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hi everyone and welcome today we are going to have a look at another low-budget speaker this is the soundbot SB 525 currently it goes on Amazon for only $35 so pretty cheap and just seven dollars more expensive than this one's angled three crap we just heard recently someone suggested to me that I should try it out I had a look and I think it looks really promising also interesting just like like some JBL charge to knockoff but a really blatant one you can see the same basically it has the same design same layout so it could be of course interesting to hear how this cheap copy sounds compared to the original but unfortunately this because only available in the US so thanks to my viewer to my trusty viewer Sandra she sent this to me to go this owns angle three so that we can check it out and yes see if it's really worth it yeah before having a listen maybe let's check out some frequency response measurement and first I thought it would probably measure like some JBL charge to well but in reality it doesn't so here you can see the soundbot and yeah rather natural except this high treble peak at nine kilo Hertz if we overlay the JBL charge tool here you can see that it measures and also sounds completely different but then I thought it reminds me some of the charge three so when we overlay the charge three here in gray you can see that yeah they are both pretty similar just the treble is quite different on the charge - it has the peak slightly higher and doesn't roll off a steep with treble Deborah maybe the soundbot has this nine kilohertz peak - to mask some treble and miss some missing treble above 10 kilohertz and when looking at some lower volume steps you can see that the soundbot even has slightly more bass but at high levels it reduces bass more than the charge 3 and it also cannot play as loud at maximum it distorts quite a bit so it's rather comparable to the loudness of the charge - but with the base of the charge 3 therefore yeah it's of course interesting to check out how it sounds as always I'm using binaural microphones so please listen to that phone I will turn it on and yeah let's check it compare against the JBL charge 3 which costs quite a bit more I will start with the soundbot and yeah let's have a listen trash free you can hear the both head at tribal problem but in this case the sample you may be sound slightly more convincing both don't solve some debt right with treble but of course it depends on the kind of recording also kind of music let's try maybe some jazzy funk track the charge tree has slightly smoother treble but gives a similar muffled impression as the sound board but you can hear that the bass is pretty similar law just like seen from the measurement something else it's a really very powerful sound just like a charged Reed for $35 on me this sounds a little bit clearer here maybe not attract yeah yeah I'm crazy I'm called the sharp-eyed nakedness and also green leaves equality with mr. cream strong when they strive with the best huh the wall like a tribe called quest's so many favors the basket of promise is ice cream it is a trek from kept yak and here you will notice that the Chari starts to sound a bit more powerful with bass touch him here overall quite a bit more refined but still for $35 if you are base lava this is pretty impressive of course with this is from soul persona together princess freesia so final recordings let's save the difference in travel will be will become more Atlas sounds really muffled edges there charge tree is definitely much better here or some smooth chest track here you can reach this resonant peak is quite noticeable here patrasche mean it sounds definitely better I mean it's also much more expensive but you know we could maybe correct some of the sound here as always I'm using this is equal ten for example a by the way sorry and we will use a track from Seoul / freesia this is without EQ now I prepared a preset which produces 200 Hertz slightly reduces that peak at nine kilo Hertz and boosts upper treble a lot s up a double is completely missing this is a track I'm also using on my database and you will hear how it sounds with some EQ adjustment and some play it sounds more comparable to a charge tool so reducing peak and boosting upper travel slightly helps definitely a lot again without this is the sound you'll get yeah it's a pity they could have definitely tuned it much better but let's get back to our comparison against the charge three or maybe some rock track and it doesn't sound bad but it could have definitely be much better than it is now yeah this has a much finer sound somehow with some dance tracks because maybe try reducing volume on both okay pick the store track so far she finishes haha so yeah sorry for the short break but my camera didn't have any charge left in simply turned off but where did we stop at low levels so let's start again with the soundbot the charge tree sounds a bit clearer but also thinner let's put them far away and turn to maximum to see the difference in loudness and also I have to be careful here they didn't even change the base of the charge tool so they didn't redesign it I will turn the sound back to maximum we are not very loud the charge free as well now track in the meantime we can replace solve for that the lightning change a charge free yet is this maximum I mean there is difference in loudness but not better each day to be there what it's still quite a pain loudness wise although not very clean sounding anymore to charge through again so now the slicer sounds what cannot quite complete it's more comparable to the charge - maybe that's why this touch screen difference is pretty obvious Oh but what we could also tries maybe comparing the soundbot against the the angle there oontz angle 3 let's turn this on also check out sound quality and loudness although this is really loud but still loud doesn't automatically mean great sorry this was that bluetooth button here is the power button they even put in some sticker so that you'll find it and yeah let's see if it's connected it is and I will start with the ones not with a sound pop this is not maximum now but now they're hones I mean this is ridiculous I will turn it up again a little bit maybe this sounds really harsh there for the Sun but if you see more mother's knowledge I will turn both to maximum the sample the soil you is this a pretty great difference in loudness this is the soundbot now still I think at maximum the ends gets a little bit more bass punch avoid also this horse quality so yeah loudest why's the ones angle is hard to beat in this price range maybe even one of the loudest speaker speakers in for around 20 $30 I'll put them again a bit closer first I have to reduce volume on the housing otherwise it will play at maximum and yeah maybe some other track from soul persona but you can hear at normal listening levels they simply sucks big time the soundbot avoided muffled sounds much better is it it's also hard to match volume football face this one has much more bass while the other one what I think for yeah seven dollars more if you like bass I mean this is real bass so I think it's worth worth more than this anchor sound got all n Cassandra the UN's no.3 I'm getting a bit confused still it's a bit of a pity that they didn't really make it as great as it could have been also they just copied the charge two or three design but they didn't try to improve it with maybe even drivers at the back so you get a more only directional sound slightly better tuning this base of food here is the same as it was on the charge too so it tends to roll away especially if you put it on some some some soft surface it doesn't really stand stable they put even the same here so they can also place it vertically I mean it's a nice pickup for $35 but it could have been definitely much better you see this battery indicator here you have to press the battery button now it lost one dot strange you can skip between drags with I think let's try you have to keep button pressed for volume change and press hotly for yeah so it has everything you need including hands-free and so on but sound wise it's not perfect you read it it's great bass performer very similar to the charge tree although it doesn't have the same power charge we can play much louder this reduces bass earlier and also cannot play as loud and distorts quite a bit at maximum of course it's already within the database together with the un's angle 3 you can compare them both I think this is for just seven dollars more if you like bass it's much better although not as loud but you will hear this once Anil is one of the thinnest sounding it within the database even the smallest ones like the on may currents on somehow have more punches in this so not quite sure what they attuned here I mean this is the neither treble is great nor anything so I hope this could give you an idea about the soundbot SB 525 I was really curious to hear it as I thought it would be more a JB a charge to copy but in reality it's rather a charge 3 copy with charge to design it's not perfect and could have been definitely better but yet still quite nice for $35 if you like bass you will probably like this on but also with some EQ adjustment if you have some great EQ app or even some Android device with with rooted device that you have a global EQ you can definitely improve the sound a lot by simply pulling down 200 slightly as the 200 Hertz boost is a bit too big too huge and take down this 9 kilohertz peak and add upper treble as much as possible as it's completely lacking up a treble therefore yeah so I hope you liked it I hope it was helpful thanks all for watching and see you in the next video have a nice time and bye bye