Apple owns Beats but Apple does not discount Beats. Amazon has apparently decided those two facts are unrelated: The Beats Pill just hit its best price ever on Amazon, down to $99, off its $149 standard price that Apple’s site has never moved, for a portable Bluetooth speaker with IP67 dust and water resistance, 24-hour battery life, 69W output, hi-res lossless audio via USB-C, and the ability to charge your phone via the same port. No Prime membership required, and Apple’s official store remains at $149.
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The speaker Apple designed to be seriously loud in a portable size
The Beats Pill’s racetrack woofer displaces 90% more air volume than the previous generation, which is the engineering decision that produces the room-filling bass response that most portable speakers this size can’t generate without distorting at higher volumes. The redesigned tweeter adds stability for crisp highs and rich mid-range tones, and the woofer’s material and structure specifically minimizes low-end distortion at maximum volume, which is where cheap portable speakers reveal themselves immediately. At 69W of output from a 2.13-pound speaker that fits in a bag, the Beats Pill is genuinely loud in a way that most Bluetooth speakers at this price aren’t.
