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350 bucks will get you in a walled garden that'll ruin your life i'm

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obviously incompetent oh that's not working i'm going to cry

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what do i have to do to make this work turn that up

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what do you mean that your eighth of an inch thick OLED tv has terrible speakers

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what if we could fix it today we have the sonos ray a sound bar that you can

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stick in front of your tv to make it sound less

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look at that that's kind of cool looks like it comes with a little box of

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accessories as well this is all looks like recyclable cardboard i don't see

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any plastic which is actually quite nice can't have straws but we can still get

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giant black tubes that we throw out in three

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weeks when they update the app and no longer support it

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sonos that's the problem with these app compatible speakers sometimes you know

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maybe the company goes under and then you can't use it for your tv anymore uh

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we'll figure out if this one can even work without the app i know that the

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iphone app has a lot of features that the Android app doesn't like home

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surround sound testing type of thing so if you get multiple speakers you can

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take your iphone around and it'll measure all of the space to get the best

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sound possible not available on Android it seems it comes with an optical cable

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and it comes with a power cable and that's it look at that

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oh i have it upside down oh no their logo can go either way so for

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connectivity we don't really have too much we've got a pairing button i guess

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we've got a power cable which goes in here

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and we've got toslink optical and Ethernet that's it that's all you get no

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HDMI no arc none of that this is their entry level model which is sort of on

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the cheap end of their main center sound bars the level above this would probably

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be your arc which i think is about a thousand bucks 1100 that sort of thing

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this is much more designed as a cheap entry into their ecosystem of connected

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speakers if it doesn't sound very good you can always modify it with satellites

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or a subwoofer that sort of thing it does have some reflex ports over here

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and some mid drivers and i think it's got a couple tweeters in the middle something like that four d-class amps

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lab today how does it look in front of the tv quite nice actually toslink is

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like an answer to an upgraded analog

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audio it's all digital but it still carries audio and you can transfer like

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a lot of different channels over it it's not quite up to the level of the newer

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HDMI standards which is probably why it's going to be phased out soon you

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don't get any analog interference you don't have to worry about grounding any

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of that because again it's just it's optical it's a plastic cable with a

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little led at the end rather than a laser like in fiber optics i mean it's

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still fiber optics but you know whatever one of the problems with only having

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fiber optics compared to HDMI is

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now we don't know if the tv is going to be in sync unlike that really nice sony

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speaker which didn't make you make an account to use a piece of audio

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equipment the sonos one does but thankfully it's already found it which

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is phenomenal so i now have to let my app record audio

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that's really basic this might actually not be terrible it's already connected

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so just place the sound and then it's fine turn on your tv plug in the optical

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cable i already did that what's wrong with you no signal detected another good way to check toslink don't do this with

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fiber because you'll die but you can see if it's got a little red light which it

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does let's make sure we plugged it in right i'm going to cry i'm seeing

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optical activity coming off of the back of the toslink cable you know the red

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light's on but the sonos isn't detecting the tv or the tv's not sending audio

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properly to the sonos welcome to my other living room well we got it hooked

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up to optical on this tv and it just worked immediately so i think there's an

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issue with that other tv rather than the sonus itself lg you do do it's nicer tv

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anyway hey no i want one no

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okay i have one too this is a nice volume

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it sounds like it's coming from right there though it's not very wide which it

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obviously isn't but i don't hate this

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i hate this song it's always great

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oh there's the too much bass

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it doesn't keep up okay i take back everything i said it's

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good no what it's not good at low volumes the highs

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and mids are like quite reasonable you know the start

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of that song was actually really nice it was crisp you could hear the clicky

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clackities but as soon as the bass dropped it just

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explodes really really thumpy the whole room's shaking and it's

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missing that nice crisp i don't know 200 to 300 all the 60s and the 80s of the

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kick drums are just very boomy and then as we increase the volume up to like 100

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the highs and everything start to crisp

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up and clip and it just kind of turns to

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bad unfortunately i think for a center channel this is quite a reasonable

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product most of your speech is going to be coming from a center channel which is

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probably where this fits into their ecosystem you know it's a nice cheap

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300 dollar addition to

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cheap well i mean you know hifi stuff can get really really stupid to me it

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sounds almost like the speakers are being overwhelmed with the bass and

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they're freaking out go back to our drop we can hear when the bass starts and

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then i'll turn off loudness and we can start playing with it

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doesn't change it too much there's a little bit of a character adjustment

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let's turn the bass down though bass at negative 10 sounds bad

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no i was hoping for more controls with

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equalizer the treble adjustment seems to move like the

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10 000 hertz kind of areas whereas the bass also doesn't seem to hit the right

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areas for me loudness doesn't adjust things quite enough so they're quite

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versatile if you have an iphone unfortunately i don't get the privilege

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of using chromecast so i switched to jono's phone let's have a listen to one

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of my reference tracks uh the wheel by saw come on

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johno i need your face ow

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oh turn that up

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really nice crisp car

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as a center channel four movies and tv i think this would be quite phenomenal the

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highs are nice and crisp the mids are nice and balanced but as soon as you

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have anything in there with bass everything just explodes and goes

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uh very disappointing honestly maybe a pair of satellites so now you're

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into it for two thousand bucks subwoofer another 300 bucks

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is it worth it for a 350 center channel

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that you can only listen to speech or

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hi hats on one thing that we might find is that all the frequencies sound really

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nice when they're played individually which is this is doing explain one

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frequency at a time when you get into a music or speech or a movie situation

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you get multiple going on at the same time and it might fail at that

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to get it to disconnect from apple jono land we had to power cycle it which is

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irritating especially when all of these are interconnect connected and you could

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potentially have seven in your room plus four in the ceiling i'm gonna set the

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volume down at around half because we're gonna die if we have it any higher

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i am hearing some gentle murmurs at around you know this hurts really started right

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there around 30.

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oh did you hear it get all quiet there it went and then went away so it's got a

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massive boost right around 30 and now we're coming back up around 60.

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it's not really that directional actually

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it's got a nice wide sound field

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wow you can hear it vibrating right

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like the unit itself is going when it's

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i guess sympathetic resonance so it's probably

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maybe not built like it should be

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is this irritating for everybody yeah

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nice and even through the 1000s

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slight dip around 3k

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this is sort of that missing mids that i was hearing but now we're getting into

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that nice high band and this is all sounding very nice and even it's

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probably going to get painful in a second big dip around six see this is

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where sort of human speech is and then another big dip around eight

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nine let me know when you can stop hearing this

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10 11. these are all nice and crisp and clean

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13 14 15. me too oh no they're about six

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anybody else you still here at about over six

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good boys yeah you're younger aren't you that was actually pretty enlightening

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there's a really nice sound stage from the early 1000's all the way up to

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you know when we can stop hearing things at around 16 to 17. and i

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is dolby cinema it's where the most advanced cinematic

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technology you've ever experienced begins

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the speech there is just so nice it's so pure uh the problem is there's lots of

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bass hits and stuff in this demo and they just ruin

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everything i hope we can disable that i i think you know if you're watching tvs

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or shows or movies this is going to be lovely maybe not action movies you want

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to watch a master chef or a drama or

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you know Linus tech tips we have another channel that you might not be aware of

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probably perfect honestly sympathetic resonance coming throughout the whole

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unit shaking it vibrating it you can hear the internal clicking of it and big

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dips like i'm talking 10 maybe 5 db like

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unnecessarily large it does have really good low end output

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but it's all over the place which is probably why crabrave sounded so bad and

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all the music sounded so bad when the bass came in everything else without

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bass was absolutely crisp and beautiful and it sounded really even even in that

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sign suite for me i don't think the ray is going to be living in my living room

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i think if you had a small apartment or a smaller tv or just wanted a little bit

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more background noise or music in your

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place then this would be a good buy only if you're an iphone user and only if you

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can't find something for 350 bucks that's

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maybe more your style this isn't particularly versatile for a single

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channel like this i would probably just go for stereo speakers you're going to

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have a better experience you're going to be able to fit more stuff in here but as

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an entry point into a multi-channel home audio system i think this is

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fine for somebody out there i guess thanks for

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watching if you want to look at other really stupid audio products that jonno

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makes me review sorry that genre makes me not review check out the sony lpx

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glass tubie thing it was also expensive and bad it was very a product