This UE Boom 2 Prime Day deal is fantastic. £100 off is ridiculous. The speaker itself is brilliant too, we gave it five stars when we reviewed it recently and it even made our roundup of the Best Bluetooth Speakers.
UE Boom 2 Prime Day Deal: What is it?
A big deal. Literally. The UE Boom 2 is a popular product will a huge discount today. Officially, the UE Boom 2 has an RRP of £170, but today Amazon is selling it for £71. That's a discount of 58%.
UE Boom 2 Prime Day Deal: Price history
When you dig a little deeper, the deal starts to make a bit more sense. Looking at Amazon's price history of the UE Boom 2 on CamelCamelCamel (see pic) you'll see that it's rarely priced at its full RRP of £170. Instead, it spends most of its time around the £100-£130 mark. It's only once reached a price similar to today and that was a brief appearance during the January sales.
UE Boom 2 Prime Day Deal: What is it actually like?
Reviews across the web, not just from Expert Reviews, are generally really positive. The UE Boom 2 represents a turning point in portable Bluetooth speakers when manufacturers stopped making novelty devices with tinny sound and poor battery life and opted for quality in audio and performance instead.
UE Boom 2 Prime Day Deal: Sound quality
Reviews Editor, Jon Bray, said this in his review "For a speaker this small and compact, the UE Boom 2 really does sound good. In the mid-range and at the top end of the sound spectrum it delivers music with great clarity and detail. Its two 1.75in active drivers and twin 3in passive bass radiators drive sound at a surprisingly high level of volume, and it doesn’t suffer too badly from boom."
UE Boom 2 Prime Day Deal: Features and Battery life
More from Reviews Editor, Jon Bray: "It’s also replete with handy features, most of which are accessed via the companion smartphone app. Download it and you’ll be able to pair it with another UE Boom for stereo output, and use the “DJ” mode to give up to three people the ability to queue-up tracks. With a rated 15 hours of battery life at moderate volume, you shouldn’t have to worry too much about it running out of juice overnight, either. Under a flap in the base of the speaker, there's also a 3.5mm analogue audio input"