What is Meizu?
Thirteen years ago, you could say that it was an audio player company with music genes; and then it entered the field of mobile communications, you can think of it as a mobile phone communication terminal company; in recent years, it has entered the digital peripherals and operated its own cultural products, in fact, it is also an IP company - and its Diamond Panda PANDAer is its biggest IP brand.
What about Elvis Presley?
With the radio feeling as the design style, the products are mostly small and cute retro speakers, so in the impression of many people, Elvis presley speakers are mainly for female users; and in September 2021, Elvis Presley Audio launched the XOG sub-brand of tide play positioning, which is mainly for the male market.
At the beginning of the year, Meizu's PANDAER cooperated with Elvis Presley's XOG to launch a Bluetooth speaker product that positioned the trend of play - PANDAER × XOG Platinum Unicorn Cyber Speaker.
"PANDAER × XOG Platinum Unicorn Cyber Speaker" Is a very long name, and later I will refer to it as PANDAER × XOG; and the product is actually based on Elvis Presley XOG mechanical optical domain Shell Bluetooth speaker customization, at first glance - is this really not a light-colored case graphics card?
An "ornament" shaped like a graphics card
Seriously, pandaer × XOG really looks a lot like a graphics card, and even has RGB mood lights - 19cm high, 9cm wide, 5cm thick three-dimensional, three-dimensional shorter than Nvidia's public version of the RTX 3090, thinner, one hand can be mastered, probably smaller than a small red brick. As a "small" speaker, don't look at its small size, in fact, the hand may be shocked by its weight, in fact, it weighs 1.05kg, mainly made of zinc alloy as a metal structure, and the full metallic feeling is directly reflected in the solid weight.
PANDAER × XOG shell with white, gray as the main color, the color of the body on both sides of the white metal mecha wrapped, tough lines and shape, with a more lively color to weaken a little bit of metal cold ice, on both sides of the Meizu PANDAER king panda image and the elements of the two sides of the joint name, as well as the top of the complex interlaced silver and white mechanical knobs, buttons, plus orange collision, and bare plum blossom screws are creating a rich mechanical wind. Three large, medium and small mechanical knobs, a two-way lever, and a button are interlaced at the top, and the staggered and untidy mechanical structure exudes a natural charm that belongs to mechanical science and engineering.
PANDAER × XOG front is the sounding area of the speaker, protected by a honeycomb-like dust-proof grille, the outer ring of the grille is a full circle of RGB atmosphere light strip, using Elvis Presley's OhPlay App can directly control the color of this set of RGB mood lights, this set of design down, sense of atmosphere MAX.
It has a removable orange grille behind it, protecting the low-frequency passive diaphragm on the back, and there is a Type-C port under the diaphragm, which can be charged or passable both Type-C to 3.5mm conversion line to achieve AUX wired audio access.
In addition, the official pandaer × XOG equipped with a charging base, shaped like a throne, the design style, color matching and speaker body is the same, but the material is plastic, connected to the back of the Type-C port after connecting the power supply, it can be put on the power supply, after taking this base, PANDAER × XOG's fashion ornament properties are significantly stronger, this shape is obviously more domineering than the single machine.
However, it should be noted that this base is sold with the main body of the audio note, and the price of the single base is 199 yuan - but I personally feel that the charging base is its complete body, if you buy this speaker, and the food is abundant, you may wish to consider it.
The sound of "machinery"
Inside the speaker is two full-frequency units, plus a low-frequency diaphragm on the back, two of which are full-frequency units with a size of 48mm and a rated power of 10W, although it is a two-channel design, but the two-unit design is too close, the actual listening sensation is actually similar to the mono, which is also a small pain point of this type of audio, but Meizu and Elvis gave another solution - if you have two, then you can switch to TWS tandem mode, at this time you can use two shells to form a 2.0 stereo system.
Back to pandaer × XOG itself, its Bluetooth is version 5.0, the farthest support is 15 meters of wireless transmission distance, but also provides a "LL" low-latency mode, with a certain sound quality to exchange speed, it is said that the delay can be as low as 60ms, which can be used daily when there is a need for timely sound feedback. In addition, if you are using Meizu's mobile phone, PANDAER × XOG will also pop up on the phone when they are close together; of course, as an Elvis Presley product, you can also use the OhPlay Elvis Magic App to listen to your own radio and podcast content.
In terms of sound, there is a joint tuning of Elvis Presley and Meizu, here is a simple share of personal listening, first of all, pandaer × XOG energy is sufficient, which ensures that both indoors and outdoors can get enough loudness. Although the use of two full-frequency two, the actual three-frequency performance in similar price points of bluetooth speakers are not bad, especially low frequencies, in the smaller cavity to achieve higher energy, in listening to some more dynamic concerts are more dominant, but the disadvantage is that the response of low frequencies will be slightly slower, and it feels that sometimes low frequencies will be slightly unable to keep up. In addition, without the support of high-quality transmission protocols, its resolution is slightly insufficient, and the sound dyeing will be aggravated, which is slightly felt when playing some more complex concerts. In general, its sound performance basically meets the daily wireless listening needs of ordinary users, but if you have a higher demand for listening, I think you will not be the audience of this type of Bluetooth speaker. Personally, I think its sound accounts for about 70% of its value, and the remaining 30% is in its shape.
Can be "moving" or "quiet"
Positioning, PANDAER × XOG platinum unicorn cyberphone is not an ordinary Bluetooth speaker, the properties of the tide product through its entire shape, can be movable and static.
"Moving", it as a mobile Bluetooth speaker, 3100mAh capacity battery, without turning on the RGB light, about half of the volume of the full battery life of about 10 hours, support IPX5 level waterproof, enough to support outdoor use; "quiet", as a trendy ornament, its mechanical texture, RGB mood light directly enhances the atmosphere value of the desktop ornament. The upfront crowdfunding price is 1199 yuan, and the official retail price is 1499 yuan - the embarrassment is that the crowdfunding stage has long ended, and the formal sale stage has not yet arrived - that is to say, even if you are interested in it, due to the delay in seeing the official sale schedule after the crowdfunding, all you can do now is to hold the coin.