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sometimes you know maybe the company goes under and then you can't use it for your tv anymore uh we'll figure out if this one can even work without the app i know that the iphone app has a lot of features that the Android app doesn't like home surround sound testing type of thing so if you get multiple speakers you can take your iphone around and it'll measure all of the space to get the best sound possible not available on Android it seems it comes with an optical cable and it comes with a power cable and that's it look at that oh i have it upside down oh no their logo can go either way so for connectivity we don't really have too much we've got a pairing button i guess we've got a power cable which goes in here and we've got toslink optical and Ethernet that's it that's all you get no HDMI no arc none of that this is their entry level model which is sort of on the cheap end of their main center sound bars the level above this would probably be your arc which i think is about a thousand bucks 1100 that sort of thing this is much more designed as a cheap entry into their ecosystem of connected speakers if it doesn't sound very good you can always modify it with satellites or a subwoofer that sort of thing it does have some reflex ports over here and some mid drivers and i think it's got a couple tweeters in the middle something like that four d-class amps whatever that means so i guess we'll segue to our sponsor secret Labs secret lab chairs are engineered to keep you incredibly comfortable for long hours at work and play their new titan evo 2022 chair keeps you feeling comfortable for longer four-way lumbar support ultra comfortable lines of different seat material and more all chairs come with up to a five-year extended warranty and a 49-day return policy head to the link in the description and check out secret lab today how does it look in front of the tv quite nice actually toslink is like an answer to an upgraded analog audio it's all digital but it still carries audio and you can transfer like a lot of different channels over it it's not quite up to the level of the newer HDMI standards which is probably why it's going to be phased out soon you don't get any analog interference you don't have to worry about grounding any of that because again it's just it's optical it's a plastic cable with a little led at the end rather than a laser like in fiber optics i mean it's still fiber optics but you know whatever one of the problems with only having fiber optics compared to HDMI is now we don't know if the tv is going to be in sync unlike that really nice sony speaker which didn't make you make an account to use a piece of audio equipment the sonos one does but thankfully it's already found it which is phenomenal so i now have to let my app record audio that's really basic this might actually not be terrible it's already connected so just place the sound and then it's fine turn on your tv plug in the optical cable i already did that what's wrong with you no signal detected another good way to check toslink don't do this with fiber because you'll die but you can see if it's got a little red light which it does let's make sure we plugged it in right i'm going to cry i'm seeing optical activity coming off of the back of the toslink cable you know the red light's on but the sonos isn't detecting the tv or the tv's not sending audio properly to the sonos welcome to my other living room well we got it hooked up to optical on this tv and it just worked immediately so i think there's an issue with that other tv rather than the sonus itself lg you do do it's nicer tv anyway hey no i want one no okay i have one too this is a nice volume it sounds like it's coming from right there though it's not very wide which it obviously isn't but i don't hate this i hate this song it's always great oh there's the too much bass it doesn't keep up okay i take back everything i said it's good no what it's not good at low volumes the highs and mids are like quite reasonable you know the start of that song was actually really nice it was crisp you could hear the clicky clackities but as soon as the bass dropped it just explodes really really thumpy the whole room's shaking and it's missing that nice crisp i don't know 200 to 300 all the 60s and the 80s of the kick drums are just very boomy and then as we increase the volume up to like 100 the highs and everything start to crisp up and clip and it just kind of turns to bad unfortunately i think for a center channel this is quite a reasonable product most of your speech is going to be coming from a center channel which is probably where this fits into their ecosystem you know it's a nice cheap 300 dollar addition to cheap well i mean you know hifi stuff can get really really stupid to me it sounds almost like the speakers are being overwhelmed with the bass and they're freaking out go back to our drop we can hear when the bass starts and then i'll turn off loudness and we can start playing with it doesn't change it too much there's a little bit of a character adjustment let's turn the bass down though bass at negative 10 sounds bad no i was hoping for more controls with equalizer the treble adjustment seems to move like the 10 000 hertz kind of areas whereas the bass also doesn't seem to hit the right areas for me loudness doesn't adjust things quite enough so they're quite versatile if you have an iphone unfortunately i don't get the privilege of using chromecast so i switched to jono's phone let's have a listen to one of my reference tracks uh the wheel by saw come on johno i need your face ow oh turn that up really nice crisp car as a center channel four movies and tv i think this would be quite phenomenal the highs are nice and crisp the mids are nice and balanced but as soon as you have anything in there with bass everything just explodes and goes uh very disappointing honestly maybe a pair of satellites so now you're into it for two thousand bucks subwoofer another 300 bucks is it worth it for a 350 center channel that you can only listen to speech or hi hats on one thing that we might find is that all the frequencies sound really nice when they're played individually which is this is doing explain one frequency at a time when you get into a music or speech or a movie situation you get multiple going on at the same time and it might fail at that to get it to disconnect from apple jono land we had to power cycle it which is irritating especially when all of these are interconnect connected and you could potentially have seven in your room plus four in the ceiling i'm gonna set the volume down at around half because we're gonna die if we have it any higher i am hearing some gentle murmurs at around you know this hurts really started right there around 30. oh did you hear it get all quiet there it went and then went away so it's got a massive boost right around 30 and now we're coming back up around 60. it's not really that directional actually it's got a nice wide sound field wow you can hear it vibrating right like the unit itself is going when it's i guess sympathetic resonance so it's probably maybe not built like it should be is this irritating for everybody yeah nice and even through the 1000s slight dip around 3k this is sort of that missing mids that i was hearing but now we're getting into that nice high band and this is all sounding very nice and even it's probably going to get painful in a second big dip around six see this is where sort of human speech is and then another big dip around eight nine let me know when you can stop hearing this 10 11. these are all nice and crisp and clean 13 14 15. me too oh no they're about six anybody else you still here at about over six good boys yeah you're younger aren't you that was actually pretty enlightening there's a really nice sound stage from the early 1000's all the way up to you know when we can stop hearing things at around 16 to 17. and i is dolby cinema it's where the most advanced cinematic technology you've ever experienced begins the speech there is just so nice it's so pure uh the problem is there's lots of bass hits and stuff in this demo and they just ruin everything i hope we can disable that i i think you know if you're watching tvs or shows or movies this is going to be lovely maybe not action movies you want to watch a master chef or a drama or you know Linus tech tips we have another channel that you might not be aware of probably perfect honestly sympathetic resonance coming throughout the whole unit shaking it vibrating it you can hear the internal clicking of it and big dips like i'm talking 10 maybe 5 db like unnecessarily large it does have really good low end output but it's all over the place which is probably why crabrave sounded so bad and all the music sounded so bad when the bass came in everything else without bass was absolutely crisp and beautiful and it sounded really even even in that sign suite for me i don't think the ray is going to be living in my living room i think if you had a small apartment or a smaller tv or just wanted a little bit more background noise or music in your place then this would be a good buy only if you're an iphone user and only if you can't find something for 350 bucks that's maybe more your style this isn't particularly versatile for a single channel like this i would probably just go for stereo speakers you're going to have a better experience you're going to be able to fit more stuff in here but as an entry point into a multi-channel home audio system i think this is fine for somebody out there i guess thanks for watching if you want to look at other really stupid audio products that jonno makes me review sorry that genre makes me not review check out the sony lpx glass tubie thing it was also expensive and bad it was very a product"}