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I initially thought it was a really really stupid idea to have just a

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regular Bluetooth speaker with a candle on top but what I learned is that the

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glass on top is actually part of the

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speaker system so I went from thinking this was a really stupid product to

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actually something that seems quite exciting

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a little strap in here

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oh my God look at that it's certainly a lot girthier than I

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expected a little intimidated honestly it's really really heavy too see what else we

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got in here whoa it turned on

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oh my God that's uh that's pretty bright it's like a one piece unit in there when

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it even reflects up off the top of the

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little glass Tubi thing yeah but just leave that over there

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okay we've got a charging cable USBC that's really nice nice fabric wrap on

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this a bunch of instructions it's a glass speaker what's this

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ooh comes with a cleaning car

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oh you're gonna burn it oh I think it's just a light in there

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don't need that okay that's everything we need here they

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call it an organic glass tube and I don't really know what that means it's

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plastic you can hear that I don't really understand why they would call it

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organic glass when it's just plastic one of the interesting things about this is

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it's got two speakers inside the unit it's got this down firing larger driver

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which probably makes up the most of the base here so you have a separate mid

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driver and then you also have a Tweeter

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that is attached stop it attached to the

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plastic organic glass tube at the top here so instead of

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having a tweeter that fires up or 360 Degrees around this entire glass 2B

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thing glass 2B thing acts as your Tweeter which is uh actually quite

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exciting you want to weigh it it's supposed to mimic like a candle

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yeah but the tube is actually the Tweeter oh no way so it's it's like they

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went okay we'll make a giant Tweeter and wow this is kind of boring I know we'll

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put a candle in it it's kind of like it's kind of like vacuum tubes like I

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love amps yeah they have the vacuum tubes that glow and they're on and stuff

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I think that's a nice aesthetic this is kind of less of a nerdy version of that

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yeah I think they turned something that they designed from a technical

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standpoint into something that's more of an aesthetic piece do it sound good I

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don't know yet I ain't got time okay so have fun I'll let you know yes

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1.11 kilograms two and a half pounds Hefty

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good bludgeoning weapon how does it connect believe it's only Bluetooth

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doesn't look like it's got any auxiliary in so you can't pass around the aux cord

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power button on the side it's got a phone connection button and it looks

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like you've got your volume adjustment here too one thing that did irritate me

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was that the Bluetooth connection button and the I guess it's like a timer off

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mode thing or on the bottom so if I wanted to interact with it I'd have to

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pick it up and and repair it I don't know why those couldn't be on the side

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it was just an aesthetic consideration who knows it takes five volts in through

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this USBC charger so theoretically you could leave this plugged in all the time

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but it is battery powered jono tells me it's got eight hours of battery life I

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can imagine that you would fit quite a large battery in here but I also believe

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that most of this internal volume is just a down facing driver it's a little

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fabric around the outside of it is where that downward facing driver is going to

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spread the sound out the speaker comes with an app called Sony Music Center and

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it's already found it I didn't even have to put it in pairing mode I think it's

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already started in pairing mode and it's come up here so it wants setup

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so let's do the setup there it is we're going to pair with it do you think it'll

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Bing that was that was handy it did Bing

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there we go it's setting complete there we are the

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lspx-s3 I think Bluetooth initially was

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not ever designed for high quality audio transmission the new

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standards I believe are really pushing for high quality audio and I guess ldac

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is a Sony proprietary transmission I see this group with other speakers button

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which is really exciting because if this had been good I would have absolutely

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loved to have a pair of them to use them as actual speakers and it looks like it

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supports that yeah we could glue five or ten of them

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together I'm sure Sony would enjoy that uh we've got party connect change

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anywhere to a party room with more powerful sound so I guess you could put

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30 of them in a room and just murder people with the audio quality but the

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stereo connection is what's most exciting in my opinion what makes it so

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exciting well because if it's a good speaker they're small they're weighty they feel

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good it would be nice to have a very simple Bluetooth connected stereo system

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that needs no wires the app installed easy didn't make me make an account

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which I would have just deleted it instantly we've got settings for the

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device itself we've got some sound settings it's got a bass boost mode so

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you can turn it into a Beats by Dr Dre illumination settings that's right it's

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got a light in it so it's got lighting mode

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and let's go Candlelight mode romantic mode romantic mode

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and we've got flickering we've got delicate middle

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flickering bright it beeps when you change it

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linked with music oh we're definitely doing that sleep timer power options

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Auto standby Bluetooth standpoint I don't care about anywhere yet touch

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sensor so I don't know when you fondle it does it like

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get annoyed with you because it keeps coming on when I was touching it right

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oh that's right there's a little touch bar here that allows you to adjust the

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brightness I think it's probably when it's in the other mode

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Bluetooth connection quality prioritize sound quality yes we definitely want

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that are we gonna measure it with our measuring measurer I mean it's

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intimidating and so are the bananas you go to lttstore.com let's see the glass

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2B thing is like well banana if you want to spend extra money you can get them in

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a different color from ltdstore.com should we listen to it yeah whew let's

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put some crab ready

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to drop you stupid

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there you go man that's pretty good that's top volume I'm honestly not too

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sure where the high band's coming from because when I move it around it's sort

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of coming from here but the speaker's really midi like there's not enough High

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Band Whatever they've done with the not

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plastic tube is not as nice as I was

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hoping for especially for 350. that's moving in there

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oh my God interesting it's like

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held in with some sort of

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it's a good sound isn't it every screaming does it come off I feel like

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this would just break in like six seconds of this however

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he's wearing headphones he's dying okay let's get rid of the desk pen and give

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her another go

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no change

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I don't know putting your hand on this because it's supposed to be designed

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like this is the Tweeter right

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it doesn't really change the sound too much it's a 350 Bluetooth speaker it's

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sad it's it's kind of sad especially as this is all max volume I would want to

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be in physical pain it's pretty though

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I don't know I'm gonna try one of my reference songs

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that you can't use in the video

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foreign

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well I think I know what's going on at least there's a lot of really low bass

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and we can feel that when the table moves and when there's a Kick Drum and

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stuff like that but the mid band where this speaker here

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is I guess is just weak when the whole

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song sort of filled out it's just sort

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of sad it's not enough if I guess full body you know what I

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mean yeah it's a watered-down beer I'll put it that way does it sound like some

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laptop speakers hell no this is very

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very good for like a Bluetooth speaker problem is it's 350 bucks I mean 50

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bucks I would definitely buy one of these for 50 bucks I'm concerned about

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this I want to be holding it from here the whole thing is bending I'm picking

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it up is is super awkward and now I'm pushing all the buttons because they're

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here maybe that's why they put them on the bottom I don't know but

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you know it too heavy to have this as a plastic I

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mean even as a shop even as a glass I

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think I would be concerned I would really like a way to remove this oh yeah

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it's got bass boost mode that might actually fix the whole thing wouldn't it

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okay uh should we play it and try changing the sound while

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okay that actually sounds a hell of a lot better because the like super low

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frequencies are still there but the bass boost mode seems to be adding the ones

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that I think we're missing instead of just making everything worse like I

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really expected let's do a side sweep see if we can hear when it starts then

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we can get a perfect idea of exactly so

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this is just playing a pure sine wave which is like the purest tone that you

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can do and it's going through the entire frequency spectrum it's logarithmic so

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it goes nice and even but the frequency is increasing a lot faster so it started

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like 45 so that's really nice and Bassy and what we're listening for when we do

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a side sweep is uh the exact same level of volume through the entire frequency

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range so right now through 45 to about 110 that it's at now it's rising in

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volume you can hear that from over there right and now it's getting even louder and

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then there was a bit of a dip at 160.

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and another dip at 180.

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1 000 there's a massive dip right there at 1600. those those Highs are good that's

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really good so it's got some weakness in the middle I'm not going to take it any

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higher because we're all going to go goddamn deaf but I would say for 350

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bucks ah it's such a hard maybe if you had no

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music in your place if you had no living room stereo if you had no bookshelf

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speakers if you didn't have anything besides your phone and you wanted

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something to listen to music at a reasonable volume at a reasonable level

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of quality I'd say for 350 bucks this

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would be a really really nice option it's aesthetically pleasing it's not

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going to get full of dust and garbage because the top is nicely covered

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um seems well built except for

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except for that I wouldn't recommend it if you had kids because it's gonna be

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broken in like eight seconds the 400 Space is really difficult from the cheap

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crap to twenty dollars up to like a hundred dollars or more you also have a

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massive massive Market but the 400 range

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is sort of where you start to get into good quality products and if you're

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looking for a speaker in the range of 300 to 400 or a pair of headphones I

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would probably put them in the same category you're gonna have to do a lot

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of research and you're going to have to probably go to a place and try a whole

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bunch of them rather than just going this one looks nice because the

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difference in quality that you'll get for the 400 range is incredibly large

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until we get LTT Labs going then we'll just tell you when you can buy what we

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tell you to