{"video_id":"eY5AQhEeTc0","title":"What is a GAMING Speaker? - LG UltraGear GP9","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2022-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":502,"segments":[{"start_s":0.24,"end_s":6.56,"text":"welcome ls and g's we've got","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.36,"end_s":8.8,"text":"the back of the box","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":6.56,"end_s":13.28,"text":"lg's ultra gear gaming speaker is the star of the show today it's sponsored by","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.8,"end_s":16.32,"text":"lg and look at would you look at that they wrote me an adorable little note","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.28,"end_s":22.96,"text":"we're really excited to collaborate with you thank you aw thank you very much guys what is a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.48,"end_s":28.72,"text":"gaming speaker you might ask well it's somewhere in between a pair 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gonna go ahead and say i think it's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":482.479,"end_s":487.599,"text":"on i feel like i could go bird hunting","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":485.52,"end_s":491.84,"text":"just listening to their chirps great positional audio performance","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":489.12,"end_s":496.08,"text":"through headphones actually surprisingly usable positional audio from the speaker","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":494.0,"end_s":498.96,"text":"itself and you guys can check it out at the link in the video description thanks","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":497.36,"end_s":503.039,"text":"lg for sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for watching and get subscribed","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome ls and g's we've got the back of the box lg's ultra gear gaming speaker is the star of the show today it's sponsored by lg and look at would you look at that they wrote me an adorable little note we're really excited to collaborate with you thank you aw thank you very much guys what is a gaming speaker you might ask well it's somewhere in between a pair of headphones and a sound bar and it's intended for your gaming monitor rather than to hook up under your tv it's good perfect included in the box you've got a power brick power cable a what i'm assuming is three and a half millimeter cable i assumed wrong it is in fact a type c cable which actually kind of makes sense because the gaming speaker has a number of different interfaces some of which are analog and some of which are digital and that's it i hope it's got some heft to it you got some heft my boy now it's designed to sit kind of in between the angled v-shaped feet of your regular gaming monitor whether it's an lg one or one made by someone else the i o is all accessible here so there's a headphone microphone combo jack it just turned on i did not do anything um headphone microphone combo jack auxiliary out so if you want to use the three and a half millimeter jack to go out to something else you could do that reset button optical in usb in and power in naturally i mean it is for gamers right RGB lighting 16.7 million colors whoo i'm gonna get some bass from this boy on the top here is everything you're gonna interact with so you got your power button your bluetooth pairing buttons slash what appears to be a connection switching button okay headphone microphone toggle there's a mute button in the middle so it does actually have a built-in microphone and then you've got a couple of different eq presets so you can customize the eq using the app we'll try that out later and then FPS and rts presets personally i find those kinds of presets to be beyond useless but hey they're there and they get a big button for whatever reason all right not bad actually oh you might have noticed i don't have it plugged into anything it does have a 2600 milliamp hour battery that should be good for about five hours of operation obviously you might get a little bit more if you turn on things like the included RGB lights let's go ahead and get the xboom app open here okay well that was quick and painless so what all can i do in here oh look at that wow pretty much no latency so you can turn the headphones on and off so that toggles between speaker mode and headphone mode oh the mic is only really for voice oh yeah we're not using bixby sorry one thing i'm a little skeptical of is lg's claim that the surround sound effect that they have built into the xboom gaming speaker is on par with what can be achieved with headphones it does support dtsx headphones so if you plug headphones into it i have no doubt whatsoever that it will be able to give you full spatial audio with your cans i just am not sure that you're going to be able to do that from speakers pointed at you such a cool idea that i'm surprised actually i think someone has done this before but definitely not with a gamer focus you can actually tell just looking closely at it that it really is designed for a monitor instead of just being a regular sound bar that you happen to put on your desk because the drivers one woofer and one tweeter on either side are angled up so that from a normal distance like you know a monitor in front of you right here they're pointed right at you that's going to help a lot compared to if they're just firing into your chest red is for optical blue is for bluetooth and we're back hey nice eq adjustment is in here uh custom oh look at that oh oh edit there we go oh all right well i'm a little more disappointed but still not bad oh it would be way better if you didn't have to scroll that would that would be better but overall this is pretty good they actually give you a wide range of eq adjustments very nice i give you i'm taking off a mark lg for having to press these arrows to see the whole range but that's it let's try it on a computer shall we all right all we need hooked up to run it on the pc is here we go power in and then our usb type c which is already running to the back of the computer you can see it nestles in to our monitor feet just a little something like that and i got no sound right now because i need to flip it over to pc mode and then i'm also going to need to actually select it as a as an output device okay he work oh and we can totally use the built-in mic just as a microphone if we really want to there's the bomb watch out it's gonna bomb all right that is a lot more grunt than your typical monitor speakers no okay we gotta try to experience the positional audio though positional audio behind does sound a little different than in front it's not like headphones but it's also something that you would be able to get used to you would be able to tell if something's behind you or in front of you trey's interesting what's up jono hey what are you what are you doing well you should be able to tell because my speakers are making counter-strike noises uh honestly i i can't it seems like it automatically turns the game noise down a little bit i can still hear it but yeah it's perfectly easy to maintain a conversation like i can't hear it at all no i did not really yeah cool cool all right see you later of course lg clearly acknowledges this by including of course the ability to use the vp9 as here we go a headphone amp and dac so we're going to go ahead and plug these puppies in to our aux out whoops no to our headphone jack yes then we just hit this button that is some good positional audio now though one down come on one more ah credit to lg it's actually not that far off in terms of positionality so i can hear this guy coming around the corner here i should back off a bit god i'm terrible at this game i can hear the firefight over here that hopefully i can oh no okay my ally already won it oh hi positional audio works ladies and gentlemen of course one of the key features dts headphone x requires content that supports it so we're going to go ahead and install shadow of the tomb raider a game that does support dts headphone x oh wow that's really crisp i'm gonna go ahead and say i think it's on i feel like i could go bird hunting just listening to their chirps great positional audio performance through headphones actually surprisingly usable positional audio from the speaker itself and you guys can check it out at the link in the video description thanks lg for sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for watching and get subscribed"}