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hey everyone Jimmy with Jim's review room so I just reviewed the Sony Xperia sley focuses on bass and one of the unique features for Sony it was also water-resistant for $150 it wasn't bad considering how loud and how much bass it had but Sony just released another series in their lineup basically the sony srs hg one that I personally have here now I personally paid for this the retail price of $199 at the time this video but I'll place my personal links in the description below click on those links there and you can get the most updated prices so without further adieu I'm Jimmy with Jim's review room and my channel is here to help you make a purchase decision welcome everyone to another review you going over the physical features first the ACU one is made for portability that's measuring at 8 inches from left to right a little over 2 and quarter inches from front to back and it stands almost two and a half inches tall the ha1 does weigh a little bit more than most other bluetooth speakers on the market more so than the Bose Soundlink mini - more than the UE boom - and almost identical in weight with the new JBL charge 3 and when you do hold this it's not a heavy per se but you do get a sense of the speaker being pretty beefy no construction wise the exterior feels to be built well here with minimal and reasonable amounts of flexing the front grille and around the exterior it's a smooth plastic that didn't provide any grippy texture the buttons are very tactile and in general the HD one from my experience is a still a quality built speaker capable of being stowed and carry in your bag without any issues now what we don't have here on the speaker is water resistance unfortunately there's no charge out port to charge other devices this isn't ruggedized or sand or dust proof however what this does have and going over the buttons and the ports here this can work as a speakerphone for your phone calls there's an extra base function which I'll demonstrate during the audio test there's of course your volume down and up with power button to the far right here but directly in the middle you have NFC abbreviated for near-field communication it's allowing you to pair your NFC enabled phone just by tapping on the speaker itself now we're rotating to the back and this is where the Hg one becomes unique and why you might consider I'm getting the speaker over the others now this recharges by USB 2.0 which I'm always fond of since phone charges are everywhere these days and since we're touching based on battery performance here sony claims this to have about 12 hours of battery life which is ok but for the price of the speaker I honestly was hoping for a bit more these days now like all my Bluetooth speakers leaving this on at 50% violin letting it play until it died I was able to achieve a little over 15 hours of use again 50% volume now if I were to leave it at maximum volume I'm pretty sure our prior gun maybe they'd 12 hours that Sony is claiming nonetheless it's still pretty on par with what sony is offering now up next the USB port to the right of the charging port is used to plug the speaker directly into your PC that way you can get audio in that manner the only issue that I noticed though although audio is being pumped out this speaker's charged light above the power button doesn't light up now unlike many speakers that I've tested before that does offer USB audio other speakers are charged at the same time not here with Sony but moving along a 3.5 millimeter port for physically connecting your other devices here and to the far right if you had a second speaker you can have them play left and right audio channels for improved audio separation but here this is truly where it really gets interesting if you have multiple Sony speakers compatible with the song pal app available for both Apple and Android your Sony speakers can work like this oness brand where you can have multiple speakers throughout the house play at the same time or basically have a group of speakers let's say maybe a set in your living room play audio or maybe I set in your bedroom and it's all driven through your home wireless network and because the speaker would be connected to your home wireless network additional features makes the hg1 able to play I Heart Radio Pandora and other music streaming apps and if you did have a home network computer audio from that computer would be able to be played from there now the entire Wi-Fi aspect is the biggest selling point of this speaker and as a side note though the first time attempting to set up bluetooth was an absolute pain now I had a contact Sony Support and they did advise me to simply reset the speaker on the bottom here and now the speaker pairs with bluetooth fine and speaking of bluetooth the range has been good as its competitors in keeping a signal from one side of my house to the other and having that signal go through several walls so now to the moment that you have been waiting for here I'll play several songs for you guys and I'll give you my verdict afterwards it was shadows haha Oh Oh how did I am and there you have it folks now sound recorded at my end and then play through your speakers are not the best depiction of audio quality but hence my review here now playing the hg1 at casual to moderate volume does really well especially with the extra bass boost function on you do get a deeper a better sense of immersion as you can tell from the samples now it's not as deep as the Sony Xperia chiz heavily bass boosted and cheaper than this model but again the extra bass is a nice welcome note on the other hand here when you do play the Hg one at high or maximum volume for entertaining purposes or maybe outdoors the bass does go over into the mid-range and impacts the vocals a slight bit now the audio quality in general at much higher volumes does become slightly distorted due to the drivers just trying to push all that bass out as much as it can now the mid-range from my opinion is done good with some tuning though but right out of the box it does sound slightly recessed and it just doesn't stand out as much to the average consumer now once adjusted though you would achieve a mid-range that's much more acceptable and to compensate the bass the speaker's more enjoyable and I would say it's on par with other good performing bluetooth speakers now as for the high note there's no ear ringing and minimal hearing fatigue at loud volumes and audio separation or the soundstage basically again it's not a parent's just like most other Bluetooth speakers but again the biggest selling point though is the ability to pair not two of these to help with audio separation but the ability to pair multiple speakers to play at the same time now in the end the HD ones audio is very good at normal listening levels but if you're in need of something for entertaining or using this at higher volumes for the price there's better out there now the only reason that I would actually consider this particular model here is if I do intend on pairing other Sony speakers to play around the house so that's it for this review again I'm Jimmy with jims review hopefully this video did help you out here if you can please like and subscribe to my channel for more videos down the road and help support my channel in my work here by liking and following me on facebook twitter or instagram again I'm Jimmy with jims review room and my channels here to help you make a purchase decision you guys take care I'll see in the next one bye you