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With the Extra Bass off, the GTK-XB60 delivers more bass than just about any speaker in this price range. In fact, it could be argued that the speaker not only doesn't need an Extra Bass button, but sounds better with it disabled. Without the Extra Bass button enabled, the GTK-XB60 is capable of delivering serious power. So, the speaker is indeed portable, but if you're wanting the light show and loud volume, keeping it plugged into an outlet is highly advised. Without the Stamina button engaged, you get 3.5 hours at top volumes, which seems far more in line with what you'd expect from a speaker this size. At maximum volume, with the Stamina button engaged, it drops dramatically to 5 hours. Sony claims 14 hours of battery life, but that's what you get with the LED lights off and the speaker operating at less-than-top volume levels.
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Using the Voice Memos app on an iPhone 6s, we could understand every word we recorded, but the audio was garbled and fuzzy, as is typical with portable speaker mics using Bluetooth. Surprisingly, you can take calls through the GTK-XB60, making it one of the largest speakers we've tested to include this feature. The lights can be disabled by holding down the W.Party Chain button for a few seconds. It's an impressive display, but it has some quirks: If the speaker is plugged into a power strip, for instance, the lights will flash every time the strip is powered up. The lights are bright, and flash in several colors, sometimes with the beat of the music, sometimes at random. Often, I found them jarring, so perhaps this is correct. Sony claims the LED lights bring an "EDM festival atmosphere" to your room. There's also a quarter-inch mic jack and mic level knob in case you wish to use the speaker for karaoke. In terms of connectivity, the back panel houses RCA inputs and outputs, as well as a USB port for charging or playing MP3 or WAV files from a USB device.
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There's a little bit of button bloat here, which most Bluetooth speakers avoid by using an app to pair and chain speakers together. The back panel also houses a Party Chain button that works in conjunction with the other Party Chain button if your speaker is the "host" speaker. All of the buttons flank a built-in handle for carrying the speaker from room to room. There's also an NFC pairing field on this panel. Then, there are the less obvious buttons: Stamina (for saving battery life), Function (for switching between Bluetooth, USB, or RCA inputs), Add (for pairing multiple GTK-XB60 speakers), and W.Party Chain (for setting multiple GTK-XB60 or XB90 speakers to play from the same source simultaneously). The control panel houses a power button, a play/pause button (which doubles as the call management and track navigation button), plus/minus buttons for volume, and an extra bass button.
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The speakers are ported (the port is located on the rear panel) for more efficient driver movement. The speaker can stand upright or on its side, with a control panel on the top (when its upright).īeneath the huge front panel speaker grille, the GTK-XB60 packs dual 2-inch tweeters and dual 5.2-inch woofers, for a combined 30 watts of power (15 watts per channel). If there's a design turnoff here for some, it's probably the blue or black plastic contour-it looks like the plastic on a large cooler. So while it might be battery-powered, it truly pushes the definition of portable, and it isn't rugged or waterproof if you want to use it for an outdoor party. It measures 21.8 by 10.4 by 10.7 inches (HWD) and weighs 17.7 pounds. When we say the GTK-XB60 is big, we're not joking. Audio purists seeking an accurate sound signature shouldn't bother with this big bass behemoth, but if you're looking for a large speaker with extra bass depth to pump up electronic, hip-hop, pop, and rock tracks, the GTK-XB60 won't disappoint.
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Case in point: the $249.99 Sony GTK-XB60, an imposing structure with built-in LED lights that almost looks more like a gaming PC than a speaker. We test our fair share of small, portable Bluetooth speakers, but that doesn't mean speakers need to be small in order to be portable.
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