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hello and welcome some of you have probably already seen the video I recorded at the house of my friend with his high-end Philips Pierce once because some liked it others obviously not so much unfortunately the placement was really subpar because the speakers were standing too close to a wall which made the sound unnecessarily boomy but the room didn't allow for a better placement then some others asked for more videos like this so I thought we will check out my own Philips office because which are a bit of a lower grade model but still pretty interesting so what we can see is not just some design gimmick but they follow an acoustic principle called point source acoustic radiator what does it mean you can see their main driver is tilted upwards so at low frequencies it really acts like an omnidirectional driver and then the higher the frequency gets it starts focusing the sound but before this happens the tweeter takes over so it's placed exactly on axis with the main driver and the distance is less than half the wavelength of the crossover so you can see the housing of the Twitter is also pretty small therefore you get a close to omnidirectional sound which still has great focusing sound focusing but also a very wide sweet spot yeah it's a two-way system base reflex one is active the other one passive so the amp has hundred watts in total they are airplay speakers there this is the new version I had them also in black the new version has also Spotify Connect which allows you to directly stream from Spotify without having to to be connected with your phone what else to say here they have auxilary in a remote and you can also adjust the sound through an app there is a five band equalizer and I thought we'll check out the sound how the sounds I will try moving a little bit so that you can see how wide the sweet spot release I mean they are not completely only directional but you can really move around and the sound remains pretty stable so as always I will be using my binaural microphones a head cam so that you can see what you hear and maybe we'll check also check out a movie first then I will play the same songs I already played in the other video and we can have a short listen please put up your headphones now as you can see I placed them with some distance from the wall so now you can start listening to some music a trek from Salta sauna together princess freesia I will walk around through the room and we can hear how the sound changes later on we'll also try the Philip step so please have a listen yeah I think you can hear that this whip sweet shot is pretty broad there is also a philip set which comes with some sound settings for example we have a five-point equalizer so we can either increase treble or reduce slightly there are sixty three hundred eight hundred four K and 10 K and there is an own full sound setting which is a kind of maybe loudness or something you can hear it boosts bass and treble slightly again with all again with cusan when looking at the frequency response of the speakers you can see the one with neutral settings they measure pretty neutral with some slight treble boost but this is exactly on axis and keep in mind and this is a near field measurement so from some distance that treble gets lost slightly here we can also see a measurement with full sound enabled so you can see there is some slight bass boost and treble boost as well now I thought I will darken the room slightly and we will have a look or listen to some movie and excerpt from how full sound is still enabled and I will increase volume slightly yeah they are not surround speakers but I think they give you a nice full sound let's check out some music the same tracks we've heard before and usually they should automatically switch from from auxiliary into yeah airplane mode so let's have a listen whole sound is still enabled I will disable it now because I think they sound more natural like this and we are slightly above half so let's increase volume have it increased what a bit more yes automation that is for sure can hear hear is recorded within the Dragon it's masters too loud but this is a problem of modern music and last but not least the drum and bass track yeah we would use volume what we could also do is maybe check them at maximum volume although I will have to go further away out of the room because I mean they are not the loudest because but they are pretty loud and even at maximum not that much distortion so I will crank them to maximum and let's listen to some kind of electro stuff here we go and we pull out for my used game so how did you like them please leave a comment unfortunately meanwhile they are discontinued maybe Phillips will come up with a new version zone but you can sometimes find the black ones quite cheap on Amazon I found an offer below $200 and I think they are really worth it I mean they are much better than any of these single cabinet wireless speakers like Zeppelin Wireless or any of the smart stuff because you have two separate speakers with great sound stage and real stereo sound yeah the black one had some issues at the very beginning therefore all the bad ratings but the speakers are really great and I still have my black ones they were serviced at Philips they fixed it and they work like they did at the very beginning so if you're interested I also have mine for sale just drop me a line and yeah we can deal something out but I wanted to have them in white because they fit in much better here the black ones looked a bit out of place otherwise they are just the same with the inclusion of Spotify connect this is the only difference so I hope you liked this video you enjoyed it yeah this is my main listening system I don't have any other hi-5 speakers but I think they are really great I love them I like the design as they look so uncommon I don't I hate fridges standing in a room or youth boxes but they look quite decent I think yeah you can remove this this thing here so you can see the driver yeah I hope you enjoyed it and maybe I will have the occasion showing some other high fives because I don't have any connections unfortunately but who knows if you have an idea why not we will bring the speakers here and we will do some listening things about for watching and see you soon bye bye