Why You Can Trust CNET The Bose Bluetooth Speaker I Use 24/7 Is $30 Off for Prime Day
I love it every day for music, but I rely on it at night as a makeshift white noise machine.
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If there's one thing I'm picky about, it's the quality of sound, so before I invested in a small Bluetooth speaker I did my research. (By which I mean I read through CNET's list of the best Bluetooth speakers.) The one I chose, and one that continues to rank high in quality for its size, is the Bose SoundLink Flex Bluetooth speaker, and it's $30 off right now for October Prime Day.
Instead of its usual $149, the SoundFlex Bluetooth speaker is on sale for $119 at Amazon. And as another perk for people who'd rather support a business besides Amazon: The speaker is also $120 at Best Buy and $119 through Bose itself.
I really love this speaker for the reasons you'd love a speaker -- music sounds really good on it, speech is clear when I'm listening to a podcast and the sound is full enough to fill my (tiny) studio apartment.
But I like it more for another reason: As a restless and light sleeper, I need some sort of sound going that'll mask the noise from inside and outside my apartment building. In a series of events I don't completely remember, I found that playing the "Commercial Airliner" soundscape track from my Calm app through my Bose speaker effectively blocked the bass sounds I can hear in my apartment. It's also a whole lot more comfortable than trying to sleep with the same track flowing through headphones (which, I'll note, weren't designed for sleeping either).
While I can't compare its off-label use as a white noise machine to the real white noise machines out there, I can say I'm tied to it. In terms of how it tests in overall audio quality, you can read David Carnoy's full Bose SoundLink Flex review here.