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hello and welcome today I wanted to present you a speaker that really surprised me a lot this is the FIFA Helsinki FIFA is a Dutch company and like many other scandinavian companies they seem to have some fable for fabric covers so this might look maybe like some woman's handbag you know it a speaker that you carry around and play soft music some folks some soft rock but well in reality this is really heavy stuff I would maybe try to compare it against the band all of some pure play a two or the Bowers and Wilkins d7 but this is much more serious this is what I would call maybe a boom box for hyphy enthusiasts so I thought we will compare it against the real boom box the JBL extreme but as you can see the JBL extreme is a much larger speaker it's heavier this is really a fraction of the size of the JBL but it reaches nearly the same loudness without any distortion without compression without funky bass reduction and so on so yeah let's try how it sounds against the JBL as always i below a B of course using my binaural microphones I'll be using my head cam so please put up your headphones for best results and yeah we will have a short lesson as you can see I placed them far away this time as they are simply able to play much louder and fill the room better with some than all those small speakers I will be starting with a track from sole persona and peppy for Helsinki first yeah I think you could hear that the FIFA has a more natural sound not as booming as the JBL while still packing this punch with deeper bass and so on let's listen to another track you can hear the bass punch it better I will start increasing volume to maximum with this maximum volume address by sinking off jbls well maximum you maybe another house track still Babu me but flower the place has not no equality it's impressive no distortion clean let's find out all right sounds friend here volume starting coupe trilogy watch more mini disco some love me vo now I thought we should listen how the FIFA Helsinki sounds at lower levels for example compared against the reverse which of course cannot play as loud but let's see how both sound at what I would call more normal listening levels the FIFA Helsinki again first I will reduce volume slightly on both and you can maybe notice that the fever becomes thinner sounding while the reverse becomes better sounding let's listen to another FAQ you or something from some person again and I would use volume again slightly you know to simulate really low-level listening and I think it's noticeable what I wanted to show you the lower the volume the less impressive the sound becomes of their FIFA Helsinki okay so what's the reason for this rather funny result as most other portables because tend to sound great at low levels but as soon as you crank them past half they start to apply some funky kind of dynamic compression and distort anyhow the FIFA Helsinki on the other hand seems to sound best at levels close to maximum but at low levels it sounds a little bit tinny maybe if we have a look at the frequency response measurement this might explain a little bit and as you can see it has a rather flat and natural frequency response without any artificial boost and with some nice base extension below 50 Hertz but you can also see that the bass rolls off slightly compared to the mids also if looking at the measurement at maximum and then low levels you see that the sound remains always the same so the problem is rather the human ear here which simply becomes less sensitive to low frequencies at low levels and fever does not compensate for this unlike for example Bose which boosts bass a lot at low levels there's Soundlink mini sounds full-bodied and heavy at low levels but as soon as you turn volume up bass gets reduced again and yet disappears and the speaker sounds funny I got an email from Viva and they told me that there will be an app which will allow the user to select different voicings there will also be some kind of night mode which acts probably a little bit like loudness compensation they also told me that there will be maybe some user adjustable equalizer but in its current status I'm not that impressed for low level listenings still it's one of the most impressive because I've tried until now as it simply shows how much you can push physical limits with loudness and bass in a small form-factor like this I mean having again look at the JBL extreme this is much smaller but takes more punch less Distortion deeper bass so it's impressive what fever has achieved here they really have some impressive no how about speaker design driver design and yeah I would recommend any hyphy enthusiasts to have a listen to the speaker as it's what I would call a boombox for real - ethics I hope this would could give you a first impression about the FIFA I really like to speak a lot but I hope it will be improved and they will keep the promise with this app and loudness compensation because you need to crank it close to maximum to get the best sound of sound out of it so yeah I hope you liked it and we will see us in the next video have a nice time and bye bye is - this pink ecstatic yeah Claire Claire benefit Achmat a no naka per minute Nia