Anker - Motion Boom

That must be really annoying. With the Bose Soundlink Max, I've also often read that the battery drains itself. With the Soundcore Motion Boom, which I have used for over two years, and with my two EarFun UBOOM Xs, which I have been using for a good 3 months, I have never noticed that the battery loses charge when not in use.

For this purpose and your price range, I can recommend the EarFun UBOOM X from my own experience, which is available for around $120. Thanks to the EQ, it can be perfectly adjusted for the situation in a small bathroom. I use it almost every day and am delighted with it. [Here ](https://ibb.co/1v6XFDX)it is, sitting on my bathroom cabinet. In the photo you can still see my old Soundcore Motion Boom next to it, which I'm currently trying to sell. With the UBOOM X I have almost as good a sound in the bathroom as with my audiophile hi-fi system in the living room.

Wow, that's even more shocking than I thought. My Soundcore Motion Boom for under 70 dollars is clearly superior to the X600 in terms of bass. How bad must the Epicboom, which costs more than four times as much, be?

Wow, most of the Soundcore speakers are completely overpriced on Amazon India. For example, the Motion Boom 2 plus costs the equivalent of around $632 and the Motion Boom $248.

I have owned the Soundcore Motion Boom for two years and am very pleased with it. I was able to buy it back then for the equivalent of less than $65. This gives it a very good price-performance ratio. The price on Amazon India is completely absurd. Nobody should spend that much money on it. Of course, this applies even more to the Boom 2 plus.

Never heard of the EarFun UBOOM X? If the size and weight of just over 4 kilos are not an obstacle, then you are getting a great speaker at a sensational price. A separate sub is no longer needed. The UBOOM X can produce more bass than the Minirig SUB. And the overall sound quality is outstanding. Read my other comments. I use a UBOOM X regularly in the bathroom at low volume. I am absolutely thrilled. I previously had a Soundcore Motion Boom in this position which I was always happy with, but the UBOOM X far surpasses it and sounds like a hi-fi speaker. I wouldn't want to give even the smallest piece of it away again. Even though this thing is much bigger and heavier.

With the Soundcore Motion Boom, you can activate an automatic switch-off function and mute the prompt tones. And it sounds nice too.

Which soundcore speaker? I feel like the soundcore motion boom sounds better than the Milwaukee speaker

150€ is a lot. The cheapest good speaker I would recommend, tribit storm box micro. Good sound, buy 2 and tws. If the size is not important, soundcore motion boom or motion plus are now under 80€. Bigger ones. Earfun uboom X it’s barely 100€ with the 30% promo. At home, for my room, I’m pretty happy with tribit maxsound plus (xsound plus now) and soundcore x300 with oluvs eqs

Motion boom with personal EQ is my fav. Cheap, good and resistant.

I lost my original Motion Boom and it was a stellar speaker. You could have it in your bedroom at very low volumes and still get good sound. I hear from alan ross the most recent ones are handicapped by worse components, but... \*beware\* the Boom 2. I made the mistake of buying it and it's just unsuitable for bedroom listening. It's like the amplifier is always running at full tilt even at low volumes, and it has a very noticeable hiss/whine. To add insult to injury it's not constant, it keeps turning itself on and off so you can't just ignore it. It might just be the component lottery, I don't know. So two "original" booms, even with the cost-cutting, \*might\* still be a good buy. You just couldn't beat them for portability, I could stick two in my backpack and still have room for all my stuff, or take just one and forget that I was carrying it until I needed to charge my phone. I miss it. That said... the Stormbox blast weighs a ton but it has an aux input, so it can be used for actually playing music, not just consuming it. It's too heavy for me to lug around, but it's a good all-round package. I'm still waiting for a good compromise: basically an original Motion Boom with an aux in.

Get yourself a Sound core motion boom. Great sound, amazing battery life and nice price.

I would personally recommend the soundcore motion boom. Cheap and VERY good quality. It has outclassed my JBL clip 5 and is waterproof with a 20 hour battery life.(mine goes 1-2 weeks in between charges) very lightweight with amazing sound quality, it has titanium drivers to help prevent blow outs as well.

Yes it is the Anker Soundcore Motion Boom. Sorry that took a while a didn’t see you had asked.

these are all worth their weight in gold: $150 on Amazon - TriBit Stormbox Blast $140 on Amazon ($70/ea) - 2x Soundcore Motion Boom $138 on Amazon ($69/ea) - 2x Anker Soundcore Motion+ $112 on Amazon ($56/ea) - 2x Soundcore Motion 300's $107 on Amazon - Soundcore Motion Boom Plus $100 on Amazon ($50/ea) - 2x Earfun UBOOM L i personally own the TriBit, the Soundcore Motion+, the Earfuns, and I also was able to score a Harman Kardon Onyx 7 for $130 which is right in your price range. I love all of these speakers a lot, but the Harman Kardon has the best bass for the kind of music that I listen to.

First of all the negativity and ignorance here on Reddit is simply shocking. Especially in this Bluetooth speaker sub it would seem as if some bored kiddies were trying to spend their spare time here instead of going out playing football, pretending being smartasses having the need of spreading their vomit around... It is sad to see what happens here in regard to brand fanboyism and nitwit-ism with no background knowledge at all. I couldn't care less about all this as I don't give a shit about it, but as Reddit has a huge reach it can lead to some huge misinformation or let's call it "fake news" due to these ignorant hobbists who simply have nothing better to do than trolling around apparently. Please let me explain how the Uboom X developed and what my part was, to clear up all the confusion and misinformation. About a year ago I was approached by Earfun asking if I would like to create some tuning for this upcoming speaker. After the experience I did with the Uboom L some years ago and everyone attacking me calling me to be fake and some shill I was really hesitant to do anything like this again. In reality meanwhile the Uboom L became a kind of classic among music enthusiasts, but I was dragged through the mud back than. Let me say that my youtube channel was built up on sound samples which took me years to optimise in order to reach the most realistic and unbiased sound quality. From my sound demos it was immediately hearable which speaker performed better or worse, even when listening through some crappy headphones, the differences were always perceptible well, if listened over a referened headphone you were basically listening to the real thing, or let's say 95% of what it sounds in real life. I could have missed out my comments and verdicts from all my videos as people should have heard on their own, but these trolls were still pretending the obviously distorting, boomy, muddy speaker was better... So I tried teaching them how sound should sound like, as obviously they didn't know. Many of my viewers were thankful for that, they contacted me and are still contacting me how much I changed their view on bullshit marketing, overpriced audio junk etc etc. Back to the UBoom X: I thought it could be an interesting experience to tune a larger speaker out of my personal interest in this topic and I was not sure what the outcome could be as it would have been the first and maybe last kind of product like that I had the chance to work on. Prior to Earfun only Tribit ever approached me to help them with their products (this was when Earfun engineers were still part of Tribit), So aside of the UBoom L before I also did the tuning for the 360° UBoom as well as the first Tribit Stormbox, or Tribit Xsound Go, I also tuned the Earfun Wave headphone and the old Tribit Xfree Tune and some inears... But tuning a "boombox" with all the competition on the market could be challenging and although the contract between me and Earfun really sucked, offering me just some one-time tuning fee and some commission only when purchased over my own links, I neverthless decided to take this challange which turned out to become quite an odyseey for several months with the most negativity I could even think off. I quickly noticed that the hardware was quite capable, the 80W of rated power just didn't mean anything, and I simply tried to push the speaker to the limits with my settings. I really wanted to offer something unique and outstanding, something people always seeking for good sound quality would appreciate, how wrong was I... Initially I planned to include 3 different settings: indoor, outdoor and "insane". Unlike mentioned everywhere these "EQs" are complete DSP programs, consisting of several sections no only EQ, but the entire compressor/limiter, dynamic EQ, psychoacoustic effects for stereo enhancing and bass, volume curve etc etc. Each of my settings has different 3-band compressor settings, with different crossover frequencies, different volume curves EQ etc. And it took endless listening sessions outdoor at maximum volume to squeeze out the maximum out of this speaker. The outdoor modes have a completely different approach to compression than the indoor modes, which are rather conservative and should retain most bass up to maximum with overall volume not being pushed that much. I also tried to get the most kick out of the outdoor modes up to maximum volume and you should notice that the UBoom X has more attack with more basskick than most other similar speakers, neither does it become as harsh at high levels like others (e.g. Stormbox Blast, which becomes just treble at maximum). This took lots of effort to optimise and the current outdoor mode has treble pushed more than the other modes at high volumes to simply allow for even higher output and loudness to be heard from farther away or higher listening angles. My first indoor was similar to the current indoor+, outdoor was something between the current outdoor and outdoor+ and insane was similar to the current outdoor+ but with bass pushed even more which made it more comparable to some way larger JBL Boomboxes. It looked quite funny seeing this rather compact speaker competing with much larger heavier speakers during my tests. Unfortunately the DSP was quite limiting and while I could optimise every single volume step for the UBoom L with different compression values, there was no way to achieve the same for the UBoom X. I would usually dynamically adjust either the highpass for high levels to avoid too much distortion, or optimise the compressor for higher levels compared to low levels. All this was not possible here and I always came into distortion with too high bass levels and volumes. I also noticed that just 3 modes were not enough to cover most use cases, as the speaker was still pretty bassy with "indoor" and "insane" became too uncontrolled at higher levels due to the limitations mentioned above. So instead of trying to do another "boombox" I thought it could be nice to have a speaker for serious listening which could do both, be some kind of portable studio monitor and some boombox for outdoors if needed. In the end I created several different tunings like that: \- indoor should offer a pretty neutral response similar to studio monitors with some psychoacoustic stereo enhancing and dynamic bass and treble adjustments for lower levels (I kept this rather subtle not to make the speaker appear boomy by no means, I would have liked to boost treble even more for the lowest levels, but the DSP didn't allow it. I would have needed to tune the speaker brighter to begin with and then tone down treble with the compressor at high levels which doesn't work as precisely. \- indoor+ adds even more stereo width and has some slight boost at the lowest and highest frequencies. I tried to achieve something that JBL or Harman is usually doing, boosting bass before rolling off, at the same time I wanted to avoid that one-note kind of bass from JBL, and the boominess of the go+play. This mode should sound quite similar to a go+play but with a more even frequency response and a higher volume with less bass reduction at the same time (not even talking about the much better battery life) \- outdoor has upper bass slightly reduced to avoid the speaker to appear too boomy when placed at the ground while midbass around 60hz boosted more, at the same time lowest bass is cut quite a bit more as usually outdoors these frequencies are not heard that well anyhow, this together with the less aggressive compressor for treble allowed for the highest SPL levels with less distortion than outdoor+, Boom xXX etc. Stereo enhancing is disabled for the outdoor mode, as this created some weird effects in the response when listened off axis, so outdoor should sound better from high angles than the other modes. \- outdoor+ is similar to indoor+ just with the most stereo enhancing the most bass boost in the lowest region and some stronger overall treble boost compared to indoor+ Unfortunately outdoor+ can still become a bit uncontrolled with bassheavy recordings if pushed to the max. You can always try to reduce volume 1-2 steps and it should be still loud enough (much louder than the Stormbox Blast) while becoming cleaner and bassier at the same time. \- Boom xXX was meant as rather fun for those who simply love that boominess. It is still listenable unlike some Sony speakers that are just knocking and humming with mudiness and IMO Boom xXX works best for maximum volume with the most overall bass and slightly less distortion than outdoor+ while being louder at the same time. \- Ground O which stands for ground omnidirectional should offer you the most bass possible when placed at the ground due to the boundary effect without the boominess you would get with Boom xXX, at the same time treble is boosted a lot to allow for omnidirectional listening when the speaker is aimed upwards. This works fairly well and due to the reduced upper bass it gives a more controlled result than Boom xXX with a cleaner, deeper bass due to the ground reflections. \- studio was included due to my Patrons asking for a completely neutral mode with no stereo enhancing, no dynamic EQ etc. This came quite late, and as all my other settings were based on some stereo enhancing which also had a strong impact on the overall frequency response, I had a hard time to tweak this mode to really offer the results I was longing for. I personally prefer indoor for a more neutral reproduction as this opens up the sound stage and gives you more satisfying results for low levels. I also had ideas for other settings although seeing now people complaining already now about too many EQs. I wouldn't care less for the included EQs from Earfun which are really plenty, but Earfun didn't want to give me further slots for additional modes, one of them being "desktop". The problem with portable speakers is that they will change the sound a lot depending on where they are placed and most people do not care how or where to place them. Usually you should place a speaker at the edge of some boundary to avoid any effects with the surface underneath. So a speaker which sounds correct standing free will color the sound a lot when placed in the center of some table, ground etc. To overcome this I still created an own desktop mode which should give more satisfying results with the speaker placed on some larger table or even at the ground. It should still offer a rather neutral uncolored result compensating for the reflections of this surface. Earfun created an own custom firmware for me including this setting replacing studio, which I personally hardly used at all. Those interested can always grab that on my Patreon: [https://www.patreon.com/oluvsone/shop/earfun-uboom-x-custom-firmware-with-mode-560004?utm\_medium=clipboard\_copy&utm\_source=copyLink&utm\_campaign=productshare\_fan&utm\_content=join\_link](https://www.patreon.com/oluvsone/shop/earfun-uboom-x-custom-firmware-with-mode-560004?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=productshare_fan&utm_content=join_link) I have put the Uboom X against much more sophisticated, more expensive speakers and it was on par or outperforming those easily, then reading comments from some deaf idiots claiming it to sound worse, having less detail than their Motion+ or worse bass than their Motion Boom is just completely crazy. People are attacking me repeatedly being a shill for Earfun. Honestly I get a shit from them. From November until now I "earned" 300$ of commission... Others like Flossy who contributed nothing to this probably earned 100 times as much in the same time with his own affilate links and nobody has a problem with this. With all the work I put into this, hoping to satisfy also more demanding listeners, offering something no other company even thought about in a speaker that costs a fraction of the competition and then getting all the shitstorm by some weirdos here, just made me lose all motivation to contribute anything anymore. If you want to support me in some way, you can always use my discount code UBOOMXXX which works on the Earfun site directly . Only then I get some percentage of the sales. So seeing all this negativity, all these claims about Earfun bots flooding Reddit, me being some shill for Earfun is just nonsense bullshit. Earfun doesn't even want to pay me for my work, let alone some others. And yes, I am to some degree satisfied with the result I achieved, so why shouldn't I promote it in some way to those who are new to this topic, unlike others who promote speakers that someone serious about music wouldn't even consider when being deaf!

Anker Soundcore Motion Boom. Bought one around Black Friday. Very impressed with the sound quality and bass at the price, especially after tuning it. Fills a 300 seat church without distortion, and that's from someone that's often live sound mixing, and used to PAs with 15 inch speakers.

Is this something that you're going to have in the shower with you or just sitting somewhere in the bathroom? I use a Soundcore Motion Boom sitting on my bathroom window sill, but if I wanted to adjust volume and skip songs from inside the shower I would go with something small like the Stormbox Micro 2.

I have a Stormbox Micro 2 for hikes and quieter indoor activities, but it would leave something to be desired at the beach in terms of volume due to the noise from waves and wildlife. I personally use the Motion Boom and larger boombox speakers for beaches, unless I'm just solo lounging at the beach, then the small speaker would be fine. Depends on what you'll be doing at the beach.

I have the Soundcore Motion Boom and I’ve been pretty happy with it, gets loud and has a good amount of bass for a portable. I’ve heard even better things about the Boom 2, so maybe check that out as well. You can get either of them for under $100.

If you do get the tribit sormbox micro make sure to get v2, the older one doesn't have app support (eq) and had a much smaller battery. Personally for a general use speaker I'd definitely get something bigger. My most used speaker amongst some pretty expensive ones is soundcore motion boom. Sounds good especially with all eq, quite cheap, rigid handle makes all the difference to carry around room to room. I have a Vifa Helsinki which sounds more refined but never really use it because a strap/soft handle is just impractical. As an aside the Vifa also sounds very boxed in. Sounds like the Earfun uboom X would be a better speaker choice that is similar in form factor to the motion boom (newer version of the boom have apparently spoiled the sound with most recent firmware). Personally I'd probably go for that if I was buying one now on your budget. Decent speakers of that size sound so much better than small speakers, unless you really want the small size I'd avoid them for general use for music.

How old is yours? Apparently the sound has been really spoiled by the latest firmware version, the eq can't fix it which is a real shame. Alan Ross made a video on it if you can get past the cringe aspect of his videos. But yeah I agree on the older version I've got, cheap, solid and sounds almost as good as my best sounding speakers when eq'd, but with better BT range and better battery life. The rigid handle design for a general use speaker has become essential for me after having this speaker. It's always the one I grab room to room in the house because it's so easy to carry around and those other reasons. If I was buying now though it sounds like the uboom x might be a better bet, although it is a bit more expensive. I have way too many speakers though, can't justify yet another one!