WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.040 Hello lovelies. Do you live in a micro loft apartment due to the current economic stuff? 00:00:05.760 --> 00:00:11.600 No room for a full home theater setup? Well, Soundcore has the answer to this 00:00:11.600 --> 00:00:18.880 contrived situation. A full 7.1 surround sound speaker with a liquid cooled projector. Perfect 00:00:18.880 --> 00:00:24.640 for your living room, outdoors, or just entertainment during the ensuing climate wars. 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:28.240 When Belfers told me about this, I thought it was going to be like a little desktop mount thing, 00:00:28.240 --> 00:00:35.360 but no, it's a full gigantic speaker-y thing. And apparently it's even got wheels and a handle 00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:39.280 and all that sort of good stuff. Look, you're supposed to roll it off. 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:49.040 One of the easier unboxings I think I've done on ShortCircuit. Look at this thing. 00:00:49.040 --> 00:00:56.000 It's not super heavy. Good wheels. Sound up beyond reality. Hopefully it's got a power cable or 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:03.760 something. I don't know. Is it battery powered? It's a bag in a bag. Got a thing for the handle, 00:01:03.760 --> 00:01:10.880 I guess. Nice. You know, power cable, I thought there was more stuff in here. Actually, it looks 00:01:10.880 --> 00:01:18.800 like all of that is self-contained. That is awesome. I wish more of these types of party 00:01:18.800 --> 00:01:24.320 speaker things did that. It's like a vacuum cleaner, but with a projector in it. We've got 00:01:24.320 --> 00:01:29.760 some plasticky things. We've got a door for the laser projector. They're saying that it's water 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:34.800 cooled, which is pretty neat. I don't know if that means it's got like a liquid loop or a proper 00:01:34.800 --> 00:01:39.600 copper thing with a block and everything. I don't think I'm going to be allowed to take it apart 00:01:39.600 --> 00:01:44.640 and have a look, but maybe there's a hammer somewhere on set. But it's not really like 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:49.680 just a party speaker because it's got these weird satellite things. So if I pop these at the back, 00:01:50.640 --> 00:02:00.240 look at that. It's like a Bluetooth speaker in another speaker. USB-C. It's got feet. Oh my god, 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:06.640 this is sick. It's a claymore. Front towards neighbors. So we've got two of those and then 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:14.000 how do we get these ones out? RL, oh front, front, left, front, right. I'm sure there was a 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:20.400 there's a narrow button for these. Oh my god, it doesn't stop. It's got microphones in it too 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:27.600 and a remote with built-in Netflix buttons and stuff like that. What's going on? I feel very dumb. 00:02:27.600 --> 00:02:33.600 Fold to project, press to power, match to marks. I mean, maybe they release when you turn it on. 00:02:33.600 --> 00:02:38.640 We've got rear left and rear right and then these two guys when we get them out are going to go 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:42.480 on the front. Looks like it's also got a Bluetooth speaker mode. So I wonder if we could play some 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:47.360 audio that way. Maybe if you had a full system and didn't want to use the projector component. 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:52.240 It's pretty neat. Big speakers on the left and right. Big woofery thing right down there at the 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:59.840 bottom. Exhaust fans. We've got some ports at the back here. We've got HDMI to USB-C's and a USB-A, 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:04.640 which is nice to see. And yeah, I guess last in the top here is going to be our microphone. So we've 00:03:04.640 --> 00:03:12.400 got two. They're pairable. They're powerable. They look really quite nice actually. USB-C on the 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:18.640 bottom there. Very cool. Very, very cool. They even give you the direction that they're supposed to 00:03:18.640 --> 00:03:24.560 be. They got RGB in them. That's kind of sick too. And then yeah, of course remote for controlling it 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:31.200 like it would be a TV or maybe like a projector. First impressions of the build quality is really, 00:03:31.200 --> 00:03:37.280 really surprisingly high. These are metal and plastic and they feel sturdy and solid. And these 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:42.000 legs as well feel really sturdy. Yeah, it looks like it's got a quarter 20 on the bottom, I assume, 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:46.480 so that you could mount it to something like an ARM if you wanted it in a more permanent position, 00:03:46.480 --> 00:03:51.440 which would be kind of odd, but still really nice to include. Looks like they charge in the unit 00:03:51.440 --> 00:03:57.200 itself, but they've even got some ports on the back here. USB-C and a little power button too. 00:03:57.200 --> 00:04:01.120 And you can set them into Bluetooth mode it looks like. I'm excited to see what these 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:05.760 side ones look like. They're held in really well for a portable speaker that you're going to be 00:04:05.760 --> 00:04:13.920 driving along the beach. There's like very little flex in the case. I love the rubberized thing here 00:04:13.920 --> 00:04:19.280 that holds on to the end of the power adapter. It seems really like well thought out. I'm quite 00:04:19.280 --> 00:04:24.000 surprised. I thought this would be more like a gimmick product, but it's actually seeming quite 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:30.640 together. Handle is sturdy, metal, and it's got a nice like semi-rubberized grip. Yeah, 00:04:30.640 --> 00:04:36.320 it feels sturdy. I am impressed so far. You know what else is impressive? Our sponsor. 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:44.400 I also forgot to mention, they also sell a projector screen. This one's inflatable if you 00:04:44.400 --> 00:04:49.200 want to have it in your living room or outside. It's all pretty heavy, but compact. 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:58.080 Oh, there's the body that lives in there. They do a 10 foot and a 16.7 foot as well. Couldn't 00:04:58.080 --> 00:05:04.160 give us another couple inches. Come on, even numbers. Okay, there's our surface. So it looks 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:12.080 like the back is this nice soft, really luxurious, like fabricish material. The plastic parts will 00:05:12.080 --> 00:05:19.040 be your pontoon. Nice fabric screen, white surface, not gray. So you're not going to have super good 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:26.480 light control in a bright environment, but most people can close the curtains. So we blow her 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:31.520 up, took me a while, like normal, but I did end up finding the hole. Looks like we just popped 00:05:31.520 --> 00:05:38.080 that out there, and then we have our battery operated pump, and that should just go in here. 00:05:38.080 --> 00:05:44.000 All right, and we just pop on our ending nozzle thing here. It's got a lock on it, and the valve 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:50.000 itself has this little on the air escape one way jack valve, which is pretty cool. That just 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:59.120 goes in there and turns and locks in. And then I guess we just push the button. It's whisper quiet. 00:06:03.840 --> 00:06:13.920 Okay, we got it mostly inflated. It's big and it's too big for the set, and I don't think we 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:20.080 can use this. It doesn't fit. We have a crossways in the set. I mean, we've got the extended ceiling, 00:06:20.080 --> 00:06:25.680 and it might be tall enough, but we don't have enough width. It's too girth. I don't think this is 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:33.520 for your living room. It's big. A couple things I did notice is it's got a couple mounts each side 00:06:33.520 --> 00:06:42.160 for the satellite speakers on the side of the projector speaker. The pump also deflates too, 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:49.360 so that might be good. It's also got another nozzle on the other side. So, you know, maybe it'll 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:55.920 go down a bit faster. Yeah, I mean, it's got the release, which is super nice. So let's just stick 00:06:55.920 --> 00:07:02.240 this guy in here and see what happens, I guess. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:12.800 This is very cozy. One thing I did notice when I was rolling around in it and fondling it a bit 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:17.520 earlier is the screen is attached with what's some pretty heavy-duty Velcro, so I guess you 00:07:17.520 --> 00:07:23.360 could take it off an iron net or something like that, or that would probably be the smart thing to 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:27.680 do when you put it away. Just kind of crumple it and then fold up the screen nicely. This one costs 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:35.120 $2,000 and is, I guess, 17 feet plus the rest of the screen. Should we try the projector now? 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:41.920 Okay, well, after that fiasco, it looks like we have a normal screen. I think we found the 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:47.200 extra pole, which is good. Let's turn it on finally. We've got an extension cable. We've got a thing. 00:07:47.200 --> 00:07:53.920 We've got to take a bunch of stickers off. Let's do it up. Laser forge. It's got a laser warning. 00:07:53.920 --> 00:08:00.640 Oh, wow. AI image adjust. Everything's got AI. It's got depth sensing. Really nice looking 00:08:00.640 --> 00:08:05.440 lens on here. Oh my god, it's not piano black. This is the best thing I've seen all day. 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:10.560 That is sick. Thank you. It's like rubberized as well. It's got a nipple 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:20.400 button. It's worrying. Press to extend retract. So this is why we couldn't get the side fumbles out 00:08:21.280 --> 00:08:27.600 because you've got to push this button. And then this happens. That is bonkers. And I guess they 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:37.120 would work here, but there's a lock button on top. So you push this button. And now you have your 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:44.640 fronts. So these look like they've got two speakers in them. Same cool little feats that we saw on 00:08:44.640 --> 00:08:51.760 the back sides. These also have that quarter 20 light bar thing there. Looks like we also still 00:08:51.760 --> 00:08:57.520 have the the type C and the power buttons on these guys. So we'll just plug that in there. 00:08:57.520 --> 00:09:03.360 This one already looks like it's on. This is the front left. So I'm going to come over. No, 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:08.160 this is the front right. Sorry, the blue one. So I'm going to pop that. Yeah. And then yeah, 00:09:08.240 --> 00:09:15.040 let's let's pop these guys up. So these are going to be our rears. These are also on. I 00:09:15.040 --> 00:09:20.320 guess these guys will be standing up with this one over here. This is our rear right. 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:27.040 And why don't we put that one there? All right, it says we a welcome. Oh, that makes more sense. 00:09:27.760 --> 00:09:43.200 I'm going to pop that here. How about that? Oh, what? It's got a light in it. Wow, it seems to have a really, really wide screen adjust 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:48.160 capabilities. We managed to squish it in super tight. It seems like, you know, this might be 00:09:48.160 --> 00:09:53.680 living room distance. That's pretty good. Looks like it's got quite a few intelligent adjusting 00:09:53.680 --> 00:09:57.760 things. I wish I had this at home. It's got that one click image adjust, which it seems to be 00:09:57.760 --> 00:10:00.960 struggling a little bit here maybe because the lights are on. We can try that again when they're 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:08.320 off. Spatial adaptation, I guess it figures out where it should be because of LiDAR's move in 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:14.400 zoom. I mean, the projector lens seems to actually physically move, which is kind of cool. Flu wave, 00:10:14.400 --> 00:10:21.360 there's a selling mistake. That's awesome. Flex wave is, I guess, where things move around. We'll 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:26.720 see. Eye guard. Yeah, it's audio adapts to the environment. We'll see because this is like the 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:33.040 worst set ever. It's got a cube for a ceiling. Eye guard, obviously, because it's lasers. 00:10:33.680 --> 00:10:38.320 It'll blind you instantly. Looks like it automatically comes off. Wall color application. 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:42.000 You know, I've got a gray screen at home. That's difficult for some projectors. 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:49.440 I sure will do Nebula Master. That sounds like us. It has an app, but it doesn't need an app, 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:55.840 which makes me happy. We're at 100% brightness. Ambient light adaptation. Sure, why not? Let's 00:10:55.840 --> 00:11:05.200 have a look at some YouTube. And why don't we get the lights off? Hot damn. We've got our lights off 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:13.920 now and got CrabRave video and music. It's like the perfect thing. You can see how bright it is. 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:20.000 It looks a little pink to me right now, but I mean, it's got quite a lot of color adjust. Maybe 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:24.720 that's the Nebula Pro mode or whatever. Let's give it a listen. 00:11:32.800 --> 00:11:39.360 One problem that I can kind of see is that's where all your subs and your bases. So 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:44.800 where are you going to be sitting? Like next to that, probably. Or it's going to be behind you, 00:11:44.800 --> 00:11:49.200 maybe, or on a table or something. I'm not entirely sure how that would work. Image quality 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:53.680 looks pretty good. It's not too much blurring. Maybe a little bit under the sea there, but we 00:11:53.680 --> 00:12:00.160 do have it quite squooshed in. I mean, it's digital keystone rather than optical. So it's never 00:12:00.160 --> 00:12:05.200 going to be perfect, perfect. The sound quality is excellent, even at kind of a slightly lower 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:08.880 volume. Maybe if you're maxing it out, it's going to be a little bit crispy. But I mean, 00:12:08.880 --> 00:12:14.800 it's just two little tiny things. Even just like the button noises are quite nice. 00:12:15.920 --> 00:12:22.000 Let's see if we can get some 7.1 on it. All right. Our speakers are in one of the worst 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:28.720 probably arrangements possible. We've got one pointing in the wrong place. We've got one on the 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:34.800 floor and we've got two of them sort of there-ish. I mean, maybe we'll point them in a bit. Give 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:41.840 them a bit of a fighting chance. And let's try this flex wave calibration and see what it sounds like. 00:12:49.680 --> 00:12:56.160 That's going to be like a new one for me. That is almost exactly where they are physically in the room. 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:03.040 I'll tell you, it calculated the sweet spot to be about here and this is a pretty damn good sweet 00:13:03.040 --> 00:13:09.280 spot, especially for this terrible, terrible, terrible speaker placement. They're really even and 00:13:09.280 --> 00:13:19.040 balanced, which is kind of cool. Like really balanced. That's weird. That's strange. It's 00:13:19.040 --> 00:13:26.240 bassy. It's nice and even. And yeah, even with these speakers in like one of the worst things I 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:33.200 have ever done and is an affront to home theater nerds everywhere. Even. That one's no louder than 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:38.560 that one and that one's no louder than that one even on the floor. So, you know, audio adaptation, 00:13:38.560 --> 00:13:44.240 whatever magic they're doing is quite fantastic, I would say. The picture looks good too. I would 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:52.960 like to experiment a little bit with the color because it is a little pink in my opinion and I 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:59.120 don't think that's coming from our rear light over there. It may just be like a maladaptive 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:03.600 color adaptation just because we've got blue over there and something else. So, let's see 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:10.240 if we can change the like look of it. Yeah, there you go. So, that is adjusting the like 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:15.920 color profile quite heavily. So, we do movie HDR10. That's really warm. Will it remember my 00:14:15.920 --> 00:14:22.960 keystone settings? It will. That's also super nice. I think I turned motion plus back on. I 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:28.560 hate that it's enabled by default. That's a mighty fine projector even with this TV glaring on it too. 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:34.240 Very, very nice. I can definitely tell that it's a laser projector. The contrast ratios are great. 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:40.560 It's super bright and one thing that I didn't talk about is just how quiet this machine is. I can't 00:14:40.560 --> 00:14:47.600 hear it at all. I think my laptop and the camera fans are probably louder than it. Soundcore is 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:55.440 claiming about 26, 25 DVs for the sound of this thing and like yeah, I can't really hear it at 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:59.280 all. Maybe that has to do with the water cooling. It's just very, very efficient but normally you 00:14:59.280 --> 00:15:03.280 turn one of these things on and it's just you can definitely tell the fans there. You know, 00:15:03.280 --> 00:15:07.760 quiet scenes that sort of thing. You get that whirring. One thing we didn't really touch on 00:15:07.760 --> 00:15:14.880 was the karaoke mics but I would probably expect these to behave just as well. I'm sure these are 00:15:14.880 --> 00:15:20.080 fine if you're into karaoke. They also have this other strange add-on which they're calling like 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:27.040 space flow AI. You project it on the outside of a wall and it does the tracking on the wall. 00:15:27.040 --> 00:15:32.160 They're kind of showing examples where instead of decorating the front of your house, you would 00:15:32.160 --> 00:15:38.480 just like stick this out the front and then projection map your Windows and Christmas lights 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:45.360 and holiday decorations on the front of your house which is interesting because this thing costs 5,000 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:50.000 US dollars and what are you going to do? Put that in front of your house. It's kind of a little bit 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:56.640 more rare that I see products here that kind of should cost that much. The build quality of this, 00:15:56.640 --> 00:16:00.560 the feature set that you get, the quality of the projector and the quality of the 00:16:00.560 --> 00:16:06.960 satellite speakers in general is punching in that $5,000 kind of price range. Now you could 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:13.520 do really well for a home theater for $5,000 but now you're getting karaoke, you're getting something 00:16:13.520 --> 00:16:17.680 portable, you don't have to drill holes in the walls, you don't have to adjust a bunch of stuff 00:16:17.680 --> 00:16:28.480 and you know, really high-end 11.1.4 whatever soundbar, $1,500 and this one's 7.1.4 so each of 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:34.640 these little guys also have up-firing speakers. Projector like this, maybe also $3,000 or $4,000 00:16:34.640 --> 00:16:41.520 so you're kind of getting in one package. If this is for you, I think it's probably for you. I have 00:16:41.520 --> 00:16:49.200 no idea the kind of person who would want to buy this which is a bit of a problem. The other thing 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:53.680 is that this is like a Kickstarter too so they're giving about a thousand bucks off this and the 00:16:53.760 --> 00:16:59.200 screens and stuff like that if you back the Kickstarter. One of the only missing things in 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:03.680 this package, unless I didn't read the instructions again properly, which were great by the way, 00:17:03.680 --> 00:17:10.560 is 3D glasses. This is also capable of doing 3D projection too if you're one of the people who 00:17:10.560 --> 00:17:16.320 have a 3D movie or find something that can actually serve them to you, I mean maybe with 00:17:16.320 --> 00:17:21.360 HDMI or something like that. I mean of course like one of the big advantages of this is you could 00:17:21.360 --> 00:17:26.080 take it to somebody's house if you just basically pop these out, pop them on a table somewhere. 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:30.800 You don't even have to care where you put them because it seems to auto correct so well 00:17:30.800 --> 00:17:40.720 and then you know put the speakers away. And like just as fast as that I'm packed up and ready to go 00:17:40.720 --> 00:17:45.680 on to the next thing or throw it back in the closet. I have no idea. This is a weird class of 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:51.200 products especially for $5,000. It's certainly not a novelty. I'll put it that way. If you liked 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:58.320 this video why don't you check out one of the other party speakers I've done. There's some fun ones from Sony.