JBL Go 2 Bluetooth speaker, connected via its AUX input to an iPod Touch portable media player.
There are a few ways for how to set the volume control on the JBL Go 2 Bluetooth speaker. Furthermore, these depend on the app(s) you’re playing from mostly. Many apps provide volume controls. Plus, this JBL speaker has two buttons for volume control. Find these (the + and -) buttons on its top, in the center. Note though, that you cannot set volume with the JBL Connect app on this BT speaker.
First, you can set the volume control without using any apps as follows.
See the correct speaker position shown next. There are five buttons in this row, which, again, we find across the top of the speaker. We have circled the volume control buttons.
Press the (-) button to cut the volume. Tap the (+) button to make it louder.
Next is an example of giving Siri a voice command to set the volume to half (50 percent).
Briefly press the Home button to get Siri’s attention. Then ask her to raise and lower the volume as follows.
Next is an example of Siri responding to a voice command to set the volume to FULL (100 percent).
Siri currently understands one scale for volume adjustment: 0-100 percent. Example commands follow. Say these after you’ve pressed the Play / Pause to wake her up.
There are also shortcut commands for min and max volume setting, as in:
Besides the volume control on the speaker, you can also adjust volume with the buttons on the paired source device too, including iPadOS, iOS, and Android devices.
But, we find that volume adjustments on the speaker do not change the volume setting on our Samsung J7 Sky Pro Galaxy Pro Android phone. In fact, for this device, the volume control on the speaker appeared to affect the gain of the amplifiers in the speaker, and not the phone volume. Indeed we noticed distortion in the speaker, with its volume set to half while the phone volume was at full (100 percent). So, just keep in mind this caveat, so you can avoid “over driving” the JBL Go 2 with your Android device.
In this demo though, we’re playing YouTube content on our iPad Air, and streaming to the JBL Go 2 via the Bluetooth connection. To make that happen, do the following.
Start streaming an internet radio station, a song from YouTube or Spotify for example, or an Audible book. In this demo, we streamed YouTube audio to the speaker, as shown next.
See this done in the next picture.
Note the purple arrowed volume setter square with a speaker inside of it in the last picture.
Also note that the volume change you hear on the speaker lags by a second or so. Why? Because of the latency (delay) of the commands going across the Bluetooth airwaves.
Finally, again, we’re not covering here how to set volume for specific apps. So, we leave figuring out how to do this as a reader exercise.
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