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hi I'm Steve Smith with cc.com so summer
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is finally here and you might be
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thinking of upgrading your speaker
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system but with so many in the market
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which one would you go for well I'm
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going to show you my personal top two
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started so this is the usual scene
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you're greeted with when you want to buy
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a new speaker I've used a lot of these
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when I used to work for PC World but the
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best in my opinion has always been Bose
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the latest of these is the Bose sound
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link 3 but I currently have the first
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generation but there isn't a ton of
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differences all of the sound link
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speakers have this great minimal design
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and all have a premium feel just with a
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few buttons on the top to control the
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input and the volume you have this nice
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mesh speaker on the front with a few LED
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indicators to let you know what's going
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speakers it's also really easy to set up
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just put the speaker into pairing mode
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and go to your Bluetooth settings and
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select the Bose speaker you can control
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the sound from the speaker or the device
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it's connected to the Bose speaker uses
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Bluetooth 2.1 rather than AirPlay as it
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aims for convenience rather than sheer
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power while even its base price tag is
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high by comparison sound link is
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actually one of the least expensive
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portable unit Bose systems that's has
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been targeted for Apple
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users this is my favorite portable
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speaker for a long time but then I came
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across the Leone zip which is now my
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definitive portable speaker for around
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the same price as the latest bow sound
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link you can get the libratone zip which
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I think has a much more interesting
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design the libratone is still
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minimalistic but I think it's a little
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bit more interesting in its shape and
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its style it just has the one button on
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the top which you Ed to turn it on pair
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and also control the volume with a tiny
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little light indicator to let you know
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what's going on on the back you find the
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options for dnla Wi-Fi and also the USB
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jack which is all hidden behind the
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handle pairing via AirPlay is really
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easy just going through the Wi-Fi
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settings or you can also set up dnla
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through the free libratone app the funky
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cylinder look of the libratone isn't
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just of a style it also features
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something they call full room basically
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it's a technology that allows a 360°
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sound experience created by specially
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designed drivers inside the
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zip unlike most speakers which have a
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sweet spot directly in front of the
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speaker the full room disperses the
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sound in all directions so no matter
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where you are you're going to hear a
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great sound the lib tone comes with
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three different covers including this
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gray blue and red but there are
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different sets and a total of eight
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different covers you can get let's take
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a quick listen of the two speakers in
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action you hardly even notice we're not
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song is me to keep you from doing what
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you're suppos like waking up too early
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sleep now don't get me wrong the Bose is
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an exceptional speaker before I got my
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lib tone I thought it was the best thing
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out there but in person the Lion's a lot
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clearer and the tracks sound separate
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whereas compared to the bow they all
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just sound mixed compressed and just a
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little bit disappointing compared to the
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Libra town so audio wise the zip wins
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every time so obviously you can connect
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via your Wi-Fi connection using AirPlay
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but there is a free app from lione which
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allows you to set up the EQ of the
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speaker which does make a huge
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difference including to where it's set
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up and you can also use a direct play if
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your internet's not available both the
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bows and the libratone are really good
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speakers but the libratone does tip it
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for me a little bit and I will be using
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this in the future and the bows as a
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backup so there's my top two I still
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love bows and I'll continue to keep
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buying them in the future but but if you
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haven't heard of libratone you've got to
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check them out the personally the best
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speaker that I've came across for style
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and function I'm going to be trying out
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one of the larger models the loop in the
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next coming weeks so make sure to keep
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an eye out for that you can find the
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links below for all of the speakers that
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I've talked about and where to buy them
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if you're wan to to spend a little bit
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less but still get Great Sound there's
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two deals that I've got to show you for
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the US is the UN angle which Josh
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covered a few weeks back and you can
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watch it right here there's also a great
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deal on Amazon right now where you can
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get it for 4 instead of 70 and customers
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have rated it 4.5 out of five stars so
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it's definitely worth a luck for the UK
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there's the an mp1 141 premium speaker
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which has been slashed from £60
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to30 again it's rated five out of five
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stars and I'm personally really love the
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look and the size of the speaker well
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that's it for this video but what did
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you think have you got a brand of
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speakers which you think is better than
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my personal favorites let me know in the
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comments below until next time please
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