Ultimate Ears Boom 2 (2015) vs Marshall Kilburn 2

The Ultimate Ears Boom 2 (2015) is an example of a great Portable Bluetooth Speaker at its $140 budget.

In the case of the $249 Marshall Kilburn 2, however, we weren't able to find enough data to come to any reliable conclusions. If you're considering buying a Portable Bluetooth Speaker in the $200 range, we encourage you to take a look at some other options.

The Ultimate Ears Boom 2 (2015) has done remarkably well in a large number of roundups done by reliable sources that perform their own hands-on testing, such as rizknows.com, Techradar, Android Central, reviewgeek.com, iMore, and nextpit.com. It earned numerous awards - "More Affordable" from rizknows.com, "Best portable speaker" from Techradar, and "Most popular" from Android Central.

Moving on to the Marshall Kilburn 2: it has performed really well in a handful of roundups done by reliable sources that perform their own objective testing, like MakeUseOf, iMore, and nextpit.com - it was awarded the "Ranked 1 out of 10" title by MakeUseOf, "Ranked 1 out of 9" by iMore, and "Ranked 1 out of 6" by nextpit.com, which marks it as a worthy candidate.

To get a better idea of how they fare when compared directly to each other, we analyzed review scores of sources that tested both. Techradar and PCmag, for example, preferred the Ultimate Ears Boom 2 (2015), while TrustedReviews rated both of them the same.

We also took a look at which sources had the best things to say about them. We learned that the Ultimate Ears Boom 2 (2015) got reviewed the highest by What Hi-Fi? - it gave it a rating of 10, while the Marshall Kilburn 2 most impressed reviewers at macsources.com, which gave it a score of 10.

Lastly, we averaged out all of the reviews scores that we could find on these two products and compared them to other Portable Bluetooth Speakers on the market. We learned that both of them performed far better than most of their competitors - the overall review average earned by Portable Bluetooth Speakers being 7.6 out of 10, whereas the Ultimate Ears Boom 2 (2015) and Marshall Kilburn 2 managed averages of 8.8 and 8.3 points, respectively.

Due to the difference in their prices, however, it's important to keep in mind that a direct Ultimate Ears Boom 2 (2015) vs. Marshall Kilburn 2 comparison might not be entirely fair - some sources don't take value for money into account when assigning their scores and therefore have a tendency to rate more premium products better.