklar, islak saç & vucut ile omuzlarina koyarak dans ettiler. Bu fiyatin daha ustune 3 harfli vs alarak paranizi cope atmayin derim. Güncelleme: guncel fiyat aldığım fiyatin iki katina çıkmış. Ancak rakiplerin fiyatlarina bakinca gene makul& mantikli olan ürün bu.