Antec Mobile Products SP-1 Battery Powered Bluetooth Speaker Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the am that is amp an Tech Mobile
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products sp1 so the reason I have a couple Jam Boxes by Jawbone here we'll
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leave those aside for later is because this is sort of a similar style of
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device so a couple things uh stream digital media wirelessly from Bluetooth
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enabled devices okay chat so the built-in microphone lets you pick up and
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Place calls listen to your favorite song watch a movie or play games with big
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sound okay up to 10 hours of playback time the sp1 is always ready when you
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are and has a range of up to 10 m with Bluetooth or you can also use a 3 and 12
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mm cable so let's go ahead and slice
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open the packaging here the very nice
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packaging by the way so am amp antech
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mobile products is an a product line
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from antec that is all about mobile products and not and not power supplies
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but rather different stuff so the first thing we find inside is
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oo sexy ribbon 3 and 1/2 mm cable okay
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so that's just a 3 and2 mil to 3 and 1/2 mil so you use that from like say for
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example your phone to your speaker okay
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so we'll put that uh aside for now right there then we've also got ooh ribbon USB
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charging cable so there's a micro USB to
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USB connector with u sort of ribbon cable that's awesome okay so put that
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aside for now as well now we can remove the bottom piece here and remove the amp
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sp1 from the packaging so something probably about warranty and whatnot and
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then something else here which is a user's manual and it's very very very
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short which makes sense
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okay so this is the device itself it has a very sort of oh it has kind of a
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strange shape to it so it's not quite Square you can see there's a bit of
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curvature here and here giving it sort
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of a like um I don't know different
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shape it's also yeah it's you see again you from the side you can see it's not
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quite Square there either so it's more of a what are they called trapezoid
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trapezoid shape from the side uh here you've got just your usual plus minus
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which is an all likelihood is volume and then this is would be for answering or
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hanging up calls there's the built-in microphone and then you've got kind of a
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speaker grill that has a fabric behind it that looks very nice as well so I'm
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not sure which way you put it down do you put it down this way do you put it
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down probably I would think this way but then it sort of it doesn't really rock
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at all okay on this side you find all of your inputs and outputs there's your
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onoff switch which seems to have a little plastic cover on it that I can't
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ah there we go sort of coming off now you've got your 3 and half mil headphone
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jack and your charging port and on the other side you don't find a whole lot so
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the only real way to evaluate something like this is to take it put it next to
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the thing that it's sort of um competing with with and find out which one sounds
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better so the answer of which way it's oriented was answered pretty the answer
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of the question of which way to orient it was answered pretty quickly you can
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either put it down like this or up like this because it's only the narrow side
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this side that doesn't really have any sound coming out of it so we're going to
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put it like this it didn't come with a charge out of the box so we're just using a mobile USB battery so we'll go
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ahead and Crank It Up
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initial impressions well sorry initial impressions are very very positive
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compared to jam boox which when you crank up all the way um sounds sort of
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brutal uh so we'll go ahead and turn that on for you guys here we go oh is
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this not charged either oh awesome okay hold on let's see if this one is I don't
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use them often so it sort of makes sense that they aren't charged but we'll go
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ahead and do this and then we will do this and then we
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will do this
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bam all right so let's turn this one up all the way and you guys can kind of
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hear the contrast Le you can try and hear the
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P so J boox isn't loud and uh when you do actually get it
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cranked up it just sort of it it gets very Distortion whereas the sp1 actually
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doesn't distort pretty much at all even at full volume so yeah there you go sp1
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portable Bluetooth speaker doad it's
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