This Prime Day has cranked up the deals on Bose and Sony speakers

Jul 18, 2024 03:48 AM - 6 months ago 150576

Finding particularly bully deals connected Amazon Prime Day tin beryllium challenging (trust me, I do it non-stop for our coverage) but nan discount connected nan Bose SoundLink Flex is simply a standout one. For now, you tin get nan portable Bluetooth speaker successful prime colors for $99 ($50 off) astatine Amazon and nonstop from Bose, aliases $99.99 astatine Best Buy. Amazon gates nan woody down its Prime rank paywall, but anyone tin bargain from nan different two.

This is nan lowest value to day connected nan SoundLink Flex, which is our apical prime of Bluetooth speakers nether $200. Bose’s colorful speaker has a mini footprint, making it easy to propulsion successful a container and recreation with, but it sounds for illustration a overmuch larger speaker. It’s sewage a nice, bass-rich sound that doesn’t transverse into nan that’s-too-much-bass-why-are-you-rattling-my-skull territory. And its IP67 h2o and particulate guidance and 12-hour artillery life intends it tin caput for nan awesome outdoors aliases poolside and support nan tunes going for astir of nan day.

It’s an easy proposal astatine this value if you’re successful nan marketplace for a Bluetooth speaker, attraction astir sound quality, and don’t want to walk a full batch much to get thing for illustration a Sonos Move 2.

Bose’s SoundLink Flex offers pristine, elaborate sound value pinch a astonishing magnitude of bass for its size — each successful a rugged creation that you tin return anywhere.

Other notable speaker deals for Prime Day

The Bose whitethorn beryllium 1 of nan champion bang-for-the-buck speaker deals going connected this Prime Day, but location are a assortment of others moving that are worthy a information — some successful nan Bluetooth world and moreover successful nan intermezo sphere pinch soundbars.

The Sonos Roam 2, which came retired little than 2 months ago, is trading for $143 ($36 off) astatine Amazon and nonstop from Sonos. The retro-styled JBL Authentics 300 is $100 disconnected astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo, and presently trading for $349.95. Another JBL, nan pocketable Go 3 is $31.53 ($18 off) astatine Amazon successful various colors. And nan Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 is different replacement that’s $56.99 ($44 off) astatine Amazon successful its unsocial pink, blue, and grey colour combos.

A trading image of a bluish Sonos Roam 2 speaker.

Like its predecessor, nan Sonos Roam 2 is simply a compact and travel-friendly Bluetooth speaker that easy syncs up pinch Sonos’ location audio ecosystem via Wi-Fi. While it looks overmuch for illustration nan original, nan Roam 2 has immoderate mini quality-of-life improvements, for illustration a abstracted fastener for Bluetooth connections. Read our hands-on impressions.

The JBL Authentics 300 is 1 of only a fewer smart speakers connected nan marketplace pinch simultaneous Google Assistant and Alexa support. The ’70s-style speaker is heavy, but it produces impressive, powerful sound, particularly astatine louder volumes. Read our review.

Perfect for nan excavation aliases beach, nan JBL Go 3 whitethorn not beryllium rather arsenic powerful arsenic larger models successful nan JBL lineup but remains an fantabulous prime for a Bluetooth speaker that tin fresh successful your pocket.

Two Wonderboom 3 speakers successful pinkish and blue.

The rugged Wonderboom 3 packs plentifulness of punch for its size, allowing you to crockery retired 360-degree sound for up to 14 hours pinch aliases without stereo pairing. It besides floats, rendering it a imaginable excavation statement mainstay.

And yes, for conscionable you Vergecast listeners, location are moreover discounts connected immoderate of Sony’s caller ULT statement speakers. The Sony Ult Field 7 Bluetooth statement speaker is $398 ($101 off) astatine Amazon. The hourglass-shaped speaker is almost boombox-like successful its size and has a claimed artillery life of up to 30 hours.

But if 45 watts of output from a 14-pound speaker isn’t enough, nan Sony Ult Tower 10 weighs successful astatine 64 pounds, pumps retired 1,000 watts, and is trading for $998 ($200 off) astatine Amazon. Both of these ULTs are matching their all-time debased prices, and characteristic nan coveted “ULT button” and colorful statement lights. The Tower 10 moreover comes pinch a wireless karaoke mic, and it’s imaginable by ordering 1 your section constabulary will beryllium pre-filing nan sound complaints.

Sony’s Ult Field 7 measures complete 20 inches wide, pinch integrated handles and up to 30 hours of artillery life for taking nan statement everywhere. It features a seven-band EQ and, of course, RGB lighting.

The monstrous Ult Tower 10 has lights that sync to your music, an included wireless microphone for karaoke, omnidirectional sound, and 34 different zones of LED lighting.

Over successful soundbar land, nan Sonos Ray and Amazon Fire TV Soundbar connection immoderate reasonably affordable options astatine $199 ($80 off) and $99.99 ($20 off), respectively. The Ray has been discounted since nan opening of Prime Day, but unluckily Amazon’s operation soundbar and Fire TV streamer was first trading for a little $89.99. It’s still a decent worth astatine $100 if you want conscionable 1 container for some audio duties and to watercourse nan contented to your TV — but we want you to cognize it’s sadly nary longer nan amended woody it was.

And lastly, if you want soundbars pinch multi-channel situation setups and large subwoofers, we’ve pulled together a brace of Vizio deals. The Vizio M-Series M512a-H6 is trading for $349.99 ($150 off), while nan Vizio Elevate is simply a pricier $549.99 ($250 off). Both of these setups are 5.1 surrounds pinch Dolby Atmos support and abstracted subwoofers. The Elevate’s instrumentality is that it points its broadside speakers upwards for amended coverage, and it has a larger eight-inch woofer.

The Ray is Sonos’ entry-level soundbar that’s champion for bedrooms and smaller apartments. It only connects to TVs via optical cable, frankincense missing retired connected HDMI-CEC functionality. It besides produces balanced, move sound contempt its mini size, easy besting built-in TV speakers. Read our review.

Amazon’s ain Fire TV Soundbar is simply a 2.0-channel speaker that stretches 24 inches long. It’s sewage support for Dolby Audio, DTS, and Bluetooth and connects to a compatible TV via an HDMI larboard pinch eARC aliases ARC.

Vizio’s M-Series Dolby Atmos soundbar comes complete pinch a subwoofer and wired rear situation speakers — each for little than $500.

Vizio’s Elevate is simply a high-end soundbar pinch unsocial rotating broadside speakers that move upward erstwhile playing situation sound audio. It includes 18 speakers, a wireless eight-inch subwoofer, and supports Dolby Atmos and DTS:X.