Dan's sense of humor is amazing. The taped over Sony logo with "SONY" on it. The damming with faint praise. The largely dry delivery. I've said it before and I'll say it again - I'd watch a tech podcast with this guy. Him and Anthony together would be on my must listen list.
I work at Best Buy, and we have one of these on display. Whenever we’re slow, I pair my phone to it and play it at about 1/3rd volume. That’s loud enough to let me hear music anywhere in the home theater department, at half you can hear it at the front of the store. I’ve never been bold enough to crank it to full.
If I understand well, the idea for it to support your existing TV setup sounds pretty useful. Main usecase would probably be someone who has a soundbar for their TV, but no subwoofer. With this thing, you get an okay subwoofer, which you can wheel out and use as a sound system when you throw a party in the garden. Any speaker system of this class takes up a lot of room, but if it acts as your subwoofer while you're not throwing a party it becomes a bit more tolerable to have around
If you're stuck with a soundbar because you don't have the budget for decent stereo/surround speakers - spending $1000 on a boom-box probably wouldn't be a priority. It's a bit awkwardly sized to use as a sub for a TV. It also comes in at 26kgs - which is awkwardly sized to be portable. You can sort out a 12" sub/amp for your TV for just under a hundred bucks (you don't even need a fancy 2.1 system - just leech the stereo signal via split cables). And same for party speakers. You've seen those big bluetooth units that go for like $60 on Amazon? My friends bring those out to outdoor parties and they're enough to keep 50-60 people happy. There's usually an external battery or generator involved, but even those are pretty cheap.
I remember living in an apartment I had just a regular small PC speaker setup with a 6" sub. I lived on the 1st floor and had a little old lady that lived right above me. She knocked on my door one day complaining about a thumping noise coming from below her LOL. I could not believe that little sub traveled that far. I swear it wasn't even 20/100 volume too. Apartments suck.
People always underestimate how well bass frequencies travel. This is precisely why I don't have a sub in my apartment. I've got some 8" studio monitors, but they sit on my desk on isolation stands. They have a pretty full sound stage, but I'm not rocking the floor with every note. I left my "eviction class" subwoofer at home (a 2x12" 900W SVS beast of a unit) for this very reason.
@@Daphoid Yea it's crazy what a quality driver can do. I had two Velodyne Microvees which pack a 6.5" woofer and 2 6.5" passive radiators in a well constructed brick house I could still hear the sound waves across the street in my neighbors yard pretty well. haha
So far, in this 50 ish year old apartment, I have not had complaints. Even tho I use a 10-12 year old 5.1 Logitech G51 Set on my PC, and it can definitely put out some bass. At least I don't do it too late or too early, so perhaps that is why, I use it for gaming, music as well as movies/series so.
Reason why I never wanted to live in apartments anymore after moving to country side at age 11 I am 28yrs old and I rather have live in country side or at least wooded area but still have my own space
He seems somewhat nervous and not confident. Something that people may find cute. I don't find him annoying or anything so I'm cool with him personally.
Speakers are the hardest products to review for others because we have literally no way of knowing (as the viewer) of what it sounds like. I love this review
I am new to this channel and I am just checking out the comments. Yours caught my eye because my name is Dan and my brother's name is Anthony. What a coincidence.
As a speaker that gets wheeled around for corporate events, I could definitely see this. I've helped organise multiday training camps for new recruits and executives. Having a very nice battery in there for a day long run from guest speakers to mood music during the evening BBQ would've been amazing.
@@Psythik it's called product displacement. Generally speaking you don't have brand name stuff in videos (TH-cam, movies, TV, etc) without a product placement deal in place. So you tape out / blur product names. But since the video is about Sony speaker, they replaced the brand with Sony. It's just a little quirky dad joke level gag
@@snipegrzywa i still dont get it am a dad. Please explain the lame joke? All i need to know i guess does that mean it is sponsored or isnt sponsored? Still not funny but atleast get the joke if i knew that.
@@scotts1668 The day they filmed this Dan was wearing a Sony T-shirt. Normally you wouldn't have a brand name in a video (people may think it's shady advertisement, the company may not like what you say, it's just easier to not have any brands showing), so you cover them up or hide them. You ever see someone wearing an inside-out shirt in a sponsored video, that's why. But this video is about a Sony product, so they jokingly half-covered the Sony logo on his shirt, then wrote the product's brand name on the tape...which is Sony.
Just here for the Dan fans. He is an absolute asset to LTT. No awkward phase of being bad in front of the camera, just Dan enjoying the tech and giving his best Louie Theroux deadpan comedy review.
if you call 60lbs heavy....i dont know how to be nice and encouraging with a follow up comment. its 60lbs.....basic employment requirements are 50lbs...
@@kazzxtrismus would you chastise him less if he used " weighs about as much" ? He didnt say it was to heavy for him to lift little pickle guy. And i dont know how to say that any more encouraging since its genetic and you cant change it 🥕 enjoy ut evening baby carrot...😅😂
@@scotts1668 its not genetic at that level... your neck can lift your bodyweight. \1 leg can lift your whole body to standing...these are all standards of the basic musculoskeletal construction of the body......if you cant do those things youve neglected yourself worse than obesity.... thats why they can mandate it as an employment minimum.... also the demo guy actually dropped it....... if you cant lift over 50lbs youve emaciated yourself...this is 60lbs...basically the same weight.... my 10yr old was lifting more for fun. you lot should be ashamed
Use case for this: it’s a busy Dominican restaurant or deli in Brooklyn, during the day they use it to call out orders and and make announcements, maybe some light karaoke for larger gatherings. After close they blast it while they clean up. I wanna start a series soon where I go through interesting use cases for bizarre audio solutions. Like, there’s so much eyebrow rasing gear out there but most of it seems to find it’s unique use case.
I have the SRS-XP700 slightly smaller and probably from the previous generation. I love it. it is super loud, has 25 hours of battery life. I personally have used it for 15 hours at medium volume before I needed to charge it. I would recommend this speaker instead of the new SRS-XV900. This is because you can buy the XP700 for around 400 dollars compared to the insane $900 for the XV 900 Even though it has less power and sound. It has amazing bass, great sound quality, awesome for outdoor use. I personally use this for pool parties (water resistant), sand volleyball (not sand resistant but is pretty good if you wipe it down afterwards), and ultimate. I love it probably the best Sony speaker I have owned. (I bought the previous 2 generations as well) The cons however of the xp700 is that the apps are not very good. this extends as well to all Sony speakers however. They need to update it and receive customer suggestions because if the supporting apps were improved these speakers would feel a lot better.
I also have the XP700 and I love it! I put it in my garage for watching movies and listening to music… I never turn the volume all the way up because my wife complains about it shaking the room inside the house… I’m thinking of getting another one for pairing, so I could have even a better movie experience (I think it’s probably going to be overkill but hey, you only live once)…
I'll poke a possibility for this. You go outside in a park (or outside in your yard), you throw a party for your friend, you have food, drinks, the usual park activities, a dozen families there with kids running around and screaming and shouting and having fun. You don't necessarily put it at the highest volume, but you do have a lot of oomph, hours of battery time, and enough to make your booty shake. Plug in a microphone, you got a karaoke. Plug in a portable mixer, a few instruments, and you can have a live band playing. It's not in our culture to do fiestas like this, but they do exist, and such device makes it awesome all-in-ones.
Love how LMG has so many really knowledgeable hosts now. Each has their areas of expertise and you really feel it when they get to host something that's in their wheelhouse. Honestly couldn't care less about the speaker, but watching Dan put it through it's paces was still entertaining.
@@helenHTID I tried a lot before settling on the Sony. Suits my needs and after reading and watching many reviews and comparisons I was willing to pay the extra for Sony.
Sounds like a good use-case for that speaker is to turn the bass way up, and position it near wet concrete that needs to be agitated to settle smoothly and solidly. Fifteen or twenty seconds should shake any bubbles to the surface, and get the fill packing firmly.
My biggest problem with these types of speakers is that most of them I've tried (don't know if that's the case for this one) is that they recommend that you don't keep it plugged in all the time but don't give you the option to completely turn off the battery so you can just use it at home
Exactly. What Sony (and every other company that makes a similar speaker) should do is give these devices the ability/option to easily switch between a battery-powered mode and an AC-powered mode. No one wants to run a speaker like this on battery in their home and then have to keep on recharging it all the time. They ONLY want to do that when the speaker will be used where there is no option to plug it in. Also, a device this size should have an easy to swap out, user-replaceable battery as well. If you aren't going to give it the option to run on AC power, then you are going to be drawing down the useful life of that battery in relatively short order. Once that rechargeable battery is worn out/used up, you're going to have to likely take it to a service center or battery specialty shop to get it professionally replaced. That's going to take a considerable amount of time and effort, especially on a unit of this size. This is something important that Sony really should have factored into their design decision/product planning on this item, right from the very start.
Dan has become pretty funny over time. He was always amusing and made me laugh but he seems very comfortable and confident in front of the camera. His sarcasm during the WAN show and around Linus and co is even better.
i bought one older version like 3 years ago still works great with the lights and everything battery life lasts like 8 hrs straight full volume with rave lights off
I always use my XB43 in stamina mode when using them as normal speakers. The Bluetooth mode is FAR too bass heavy. Using a cable input gives a much nicer sound profile, but if they actually put a proper EQ in the app it would be significantly better. 2x XB43 in stamina mode standing on either side of the TV with a stereo splitter cable giving each one mono actually sounds brilliant!
I have two SRS-X48s setup in stereo mode, and it's amazing how powerful they are considering their size. They also sound crystal clear at high volumes. Honestly, I think they would be fine for almost any use case, and something like this is complete overkill.
I would like see you guys take a look at the soundbox brand of speakers. I see them in parks offices and people just walking around carrying them like a backpack
I have 2x 15" Subwoofers in custom enclosures that I built. Running off a pair of 1000w RMS 4ohm amplifiers. Shakes the shit out of the house. My neighbours love it.
A proper surround speaker at the same price would sound better. Rave speakers are not designed for sound quality, just volume. If it happens to sound okay at high volume levels, great, but they are always underwhelming at low listening levels.
this is for people with more money than basic knowledge...for the same price you can get a very nice full home 5.1 or 7.1 audio system off craigs list or kijiji a real sub and game etc and do all media interaction on premium quality sound....the recommendations to listen to things on headphone will seem ridiculous. and no you dont need to upset your neighbors in your getto tower apartment
@@kazzxtrismus ah yes, a nice portable 7.1 system? You are talking about a completely different use case here. But for the price I would still stick with the Soundboks.
as great as crabrave is, perhaps you oughta play a variety of copyright free music when you do overviews of items like this, there's plenty of great music out there you could use.
These are great for party planners (aka the professional companies). Two of those and you never have to worry about having to wire the whole sound system in every location.
This was definitely made for a dorm room. As in that rich kid that has everything, but now needs to move into a tiny apartment where they'd get people over for parties etc. but also want a decent setup for watching movies other times.
I used the srs xp500 for my wedding. The speakers have way too much bass but if you hold the bass boost button (at least on the xp500) then it will switch over to a low bass mode which helps extend battery life and makes music sound much more balanced.
Comparing to the speakers we left in the 90’s which we used multiple to get surround sound, having one speaker that size for a party doesn’t sound bad inside or outside. As long as it performs
The main problem with these wireless setups is the delay you get if you use it for basic sound mixing. I mean, no troubles just letting it play a playlist untouched but as soon as you wanna do a transition from one song to another on a mixpult, the delay throws you off. So you need to go wired then and this kind of beats the purpose.
Is it true you're not meant to put big speakers like that near your tv? I had the setup shown at 5:25 a few years back and after a while my tv had black lines running through it, completely ruining the picture. Suspected it was the speaker but never found out for sure.
7:46 "I was hoping they'd be brighter" But you're in a fully studio lit set 😅. I'm sure wherever and whenever this might be used with the lights, it'll be dimmer, darker, and more moody hahaha
I'm pretty sure I passed a dude on Bourbon Street in New Orleans who could appreciate these speakers, his bicycle was one giant wall of noise with an insane nest of plugs and portable batteries. But "Massive Portable Party Dude" is a rather small niche in the speaker market... And they seem rather resourceful already, better to keep 'em busy god knows what speaker monstrosity they'll make if we keep making this easier lol (god I can't wait to hear it from miles away hahahaha)
The bass being super high when over in the TV area wasn't because of the wall but because you were standing right in front of the port on that side. The bass will always be much, much louder near or directly in front of the port.
More Dan across all LMG channels! That said, i will still claim the Soundboks still is the GOAT. 100wh changeable batteries and rugged enough to go full blast while you chuck it in the river.
Long time fan! I work as a full time dj and worked retail for pro audio equipment. For the price , you can get much better stuff from other brands that have more skin in the game that’s still accessible and cheaper than the Sony. Bose, EV, JBL, and a personal fav QSC are the brands to check out. There’s battery and wall powered options that would blow this out the water that’s way more portable for the same price if not cheaper.
These things are going to be popular at college parties and tailgates, because that's exactly the sort of features my fraternity brothers and I could have used back in the day. Not sure it has a place in my life, but some younger folks that need a battery powered portable stereo/pa system are going to have fun with those.
"Loud" is a understatement. have an older smaller model 5.5 hours at full volume only hit ~50% battery but you can't be close at that volume its deafening in a small room. used it regularly in a warehouse during construction 300,000 sqf the bass was audible in the whole place. i expect this to perform better in the same situation.
Placing a box like that is pretty close to placing a subwoofer. Sub placement is crucial for bass reproduction and I wouldn't expect this to be different. Corner-loading it would get the most bass amplification, and standing it in the center of the room, the least. But yeah, I have no use case for a crate of sound like this one.
I think they added the TV support feature, bc you don't always have a party. And so that its not useless all the time, they added the TV feature, so it has another, more everyday application
Finally, hearing crab rave through a speaker that can be used in a rave
I feel like at that size it won't be very safe for the crabs.
@@pirojfmifhghek566 do crabs have ears?
@@LukaSauperl If they didn't, then how would they hear each other on their shell phones?
@@pirojfmifhghek566 Oh my god, that was awful, I loved it.
@@pirojfmifhghek566 I love you man
Dan's sense of humor is amazing. The taped over Sony logo with "SONY" on it. The damming with faint praise. The largely dry delivery. I've said it before and I'll say it again - I'd watch a tech podcast with this guy. Him and Anthony together would be on my must listen list.
I have a feeling it didn't say Sony but said Sorry in the Sony font.
Dan is my favorite LTT host. I don’t need a speaker like this, but I’m still going to watch the full video.
i though that was pretty clear by now after months of saying the same thing
@@OldestHouse It's bot praising videos, on everyone of them lol
I was going to thumb you comment up, but it's a 69..., decided a comment was better.
I need a speaker like this, however I also need a house with a backyard to go along with it.
Dan could do a review on a mound of cow manure and I’d still watch it.
I work at Best Buy, and we have one of these on display. Whenever we’re slow, I pair my phone to it and play it at about 1/3rd volume. That’s loud enough to let me hear music anywhere in the home theater department, at half you can hear it at the front of the store. I’ve never been bold enough to crank it to full.
Do it on one of the days it’s icy and no customers are coming by anyway. See if you can hear it in the parking lot
Would you recommend this product for a low budget purchase for a vehicle?..
@@Rollcall-w6h it’ll be cheaper just getting subwoofer and aftermarket stereo and sounds better
@@Rollcall-w6hgd question I'm looking for one in mine's
@hide1080 can you recommend a set-up to buy. Need it urgently. For a party
_“But unfortunately it's very good at being not for everyone.”_
Only Dan could produce a sentence like that.
This guy puts across equal amounts of nervous energy and expert energy, I have no clue why it works so well, but it does.
Sony as always, never disappointing us with its product naming.
If theres top 3 favorite brand for me, Sony is one of them.
@@fynkozari9271 Sony is the only brand I trust
@@SonyEnthusiast Haha. You might want to look up "Sony Rootkit".
@@SonyEnthusiast hmnn
srs-xb3, wmx-3000, wm-450...
If I understand well, the idea for it to support your existing TV setup sounds pretty useful. Main usecase would probably be someone who has a soundbar for their TV, but no subwoofer. With this thing, you get an okay subwoofer, which you can wheel out and use as a sound system when you throw a party in the garden. Any speaker system of this class takes up a lot of room, but if it acts as your subwoofer while you're not throwing a party it becomes a bit more tolerable to have around
...except that it's not actually a good subwoofer. Or a good party speaker.
If you're stuck with a soundbar because you don't have the budget for decent stereo/surround speakers - spending $1000 on a boom-box probably wouldn't be a priority. It's a bit awkwardly sized to use as a sub for a TV. It also comes in at 26kgs - which is awkwardly sized to be portable. You can sort out a 12" sub/amp for your TV for just under a hundred bucks (you don't even need a fancy 2.1 system - just leech the stereo signal via split cables). And same for party speakers. You've seen those big bluetooth units that go for like $60 on Amazon? My friends bring those out to outdoor parties and they're enough to keep 50-60 people happy. There's usually an external battery or generator involved, but even those are pretty cheap.
I remember living in an apartment I had just a regular small PC speaker setup with a 6" sub. I lived on the 1st floor and had a little old lady that lived right above me. She knocked on my door one day complaining about a thumping noise coming from below her LOL. I could not believe that little sub traveled that far. I swear it wasn't even 20/100 volume too. Apartments suck.
People always underestimate how well bass frequencies travel. This is precisely why I don't have a sub in my apartment. I've got some 8" studio monitors, but they sit on my desk on isolation stands. They have a pretty full sound stage, but I'm not rocking the floor with every note.
I left my "eviction class" subwoofer at home (a 2x12" 900W SVS beast of a unit) for this very reason.
I agree I would definitely get booted out of my flat if I had this
@@Daphoid Yea it's crazy what a quality driver can do. I had two Velodyne Microvees which pack a 6.5" woofer and 2 6.5" passive radiators in a well constructed brick house I could still hear the sound waves across the street in my neighbors yard pretty well. haha
So far, in this 50 ish year old apartment, I have not had complaints.
Even tho I use a 10-12 year old 5.1 Logitech G51 Set on my PC, and it can definitely put out some bass.
At least I don't do it too late or too early, so perhaps that is why, I use it for gaming, music as well as movies/series so.
Reason why I never wanted to live in apartments anymore after moving to country side at age 11 I am 28yrs old and I rather have live in country side or at least wooded area but still have my own space
The painter's tape on Dan's Sony shirt made my day, haha.
The shirt is the 2nd best part of the video. I'm crying! 😅
I stopped the video to have a better look at it as I wasn't so sure I was seeing right :) What's the story with it?
@@dan-nutu early LTT linus wore a NCIX shirt like this If i recall and her put tape over it. Something like that, my memory aint what she used to be.
Let Dan host more stuff, dude has a way of talking that's conversational but informative
the video of him and jake and linus working on the network stack at linus's house was a blast. very enjoyable to watch
He seems somewhat nervous and not confident. Something that people may find cute. I don't find him annoying or anything so I'm cool with him personally.
Would you be able to call that... Informaltive?
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I'm sorry...
Speakers are the hardest products to review for others because we have literally no way of knowing (as the viewer) of what it sounds like. I love this review
More Dan level humor. Harkens back to early Anthony, who is now quite competent but we all know how smart and well researched he is.
I love his shirt
Anthony is the best!
I am new to this channel and I am just checking out the comments. Yours caught my eye because my name is Dan and my brother's name is Anthony. What a coincidence.
As a speaker that gets wheeled around for corporate events, I could definitely see this. I've helped organise multiday training camps for new recruits and executives. Having a very nice battery in there for a day long run from guest speakers to mood music during the evening BBQ would've been amazing.
the sony tape on the sony logo is truly comedy gold.
I don't get it; please explain.
yeah not sure how this has so many likes.
@@Psythik it's called product displacement. Generally speaking you don't have brand name stuff in videos (TH-cam, movies, TV, etc) without a product placement deal in place. So you tape out / blur product names. But since the video is about Sony speaker, they replaced the brand with Sony.
It's just a little quirky dad joke level gag
@@snipegrzywa i still dont get it am a dad. Please explain the lame joke? All i need to know i guess does that mean it is sponsored or isnt sponsored? Still not funny but atleast get the joke if i knew that.
@@scotts1668 The day they filmed this Dan was wearing a Sony T-shirt. Normally you wouldn't have a brand name in a video (people may think it's shady advertisement, the company may not like what you say, it's just easier to not have any brands showing), so you cover them up or hide them. You ever see someone wearing an inside-out shirt in a sponsored video, that's why. But this video is about a Sony product, so they jokingly half-covered the Sony logo on his shirt, then wrote the product's brand name on the tape...which is Sony.
Just here for the Dan fans. He is an absolute asset to LTT. No awkward phase of being bad in front of the camera, just Dan enjoying the tech and giving his best Louie Theroux deadpan comedy review.
I love the commitment to the bit of showing off the top of the speaker while it's still on the table
Great host, there was never any dull moment and everything felt very seamless
60 pounds is as heavy as some of the old RCA speakers I used to own, but those were made of wood.
Yeah that's about the weight of each of my tower speakers. 55lbs.
But this is a single Bluetooth speaker lol
27.2 kilograms
if you call 60lbs heavy....i dont know how to be nice and encouraging with a follow up comment.
its 60lbs.....basic employment requirements are 50lbs...
@@kazzxtrismus would you chastise him less if he used " weighs about as much" ? He didnt say it was to heavy for him to lift little pickle guy. And i dont know how to say that any more encouraging since its genetic and you cant change it 🥕 enjoy ut evening baby carrot...😅😂
@@scotts1668 its not genetic at that level...
your neck can lift your bodyweight.
\1 leg can lift your whole body to standing...these are all standards of the basic musculoskeletal construction of the body......if you cant do those things youve neglected yourself worse than obesity....
thats why they can mandate it as an employment minimum....
also the demo guy actually dropped it.......
if you cant lift over 50lbs youve emaciated yourself...this is 60lbs...basically the same weight....
my 10yr old was lifting more for fun.
you lot should be ashamed
Use case for this: it’s a busy Dominican restaurant or deli in Brooklyn, during the day they use it to call out orders and and make announcements, maybe some light karaoke for larger gatherings. After close they blast it while they clean up. I wanna start a series soon where I go through interesting use cases for bizarre audio solutions. Like, there’s so much eyebrow rasing gear out there but most of it seems to find it’s unique use case.
I really want to give all of Dan's neighbors one of these. Then they can sync them and play crab rave at 3am.
I think he would be even more annoyed if one of them is slightly EQd differently
I have the SRS-XP700 slightly smaller and probably from the previous generation. I love it. it is super loud, has 25 hours of battery life. I personally have used it for 15 hours at medium volume before I needed to charge it. I would recommend this speaker instead of the new SRS-XV900. This is because you can buy the XP700 for around 400 dollars compared to the insane $900 for the XV 900 Even though it has less power and sound. It has amazing bass, great sound quality, awesome for outdoor use. I personally use this for pool parties (water resistant), sand volleyball (not sand resistant but is pretty good if you wipe it down afterwards), and ultimate. I love it probably the best Sony speaker I have owned. (I bought the previous 2 generations as well) The cons however of the xp700 is that the apps are not very good. this extends as well to all Sony speakers however. They need to update it and receive customer suggestions because if the supporting apps were improved these speakers would feel a lot better.
I also have the XP700 and I love it! I put it in my garage for watching movies and listening to music… I never turn the volume all the way up because my wife complains about it shaking the room inside the house… I’m thinking of getting another one for pairing, so I could have even a better movie experience (I think it’s probably going to be overkill but hey, you only live once)…
Ah yes, just what I needed for my 10x10 living room!
Its going to blow your ears off
hard to see why would need wireless in a room like that, or how can't beat the sound from this gimmick using speakers at half the price
I'll poke a possibility for this. You go outside in a park (or outside in your yard), you throw a party for your friend, you have food, drinks, the usual park activities, a dozen families there with kids running around and screaming and shouting and having fun. You don't necessarily put it at the highest volume, but you do have a lot of oomph, hours of battery time, and enough to make your booty shake. Plug in a microphone, you got a karaoke. Plug in a portable mixer, a few instruments, and you can have a live band playing. It's not in our culture to do fiestas like this, but they do exist, and such device makes it awesome all-in-ones.
For a party product, it'd be best to do an outdoor review (also). Which is most probably the intended use anyway.
My thought exactly. This becomes in a big room or outdoors, not a room-studio
Shortcircuit is a quick and dirty unboxing channel tho, but I agree
This is not a review channel
@@salsaestoniaWell then shouldn't give an opinion on whether it's good or bad or why it's good or why it's bad
Dan is such a great addition to LTT's regular presenters.
Don't give two hoots about the speaker, but Dan is such a chill guy and great to listen to. More Dan!
Dan THE MAN is always appreciated
Man this guy is so relaxing to listen. Calm yet interesting to watch.
Dan has rapidly become my favourite host, more Dan videos please :D
Love how LMG has so many really knowledgeable hosts now. Each has their areas of expertise and you really feel it when they get to host something that's in their wheelhouse. Honestly couldn't care less about the speaker, but watching Dan put it through it's paces was still entertaining.
A few months ago I bought the much smaller but still very powerful SONY SRSXG500B.
Love it!
You made that name up on the spot. 😂
I bought the JBL boom box 2.. Better than yours at 100 notes less!
In my opinion that is, I tried both before buying :)
@@helenHTID I tried a lot before settling on the Sony. Suits my needs and after reading and watching many reviews and comparisons I was willing to pay the extra for Sony.
5:30 that face was just
The support function is really when you're not partying... It's better usage than just leaving it sitting 6/7 days of the week
I'll say this every time Dan hosts - he is awesome to see on here - great reviews, great perspective, fun to watch
My first thought starting the video "oh man I can't wait to hear crab rave through *this* " 🤣
you guys need to turn down all your lighting stuff so we can see how it would look in a darker setting like it would be at a party
Dan demonstrating his newly learned skills from studying under the best tech dropper there is I see
Sounds like a good use-case for that speaker is to turn the bass way up, and position it near wet concrete that needs to be agitated to settle smoothly and solidly. Fifteen or twenty seconds should shake any bubbles to the surface, and get the fill packing firmly.
My biggest problem with these types of speakers is that most of them I've tried (don't know if that's the case for this one) is that they recommend that you don't keep it plugged in all the time but don't give you the option to completely turn off the battery so you can just use it at home
Just buy one which doesn't have a battery.
Exactly. What Sony (and every other company that makes a similar speaker) should do is give these devices the ability/option to easily switch between a battery-powered mode and an AC-powered mode. No one wants to run a speaker like this on battery in their home and then have to keep on recharging it all the time. They ONLY want to do that when the speaker will be used where there is no option to plug it in. Also, a device this size should have an easy to swap out, user-replaceable battery as well. If you aren't going to give it the option to run on AC power, then you are going to be drawing down the useful life of that battery in relatively short order. Once that rechargeable battery is worn out/used up, you're going to have to likely take it to a service center or battery specialty shop to get it professionally replaced. That's going to take a considerable amount of time and effort, especially on a unit of this size. This is something important that Sony really should have factored into their design decision/product planning on this item, right from the very start.
Dan has become pretty funny over time. He was always amusing and made me laugh but he seems very comfortable and confident in front of the camera. His sarcasm during the WAN show and around Linus and co is even better.
I like that they brought back the square woofers
i bought one older version like 3 years ago still works great with the lights and everything battery life lasts like 8 hrs straight full volume with rave lights off
I always use my XB43 in stamina mode when using them as normal speakers. The Bluetooth mode is FAR too bass heavy. Using a cable input gives a much nicer sound profile, but if they actually put a proper EQ in the app it would be significantly better.
2x XB43 in stamina mode standing on either side of the TV with a stereo splitter cable giving each one mono actually sounds brilliant!
Cool. I use my XB41 as my TV sound bar
I have two SRS-X48s setup in stereo mode, and it's amazing how powerful they are considering their size. They also sound crystal clear at high volumes. Honestly, I think they would be fine for almost any use case, and something like this is complete overkill.
I would like see you guys take a look at the soundbox brand of speakers. I see them in parks offices and people just walking around carrying them like a backpack
I have 2x 15" Subwoofers in custom enclosures that I built. Running off a pair of 1000w RMS 4ohm amplifiers. Shakes the shit out of the house. My neighbours love it.
Seeing that Roland makes streaming gear now is awesome as someone who plays an instrument and is familiar with their equipment
I love your shirt! The tape over Sony with Sony written in it is just a delightful!
Also can you be the main narrator from now on? Please and thank you
I love how Dan is out of breath for the first half of the video
2 of them for tv, and then you can detach one and roll it around for a bluetooth party speaker. I love the idea.
I don’t have neighbors but I hate myself is that close enough?
such luxury to not have neighbors. flexing on us.
@@Timotarius_ I can’t help I’m a Yee Yee lol
Finally i can have something to fire back at the neighbors when theyre playing death metal at 7 am in the morning
Seems like a bunch of niche use cases, but at least it sounds nice. If only this could be used in a surround sound set-up.
A proper surround speaker at the same price would sound better. Rave speakers are not designed for sound quality, just volume. If it happens to sound okay at high volume levels, great, but they are always underwhelming at low listening levels.
this is for people with more money than basic knowledge...for the same price you can get a very nice full home 5.1 or 7.1 audio system off craigs list or kijiji a real sub and game etc and do all media interaction on premium quality sound....the recommendations to listen to things on headphone will seem ridiculous.
and no you dont need to upset your neighbors in your getto tower apartment
@@kazzxtrismus ah yes, a nice portable 7.1 system? You are talking about a completely different use case here.
But for the price I would still stick with the Soundboks.
Just bought 2 XV800 for parties and I love the clarity in sound.
as great as crabrave is, perhaps you oughta play a variety of copyright free music when you do overviews of items like this, there's plenty of great music out there you could use.
Yeah, 5 seconds of the meme is enough, they could pull all sorts of cool audio in to test
These are great for party planners (aka the professional companies). Two of those and you never have to worry about having to wire the whole sound system in every location.
This was definitely made for a dorm room. As in that rich kid that has everything, but now needs to move into a tiny apartment where they'd get people over for parties etc. but also want a decent setup for watching movies other times.
I read the title and almost skipped the video. Then I saw Dan. Love that guy.
Dan is f****** great. We need more Dan.
"Sleep paralysis demon music", best LTT quote to date!
I was waiting for the Battery to explode seeing how he handled that whole thing oO
More hifi please … Dan is doing a great job as a presenter 🎉
I hope you know That those kind of Bluetooth speaker aren't anywhere near hi-fi
@@NOBODY-hp3mu it was more for them to review hifi stuff not this crap …
This is no hifi! This is crapp.2.0 !
dan is growing on me. not that i ever disliked him but just didn’t have a opinion about him. keep him!!!
Ima show this to my Mexican dad .
I can hear that bass through my earbuds! Disclaimer: they are already on the bass profile
Sony of today has lost its durability. How sad.
What's sad is your cognitive ability.
best and easiest naming ever.. good job Sony.
I used the srs xp500 for my wedding. The speakers have way too much bass but if you hold the bass boost button (at least on the xp500) then it will switch over to a low bass mode which helps extend battery life and makes music sound much more balanced.
my use case would be party speaker and a sub for out door movies in support mode on the projector!
5:29 wow 😮😮😮 that bass coming through earphones harder, must be stronger in person... they did a nice job here plus the looks 🙂
Comparing to the speakers we left in the 90’s which we used multiple to get surround sound, having one speaker that size for a party doesn’t sound bad inside or outside. As long as it performs
We got 2 700s and I can say they're beasts. Definitely recommend the SRS speakers to anyone
I could really see the tv mode being used in the man-cave with the old flatscreen tv in there
The main problem with these wireless setups is the delay you get if you use it for basic sound mixing. I mean, no troubles just letting it play a playlist untouched but as soon as you wanna do a transition from one song to another on a mixpult, the delay throws you off. So you need to go wired then and this kind of beats the purpose.
Is it true you're not meant to put big speakers like that near your tv? I had the setup shown at 5:25 a few years back and after a while my tv had black lines running through it, completely ruining the picture. Suspected it was the speaker but never found out for sure.
7:46 "I was hoping they'd be brighter" But you're in a fully studio lit set 😅. I'm sure wherever and whenever this might be used with the lights, it'll be dimmer, darker, and more moody hahaha
I'm pretty sure I passed a dude on Bourbon Street in New Orleans who could appreciate these speakers, his bicycle was one giant wall of noise with an insane nest of plugs and portable batteries. But "Massive Portable Party Dude" is a rather small niche in the speaker market... And they seem rather resourceful already, better to keep 'em busy god knows what speaker monstrosity they'll make if we keep making this easier lol (god I can't wait to hear it from miles away hahahaha)
The bass being super high when over in the TV area wasn't because of the wall but because you were standing right in front of the port on that side. The bass will always be much, much louder near or directly in front of the port.
More Dan across all LMG channels! That said, i will still claim the Soundboks still is the GOAT. 100wh changeable batteries and rugged enough to go full blast while you chuck it in the river.
Was Dan wearing a lav mic? There was quite a bit of static throughout the video, sorta like it was rubbing against his clothes.
not mentioned in the video, LIVE SOUND actually using audio processing to widen the sound stage and almost give a surround sound experience
Long time fan! I work as a full time dj and worked retail for pro audio equipment. For the price , you can get much better stuff from other brands that have more skin in the game that’s still accessible and cheaper than the Sony. Bose, EV, JBL, and a personal fav QSC are the brands to check out. There’s battery and wall powered options that would blow this out the water that’s way more portable for the same price if not cheaper.
I love that all the units are SI except the massive one, they know exactly who they are marketing for.
First time I see a vid presented by Dan and have to say I really enjoyed it. Might be my new fav presenter at LTT
"Is it *THUMP* reactive *THUMP* to sound?... huh, must be an internal thing" 🤣
Seriously thinking about picking up the smaller version of this for the back yard. Seems like a great option.
I got one Sony SRS.
It's the product and work of genius, and leader in electronics.
Loved watching an old man who appears allergic to loud music forced to review a Megabass! speaker
I love Dan's videos. Great presentation.
It'd be interesting to hear how this performs outside to get rid of some of that muddy bass.
These things are going to be popular at college parties and tailgates, because that's exactly the sort of features my fraternity brothers and I could have used back in the day. Not sure it has a place in my life, but some younger folks that need a battery powered portable stereo/pa system are going to have fun with those.
Dan was the only soul who could have hosted this and made it entertaining, have him do more he's based :D
"Loud" is a understatement. have an older smaller model 5.5 hours at full volume only hit ~50% battery but you can't be close at that volume its deafening in a small room. used it regularly in a warehouse during construction 300,000 sqf the bass was audible in the whole place. i expect this to perform better in the same situation.
3-band EQ, 3 speaker types. Could there be a direct correlation?
your neighbor with a real avr and subwoofer setup will only say. ohh thats cute
corners are bass magnet. it makes sense when u move away from there to feel it less. thats why in studios they add bass traps in the corners.
Love how they chose one of the most softspoken LTT hosts to display a loud-ass speaker
Placing a box like that is pretty close to placing a subwoofer. Sub placement is crucial for bass reproduction and I wouldn't expect this to be different. Corner-loading it would get the most bass amplification, and standing it in the center of the room, the least. But yeah, I have no use case for a crate of sound like this one.
"Is it reactive to sound?" *punshes devices* "Must be internal."
I think they added the TV support feature, bc you don't always have a party. And so that its not useless all the time, they added the TV feature, so it has another, more everyday application
This speaker, through the video makes my own speaker setup's subwoofer engage more than I've ever heard it do before lmao