Gadgetory

what's up guys Lew here and as you can see behind me we finally got the flat panel set up with some gaming consoles and stuff what that means is we need better sound we need better audio unfortunately one of the problems with flat panel displays is that the sound is not all that great so what I've got right here is the JBL SB 200 this is to improve the audio performance of our gaming setup without having too many wires you know surround sound speakers everywhere a big subwoofer we need this thing to be you know portable mobile that's why it's actually on wheels because we're going to stick it in a bunch of different locations in the new office space it's not 100% complete but this video is about the SB 200 so what is this it's a sound bar and if you haven't heard of sound bars before what they do is sort of virtualize a surround sound experience with only one single unit what's special about this one it's also got bluetooth that means you can connect mobile devices to the speaker without the need to physically connect them so if you want to hook up your smart phone play some tunes through the speaker very easy to do so anyways without further ado let's go ahead and jump inside the box let's do an unboxing now with any product that comes in a large box we obviously have a slightly different unboxing environment than usual because we can't fit it into the normal unboxing space so please bear with me here as we attempt to do the live style unboxing that I am NOT famous for but still gets the job done so on the inside this looks like some kind of bracket that's probably for mounting it if you want to mount it on the wall this is wall mountable actually in my case since the TV's not on the wall it won't be wall mounted you've got your paperwork you've also got all your cables Wow a lot of cables here so we've got a little tiny remote control that's pretty cool this is a standard analog audio cable mini jack to RCA got a power cable and of course for that surround sound emulation you have a Toslink this is a digital cable so that's going to be able to transmit your Dolby so you get that surround sound emulation that you paid for so here is the actual speaker which I'll try and remove here in the the elegant fashion possible there we go there it is actually it's really light so there it is as a closer look at it as you can tell it's probably going to look pretty cool when we find a way to get it underneath the TV you've got your controls on the top let's go ahead and get a closer look at this so the SB 200 features a very sleek design meaning that it's going to look right at home underneath your flat panel even if your flat panel happens to be wall-mounted the controls for the SB 200 or on the top you're going to get volume up and down a power button and input selector there's also a surround sound ambulation button and a Bluetooth button because as I said earlier you can actually hook this up to your different Bluetooth devices smart phones media players I've actually even hooked it up to my macbook pro I'm streaming music to the office through this speaker right now so it's really convenient especially from a Bluetooth perspective it's an unexpected use case scenario but very nice for the setup that we've got here in the office on the back is where you'll find all of your different ports that you need to interface with in order to get the speaker up and running this is where you're going to insert the power cable there's also an on and off switch here you've also got an input for auxilary so you can put a standard 3.5 millimeter cable in here if you're using analog you can also use an optical connection to get that Dolby surround sound emulation there's also a selector switch that you can identify whether the speaker is wall-mounted or if it's laying flat on a desk or table top or anything like a flat surface and that's useful because it'll actually change the tune of the speaker so that it's going to give you a better sound better bass reproduction etc depending on the environment you're using it in you've also got all the cables you need to get up and running as well as this mini little remote which I actually like quite a bit for controlling the volume as well as the other features that I mentioned earlier anyway guys that's been a quick look at the SB 200 sound bar from JPL as I said earlier when I get to the official room tour full-on setup tour video where I show you guys our new gaming setup our working space everything there is to see in the new office I'll give you guys a demo of this sound bar and show you just how much better it is then the built-in speakers on a flat panel on our planet or any flat panel so if that's something you guys want to see if you can't wait for that room our video office to her video leave a thumbs up down below and I'll catch guys on the next one thanks as always for watching alright later guys