Ultimate Ears announces new Everboom speaker, Boom 4 with USB-C, and more

How many Boom brand speakers are too many? Can there even be any? Ultimate Ears seems to be on a mission to find out. The company just announced the $249.99 Everboom, now the sixth speaker in its lineup. In terms of size and price, this one falls between the Megaboom speaker and the $299.99 Epicboom launched late last year.

The Everboom has the typical EU features: it’s IP67 (dustproof and waterproof), it will float if you drop it in a pool or lake, and it comes with a detachable carabiner. There is an outdoor boost mode that adjusts the sound profile for wide-open environments while improving bass response. The battery lasts up to 20 hours and NFC pairing is easy, but that’s it for the features list.

Besides the new speaker, Ultimate Ears is also updating the Boom, Wonderboom, and Megaboom. All are available in new colors and, more importantly, they are all Finally — and yes, the word is deserved here — the move to USB-C. Alleluia. The Boom and Megaboom benefit from “improved deep bass radiators to unleash even more powerful sound”. And the Wonderboom gets a new feature of its own: a podcast mode that’s set “for enhanced listening to favorite hosts and stories.”

UE products new and old are adopting a brand new software trick called Megaphone. “When a user presses the megaphone button and speaks into their phone, their voice projects through the speaker – perfect for calling out to people on the dance floor, singing a few bars or hearing their voice echo through the speakers. mountains,” the company wrote in its press release. I’m already dreading how this might be used on the New York subway, but maybe I’m just assuming the worst in people.

With the Everboom and other hardware upgrades to other EU speakers, here’s how the lineup now looks:

All new products are available to order starting today.