Hello and welcome to the show!
My name is Alex and this is TechFlow!
So, we've got some products on the brand new unboxing table.
Yep, we've upgraded.
We've got a nice new sturdy table here to have a look at some new products.
So, in a vlog, I think about a month back, I unboxed these things from August.
Now, these are really, really, really cool for numerous reasons and I'll get to them
in just, just a second.
They've also sent out this, this Bluetooth, err, wireless, stereo set of headphones here,
right.
And they've said: Look, Alex, we want you to do a TechFlow video on these because we
want to give your audience 20% off for Amazon.
Like, you know when you see those products on Amazon and they've got, like, five stars
and every single review is five stars, I always think that's a bit sceptical when I see that.
All these products have five stars so let's put them to the test and see what's going on.
Yeah, so there's two links in the description - one for the headphones and one for these
and you can get 20% off if you want to buy them.
So, err, yeah, that's just like a me, TechFlow collaborating with August for you guys to
give you guys a quick 20% off, if you, if you want to buy these and, if you don't, then
obviously that's fine.
But it's going to be in the description.
Let's see if these things are going to be worth your money.
So, let's move these out of the way because these are the main star of the show, I think.
I think these here are just a standard set of wireless, Bluetooth headphones.
So, let's do a first little, erm, little test here.
So let's get them out of the box.
What do we have on the front of the box?
What are they claiming here?
We've got Bluetooth, NFC, err, it's obviously got an audio in, in case, you know, your battery
dies or whatever.
We've got a 10 hour plus battery, battery life.
And we've got APT, err, the APT technology in these bad boys.
So, I'm not sure if that even works with iPhones - it's more of an Android thing.
Anyway, we've got the user manual, erm, we have got here, erm, a very, a very funny looking
micro USB cable.
Doesn't look the strongest.
And then we've also got that promised 3.5 mm cable, erm, for use, for use, without Bluetooth,
without Bluetooth devices.
So, obviously, with my iPhone 7 here..
...even if the headphones die, we're not using the
headphone jack, which is a shame, so we'll push that over to the side.
We want to connect these things by Bluetooth anyway.
So these are brand new, brand new in the box here.
Let's take these out and see if they've got some juice in and do like a first, a first
little, a first little look around.
These are fairly nice actually - we've got a nice, rubber finish, nice leather head band
here, nice leather ear cups.
How much do these things retail for?
They're £40!
And if you get 20% off, what's that?
That's mad!
They're around £32 for a set of Bluetooth Headphones.
They're really well built.
Right, well, good build quality doesn't mean anything if they sound rubbish so let's try
and turn these on.
So, as you can see here, we've got a plus and minus button - I'm assuming that's a volume
button - we'll test that in a second.
It looks like we've got a track skip, forward and back button in here and a play/pause button.
I'm going to hold the play/pause button down and assume that that's how you turn them on.
Blue flashing should mean that we've got Bluetooth connectivity.
There we go.
So, let's try and pair these things up via Bluetooth.
EP60.
Connection successful.
Spotify.
Do we have left and right indication?
Yes we do.
There we go.
Very nice fit on the head.
Can't really hear much of the outside world which is good - these are over the ear design.
Right, let's nip in to "Holly Alex is here" so I, err, so I know a track that I'm listening to.
Wait...
I can listen to some...
Let's listen to a little bit, let's listen to "Rise and Shine" by Deorro.
They go loud!
Yeah!
Oh, I'm well surprised!
I wasn't expecting that!
They're mad!
OK, that was only one genre of music.
Let me try something a little bit slower, a little bit more vocal here.
Impressive!
Very flat sound, not very vibrant, but very loud and impressive.
I like it.
It makes a statement.
Let's see if the play/pause buttons are working.
I can confirm that the play/pause button, the track skip button and the volume
buttons are working.
Making a quick phone call.
Hi Jack, just doing a quick test.
Can you hear me OK?
You got me loud and clear mate?
Wait, can you just repeat that for me, mate?
JACK: I can hear you loud and clear.
ALEX: Brilliant mate - thank you very much for your help, I appreciate it.
Right, so that is the headphones.
Let's push these over to the side.
They're wicked.
I'm giving them a 4.5 out of 5.
Just a little bit more crispiness on the highs and that would be incredible.
But, for £40, you can't go wrong.
Right, so this, has got me really excited now because I thought this, I thought these
were going to be the main bit of the show and these were amazing.
So these are actually Bluetooth speakers but they're not just Bluetooth speakers because,
well, as you can see, they come in two different sizes here.
They look absolutely awesome.
Insane build quality on these things.
We've got a rubber finish on the top, nice metal grille there.
Massive buttons on here - this is either, you can take it as it is.
It could be a bit gimmicky in your eyes.
I think this is really, really good if you're finding it hard to see different buttons.
They're just massive so that you can click them there.
Err, very nice tactile feedback.
So, as you can see down here, we've actually got a WPS and a WiFi button as well as a Bluetooth
button so, yes, these are Bluetooth speakers but they also can connect up to your
WiFi network in your house or office and provide multi-room sound via the app, on, on the phone.
So, I've already configured these.
I just need to download the app.
So, hopefully, we should hear them connect to the WiFi.
Hopefully, when we turn them on.
Now, we've reviewed Sonos on this channel, the leading multi-room music system and it's incredible.
So I'm going to be tackling this review comparing these to Sonos.
Bear in mind that these are about half the price.
And this, being the smallest one a quarter of the price.
SPEAKER: WiFi connected.
ALEX: Right, so they've connected to the WiFi.
SPEAKER: Playback in sync.
ALEX: Playback in sync.
ALEX: So, I've done a bit of research on this and what this means is that you can either
have these - you can put this one in the kitchen, this one in the living room or you can have
both of them in, in the same room.
This one being left and this one being right.
Or, you can play the same song in different rooms, having the left and right coming out
of each speaker, right.
So, let's listen to the small one first over WiFi, right.
And I think, let me download the app, I don't even have the app downloaded yet.
"August A Link - One device found."
It needs to find two.
There we go.
It's found both devices.
So we got one called "Big Boy Office" which is, of course, the big speaker over here and
then we've got the August Mini which is the mini one over here.
Now, I reckon that if you had two of these big ones, you're going to create some serious
sound.
We'll listen to these in a second though.
Right, so what we can actually do is drag the speakers and have them in separate rooms.
SPEAKER: Playback in solo mode.
ALEX: Play back in solo mode - so that means that the left and right channel is going to
be coming from each speaker and you can have these in separate rooms.
Or, if you drag one speaker on top of the other, you should get an audible tone.
SPEAKER: Playback in sync.
ALEX: Playback in sync.
Right, so, what music do we have here?
What can we choose to play on our multi-room music speakers?
We've got Mind Music which gets the music from your phone, we've got tune-in radio,
iHeart Radio, Spotify and Tidal.
I'm going to try Spotify here and it's going to take us over to Spotify where we're going
to load up some 21 pilots.
If we click on here, right, we're going to, we're going to want to choose August - we
can choose either of them because they're in sync so I'm just going to choose the August
Mini and I'm hoping that it's just going to come out of both of them.
Let's create a little stereoscopic sound here.
Now, let's just see that it plays out of both of them together.
I'm going to click play in 3, 2, 1...
Give it a bit of volume.
Woooooh!
They're sick!
So, that is synced playback through Spotify.
Let's try and load up some radio.
BBC Radio 1.
Now, if this works, because I love listening to the radio when I wake up in the morning.
ALEX: Playback in sync.
Stereo sound ALEX: OK, what about if we want to put them separately?
So, what we're going to do is hold down on this one and drag them and separate them.
SPEAKER: Playback solo mode.
ALEX: I love it how it gives you audible, audible feedback as to what's going on.
So, does that mean that we can have the August Mini playing the radio over here.
Right, August Mini, got radio 1 on.
Right, let's see if we can get some Spotify over on this one.
Radio.
Spotify.
Right, sound.
I'm going to listen to the sound quality now.
These are wicked!
Woah! These are awesome!
And you can even charge your phone on the back of the big one with the output of a USB cable.
And they've even got auxillary in.
You know what - these have got a new home in the office for our sound system.
I want another one of these and I want to pair two of these big boys together.
This is a wicked step for August.
They could make a whole eco-system around this, like Sonos have.
Build the August subwoofer, build an August sound bar for the TV.
August - you've got big things coming!
My name's been Alex, this has been TechFlow, 20% off in the description.
Thank you August - you guys need
thank August for that because they did this for you guys.
We'll see you in the next one.