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This outdoor speaker could fall in the pool. No problem. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here, and you know, we surround ourselves with electronics that are so sensitive to the elements
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It gets a little crazy. That's where this is so cool. This is the Warfdale Xen M portable Bluetooth speaker, and it's IPX7 waterproof
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What does that mean? Let's just start right out. First off, would say, music and I got to say it sounds really nice we'll come back to why it sounds
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nice but sounds good right now we have our handy pitcher of water would you
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do this with your speaker probably not now notice it floats a little
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hard to tell in this picture but everything's working perfectly well it's
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entirely functional a little bit of a mess but that's okay so
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While it's draining, let me pause the music. Obviously, Bluetooth, it's dual 10-watt drivers with an additional bass system
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So it has a really nice, rich bass. I mean, overall, this sounds really good, much more than you'd expect for an outdoor speaker
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And it also sports a 5,000-m-amp-hour battery, which gives you somewhere between 15 and 20 hours of playtime
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And you can even charge your device if you need to, because on the end, once we get the water out
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There is a little lever that opens up. And you can see on the side here there is an AUXN there is USBC which you use for charging and then there just a regular USB connection that you can use for actually like charging your phone or something
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So that's pretty nice. Obviously, if you're charging your phone with this
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it's going to have slightly less battery life than if you were not. Do I even need to say that
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Well, I said that. So Bluetooth 4.2, it has a 50-foot range from the base unit
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I haven't tested it to the full 50 feet, but certainly you can walk around your backyard with your phone safely in the house or something, and that works fine
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You can actually make hands-free phone calls on this, which is kind of fun. So I tried that, and the audio quality is not fantastic, but it's great for, like, conference calls, or if you want to have a call with all the kids around and you're talking to Grandma, then this is going to work really well for that
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But really, people are going to buy this Warfdale X and M because of the sound
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But hey, there's other features too, right? Including a flashlight feature. And you can even get it to go into a crazy strobe mode and everything
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So some definitely handy little features. All the main controls, though, are on the top
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So on the top, you see you have access to power, Bluetooth, dual unit pairing, next and
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And previous track, volume up, volume down, those are doubled buttons, pause and play, which also works with phone calls
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So all of that's pretty straightforward and all the sounds they've done are really nice
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So if I power this down that really nice sounding isn it So power it back up and we get another nice sound And now it going to actually try to pair
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So you get this sound while it's trying to pair, and now it's paired
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So now we can test that. Let's just see if we can pick... Let's see
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So it's already chosen by my iPhone. So we're right back to the music
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Honestly, how easy is it? How easy is that? So, let's pause that music
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And really not much else I can tell you about it, other than the sound is really nice
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I am really impressed with this. I will, however, say that if you really crank up the volume super high
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it gets pretty muddy. Now, that might not be a big deal
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because it is such a nice, crisp sound that you might not want it to be super loud
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But if you're in a really big space, then I don't know how well this is going to fill it
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It doesn't get monster loud. But for your pool, for your shower, looking at you, Christian, because I know you want to have a speaker in your shower, this could do it, right
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If you're just outdoors, if you're camping, this is a great camping speaker because of that emergency flashlight, right
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So you could be at night using the flashlight here to help cook dinner
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And then when you're done, you just turn the flashlight off and go into some nice mood music to attract all the scary animals
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I know that's not how camping works. So really not much else I can tell you about it
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It's pretty darn light and there's the finish on it. All the materials are really nice
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So this is metal and then there sort of a rubberized coating on most of the unit And you can see on the back that it seals obviously that needs to happen so that it remains waterproof even though you have
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those access ports so if i assume if you had this open then maybe it wouldn't be waterproof and
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bad things would happen so don't do that it's easy enough so now before we get to the price if i
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can ask if you can go ahead and click on that subscribe button i sure appreciate when you subscribe to
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my channel and let me know if you go camping if you're our outdoors person then what do you use for
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music do you just literally listen right off your phone that is a fairly i don't know that is not the
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experience you could be having outdoors so something like this could be a really nice alternative
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this is the wharfdale x and m portable bluetooth speaker and it is 9999 at amazon dot com and it comes in green and black
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and this is camouflage. And I'm not a huge camo person, but I actually really like this design
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because it's really subtle. So this is a really nice outdoor speaker
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or just waterproof IPX7 speaker. And just so you remember that, we'll just go ahead and put it right back in the water
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while I wrap up, which means I will catch you in my next video
