The Bedroom GAMING Setup - Samsung N650 Panoramic Soundbar Showcase
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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2,986 words · ~14 min read
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for eight years my wife has been trying to convince me to put a tv in the
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bedroom so she can watch chick flicks in bed and i've resisted and resisted and
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resisted until finally she made a more compelling argument
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well you could game in bed and i go
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i could do that couldn't i so in today's video sponsored by samsung
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we are going to be taking their 6 series n650 sound bar
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along with oh check this out their 65 inch q6f tv
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an xbox one x and this wall mount that we found buried in
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our warehouse somewhere and we are going to be
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gamifying my bed i don't have a controller but if
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i did this would look really like gamery
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so step number one it's gonna be to rearrange some furniture because
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as you can clearly see there is no obvious place to put a tv
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here at the foot of the bed and if we were to put it somewhere stupid like
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right in front of the window well that would be really stupid for
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lots of reasons you guys can think of so i brought a helper
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i'm helping laser james so we need a plan
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well you're the brains of this operation let's move this stuff
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okay wait a second is this still full of clothes yeah oh man those aren't heavy
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like look at them feel that that's it's not heavy
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are we sliding your lip what are we doing here uh we're probably sliding
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these floors are pretty old and dinged up anyway
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yeah see that's not so bad
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what is this thing that
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is a mirror with hinges on the side
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well you could open them ah okay
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so that's more like it and you know what i had actually thought
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that uh the bed might need to shift a little bit more this way
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but i'm not even sure anymore yeah but you're sitting on your side no
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this is her side actually oh well whatever now we could
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wire up the whole room with like speaker wire in the walls and ceilings and stuff
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but that's a little bit ridiculous so that's where the n650 comes in so it's
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got samsung's acoustic beam technology which basically gives you like a
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panoramic style sound but all out of one speaker bar it's got
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eight speakers each with their own amplifiers built into the sound bar and
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it's like a virtual 5.1 so uh i mean the
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one's not virtual it actually comes with a wireless subwoofer but we'll get to
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that later first we need to figure out where exactly to put it
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we have a wall mount yeah we don't even know if this is going to work with the t
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man it's going to work it says up to 65 inches which is what we have that's like
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scary when it's up to yeah you are like we're gonna right there on the line
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razor's edge baby it's how we roll but where are we putting the sound bar
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oh so you can walk out here i was like hey
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where are we putting the soundbar and he goes here's the mount for the tv
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well you can wall mount the sound bar yeah but we don't have the wall mount
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kit so we're gonna put it on a table
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under the tv okay easy so this is the
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part of the video uh search for a table well i thought we were gonna use that
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table that we actually just buried behind the other dressers that we just
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moved okay
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that was our plan and then we did that because we're smart
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we need a knife that's not a knife
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yeah it's a nail clipper i see you've played knife and nail
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clipper before
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all right how are you going to use that toenail clipper to cut all the tape
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i'm gonna use the file
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the macgyver of unboxers i can unbox with anything
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oh crap we opened it wrong i think oh
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it's one of those it's one of those ones where you're supposed to lift it off the top
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i always do that yep it is
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i mean yeah with the straps already having been
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removed that was pretty easy pretty easy
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oh god what was that ah just crushed the on the joystick for the
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osd what no it seems fine that's the power button i think
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you can tell it's Linus's house because these are actually two different screws
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okay there's a reason for that so tools are here
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uh so i actually kind of think we need to
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put the sound bar on the dresser first and then figure out
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the tv height situation all right we gotta move the tv because i don't
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actually know oh so i wonder
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if we could get away with like putting it in here
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hold on hold on stop the tape okay i
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don't say this often but uh i was wrong if i wanted truly panoramic sound the
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n650 goes on top of the dresser
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not i tried to enclosed inside
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but where would you put all these extra wand hoodies hey those are my wear hoodies that i
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stole he's like a cartoon character where he opens his closet it's the same outfit
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again and again it's not even a joke these are just all the same jeans
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in various states like those are the these are the nice ones i haven't got
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used yet people at the office probably think i just don't wash my clothes
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and there's maybe an element of that okay so uh it's
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on bye you turned it off this little
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overhang shouldn't be enough to interfere with any kind of angled
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drivers or anything like that for the surround effect so
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boom it's got a game mode we're gonna have to
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try that oh these stretchy costco jeans all my
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knee is bad i can't do that right now okay so now we need to actually probably
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flip this over so we can have a look at where the vase amount
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is thing we have these handling strips
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okay that's where the vase amount is should we unblock our wall mount i don't have
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my nail clippers here a bobby pin
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wow is there anything he can't do
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there and there this is kind of curved i
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wonder if that's going to have a big impact oh if only if only james had had
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the wisdom to consult the manual as i did we said we're not using
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instructions today conveniently he threw those instructions
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away right where i was going
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thank you james um
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okay so then we need a growthy spacer
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sorry okay what if we just don't use them
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no i don't think we're gonna get away with that just put a bunch of pressure on the oh
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it's not curved at all yeah these aren't gonna reach there are long ones on that
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end okay how about this we put the tv on a
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stand on the dresser since you want it basically on the dresser anyway actually
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that could kind of work
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all right uh should we just go all the way yeah
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we are in the bedroom
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you know what's really stupid is like yeah our wall mount didn't work out but
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this is like exactly where i wanted to put it
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anyway so you want to watch out for this when you're hooking up a sound bar boom you
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want to use that arc connector on both sides because then you have the audio
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return channel so what does that let us do that lets us
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use one remote for the tv and this and also if we hook up our xbox through this
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because this has 4k pass-through this is exactly what we're going to do then the
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audio will all go through the soundbar right yes sir
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you knew the answer to that you were just saying that for the audience
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i need reassurance actually these are things i read
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so the way samsung achieves a panoramic sound out of this one unit which of
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course will work with near any brand of tv is with these 28 holes on each end of
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the sound bar which help the speakers on this side act as one beam ideally then
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everything will sound like it's happening right next to you the sound
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bar itself is charcoal black with a brushed metal grille and a sleek look
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especially if you have it floating on your wall since the wireless subwoofer
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doesn't add an extra cable all right king aesthetics over here can i get some
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feedback not bad i like the all matte black look
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me too i mean we can power this whole thing up
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right oh i guess we could use the remote why are we why are we being cavemen
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right now wait can we take off these oh those are on there pretty good hey
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oh oh that hurts me and now we battled
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yeah see this is the first lesson of sword fighting
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you don't actually strike at the sword you strike at the guy so you gotta
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actually hit the person hit his hand that's how you win
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hey hey we gotta do headshots today okay
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so theoretically because we're using the audio return channel if i do an audio
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test on my laptop here it should play
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through my soundbar perfect yes so it's working exactly as intended there's no
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reason not to use this as an extra video input because you have to tie up one of
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your HDMI ports on the back of the tv for arc anyway so you might as well
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get that HDMI port back through the back of the soundbar that way you still get
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your full four HDMI inputs not to mention that
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you probably have more
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not to mention that it's easier to get at the back of your sound bar probably
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so can we finally listen to it oh wait no no we never do the the subwoofer yeah
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yeah it's gonna go right there totally decided where to put it on
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Yvonne's side that way uh you know the bed is gonna vibrate a little here
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for someone who can appreciate it
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what no that looks stupid yeah but it's in
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contact with two surfaces now it's like actually touching both walls i think
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that's not a thing is that not a thing no i read that in xbox magazine when i was
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a kid yeah same that's fine wait what if it was sideways there was
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this one magazine that i used to read for the articles all the time it told me
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all kinds of things about you know what women look like but they don't
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the subwoofer only has to plug into power there is no connection to the
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sound bar itself and there's also no pairing process for the user it just
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connects automatically right out of the box
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uh so i brought this uh this wig and
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glasses to simulate Yvonne experiencing for this for the
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first time
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is that mom no
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is he wearing a silly wig
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um okay sweetie can you go downstairs please
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honey bunny yeah okay thank you do you want me to carry
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you down there please okay bug
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such is the life of the wife of a youtuber
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i live with a ghost the amount of time i spend in a bed
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with uh fellow lmgears
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these are actually hurting me Yvonne doesn't even wear glasses anymore did
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you not notice she got eye surgery like six months ago
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what okay i just want to go into the menu of
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the sound bar you can do that for the tv can you yes
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what's happening on the xbox i'm not doing anything
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oh it was me it was the shoulder button or trigger button okay there here you just change
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that there it's in the quick so you can go surround game or standard you don't
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even have to go into the whole menu and if you're playing a game you don't have
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to go into the menu at all it will switch to game mode all on its own
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whoa that's pretty granular let's crank the lowest tones
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uh that's not the lowest that's the highest alright
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boom
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oh the subwoofers
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it actually does vibrate the bed a little
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you got it
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their voices are really clear
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you're definitely right about uh like
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slouching more being more natural this is way better and i'm actually like
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right level with the top of the thing if it wasn't a few inches of hot above it
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wouldn't look very good
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i continue to be blown away by like how much sound you can make out of
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a sound bar these days should play some games yeah
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okay show me this uh what's that game called that you're super into
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it's not it's not two players what
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why would you even bring this up then is this awesome for
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me okay
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now we should just stop that's the waste of time no way no no i want
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see how far you can go and you want to see if you can beat me on my first try
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because that would be pretty embarrassing i haven't played this since grade 10. so it's one stitch for
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navigation and another stick for firing that's it and then there's bombs
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uh which are the trigger and do bombs just do these they clear
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them out no they clear the whole screen basically gotcha
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you're just showing off now but yeah i don't even have to move
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when you die like when it gets hard it gets hard though oh
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so you died that was death
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all right i tried my best i got um
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one quarter of james's score and that was my best
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here you go one more playhead two player game we're like a fifth but all right
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no i had 145 didn't i i had 36 000.
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so you said we have a lot of games on this xbox but do we like have any that
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are good like what's killer instinct that's a fighting game right yeah let's play
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fight let's play killer sting it's like poor man's
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mortal kombat but get at me killer and seek fans
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of us i'm rash okay is rationing good yeah you
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know that's the guy from battle toads oh wait so these are like characters from
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like other stuff that's like the only one oh okay so let's just go straight heavy
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kick all the way boom
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heavy kick all the way ah dang it
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ah i'm just gonna mash all the buttons fireball
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lightning bolt lightning bolt lightning bolt
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that's so cheap oh dang it
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that's like the cheapest thing ever i look how far away i am
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what was that okay in my defense though i won the
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first round without that all right oh come on
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hey you're not gonna be able to snipe me from there
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i it did take me three shots it was pretty bad i should probably should just
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no scoped you like that dang it
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did i even hit you oh yeah i got like half your shield
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okay i think that's the best i've done so far i don't know where i am i never
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played this game i don't console FPS
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friends do not let friends console FPS this is ridiculous man
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and of course you're like screen peeking me and that's actually
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doing you any good because you know the map oh god we're both so bad at this
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where are you oh come
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on oh this isn't over yet
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come on wow i'm so bad too
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oh yes with the machine gun
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the assault rifle doesn't sucks your sorrow doesn't suck as much as it did in
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the first one i guess well i think we're done here i've had quite enough of this
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it is seven to one it is very clear that my fortunes will
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not change but that's okay i don't feel too bad because i'm the one with a sweet
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tv and sound bar in my bedroom and you are not so thank you to samsung for
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