Software

Creative's approach to the software suite for this unit is a bit cumbersome. To get to the stuff you want, you have to navigate through several screens of the Android app, which will sometimes leave you a bit in the dark as to which sound effects do what. It is, once you get the hang of it and get everything dialed in, pretty easy to use, but it would make sense to boil some of the options down. The crystalizer, definitely not a good idea if your source material sounds good to begin with, is enabled per default. Disabling all the extras and dialing back the bass a little makes the unit sound really good. After a few tweaks, its sound is definitely on par to the UE BOOM.