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Today, we’re taking a look at the Phorus PS5 Speaker.
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Hey guys!
Welcome to Unboxing Live, this is the show that brings
you vicarious thrills through opening new gear.
I’m Andru Edwards.
And as I’ve said today, we’re opening up the Phorus PS5 Speaker.
PS5, not something I thought I’d be saying for quite a while, but this has nothing to
do with video games, it’s not a new game console, it’s a new speaker from Phorus,
wireless speaker with a whole bunch of wireless connectivity options more than I’ve seen
in any other device, and it brings whole home audio to you for a price that’s less than
you’ll find on any other product manufacturer.
So let’s start opening this up and I’m gonna tell you all about what Phorus is offering
with the PS5 Speaker.
When I talk about unlimited wireless sound and whole home audio or things like that,
I’m really talking about is the fact that this speaker offers more options for more
devices than really what I’ve seen on other ones.
So first off is they start you off with the instruction booklet, which makes a lot of
sense, a lot of you would probably wanna take a look at that.
There is also a warranty guide that I’m assuming a lot of you won’t take a look
at because we usually don’t read that stuff.
And then, you’ve got the Phorus PS5 Speaker wrapped up in some protective covering, before
we get to that let’s see what else is included here, here is the power supply, and the power
supply actually has a interchangeable options for plugging in to the wall, USA version for
example, so you would take that and slide it on and now you got to plug.
You’ve got this; I’m not sure what’s local or country that works with.
Now this right here is I’m assuming is some sort of European version, but obviously here
in the US I’m good with that.
And the only other thing that is included in the box is a USB charger cable.
So it is USB to micro USB, you’re not gonna need any sort of proprietary cable.
And with that out of the way, let’s move on to the speaker itself.
Again, it’s all about unlimited wireless sound, so I’m talking about Play-Fi.
Play-Fi is baked and it has a DTS Technology that basically allows you to play music in
any room of your home, play music, sync music in different rooms, and have different devices
playing different things or playing the same thing.￼The cool thing about it though, is
that Play-Fi allows you to use different kinds of devices, any device that is Play-Fi enabled
whether it’d be with Phorus, whether it’d be from another brand like Poke, they can
all talk to each other and work together, and that is what makes Play-Fi cool, you’re
not locked in like you are with some other brands.
The benefit of DTS Play-Fi is that it’s multi-room; you don’t need a bridge, or
any of the device that kind of create a mashed-up network and just uses Wi-Fi.
And it’s a Lossless, it supports Lossless music and Lossless transmission, but the cool
thing about this in particular though the PS5, not only does it do Play-Fi over Wi-
Fi, so you can communicate with it directly over Bluetooth.
The Wi-Fi is dual band so you get rock-solid connection and it even supports AirPlay, so
you can AirPlay from an iOS device to the speaker if you don’t want to use something
like Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, you have AirPlay available as another option, and AirPlay speakers
in and of themselves are usually expensive and they usually just do AirPlay.
Additionally, you can connect any other device right there in to the auxiliary ports.
So a lot of options with this one any smart phone, tablet, computer, etc., any other DTS
Play-Fi devices that you can sync with, you got it, you got aac playback, blind in connection
and beam for DTS.
You probably realized this already is about the audio quality
from this is pretty great.
DTS custom tuning and premium audio components on the inside, lot of work has gotten into
acoustics of the PS5 speaker as well.
Using the free Phorus app for Android, Kindle Fire, and iOS, you can play music from your
local music library, from your computer, from your android device, from your Amazon Kindle
Fire on your iOS device; you can also work with music services like Spotify, Pandora,
SiriusXM, Deezer, and Songza.
Let me give you a look at what it looks like without the plastic cover right in it.
Out front, you’ve got your speaker as you can see it’s rounded, it’s so light you
can send the music not just in a straight line, but throughout the room, filling the
room there .
On top, there’s your power button, you’ve got your volume down and volume up control.
On this side, you’ve got your Wi-Fi button and then your Bluetooth button allowing you
to switch modes there, when you’re on Wi-Fi, you’re also be able to take advantage of
the Apple AirPlay mode.
On the back, you can see the connections here, you got an auxiliary in, full-sized USB, microUSB,
and that’s your power port right there.
Lots and lots of options with this one, and again with DTC Play-Fi, you don’t have to
stick with Phorus components.
Now obviously you can, you can have a Phorus speaker in one room, and another Phorus speaker,
and another.
You can even pair the two of them together to create a stereo pair.
But if you wanna try a different brand as long as it’s a Phorus Play-Fi, they’ll
talk to each other.
And that’s it, that’s the Phorus PS5 Speaker available now.
You can pick it up on Amazon, it sells for $229 retail, but Amazon actually has a 15%
off coupon right now, so you can go check that out if you wanna get a nice discount
on the PS5 Speaker from Phorus.
So again, DTS Play-Fi is the magic that’s in here, but again I’ve never seen a device
that has whole home audio over Wi-Fi with also direct Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and AirPlay
support all in one unit for $229 that is a deal.
That was your look at the Phorus PS5 Speaker.
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