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Sounds much bigger than it is!
By Jordan Chase on Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2019
I was seriously surprised by this speaker! It's really compact and portable but produces great sound for its size. Even when it's turned up all the way, there's zero clipping and distortion. You can tell it was tuned with great care. The highs come through just fine without being piercing while the lows are surprisingly deep and rich. I bought it for a camping trip and used it all weekend and continue using it around the house. Pros: - Big sound, small size. - Portable. Not too heavy. Comfortable to carry around thanks to the handles. - Built-in microphone for calls and voice assistants. - Great audio quality. Like surprising quality. Overall audio quality and sound I would give a 9/10. The bass could stand to be a little more powerful, but I mean for its size it does a great job still. I appreciate the support for apt-x. Makes listening to MQA streams from Tidal very pleasant. - Lights are cool looking. You can control lights from their smartphone app. Lights pulse to the music very well. It seems to detect beats in the music decently well and will strobe/pulse the lights along to it. I tend to leave them off except at parties. - Decent build quality. It's all plastic (but not cheap plastic) and the front speaker grille is a sturdy metal that doesn't bend easily when pressed. Cons: - I wish it had a USB charge port so that you could charge your phone off of its battery while playing music. - The door that cover the ports on the back is a little awkward. It gets in the way while cords are plugged into it. - Smartphone app is super basic. You can control the lights from it, change colors and speed, which is cool. But there's only like 4 options. I wish you could just set it to one color, for example. Translations to english are poorly done. Overall, if you're looking for a wireless speaker with good rich sound, this thing does the job and it does it well. It's bigger than some bluetooth speakers, but if you're ok with the size, it's a great little speaker to have. P.s. if you're considering the PK5 or this, get this one instead. The PK5 doesn't sound nearly as good as this one (PK7).
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decent party speaker with flaws
By SashimiW on Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2019
I only used this a few days before returning it. I was going to use 2 of these to fill out a small backyard, 50' wide x 30' deep. What I soon realized is that the sound was loud, but not loud enough, even at max volume. The bass was also decent for a radio this size, comparable to our Bose SoundLink Mini (which I can only say has a wider sound stage than this one). The projection of sound was too limited as well. If you were about 10' from the speaker you could still barely feel the bass, but any further away and it dropped off. This speaker is for a small gathering, with people crowded around; kind of like the beach, campfire settings the marketing ads show. It's a good speaker for limited settings. Additionally I then tried to pair it with an LG RK7, to only find out on an LG forum, that the PK7 can link to other PK7's and PK5's, but not the RK7. There are similar incompatibilities among the entire LG XBOOM line (OK99, OK75, etc). Why LG would decide to make products of the same family incompatible with each other is beyond me. There are situations, like mine, where a PK7 and one RK7 would have been perfect; but no instead please buy 2 x RK7's for compatibility?! That feels like a big middle finger to the consumer. Then I tried to use it with LG TV. I thought, great two LG devices, should be great together. So I linked them up and found the max volume was again anemic. Which was strange because when I streamed music from my phone using multiple different sources (Pandora, Plex, etc) indoors. the sound was actually quite loud and the bass was booming (indoors only). But linked up to the LG TV it was simply pathetic, with the Bluetooth volume maxed out. What the hell is LG doing, when they can't even get their products to play together well and create an experience that will make the user say, "Wow"? But I still wanted to give it a chance, thinking maybe I don't need it that loud. But another flaw presented itself... the auto shut-off. When plugged in the speaker plays at full volume while something is streaming to it; which is an improvement over Sony's SRS-XB line. But if there is no music playback after 15 minutes or button presses for 6 hours, the speaker then shuts off. Again this is an improvement over other speakers, but for indoor use it's a pain in the a**. When I turn on my TV and I want to use the Bluetooth speaker as my output source, I don't want to press power and then press the Bluetooth button each and every time. I want the speaker, which is plugged in and has a continual source of power to go into a low power state with Bluetooth connectivity at a ready state. That way when the TV turns on, I would merely have to change sound output sources, as it would automatically connect to it. Also where I was locating the speaker (behind and under our bed) would be impossible for me to get to and turn on each time (unless there was remote to the speaker, like the RK7 has). Overall this is a decent speaker, with very good sound, decent bass but a limited projection range. I would recommend it for small gatherings, but that's about it.
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