Boss CUBE Street 2 - 2x6.5" 10-watt Battery Powered Combo Amp - Black Reviews

I like it because it works for Acoustic electric and Electric Guitars. Where some amps only work just acoustic guitars. With this baby you have the best of both worlds and for the price. Ya can,t go wrong. Plus it sounds so sweet. Even makes me sound good. Plus you only need 8 AA batteries to play outside. So if your a want to be a street player/ singer like me buy one.

This amp-pa. Can do it all. Can not wait to play some out side gigs. What is nice is all I need is 8 AA batterys. Ya got sound. If Ya miss playing out side gigs. Buy this Ya will no be sorry.

I have had a Roland cubestreet from 2017 till now .
It is great .played a paid gig with it this afternoon.

I tried the boss version , the efx are not the same not as good
And it just sounds like a plastic box .
I took it back .

I tried the ex it also is the same except the vocals are fantastic .
Sent it back .

I found one of the 2017 versions still in the sealed box
And bought it .
I paid the same amount for it as the new boss versions.
Unless you do an AB test you would not know .
Besides that I would have never bought the boss or ex.

The massive build quality diference between the boss and roland are rediculase

I have giggled literally hundreds of hours per year
Using batteries , that last 9 hours .i have not plugged it in to AC yet
Other that to make sure that the power supply works .
And it works amazingly well headphone out to a qsc speaker on a pole.
And on my last resturaunst gig that is what I did .
I have a soundcraft efx 8 , but the roland sounds great and is easeyer
To set up ..
Vocal and guitar sound great according to the pedal steel player and myself .

I guess I'm saying all of this cause some companies
Make a great product that gains a great reputation and then make it cheaper just for
A quick buck ..
Good luck...

Pricey, but perfect for small gigs! …

I've got one.
It's the best amp I've ever owned for jams and small venues
But, don't get too fancy. It's for guitar and vocal. Not for bass and all those booming electronic gadgets.
Keep it simple and you will like it.

Great bang for your buck quality with this amp. It has paid for itself many times over at this point, honestly am thinking about purchasing another!!

I definitely love it and i cand judge it in fair. But it is really a pro sound device. I use it all the daytime to practice guitar, listen to music, practic setar via sm57 and even watching avatar for 2 days!

It has every thing you need to practice as a musician. Not just for guitarist!

Tnx sweetwater for great network.

I use it for backyard settings My PRS se24 and my voice on Sure beta 58a sound great! The onboard effects are pretty good but i havent used the looper yet. Its only 10 watts so its not crazy loud, but for what i do its perfect! solid little amp if you keeps its limitations in mind

A while back I bought a used Cube Street for a good price. I added a stereo line out independent of the headphone jack and a bottom speaker stand mount to use it on one of the Sweetwater mini speaker stands. Works great. It's low-powered, for sure at only 5 watts, but works good for small intimate settings.
Then they came out with the Cube Street II that addressed some of the shortcomings of the original: line out and volume control for the AUX channel. Nice. But it also added a looper, harmony function and boosted the power to 10 watts. I was intrigued, but wanted to wait on some early purchasers and their reviews.
The reviewer PJ made a great comment: "Solid little amp if you keeps its limitations in mind." Exactly. That's the key. Some of the reviews have been less than stellar, but the point is to realize what the amp 'is' and 'isn't'. I can't recommend this amp for keyboards or bass. I don't think it could handle the range of frequencies. NOTE 1: It's 10 watts, powered by 9 volts, driving two 6.5' speakers in a small box. It's physics. But the guitar and human voice live in that midrange area, where this amp is best suited.
I ordered the amp only, no footswitch or Bluetooth adapter in case I wasn't happy with its sound/performance. I will provide a detailed analysis below, but my overall assessment is that it's a great battery-powered, grab-and-go amp, for the guitarist/vocalist.
I compared it, side-by-side with its predecessor, the Roland Cube Street.
It is louder, not twice as loud, 10 watts compared to 5 watts, again, that's physics, hearing volume logarithmically and stuff, but it does seem to play a bit louder and clearer; more headroom. The ECO control cuts the volume to boost battery life, but not by an appreciable amount.
It's definitely lighter.
It does seem to me to have more low end than the original. No, it's not going to give you bass-thumping, in-your-face kick drum. If you have to have that get a Bose S1 or the comparable JBL unit. But I played my backing track to Miles' 'So What' and that great Paul Chambers bass line was audible and clean. I played the CD with the opening bass line to Leonid and Friends version of 'I'm a Man' and Leonid's bass line was there and solid. No, it didn't contain those lower bass fundamentals (see Note 1) but it was there.
The guitar section was good, a usable selection of acoustic and electric amp models. I can live with the Clean, Crunch and Lead modes. I do prefer the guitar section of the older Street Cube to this one and the Street Cube EX. I liked the basic, but usable, effects control on the older Street Cube, where with one knob I can dial in a basic chorus, phaser, flanger, tremolo and delay. Basic, to be sure, but quick and easy-to-use. And in a restaurant patio environment or a retirement home gig that's all you're gonna need. You want more, haul around a pedal board.
I tried the mono line out, running it first to the Mic/line in channel on my older Cube Street. Actually worked well. I could see myself at a small restaurant gig using that set up: quick, easy to load in/set up and giving good dispersion. Then I ran it into my Bose L1 mini unit and that worked even better, the Cube Street II now becoming, in essence, a mixer and monitor. I could see myself leaving my pedal board and mixer home and using just the Bose and Cube Street II. The Cube Street II gives me reverb on the vocals and enough amp models and effects on the guitar channel to get it done.
I played it with my big Ibanez jazz box with flatwound 12s, which contains a good amount of guitar low end. The amp held up well, not breaking up until I got to that point where nearly any guitar/string combination would cause breakup.
There are three 'acoustic' amp models, and like some others have said, I found the 'Wide" setting most pleasing to me.
The looper and vocal harmony worked as advertised, although one really needs a footswitch to get the most out of them in a live gig. 45 seconds is not a lot of looping time, but I was able to lay down a medium tempo I-IV-V shuffle. Using the Bluetooth, deep-editing, to boost it to 90 seconds would make it infinitely more useful. As a point of reference, my live pedal board has a Jamman looper and TC Harmony singer pedal and those both cost me almost as much as the Cube Street II.
Is it perfect? No. I wish they'd put a pole mount on the bottom. I did on my old unit, not that hard. Would make the amp more useful, IMO, with only a small cost increase. In fact, the new amp case is molded, so it could have built it right in.
Batteries. Some might prefer a built in rechargeable battery as other, more expensive units have. Not me, one of the reasons I like this amp is it's use of common AA batteries. It's a power source I can get at any grocery store or drug store. And I can use AA rechargeable if I want.
As I said, I prefer the guitar channel of the older Cube Street. I don't know why they didn't use it on the new version and even the Cube Street EX.
I downloaded the software and while I don't have the Bluetooth unit (yet) it does look easy-to-use and gives one a bit more flexibility in configuring your amp.
To get the most out of the amp I believe you need a footswitch and the Bluetooth adapter. And I really think the Bluetooth adapter should have been built in, nearly everyone else does that. Maybe they were trying for a price point and including Bluetooth made that harder.
As I've said, you have to keep in mind what this amp is and isn't, and what it's best for. If you need deep bass and lots of volume this is not it. If you want something battery powered, with good features for an intimate guitar and vocal patio gig, this may well be your solution.
I'm happy with what it does and think I can make it work for me. I'm giving it 4 stars because I think the Bluetooth should have been included (that would have got it another 1/2 star), along with a bottom pole mount and the guitar channel from the older Cube Street.

I got my Cube Street 2 a couple months ago, and it has more bells and whistles type things, but really isn't as good as the original. The sound is often tinny, and it doesn't help that the "mids" control only changes the high-range mids. I wish they would bring back the original. I still have mine, but it's broken and I'm currently using it as a passive monitor. Basically, it's an overpriced toy.

I've been buying Roland battery powered speakers for some years now. I've owned the BA-330, the original cube street, the cube street EX. Currently I owned the keyboard battery powered KC 220 and the Bose S1 Pro… So as you can imagine i have some experience on this speakers… Because of the amount of features in the Boss Cube street 2 (BCS2), and because this guys at Boss said that they improved the bass frequencies, I ordered the BCS2. I'm disappointed. The low frequencies are missing again. For that same reason I sold the other ones…To be specific you will miss the kick drum and guitar bass frequencies. The Bluetooth device is made for editing and system configuration, because as a Bluetooth speaker for, let's say, a small party, is a no-no…In paper it is a perfect battery amp. In real life it's ok for guitar and vocals, but not for drum machines, synths, bass guitar, etc. If you compare with the Bose S1 pro the difference is abysmal, not only in full freq response, but in dB… On the good side the features are very nice and the vocal harmonies are superb, better than some of its pedals…In general, for me, as a do-it-all speaker, It's merely ok.

Sorry, first Boss product I'm disappointed with, partly my fault, I had a ve8 pedal and assumed the effects in this were of the same quality as the pedal,they're decent but not the same,especially the harmonizer,I read a review that said the harmonizer distorts since I've never had an inadequate boss product I figured it was just the user,I kept it for testing guitars I work on and since it's battery powered I can connect my phone for music at the beach,it's too much money for what it is, not much for bottom end like some of the reviews say and I certainly wouldn't say it's loud

I have the cube street 5 watt
Since 2017 made well sounds great

Bought and returned the
Ex and the boss cube street 2

The guitar chanel on both of them sound
Bad real bad .
The vocal on the ex is great I mean real good
The efx are not as good as the original and the input jacks are cheep junk compared to the neutrick inputs on the original .
I tried to buy another original but they quit making it .
Why roland took a great thing and ran it into the ground , who knows

Wanted to find a battery powered bluetooth amp with built in effects and looper so I was pumped when I came across this. I was less than impressed with the sound quality of this amp. The spark and boss katana air sound worlds better. Iv never played the original so I didn't know what to expect but overall it's not terrible.

Lots of bells & whistles here, harmonizer, looper, bluetooth. Unfortunately the amp when facing out to the audience displays the controls and tuner upside down to the performer. Face it toward you and your vocal mic will feed back. You think this would be the first thing to get right - if you're considering the user. I'm returning the product.

The original Roland Cube was great, it ran well on batteries, had a mic input, good effects and EQ, solid build quality with actual wood, good speakers, and was portable and plenty loud. The new one? Weak effects, cheap plastic casing that is cheap adds a nasty nasally sound, the bass control barely does anything and the mids control just adds more of the nasally sound. The original was super amazing, I had one, but it broke after 10 years of heavy use, so I rewired it to use the speakers alone. Sadly, they stopped making the original one and now only make the new one, so if you can find one of the original ones, then 100% get it. This one? It's not worth it. Just get a mini PA speaker and a preamp pedal or two. It couldn't possibly be worse than this piece of cheap plastic.

First off , let me start by saying I have , and still use, the original Roland Streetcube. EXCELLENT UNIT ! I bought the original awhile back . Again...Excellent, tough , reliable and use it for busking and small/medium venues. I'm a working musician and recently (today 6.28.22) tried the Boss Cube Street 2. Sad to say... I was very disappointed.... it was terrible/toy like ....very anemic on the volume and the sound was aweful. Had a high end Taylor guitar set at 12 o'clock flat, and gain on the Boss Streetcube 2 at approx. 9 a.m. and volume on the Streetcube 2 at 12 o'clock. If you go pass 12 o'clock on the Boss Streetcube 2 it started to hum and distort, and the sound was "tinny" at any volume. Hate to hear what it would be like running the Mic , built in looper and built in harmony along with the guitar. Very disappointed in you Boss/Roland. Please..PLEASE... bring back the Original Roland Street Cube the way it This new unit is not an upgrade. It's a very overpriced toy (IMO).