14 Best Bluetooth Speakers Our Testers Jammed With in 2025

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Honorable Mentions

Here are immoderate different bully speakers we've tested that didn't rather make nan trim for our apical picks:

  • Ultimate Ears Everboom for $250: UE’s Everboom speaker (7/10, WIRED Reviewed) is simply a bully speaker that suffers from reliable title successful its value range, including from its ain kind. The UE Megaboom 4 offers very akin sound, features, and an ultra-rugged design, and it’s $50 less. The Everboom is still a good speaker pinch a spot much bass outdoors truthful if value isn’t an issue, it’s worthy consideration.
  • Bang & Olufsen Beosound A1 (2nd gen): This round, IP67-rated Bluetooth speaker has awesome sound fresh for nan audiophile connected nan go, albeit astatine a luxe price. While its value has dropped arsenic debased arsenic $200, it still costs $300 which is simply a reliable inquire for a five-year-old speaker. We'll soon beryllium testing nan follow-up, which will hopefully supply likewise fabulous sound pinch immoderate modern upgrades.
  • Urbanista Malibu for $150: We're not nan biggest fans ever of nan Urbanista Malibu's sound (7/10, WIRED Review), but it is notable successful that it tin beryllium charged utilizing star power. That makes it a awesome speaker for those of america who are forgetful formation bums, aliases who only usage a speaker for illustration this connected uncommon outdoor occasions, but instrumentality to smart speakers aliases earbuds astatine home.
  • Sony Ult Field 1 for $130: The smallest of Sony’s Ult speakers is simply a coagulated tubular portable up against reliable competition. It offers bully sound pinch nan “Ult” bass cardinal engaged, but its midrange is little defined and move than favorites for illustration nan Ultimate Ears Boom 4 aliases JBL Flip 7, and it packs little artillery life than either.
  • Marshall Stockwell II for $200: If you're a euphony instrumentality aliases conscionable emotion nan classical Marshall guitar amplifier design, this Bluetooth speaker is fresh to rock. This small, comparatively pricey speaker serves up smooth, balanced, and refined sound. The durable exterior is splash-resistant, nan beforehand and backmost person a alloy grille, and nan batter lasts astir 20 hours depending connected really overmuch you tweak nan stylish measurement knob.
  • Ultimate Ears Epicboom for $330: The Epicboom is different fantabulous speaker from UE, pinch a curvy, pill-shaped assemblage that's easy to carrier for its size. It projects sound good successful medium-sized outdoor spaces and tin link to different Ultimate Ears models wrong nan Boom app, perchance creating a statement transmission of up to 150 speakers. We besides for illustration nan truth that this speaker is made from 100 percent recycled polyester cloth and 59 percent post-consumer recycled plastic.
  • DemerBox DB2 for $399: The DB2 is simply a awesome companion for your boldest outdoor adventures, successful ample portion because it serves 2 purposes: It's a large portable speaker pinch 40 hours of built-in artillery life, and it's besides a crushproof Pelican case. Load it up pinch immoderate peculiarly vulnerable items, plug nan bass larboard pinch an included rubber stopper, and you've sewage yourself an everything-proof container to support your worldly safe.
  • Bang & Olufsen Beosound Level for $2,000: Bang & Olufsen takes a “buy once, outcry once” argumentation for wireless speakers. The Beosound Level is simply a crazy costly Wi-Fi and Bluetooth speaker, but it is modularly designed and intends to beryllium repairable forever. The 16-hour artillery is replaceable, arsenic are nan wood and cloth elements. The gorgeous and great-sounding speaker could beryllium a life audio summation that tin beryllium upgraded arsenic clip passes.
  • Sony SRS-XG500 for $498: This is simply a very large boom-box-shaped speaker pinch up to 30 hours of artillery life. It sounds and useful great, but it's rather costly and we don't emotion nan aesthetics.

How We Test Bluetooth Speakers

We trial speakers indoors, outdoors, and astir mud, sand, and h2o to guarantee they lucifer their IP ratings. For durability, we do driblet testing, artillery life testing, and semipermanent listening complete respective weeks aliases months to guarantee that nan speakers usability arsenic advertised. When listening and comparing speakers, we tally done a scope of genres, including bass-heavy music, acoustic music, and dense music, arsenic good arsenic podcasts and YouTube videos. Our reviewers typically usage master workplace monitors for reference, and person degrees successful euphony capacity and recording. Though we don't usage calibrated microphones to return EQ readings for each speaker, we purpose to supply an meticulous explanation of our real-world listening experiences based connected our expertise.


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