Sony SS-CS5 | Why Are People Losing Their Minds About This $100 Speaker?!

i don't think i have ever been this excited about a speaker in my life [Applause] what a liar dude what a fire there's no way the speaker's that good there's no way the sony sscs5 is that good of a speaker so i ordered the thing and we're gonna find out stay tuned [Music] all right here they are the sony sscs5 and let me first start out by saying that i like jay's channel i like j in general so don't take what i just did as any hate towards j because uh i just picked on him because i know jay's cool so anyway sony sscs5 lots of hype lots of people reviewing these lots of people saying lots of good things pretty cool looking speaker it is a three-way design and this is a kind of weird through-way design i don't know if i would really call it that because in my mind a three-way design is a dedicated mid and bass dedicated tweeter in this case we have a mid bass a tweeter and a super tweeter this is very uncommon to see a super tweeter like this but they call it a three-way it is a three-way they're right on technical side but just not the way that i would typically think about it porter design pretty nice binding posts actually i was surprised at the quality of these binding posts like i was expecting like the really crappy little like pin push ones but these are actually pretty nice you don't get any premium finish or anything you know this is a obviously very cheap vinyl wrap but kind of cool because they put this uh molded plastic thing on that's got some wave guiding and yeah it looks pretty cool and i'm surprised that the driver itself is this mica material and it's not paper because literally every other speaker at this level is paper and then you have kind of the one outlier of clips that has their you know copper cones but this is interesting this this mica cone and i'll talk a little bit about that later but this speaker's gotten so much hype people are like i can get rid of my ten thousand dollar speaker and get the sony's instead in my experience with these i would say no you can't these are 170 bucks retail they go on sale all the time it seems i got mine for 80 bucks i seen them go as low as 70 dollars but it seems like the more recent price has been 118 and as of this video right now you can still get them on amazon for 118 bucks which i'll put the link below in the description it's affiliate link it helps me out the commission shameless plug okay but what realistically does this speaker compete with i think the speaker is pretty competent and it can compete in that 200 300 maybe even 400 range to be honest but like i said this isn't going to replace your four-figure speaker this isn't going to replace your five-figure speaker there are very obvious flaws and problems with the speaker that you're not going to see in more expensive speakers and just the sound quality itself is well not as good as more expensive speakers the fact that this thing is 80 bucks 118 bucks whatever and compete with something that's twice or three times the price makes it a hype-worthy product i was thinking about this product and i was like this reminds me of when the lego movie first came out and i was talking to my friend julia and she told me about seeing the lego movie or wanting to go see the lego movie because people were saying how good it was and she was like how could the lego movie be that good it's the lego movie so in the same kind of way here it's like how can this sony speaker be so good it's a sony you know so she was she had this idea that at the end of the lego movie they must be putting up on the credits like if you tell your friends to see this movie we'll send you a check for 50 bucks like something like that and the lego movie in its own right is good i think it's probably a lot better than what most people would have expected from a movie that's called the lego movie right but this is not a stanley kubrick film this is not a martin scorsese film and no one expects it to be and that's why these sonys are special because no one expects these to be good from sony at less than a hundred dollars or about a hundred dollars but it is and it's better than your typical 100 speaker so i think that's where a lot of the hype ends up coming from i'm not going to get too into the weeds about sound detail because if you really want an in-depth discussion about that you can go watch jay's 25-minute video but granted that this is a hundred dollar speaker i don't feel like i need to talk about it for 25 minutes especially at the sound detail level i will say that this speaker really surprised me when it came to sound staging i felt like there was a lot of width and depth beyond what you would expect and then as far as clarity in the treble and mid-range yeah it's pretty good for this kind of speaker bass is light of course you're gonna need a subwoofer if you really want any reasonable bass but overall it's okay it'll get you there though absolute worst part of this speaker is the bass though and the reason why is because there is this resonance that comes through in the brace frequencies and let me let me just show you on this really quick i'm going to just flick the cone this is a stupid test that audio files do if you flick the cone and see how dead it sounds it's a stupid test but anyway i'm going to do it because i think this actually does portray a little bit of something here so i'm going to flick it hopefully you could hear that pretty well in the microphone but there's a tubbiness to this cone and i'm not sure if it's the cone itself that has some sort of resonance to it or it's truly port noise and it's not like i was flicking it that hard so to get that much port noise out of what is a little flick it's pretty surprising and that definitely is coming through when i'm listening to music as i can hear that resonance or that port noise very obviously and it only gets worse the louder you push the speaker so i would say don't expect this to be a party jamming speaker because when you start to push that volume you really start to hear that bass resonance and then also it gets exceptionally bright to the point where yeah it's kind of painful to listen to i also felt like these were very much so built to be kind of that mid to near-range monitor where if i had these eight to nine feet away it didn't sound that great but putting them like five to six feet away yeah pretty good so i wouldn't say put this in a gigantic basement or a gigantic room and expect to be blown away i think you have to put these on a small room close to the tv or whatever kind of setup and that will really flesh out the best of these speakers but let me tell you one more story and give you one more advantage and there's a little bit of a social kind of thing going on i don't know what they call it but the thing about this speaker is it doesn't have to be an audiophile who buys a speaker you could suggest this to your friends because my friends asked me all the time hey what headphone do you recommend hey what speaker do you recommend and they're not in the market for thousand dollar or ten thousand dollar components so i gotta really think about okay what can i really recommend in this space well these sonys are so easy to recommend i think so many people would enjoy them no matter what kind of music genre they listen to it's an easy recommendation so whether you're a person who's trying to get into the audiophile space or just a person that wants a good pair of speakers this is so easy to recommend and such a good speaker overall and then i thought about it from the audiophile perspective and i put a video of these playing where is everybody by nine inch nails and that's like a industrial track like it's not a super high rise track although it is very well produced and a lot of night's nails music is made very well but yeah it's an industrial metal hard rock song like it is not diana crawl live in paris so there's a lot of distortion and i put this on my instagram on a reel and it got a lot of attention like it's got something like 30 000 views right now and it seems to be only growing because it's only been a few days and it's already gotten that many views but audio files are so annoying at times and i feel like someone in the space should just like call out audio files and just not allow them to be coddled at literally every corner but that's another discussion for another day but audiophiles were leaving the most annoying and just stupid comments on this video saying stuff like wow that sounds distorted while it sounds horrible it's recorded on a phone it's a distorted song i was playing it like 100 db it's distorting like crazy the point was to just show the whooper movement it was a fun little video the song itself is distorted the whole song is distorted the point of the song is distortion it's supposed to sound distorted and people were leaving stuff like wow my two thousand dollar pair of speakers sounds better than that yeah no duh it's 20 times the price of course it's going to sound better what are you stupid all right hold on we're having a heated audio file moment right now warning heated audio file moment just buying these and like shutting out that kind of noise and just like okay i don't care about your two thousand dollar pair of speakers dude i got my 89 pair of speakers and i'm good to go is almost priceless like that's worth a million dollars so that's my little tirade rant and you can buy these shut out the audio files tell them to shut up go spend a hundred thousand dollars on some pair of speakers and still be disappointed with them because they're stupid yeah you can go tell it to the audiophiles when you buy these so i'm happy to recommend the sony ss cs5 bookshelf speaker like i said there'll be a link in the description of the affiliate link if you want to check out the speaker buy it helps me out there's also a bunch of other links in the description that can help support the channel really appreciate 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Channel: HiFi Turtle

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Keywords: hifi turtle, audio, music, audiophile, loudspeaker, home electronics, home audio, audio electronics, budget hifi, sony, sony ss-cs5, sscs5

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Length: 10min 53sec (653 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 02 2022