continuing in Sony's SRS lineup they've descended on us with this big boy the XV
900 this is the largest of their gigantic party siiz Bluetooth speakers
and is currently their top-of-the-line model I need a knife this one is not
exactly per size though and weighs in at about 60
lb got styrofoam on top starting with an
optical cable
woo this speaker is really neat cuz it actually has RGB so it kind of puts the
party back into things I don't know if that's more of a gimmick but we'll see
how bright it is so we've got this uh clear plastic thing along the I guess
top and bottom yeah it's got it on the top too nice thing is it's got a couple
handles right on top here so you can carry it around there's some Wheels
along the back so you can troll it around that way and we'll start getting
into all the speakers and it has quite a few it's got one of the Giant 12-in x
12in square woofers down here couple of mid drivers out front and then a couple
more tweeters in the top there the other neat thing is that kind of more of a
surround thing so on each side it's got another two tweeters and another two on
the top this thing's probably going to put out some volume but hopefully the
sound quality will match its heft it comes with a plethora of inputs as well
something that it's nice that's included is a pair of/ quinch Jack one of them is
for a microphone so if you want to do karaoke or something like that this will
be kind of more your your style and then it's also got either a second mic input
or a guitar input it's switchable between mic and instrument input the
optical input allows you to hook it up to a TV and kind of use it in TV mode so
it'll sync with whatever's on screen and if you're playing say karaoke videos or
anything like that you can just kind of have it as an all-in-one unit it has
your standard Ox input so you pass the phone around stick it uh somewhere a
nice feature they've included is a little USB output Port here so you can
charge your phone when you have it attached you're not really supposed to
leave this plugged in all the time cuz this thing is a wireless Bluetooth
speaker most of its battery because there are 5 hours of continuous use
although in the service manual they kind of specify that that's at a at a
reasonable volume with all the RGB off and they get 12 hours at a reasonable
volume with the lights on the minimum will do is 4 hours at maximum volume
with all the lights on not too bad rather power efficient when it's uh kind
of just in the background they're also claiming that 10 minutes of charging
will give you 3 hours of run time so if it's dying in the middle of your 3-day
Bender couple licks on the power cord and you're good to
go God it's heavy uh oh crap it's
battery powered I forgot Okay so we've turned it on it's got the typical Sony
Mega base button which is on by default which is fine I guess we've also got
transport controls here cuz it is a Bluetooth speaker right it's basically
just a gigantic Bluetooth speaker that you're used to and then we've got these
nice colorful things here where we can adjust our RGB is it reactive to sound
now it must be internal these are going to be your two tweeters on top as well
they're actually angled back slightly so it's not going to shoot at the ceiling
it's going to fire back so if you're behind the speaker you can get some good sound too thank you Roland for
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it has Google Fast pair so it immediately popped up on my phone to sync which is super nice no fussing
around with uh holding the button down and doing all that sort of thing and we
can now see it in Sony's music app so let's get connected and set it up okay
it's pairing now tap to pair pair and connect Bluetooth connected woo
battery about 80% oh it I accidentally
pushed the battery button it just tells you battery about
80% like Sony's other SRS speakers this
one has the ability to group with other speakers so if you were a crazy person
and bought four of these and put them in every corner of the room it's easier
than doing multi-room audio so yeah she stands about 35 in tall 16 wide and 18
deep so it's it's you know it's quite Hefty you can see compared to me how big
it is okay my phone volume can control it which is nice
um okay let's turn it
up eight Christ my heart is going this
very very loud let's try this again at a reasonable volume and have a listen to
those side speakers in the top speaker yeah the tweeters are not quite as
active as I expected for how much like you know highb bands coming out of this
I would have liked to see maybe some mid drivers on the side as well but this
isn't an omed and directional speaker so this is probably going to go in a corner
somewhere and having a little bit of side fill is kind of nice now we kind of
have it in a place where I would expect it to be maybe in a house party
something like that also you must really hate your neighbors uh unfortunately
it's mirrored so it's piano black on top
so it's covered in fingerprints now
standing right here the Base is almost deafening but as soon as I move away a
little bit um it sounds a bit better so you better be careful with walls and
Floors around this thing because it's going to change the sound a lot for
speakers this big and this basy let's play with some of the sound settings
that uh Sony includes in their app we got an additional couple controls in
here besides the giant mega base button on the front we also have a live sound
button which I guess would probably cut down the base and boost the highs let's
have a
listen I don't really like that one as much I was just hoping for more high
band um but we have some extra sounds in
here so we can do a custom um Unfortunately they only give us three
controls uh so this is flat at the moment and I'm just going to boost the
travel until I'm kind of happy with it
so that sound setting seems a little bit more appropriate in this environment at
least the base is still really thumpy right here but I'm standing right next
to a wall so I'm definitely in some of the reflections but out in the room it's
a lot better and giving a little bit of a queue kind of fixes maybe some of that
sounds cleaner and a little bit brighter and more of a sound profile that I would
want to play at a party you have speech you have dancing you know all that sort
of thing you don't necessarily need ultra high fidelity audio in that kind
of thing just quiet background music but then later in the night you know you
turn it up and you have a fun time I Wish It beeped when or vibrated or did
something when you pushed a button okay we were talking about DJ FS here's the
isolator and here's the
flanger it's like sleep ales this demon
music Crump with me Bart now I think we need to go into illumination and then
lighting mode oh we have different lighting modes this would have been nice to include on the top this is the
delightful color mode we also have Rave
which I guess is maybe a little bit more pronounced I was hoping they'd be
brighter to be perfectly honest maybe there's a control for that we have
chill chill is not this speaker if you
bring this to a we got strobe that's
that's more like it and then uh
gradiation grad gradation not graduation
which I read three times in a row we've got some boring battery power management
stuff too it's got stamina mode so if you want it to last for a long time uh
battery care of course when you're charging it to not destroy the battery over a long period of time and the last
thing to look at is the F stable F stable app um which is the companion one
for lighting control um we have DJ control which is kind of neat select one
mode let's do party flash hey there we
go doing this and it's making it blink we also have a custom color we can set
it to whatever we want that looks like ShortCircuit blue sure motion control
this is the strangest app I've ever seen
uh what what do I want to do I want to play oh there that worked and then if I
want to do volume
up oh wow that actually did work this is
weird what do I just hold it I'm going to do that here all
right yeah this is uh this is what it sounds like inside my head at all times
motion control is weird and very strange we've got it hooked up to the TV now
with Optical it was really nice of them to include one cuz like who has one of
those anymore but you know Works instantly what are
expectations when we defy them are we breaking the mold
what if they expected me to do that who are they okay yeah there's too
much base and I can't really hear lonus talking about whatever he's talking
about but there is a button on top and also in the app called the TV sound
booster so let's push that and see what that does to the voice and the rest of
it Mega base is off at the moment it's still really Bassy sitting down here oh
that is so much worse what the hell happened High the like the top
they're doing nothing oh I get it I know I yeah okay
that's actually kind of cool you know what it's for yeah it's supposed to
support your existing speakers so it gives a little bit of tiny little
siblings and then a lot of subbase it's kind of acting like a subwoofer and
maybe a center channel simultaneously yeah that was so confusing oh my God TV
sound booster makes everything sound like sure doesn't need ludicrous speed
or whatever I mean at the end of the day
how much fun can it be still going to have four wheels is
it I don't think I've ever seen a speaker come as something for support I
think all Bluetooth speakers should do that that's really neat actually I think
I like it a little more although thinking about it for its use case as a
party speaker why would you use it to support your speakers in your home when
it's Giant and you're going to use it as a party like I don't see this fitting
into a living room very well that doesn't doesn't make sense anymore I
mean it's a cool feature to include and obviously they've added the optical in
they've spent the time to design a circuit for it CU I can hear a little relay in there click when I push the
button but I don't know you draw your own conclusions it's confusing to me I
guess who is this for right if your particular proclivity is playing wonder
wall to your friends badly cuz they can't leave your house then maybe this
is for you you know it's got the guitar in it's got the vocal in maybe this
maybe you want that um I could also see it possibly be good for weddings you
know throw it in a tent outside last for 24 hours all that sort of thing one of
the problems is it's $900 which is a hefty price to pay but I
do think you get a lot of speaker for that um similar floor monitors that you
would need extra stuff for and are also
not portable or battery powered uh there's like the macki srm450 which for
about 500 bucks will give you a 1,000 watts of output power and that's also
deafening but this is damn loud and I
think the sound quality is acceptable this is kind of one you have to make
your own conclusions for it's very very not for everybody but unfortunately it's
kind of okay at being not for everybody uh don't forget to like And subscribe to
ShortCircuit did you hear it from upstairs we very much heard it from that
was that was full volume I was standing next to it yeah