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yeah hey what's up tube Willington here and welcome to this video this is the SRS xB 41 the old new speaker from Sony and upgrade to the SRS XP 40 in this video we're going to be taking a close look at it find out what's new what improvements have been done in comparison to the SRS XP 40 and we will be getting a sound sample so we can get a feel of how it sounds like stay tuned so right off the bat the first and biggest change you will notice right away is the design of the speaker they've changed the entire form factor of the speaker which looks better than last year's model in my opinion and they have joined the club of the fabric designer for their speakers like the JBL and ue and it's all for the good I think the speaker still features LED lights like last year's model but this time they stretched them all the way to the sets of the speaker if they keep stretching them like this I feel like next year they will be surrounding the entire speaker wanna bet the placement of the buttons has changed with the design with your commonly used batteries on top here and the rest of them hidden away in the back behind this flap here is what you will find the add button to connect with another SOS XP 41 for studio sound experience I'm the wireless polishing button to connect up to 100 wireless polishing capable speakers for a bigger sound experience very light control button to tell you how much battery you have left on your speaker and with a long press you can turn the lights on and off a USB port to charge your phone or anything that uses a USB and audio jack and we set button and two charging pops that's right two charging pots it looks like Sony heard our cry and in addition to the regular port they usually put on their speakers they added a micro USB charging port the speaker only comes with a penny charger with no micro USB cable but I feel like a lot of people already have those laying around so I feel like this should not be a problem I just appreciate the fact that they gave us that option finally the speaker is rated for 24 hours of playtime if it's being played in standard mode with lights off but this is only if you're listening to relatively low volume at maximum volume you are set to get about three to four hours of playtime out of it and speaking of battery life if you guys remember with the XP 40 when the battery dropped down to 50% the volume of the speaker drops down to like 25% and it won't go any louder than that no matter what you do until you charge the speaker which is one of the most annoying things that Sony could have done with this speaker well they still have the same thing going on here with a little bit of change to it I was able to use my speaker at full blast until the battery got to about a dream about 20% and then I got the evil voice please join and then the volume was cut down to about 25% volume and it wouldn't let me go any louder than that so it kind of like last year I'm still annoying but the only difference here is that the volume goes this the battery level has to drop all the way to 20% not at 50% like they did with the XP 40 which is a little bit better but still annoying honestly most of the specs of the XP 41 are the same as last year's model except for three changes the biggest being waterproofness unlike the xba-40 the xba-40 one has an ip67 rating which makes it completely waterproof which has been the area where the XPS speakers have been losing to JBL and UE speakers the second difference is in the driver sizes the X before he has 261 millimeter drivers well as the new 41 is running 258 millimeter drivers but despite the fact that X before t1 has slightly smaller drivers it's still rated at the same frequency response as the xB Foley and then lastly Sonny is introducing a new sound mode they are calling the live sound mode and they think you will love it so much that they got rid of the extra best button and replaced it with a live sound button now the speaker still has the extra best feature but this time to enable it or disable it you have to hold down the play and volume down button for about 3 seconds if the light is green you are in standard mode if the light is white you are in extra base mode you can also switch between the sound modes using the app so that's kind of good I guess okay so what's live sound mode I already put out a video comparing you to the extra bass so if you want to hear the difference I will leave a link to that video so you can check it out by anyways according to Sony they should give you a three-dimensional listening experience and you should get a wider soundstage which in turn should equal to a festival vibe so your music should sound like it's being played live in front of you I personally found it to be good in some songs and not as good in others it performs better at lower volumes than higher volumes when you turn it on you get a boost in the upper mids and highs a little bit of echo added to the mid free quinces and lastly a boost in the left and right channel separation for a greater studio sound experience which i think is the only reason that i've considered listening to it because it gives you a greater stereo separation like I mentioned before the speaker can still be controlled with the Sony music up to do all sorts of stuff and I will let you see some of what you can do with it as I let you listen to the speakers so you can get an idea of how to speaker sounds like and what you can do with the app and as usual in order to give you the best 3d sound experience I'll be using a high quality binaural microphone to record this sound test but in order to experience the 3d sound experience you have to use headphones we both said here we go I don't know how this day it seems to me he's come away need your help I think it's down dad smoking on the stub have some fathers back on the back to be back - when you set up up down there but another one it's coming throw favorite just coming - what - making their Sammy me at the W of what attorney musica nothing it turns down here yeah we stupid the speaker has the sound signature of the xba-40 but I think the xba-40 sounds slightly better I think it has slightly better highs than the XP 41 if you listen closely the best performance on both speakers is pretty identical although I think that means on the XP 41 a little bit better there a little bit lifted than they are on the XP 40 the XP 41 also features what sony is calling the party booster you need to make a sound I mean the kids enjoyed it but I think it's just a gimmick and again the XP 41 can be paired with all the wireless positioning capable speakers including last year's model the xB 1964 T 30 and 20 which is pretty cool but the ad or studio pairing function still only works with speakers of the same model so you can pair the xB 41 with the XP 41 for still sound but you cannot pair the XP 41 with the XP foley force to your sound in conclusion I feel like the only improvements that Sony did here at the physical improvements but as far as sound there is not really a big improvement in comparison to last year's model so if sound is your main concern I feel like you're better off with the xba-40 obviously if all the new features that are on the xB 41 mean a lot to you yes go ahead and upgrade but if sound is main concern I think the xba-40 is a better Buy well that wraps up this video thank you very much for watching if you're not subscribed go ahead and do that leave the video like if you liked it if you didn't like it leave a dislike I just want to get some sort of feedback from you because you know you watch the video thanks again I will see you in the next one peace