UBoom X news (Patreon)

I have good and bad news for you.

Amazon EU is holding back the product for some unknown reason although they had already received the batch some weeks ago they didn’t make it available yet so Earfun is trying to solve this problem, they don’t know what the reason is. Because of this the orders for Europe cannot be shipped righr t now. Amazon US orders should be all OK though.

The info I got was that so far 600 subscribed over my page during early bird while less than 100 actually ordered one. That’s a very low ratio and in the long term it could make the product a big fail for Earfun if they don’t manage to sell the first batch in time.

For those who missed the early bird and still want the 30% discount Earfun kept my site still active for several days, you can still subscribe and will get your own discount code after that:

https://www.myearfun.com/promo/earfun-uboom-x-early-bird-special-oluv

There was some problem with the initial firmware apparently. It’s not the latest version I approved. Alan Ross just like most other YouTubers used this firmware for their tests or demos or whatever but this version is already quite old and has issues. It is plagued by harshness and distortion at high levels and all outdoor modes are mixed up. The final firmware 039 should be available from within the app by tomorrow. I will also post this firmware together with my custom firmware here on Patreon within the next days, I just need to prepare a short tutorial video how to update manually through the PC. If you already received the UBoom X and still cannot update to 039, just let me know.

For my custom firmware „studio“ was replaced by an own desktop mode like already mentioned. For ground placement or when placed onto some larger boundary I prefer this mode by far best over all other modes I created. I am not that satisfied with ground O to be honest and I have the idea to maybe replace ground O with a more bassheavy desktop setting simply omitting the omnidirectional idea and offer another firmware if Earfun will approve this. But this can only happen if the speaker will sell really well and I also manage to get some shares from that, otherwise I don’t intent to waste any more time into all this. The average Joe doesn’t seem to care about how it sounds anyhow, the biggest problem seems that it’s not that loud at 60% like other speakers and how much bass it has if looking at all the videos and comments popping up on YouTube. None of these videos I watched really represents the sound you should expect from the speaker not to mention that you cannot compare 2 speakers if one is played at a much higher loudness just because the volume bar is at the same level. No idea where these people got their speakers from as the official launch was yesterday but because of those lame videos by Jay with his horrible sound quality and screwed up firmware YouTube is full with his videos now which pop up first if you search for the UBoom X. This will probably also affect sales a lot.

I would beg those who know how to record sound properly and get the speaker do their own videos and post them on YouTube to replace that junk.

Cheers, O.