Sony ULT Tower 10 review: This big party speaker delivers the goods
₹109,990 with a best buy price of ₹89,990 on Sony’s website. Lugging it around isn’t easy either, even though Sony has included a handle in the frame and two casters on the rear edge. While it can be moved, it isn’t entirely portable.
The tall 43-inch frame and 29kg weight makes it altogether too easy to tip over when you angle it for transport. Otherwise, the Tower 10 sports a rather functional, utilitarian design, clad entirely in black plastic with only the hidden LEDs providing visual relief when it’s switched on. On top is a flat, squircle-shaped control panel with all the controls you’ll need—pairing with your Bluetooth device, playback and volume, input selection and dedicated buttons to set the LEDs to one of five colours (and a multicolour setting), along with settings for karaoke nights that come handy with the wireless microphone.
The panel is splash proof for when you mistake it for a bar counter and set down your chilled beverage. There’s also a large niche to slot in a phone or a tablet. Aside from Bluetooth 5.2 with support for SBC, AAC and LDAC streaming codecs, the Tower 10 is replete with connectivity options—a USB-A port for plugging in a flash drive or charging a device, an optical port to connect to a TV, a 3.5mm stereo jack along with a quarter-inch guitar input and the wireless microphone.
Sony offers just two apps to control the speaker: the Music Center app (for managing the speaker settings, custom equalizer profiles, selecting DJ options for the microphone) and the Fiestable app for party light effects, party playlists etc. You can also pair a second ULT Tower 10 for a much larger setup, though the omission of Wi-Fi for streaming is odd. The only cut-outs in what is otherwise a monolithic
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