After having another listen, with both speakers separate it does seem one is slightly off from the other so it would appear it’s playing in stereo. But I cannot test this as I do not have any equipment to see if it’s true stereo sound or just the delay between the two speakers due to the bluetooth connection
My Soundcore Mini 2 Review
Do you have a BT enabled laptop/PC and Windows? You could pair the ‘primary’ with windows, second with the primary then use Audacity etc to split channels of a stereo music source…would be way to see if left and right go specific speakers…
Can you detect any lag as you daisy chain phone - speaker - speaker?
I thought it might be using that new BT v5 multiple paired concurrently feature? You seem to be saying this is a feature just in the speaker not reliant on the phone?
The speaker BT version is 4.2 EDR+…
Thanks, I just downloaded audacity and it was able to split left and right. So it Does play true stereo sound, seemingly the only lag I got was with my second phone. On my main phone there’s is no lag.
@nigelhealy the only lag I had was with my second phone. Pairing to the phone is near instant, as is turning the second speaker on and it automatically goes into paired mode. Turning off one, turns both speakers off as well.
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Cool, so it does seem to be a master / slave setup in true stereo mode…kudos buddy…
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I don’t understand. So when you connected two speakers, the phone saw there were two speakers? Screenshot of phone?
Sorry for the misunderstanding, only 1 is paired to the phone and the second one is paired off the first speaker. When both are paired together only 1 still shows on your phones bluetooth connection.
I’m not sure how the codec is handled internally, but it is able to split the signal into two separate channels so you have left and right
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Nice video review and shoot 34 degrees it’s almost 70 degrees in the area i live in California
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Does the phone change from seeing a mono speaker to a stereo speaker or does the phone just not have any detection whatsoever and its one Mini 2 is one mono and two Mini 2 is stereo is the totality of how it appears?
Was that dmx? Sounded like you were bumpin dmx
Why yes, yes it was
DMX- Lord Give Me A Sign, and Let Me Fly
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Dmx is very distinctive, man brought back some memories, next bump some of that NAS or method man😉
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Wow!!! Great review!!! I like it!!!
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So the phone just sees the Mini2 it is paired with.
When the Mini2 is by itself it acts a single mono speaker.
When the Mini2 is connected to another Mini2 then it keeps one left/right channel for itself and the other right/left channel is out the 2nd Mini2?
Well that is where I am skeptical, I think they are just two mono speakers. Did you modify the left/right channel so could independently control volume per pair so it is true stereo?
Correct, the phone only sees the speaker its paired to.
And yes, I did split the signal so it’s left and right independently.
I have had the original Soundcore Mini for about a year, and it definitely produces amazing sound for its size (and especially price). However, I never could get it to tune through the FM radio- the instructions weren’t very clear, and the process seemed very complex. To this day, I still haven’t been able to figure it out. Any advice?
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Have the mini. I uses the AUX cable as the antennae. So use some old bust earphones for example to have a wire with the 3.5mm plug.
Great job Rob. Bet that pool is super lush in the sunshine 