Sony adds three new wireless speakers to bass-boosted ULT Power Sound lineup

Sony’s additions to its ULT Power Sound lineup see a caller operation enactment speaker. | Image: Sony

Sony is upgrading 3 of its wireless Bluetooth speakers with important redesigns and caller features arsenic it integrates them into the ULT Power Sound bid it introduced a twelvemonth ago that includes speakers and headphones with improved bass-boosting dependable modes. All 3 speakers volition present person a dedicated ULT shortcut fastener for those dependable modes that boost and stress low-end frequencies, portion 2 of them diagnostic improved LEDs that amended airy up a country with a beat-synced airy show.

The loudest and largest of the 3 is the caller ULT Tower 9 enactment speaker that replaces the Sony SRS-XV900. The battery-powered version, with 25 hours of playback and a speedy complaint enactment that yields 3 hours of playback aft lone a 10-minute top-up, is priced the aforesaid arsenic the erstwhile mentation astatine $899.99, but Sony volition besides connection a cheaper $749.99 mentation that’s AC-only.

Powered by a ample woofer, 4 tweeters, and 2 midrange drivers, the ULT Tower 9 offers 2 bass modes: ULT1 delivers “deeper, little frequence bass,” portion ULT2 provides “powerful punchy bass.” If you similar to set the speaker’s dependable illustration connected your own, it besides features a 10-band EQ. Sony has enlarged the speaker’s wheels to amended its mobility. And, successful summation to karaoke mic enactment and the quality to link the ULT Tower 9 to a TV, it present has improved 360-degree LED lighting that tin illuminate a wider country of the level astir it.

The caller $329.99 ULT Field 5 speaker is simply a replacement for the $349 Sony SRS-XG300 and a somewhat smaller and much affordable alternate to the $499 ULT Field 7 that debuted past year. Powered by a cardinal woofer flanked by 2 tweeters connected the beforehand and 2 passive radiators connected the sides, the ULT Field 5 offers up to 25 hours of artillery beingness with either the ULT1 oregon ULT2 modes activated and lighting off.

Improved LEDs connected either extremity amended task colored synchronized lighting connected adjacent surfaces, but opting for 1 of 3 airy modes drops artillery beingness to 10 hours, oregon conscionable 2.5 hours with the talker astatine maximum volume. Other upgrades see a 10-band adjustable EQ done Sony’s mobile Sound Connect app, an optional enarthrosis strap, and a much boxy design, allowing the talker to beryllium utilized connected its broadside oregon erstwhile lasting vertically.

The $199.99 ULT Field 3, present the 2nd smallest talker successful Sony’s ULT Power Sound line, replaces the cylindrical SRS-XE300 with a plan akin to the ULT Field 5 that tin present beryllium utilized either horizontally oregon vertically. Battery beingness is the aforesaid arsenic its predecessor, with up to 24 hours of playback.

It’s powered by conscionable a azygous woofer and tweeter paired with 2 passive radiators connected the sides, which limits its alternate bass modes to conscionable the ULT1 option. Opting for the boosted bass reduces artillery to conscionable 5 hours astatine max volume. An adjustable seven-band EQ lets you tweak the speaker’s dependable portion balancing artillery life, but similar the smaller ULT Field 1, the ULT Field 3 doesn’t diagnostic immoderate LED lighting.