 Hot Spot Shield service makes your internet browsing safer, more secure, and fully private. Click now to learn more. Huge sound! Which is one of those things that manufacturers claim that often makes me kind of, I can't really do it but whatever, raise an eyebrow because huge sound is not the same thing as good sound. However, Ultimate Ears has enough of a reputation for sound that isn't horrible that I was like okay normally when manufacturers contact me and they're like wow yeah we've got this bluetooth battery powered speaker you guys should totally unbox and check it out I'm kind of like, because who cares there's so many of them. So I tend to focus on the ones that offer something interesting like the Ruckus which is solar powered, the Rugged Ruckus which is solar powered and is like splash resistant and drop proof and all that kind of cool stuff. So with Ultimate Ears I was like okay I'm interested in you because you've got a brand name to protect here so it better not sound bad. The Jambox from Jawbone sounds bad. It was one of the first ones though so I guess it can get a bit of a pass but let's cover the features of the Mini Boom. It has a 10 hour battery, it's bluetooth, it supports for iPod, iPhone, iPad, and pretty much anything else it's bluetooth but oh branding. It's got a 50 foot range, it obviously has a built in speaker phone just like all of them do, it's available in a variety of colors I think like four or five different colors but you can see them all on the website and it has kind of a unique shape to it, it's pretty rugged looking I guess it's not actually meant to sit like that there you go it knows it knows what's up get it what's up because the buttons go up. So speaking of the buttons you've got volume up volume down these are nice little tactile buttons as well as your bluetooth pairing button. On the side over here you've got some Ultimate Ears branding on the bottom you've got some information that's hard to read some more Ultimate Ears branding, speaker grill, power switch as well as three and a half millimeter and micro USB for charging there's a port there for bass presumably and then the front is yet another speaker grill so we've got a couple colors because they have another feature that we've seen before but again I have high expectations for something Ultimate Ears wants you to pay a hundred dollars for and that is that you can set them up using the free downloadable app how many times have we heard that before a free downloadable app you have got to be kidding me so you can use the free downloadable app to set them up in stereo mode that they're claiming actually sounds pretty darn good so we're gonna set that up and we'll be back in just a moment. Oh yeah hidden away in the little compartment here is a micro USB cable that you can use to charge it but they do not include an AC adapter so you're gonna have to already have one or a computer or something in order to charge it. So why don't I just give you guys some idea of what to expect in terms of volume with one of my favorite all-time songs. So this is at about 70% this is where my mic is so that should give you some idea when I'm talking like pretty loud it's about like someone kind of yelling at you now let's crank it up. So now you probably pretty much can't hear me over it which should give you some idea how much volume we're talking here they are extremely loud we definitely give the edge them in terms of that and there is a fair amount of bass the only issue that I have with them in terms of the bass is that it can tend to overpower the mids a little bit and it does make the vocal sound a little bit muddy but with that said if the intention is to grab one of these or a couple of them and take them with the to the beach with you and create as much sound as possible with as little actual space taken up as possible these might be pretty much the way to go so let's go back to the app for a minute here we go mini boom and let's go to ah yes the settings so I was going to show you this to you guys before shows you the battery life you can set up the speaker name EQ settings out loud is the loudest vocals personally I didn't like that much but intimate actually is probably the best balanced one in terms of how it sounds to me can set up alert sounds don't forget yes you can use the speaker phone and all that good stuff but ah yes this is where things start to get interesting double up mode so you press the Bluetooth button twice on another one after you click start here we go and you can either run them in stereo or just run the same sounds off both of them there we go in order to just get more sound and it gets pretty darn loud so distortion wise there's actually not much even at maximum volume which is quite impressive if we had awards around here we'd go ahead and probably give these an editor's choice of some sort because they sound pretty good they get extremely loud as advertised and the app actually just works it was it was flawless even while music is still playing we can switch between double up mode single mode stereo mode without any difficulty I don't know if stereo mode is what I would really use it for I think it's more like stack them up double them up get more sound out of it and get an extremely pleasing and crowd pleasing experience out of a very small form factor before we were so rudely interrupted I was going to tell you to like the video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment if your feelings were much more complicated than what can be expressed with a simple thumbs up and thumbs down and don't forget to check out the Linus tech tips.com forum for lots of great discussion about technology related stuff.