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There's just something about an outdoor party that's fun and relaxing, whether it's on the beach, at your favorite picnic spot or just in your own deck or backyard. But what's a party without festive lights and music? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the TikiTunes Bluetooth Speaker and LED Torch Light and finds that while the light feature is excellent, the audio leaves a bit to be desired. Thought after a mai tai or two, perhaps it doesn't matter!
Check it out on Amazon too: https://amzn.to/3bOZLnW
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This is the perfect speaker and light combo for your next outdoor party
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking this out
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This is the Tiki Tunes from Limitless Innovations. It is a mock flame LED light, which I can turn off, and speaker suitable for you to use outdoors even in a rainstorm
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Now, you probably don't want to throw this to the bottom of your room. pool because it's not rated for that but it can certainly handle if you're in the
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middle of a picnic and suddenly the sprinkler hits not a problem so this is a
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basically sort of like two-trick pony so it's a Bluetooth 5.0 speaker and ambient
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LED flame and you turn it on and you turn it off it doesn't react to the music
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or anything this is a basic low-budget item but you know what it's fun you can
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put this in the middle of your table when you're sitting outside and it's a fun way to get some tunes and to have some light
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So if you get two of these, you can actually pair them
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and then it'll do true wireless stereo. They only sent me one, so it's not able to test that
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but that's supposed to happen basically automatically, which is nice. And then they can be up to 30 feet apart
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Now, here's what's really fun, is on the bottom, there's a standard tripod screw mount
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which means you could mount this to a wooden stake and stake it somewhere in your garden
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So now imagine having a couple of these. That'd be really fun to have this for music and the lights
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and no danger of flames and little kids putting pieces of paper in there
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to see what happens Totally safe So all right Battery life This is a 2 hour battery It really light but it has a 2 miller amp hour battery which gives you six hours of playtime I haven
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tested it with just the light on, but my guess is if you don't use it for music and you just
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use it for the illumination, then it's going to last a good long time. I'm going to guess at least
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10 hours. And you're thinking, all right, can we get a little better shot of the illumination
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glad you asked. Let's go ahead and I'm going to actually give you this nighttime shot of this
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illuminating my table. And tell me this is not really cool. I'm a big fan of these sort of things
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They're just really fun. Okay. So it's IP65 water resistant, which like I said, means that if it
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starts to rain or the sprinkler hits you, it's not a problem. If someone spills their iced tea or
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their Mai Tai on this, you can rinse it off in the sink and it's not going to be a
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a crisis, do not put it in your dishwasher, do not immerse it in water
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So we need to get to the sound. I'll get there in just a second
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I want to tell you beforehand that on the back there's a little rubber closure
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And when you open it up, it's a micro USB charge connection
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And no surprise, comes with a micro USB charging cable. Not a fan of micro USB
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I find it a really poor connection. I wish they would have ponied up maybe an extra 60 cents, whatever it would cost
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to have it be USBvordan instead. The problem with micro USB is you have to figure out
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what orientation and if you put it in the wrong way which a lot of these will support
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you end up actually jamming the pins. Not a good design. So easy enough, you plug it into charge
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the top illuminates and turns red and then it not red when it fully charged That easy And let see The top does light up a very faint sort of blue white when the audio is on
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You can push the button and let's see. I guess push and hold
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And then that turns off. If you want to just have it in light function, leave the audio off
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But let's go ahead and turn it back on. And... Tiki tunes connected
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Great. So Tiki tunes connected to my phone. So let's go ahead and give it some music
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Well, let's try that again. So this is the kind of little speaker that feels a little outdated
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because it's all about the highs. There's no base at all, none
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It's just not there. So it's probably fine if you want to have it outside for a party or something
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But if you're looking for really good quality tunes, then this is sort of more of a novelty lamp
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Let me go ahead and pause it. And in fact, let me show you on top
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Here are the controls. You can see they kind of did one thing wrong
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is that if you push the plus or minus, it goes to next and previous track
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And if you push and hold, then you actually are adjusting volume. I would have reversed those two
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So if I tap on plus, it makes it louder. But if I tap and hold
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then I would actually move to the next track. That's more typical of how these sort of devices are hooked up
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Be that as it may. Pause and play and then power. And then you can obviously turn on and off the lamp itself independently of actually the music
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So like I said, there's a lot to like here. It seven inches tall about four inches at its widest And it has that little mount screw on the bottom It rechargeable It super fun They did a real nice job with a little LED light thing here I actually quite a fan of the light but I not much of
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a fan of the audio. It's really not a very good speaker. It's just the way it is. I have my audio set
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on my phone to be in a bass boost in the EQ and it makes no difference at all. There's just no
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base there at all. And, you know, it is a very inexpensive novelty product. So maybe that's just
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what it is. But I don't know. I think I would have been willing to pay another $10 or $20 to have
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something that gives me all the same basic functionality, but a little better audio reproduction
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So that's me. It might be different for you. So let's talk about that price because it is pretty
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darn inexpensive. So this is a pretty easy thing to put by your pool side or throw in your picnic
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basket. So before we get to the price, though, can I ask if you can subscribe to my channel, please
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It's just a click or a tap on that red button on the lower right? Easy, right? Great. Now
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this is the Tiki Tunes from Limitless Innovations, and it's 3499 at Amazon.com. Definitely worth
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checking out if you're looking for a fun outdoor speaker light. Just don't expect a whole lot
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from the audio reproduction. But hey, look at that light. So, cool. All right. That's all I got. So I'll hope to catch you in my next video
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