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Youth sony xba-40 one is a completely different beast from last year's Sony XP 40 last year if you ask them to choose between the XP 30 and the XP 40 I would say just get the XP 30 but now the sony xba-40 one is a genuine step up from the XP 31 the XP 31 is great but the XP 41 kicks it up a notch here's what's new on the nearly perfect sony xba-40 1 the sony xba-40 1 is the largest model in Sony's latest Bluetooth speaker line-up it currently retails for to $49.99 and it comes in three colors black blue or red the outgoing XP 40 can currently be found for 150 bucks if you want to pick up either of these speakers I'll have a link in description below and if you use the link really helps out the channel talking about consoling speakers routinely go on sale or you Michael lucky the differences between the XP 41 and XP 40 are much more apparent than the differences between the XP 30 and xB 31 the new XP 41 shares the same new sleek design found on the XP 31 bigger the XP 41 has a new fabric mesh covered body that's way more adorable than the soft touch cover body on the XP 40 like it's really easy to scratch up that X before you both of these speakers feature identical light feature setups as well a color changing light strip strobe lights on each side and light of speakers but the light feature on the XP 41 is much better than the one on the XP 40 it's much more detailed much more vibrant and way easier to see in brighter environments and I personally really like how the light strip now wraps around the sides of the speaker the new X before t1 is also a little longer and a little taller than the older xB 40 both of these speakers have very similar speaker setups as well dual transducers and dual passive radiators that shoot at the front and out the back but the larger XP 41 has slightly smaller 2.28 inch diameter transducers while the XP 40 has 2.4 inch diameter transducers the size difference is negligible but I thought I would mention it one of the improvements on the XP 41 that I like the most is the way you charge it before with the XP 40 you had to use the 9.5 volt DC input to charge it so if you plan on taking it on the go with you then he had to bring along the charging cable but now with the XP 41 you have two options you can use the included 5 volt DC charging case or you can use a micro USB cable and this is great because if you take the X before they went to a friend's house and you run out of juice you can just ask to borrow on mic USB cable and no powerful enough wall adapter and just like before the XP 41 has its own USB out so you can charge up your own phone Sony's new speaker line-up is all about durability Sony's previous XP 20 X P 30 and XP 40 or all IP x5 raiders so a little splash of water here and there wouldn't be a problem well you should have submerge them and due to the exposed speaker design Santander can get behind a metal grill the new XP 41 is now shockproof in ip67 rated so this means it's dust and dirt proof thanks to that new fabric mesh it's waterproof and I found this behemoth floats battery life on the XP 41 has also been improved the XP 41 X be 40 and XP 31 all advertise a bad relief of 24 hours but I'm the real world used with the light feature turned on and with the volume set at 80% I found that these two speakers average in nine hours playback time under the same conditions I found that the XP 41 average is 12 hours of playback time in my testing at least I found that there is a battery improvement between the XP 41 and XP 40,000 it's a sound test [Laughter] audio quality on the XP 40 and XP 41 is still very similar but I did find the XP 41 gets slightly louder than the XP 40 and for those who aren't familiar with Sony's extra bass line up as the name implies these speakers are going to put in emphasis on the bass at the beginning of the song you might have noticed the vocals on the XP 40 and XP 41 didn't sound as clear as the JBL extreme because that won't put some emphasis on the mids and has a lot of trouble but when the drop came the XP 41 and XP 40 sounded much better than the JBL extreme the X before t1 is better suited for people like me who listen to a lot of rap hip-hop EDM and so on but if you listen to a lot of rock or music that puts an emphasis on the vocals then you're going to think these speakers sound muddy but my biggest problem with the XP 41 is how Sony completely missed the mark with their news live sound setting on the smaller XP 31 if you turn live sound on the basis tame the bed and the mids and vocals are pushed forward and I feel this is a good setting for rock but on the XP 41 for some reason there's just a bunch of echo thrown in and in most cases it just of sources of music here's an additional 30 second clip of the XP 41 and XP 31 in live sound and the JBL extreme again I just feel this was Sony's chance to appeal to everyone and they blew it by adding a whole bunch of echo into the XP 40 ones live sound Larson on the XP 31 doesn't have all of this echo and if live sound on the XP 41 sounded similar to the XP 30 ones then you can have all of the bass goodness on the XP 41 and then at the press of a button have a JBL speaker but if you open up Sony's music center app you can go into the sound settings and adjust the equalizer from there so it's not in the world but when you use your own EQ settings then you do give up clear Audio plus so at higher volumes you'll start to hear some distortion but since I listen to a lot of rap I just keep the extra bass feature and clear Audio plus on so I don't get to missus torsion but with the extra bass feature turned on I do find the XP 41 isn't the best for listening to podcasts so in order to turn off the extra bass feature all you have to do is press it want to play in - button until the indicator light turns green and then press and hold the same buttons again until the indicator turns white again to turn extra bass back on Sony's music Center app also allows you to choose from a few different lighting modes there's rave chill which is my personal favorite or wave mode without the strobe lights and strobe there are a few others to choose from but these ortho main for the XP 41 also connects to Sony's festival app and oh my god it's awful aside from being a complete eyesore all you can really do is just change the color of the light strip it's better than nothing but I wish we had more customization options and Sony needs to completely redesign this app Fiesta Bowl also allows you to jam in random sounds while your speaker is playing music last thing on a touch on here is connectivity the XP 40 is good for a range of about 40 feet but the XP 41 easily doubled that with directly on the site I never really had any connection issues with the before they went period unfortunately the XP 41 has a little more latency than the XP 31 when watching video but it's still better than the XP 40 Sony also allows you to pair up to a 100 Sony speakers together and sync anything from the XP 20 all the way up to the XP 90 and the new XP 41 has no problem pairing up to the older XP 40 if you want to learn how to pair these speakers up then watch my tutorial but in order to get left and right stereo sound going you need to have two of the same speakers unfortunately the XP 40 and XP 41 won't play in stereo mode like I said at the beginning of this video the sony xba-40 one is nearly perfect I think it sounds great for the type of music I listen to I love that you can charger with no mic USB cable now that added durability is a very big plus and I really like the new sleek design but I would improve the XP 41 by switching to mic USB port to a USB C port I would also get rid of all of the unnecessary echo in live sound mode I would also like to be able to cycle between the four main lights and is directly from the speaker like I can on the JBL post 3 without having to open up the app every single time Sony's app also did improving cuz sometimes there are connection issues or they will just crash but even with this flaws I still really like the new sony xba-40 one like I said before you can't go wrong with the XP 31 but if you upgrade to the XP 41 you're getting more wall shaking bass a longer battery life it's still just adorable and you can charge it up with a micro USB cable which i think is a very big deal we still have to wait with the JBL extreme to has to offer but right now I think the sony xba-40 one is a strong contender for this year's most improved award if you made it this far I guess you enjoyed the video so hit that like button and get subscribed it helps out more than you realize support the channel by clicking on the links down below and I'll catch you next time