Product Reviews, Experiences, and Technical Insights from Thomas J. Hesley
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How to Factory Reset Sony XG 500
Shows how to factory reset the Sony XG 500 wireless tabletop speaker back to its default settings. E.g. Resetting returns sound mode and light settings to their fresh-out-of-the-box values. Plus, factory resetting erases any earlier connected Bluetooth devices from memory. This stops this unit from auto pairing to any nearby wireless devices. Moreover, you might…
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Sony XG 500 Specs
Here, we list Sony XG 500 X Series boombox BT speaker specs. Firstly, these specifications cover the unit’s length, width, weight, battery recharge time, output power, and music play time per charge. We also include the frequency response, driver size, Bluetooth support details et al. Secondly, it’s clear from the published specs, that the Sony…
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How to Turn On Lights on Sony XG 500
This speaker comes equipped with a set of party LED lights on the ends that, by default, blink, change color, and pulsate to the beat of whatever you play on the speaker. But someone may have switched these lamps off, and now, you wonder how to make them work again to enhance the atmosphere at…
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How to Turn On Lights on Sony XG500
This speaker comes equipped with a set of party LED lights on the ends that, by default, blink, change color, and pulsate to the beat of whatever you play on the speaker. But someone may have switched these lamps off, and now, you wonder how to make them work again to enhance the atmosphere at…
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Sony XG 500 Blinking Orange Light
Many Sony speakers, including the Sony XG 500 boombox party speaker, have a blinking orange light that tells you when its internal battery needs charging. Sometimes though, this flashing happens even though you’ve just fully recharged the unit, when it should not blink, assuming the battery recharged correctly. Thus in this piece, we offer reasons…
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Sony XG 500 Orange Light Stays On
Many Sony speakers, including the XG 500, feature a charging status light that illuminates orange while they charge. But sometimes, this light stays on longer than expected. E.g. It does not switch off after way more than the specified charging time once you connect the charger. So in this post, we offer reasons that this…
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Sony XG 500 Specs Watts
The XG 500 Sony Bluetooth boombox speaker is a medium power, party stereo with abundant audio output watts in its specs to fill a common size room or yard with plenty loud, far reaching tunes. But what do the watts of a BT speaker tell us about it? Firstly, the watt is a measure of…
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How to Pair Sony XG 500 to iPhone
This post shows how to pair the Sony XG 500 boombox Bluetooth speaker with an iPhone, or other iOS or iPadOS based device. How to Pair Sony XG 500 to iPhone, Step by Step With your XG 500 switched OFF (power button is dark), run through these directions to pair it to your iPhone mobile…
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Sony XG 500 Bluetooth Pairing
This post gives Sony XG 500 Bluetooth pairing steps for this Extra Bass boombox speaker, to connect it with common Bluetooth devices. E.g. Including the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad line of Apple phones, media players, and tablets along with Android devices as well. Sony XG 500 Bluetooth Pairing, Step by Step With your…
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Sony XG 500 Power Button Not Working
When the Power button on your Sony XG 500 is not working, this likely means one or more things as follows. Sony XG 500 Power Button Not Working: Reasons Why Dead Battery. The internal battery is empty needs a recharge for continued speaker operation. Use a widely available AC charger to do this. Faulty AC…