Bose Home Speaker 500 | Is it worth the Money

what's going on YouTube Nicholas here with Tecla TV where we don't discriminate and we believe all check deserve some love so more and more you see these various tech companies coming out with these smart speakers you got Apple has their version Google has multiple versions and then so does Amazon they have a whole array of the echo line and that's just to name a few so you know one of the biggest tech companies in the industry had to come up with their own and join in on the fun I'm talking about bose this is the bose home speaker 500 now this product is when I first got it and I hooked it up and set it up and everything I was a little bit disappointed and I'll tell you why but I eventually came around and figured some things out and I could recommend this product if it wasn't for the very high price point but I'll get into that a little bit later so real quick going around this box there really isn't there really isn't much to talk about around this box so let's just jump right in so on the inside which you'll get is at the very top you have the Bose speaker comes in this nice little cloth wrapping right here and in here is the speaker itself now this speaker does come in a silver color like you see right here in a black color they're running for about four hundred dollars on Amazon and the Bulls website and that's a very high price point for any home speaker unless you're just into Bose products and you just love the quality of the sound the build quality and everything of the Bose you can't pass this up this is a very good product for you also it is powered by Alexa and that will be the last time that I say so that if you have any devices around I'll make sure to bleep that out so those by those devices won't be going off and also inside the box we have you have the power cable and you have a Quick Start Guide user manual slash safety manual and that's and that's pretty much it that's all come so let's go ahead and talk about this product a little bit more oh yeah and if is your first time here please smash that subscribe button it make sure you hit that Bell icon so you get notifications on when I drop my next tech video check so when you first get this product and open it up outside the box but you'll notice on the very top it has these holes up top and what's underneath these holes are the mics there's eight different microphones on here to pick up your voice when you do use Amazon you also have a mute button so if you don't want to use you don't have to just hit the mute button you have a volume Demming button right here volume up volume down play pause bluetooth your aux button and you have six presets right here where you can set them to different radio stations or playlists that you have inside of whatever app you choose to use now on the front like I said before you do have this display right here which shows you different statuses of what musics being played or the time and down here underneath the speak grill at the bottom you have two speakers that face outwards that plays your music and it does get pretty loud I don't know if I'll be able to demonstrate that to you in this video but it does get pretty long now on the back side you do have your aux input for if you want to hook up some device that it doesn't have bluetooth or you're just not in a place where you can access your Bluetooth hook the cable into here and then you can also use this speaker that way underneath was where you hook up your power cord and behind your power cord you have a USB mini port and it says service underneath here so I don't think that that's necessarily for the consumer I think maybe you have to if something goes wrong with this speaker and you have to return it for some reason and they have to find out what's wrong with it then they'll use that to run Diagnostics on it to figure out what's going on and so that's pretty much it for the outsiders because now let's go ahead and set this speaker up and let's see all the features that the app has to offer so when you set this up it looks like the cord is about four feet long so I mean it gives you plenty of plenty of space to put it wherever you need to when you first set this product up what you want to do is go to your phone and download the Bose music what you want to do when you download the bose music app just open it up and follow the onscreen step by step setup guide and I already have this set up so what I'm gonna do I'm going to just show you a little bit inside the app and what it can do and all the different features so I'm sad to add what you'll notice is when you're done with the whole setup process you will see my bows and it'll show you your speaker that you have set up except multiple speakers set up it will show all of them as well but if you click on your speaker on the very first page it's the home page you can you can see all the six presets that are available to set and it also shows your recently played tracks at the top you have Amazon music if you do have access to Amazon music you can hook up your account right there also I Heart Radio the same way tune in I believe tune in is a free service that they provide all you have to do is just set up an account I'm not 100% sure because I have not set that up then you also have Bluetooth as well right now I have this hooked up to my phone and I have this hooked up to my computer the reason why I have have this hooked up to my phone because I use the Bluetooth feature often because title is the main music streaming service that I use and title is not available on here so I often find myself just using the Bluetooth mode to play my music through the speaker you also have the Ox setting as well and let me see and so down below you do have the icon of your speaker and if you click on that you have settings you can go and you can it shows your product name and you can you can change the name of it you also have the voice assistant the voice assistant is something that you do have to set up if you do want to use the feature on here you also have sharing you can enable this device to be shared inside of your network with other devices you can change the language of it there's multiple languages that you can choose from there's a clock feature you can turn that on and off 24 hour or 12 hour clock you have an auto dimming feature which I always leave off I just like the bright display you have the technical you have technical information and common questions when I first got this speaker I was using it and I didn't like the base or the lack thereof but then I was like hold on let me go inside the app and then you have you can make your adjustments right here you have the base turn it up from 0 to 100 and also the trouble and I'm a person that likes bass and in a lot of trouble I turned the bass all the way up and then I turn the treble up to about 70 and that's a good feel that's a good sound for my ears I mean obviously you can adjust it to whatever you want group speakers I don't have this feature enabled because I don't have to I'm guessing that if you have two of these speakers you can hit that group speaker and then you can have both of these playing your music simultaneously either on each side of the house or multiple sides of a room and that's pretty much it Oh hold on let me see setting set up okay so real quick let me go back here let me find it okay and so back on the main page if you do hit the icon at the top right where it shows like the little person inside the circle you can manage your account from here you can manage your various products that you have you also can set up your various music services now I have Google I have Amazon music and I heart app already set up on here now there's other apps that you can link to this and you have Deezer Pandora Sirius and Spotify now like I said they don't have title which is something that I use often and so I have to use the Bluetooth feature on here and then you have tune in which is included in I think you just have to set up a new account for that for that to work you also have the app version in license agreements private policy Terms of Use and you can sign out up for your account from right here so that's pretty much it for what's involved in everything that has to do with the Bose music app so let me show you this on screen display real quick so here's the on screen display I don't know if you can see it but it'll bring up the screen art from whatever music that you're playing I don't know if he could you can see that but I also get a close-up of that in the b-roll shots the display is nice it's a nice feature to have just to look up and see what music is playing or a few new song comes on it you're not aware of and you just look up you want to see the title of the song and you don't want to look at your phone to figure out what what it is as always the build quality from Bose is amazing you're paying $400 for this speaker so you're going to get premium build quality from this you will not be disappointed from the build quality not a sound the sound on this is amazing I mean it's Bose that's what they do they specialize in making products because of their sound quality the bass is amazing the mids the highs everything about the sound quality on this is amazing but are you willing to pay the $400 that it costs to purchase this item if you're one of those people that just love Bose products then I can see you buying this going with this but there's there's a bunch of other smart speakers out there that play music and I don't know how loud you want it but this is one of the loudest ones that I've tested so far I mean you also have the glow max and Apple speaker but this product right here I mean you can't go wrong if you do decide to purchase this item and so that's pretty much it for this product right here if you did find any value in this whatsoever or if you didn't like it or you'd like to go ahead and smash that subscribe button 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Length: 10min 40sec (640 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 02 2018