Best 5 Wireless Speakers Under $200

Nowadays, wireless speaker is a booming trend for music lover globally. Especially portability and online music streaming make wireless speaker’s popularity on top. But the fact is that there’s an ocean of available choices and different categories of wireless speakers, each with their own capabilities. There are multiple categories of wireless speakers at the same time, make difficulties matters further. On the other hand, not all wireless speakers are produced equal, and there is a huge price difference too. For your style, choosing the perfect one can be difficult. You can spend as little as US $15 or as much as US $1000 or more for a wireless speaker.

In our personal uses experience, we shall describe here the ‘best 5 wireless speakers under US $200’. We short out best 5 by preferring to consider Sound quality, Speaker’s Design, Product’s specification, Battery life, Connectivity, Set up, Multi-speaker combination, Operating System, Warranty & Refund policy.

1. Bose SoundLink revolve

The Wireless speaker market has been changing a lot likes Bose kick-started a new creativity movement for portable speakers in crisp clear loud and room-filling sounds as per customer’s demands. Bose SoundLink revolve has become one of the most popular as good quality, small, but loudspeakers. It is a truly portable, 360-degree sound-output with the music sounding the equivalent, it doesn’t matter where you are in the room, and it gives an omnidirectional sound that’s worthy of your auditory attention. The Tapered cylindrical shape Bose Revolve has built by durable aluminum casing its Inside and a full-range driver hit outing downwards into an original diffuser plate, which objectives to spread the sound out equally in all directions.

The speaker has two passive radiators inside, which are responsible for strengthening the lower frequencies and placed opposite each other to stop out any vibrations. The SoundLink Revolve is 1.46 pound weighted and measures 5.97 x 3.24 x 3.24 inches (HWD) with IPX4-rated, it’s mean they can survive poolside splashes and some raindrops.

Bose SoundLink’s battery life is 12 hours plus, but its results will depend on volume levels and your mix of wired and wireless playback. The SoundLink takes incredibly long 4 hours to fully charge when empty.

To manage devices and multi-connection, Bose provides the free app. This app is easy to use and well-designed. The built-in mic offers decent self-expression, though clearness is not remarkable, it’s basically average. Its built-in speakerphone easily takes calls with voice prompts talk through wireless Bluetooth pairing. The SoundLink’s Bluetooth range is average, its cover up to 30 feet only.

Warranty & Refund policy is average. Unless not the same warranty period is stated in the owner’s guide provided with your Bose product, for a period of 1 year (2 years EU) [5 years for any non-powered speakers that may be incorporated into this product] from the date of retail purchase by the original end-user purchaser, Bose warrants that this product, when delivered to you in new, in original packaging, from a Bose authorized seller and used in normal conditions, is free from any defects in manufacturing, materials, and workmanship. Bose advice contacting the Bose organization in your country/region for specific return and shipping instructions.

Bose SoundLink Revolve Portable Bluetooth 360 Speaker price is US $199.00.   

2. Ultimate Ears Megablast

If you’re on the hunt for Powerful, portable speaker with Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity and Amazon Alexa, which is perfect for garden and pool parties you should struggle for the Ultimate Ears Megablast. The Megablast provides loud and bassy 360° sound and voice control on Wi-Fi, at home and on-the-go, so it doesn’t matter where you’re sitting in the room you can enjoy your music from anywhere in the room. The Megablast delivers almost same sound quality as other Ultimate Ears speakers. It has an unfathomable tone, a hard-hitting mid-bass, and a forceful treble response. Ultimate Ears Megablast claims it is their loudest speaker yet which a maximum of 93dB sound. The insides of the Megablast have been redesigned with features two active drivers, two passive radiators, and two tweeters. It has no problem filling up our medium-sized listening room with a sound that noticed your attention. It’s not only just loudness that we impressed, but it’s also the fact the speaker manages to go so loud without sound distorting or harsher. That’s something even hi-fi stereo speakers can’t deliver at all.

The Megablast is built its casing with strong materials and with its beautiful looks magnificent design. There are five different colors Megablast speaker available such as  Blizzard (white), Lemonade (yellow), Graphite (black), Mojito (green), Blue Steel (blue) and Merlot (red), and it’s covered with a surfaced mesh textile not only looks attractive but also feels good under the fingers. The speaker is 237mm tall and has a diameter of 88mm and weighs around 1.2kg. Cylindrical shape speaker has a hard rubber-covering wrapped around the top, bottom and along one of the sides too with featuring the large plus and minus buttons that are now the symbol of UE’s speaker design. This rubber-covering protects the speaker from drops.

The Megablast has connectivity provisions for dual-band 802.11abgn Wi-Fi and up to eight different Bluetooth sources. The speaker able to stream music from Amazon Music Unlimited, iHeartRadio and Tune-In radio, Pandora and Deezer over the Wi-Fi connection of the speaker. The connectivity ranges are for Wi-Fi 330ft and Bluetooth 150ft. The speaker comes with Amazon Alexa built-in and connects directly to the bank of cloud with Wi-Fi. You can go on through Wi-Fi or any mobile to enjoy voice-controlled music and the full range of Alexa’s skills, all from just about any place. A disadvantage of the speaker that, there’s no support for Bluetooth aptX nor a 3.5mm headphone jack present. You can charge the Megablast through the micro USB port that’s covered under a rubber flap next to the 1/4 tripod filament. The Megablast designed for waterproof and dustproof, it’s rated to IP67 which means the speaker can be fully underwater in up to 1m of water for 30 minutes. MEGABLAST is the ultimate durable speaker. The speaker is rough, portable, and thanks to an unreal 16-hour battery life, will keep on going as long as you do.

The Megablast has their own app to operate the speaker and you can update your speaker with the Ultimate Ears app as new features become available.

Manufacturer’s warranties may not apply in all cases, depending on factors like the use of the product, where the product was purchased, or whom you purchased the product from. For warranty and refund policy, the manufacturer advice user to contact the manufacturer directly or visit their website for more information, or you can contact our Customer Service team by e-mailing us at [email protected].

Ultimate Ears MEGABLAST Portable Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Speaker price is US $174.99.

3. FUGOO Style XL

The FUGOO Style XL portable Bluetooth speaker is something different because of its robotic design, rugged cover and IP67 rating. There are many different portable wireless speakers in this price ($ 169.99) range in the market, but most of them are not featuring 8 drivers with true 360 sound with 35 hours battery backup as like the FUGOO Style XL. If you see FUGOO Style XL speaker without rugged, you will be impressed to see its interesting robotic design. The speaker along with the rugged cover, it looks more like a designer woman’s handbag than a piece of electronics.

There are 8 Core-X acoustic drivers that are 4 tweeters, 2 mid/sub drivers, 2 passive radiators nicely placed surrounding (4 sides) of the speaker, so that, the speaker gives 360 degrees sound. Every place you put the speaker is perfectly placed for listening. Its max volume output of 97dB sound pressure level which is amazing. The FUGOO Style XL hits sound the highs and the lows equally well. On St. Vincent’s ‘Digital Witness’ music, the FUGOO Style XL nicely balanced the deep bass tunes with the vocals and the bright horns. It reproduced crispy the acoustic guitar picking on Beck’s ‘Heart Is a Drum’. The rash flutes at the beginning of Mendelssohn’s overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” came across with depth that other Bluetooth speakers have to struggle. The sound presentation of the FUGOO Style XL is one of the FUGOO’s best qualities. The speaker with its eight-speaker setup, it deliver most successful attempt at true 360 degrees sound I’ve heard yet. I have tested audio performance with:

Lows-In a small speaker this size, you’re never going to get incredibly powerful bass, but the FUGOO Style XL also handled the low-end rumble with more detail and nicely balanced the bass melodies with the vocals and the happy horns.

Mids-Its midrange is fairly decent, and the bass is quite okay for this speaker size. There is a realistic amount of sound depth to the mids, having guitars and vocals a nice strong presence.

Highs-The high volume is strong and loud, but bass is not as deeper as I expect. I feel there are some distortion and harshness in the full volume, though it’s conditional of the music you’re listening to.

FUGOO Style XL dimensions are 11.4 x 3.9 x 4.6 inches and weight is around 3.8 Lbs. with Sand and Black colors rugged. FUGOO uses 4 Lithium-ion batteries for long play time which only takes 3.5 hours to get a full charge and ready to go for another 35 hours play with 50% of volume level. FUGOO design the Style XL speaker as the power bank too. You are able to charge quickly your Smartphones or Tablets from the speaker. The speaker is IP67 rated, which mean it is fully water-proof, mud-proof, dustproof and shockproof. The FUGOO Style XL’s IP67 rating ensures it can go 3 feet under water for 30 minutes, though it will float as well for easy retrieval, and shockproof to 3 feet as well. The speaker has Google Now / SIRI compatible full-duplex built-in speakerphone for hands-free chatting with Omni-direction echoes cancellation microphone.

For wireless connectivity, the FUGOO Style XL speaker uses Bluetooth 4.0; and this connectivity range up to 36 meters/120 feet outdoor and 10 meters/33 feet indoors. Out of Bluetooth connectivity, there is 4 connectivity port on the speaker such as 3.5mm stereo input, USB type A dedicated charge port for charging up to a 1amp external device, micro USB port for downloadable firmware updates, and DC-in jack for charging speaker’s internal battery.

FUGOO advise their customers to contact the seller directly for warranty and refund policy information for this product or to find warranty and refund policy information on the manufacturer’s website. So far I feel, their warranty and refund policy is less than average.

FUGOO Style XL- Portable Rugged Waterproof Wireless Bluetooth Speaker price is US $169.99.

4. JBL Xtreme

The speaker with a name like Xtreme, you’d expect that its performance brings and, appreciatively, it does. This speaker is a cylindrical shape and skillful of the super-loud playback that it’s expected size. JBL Xtreme delivers sounds excellent, it can be controlled by jazz, hip-hop, and rock songs well and give emphasis to the particular aspects that make each category unique. Its Jazz and hip-hop are bass-heavy and mids are properly warm in their sound. The speaker’s rock sounds are hard-hitting, that doesn’t change at high volumes. The JBL Xtreme control all three level sound (High, Mid & low) just in the right way. The JBL Xtreme able to connect wirelessly up to 3 Smartphones or Tablets to the speaker and take turns playing earth-shaking, powerful stereo sound. The Xtreme has a built-in speakerphone, and it can take calls with the crystal clear voice playback, the call recipient also able to realize that. Into the speaker, there is noise and echo-canceling microphone built, and the voice sounded like speaking into a phone.

The JBL Xtreme measuring Dimension in at 12.5 x 8 x 7.5 inches, this heavy product comes in at 2112 grams or 4.6 pounds. The splash-proof technology of JBL Xtreme can supposedly survive under running tap water. With this offering additional given that two passive bass radiators on each side of the speaker. The JBL Xtreme connections are provided through Bluetooth and AUX 3.5mm too. There are two USB other connection ports on this product for charging and a charging input port. JBL Xtreme portable Bluetooth speaker has the internal drivers contain two 63mm woofers and two 35mm tweeters, all these are powered by two 20W bi-amps. The speaker’s technical specification analysis indications that, this product frequency response of 70Hz – 20KHz and is rated at a signal to noise ratio of over 80 dB. JBL claims that the device has massive 10,000 mAH lithium-ion battery that will reach full charge within 3.5 hours, and able to 15 hours of constant play time. The JBL Xtreme has no manufacturer’s app to operate and control the speaker.

The JBL Xtreme’s warranty & refund policy is less than average. To read the warranty & refund policy, please click here.

JBL Xtreme Portable Wireless Bluetooth Speaker price is US $197.00.

5. Sonos One

Sonos making their speaker easy for everybody to listen to the music in every room of his or her home. They love to hear the songs, to realize new music they never knew existed, and to increase in the value of it all with the maximum sound quality. The Sonos One gives priority to the feature of the speaker importantly for better music quality than other regular Bluetooth smart speakers with no damages to the array and contains the full Alexa involvement. The Sonos One’s outlook is not so attractive, but inside design, the hardware is quality full and durable. It measuring Dimension in at 4.7 x 4.7 x 6.3 inches and weight is 4.08 pounds, the speaker is available with two colors that is Black & White. Sonos One uses two drivers, one is massive and other is small. Sonos One’s design’s disadvantage is that it has no rechargeable battery inside. So, the speaker is not portable to everywhere. It has built-in Amazon Alexa for voice control. A user can ask Alexa to play music from Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, TuneIn and SiriusXM. Listen to hundreds of other online streaming services with the Sonos app. It is designed for pairing two Sonos One for room-filling sound and can

connect wirelessly with other Sonos Home Sound System speakers to play music in any or every room.

You can tune this speaker with ‘TruePlay’, it uses the mic on your iPhone to examine your room and adjusts the sound of the speaker based on where it has been located. ‘Sonos One’ doesn’t need to use the music player app, it could control with the voice. You are able to enjoy a service that works with Alexa, this utility principally the same way it does on an Echo. So that, you can ask ‘Sonos One’ to start to play any song, album, artist, playlist or anything else in your music library. Once users have begun to play some tunes, can ask Alexa to skip tracks or pause music entirely or raise and lower the volume. The user also able to send music to other Sonos speakers in their setup using Alexa.

To set up the speaker, at first, you need to create a Sonos account on the Sonos site; and from there you just need to connect the speaker to your WiFi network. After then you have to sign in to the music services you use. Sonos supports principally every available music streaming services such as Apple Music, Google Play Music, Pandora, Tidal, Amazon Music and many more. The next step of the setup procedure is enabling Alexa. You need to install the Alexa app on your smartphone, the Sonos app will instruct you there, at which point your speaker will show up as ready to be configured. It’s a pretty simple process of setting up.

The ‘Sonos One’ will impress you with its clear, dynamic and loud sound that far better than Google Home or the Amazon Echo. ‘Sonos One’ mostly come down to bass. There’s only reason that you can disagree to pick up such a compact speaker. Except for bass, the audio still sounds balanced and clear. Most users will never feel the bass lacking music when listening to the One on its own, but the low-end volume is not as strong as what you’ll get from larger and more expensive speakers. The ‘Sonos One’ is a mono sound speaker, but you can pair two of them together to get stereo sound as well as bigger volume and it will make a surprising difference in the listening experience.

The Sonos One’s warranty & refund policy is better than average. To read the warranty & refund policy, please click here.

The Sonos One Smart Speaker with Alexa voice control price is US $199.00.

Note: All the prices are at the time of writing this article.

Written by Nazrul K Khan