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Corsairs Raptor lion of quality gaming peripherals has the features you need to win at a price you like click now to learn more now when I covered the ultimate ears boom I had said you know what these Bluetooth battery powered speakers probably not a lot of innovation left this will probably be the last one I look at in a while well it turns out I was wrong this my friends is the simple audio going quite frankly I wasn't gonna check it out but someone who I liked very much and respect very much told me well ok please check it out because it actually is really good and I was like okay fine I've heard this before but fine so the go is priced in line with the rest of the market at about a hundred dollars physically it's about the size I mean they like to say this it's about the size of an iPhone 5 in terms of the amount of space it takes up on your desk but obviously it's a little bit on the thicker side compared to an iPhone but I guess they're right about it being about that size it has a metal grille on the front with a soft touch finish on the back and has that awesome grippy material that Razer has on the back of their I believe it's the Ouroboros wireless receiver but like you put down and it just like doesn't move it practically sticks to things it's actually outstanding it has an on/off switch on the back as well as a line in and USB for charging or powering it and using it all the time and on the top it has a glossy series of buttons so there's your pairing button as well as taking calls button yes it has an integrated speakerphone just like most of these devices as well as volume up and down now the claims of amazingly big sound due to carefully crafted acoustics should probably be taken with a grain of salt with that said there are two full range drivers to cover the mids and highs and just like their more high-end listen product there is a base reinforcing passive pressure driver that is ported at the bottom but should add a little bit of thump to it and some tightness to the base if that feature works anything like its bigger brother the listen that I'd expect it to work quite well just make sure you've got a position on a hard surface for maximum effectiveness now from the amp sp1 and the ultimate ears boom I'm expecting some serious competition in our listening impressions the go does use a Class B amplifier and aims to deliver a fairly flat frequency response compared to the overpowered lows and highs that we get from comparable products so let's spend some time with it and see what we think here before we do the listening tests I should probably say something about the accessories the box is actually quite nice quite well designed very robust indeed there's a manual but you likely won't need it and there's also a handy-dandy little carrying case pouch that has some simple audio branding on it there's also a wall wart this is something that isn't necessarily included with all these things makes a little profile one little simple audio logo on the front a three-and-a-half millimeter cable not particularly stunning in terms of the quality of the cable itself and then finally a USB a two micro B cables so that you can actually charge the thing alright so if you've ever paired a Bluetooth device to anything then you'll be able to set this up fairly easily I realized very early actually once I was listening to the thing why they went with such Vickey rubber for the bottom and the reason is that if it is allowed to vibrate on the surface that it's sitting on it significantly degrades the listening experience so the fact that they put the care and attention into doing something like that means a lot to me it does sound particularly at about 70 to 80 percent volume better balanced than something like the ultimate ears boom and I'm gonna stick with this for the main point of comparison just because we feel it's pretty similar to the sp1 and it's a much more mainstream brand so you're more likely to have a point of reference I mean okay so for context jam box by jawbone there's nowhere near any of these things like like not anything not even close so it was a more balanced overall sound with respect to highs mids and lows we're still talking about tiny drivers inside a tiny enclosure that's battery powered but better is still better with that said it doesn't get as loud as the boom not a lot quieter but a little bit quieter and I found that the quality of the sound is more dependent on the the directionality of it the way that it's facing so if you were to put this sort of in the middle of a room where people are gonna be all around it something like the boom might perform a little bit better from behind whereas the simple audio go will be more sad spying in the corner of a room where people happen to be or at the beach you'd want it kind of in front of everyone as opposed to right in the middle of the group one thing that's cool is that it does tie the volume controlled directly into the software in your player rather than having separate audio control this is something that I have an issue with with the ruckus series of products so that that was really handy and it has a battery life indicator on supported products and there's actually quite a wide variety of them I think that's pretty much all there is to say but it doesn't sound better than other Bluetooth speakers I guess the answer is yes all right so for our audio quality test I'm calling slick upstairs so we're gonna sit we're gonna position it such that it would be kind of like normal like on a desk in front of you okay so there we go so slick I'm actually on a speakerphone right now what would you have to say about the audio quality of the experience it's not moving okay so he's not tearful at the moment if I'm a little bit further away can you hear me clearly though I guess is what we're going for here okay okay well that's excellent okay so I'll hold on I'm gonna move it a little bit further away I'm just gonna lower this table a little bit here okay I can can you hear me now how are we doing okay um how about hold on give me a second how about now okay does it sound any different yeah no you're in my pants so yep down the front of my pants I hope that's okay with you okay cool so anyway guys thank you for checking out this video like it if you liked it dislike it if you just liked it leave a comment if you have it feelings that just can't be expressed by thumbs up and thumbs down and as always don't forget to subscribe - tech tips for unboxings reviews and other hopefully not videos like this I'm very sorry for this