Hello lovelies. Do you live in a micro loft apartment due to the current
economic stuff? No room for a full home
theater setup? Well, Soundcore has the
answer to this contrived situation. A full 7.1 surround sound speaker with a
liquid cooled projector. Perfect for your living room outdoors or just
entertainment during the ensuing climate wars. When Belle first told me about
this, I thought it was going to be like a little desktop mount thing, but no. It's a full gigantic speakery thing. Oo.
And apparently it's even got wheels and a handle and all that sort of good
stuff. Look, you're supposed to roll it off.
One of the easier unboxings I think I've done on ShortCircuit. Look at this
thing. It's not super heavy. Good wheels. Sound up beyond reality.
Hopefully it's got a power cable or something. I don't know if it was Is it
battery powered? It's a bag in a bag. Got a thing for the
handle, I guess. Nice. No power cable. I thought there was more
stuff in here. Actually, it looks like
all of that is self-contained.
That is awesome. I wish more of these types of party speaker things did that.
It's like a vacuum cleaner, but with a projector in it. We've got some
plasticky things. We got a door for the laser projector. They're saying that
it's water cooled, which is pretty neat. I don't know if that means it's got like
a liquid loop or a proper copper thing with a block and everything. I don't
think I'm going to be allowed to take it apart and have a look, but maybe there's
a hammer somewhere on set. But it's not really like just a party speaker cuz
it's got these weird satellite things. So, if I pop these out the back, look at
that. It's like a Bluetooth speaker in
another speaker. USBC. It's got feet. Oh my god, this is sick.
It's a claymore. Front towards neighbors. So, we got two of those. And
then how do we get these ones out?
RL. Oh, front. Front left. Front right. I'm sure there was a there's an arrow
button for these. Oh my god. It doesn't stop. It's got microphones in it, too.
and a remote with built-in Netflix buttons and stuff like that. What's
going on? I feel very dumb. Pull to
project, press to power, match to marks.
I mean, maybe they release when you turn it on. We've got rear left and rear
right. And then these two guys when we get them out are going to go on the
front. Looks like it's also got a Bluetooth speaker mode. So, I wonder if we could play some audio that way. Maybe
if you had a full system and didn't want to use the projector component. It's
pretty neat. Big speakers on the left and right. Big woofery thing right down
there at the bottom. Exhaust fans. We've got some ports at the back here. We got
HDMI, two USBC's, and a USBA, which is
nice to see. And yeah, I guess last in the top here is going to be our
microphones. So, we've got two uh
they're pairable, they're powerable, they look really quite nice, actually.
USBC on the bottom there. Very cool. Very, very cool. Uh, they even give you
the direction that they're supposed to be. They got RGB in them. That's kind of sick, too. And then, yeah, of course,
remote for controlling it like it would be a TV or maybe like a projector. First
impressions of the build quality is really, really surprisingly high. These
are metal and plastic and they feel sturdy and solid. And these legs as well
feel really sturdy. Yeah, it looks like it's got a quarter20 on the bottom, I
assume, so that you could mount it to something like an arm if you wanted it
in a more permanent position, which would be kind of odd, but still really
nice to include. Looks like they charge in the unit itself, but they've even got
some ports on the back here, USBC, and a little power button, too. And you can
set them into Bluetooth mode, it looks like. I'm excited to see what these side
ones look like. They're held in really well for a portable speaker that you're
going to be driving along the beach. There's like very little flex in the
case. I love the rubberized thing here
that holds on to the end of the power adapter. It seems really like well
thought out. I'm quite surprised. I thought this would be more like a uh
gimmick product, but it's actually seeming quite together. Handle is sturdy
metal and it's got a nice like semi- rubberized grip. Yeah, it feels sturdy.
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I also forgot to mention they also sell a projector screen. This one's
inflatable if you want to have it in your living room or outside. It's all
pretty heavy but compact.
Oh, there's the body that lives in there. They do a 10 ft and a 16.7 ft as
well. Couldn't give us another couple inches. Come on, even numbers. Okay,
there's our surface. So, it looks like the back is this nice
soft. It's really luxurious like
fabricish material. The plastic parts
will be your pontoon. Nice fabric screen, white surface, not gray. So,
you're not going to have super good light control in a bright environment,
but most people can close the curtain.
Should we blow her up? Took me a while like normal, but I did end up finding
the hole. Looks like we just pop that out there. And then we have our battery
operated pump. And that should just go
in here. All right. And then we just pop on our ending nozzle thing here. It's
got a lock on it. And the valve itself has this little unair escape one-way
check valve, which is pretty cool. That just goes in there and turns and locks
in. And then I guess we just push the
button. It's whisper quiet.
Okay, we got it mostly inflated. It's um it's
big and it's too big for the set and I
don't think we can use this. Uh it doesn't fit. We have it crossways in the
the set. I mean, we've got the extended ceiling and it might be tall enough, but
we don't have enough width. It's too girth. I don't I don't think this is for
your living room. Uh
it's big. Couple things I did notice is it's got a couple mounts each side for
the satellite speakers on the side of the
projector speaker. The pump also deflates too, so that might be good. Uh,
it's also got another nozzle on the other side, so uh, you know, maybe it'll
go down a bit faster. Yeah. I mean, it's got the the release, which is super
nice. So, let's just stick this guy in here and see what happens, I guess.
No, no, no, no, no.
>> This very cozy. One thing I did notice when I was rolling around in it and
fondling it a bit earlier is the screen is attached with what's some pretty
heavy duty Velcro. So, I guess you could take it off and iron it or something
like that or um that would probably be the smart thing to do when you put it
away. Just kind of crumple it and then fold up the screen nicely. This one cost
$2,000 and is, I guess, 17 ft plus the
rest of the screen. Should we try the projector now? Okay. Well, after that
fiasco, it looks like we have a normal screen. Uh, I think we found the extra
pole, which is good. Let's turn it on. Finally, we got an extension cable. We
got a thing. We got to take a bunch of stickers off. Let's Let's Let's do it
up. Laser forge. It's got a laser warning. Oh, wow. AI image adjust.
Everything's got AI. It's got depth sensing. Really nice looking lens on
here. Oh my god. It's not piano black. This is the best thing I've seen all
day. That is sick. Thank you. It's like
rubberized as well. It's got a nipple um
button. It's worring. Press to extend
retract. So, this is why we couldn't get the side fumbles out cuz you got to push
this button and then this happens. That
is bonkers. And I guess they would work here, but there's a lock button on top.
So, you push this button
and now you have your fronts. So, these
look like they've got two speakers in them. Same cool little feats that we saw
on the back sides. These also have that
quarter20 little light bar thing there.
Looks like we also still have the the type-C and the power buttons on these
guys. So, we'll just plug that in there. This one already looks like it's on.
This is the front left. So, I'm going to come over. No, this is the front right.
Sorry, the blue one. So, I'm going to pop that. And then, yeah, let's let's
pop these guys out. So, these are going to be our rears.
These are also on. I guess these guys will be standing up. Put this one over
here. This is our rear, right? And why don't we put that in there? All right.
It says we Oh, welcome. Oh, that makes
more sense. I'm going to plop 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 capabilities. We
managed to squish it in super tight. It seems like, you know, this might be
living room distance. That's pretty good. Looks like it's got quite a few
intelligent adjusting things. I wish I had this at home. It's got that
one-click image adjust, which it seems to be struggling a little bit here. Maybe because the lights are on. We can
try that again when they're off. Um, spatial adaptation. I guess it figures
out where it should be because of liars
move and zoom. I mean, the projector lens seems to actually physically move,
which is kind of cool. Flu Wave, there's a selling mistake. That's awesome. Flex
Wave is uh I guess where things move
around. We'll see. Eye Guard. Yeah, it's
audio adapts to the environment. We'll see cuz this is like the worst set ever.
It's got a cube for a ceiling. Um, eye
guard obviously cuz it's lasers. Uh, it'll blind you instantly. Looks like it
automatically comes off. Wall color abdication. Yeah, I've got a gray screen
at home. That's difficult for some projectors. Uh, sure. We'll do Nebula
Master. That sounds like us. Uh, it has
an app, but it doesn't need an app, which makes me happy. We're at 100%
brightness. Ambient light adaptation. Sure, why not? Let's have a look at some
YouTube. And why don't we get the lights off?
Hot damn. We've got our lights off now.
And uh got Crab Rave video and music.
It's like the perfect thing. Um you can see how bright it is. It looks a little
pink to me right now, but I mean it's got quite a lot of color adjust. Maybe
that's the Nebula Pro mode or whatever. Um let's give it a listen.
One problem that I can kind of see is
that's where all your subs and your bass is. So, where are you going to be
sitting? Like next to that probably or
it's going to be behind you maybe or on a table or something. I'm not entirely
sure how that would work. Image quality looks pretty good. It's not too much
blurring. Maybe a little bit under the sea there, but we do have it quite
squished in. I mean, it's it's digital keystone
rather than optical, so it's never going to be perfect. Perfect. The sound
quality is excellent, even at kind of a slightly lower volume. Maybe if you're
maxing it out, it's going to be a little bit crispy, but I mean, it's just two little tiny things. Even just like the
uh the like button noises are are quite
nice. Let's uh let's see if we can get some 7.1 on it. All right, our speakers
are in one of the worst probably
arrangements possible. We've got one pointing in the wrong
place. We got one on the floor and we got two of them sort of thereish. I
mean, maybe we'll point them in a bit. Give them a give him a bit of a fighting
chance. And let's try this Flex Wave calibration and see what it sounds like.
That's uh that's going to be like a new one for me. That is almost exactly where
they are physically in the room.
Oh, I'll tell you. It calculated the sweet spot to be about here. And this is
a pretty damn good sweet spot, especially for this terrible, terrible,
terrible speaker placement. They're really even and balanced, which is kind
of cool.
like really balanced. That's weird. That's That's strange. It's bassy. It's
uh nice and even. And uh yeah, even with
these speakers in like one of the worst things I have ever done and is an
affront to uh home theater nerds everywhere. Uh even that one's no louder
than that one. And that one's no louder than that one, even on the floor. So,
you know, audio adaptation, whatever magic they're doing, is is quite
fantastic. I would say the picture looks good, too. I would like to experiment a
little bit with the um the color cuz it
is a little pink in my opinion. And I
don't think that's coming from our rear light over there. It may just be like a
maladaptive color adaptation just because we've got blue over there and
something else. So, let's see if we can change the like look of it. Yeah, there
you go. So, that is adjusting the the like color profile quite heavily. So, we
do movie HDR10. That's really warm. Will it remember my keystone settings? It
will. That's also super nice.
I think I turned motion plus back on. I hate that it's enabled by default.
That's a mighty fine projector, even with this uh TV glaring on it, too.
Very, very nice. I can definitely tell that it's a laser projector. The
contrast ratios are great. It's super bright. And one thing that I didn't talk
about is just how quiet this machine is.
I can't hear it at all. I think my laptop and the camera fans are probably
louder than it. Soundcore is claiming about 26 25 dBs for the sound of this
thing. And like yeah, I can't really hear it at all. Maybe that has to do
with the water cooling. It's just very very efficient. But normally you turn
one of these things on and it's just you can definitely tell the fans there. You
know, quiet scenes, that sort of thing. You get that worring. One thing we
didn't really touch on was the karaoke mics, but I would probably expect these
to behave just as well. I'm sure these
are fine if you're into karaoke. They also have this other strange add-on
which they're calling like space flow AI. You project it on the outside of a
wall and it does the tracking on the wall. They're kind of showing examples
where instead of decorating the front of your house, you would just like stick
this out the front and then projection map your Windows and Christmas lights
and holiday decorations on the front of your house, which is interesting because
this thing costs $5,000.
And what are you going to do? Put that in front of your house? It's kind of a
little bit more rare that I see products here that kind of should cost that much.
The build quality of this, the feature set that you get, the quality of the
projector, and the quality of the satellite speakers in general is
punching in that $5,000 kind of price range. Now, you could do really well for
a home theater for $5,000, but now
you're getting karaoke, you're getting something portable, you don't have to
drill holes in the walls, you don't have to adjust a bunch of stuff. And, you
know, really high-end 11.1.4 for
whatever soundbar, 1,500 bucks. And this
one's 7.1.4. So each of these little guys also have upfiring speakers.
Projector like this, maybe also three or $4,000. So you're kind of getting in one
package. If this is for you, I think it's probably for you. I have no idea
the kind of person who would want to buy
this, which is a bit of a problem. The other thing is that this is like a
Kickstarter, too. So, they're giving about a thousand bucks off this and the
screens and stuff like that if you back the Kickstarter. One of the only missing
things in this package, unless I didn't read the instructions again properly,
which were great, by the way, is 3D glasses. This is also capable of doing
3D projection, too, if you're uh one of
the people who have a 3D movie or find something that can actually serve them
to you. I mean, maybe with HDMI or something like that. I mean, of course,
like one of the big advantages of this is you could take it to somebody's
house. You just basically pop these out, pop them on a table somewhere. You don't
even have to care where you put them because it seems to auto correct so
well. And then, you know, put the speakers away.
And like just as fast as that, I'm packed up and ready to go on to the next
thing or throw it back in the closet. I have no idea. This is a weird class of
products, especially for $5,000. It's certainly not a novelty. I'll put it
that way. If you liked this video, why don't you check out one of the other
party speakers I've done? There's some fun ones from Sony.