in today's video we're going to be having a look at the mars
pro wireless speaker by gravistar check it out
though this isn't the typical product that i'd actually cover on my channel
but when gravistar reached out to me about having a look at this thing
i saw it and i just instantly said yes i'm personally a big fan of this whole spacey
robot damaged theme that this thing has going on it's very gamery or gay marified and to be honest
i wasn't really expecting much from this thing and also from the images and the promo stuff that
they'd sent me to actually have a look at this thing i actually expected this thing to be really
small but it's not it's pretty big in addition to me expecting this thing to be really small
i also expected the audio to be well terrible but i can honestly say i've been pleasantly
surprised so let's get into it and see what this thing actually is and what it does and
before we do get started i just want to point out that today's video is sponsored by gravistar
and although the video is sponsored everything you've seen here in the video are my own personal
thoughts and opinions gravistar have paid for this air time and they haven't paid for my review
so this is the mars pro wireless bluetooth speaker it's created by a company called
gravistar and they create a range of different products including these speakers some earbuds
and things like phone cases and if you couldn't already guess that you specialize in creating
these kind of technology and bits that all have the same spacey futuristic theme to them the theme
and design for gravistar's products are definitely more catered towards a specific audience and i
doubt it'd be something that you'd expect to see on your granny shelf or maybe you would
as well as targeting a specific audience these speakers also carry a high price tag
and i think it puts them at that level that you'd expect to pay for a premium bluetooth speaker
partly i think some of the cost comes from the design and the actual hand craft of the speakers
as well as the materials that are used but we'll come back to this in a little bit
you can pick the mars pro up in a range of different colors and designs and some of
them also have little magnetic attachments and accessories that you can add to them
in order to change the overall appearance of the design for the purposes of this review gravistar
kindly sent me two models i got this lovely war damaged yellow one which is definitely my favorite
and i also got the mars pro white to get the most out of these speakers you're definitely going to
need more than one but again we'll come back to that in just a sec physically the internals of
all of the speakers are all the exact same they're all compact with a dual based speaker system that
features a base radiator a 2.5 inch full range speaker and a singular one-inch high frequency
tweeter that has a maximum output of 20 watts the only real difference between any of the speakers
are just the overall design and finish my favorite thing about the war damage yellow one is the fact
that it's handmade so all of the markings are all hand painted and this actually makes each speaker
technically unique for me i personally do really like the design of the war damage yellow one
and the white one is just too plain and boring for me but it's good that there is a bit of
contrast between them and you can pick one that suits your environment the speakers themselves
are pretty weighty and they weigh just over five pounds the entire body of the speaker is made out
of a zinc alloy and there's just little bits of plastic around the led and it's this metal feel
that adds to the actual premium feel of it and you know it doesn't feel cheap and plasticky moving
on then let's have a look at what you get in the box the box itself is actually pretty cool and it
looks like it's actually made out of metal inside of the box the top layer of polystyrene's also got
the gravastar logo pressed into it which again is pretty cool for packaging inside the box you'll
find the speaker unit itself as well as a couple of cables you'll find a usb-a to usb-c cable for
charging and a usb-c to aux connection cable which will allow you to connect other devices
to the speakers the final thing you'll find in the box is just a little instructions manual and
this will just give you a couple of tips on how to connect the speakers on the top of the speaker
you'll find three buttons one to control the leds one to control the power and also stop the music
and one to control the bluetooth on the top center you'll also find a grey stripe and this acts as a
touch control for the volume to adjust the volume all you do is simply swipe your finger up and down
and you'll also see some handy leds that show you the volume level on the base of the speaker
you'll find three adjustable legs the legs are really adjustable at one pivoted point and you
can bend these either forwards or backwards to adjust the stance of the speaker in between the
adjustable legs you'll find a usbc port which is used to charge the internal battery or to allow
other devices to output to the speaker the speaker houses an 8 000 milliamp hour lithium-ion battery
which gravistar say will give you up to 15 hours of playback time on the front and back you'll find
the main speaker output and around the body you'll find six rgb lights so those are some of the specs
and what it looks like it's then pretty much just a normal bluetooth speaker you pair it with the
device and then as you'd expect you can play music on it when you turn the speaker on the robotic
design truly comes to life the use of those leds makes it stand out and really does add to that
icon there as well as just being a bluetooth 5 speaker the speaker's main feature is its ability
to use true wireless stereo and this allows you to pair two speakers together to get more immersive
and more powerful sound pairing the speakers is super simple and it's all done by making
use of the buttons on the top once the r-pad the music and volume levels will automatically sync
between the two and whenever you turn them both on they'll just automatically remember and connect
when you turn one of the speakers on you'll be greeted with a noise that sounds like it's
out of a transformers film and if you have two of them and they're both paired you'll
also hear a little notification message just so you know that they're connected together
and here's some b-roll just so you can see how cool this thing looks
wow
pretty cool right okay so looking good is one thing but actually functioning well and sounding
good is another so how well does this thing actually perform well surprisingly actually really
well and i mean i was pleasantly surprised i was really expecting it to just be really weak or a
bit tinny but it's got a really full sound and although the bass isn't super powerful for what
you get in in this small form factor it does pack a punch and for just using one of them you do get
that room filling audio but definitely making use of two of them is where the true power comes from
i don't have any super fancy microphones for actually being able to present the audio to you
in a way that you can actually hear how nice it sounds but believe me it does sound good
and the speaker is very loud in my testing i've been making use of the speakers outside and the
volume and the range on them is more than enough i can definitely see myself making use of these
in parties but i would advise if you do take them outside don't leave them out because they're not
waterproof price wise for the speakers you're looking at just under 230 dollars for the base
model then for the handcrafted model like the war damage yellow one you're looking at just under 330
dollars in uk money that's about 170 pounds for the base model and about 250 pounds for the more
expensive one i don't really know what else to say about the speakers other than the fact they do
what they say they do and this kind of leads me on to what's not so good about them and where i think
gravistar have really missed a trick if you compare the cost of these speakers against some
speakers from some well-known manufacturers like sonos then you'll see that the gravistar speakers
are missing out on one key feature and that feature is wi-fi a lot of other battery-powered
speakers in this price range feature wi-fi and for me having wi-fi is immersed it would allow me to
cast more things to it and it would also allow me to directly integrate it into my smart home
now this isn't going to be a feature for everybody and most people would just be happy with bluetooth
but again for me it's a must the other thing that i think they've really missed out on
is having an app for the speaker if they had an app for the speaker you'd be able to control all
the individual settings for the speaker like the equalization settings the volume controls
and all of the other minute speaker settings you can adjust and this would all be stored on the
speaker so whenever you connected another device to it it would just remember those settings that
you've hard set on the speaker some other settings that you could have in the app the speaker would
be the ability to actually adjust the leds currently with the leds you can either just
have them flashed through in a sequence or you can have them as one set color if you had an app you
could actually manually choose the color or you could apply more effects to it another setting
that you could have in the app is the ability to turn off or even change the sound effects
for when the speaker turns on or it turns off the spacey transformery sound sounds really cool
but if you've had the volume turned up really loud or you just forget when you next turn it on or off
you're going to be greeted with a big loud sound effect and gravistar if you are watching and you
are thinking of adding wi-fi and an app why not go whole hog and give this thing a microphone
and then give it some amazon echo compatibility and also google home and yeah that might be
totally way off what gravistar are planning or thinking in terms of their product but
it'd be something that i'd like to see and it'd be something that i'd want if i was to purchase
this product okay moving away from that whole app and wi-fi talk if i could add one of the
feature to the speaker it'd be the ability to have more joints in the legs this would just allow you
to place it better and also angle it a bit more and if you could actually freely twist the head
and move that around a bit more that would also be good overall the mars pro is a great little
speaker and it really does pack a punch if it's feature set and design are appealing to you then
i would recommend it for me personally not having wifi is a big turn off but gravistar if you are
watching and you are planning a wi-fi version then give me a shout let me know in the comments below
your thoughts on this speaker and if wi-fi is a must for you but there we go guys that's been a
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