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
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