The technical details, packaging, etc. I give me at this point, as it has now been described often enough.
1. valence
The speaker is made very valuable, especially when compared to the many other airline bombers that are on the market.
The weight, promises a certain volume in sound.
He looks definitely not cheap.
In a normal price of ehem. 149 this should not also be the case
2nd and most important criterion - The sound
The portable Bluetooth LS is naturally no lightweight, but still good portable.
The Bluetooth switch for 3 seconds and you can already connect him. For example, with the Iphone. Said and done.
Unfortunately, the first test is not convincing, because me personally (of course subjective) exists too little bass. As I had expected much more.
So fast times mini switched to BOSE SoundLink. And: The impression is reinforced. While the BOSE sound very voluminous and round, I am missing here first clear bass and also "round" centers.
So I try a variety of songs from different musical directions, switch repeatedly between the two devices back and forth, and realize: The SoleMate is not bad, but compared to the SoundLink mini rather pale.
So new attempt: downloaded from the AppStore Tunes Hell because this app features an EQ.
Now I have tried various sound directions and individual settings.
It is improving massively compared to the default settings of musicapp on the Iphone.
Again I switch between SoundLink and SoleMate back and forth.
It remains. The Bose LS brings to me - and again subjectively - the significantly more rounded and space fill their sound.
But now the big BUT: The SoundLink is not to get under 159. The SoleMate is WHD arrange 70. New to just over one hundredth
Taking into account this quite big price difference, so you may also like to draw to SoleMate. Because: If you the two devices does not have a direct comparison, the SoleMate sounds really - using an EQ - not bad, is sufficiently loud and fun.
So: a good price / performance ratio.