The bottom of the speaker has a small flat base with four tiny rubber feet to dampen any vibrations. The back of the speaker has the embossed LG XBOOM branding and holes to attach a lanyard that isn’t included. A nice touch is a raised dimple over the volume up button which is useful for feeling the main controls without having to look at the speaker. Raised dimple over volume controls is a nice touchįinally there’s the Sound Boost button with its accompanying LED, which is on by default. The button also answers and ends phone calls. A double press skips forward a track and a triple press skips back. #LG X BOOM SPEAKER SYSTEM BLUETOOTH#There’s the power button with LED, the Bluetooth pairing button with its LED, volume controls and the pause | play button. You’ll need to ensure this flap is fully closed to maintain the IPX5 water resistance rating. The flap needs to be fully closed to maintain weather proofing In fact the right side cleverly pulls open to reveal the USB-C charging port with accompanying LED, a 3.5mm audio-in port, a reset button and the Dual Mode button for pairing two speakers. Unlike the significantly more expensive PL5 and PL7, what look like passive radiators at the side don’t move or have any LED lighting. USB-C charging, aux-in and dual mode for stereo pairing two PL2 speakers #LG X BOOM SPEAKER SYSTEM SERIES#It looks a little more contemporary than the PK series before it. The rounded design is quite appealing and is carried through the entire range of speakers in the range. There’s no creaking however hard you twist or squeeze it. This is a particularly well made speaker, with a matte grey finish that doesn’t attract fingerprints. It measures 126mm by 82mm x 80mm and weighs just 350g, smaller and lighter than all the other speakers I comparing it against. This is a very compact speaker and would be perfect for travel. There’s no 3.5mm auxiliary cable or travel pouch. Inside the box you get the speaker itself, a white USB-A to USB-C charging cable and an instruction manual. Overview The speaker has good build quality The Ultimate Ears and Tronsmart have a similar design but are slightly bigger the PK3 is significantly bigger but is often reduced to the same price, and the Soundcore 2 is a very popular compact speaker slightly cheaper than the PL2’s retail price of around £50 or $50. I’ll be running through its features before comparing how it sounds to a few of its rivals: the hugely popular Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 2 which is only a little more expensive, the budget Tronsmart T6 Mini, last year’s LG XBOOM Go PK3 and the Anker Soundcore 2. In the video you can hear a comparison between these 5 speakers This is one of the smallest speakers I’ve tested, but still has 10 hours of battery life, a Sound Boost mode, USB-C charging, stereo pairing with another PL2 speaker and an IPX5 water resistance rating. LG’s complete PL range of Bluetooth speakersĪll three speakers share the same design and they all have their audio tuned by Meridian like their predecessors, the PK series I looked at last year. I’ll be looking at its larger PL5 and PL7 siblings separately. The LG XBOOM Go PL2 is the smallest and least expensive offering in LG’s latest trio of speakers.
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