hi everyone chris here with LG's XBOOM GO this is the PL7 model
now this Bluetooth speaker was sent out to me from lg this is a sponsored (paid)video it is a Bluetooth
5 loudspeaker but a little bit different from just any generic loudspeaker this one can output
up to 30 watts but not only that it is tuned by Meridian now meridian they have a lot of
experience with audio tuning and the audio setups they even do audio for example sports cars and
this particular model very powerful for its size and i'll give you a sample of just how it sounds
in this particular video here so it has these lights either side if you're into that you've
got a little bit of party lighting and it can run for an impressive up to 24 hours at 50 volume
thanks to the 3900 milliamp-hour battery that this model has within it. It does also have an
IPX5 splash rating so that means that you can use it next to the pool and not have to worry too much
if someone accidentally splashes a bit of water over it inside the box of the XBOOM Go PL-7 you
will find a type-c to type a usb cable guarantee portable speaker manual and safety information
so the speaker has a really good build quality it is a little heavy but it's not
too bad overall it's 1.46 kilos now if you're wondering about the length of this here it is
245 millimeters so just over 24 centimeters not too bad there so with our buttons up the top here
really high quality and all the plastics used there's no sharp jagged edges or anything like
that you can see we've got the meridian branding right here of course as mentioned at the start
there they have worked with lg partnership with them to get really the best and premium sound out
of the speaker here so just tapping on this it will turn on now we have a status led here for
our battery life now when the speaker is running you can actually hold this button down and it will
turn on and let you know red means that you should charge it now it will run for up to 24 hours at 50
volume without the side lighting on that is and the charge time is five hours of this one here
and it's got a 3900 ml battery so we just got the volume up and down here that's Bluetooth peering
hold it down to pair up of course and here is our play pause now if you double tap on this button
it will go to the next track triple tack tab it will be the previous and of course our sound boost
which I'll give you a demo of later on when i talk a little bit about the sound quality of this
so speakers with this one we've got two drivers either side here which handle the lows these
are 2.5 inches and then i believe two speakers right here in the middle as well so these ones
here they're little subs you actually see them working really hard when it's pumping out the
base and for tiny little speakers only 2.5 inches they do a very good job of getting out those lows
so the mids and the highs and the trebles all handled by the speakers in the middle and the mesh
pattern along here and again the build quality in the finish off this very good now the surface
to the touch of this it is very very smooth it's almost like a rubberized plastic finish
now we have a very sturdy base on this it's flattened here and there are the four little tiny
rubber feet now there's a counterweight in this i believe and that is why that when you're pumping
out your tunes and even there's a lot of bass coming out of this the speaker itself will stay
put it's not going to vibrate on top of a desk or anything which is good now as long as you
keep this rubber gasket over the top of the ports here you'll have an ipx5 rating and that means it
does have the splash resistance there so you can use this without any worries next to a pole or
take it to the beach and you don't have to worry about a couple of splashes or anything like that
affecting the speaker of course as long as this flap is down and here you will find all
of the ports here that we have so we've got an input there auxiliary this is 3.5 millimeter and
a type a usb this is for charging your devices so not only can it just be a portable bluetooth
speaker it can also be a portable battery to keep your phone powered which is good to have
and here we have a reset button and these buttons right here that's to control the lighting on the
side so you can switch through that you can also, use the application which I will show you
shortly and here we have a mode here to pair it up so you can pair this up with up to a hundred
different speakers there to get some real great sound out of you imagine what that would be like
so if you do have friends that have got one of these then you could go to the beach or something
and pair them up and listen to your music then and that way it's going to sound a lot better
and more immersive the more speakers you do add so you can see there's the dual mode
and then multi mode there from pressing these buttons here we'll go into that pairing up mode
and holding down the play button will also bring up google assistant too if you need that if you
want to use it it's there it does support it and then just how does this speaker sound it's
actually very good i'm impressed by the bass that this can output because when you look
at it the size of it you think oh those little subs 2.5 inches they probably won't actually be
that good but the way they have this with the sound channel inside and they're pulling the
bass out with the two subs either end it does a really good job of getting that out
so what I'll do now is just test a little bit of music and this is just a track here from carbon
based life forms really good band and i'll just test out that sound boost mode it does make a
big difference it's basically increasing well the lows the highs and the mids but here's that sample
so
you can hear from that that the sound booster really does quite a bit it just boosts up the
lows the mids as i mentioned now the tune just out of the box without the sound booster mode
on is quite balanced from meridian right here and if you didn't really like that your own
personal preference was more highs and of course you can go in you can up the high frequency there
and get some more treble coming out of this which is coming out of the sound now because it's just a
speaker with well two channel and the way it's set up you're not going to get the sound stage that
you would with say headphones or two separated speakers that is just one area i have noticed
that soundstage on this everything is quite close together but it's what you'd expect really from a
speaker like this and of its size but the base that comes out of this it came for the size of
this thing is quite impressive and here's our app so this one is called xboom you can get
that off your app store so what it does tell us is some useful information right here we've got the
battery life so i've got 90 lift and as mentioned the battery on this is really good so 50 volume
it's going to go for like 24 hours which is great and how long here the bluetooth connection you've
got your songs if you add that you can add your playlist there too now under custom this
is our equalizers and you can set your own one if you wanted to do so if you weren't happy with the
default sound boost one then you can create your own there of course which is a nice little handy
feature to have and under our settings right here you will find that there is a few other
little options too so along here we can get rid of the beep sound the power management gesture there
too as well user guide the multiplay mode and just down the bottom here there was a firmware
update which i do recommend you run just to get the latest and best sound out of the course and
any updates or fixes that they push through so my version of course is updated here for the purposes
of this video and along here under party we've got our lighting effects which you can change
so at the moment it's on the party one which will go through the different colors you've got water
forest jelly bean and really good you can customize this i prefer the party one which
does cycle through different colors and it goes with the beats of the audio that's being played
through the speaker so so far i've been really enjoying this that i can just take it around
the house and use it with whatever i'm doing and have some decent sound from it now you can
blast it out really loud and there's the good bass but even when you turn the volume down
it still sounds quite good thanks to the tune that it has for a bluetooth speaker this is definitely
one of the better ones that i have heard now i can take it of course and to even have a shower
i have it next to me not in the actual shower but next to me not worry about the humidity and
things because that's not really going to affect it there does have the splash rating with this
particular model so what i wanted to do is just do a little test now again with different genre
of music this time a bit of dance music or euro pop or whatever you want to call it this is from
ncs and we'll see what it sounds like and then also test out the maximum volume or
pushing that volume up a little bit louder so just play a tune right now so here we go
okay and now the sound boost big difference there
and what i'll do now is push that volume up
maximum now
so the weight of it at the 1.4 kilos is not bad it's very portable size you can fit into
a bag without any issues and take it around with you and overall i have really enjoyed
my time using this i think the sound quality you're getting the features it offers that
really good battery life that it is definitely a loudspeaker if you're into a portable loudspeakers
you're looking for one, one that you can take really everywhere with you and if you do have
family or friends that also own one of these then you can pair them up for stereo well not
stereo but the more speakers you add the better it's going to sound and you get that surround
kind of experience with it there so thank you so much for watching this video on the XBOOM Go PL7