Anker Soundcore Boom 2 - first impressions (Patreon)

The new SoundCore Boom 2 is a very promising speaker but is plagued by the same processing issues like most speakers from Anker with bass doing weird stuff at levels below half rendering the speaker just unusable for anyone more critical about sound. This problem goes away at levels around half and should offer everyone a cheaper and more powerful substitute for the Xtreme 4 with more bass at high levels and a more versatile sound overall.

The default tuning (measured below) resembles the JBL Xtreme 4 already a lot, activating BassUp (red) boosts bass even more and increases volume aboubt 3db:

Thanks to the versatile EQ the frequency response can be modelled to simulate the responses of other speakers, below the Xtreme 4 in purple and an EQ for the Boom 2 bringing its response closer to the JBL:

The same for the Helsinki with boosted tuning and allround placement: 

And it's also possible to make the Boom 2 closer to the Harman Kardon go+play (red) to a limited degree, as bass doesn't reach quite as deep on the Boom 2:

I attached a setting which should offer a more or less "flat" response, due to treble loss off axis this only works when listening exactly from front, otherwise the sound appears a bit muddy:

I may listen to my other EQs a bit more and try refining them to make the Boom 2 sound even closer to the other speakers. You will find the Xtreme 4, Helsinki and go+play 3 simulations in my store then.