PERSONAL SURROUND SOUND

What an adorable cat!

I see you have the Sony Theatre Quad. Would love to see your take on the system in a video. I got one over the summer as I finally bit the Atmos bullet and am enjoying it a lot. I need to get your little speaker stands as my TV unfortunately has to live in the corner which upsets the audiophiles.

Look at that beautiful kitty 😊

I think surround sound is a bit overrated for movies personally.

Since it's gaming oriented, the sub connection might be for a ButtKicker

Call me old fashioned, but I preferred it when surround sound systems just used optical connections separate from HDMI. Extra cables, but you can also get splitters to pass the signal to multiple sources.

Thumbnail: 10/10 - No notes. :-)

I'd love to see a video about those gargantuan 1970s quadraphonic headphones, which tried to provide some sense of front-to-back audio by putting two drivers into each earcup.

I do worry you'll get exactly the wrong sort of audience with that thumbnail, and the usual level of annoying comments will be on another level, and probably attract the RSPCA.

Sounds like a bit of a mess of an implementation, I'm glad you tested it so we don't have to be disappointed. I hold out hope that a device like this will some day appear that's worth owning. The more important question, of course, is what your cat thought of it?

Miscongeniality? Hmmm... Okay, now I get it!😉

I'm 4 minutes and and already it's a bit disappointing to me as a PC gamer, because it doesn't have support for analog PC surround sound which uses 3 3.5 mm cables for 5.1. So assuming this is just 4 channels, it would only need 2 connections for a quad setup. Yes it's an old standard that isn't used a lot anymore, but plenty of motherboards still have it, but also not everybody has their computer hooked up to a TV and I don't wanna have to use 2 HDMI cables for one monitor. Oh, and there's no bass, that's really unfortunate.

The little box had a sub out. (3.39) So no wonder it didn't have any bass

300! and the sound is weak? That is madness. Why even bother selling something like? There is no excuse for it to have no bass. I have a tiny speaker that has better bass than my headphones and it cost $90. I just don't get what most of these companies are playing at.

I wanted to hear the Rocket Propelled Granade equaliser. Surely that had some bass.

Saved me some money though a reflection frame is still in my thoughts (and just been reduced). Technology connections referenced you in his new 8 track video. (Yes I still have one)

“Sound Slayer” “Obliterate your listening chores!”

I always wonder these style neck speakers work if you have long luscious rock star hair like myself. Might be a fun bit in the future, if you do another one of these, to break out an 80s hairband wig to test, see if you notice a difference. Or not. Anywho, another enjoyable video!

Did you try switching off the virtual surround sound? It might help

You look down.. did the Red Baron get away?

Every YouTube comment: "I haven't watched the video, but you are wearing those wrong" :)

I do like the picture 🤣 just the right expression! Regards

Agh, it does feel like Panasonic have lost their mojo and become ‘just another brand’ a bit like Hitachi and Aiwa. Their TV’s are a bit like that now. Unless you buy the super expensive models which are the only ones actually made by Panasonic now, everything mid and low range (that has ‘Freely’ and Fire TV) is made in Turkey by Vestel - which means inside they’re the same as cheap own brand TV’s from Asda, just with a Panasonic branding on it. I would wager this neck speaker is the same, made not by Panasonic but a Chinese OEM with the name used under licence. 😔 As for ARC. Don’t get me started. I have one of those old Sky Devialet Soundboxes as my TV soundbar. Mainly because they actually don’t sound too bad. But they built them with the unit advertising ARC to the HDMI chain, even though they don’t support it, so it’s plugged into a HDMI port that is HDMI 2.1 but not eARC on my Sony Bravia 65” 4K TV, so I get HDR Ok from the Sky Q box. My Denon home cinema amp does support eARC so that is plugged into the correct HDMI on the TV that supports eARC. My Apple TV is then connected to the Denon. Every time I turn on the Denon and Apple TV, the Sky soundbox also fires up, and they have an all out ARC war where the Sky soundbox tries to command the audio from the TV, so the Denon then says ‘no, I’m in control’ and this goes on with the TV switching between audio sources until I eventually get up and unplug the power from the Sky soundbox. I reported it to Sky years ago. They couldn’t give less of a shit - so I’m living with it until my TV goes pop (it’s 7 years old and the panel backlight is starting to fail) and I’ll get a new 75” TV and soundbar, and lob the Sky one in the WEEE recycling with the old TV.

The thumbnail is absolute gold. 😂

Are you sure this isn't a toilet seat cover for a Japanese WC?

• At least the advertising is correct. It certainly slayed the sound. Although 'slay' has a newfangled meaning to the young'uns these days. I could go on about other words that have recently been ruined at another time. • Nicely done video review. • You look like a Victorian lady with that hairdo in the thumbnail. 😆 https://i.postimg.cc/G3Dk2h8S/file-000000007254722f90529b585536366a.png That, or Snoopy ears. • The video you were watching was certainly showing a slaying of... something. • The cat is so disgusted by the discussion of terrible neck speakers that he has to continuously clean himself. • RE: Your mention of built-in TV speakers - I cannot abide by them. If I'm going to watch TV it has to sound better than a transistor radio. Take care 🤍

Is that a toy version of one of your old puppets that I see on the shelf (near the beginning/end, beyond your left shoulder)? I miss those guys.

The only interesting thing: the cat 😻. I'll be getting 2 soon 😺

My wife could use a personal speaker system like this. There’s no way she’d ever get comfortable using it. Instead, she uses the speakers to play her Rom-Coms, and I pretend that I can’t hear it. Good video.

It would appear that anything designed to go around your neck isn’t going to be a great experience.

Mat, why are you buying all of these extremely heavy devices lately? First you get a 150-pound record weight and now a 300 pound neck speaker. Must be terrible having that on your neck... Okay, I'll see myself out😉

Worth it just for that Thumbnail :)

That screengrab is pure click bait! Love it 🐰

Surely, judging from that photo, it should be called the 'Sound Hound'? A stick on black nose would complete that picture.

That screengrab makes you look like you're playing Snoopy in a dinner theater production of YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN.