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The Powerhouse Edifier MP200 Mini Speaker -- REVIEWED
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May 30, 2025
There's a lot of truth to the audio adage that bigger always sounds better. Headphones sound better than earbuds, big bookshelf speakers sound better than the tiny speaker in your laptop, and so on. But not always, as the remarkable Edifier MP200 mini speaker demonstrates. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out a bright yellow Edifier MP200 speaker and is astonished at the rich, full and LOUD sound it can produce. Even better, it's within reach of just about every budget... Learn more: http://www.edifier.com/int/en/speakers/mp200
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can a speaker this small actually
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sounded let's find out Dave Taylor here
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and I'm looking at small speakers I know
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most speakers that are really small
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don't tend to have much bass and they
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have pretty Midland mid-range at best
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but does that mean they're all doomed to
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sound like that surprisingly not so let
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me pop open this now we've just done an
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unboxing see different kind of box and
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this little guy is actually quite
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remarkable this is the Edifier MP 200
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portable speaker and as you can see it's
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pretty small it's a couple inches on a
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side it's a cube comes with a handy
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carrying strap so you could tie it to
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your backpack or I suppose you could
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wrap it around the handlebars of your
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bicycle if you're so inclined and has
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lots of different controls and features
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we'll get to that let's just move this
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aside and let's actually talk about or
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listen to the sound just playing some
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sort of generic urban music and we'll
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crank it up
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you can't necessarily hear cuz you're
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going through my little mic but this is
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pushing out a lot of sound and there's
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actually bass you know what it sounds
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remarkably good for a little teeny tiny
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speaker hang on I don't like competing
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with the speaker but you know what I am
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pretty impressed this is actually way
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better sounding than you would think by
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looking at its size now to be fair it's
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not gonna compete with a much bigger
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multi speaker stereo system or anything
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but if you're on the road if you're out
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picnicking or backpacking or you have a
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dorm room where you just don't have room
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for anything else this is a surprisingly
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good solution so the Edifier MP 200 it's
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a speakerphone too so you can actually
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take calls with it kind of fun runs on
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Bluetooth 4.1 which is pretty much the
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latest and greatest
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I know Bluetooth 5 owes out very very
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few devices are working with it yet and
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it has a bunch of really cool features
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so let's go and do a quick tour so on
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the top there's a mode switch because
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you can switch from an SD card to
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bluetooth
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there is no aux in kind of a bummer
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and then there's power on/off and then
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there's pause play and you're like hmm
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how do you adjust volume that's on the
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other side so I'm one of the other side
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you have volume up and volume down and
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you turn it around and on this side you
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have a small LED status indicator super
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useful to know when it's fully charged
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and then a little flap that when you
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open the flap you can see there's a
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micro SD slot and there's a micro USB
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plug for charging so you can put in a
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micro SD card and then this is a
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standalone music device and it's pretty
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cool and of course micro SD you can get
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up to 128 gig there's a lot of music you
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could presumably put a bunch of audio
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books on it give it to someone and say
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here you go go on to some meditative
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retreat for a week and listen every day
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to this audiobook so all of that would
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work fine and this has 12 hours of
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playtime on a full charge and takes an
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automatic turn off after three minutes
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of nothing happening it just powers down
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I really like Auto turn off devices that
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don't have that just lame because you
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end up realizing I never turned it off
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and now it's dead so then those you end
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up charging all the time not good so
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this actually doesn't do that and it
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takes a while to charge I don't have a
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specific number for you but I'm guessing
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probably around three four hours so you
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know you charge it until the little LED
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light goes off and now you've got 12
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hours of playtime
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that's plenty a lot and here's the other
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nice thing is it is when this is closed
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IP 54 splash-proof so it means it's dust
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and splash proof I would not recommend
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chucking this into the lake and then
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having a game of try to find the speaker
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because that's probably not gonna work
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well but if you're outside and it starts
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raining and you don't immediately throw
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it in your backpack you're probably fine
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I don't think that's gonna be a problem
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and let's see what I was gonna tell you
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it comes in yellow or gray or black or
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blue or white or green lots and lots of
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different colors and the rubber that
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they're using is actually really
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interesting it's not a hard plastic it's
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much more of a soft grip herbal sort of
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material and I really like it as a nice
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feel to it so not much else to say I
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really am impressed with the sound it's
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not a big speaker but for a little tiny
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easily portable speaker it has
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impressive sound that it actually has
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bass and because of the nature of
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speakers if you put it on a nice big
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table surface then that surface will
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help you get good bass so that's worth
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keeping in mind too and before I tell
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you the price and you'll be surprised at
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how inexpensive this is before I tell
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you the price let me ask you please go
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ahead and click on subscribe and if
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you're motivated go ahead and click a
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thumbs up give me some feedback cool now
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a defier MP 200 little teeny tiny
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speaker $34.99 in any of all the
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different colors you can pick one up for
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yourself this is a fantastic stocking
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stuffer sort of present or something for
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a younger person and it's really nice
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device
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$34.99
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Edifier calm this is Dave Taylor I'm
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going back to the music and I'll catch
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you in my next video
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