I just got one in for review yesterday. I haven't opened the box yet as I've been busy with The HiFi Summit. After Tuesday, everything should ease up a bit and I'll get a chance to play with it for my review video.
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Syng Cell Alpha - 7.1 sound with three speakers ?
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Didn't you just bring home a speaker the uses patented synergy horn technology worth at least 5 figures?
Didn't you just bring home a speaker the uses patented synergy horn technology worth at least 5 figures?
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I emailed Syng a while back asking if they would be willing to send a demo. They said they had limited availability and would get back to me in the future. Joe told me last week they were sending him one. So I emailed the company again, hoping their inventory status had changed. Nope, still told they didn't have enough to send me one. Not being one to simply be brushed off, I emailed back saying I knew Joe had one. They said they would get back to me in the future. So, no status change. But they know I know that I'm not a big enough fish for them. LOL
I emailed Syng a while back asking if they would be willing to send a demo. They said they had limited availability and would get back to me in the future. Joe told me last week they were sending him one. So I emailed the company again, hoping their inventory status had changed. Nope, still told they didn't have enough to send me one. Not being one to simply be brushed off, I emailed back saying I knew Joe had one. They said they would get back to me in the future. So, no status change. But they know I know that I'm not a big enough fish for them. LOL
LOL. The Daily HiFi Crew looks out for one another! I'll let them know where it should go after I'm done. Because it ain't no fuuuuun, if the homie can't test some. @hardisj
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I was shocked by how well Linus was informed in this video, like everything was spot on.
It doesn't hurt that James (his right hand) is a full fledged objective audiophile.
It was marketing literature in video format.
Truthfully, there was nothing in that video that I could not glean from the website. Other than the note about the exaggerated bass.
I will say this, too. @joentell said they only sent him one. Then Linus says they only sent him one as well. For what this product is, I cannot believe SYNG did not send the reviewers at least a pair of these to try out. It seems like an incredible oversight to only send a single unit to reviewers give. The novelty of what they are supposed to be capable of in a two or three unit set. Especially reviewers of this stature with this much audience.
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which was 100 times more useful than 99% of Youtube reviewers out there.
I was shocked when he made the comment that the speaker is not anechoicly flat, and that someone in his team (Probably James like I said) probably picked that up from just hearing it as that information is obviously not part of the marketing material.
I disagree. I don’t need someone to tell me the specs when I can read them in seconds. I need information the marketing brochure doesn’t tell me. His review didn’t provide that other than the bass comment.
It would have been nice to know if there was some kind of limiting in the speaker. I’m sure there is. It would have nice to know a little bit more about the sound radiation in regards to the entire frequency spectrum (not just the boosted bass aspect). Those are critical details that this review completely blanked on. That’s the specific information I want to know and was not mentioned in this review. Oh well.
I rather have that + first impressions than audiophile blurb
but to each his own.I wasn't expecting Klippel results, so that video fit my expectations as it adequately covered the user experience and included (sensible) listening impressions.
I know, they shot themselves in the foot as the reviewers will pick up anomalies in tonality much more quickly that way.
Linus is like one of the elite top (technology based) creators on Youtube, send him 3 and let him have that 'magical' 5.1 experience.
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Yeah, it's kinda odd.
I was definitely surprised there was no mention of spatial audio at all. Especially since the Newsweek article gave the impression that you'd get at least some measure of it from just a single unit.
I got the sense from some of the articles that they actually don't have a proper PR person working for them, and on their website they are looking for a director of digital marketing. Perhaps they are really just missing someone to handle this properly
It would be a shame if an otherwise interesting product is marred by sloppy marketing. And surprising, given the people who run the company, and the pre-reviewers they have gotten to look at it already (Wallpaper, Newsweek...).
Another feature that was completely left out of Linus' review: dispersion. The syng supposedly has the ability to change the dispersion. That is almost ENTIRELY the reason I want to review it and measure it.
As I said, his "review" was pretty much the marketing brochure. When I read a review what I expect to find is some things that aren't in the marketing material. I don't need someone to tell me the specs; I can find that myself. Tell me the stuff that isn't discussed elsewhere. Linus' review was sorely lacking this. Thus, my criticism. Dude seems cool... nice production quality. And he wasn't all "subjective". But he left out what I would consider some critical aspects about the speaker in lieu of telling me it has a waveguide and some woofers.
As I said, his "review" was pretty much the marketing brochure. When I read a review what I expect to find is some things that aren't in the marketing material. I don't need someone to tell me the specs; I can find that myself. Tell me the stuff that isn't discussed elsewhere. Linus' review was sorely lacking this. Thus, my criticism. Dude seems cool... nice production quality. And he wasn't all "subjective". But he left out what I would consider some critical aspects about the speaker in lieu of telling me it has a waveguide and some woofers.
I replied to his video:
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Well, what was definitely NOT in the marketing material was Linus's commentary about how bass-heavy the speaker is. Frankly, my interpretation is of an awful Apple-centric (not a lot of input or preference/tuning options) implementation.
I did see that they are using GaN amplifiers inside: https://gansystems.com/newsroom/syng-cell-alpha-transistors/
I did see that they are using GaN amplifiers inside: https://gansystems.com/newsroom/syng-cell-alpha-transistors/
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