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B&O Beoplay P2 - best pocket-sized mini speaker

2017-05-29
hi and welcome today it's finally time to check out the bangle dachshund do play p2 a bit more in detail we've already heard it in FB and Oscar maybe you remember but in the meantime I headed at home for several weeks and I think I can state now that this is the best pocket-sized mini speak I've ever tried it's really small so it fits into any pocket but still gives you this mature full-bodied sound usually missing from most mini speakers of course this comes at the price hundred seventeen dollars or euros is not cheap you can definitely find bigger cheapest because that sounds better than this but if you need the smallest form factor with the best sound currently on the market they people seems to be the only one it's not perfect though so pretty minimalistic just has a USB C type charging port no controls it has some internal volume control so when controlling volume for an iPhone or an Android there is no problem but I had problems controlling volume through this xiangning m1s the speaker obviously remained at the last volume step so I couldn't turn it louder from from this device apart from that mmm yeah it has some gimmicky touch control so double tapping will start music shaking will change track and so on but it's sometimes the hasn't really do you see yeah you can also turn it off through the app and I don't want to go more into details about how great it looks and so on how great the design is but the product concentrate on sound will also listen to it compared to some other speakers some nice because like this JBL clip here but also because because like the flip 3 and later on also the a1 has many very interested how it is to compare not before having a listen let's check out some frequency response measurements I measured it directly on axis and 45 degrees off-axis and you can see it has a slight smiley response but the smoothness out and listened effects is at low levels there is some dynamic bass boost and the speaker sounds really mature then at higher levels base is reduced more and more but still it manages to give you the impression of a really big sound even at maximum despite the small size of course there is also net you can tweak the sound so there is some thought you can slide around and have four corners warm excited relaxed and bright and I tried to measure this as well so with warm you get an upward still towards base bright does exactly the opposite boost treble we use base excited takes out mid slightly while relaxed boosts meets you can also increase the size of the dot which would make the sound more spacious but with a mono speaker this results in a strange response also Bengal dogs and decided to take away they're still repairing feature so there is no option anymore to pair it with an r1 for stereo it remains a mono speaker but still I think it sounds really great and I would like to demonstrate you this of course you can also check it out for my speaker audio database compare it against two hundred different other speakers but now I will take my head cam like my Laurel microphones you should grab your headphones and we will check it out I will turn the Bo play p2 on and first I would like to demonstrate here what kind of sound you can usually expect from most minutes because of course this is much cheaper this is the JBL clip and all the version but I think it sounds even better than the newer JBL clip - compared to the Bo play p2 it sounds a bit ridiculous although really not that bad actually I start playing with the p2 and the song from soul person and Princess Rita is instrumental version so please have a listen to JBL yes and it's ridiculous compared to their pain oh dal-su possibly also try the difference in loudness between both so the jvm clip is already playing closer to medium this is maximum volume with quite a bit of compression the p2 also makes more now I can hear much louder not really comparable what we could do is compare it against some highly rated speaker on Amazon this is the un's angle 3 from Cambridge Audio I think this one's even worse than the JBL clip but people seem to be quite satisfied with it and yeah we should check out how this sounds compared another song again starting with the V 2 first if our two worlds the same is not even FM radio quality is just horrible now of course they're tense angle is much cheaper I think you know $30 per film I would like to listen to music with this also remember the p2 is an omnidirectional speaker so it will sound great from all angles there the one thing is really one of the worst I've heard still I don't understand all the people who create this so highly what I could do is of course try mixing volume the entangle is extremely loud regarding the size but it still sounds like crap so to increase in volume to maximum really hurt the people smothered loud but remains nicely balanced and sound just horrible I think the p2 sounds more comparable to the JBL flip 3 of course the JBL flip fries also quite a bit cheaper maybe half the price of the p2 but still impressive what can be achieved always pick up that small starting again with their we can also check lower levels where the p2 has some dynamic sound adjustment they flip three sounds a bit thin at lower levels again increasing volume a bit higher we'll try to match them analysis you can hear some very slight vibration this is just because Mendelsohn and storm over do their processing but most because we will hear their click three doesn't sound as smooth so this is really impressive performance also keep in mind the only directional sound from behind you can get more less forget there 3 3 of course Lamas why's that people cannot compete with the free free so I will increase volume - maximum football much louder maybe something from multiple girls definitely not as long as they're slippery but because many have asked to compare it against the HEI one who will do the snow the a one being one of the best portable compacts because around the p2 we'll have of course a hard time to compete with especially as it's much smaller but still I would like to show you how these two Sun compared I will start with some jazz pop all-school so please have a listen nah nah he's bitter just great one cliff share the meat stuffing out all the time not finish go to me is legally No community a one has much more bass or so a bit more refinement to the sound but fifty two sons fulfill Metro the vocals come better to digital of course it doesn't have this deep base of very one so the people sounds like a mini version of the a1 maybe being less than half the size it's really quite impressive something else here with really each part bass and more powerful recordings like this from some Poisson process feature you will notice the difference in bass response between these two a bit better the a1 has much deeper bass and much more powerful bass I don't want anyone not to as well here it cannot compete with the a 1000 sound so that's bottom list I would like to compare it against a show me me Bluetooth speaker which is maybe the only mini speaker that can a little bit compete with the pitot I will place the show me me flop just like the p2 to make them more comparable and now I'd like to show you when the p2 can become a bit uncontrolled toothpaste especially at mid volume so please have a listen and hear the bass drum sounds quite a bit distorted the show-me plays this totally clean there is some maybe overdone processing in the mid volume range this goes away when you turn the speaker softer or we can hear it drones they're Xiaomi doesn't have this full-bodied sound of their people but is much more controlled somehow another song can hear that this sounds much cleaner although it's also much more directional than their people so this happens around half volume zone forty percent up to sixty percent where some songs can start to draw nor destroyed let's write this house reckon this is the bass run when I know it's horrible I show me place this moment clean this goes away at higher levels but here at around fifty percent it's quite bad actually but then when the bass starts it becomes cleaning and so this is just a matter of processing because they show me also becomes a little bit dirty maybe another track result for some first hand of misfortune here I think you could feel the people sounds really impressive and great for its size it can even compete with ladders because like the JBL flip 3 here which is no slouch either there are biggest because than this which sound worse still it's not perfect as you could hear may be some slight distortion at mid volume levels bass becomes a little bit out of control you can tone it down by the app but still also battery life is not the greatest at maximum I didn't get 2 hours out of it but I think it's still better than a JBL clip which didn't even play 1 hour and a half while being much softer if it's worth $170 yeah it's up to you you can get a better video maybe with the Xiaomi me it doesn't sound as great or as loud as the people but it costs just $40 so it's also a really great speaker it cannot compete with the hey won but it's also much lighter and and smaller so I'm not sure if there will be any other really small pocket sites because better than this harman kardon will issue the new traveler which seems to be some successor model of the Esquire Mini but the Esquire Mini costing nearly the same price is a joke compared against the p2 so I doubt the new Harman Kardon traveler will be much better Harman Kardon wada concentrates on conference ii functions and so on but sound wise they p2 will probably wipe it still I'm quite interested to hear the new Harman Kardon treble on and if it will be released I will of course compare it against a p2 currently my wife is using it therefore I also took this golden color as her - is also golden so it's her speaker thanks to her for lending it to me I hope this was helpful for you I hope you had a little bit fun and see you in the next video have a nice time and bye-bye
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