Eight boAt Devices Share One Price of Rs. 1,499 in July 2026

Fourteen hundred and ninety-nine rupees, eighty-five per cent off a stated Rs. 9,999. Hold that eighty-five in your head for the next seven picks, because seven other products on this shelf cost exactly the same Rs. 1,499 and not one of them wears the same badge. This pair carries the rung's deepest discount for one reason only: boAt declared the highest MRP against it. Rs. 9,999 for a plastic ANC TWS pair is a number the Indian market has never paid and was never asked to; it exists to make the Rs. 1,499 look like a rescue. Judge the residue instead. Rs. 1,499 buys active noise cancellation, a charging case and boAt's ubiquitous service footprint, which at this price is a genuinely competitive offer against Boult, Noise and Realme. It is not, however, eight thousand five hundred rupees of anything. Buy it because Rs. 1,499 for ANC is fair, not because a percentage told you it was fifteen per cent of something.

• Price: Rs. 1,499 (stated MRP Rs. 9,999)
• Key specification: TWS earbuds with ANC — highest stated MRP on the Rs. 1,499 rung
• Discount: 85% off, which is Rs. 8,500
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Deepest badge on the rung
• Buying logic: the rung's biggest number

The same fourteen hundred and ninety-nine rupees, this time against a stated Rs. 8,999, which prints an 83% badge — two points shallower than the earbuds above at an identical price. Nothing about the deal changed; only the sticker did. What you actually get is the biggest panel in this chapter: a 2.01-inch display with Bluetooth calling, a speaker and mic for taking calls off the wrist, and boAt's usual seven-hundred-plus watch faces. Against the 1.39-inch round Lunar Discovery Neo further down this rung — same Rs. 1,499, different badge again — the choice is genuinely a shape decision: rectangular and large enough to read a message, or round and closer to looking like a watch. Battery on the big-panel models is the honest weak point; expect four to five days of real use with the display bright and calling on, not the marketing fortnight. At Rs. 1,499 that is still the most screen per rupee on the page.

• Price: Rs. 1,499 (stated MRP Rs. 8,999)
• Key specification: Smartwatch, 2.01-inch display, Bluetooth calling, 700+ faces
• Discount: 83% off, which is Rs. 7,500
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Biggest screen at Rs. 1,499
• Buying logic: most screen per rupee

Third product, third badge, same Rs. 1,499. The stated MRP here is Rs. 7,490, so the page prints 80% — five points under the Flex 454, at a price not one rupee different. By now the pattern should be doing its own work: on this shelf the percentage measures the sticker, and the sticker is a design choice. What separates the 800 HiDef from its rung-mates is endurance and a High-Res audio badge, meaning a codec claim rather than a measured one; treat the High-Res marking as marketing and the forty-hour figure as roughly honest at moderate volume. No ANC here, which is the trade against the Flex 454 and the 280 ANC at the identical price. That trade is real and worth thinking about for ten seconds: if you commute by metro or share an office, noise cancellation earns its keep daily. If you listen at a desk or while walking, forty hours between charges is the feature you will actually notice.

• Price: Rs. 1,499 (stated MRP Rs. 7,490)
• Key specification: TWS earbuds, 40 hours playback, High-Res audio
• Discount: 80% off, which is Rs. 5,991
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Longest playback at the price
• Buying logic: endurance over cancellation

Fourteen hundred and ninety-nine rupees again, 79% off a stated Rs. 6,999. It is worth pausing on how far the badge has now travelled: from 85% to 79% across four products that all take the same money out of your account. The Lunar Discovery Neo's case is aesthetic before it is technical. A 1.39-inch round HD display with animated 2.5D faces looks like a watch across a room in a way the 2.01-inch rectangles above simply do not, and for a lot of buyers that is the whole decision. Feature-wise it sits where every Rs. 1,499 boAt watch sits — heart rate, SpO2, sleep and step tracking of the indicative-not-diagnostic kind, notification mirroring, a week of standby. Nothing here is medical and boAt does not claim it is. If you want a round face and you were going to spend Rs. 1,499 on this shelf anyway, this is the pick. If you want to read long messages, take the Sigma 3.

• Price: Rs. 1,499 (stated MRP Rs. 6,999)
• Key specification: Smartwatch, 1.39-inch round HD display, 2.5D animated faces
• Discount: 79% off, which is Rs. 5,500
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: The round-face option
• Buying logic: round beats rectangular here

This is the pick that closes the argument. The Airdopes 280 ANC and the Lunar Discovery Neo above it are not remotely the same object — one is a pair of earbuds, the other a wrist computer with a display — yet both sell at Rs. 1,499, both declare a stated MRP of Rs. 6,999, and both therefore print 79%. Two unrelated products cannot share a coincidental market value to the rupee. What they share is a pricing tier, and the MRP is its label. On the merits: 32dB of ANC with quad ENx microphones is a strong specification at Rs. 1,499, and the four-mic array matters more than the cancellation number for anyone who takes calls outdoors, because ENx is boAt's environmental noise reduction on the transmit side. Against the Flex 454 at the same price, this is the newer platform with the better mic count. Against the 131 Elite ANC ten rupees of MRP below it, the difference is genuinely marginal.

• Price: Rs. 1,499 (stated MRP Rs. 6,999)
• Key specification: TWS earbuds, ANC up to 32dB, quad ENx mics — same MRP as the Lunar Neo
• Discount: 79% off, which is Rs. 5,500
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Same MRP, different category
• Buying logic: a tier label, not a price

Fourteen hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 79% off a stated Rs. 6,990 — a figure exactly ten rupees below the Airdopes 280's MRP, which is as clear a demonstration as this page can offer that these numbers are drafted rather than derived. The 131 Elite ANC's differentiator is transparency mode: a tap pipes the outside world back through the microphones so you can cross a road, hear an announcement or answer a colleague without pulling a bud out. On Indian streets that is not a luxury feature, it is a safety one, and it is unusual to find it at Rs. 1,499. The 131 line is also boAt's highest-volume earbud family, which means fit, case durability and firmware are better-shaken-out here than on newer models. If you are choosing blind between the three ANC pairs on this rung — Flex 454, 280 ANC and this — the tiebreaker we would use is transparency mode, and it points here.

• Price: Rs. 1,499 (stated MRP Rs. 6,990)
• Key specification: TWS earbuds, ANC up to 32dB with transparency mode
• Discount: 79% off, which is Rs. 5,491
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: The transparency-mode pick
• Buying logic: hear the road

Seventh product at Rs. 1,499, seventh badge: 77%, off a stated Rs. 6,499. We are now eight points below the top of the rung on a price that has not moved once. The Storm Infinity Plus trades screen size and animation for endurance — a twenty-day standby claim, which in practice means roughly a week to ten days of real use with notifications on and the display at default brightness, against four or five days from the big-panel Sigma 3. For a first smartwatch, or for a parent or grandparent who will not remember to charge a wrist device nightly, that difference is the difference between a watch that gets worn and a watch that lives in a drawer. It is the least exciting pick on this rung and quite possibly the most useful one. There is no version of this shelf where the badge would have told you that; 77% is the smallest number among the watches here.

• Price: Rs. 1,499 (stated MRP Rs. 6,499)
• Key specification: Smartwatch, HD display, 20-day standby battery
• Discount: 77% off, which is Rs. 5,000
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: The battery watch
• Buying logic: the drawer test

The eighth and final product at Rs. 1,499, wearing 75% off a stated Rs. 5,999. Set it beside the Flex 454 that opened this chapter: same price to the rupee, 85% there and 75% here, because one carries a Rs. 9,999 sticker and the other a Rs. 5,999 one. Ten percentage points of apparent generosity, zero rupees of actual difference. That is the chapter in one comparison, and it is why we have not ranked anything on this page by discount. The Rockerz 261 Pro itself is the format most Indian listeners still quietly prefer: a neckband cannot be lost one bud at a time, it charges on one cable, ASAP charge gives hours from a ten-minute top-up, and fifteen hours is plenty for a working day. The trade is that it is visible and it flaps when you run. If you have lost an earbud before, buy this and ignore the fact that its badge is the smallest on the rung.

• Price: Rs. 1,499 (stated MRP Rs. 5,999)
• Key specification: Neckband, 15 hours playback, ASAP charge — lowest MRP on the rung
• Discount: 75% off, which is Rs. 4,500
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Smallest badge on the rung
• Buying logic: you cannot lose half of it

Thirteen hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 84% off a stated Rs. 8,999 — and that MRP should look familiar, because the Wave Sigma 3 on the rung above declares exactly the same Rs. 8,999 and sells for Rs. 1,499. One sticker, two prices, a hundred rupees apart. This is the cleanest like-for-like on the page and it runs the other way from the badge logic: here the cheaper watch has the deeper discount, because for once the MRP is held constant and the price is allowed to move. That is what a real discount looks like, and it is worth exactly Rs. 100. The Wave Call 3 is a 1.83-inch HD rectangular calling watch — a slightly smaller panel than the Sigma 3's 2.01 inches, the same speaker-and-mic calling stack, the same face library. If you were leaning towards the Sigma 3 purely for size, look at both photographs before spending the extra hundred. Most buyers will not see the difference on a wrist.

• Price: Rs. 1,399 (stated MRP Rs. 8,999)
• Key specification: Smartwatch, 1.83-inch HD display, Bluetooth calling — same MRP as the Wave Sigma 3
• Discount: 84% off, which is Rs. 7,600
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Rs. 100 cheaper, same sticker
• Buying logic: one MRP, two prices

Thirteen hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 84% off a stated Rs. 8,499 — same badge as the Wave Call 3, different sticker, identical price, which by now you can read at a glance. What earns the Storm Call 3 its place is the one feature on this whole ladder that is not a variation of screen size: built-in map navigation, meaning turn-by-turn directions mirrored from the phone onto the wrist. On a two-wheeler in Indian traffic that is a materially safer arrangement than a phone in a handlebar clamp, and it is the single most useful thing a Rs. 1,399 watch on this shelf does. Set expectations correctly: this is phone-tethered mirroring, not onboard GPS mapping, so the phone stays in the pocket doing the work and the battery cost lands on the phone. If you ride, this is the chapter's pick and the price difference against the rest is nil. If you do not, it is another 1.83-inch calling watch.

• Price: Rs. 1,399 (stated MRP Rs. 8,499)
• Key specification: Smartwatch, 1.83-inch HD display, built-in map navigation
• Discount: 84% off, which is Rs. 7,100
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: The navigation watch
• Buying logic: directions without the handlebar clamp

Thirteen hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 80% off a stated Rs. 6,999. Third watch at this price in three picks, and the badge has dropped four points because boAt printed a Rs. 6,999 sticker instead of a Rs. 8,499 one. The Wave Fury's specification is very close to the Storm Call 3's — 1.83-inch HD panel, Bluetooth calling, the standard sensor set — minus the navigation mirroring. So the honest reading of this pick is that it is the shelf's control group: identical outlay, near-identical hardware, no map, four fewer badge points. If a shopper sorted this store by discount, the Storm Call 3 would appear above the Wave Fury and they would conclude the Storm Call 3 was the better deal. It is the better watch, but not because of the percentage. Two products at Rs. 1,399 cannot have different value based on numbers neither of them will ever sell at. Sort by price and feature; the badge column is decoration.

• Price: Rs. 1,399 (stated MRP Rs. 6,999)
• Key specification: Smartwatch, 1.83-inch HD display, Bluetooth calling
• Discount: 80% off, which is Rs. 5,600
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Same price, smaller sticker
• Buying logic: the control group

Thirteen hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 77% off a stated Rs. 5,999 — the cheapest active noise cancellation in our sixty-listing read, and a hundred rupees below the three ANC pairs sitting at Rs. 1,499. It also wears the smallest badge of the four products at this price, which is the fourth time this page has caught the percentage pointing the wrong way. The 161 ANC is the older sibling of the 131 Elite: same 32dB-class cancellation claim, ENx call mics, a smaller case. What you give up against the Rs. 1,499 pairs is transparency mode and a little battery. What you keep is a hundred rupees. Honestly, at this end of the market the cancellation figures printed on the box mean less than the seal the tips make in your ear — a good fit on a cheap pair beats a poor fit on an expensive one every time. Try the tip sizes in the box before deciding the ANC is weak.

• Price: Rs. 1,399 (stated MRP Rs. 5,999)
• Key specification: TWS earbuds with active noise cancellation
• Discount: 77% off, which is Rs. 4,600
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Cheapest ANC earbuds here
• Buying logic: the seal beats the spec

Twelve hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 71% off a stated Rs. 4,490 — and 71% is the floor of our entire sixty-listing read. That is the sentence worth sitting with: the least generous discount on this store is still seventy-one per cent off. Nothing here was ever priced at its MRP; the range from 71% to 92% is a design range, not a sale. The Rockerz Summit itself is a straightforward, well-sorted neckband: thirty hours of playback, ASAP charge, dual-device pairing so it can hold a laptop and a phone at once, which is the feature that makes neckbands quietly excellent for work-from-home calls. Against the Rockerz 261 Pro at Rs. 1,499 on the rung above, you save two hundred rupees and gain fifteen hours of battery — the better buy of the two by a clear margin, wearing the worse badge by four points. We could not construct a neater illustration if we tried.

• Price: Rs. 1,299 (stated MRP Rs. 4,490)
• Key specification: Neckband, 30 hours playback, ASAP charge, dual pairing
• Discount: 71% off, which is Rs. 3,191
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Smallest badge in the read
• Buying logic: the floor of the whole read

Twelve hundred and forty-nine rupees, 72% off a stated Rs. 4,490 — the identical MRP to the Rockerz Summit above, for fifty rupees less, which prints one extra percentage point. This is the mechanism laid bare in miniature: hold the sticker still and the badge finally starts telling the truth, moving one point for every fifty rupees. Every other badge movement on this page came from the sticker moving instead. On the hardware, the Strive and the Summit are close relatives — thirty hours of playback, 10mm drivers, boAt's bass-forward tuning — with the Summit adding ASAP fast charge and dual pairing for its two hundred and fifty extra rupees. If those two features matter to you, they are worth the money; if you charge overnight and pair to one phone, buy the Strive and pocket the difference. Note also that the Airdopes 141 in the next chapter carries this same Rs. 4,490 sticker at Rs. 999, making it three products, one MRP, three prices.

• Price: Rs. 1,249 (stated MRP Rs. 4,490)
• Key specification: Neckband, 30 hours playback, 10mm drivers — same stated MRP as the Summit
• Discount: 72% off, which is Rs. 3,241
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Same MRP, Rs. 50 cheaper
• Buying logic: one point per fifty rupees

Nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 78% off a stated Rs. 4,490. That MRP has now appeared three times in this read at three different prices — the Rockerz Summit at Rs. 1,299, the Rockerz Strive at Rs. 1,249 and these at Rs. 999 — producing badges of 71%, 72% and 78% for products in two different categories. One number, three prices, seven points of spread. The Airdopes 141 is the reason boAt is boAt: it has been the country's volume-selling TWS pair for years, it costs under a thousand rupees, it plays for forty-two claimed hours across buds and case, and it is the single most replaceable object in Indian consumer electronics. There is no ANC, the microphones are ordinary, and the sound is bass-heavy in the way boAt's audience demonstrably wants. For a gym bag, a commute, a spare pair for the office drawer, or a first set of earbuds for a teenager, nothing on this shelf makes more sense at the price.

• Price: Rs. 999 (stated MRP Rs. 4,490)
• Key specification: TWS earbuds, 42 hours playback, ENx mics — the third product at a Rs. 4,490 MRP
• Discount: 78% off, which is Rs. 3,491
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Best seller, third price on one MRP
• Buying logic: the country's default earbuds

Nine hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 71% off a stated Rs. 3,490, tying the Rockerz Summit for the smallest badge in the entire read. It is also, at Rs. 999, the cheapest neckband on the shelf with a thirty-hour claim, which tells you precisely how little the percentage has to do with value here. The Rockerz 103 V2 Pro is the plainest possible version of a good idea: two buds on a cable, a battery in the collar, ENx microphones for calls, magnetic buds that clip together to pause. Nothing clever, nothing to lose, and a battery that genuinely outlasts a working week of commutes. Against the Airdopes 141 at exactly the same Rs. 999, the choice is format rather than quality — buds that disappear into a pocket versus a collar that cannot be misplaced one side at a time. Households that have already lost a bud to a metro seat know which one to buy. Compare with our wider round-up of boAt earbuds before committing.

• Price: Rs. 999 (stated MRP Rs. 3,490)
• Key specification: Neckband, up to 30 hours playback, ENx mics
• Discount: 71% off, which is Rs. 2,491
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Cheapest 30-hour neckband
• Buying logic: nothing to lose, literally

Eight hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 77% off a stated Rs. 3,990 — the longest playback claim under Rs. 1,000 anywhere in this read, at forty-five hours across buds and case. The Airdopes 91 Prime also carries BEAST low-latency mode, boAt's gaming toggle, which drops audio lag to a level where the gunshot lands roughly when the muzzle flashes. Whether that matters depends entirely on whether you play shooters on a phone; if you do, it is the reason to pick this over the 141 for a hundred rupees less. The compromises at this price are real and predictable: no ANC, microphones that are fine indoors and struggle on a windy street, and a case finish that will scuff. None of that is a criticism of a Rs. 899 product. This is the price at which earbuds become consumable, and buying a consumable with forty-five hours of battery and a low-latency mode is a good use of nine hundred rupees.

• Price: Rs. 899 (stated MRP Rs. 3,990)
• Key specification: TWS earbuds, 45 hours playback, BEAST low-latency mode
• Discount: 77% off, which is Rs. 3,091
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Longest playback under Rs. 1,000
• Buying logic: earbuds as a consumable

Eight hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 74% off a stated Rs. 3,490 — the same sticker as the Rockerz 103 V2 Pro at Rs. 999, a hundred rupees cheaper, three badge points deeper. This is the second clean control pair in the read, and it behaves exactly like the Summit and Strive did: with the MRP held still, the discount moves honestly with the price. It only misleads when the sticker is the thing that changes. The Rockerz Bold is the cheapest neckband here that we would still recommend without caveats — thirty hours, 10mm drivers, the BEAST latency mode, magnetic buds, and boAt's warranty network behind it. Below this price the shelf moves to wired earphones and there is no in-between. If Rs. 899 is the budget and the format is settled, this is the pick. If you want the ASAP charging and dual pairing of the Summit, that costs Rs. 400 more and is worth it for anyone taking calls on a laptop.

• Price: Rs. 899 (stated MRP Rs. 3,490)
• Key specification: Neckband, 30 hours playback, 10mm drivers — same MRP as the Rockerz 103 V2 Pro
• Discount: 74% off, which is Rs. 2,591
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Same sticker, Rs. 100 less
• Buying logic: the honest control pair

Seven hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 73% off a stated Rs. 2,990. The Stone 100 is a 3W palm-sized Bluetooth speaker, and the number that matters is the three: three watts is a bedside, bathroom and desk speaker, not a party one, and anyone expecting the latter from Rs. 799 will be disappointed by physics rather than by boAt. Within that honest brief it is very good value — six hours or so of playback, a rubberised body that survives being knocked off a table, and enough volume to carry a podcast over a running tap. It is also the cheapest way onto this shelf for anyone who wants sound in a room rather than in their ears, which is a different purchase from every other pick on this page. The larger Stone models and the Aavante soundbars in the next chapter are where the watts live. If you want volume, skip this and budget Rs. 3,499. If you want a shower speaker, this is it.

• Price: Rs. 799 (stated MRP Rs. 2,990)
• Key specification: 3W portable Bluetooth speaker, boAt Signature Sound
• Discount: 73% off, which is Rs. 2,191
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Cheapest speaker here
• Buying logic: three watts, honestly stated

Two hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 75% off a stated Rs. 1,199 — the cheapest audio product in our sixty-listing read, and note that even here, at the absolute floor of the shelf, the badge is 75%. There is no price point at this store where the discount stops. The Bassheads 95 is a wired in-ear with 10mm drivers, a 120cm cable and an in-line mic, and wired earphones in 2026 have exactly two remaining arguments, both good: they never need charging, and they cannot be lost one bud at a time. For a laptop that still has a jack, a gym bag, a second pair for a bedside table, or a household that goes through earphones the way it goes through pens, three hundred rupees is the right amount to spend. The tuning is boAt's usual heavy low end, which suits the music most of its buyers play. Do not expect isolation, a durable cable, or a microphone that works outdoors.

• Price: Rs. 299 (stated MRP Rs. 1,199)
• Key specification: Wired in-ear, 10mm drivers, 120cm cable, in-line mic — cheapest audio in the read
• Discount: 75% off, which is Rs. 900
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Cheapest audio in the read
• Buying logic: never needs charging

Two thousand three hundred and sixty-eight rupees, 87% off a stated Rs. 17,999 — the deepest badge on any audio product in this read, and the first price on this page that is not a round rung. Rs. 1,499, Rs. 1,399, Rs. 999, Rs. 899: those are constructed numbers. Rs. 2,368 is what a price looks like when it has been moved rather than designed, and it is a useful signal that this listing is being actively discounted rather than sitting at its shelf position. The Nirvana Ivy is boAt's flagship TWS platform: a 50dB ANC claim, fifty hours of total playback, spatial audio, and a build with metal in it. Fifty decibels of cancellation is a serious specification even discounted for marketing optimism, and it is roughly double what the Rs. 1,499 pairs claim. Rs. 17,999 was never a real price for these and the 87% is theatre — but Rs. 2,368 for flagship-tier ANC is the best value on this page by a distance, and the only pick where the badge and the bargain happen to agree.

• Price: Rs. 2,368 (stated MRP Rs. 17,999)
• Key specification: TWS earbuds, 50dB ANC, 50 hours playback, spatial audio — deepest audio badge in the read
• Discount: 87% off, which is Rs. 15,631
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Biggest steal
• Buying logic: a price that was moved, not designed

Three thousand one hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 79% off a stated Rs. 14,990. The Zenith Pro is the other half of boAt's Nirvana flagship line and its pitch is endurance: eighty claimed hours across buds and case, against fifty for the Ivy and forty-two for the Airdopes 141. Spatial audio is on the box here too, and it is worth being plain about what that means at this price — a processing mode that widens the stereo image, not head-tracked object audio of the kind Apple and Sony ship. Some listeners like it on films; most turn it off for music. The awkward question this pick has to answer is why it costs Rs. 831 more than the Nirvana Ivy above it while claiming less cancellation. The answer is battery and nothing else. If you travel and hate charging cases, that is a real reason. If you want the best-sounding boAt earbuds on this page for the least money, the Ivy remains the pick and this is the upsell.

• Price: Rs. 3,199 (stated MRP Rs. 14,990)
• Key specification: TWS earbuds, spatial audio, 80 hours playback
• Discount: 79% off, which is Rs. 11,791
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: The 80-hour flagship
• Buying logic: battery is the whole upgrade

Three thousand four hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 74% off a stated Rs. 13,490 — and the badge has now compressed into the seventies and stayed there, which is what happens at the top of this shelf. The Aavante Lyric is the cheapest genuine upgrade over a television's built-in speakers on this page: forty watts across a 2.1 configuration with a wired subwoofer, meaning dialogue comes off the bar and the low end comes off the floor. Wired is the word to notice — the sub connects by cable, so it has to live near the bar, which constrains where it goes in a small room. Against every earbud on this page this is a different kind of purchase: a soundbar is bought once and then ignored for eight years, and forty watts is genuinely enough for a bedroom or a small living room. If your room is larger or you watch films rather than serials, the 2.1 1200 at Rs. 5,499 and the 2.2 1400 at Rs. 4,999 are the next rungs up and we would take either.

• Price: Rs. 3,499 (stated MRP Rs. 13,490)
• Key specification: 2.1 channel soundbar, 40W, wired subwoofer
• Discount: 74% off, which is Rs. 9,991
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: Entry soundbar
• Buying logic: off the television speakers

Twenty-five thousand six hundred and ninety-nine rupees, 71% off a stated Rs. 89,990 — the most expensive product in our read and, fittingly, the joint-shallowest badge in it, tied with a Rs. 999 neckband. The percentage column has now been useless from Rs. 299 to Rs. 25,699, which is the whole page in one line. On the hardware: a 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos configuration with 700W RMS, up-firing drivers for height channels, a wireless subwoofer and rear satellites. That is a real home-cinema layout and boAt is unusual in offering it at this price — the equivalent from Sony or Samsung sits well past Rs. 60,000. What you should expect for the money is impact and scale rather than refinement; boAt tunes for excitement, and Atmos height effects from up-firing drivers depend heavily on having a flat ceiling to bounce off. If you have that ceiling, a room to fill and Rs. 25,699, this is a remarkable amount of speaker. If you are buying for a bedroom, everything above this pick is better value.

• Price: Rs. 25,699 (stated MRP Rs. 89,990)
• Key specification: 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos soundbar, 700W RMS — most expensive item in the read, shallowest badge
• Discount: 71% off, which is Rs. 64,291
• Rating: none published — boAt's own feed carries no rating or review count on any of the 60 listings we read
• Role: The ceiling
• Buying logic: scale, not refinement