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continuing in Sony's SRS lineup they've descended on us with this big boy the XV

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900 this is the largest of their gigantic party siiz Bluetooth speakers

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and is currently their top-of-the-line model I need a knife this one is not

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exactly per size though and weighs in at about 60

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lb got styrofoam on top starting with an

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optical cable

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woo this speaker is really neat cuz it actually has RGB so it kind of puts the

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party back into things I don't know if that's more of a gimmick but we'll see

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how bright it is so we've got this uh clear plastic thing along the I guess

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top and bottom yeah it's got it on the top too nice thing is it's got a couple

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handles right on top here so you can carry it around there's some Wheels

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along the back so you can troll it around that way and we'll start getting

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into all the speakers and it has quite a few it's got one of the Giant 12-in x

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12in square woofers down here couple of mid drivers out front and then a couple

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more tweeters in the top there the other neat thing is that kind of more of a

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surround thing so on each side it's got another two tweeters and another two on

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the top this thing's probably going to put out some volume but hopefully the

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sound quality will match its heft it comes with a plethora of inputs as well

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something that it's nice that's included is a pair of/ quinch Jack one of them is

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for a microphone so if you want to do karaoke or something like that this will

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be kind of more your your style and then it's also got either a second mic input

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or a guitar input it's switchable between mic and instrument input the

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optical input allows you to hook it up to a TV and kind of use it in TV mode so

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it'll sync with whatever's on screen and if you're playing say karaoke videos or

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anything like that you can just kind of have it as an all-in-one unit it has

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your standard Ox input so you pass the phone around stick it uh somewhere a

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nice feature they've included is a little USB output Port here so you can

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charge your phone when you have it attached you're not really supposed to

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leave this plugged in all the time cuz this thing is a wireless Bluetooth

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speaker most of its battery because there are 5 hours of continuous use

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although in the service manual they kind of specify that that's at a at a

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reasonable volume with all the RGB off and they get 12 hours at a reasonable

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volume with the lights on the minimum will do is 4 hours at maximum volume

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with all the lights on not too bad rather power efficient when it's uh kind

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of just in the background they're also claiming that 10 minutes of charging

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will give you 3 hours of run time so if it's dying in the middle of your 3-day

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Bender couple licks on the power cord and you're good to

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go God it's heavy uh oh crap it's

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battery powered I forgot Okay so we've turned it on it's got the typical Sony

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Mega base button which is on by default which is fine I guess we've also got

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transport controls here cuz it is a Bluetooth speaker right it's basically

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just a gigantic Bluetooth speaker that you're used to and then we've got these

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nice colorful things here where we can adjust our RGB is it reactive to sound

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now it must be internal these are going to be your two tweeters on top as well

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they're actually angled back slightly so it's not going to shoot at the ceiling

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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

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around with uh holding the button down and doing all that sort of thing and we

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can now see it in Sony's music app so let's get connected and set it up okay

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it's pairing now tap to pair pair and connect Bluetooth connected woo

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battery about 80% oh it I accidentally

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pushed the battery button it just tells you battery about

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80% like Sony's other SRS speakers this

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one has the ability to group with other speakers so if you were a crazy person

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and bought four of these and put them in every corner of the room it's easier

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than doing multi-room audio so yeah she stands about 35 in tall 16 wide and 18

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deep so it's it's you know it's quite Hefty you can see compared to me how big

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it is okay my phone volume can control it which is nice

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um okay let's turn it

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up eight Christ my heart is going this

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very very loud let's try this again at a reasonable volume and have a listen to

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those side speakers in the top speaker yeah the tweeters are not quite as

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active as I expected for how much like you know highb bands coming out of this

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I would have liked to see maybe some mid drivers on the side as well but this

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isn't an omed and directional speaker so this is probably going to go in a corner

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somewhere and having a little bit of side fill is kind of nice now we kind of

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have it in a place where I would expect it to be maybe in a house party

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something like that also you must really hate your neighbors uh unfortunately

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it's mirrored so it's piano black on top

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so it's covered in fingerprints now

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standing right here the Base is almost deafening but as soon as I move away a

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little bit um it sounds a bit better so you better be careful with walls and

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Floors around this thing because it's going to change the sound a lot for

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speakers this big and this basy let's play with some of the sound settings

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that uh Sony includes in their app we got an additional couple controls in

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here besides the giant mega base button on the front we also have a live sound

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button which I guess would probably cut down the base and boost the highs let's

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have a

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listen I don't really like that one as much I was just hoping for more high

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band um but we have some extra sounds in

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here so we can do a custom um Unfortunately they only give us three

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controls uh so this is flat at the moment and I'm just going to boost the

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travel until I'm kind of happy with it

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so that sound setting seems a little bit more appropriate in this environment at

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least the base is still really thumpy right here but I'm standing right next

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to a wall so I'm definitely in some of the reflections but out in the room it's

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a lot better and giving a little bit of a queue kind of fixes maybe some of that

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sounds cleaner and a little bit brighter and more of a sound profile that I would

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want to play at a party you have speech you have dancing you know all that sort

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of thing you don't necessarily need ultra high fidelity audio in that kind

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of thing just quiet background music but then later in the night you know you

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turn it up and you have a fun time I Wish It beeped when or vibrated or did

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something when you pushed a button okay we were talking about DJ FS here's the

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isolator and here's the

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flanger it's like sleep ales this demon

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music Crump with me Bart now I think we need to go into illumination and then

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lighting mode oh we have different lighting modes this would have been nice to include on the top this is the

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delightful color mode we also have Rave

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which I guess is maybe a little bit more pronounced I was hoping they'd be

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brighter to be perfectly honest maybe there's a control for that we have

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chill chill is not this speaker if you

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bring this to a we got strobe that's

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that's more like it and then uh

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gradiation grad gradation not graduation

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which I read three times in a row we've got some boring battery power management

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stuff too it's got stamina mode so if you want it to last for a long time uh

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battery care of course when you're charging it to not destroy the battery over a long period of time and the last

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thing to look at is the F stable F stable app um which is the companion one

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for lighting control um we have DJ control which is kind of neat select one

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mode let's do party flash hey there we

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go doing this and it's making it blink we also have a custom color we can set

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it to whatever we want that looks like ShortCircuit blue sure motion control

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this is the strangest app I've ever seen

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uh what what do I want to do I want to play oh there that worked and then if I

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want to do volume

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up oh wow that actually did work this is

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weird what do I just hold it I'm going to do that here all

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right yeah this is uh this is what it sounds like inside my head at all times

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motion control is weird and very strange we've got it hooked up to the TV now

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with Optical it was really nice of them to include one cuz like who has one of

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those anymore but you know Works instantly what are

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expectations when we defy them are we breaking the mold

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what if they expected me to do that who are they okay yeah there's too

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much base and I can't really hear lonus talking about whatever he's talking

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about but there is a button on top and also in the app called the TV sound

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booster so let's push that and see what that does to the voice and the rest of

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it Mega base is off at the moment it's still really Bassy sitting down here oh

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that is so much worse what the hell happened High the like the top

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they're doing nothing oh I get it I know I yeah okay

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that's actually kind of cool you know what it's for yeah it's supposed to

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support your existing speakers so it gives a little bit of tiny little

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siblings and then a lot of subbase it's kind of acting like a subwoofer and

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maybe a center channel simultaneously yeah that was so confusing oh my God TV

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sound booster makes everything sound like sure doesn't need ludicrous speed

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or whatever I mean at the end of the day

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how much fun can it be still going to have four wheels is

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it I don't think I've ever seen a speaker come as something for support I

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think all Bluetooth speakers should do that that's really neat actually I think

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I like it a little more although thinking about it for its use case as a

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party speaker why would you use it to support your speakers in your home when

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it's Giant and you're going to use it as a party like I don't see this fitting

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into a living room very well that doesn't doesn't make sense anymore I

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mean it's a cool feature to include and obviously they've added the optical in

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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

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button but I don't know you draw your own conclusions it's confusing to me I

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guess who is this for right if your particular proclivity is playing wonder

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wall to your friends badly cuz they can't leave your house then maybe this

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is for you you know it's got the guitar in it's got the vocal in maybe this

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maybe you want that um I could also see it possibly be good for weddings you

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know throw it in a tent outside last for 24 hours all that sort of thing one of

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the problems is it's $900 which is a hefty price to pay but I

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do think you get a lot of speaker for that um similar floor monitors that you

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would need extra stuff for and are also

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not portable or battery powered uh there's like the macki srm450 which for

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about 500 bucks will give you a 1,000 watts of output power and that's also

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deafening but this is damn loud and I

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think the sound quality is acceptable this is kind of one you have to make

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your own conclusions for it's very very not for everybody but unfortunately it's

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kind of okay at being not for everybody uh don't forget to like And subscribe to

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ShortCircuit did you hear it from upstairs we very much heard it from that

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was that was full volume I was standing next to it yeah