I initially thought it was a really really stupid idea to have just a
regular Bluetooth speaker with a candle on top but what I learned is that the
glass on top is actually part of the
speaker system so I went from thinking this was a really stupid product to
actually something that seems quite exciting
a little strap in here
oh my God look at that it's certainly a lot girthier than I
expected a little intimidated honestly it's really really heavy too see what else we
got in here whoa it turned on
oh my God that's uh that's pretty bright it's like a one piece unit in there when
it even reflects up off the top of the
little glass Tubi thing yeah but just leave that over there
okay we've got a charging cable USBC that's really nice nice fabric wrap on
this a bunch of instructions it's a glass speaker what's this
ooh comes with a cleaning car
oh you're gonna burn it oh I think it's just a light in there
don't need that okay that's everything we need here they
call it an organic glass tube and I don't really know what that means it's
plastic you can hear that I don't really understand why they would call it
organic glass when it's just plastic one of the interesting things about this is
it's got two speakers inside the unit it's got this down firing larger driver
which probably makes up the most of the base here so you have a separate mid
driver and then you also have a Tweeter
that is attached stop it attached to the
plastic organic glass tube at the top here so instead of
having a tweeter that fires up or 360 Degrees around this entire glass 2B
thing glass 2B thing acts as your Tweeter which is uh actually quite
exciting you want to weigh it it's supposed to mimic like a candle
yeah but the tube is actually the Tweeter oh no way so it's it's like they
went okay we'll make a giant Tweeter and wow this is kind of boring I know we'll
put a candle in it it's kind of like it's kind of like vacuum tubes like I
love amps yeah they have the vacuum tubes that glow and they're on and stuff
I think that's a nice aesthetic this is kind of less of a nerdy version of that
yeah I think they turned something that they designed from a technical
standpoint into something that's more of an aesthetic piece do it sound good I
don't know yet I ain't got time okay so have fun I'll let you know yes
1.11 kilograms two and a half pounds Hefty
good bludgeoning weapon how does it connect believe it's only Bluetooth
doesn't look like it's got any auxiliary in so you can't pass around the aux cord
power button on the side it's got a phone connection button and it looks
like you've got your volume adjustment here too one thing that did irritate me
was that the Bluetooth connection button and the I guess it's like a timer off
mode thing or on the bottom so if I wanted to interact with it I'd have to
pick it up and and repair it I don't know why those couldn't be on the side
it was just an aesthetic consideration who knows it takes five volts in through
this USBC charger so theoretically you could leave this plugged in all the time
but it is battery powered jono tells me it's got eight hours of battery life I
can imagine that you would fit quite a large battery in here but I also believe
that most of this internal volume is just a down facing driver it's a little
fabric around the outside of it is where that downward facing driver is going to
spread the sound out the speaker comes with an app called Sony Music Center and
it's already found it I didn't even have to put it in pairing mode I think it's
already started in pairing mode and it's come up here so it wants setup
so let's do the setup there it is we're going to pair with it do you think it'll
Bing that was that was handy it did Bing
there we go it's setting complete there we are the
lspx-s3 I think Bluetooth initially was
not ever designed for high quality audio transmission the new
standards I believe are really pushing for high quality audio and I guess ldac
is a Sony proprietary transmission I see this group with other speakers button
which is really exciting because if this had been good I would have absolutely
loved to have a pair of them to use them as actual speakers and it looks like it
supports that yeah we could glue five or ten of them
together I'm sure Sony would enjoy that uh we've got party connect change
anywhere to a party room with more powerful sound so I guess you could put
30 of them in a room and just murder people with the audio quality but the
stereo connection is what's most exciting in my opinion what makes it so
exciting well because if it's a good speaker they're small they're weighty they feel
good it would be nice to have a very simple Bluetooth connected stereo system
that needs no wires the app installed easy didn't make me make an account
which I would have just deleted it instantly we've got settings for the
device itself we've got some sound settings it's got a bass boost mode so
you can turn it into a Beats by Dr Dre illumination settings that's right it's
got a light in it so it's got lighting mode
and let's go Candlelight mode romantic mode romantic mode
and we've got flickering we've got delicate middle
flickering bright it beeps when you change it
linked with music oh we're definitely doing that sleep timer power options
Auto standby Bluetooth standpoint I don't care about anywhere yet touch
sensor so I don't know when you fondle it does it like
get annoyed with you because it keeps coming on when I was touching it right
oh that's right there's a little touch bar here that allows you to adjust the
brightness I think it's probably when it's in the other mode
Bluetooth connection quality prioritize sound quality yes we definitely want
that are we gonna measure it with our measuring measurer I mean it's
intimidating and so are the bananas you go to lttstore.com let's see the glass
2B thing is like well banana if you want to spend extra money you can get them in
a different color from ltdstore.com should we listen to it yeah whew let's
put some crab ready
to drop you stupid
there you go man that's pretty good that's top volume I'm honestly not too
sure where the high band's coming from because when I move it around it's sort
of coming from here but the speaker's really midi like there's not enough High
Band Whatever they've done with the not
plastic tube is not as nice as I was
hoping for especially for 350. that's moving in there
oh my God interesting it's like
held in with some sort of
it's a good sound isn't it every screaming does it come off I feel like
this would just break in like six seconds of this however
he's wearing headphones he's dying okay let's get rid of the desk pen and give
her another go
no change
I don't know putting your hand on this because it's supposed to be designed
like this is the Tweeter right
it doesn't really change the sound too much it's a 350 Bluetooth speaker it's
sad it's it's kind of sad especially as this is all max volume I would want to
be in physical pain it's pretty though
I don't know I'm gonna try one of my reference songs
that you can't use in the video
foreign
well I think I know what's going on at least there's a lot of really low bass
and we can feel that when the table moves and when there's a Kick Drum and
stuff like that but the mid band where this speaker here
is I guess is just weak when the whole
song sort of filled out it's just sort
of sad it's not enough if I guess full body you know what I
mean yeah it's a watered-down beer I'll put it that way does it sound like some
laptop speakers hell no this is very
very good for like a Bluetooth speaker problem is it's 350 bucks I mean 50
bucks I would definitely buy one of these for 50 bucks I'm concerned about
this I want to be holding it from here the whole thing is bending I'm picking
it up is is super awkward and now I'm pushing all the buttons because they're
here maybe that's why they put them on the bottom I don't know but
you know it too heavy to have this as a plastic I
mean even as a shop even as a glass I
think I would be concerned I would really like a way to remove this oh yeah
it's got bass boost mode that might actually fix the whole thing wouldn't it
okay uh should we play it and try changing the sound while
okay that actually sounds a hell of a lot better because the like super low
frequencies are still there but the bass boost mode seems to be adding the ones
that I think we're missing instead of just making everything worse like I
really expected let's do a side sweep see if we can hear when it starts then
we can get a perfect idea of exactly so
this is just playing a pure sine wave which is like the purest tone that you
can do and it's going through the entire frequency spectrum it's logarithmic so
it goes nice and even but the frequency is increasing a lot faster so it started
like 45 so that's really nice and Bassy and what we're listening for when we do
a side sweep is uh the exact same level of volume through the entire frequency
range so right now through 45 to about 110 that it's at now it's rising in
volume you can hear that from over there right and now it's getting even louder and
then there was a bit of a dip at 160.
and another dip at 180.
1 000 there's a massive dip right there at 1600. those those Highs are good that's
really good so it's got some weakness in the middle I'm not going to take it any
higher because we're all going to go goddamn deaf but I would say for 350
bucks ah it's such a hard maybe if you had no
music in your place if you had no living room stereo if you had no bookshelf
speakers if you didn't have anything besides your phone and you wanted
something to listen to music at a reasonable volume at a reasonable level
of quality I'd say for 350 bucks this
would be a really really nice option it's aesthetically pleasing it's not
going to get full of dust and garbage because the top is nicely covered
um seems well built except for
except for that I wouldn't recommend it if you had kids because it's gonna be
broken in like eight seconds the 400 Space is really difficult from the cheap
crap to twenty dollars up to like a hundred dollars or more you also have a
massive massive Market but the 400 range
is sort of where you start to get into good quality products and if you're
looking for a speaker in the range of 300 to 400 or a pair of headphones I
would probably put them in the same category you're gonna have to do a lot
of research and you're going to have to probably go to a place and try a whole
bunch of them rather than just going this one looks nice because the
difference in quality that you'll get for the 400 range is incredibly large
until we get LTT Labs going then we'll just tell you when you can buy what we
tell you to