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I decided to include an own outdoor mode for the sEARius, which should offer a better performance at high levels and wanted to share the first results with this video.

As the regular indoor mode is rather tuned for a balanced sound and deep bass, outdoors at high levels it tended to sound too soft and not assertive enough compared to other speakers that usually become pretty harsh with boosted treble at high levels. I cannot squeeze out much bass boost for the sEARius, as the passive radiators are tuned too low, but I tried my best to give the sound some kick and more clartiy and loudness at maximum while at the same time remaining more controlled with less distortion than the indoor mode. In the outdoor mode lower bass is reduced but should be still on a comparable level to a Minirig 4, and overall sound even better, although the Minirig 4 will still be able to play quite a bit louder.

Please let me know what you think, but for those needing high loudness levels the outdoor mode could be a nice addition, although the sEARius won't sound that impressive with this mode and for low levels I would still use indoor mode.

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OP1M.DR3M

Could you do a comparison with Minirig 4 indoor? I know you said the video latency isn't that bad but would it be possible to add a video mode like on the Uboom X? What do you think of some kind of boundary compensation settings? Like different modes to compensate for being on a large surface like a desk, being close to a wall, and being shoved in a corner. Kind of like the toggle switches you find on the back of studio monitors. I assume they only alter bass.

oluvsgadgets

I returned it as it was boomy and too similar to the Charge 6, but softer and larger

oluvsgadgets

I don’t think it needs additional compensations, just tilt it up if you please it onto same table and to increase bass put it closer to a wall or corner. As the bass is not boosted it will get a constant boost and make it sound simply bigger.

OP1M.DR3M

Do you plan to test Xiaomi Sound Outdoor? It's more similar in size to the Flip and sEARius. I don't think it gets the "Harman tuning" but I wonder how it fairs....

OP1M.DR3M

Do you notice much of a difference in bass response while horizontal vs vertical? Or changes in dispersion characteristics?

oluvsgadgets

I think it loses a little bit of bass placed vertically, also depending on the surface below. Carpet etc will absorb more. I will try doing some exact measurements

OP1M.DR3M

Cool, so vertical placement could be a form of boundary compensation :)

Jannes wel

Im really excited about the sEARius and if you got this very powerful Outdoor mode option integrated, would be so nice! And... For me personally, I only have one question open: because I'm DJing a lot, and with the latency of Bluetooth, it's not so great. I want to know if it has a line-in, some kind of it like USB-C or a classical Aux port?

thomasecallaghan

Yes I too would love a 3.5mm port as I would like to use for portable/small set up music production

oluvsgadgets

I reviewed it a while back it was not bad but played pretty uncontrolled

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How much will it cost and what codecs will it have?

oluvsgadgets

Like I said before it should be around the price of the charge 6, codec is only SBC

OP1M.DR3M

Oh.. so around $200 USD? I assumed they'd be priced more closely to Flip 6 since they're more in that size category.

oluvsgadgets

It will be lower than that but I cannot offer JBL prices, these are mass produced.

Dolmen

This is really awesome, as well as using 2 units with Lossless USB Audio at my Desktop, now I might be getting 2 of these. Out of curiosity, would you consider possibly making another mode for it that is Neutral? I feel like this would be the absolute end game speaker for me for indoor use and maybe even all round if it had these 3 modes, please please consider it. I absolutely love this speaker and your work, it's simply incredible. ❤️🙏🏻

Luka Bošnjak

Interesting and a big improvement because a few well made tunings are a nice, easy to use middle ground as opposed to only one or too many like on the Uboom X. Now it should also beat all of the speakers in this class (apart from Minirig maby) for loudness and power, maby you're pushing treble a bit too much, Minirig remains more natural and relaxed at maximum even tho it definitely doesn't have more bass. I have another idea if you're bored lol, did you ever try to tune the S1 towords 2 Neumanns in position like you were trying to do with the Uboom X in 999 firmware which never released? I was so impressed with that attempt on the X and I'm really curious if that approach also won't sound better here even tho it's a mono speaker, maby that target could make it even more revealing. That should make them worse in stereo tho so you'd need a third mode for that, some kind of tws or studio setting where you could just make it more or less identical to one Neumann without sacrificing that much on other placements like 360 use. Then we'd have: Indoor - Outdoor - Studio (TWS) if the dsp can support 3 settings.

OP1M.DR3M

You also mentioned early supporters would get a discount right? Will there be a deal for buying 2 at once as well?

OP1M.DR3M

Did you ever test the Charge 5? I see it got a good rating on DXOMark and is a good deal cheaper than the Charge 6.

thomasecallaghan

That's a shame, but I have found a 3.5mm to USB-C line in ADC cable which would cover it for my use, provided the final unit has USB-C audio in 🙏 🤞

oluvsgadgets

If you need neutral you should take the KEF Muo, which sounds really meh, but yeah it’s close to neutral. I think the current indoor mode is as close to neutral as possible while still offering some spice to the sound. This is not a studio monitor and even if I tried it would be never 100% neutral.

oluvsgadgets

I don’t remember, maybe I tested it shortly but was not too impressed. As usual default JBL EQ was just unusable and back then the user EQ was pretty limited as far as I remember