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Marshall Kilburn II - review and sound demo

2019-07-08
hi everyone and welcome you can see Marshalls current lineup of portable speakers for 2019 over the Cuban who is a little bit older the stock will - and the Tufton a completely new I have already reviewed the stock will - which I liked quite a lot I also gave it my personal award we will take a more detailed look at the Tufton later so today I would like to concentrate on the Kilburn tool you can see the new Marshall Keeble - is a complete redesign of the old version not only externally design wise but was internally acoustic wise since I think Marshall try to offer you a similar but improved sound over the Old Kingdom I mean the old one was quite popular so they probably didn't want to change too much not put put of their customers but gone is the strong retro look you can see they redesigned the grille here which I personally like mono it's also more in line with the other models but you don't get this nice golden panel on top without this very old-school flip button here you still get tone controls with their own knobs and buttons and has multi pairing something the old one didn't have but completely new is the acoustic design so it consists of one woofer with one Peter at the front and another driver at the back so it applies the same to online processing we already know from the Marshall stockwell tomb but I think it doesn't work that well for the Cuban - so what does blond line do it doesn't simply play the left channel to the front and the right on to the back but rather sums up left and right with both being out of phase for the front and back so they should cancel out each other so from front you should get some Sarah but with the Cuban if you listen from front you rather get a mono sound with the other channel playing for the back it doesn't work that well like with the stock well tomb also the stock will to listen from the side projected the song somehow into the room this doesn't work with the children I did some measurements to see what's going on I made them Otto's at a distance from half a meter and you can see the measurement onyx is from front and from the back you can see it measures a little bit weird the tone controls are in neutral here we can also have a look at the measurement with the tone dials at minimum and at maximum you can see it has too much upper base there is a strange peak between one and two kilohertz and another dip at 5 kilohertz so overall the sound is a bit strange and I would like to demonstrate to this I would like to go inside first and we'll compare it maybe against the anchors and commotions class which is not Mona also cheaper but I think at normal levels it can compete quite well in even outperform the Cuban - and we can also compare it against the audio pro zone C 3 which is similarly priced a bit smaller but also has Wi-Fi so it's the the similar version to the p3 but I think they see three sounds better also because it offers tone control just like the Cuban and later on we'll go out to us because I heard some claims that it's a loudspeaker and it's indeed quite lot about the loudness of an Jabil extreme - maybe but with more bass so it doesn't reduce bass at high levels but rather keeps based at the high level and reduces treble instead so I thought we'll compare it maybe against a mini Eric 3 set up with meaner example food this is maybe one of the hardest small portable speakers the norm and you will hear how loud it release and unfortunately I cannot offer you any the health comparison to the old Marshall kilburn but you can check it out from my database and you will notice that then you want although it's rather offers some kind of mono sound still sounds better so check it out from a database compare it against the table extreme also it makes him you will hear that the Cuban pool has small base and more meaty sound but also slightly more compressed but now let's get into us and have a listen as always I will use my DJI Osmo action as head cam for this first-person immersive view and sound of course using my phone or microphones usual this and headphones put them up and let's check them out first let's compare the Cuban 2 against a stock well too as I think that with this particular model online processing really works at its best so it offers you some additional quality of the music why with the kilburn it's not that great I will start with a gesture and equipment to playing first the Stockholm he placed somehow more open so you have the impression as hitting the music in front of you why would the Kievan - it's rather inside the speaker it is that emotive use but also way more spacious also in listen like this apparently from the side but you may be here that the office had rather soundstage here that's what this it add some additional reverb effect to the music which somehow is not wanted but you can hear it also broadens up create some kind of sound battle something that Hill them to doesn't quite offer so the processing really adds some additional quality it also adds some artifacts all this edit reverb but you get some openness which is rather missing from traditional speakers especially when listen decals from the side let's ride this rack it also add some additional ambience and reverb but this deal somehow sounds simply more open it's gonna get MoMA of course at higher levels the stopper tool will start to lose bass also become quite a bit more compressed here in stronger quite a bit why the Cuban as way more power so it's not a speaker for high levels now let's compare the Cuban two against an audio Pro ed on c3 the audio Pro is playing with my personal sound settings which is travel at maximum and pace to notice below as I think it sounds best like this especially at lower levels I will start again with the Marcia and listen closer to their Fender Rhodes here you can hear some buzzing sound here the audio Pro doesn't do this so maybe also some side artifact of this Blum and processing and you could see increase travel to maximum on the c3 and I think it sounds fine like this but we get the same with the kid on tour to some a bit too harsh too exaggerated so I will leave treble and bass at neutral the committee also here that the Marshall Keeble - has way more emphasis on alpha base and it gives you this song somehow that's why this if you can maybe hear if you notice some well that there is only some processing some compression going on which is probably also some side artifact of glam line or of the implementation of this processing here CP again face yes like it was recorded more or less also is to sum up left and right for the Wolfram but at least trail is spread to the left and right naturally strike some kind of rock me reduce pace here but this also reduces lower days so we reduce the complete days we like this snippy the Sun somehow more normal it has some coloration which ya Sunday night I think this work here is again a meadow space I think it's right now you can have its Romano offers a more direct sound but also some nice effects is although the Kuban tool does a better job maybe in spreading the sound to the sides and so let's compare the marshal Kibum to against the Incas sound commotion plus the Inca is also the option for some kind of tone controls which I available for the sound kept apart from some safety recess there is also a 9/10 equalizer I set it like this as I think it sounds best like this the Marshall Keeble to explain with neutral settings and again another track from savasana increases future here it also adds some kind of compression some dynamics processing which doesn't really add any quality to the music unlike with the Super Bowl to get some additional artifacts but no benefit from this the income definitely offers a more realistic result here is it quite gloomy and cheap I refuse bail edges and multiplexer maybe let's reduce if it's indeed a bit for this for district until the face doesn't hate this for meanness I'm not sure it sounds a bit red inside the speakers also effects is Jenka does quite a great job I think so yeah something else a little space again there for next trick maybe even better with based on time that's our this right thanks and excellent is and here it's quite punchy with bass but not as loud rate not as booming I will increase volume to make some here so you can also listen like hi ladies of course the Anka is a way smaller speaker so it cannot retain all the days at maximum I will increase volumes the Marshall like this menu but the base is also quite mini Bianca still sounds great I would say more offensive cannot compete bonds from my dog howdy class it's one of the same just with way more babies and more cooling and now let's get autos in compare it against the mini reeks with me lyrics up to hear how loud it really is a turn treble to eight on the Marshall otherwise it tends to sound a bit muddy at high levels I also set a custom EQ for the mini rigs and let's start with the first track in the master playing first volume is around two thirds Horrocks I was talking quizzing volume to maximum so this is the macho thing at maximum Aminu makes the loudest ice quality fries what we could try is placing the sofa on the floor which should increase based slightly this purpose you will rather be Houston like this on the floor so let's try the game increasing form to maximum of the Marshall damn away maybe ten meters but it's quite soft already gemiini rigs let me try to reduce volume to the same level as their Marshall maybe maybe like this no like this has more bass sounds witnessing going together look for this oh so this is like the old Texas mimicks it's quite bass-heavy at maximum it's it retains all the haste so maybe let's use Bayes net it will become slightly louder also increase travel to maximum so again volume at maximum for the master if they don't have this red-faced mr. history some metal with a massage Footwear to shine and that was one hit but somehow morning what define but the thing to hear that we reduce bass but it's still quite quite pet sounding so in my personal opinion I think that the marshal kid onto is definitely a nice upgrade over the old one being louder nicer sounding but it's no game changer so the J really extreme cool sound justice nice it looses basic maximum but remains somehow more punchy without the strong compression I mean it had no chance against there me lyrics here and at normal levels I even like the ankus on commotion class anymore it hadn't a nicer sound dispersion although it should offer you a kind of 360 degree sound it's somehow phase as the back rather doesn't contribute that much to the sound so this whole the online processing gets a little bit lost compared to the stock well - I think this sounds way more open when I saw of course without this power also loses dynamics at high levels loses face so the Kilburn tool does a nice job here but it's not some kind of no game changer or something revolutionary it's a nice upgrade over the old one but some might get annoyed by this rather mono sounding effect you get so from front you really get only one channel the other one is projected backwards and you could hear it also gets some slight reverb effect similar like we had from the stock well - so it sounds a bit fake it doesn't reproduce what was recorded together with this slightly with frequency response and not quite sure how to set the - also because the bass already starts to a lot of below hundred Hertz it reaches quite deep but the peak is between 100 and 200 Hertz so too much upper base making the Sun somehow booming closed it's some kind of inside the box sound so it doesn't offer you this nice open sound of the stock well - yeah but it's not bad by no means so it doesn't have any issues does not distort does not fart or whatever it does a nice job but I think it must suit your own taste for my taste it's a little bit too hard and too artificial sounding but I like the design more than from the old one it doesn't look that that retro anymore so it looks quite nice I think and next time we'll of course compare the Marshall Tufton against some other ones and they're not quite sure what to use here but yeah let us let us surprise so I hope you liked this video about the Marshall kid on tow really a nice become also if you can get it discounted what I like it doesn't need any external power supply but you need some 220 volts you cannot charge it by USB or like with the anchor and with the stoplight oh yeah and nothing has to say about the key beyond to check it out from a database again compared to some other speakers but I think it sounds a little bit too closed to boo me somehow so the turning base down doesn't really help here yeah thanks all for watching and see you next time
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