This is the comparison between two popular brand’s speakers that is Sonos Move and Ultimate Ears Hyperboom. Both speakers have different strengths and features. The price of both the speakers is the same. Design-wise both are totally different. Both have their own sound- Quality. This review comparison will make it easy for you to decide which one is best for you. So, for that do go through this detailed review.

Sonos Move	Ultimate Ears Hyperboom
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PROS	PROS
Wireless connection is reliable. The sound is open and loud. Great sound on indoors and outdoors. Great charging base. Effective Auto-true play. Great compatibility of Amazon Alexa ad Google Assistant. Integrates with other Sonos apps. IP56 weatherproof build. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth do have their support. Microphones work well.	Big sound with strong bass and good detail. Up to 24 hours of battery life at moderate volume levels. IP4 water-resistance rating (splashproof). Good wireless Bluetooth range (up to 150 feet). Can wirelessly link with other UE Boom and Megaboom speakers. The integrated microphone automatically reads the environment and calibrates the sound to fill any space, indoors or outdoors.
CONS	CONS
Pricey. aptX Bluetooth support is missing. Too heavy speakers. It cannot be used as rear cinema speakers. The handle is weak, cannot carry the speaker for long distances. Too big to travel with. Battery life is shorter.	Expensive. No Wi-Fi or voice assistant built-in. At 13 pounds, it’s not a speaker you want to carry too far.

SPECIFICATIONS:

Detail Review:

INTRODUCTION:

Sonos Move

The Sonos move is the wireless pioneer’s first portable speaker and it’s ace. From the beam to the play base, the play 5 to the 1, Sonos has had a speaker for almost every occasion. This is mainly for an outdoor, that’s all changed with the reveal of the Sonos Move at IFA 2019, the company’s first portable speaker. Offering on-the-go Bluetooth play as well as integrating with a multi-room networked speaker system over Wi-Fi, it’s got most of the functionality of a regular Sonos, along with the ability to untether it from a power supply thanks to an internal battery. The Sonos move will cost $399 and that’s pricey for a portable speaker but this isn’t your average Bluetooth boombox making it difficult to place alongside any direct competition. 

Ultimate Ears Hyperboom

UE Hyperboom is really amazing speaker. It is the all-new UE Hyperboom. It’s the biggest speaker Ultimate Ears has ever made and you will absolutely love it. This speaker sounds great but it’s also very versatile. So, if you’re looking for a speaker that you can use at home, but then just as easily take it on the go with you, then the Hyperboom is a great option to consider. Price-wise the UE Hyperboom retails for $400. So, naturally, its most direct competitor is the super popular JBL boombox. But nonetheless, the Hyperboom is UE’s most expensive speaker in their lineup. But it’s well worth the money.

DESIGN: 

Sonos Move

Sonos move has a black speaker with a metal front grille with capacitive playback control buttons along the top alongside an array of four far-field mics. Around the rear, you’ll find a power button, a Bluetooth Wi-Fi toggle button, and, a multi-room pairing button. Sonos told us they spend a lot of time on the charging dock it is fairly hefty and it feels nicely designed and has a rubber foot, it has the metal context on the back and when you place your Sonos move on it they make contact with the context in the back of the speaker and charge it up, thanks to that oval angle design whenever you place the move down it automatically aligns itself, we never had an issue with the move aligning, but the problem is the base just moves far too freely moves all around the table and we never seem to have our Sonos move facing the right direction. We will give Sonos credit for including a long power cable though. It’s very much in the style of previous Sonos models. 

Ultimate Ears Hyperboom

The Hyperboom is a 14-inch tall rectangle that weighs in at 13 pounds. There’s a fabric mesh that goes all around the body and the end caps are super dense plastic. All the control buttons are laid on top of the speaker. You’ve got a power button, super large capacitive volume buttons, and, you’ve got your source and media control buttons. Overall, the hyper boom has a very simple design to it and it’s reasonably sized. So, if you’re looking for a speaker to use at home that’s really just going to disappear into your decor, then the Hyperboom is a good option. As mentioned earlier you can also just as easily take it on the go with you because the speaker has a built-in rubber carrying handle and it’s also ipx4 water-resistant. So, if the Speaker gets in rain or drink gets spilled on it, it’s gonna be perfectly fine.

FEATURES:

Sonos Move

The Sonos move has a 4.2 version of the connectivity standard, rather than the newer 5.0, but Sonos claims its experience with the 4.2 version of Bluetooth has let it eke more power-saving and range capabilities out of 4.2 than ever before. While it’s not quoting range for either its Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connections, is simply stating that “if you can hear it, you can control it”. 4 Wi-Fi antennas sit dotted around the base of the move, with the Bluetooth module situated on top to give the best coverage possible.

Battery life should last for ten hours and will fully charge in around 2.5 hours. The speaker can charge over USBC, but you’ll likely use the included docking base ring, which charges the speaker anytime it’s left to rest in it. The Sonos move also used as a standby light mode to save power when it notices it hasn’t been used for 30 minutes or so this lets it conserve power for up to five days without a charge, but also gives it enough juice to let it be woken from its slumber wirelessly. There are laudable eco-credentials there too. Sonos predict, on average usage, battery degradation to occur after about 900 charge cycles or roughly 3 years of day-to-day use. Rather than expecting you to throw your premium speaker away, it’ll instead for an as-yet-undisclosed fee offer up a replacement battery which you can easily install into the base of the speaker yourself. Sonos has a long heritage in connected and wireless audio, and just because this is its first attempt at going portable, that doesn’t mean it’s dropping any of that connectivity.

In terms of audio guts, the Sonos move makes use of two Class D digital amplifiers, one downward firing tweeter for highs and one mid-woofer integrated into the cabinet for mid ranges and bass. Sonos has built the enclosure cutaway to be resonant and balanced from all angles the outside world knows no boundaries after all. As a portable product, it’s been rigorously tested for durability. Sonos also claims that it can withstand extremes of cold and heat so whether your party is in the desert or the middle of a snowstorm, the Sonos move should have you covered. It’s IP56 rated, meaning it’ll withstand a coating with sand or dust as well as a drop into a swimming pool. There are even run-off channels within the casing for water to drain out through, while Sonos claims that during drop tests a concrete slab broke before the speaker even took a dent. That will be down to its weight we’d imagine. Standing 240*160*126 mm, it’s portable, but it’s not small. At close to 3kilograms, you can lift the Sonos move with ease, but you wouldn’t want to carry it around for too long. That’s a necessity of the large driver magnets in place there, and it’s a fair trade to make for the audio quality that’s delivered. To ease the load, the casing has a concave handle gap on the rear to make carrying it around a little easier.

Airplay 2 is also supported, for the Apple device contingent out there. That top-mounted array of mic serves a dual purpose. Firstly, it gives you access to a choice of either Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant voice assistants- each AI helper is fully compatible with the Sonos move, giving you the option as to which you want to use to set reminders, control smart home devices, access calendar and act as a voice-powered jukebox. Secondly, they’re the heart of the ‘true play’ audio-tweaking system. They analyze the output from the Sonos move and how its surroundings are affecting it and automatically adjust it to bring it closer to the intended studio sound.

 What’s really clever is that it knows when the Sonos move has, moved there’s an accelerometer onboard that triggers the true play system’s tweaks when it detects movement. Pretty much the only thing the Move won’t support, however, is being used as part of a home cinema system’s 5.1 rear channels, as some other Sonos devices can be. Sonos state that this is due to sync issues, and the problematic potential for a directional soundtrack to lose its focus if a speaker can be misplaced in a room. But it’s a shame given the wire-free surround sound potential that could have been delivered here.

Ultimate Ears Hyperboom

This speaker has an advertised battery life of 24 hours, but that’s when the volume is set at 50%. Real-world use with this speaker set at 80% volume and get a battery life of around 8 to 9 hours of playback time and when the speaker is set at max volume, the speaker is good for 3 hours of playback time. So, overall the Hyperboom has very solid battery life. But also if you want, the Hyperboom has a USB A out port, so that you can charge your devices. The only critique here is that I do wish the Hyperboom had a USB-C port for charging your own devices because a lot more phones these days are starting to come included with USB-C cables like a lot of Android devices and even the new iPhone 11 pro.

The setup of this speaker pretty interesting. This speaker has dual four and a half-inch woofers, and dual one-inch tweeters shooting out the front of the speaker and then there’s dual three-and-a-half inch by seven and a half inch passive radiators shooting out the back. You can even set the standard EQ in the speaker. If you want you can go into this speaker’s app and customize its EQ and make it sound however you want. So, if you want more bass you can do that, or if you want to bring the mids out a little you can also do that. This speaker does have an adaptive EQ feature. Basically, the speaker uses a built-in microphone to listen to what it’s playing and it adjusts its EQ to make it sound as balanced as possible depending on what music you’re playing and what room you’re in. This speaker is very similar to what the Apple Homepod does.

Inside the compartment, naturally, the Hyperboom has an aux jack, if you want to use a wired connection with your speaker. The more interesting about this speaker is that the Hyperboom also has an optical port. Which is super rare for a Bluetooth speaker like this. So, if you want, you can hook the speaker up directly to your TV, gaming console, or, maybe even a receiver.

When it comes to Bluetooth connectivity, the speaker is rocking Bluetooth 5.0 and it can be connected to 2 Bluetooth devices at the same time. So, you and a friend can both be DJ. The real interesting thing about this speaker is that you can actually switch between either of your two Bluetooth connected devices directly from the speaker itself. For example, if your friend is playing a song that you don’t like then you can switch back to your phone and start playing music from there. When it comes to Bluetooth performance, the speaker is basically perfect. It has a wireless range of over 100 plus feet which is way more than what you actually need, but more importantly, the speaker has a zero-latency across the board whenever you’re watching movies or videos with the speaker, whether you’re using an Android device or iPhone, which is always good. The thing to point out about the speaker is that unfortunately, the speaker doesn’t support higher quality audio codecs like an AC or apdex, the speaker is strictly using SBC. 

Also, Hyperboom’s app has a few other notable features, most importantly to me, you can remotely power on or off your speaker, which is just super convenient. You can also switch between all of your audio sources directly from your phone. So, if you have the Hyperboom hooked up to your TV through the optical port then you can switch its source straight from your phone just as you’re getting ready to watch the new episode of Clone Wars.

SOUND QUALITY:

Sonos Move

The Sonos move doesn’t sound like a portable speaker. If you’re familiar with the Sonos range for the home, this would sit somewhere between the Sonos One and the play 5, not just in terms of volume, but also fidelity. The mid-range driver off is forceful and space-filling low end, even when competing with the acoustics of wide-open space, while there’s no drop-off in vocal clarity that can often occur with lesser portable speakers. The Sonos move is very much a match for the Sonos home range, but let loose thanks to its battery.

The Sonos move will work with all manner of connected audio sources, online or stored on a local network. If you want to fire up a playlist on Spotify using Spotify connect, that’s just as simple in-app as playing something you’ve ripped to a networked storage device yourself. Just fire up the Sonos app, and once set up and connected to the Internet all your sources appear over Wi-Fi. Move out of range of a Wi-Fi connection, and new Bluetooth to fall back on.

Treated to a few cuts from tame Impala’s currents album and Vampire Weekend’s father of the bride record the Sonos move blew us away. The Aussie rocker’s psych filled waves drifted effortlessly and crisply from the Sonos move, without losing the snap and rhythm of the ‘Let it Happen’ baseline and at a neighbor-bothering volume level, too, distortion-free. Likewise, the bouncy vocal of Ezra Koenig, twanging LED and wobbly base of Vampire Weekend’s ‘This life’ had all the jaunty space it needed, with the sound stage sounding surprisingly wide in the multiple environments we heard the Sonos move. With the speaker expected to be moved around the house, in areas with differing acoustics, the true play system kicks into gear. And it’s incredibly effective at reworking the audio output to suit different environments. At the Sonos Move launch event, this was demonstrated to great effect when a Sonos team member popped on Billy Eilish’s ‘Bad Boy’. First, they had the song playing up on top of a TV stand sounding great. Then, without stopping the song, they put the speaker in a half-open drawer. Initially, it didn’t sound too good-there was an overpowering boom to the bass, showing none of the song’s production subtlety, and some drop-off in the clarity of the vocals. But, after about 20 seconds, the True play system had assessed its surroundings using the onboard mic, dialed back the bass a touch, and everything sounded much more enjoyable again. It was an impressive showcase of the system’s capabilities.

Ultimate Ears Hyperboom

This speaker isn’t a 360-degree speaker because the majority of the sound is coming out the front of the speaker, but since the passive radiators are located on the back of the speaker if you were to place it up against the wall then its base is going to get amplified. Overall the speaker sounds great. When you will personally hear the sound of Hyperboom, you will come to know that it is just a very good sounding speaker. It sounds very clear, it has a wide soundstage and distortion is a non-issue with the speaker at higher volumes. The really impressive thing about this speaker is just the sheer amount of bass coming out of this relatively small form-factor. Even if you don’t have the speaker up against the wall like it’s intended to, it still has a lot of basses. But if you do place the speaker up against the wall, then its base is going to get amplified.

When it comes to max volume, the speaker gets more than loud enough to fully engulf a large room with music and it’s also good for the outdoors. The point to note is the performance of the speaker doesn’t really change all that much when it’s plugged in versus when it’s not. This is something worth pointing out because a lot of similar speakers like this do see a performance bump when they’re plugged in. This isn’t a big deal because the hyper boom still sounds impressive.

 There’s also party up, so you can pair the Hyperboom up to another Hyperboom or you can pair it up to a mega boom 3, boom 3, or, boom 2 and so on. And for those wondering, party up supports up to 150 speakers which are just overkill. Overall the new Hyperboom is sick. First and foremost the hyper boom sounds great. The speaker sounds very clear even at max volume but the speaker also sounds very full especially with the amount of bass the speaker’s putting out. And do remember that in Hyperboom speaker setup you can always amplify its bass even more by simply just putting it up against a wall. Also, there are all the extra added features on the Hyperboom that just make this speaker even better like a very solid battery life a customizable EQ and then there’s that optical port that makes the speaker very versatile.

WHICH TO BUY?

Like other Sonos speakers, the move can be made to work in a stereo pairing, or also as part of a multi-room group. If you want the move to playing in the garden the same tunes as are playing elsewhere in your home over a Sonos system, it’ll do so without missing a beat. If you’re looking for a speaker that you can use at home to listen to music with and use it with your TV and then just as easily unplug it and take it on the go with you, then the Hyperboom is suitable for you. The only thing to keep in mind is that you do have to supply your own audio cable and optical cable because the speaker only comes included with a charging cable.

The price of both speakers is the same, but as per my opinion, you should go for UE Hyperboom as it has better sound and features.

Expert Reviews of Sonos Move:

By theguardian 
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By CGM 
With the Move, Sonos has built one of the best portable speaker systems I have ever used, and while it is pricey, it is well worth the cost for anyone that demands quality…

By techgearlab
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By TheStraitsTimes
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By techguide
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By Sound Guys
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By The Verge
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By cnet
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By Tom’s Guide
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