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welcome ls and g's we've got

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the back of the box

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lg's ultra gear gaming speaker is the star of the show today it's sponsored by

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lg and look at would you look at that they wrote me an adorable little note

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we're really excited to collaborate with you thank you aw thank you very much guys what is a

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gaming speaker you might ask well it's somewhere in between a pair of

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headphones and a sound bar and it's

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intended for your gaming monitor rather than to hook up under your tv

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it's good

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perfect

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included in the box you've got a power brick

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power cable a what i'm assuming is three and a half

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millimeter cable i assumed wrong it is in fact a type c

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cable which actually kind of makes sense because the

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gaming speaker has a number of different interfaces some of which are analog and

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some of which are digital and that's it i hope it's got some heft to it

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you got some heft my boy now it's designed to sit kind of in between the

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angled v-shaped feet of your regular gaming monitor whether it's an lg one or

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one made by someone else the i o is all accessible here so there's a headphone

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microphone combo jack it just turned on

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i did not do anything

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um headphone microphone combo jack

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auxiliary out so if you want to use the three and a half millimeter jack to go

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out to something else you could do that reset button optical in usb in and power in naturally

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i mean it is for gamers right RGB lighting 16.7 million colors

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whoo

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i'm gonna get some bass from this boy on the top here is everything you're

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gonna interact with so you got your power button your bluetooth pairing buttons slash

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what appears to be a connection switching button okay

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headphone microphone toggle there's a mute button in the middle so

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it does actually have a built-in microphone and then you've got a couple

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of different eq presets so you can customize the eq using the app we'll try

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that out later and then FPS and rts presets personally i find those kinds of

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presets to be beyond useless but

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hey they're there and they get a big button for whatever reason

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all right not bad actually

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oh you might have noticed i don't have it plugged into anything it does have a

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2600 milliamp hour battery that should be good for about five hours of

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operation obviously you might get a little bit more if you turn on things

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like the included RGB lights let's go ahead and get the xboom app

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open here okay well that was

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quick and painless so what all can i do in here oh look at

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that wow pretty much no latency

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so you can turn the headphones on and off so that toggles between speaker mode

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and headphone mode

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oh the mic is only really for voice

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oh yeah we're not using bixby sorry one thing i'm a little skeptical of is lg's

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claim that the surround sound effect that they have built into the xboom

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gaming speaker is on par with what can be achieved with headphones

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it does support dtsx headphones so if you plug headphones into it i have no

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doubt whatsoever that it will be able to give you full spatial audio with your

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cans i just am not sure that you're

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going to be able to do that from speakers pointed at you

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such a cool idea that i'm surprised actually i think someone has done this

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before but definitely not with a gamer focus

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you can actually tell just looking closely at it that it really is designed

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for a monitor instead of just being a regular sound bar that you happen to put

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on your desk because the drivers one woofer and one tweeter on either side

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are angled up so that from a normal distance like you know a

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monitor in front of you right here they're pointed right at you that's

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going to help a lot compared to if they're just firing into your chest

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red is for optical blue is for bluetooth

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and we're back hey nice

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eq adjustment is in here uh custom

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oh look at that oh oh edit there we go oh all right well

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i'm a little more disappointed but still not bad oh it would be way better if you

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didn't have to scroll that would that would be better but overall this is

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pretty good they actually give you a wide range of eq adjustments

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very nice i give you i'm taking off a mark lg for having to press these arrows

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to see the whole range but that's it let's try it on a computer shall we

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all right

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all we need hooked up to run it on the pc is

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here we go power in and then our usb type c which is already running to the

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back of the computer you can see it nestles in to our monitor feet just a

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little something like that and i got no sound right now because i need to flip

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it over to pc mode and then i'm also going to need to actually select it as a

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as an output device

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okay he work oh and we can totally use the built-in

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mic just as a microphone if we really want to there's the bomb watch out it's

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gonna bomb

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all right that is a lot more grunt than

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your typical monitor speakers

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no okay we gotta try to experience the

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positional audio though positional audio

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behind does sound a little different

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than in front it's not like headphones

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but it's also something that you would be

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able to get used to you would be able to tell if something's behind you or in front of you

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trey's interesting what's up jono hey

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what are you what are you doing well you should be able to tell because

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my speakers are making counter-strike noises uh honestly i i

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can't it seems like it automatically turns the game noise down a little bit i can still

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hear it but yeah it's perfectly easy to maintain a conversation

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like i can't hear it at all

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no i did not really yeah cool cool all right see you later

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of course lg clearly acknowledges this by including

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of course the ability to use the vp9

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as here we go a headphone amp and dac so we're going

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to go ahead and plug these puppies in to our aux out whoops no to our headphone

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jack yes

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then we just hit this button that is some good positional audio now though

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one down come on one more ah

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credit to lg it's actually not that far off in terms of positionality

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so i can hear this guy coming around the corner here i should back off a bit

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god i'm terrible at this game i can hear the firefight over here that hopefully i

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can oh no okay my ally already won it oh hi positional audio works ladies and

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gentlemen of course one of the key features dts headphone x requires

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content that supports it so we're going to go ahead and install shadow of the

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tomb raider a game that does support dts headphone x

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oh wow that's really crisp i'm gonna go ahead and say i think it's

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on i feel like i could go bird hunting

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just listening to their chirps great positional audio performance

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through headphones actually surprisingly usable positional audio from the speaker

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itself and you guys can check it out at the link in the video description thanks

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lg for sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for watching and get subscribed