*I am back yay! And just in case people don't know, yes the thumbnail is correct - it does say SPERKER. You can point at the DJ1000 phone for that. It's just a meme on the channel at this point so don't mind it.* Welcome back to the first review from me in more than a month, I am a bit rough from not doing it for so long due to my break but hopefully I'll get back into it all soon. Hope to show you all my stuff I got from Japan and some stories and footage from there. But until then, keep being awesome and let me know what you thought of this down below! TIMESTAMPS: Intro: 0:00 The Device: 0:46 Power On, FM Radio & Buttons: 2:47 Pressing Buttons: 3:44 Menu, Functionality & Settings: 5:09 Calendar & Voice Recorder: 6:24 Music Player Functionality: 7:34 Big Sperker Time: 8:16 Quick Conclusion: 10:41 Teardown & Investigation: 11:46 More Big Sperker Fun: 14:19 Final Thoughts & Timestamps: 16:20 Outro: 17:25 Be good people!
@@SMOOREZ sorry to be a pain but I don’t have any social media accounts at all. All I have is this account and a steam account. The phone I’ll like to send is a iPhone 16 pro max.
@SMOOREZ , learning is always available! This is a speaker membrane with weight, so it uses the trapped air and the main driver’s air movement to generate deep sounds. Calling it passive radiator.
The weird 'tweeter' thing is just an internal audio baffle. The left side of the unit is a speaker box, and to help a bit with the lower bass, they installed a baffle. At least I think that is what it is...
I think the baffle is the bit on the front that separates the two sides of the driver. The little flapper bit is just a passive that theoretically improves bass response with JFM.
The “doohickey” is a Passive Bass Radiator. It’s kinda impressive (mostly amusing) that it has one, though I wonder how accurately it’s been implemented. Some portable Bluetooth speakers depend heavily upon these to fool you into thinking it has amazing bass response. It certainly can give you “more bass”, but definitely at the expense of fidelity.
I want smartphones to start offering changable batteries again. I like the having the freedom to just switch in another battery when my phone dies, rather than having to wait a couple of minutes for my phoen to charge enough to start up..
Thankfully fast charging has mitigated that for me for the most part. It's not as convenient as swapping in a fully charged battery but people forget how awful battery life was on early androids.
@@SimulatedGoat Don't get me wrong. I'm rarely away from a socket long enough that charging my phone is a real problem, and when I am, I have a portable battery pack with me. It's just not quite as conveniant as being able to just quickly swap a new battery in. From an environmental point of view, I'd like to see swappable batteries because it might persuade some people to just change their battery when it dies, rather than have to upgrade to the phone. I know they can get a new battery fitted, but this isn't always easy (try looking for someone to fit a battery to a kindle if you don't want to, or can't fit one yourself). Certainly not as easy as unclipping the battery cover, removing the old battery, putting a new one in and closing the cover.
Wow I really like this radio music player. I'm so glad you could change the operating language. Lol I've got to say yes I knew that Kate Bush song before Stranger things, which I've never watched. I was a big fan as a teenager. I had posters up on the ceiling of my bedroom ( no wall space). I still have the original vinyl albums and singles (45) Anyway back to this device. I am impressed by the sound reproduction. That Big Sperker is pretty decent, I do wonder how good it would sound using headphones. Plus it's bloody loud. Glad you are back and slowly getting back into the swing of things. Looking forward to the forthcoming reviews of the stuff you bought in Japan. ❤
welcome back! i really like this speaker, the bass, top and even some mids are all there. something i would like to have around. can't wait for all the stuff you found in japan
Smoorez!! Welcome back! That Ama thing's got a speaker that's too strong for its own good! It's really damn neat. It would be even better with two speakers. Also, if the voice recordings could have been of higher quality. But I don't know. That's $5 for ya. : ) WTH! It's neat, and I love gadgets like these.
What if instead of the screen and buttons it just has a right speaker there. And the buttons and screen are on the back and can be flipped to face forward like on a camcorder
Apparently we've all abandoned smoorez completely and unsubscribed from his channel for no posting..... Yeah joking aside it's great to see you back making stupidly long videos! WE HAVE MISSED YOU SMOOREZ! 😊
I also have a little radio but it has no brand, it's some sort of alarm clock/radio like the radio stuff is on the left and the clock on the right, someone wanted to throw it away because the volume rotary knob was loose, and i unscrewed the back of it and i saw that the screw was just loose so i just screwed it tight and it works just fine. It's some sort of Travel Alarm Clock Radio.
Someone bought me one from China at about 7-8 years ago (I think it is by Nontaus). It has the same interface and the same button layout. According to my sources, this appears to have a lyric display feature with an appropriate .lrc file for the song. In China, these radios are marketed for the seniors, and sometimes used with another SD card / USB preloaded with 1,000+ songs for entertainment use. The exact same unit are sold in a variety of brands, so it's an OEM device.
Great video first of all.The thing you saw is a bass reflector, its not electronic, so it dosent need power.It just uses the air flow coming from the speaker to create a more full sound, cause it beeing closed up completly would cause the speaker of sounding more tiny than it is. I hope this explains it, its like the 2 things on the sides on a jbl box
I remember using software SRS WOW 3D and 1st gen Beats Solo in CoD4:MW and it had the best explosions and gun sounds ever. I never heard of SRS WOW since these days.
Cool !! I bought someting similar for 10 Euro back in 2014. Same functions, but mine had "only" six buttons + a bigger *PASSIVE RADIATOR SPEAKER and it was made by a company called Mitian. After all this years the backlight display is very dim, the battery auto-drain himself for some reason and the FM radio reception is now mediocre. BUT the device still sounds GREAT (despite the only 5W speaker). *13:23
Welcome back 😀👍 I was watching a Hugh Jeffrey’s video about the mobile phone changes and banning go in on in Australia and wondered how it has affected your collection? Might be worth covering in a separate video? Given the number of new phones the carriers will be able to sell I can’t believe that this will become common round the world very soon.
I said it in the job lot, and I say it again. This had me face turn into stank mode, this is how well it sounded out of every sperker that you had on the channel.
Actions ATS2506, one of the later generation of S1 (Z80-based) media players. I thought it'd be Actions when I saw the UI, a ton of players from that era used that - especially the loading hourglass when it's booting up. NOBT in the firmware name is No Bluetooth, they presumably made a version that has Bluetooth too.
Am for music is low quality, not worth it, it could be still useful for emergency and other interesting signals in shortwave (that most radios don't have)
6:17 and 13:17 make me think they actually repackaged one of those generic dime a dozen s1 mp3 players and gave it a big sperker, creativity never ceases to amaze me ngl
Ahma means "Paternal Grandmother" in Fookien Chinese. Fookien is as Chinese language used spoken mostly in Xiamen, China. It is nearly extinct in mainland China, but still exists in Taiwan and the Philippines.
The "USB" at 5:30 is actually saying USB Sound Card! So, you could probably connect this up to a PC and use the Big Sperker with your PC There is a chance it may require a cursed USB-A to A connection
all of my cheap radios with a rechargable battery are all bl-5c's. there's an entire radio market for them too. it's a good battery if it lasts long enough. You might be better off getting a retekess v115 though, that gives you a micro sd card slot, and you can plug it into your PC and use it as a DAC, and a line in. plus it's all in english.
Might be too new to be supported by the existing s1 tools, unless there's some new developments I missed in the past few years. (I was in the s1 "scene" when ATJ209x and AK102x were the most common, and ATJ211x/213x were just starting to appear, and the latter didn't get any tools written for them AFAIK.)
@@GroupNebula563 or the JieLi chips. you know, those 16-pin (or more) standalone mp3 players with SD and USB readers, even FM radio, in one chip. The new ones have bluetooth, they are on almost every bluetooth speaker, even my smart christmas lights with a bluetooth app have a jieli chip, a Bluetooth speaker one. Probably because it has a microphone for music syncing, and the chip has an MIC adc.
That's the first time that mick gordon (?) tune you always use has ever sounded like anything even approaching something that could be approximated to music. Shame it doesn't make calls lol
Ah ma(n), those fingerprints on the inside of the glass are getting me triggered. Please tell me you cleaned those after the review (you can say yes even if it's not true, it will put my mind at ease 😅)
wait, when it started up, te loading sand clock cursor thing is from windows 95, right? What the hell is going on here??? I think, and i know i may sound like a nutjob saying this, but, i have a feeling it MIGHT be based off of windows CE. MAYBE
Man I used to watch Civvie a while back but I didn't keep up with his uploads. I'll forever have "NICE FUCKING MODEL *DUN DUN*" in my head thanks to civvie.
funny how there are knockoffs of Aiwa radios now, the font and name is certainly trying to be how "pony" is to "sony" or the good old "smasnug" for "samsung"
They don't speak Cantonese in Taiwan where they also use traditional Chinese writing so your statement is wrong. It's either simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese when talking about writing
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*I am back yay! And just in case people don't know, yes the thumbnail is correct - it does say SPERKER. You can point at the DJ1000 phone for that. It's just a meme on the channel at this point so don't mind it.*
Welcome back to the first review from me in more than a month, I am a bit rough from not doing it for so long due to my break but hopefully I'll get back into it all soon.
Hope to show you all my stuff I got from Japan and some stories and footage from there.
But until then, keep being awesome and let me know what you thought of this down below!
TIMESTAMPS:
Intro: 0:00
The Device: 0:46
Power On, FM Radio & Buttons: 2:47
Pressing Buttons: 3:44
Menu, Functionality & Settings: 5:09
Calendar & Voice Recorder: 6:24
Music Player Functionality: 7:34
Big Sperker Time: 8:16
Quick Conclusion: 10:41
Teardown & Investigation: 11:46
More Big Sperker Fun: 14:19
Final Thoughts & Timestamps: 16:20
Outro: 17:25
Be good people!
I got The FRX3 from eton. It’s a AM/FM radio. It’s tells time, it’s a Power Bank/station.
Is there anyway I can contact you and send a fake phone for you to do a video mate.
@ziggybombers1563 You can send me an email if you'd like! My email is in the description under socials. Thanks!
@@SMOOREZ sorry to be a pain but I don’t have any social media accounts at all. All I have is this account and a steam account. The phone I’ll like to send is a iPhone 16 pro max.
Sure
13:55 Smoorez that is not a tweeter, it is a passive radiator used to enhance bass response
I knew I was wrong :(
i was about to comment the same ;)
@SMOOREZ , learning is always available! This is a speaker membrane with weight, so it uses the trapped air and the main driver’s air movement to generate deep sounds. Calling it passive radiator.
@@SMOOREZ I mean, you got that it was specifically there to affect the sound quality, so....
This little radio is definitely from the Retekess, Tivdeo, HanRongDa family.
It's also called the :
AY F-69
Aihua 888
The weird 'tweeter' thing is just an internal audio baffle. The left side of the unit is a speaker box, and to help a bit with the lower bass, they installed a baffle.
At least I think that is what it is...
I think the baffle is the bit on the front that separates the two sides of the driver.
The little flapper bit is just a passive that theoretically improves bass response with JFM.
The “doohickey” is a Passive Bass Radiator. It’s kinda impressive (mostly amusing) that it has one, though I wonder how accurately it’s been implemented.
Some portable Bluetooth speakers depend heavily upon these to fool you into thinking it has amazing bass response. It certainly can give you “more bass”, but definitely at the expense of fidelity.
I haven't seen a radiator smaller than the actual driver before.
DJ1000's legacy lives on with the big sperker
Welcome back Smoorez. Missed your videos. Can't wait to see what whacky stuff you brought back with ya.
Glad you're back smuz,
Also elvis presley falling in love is my moms favorite song and also love me tender.
I want smartphones to start offering changable batteries again. I like the having the freedom to just switch in another battery when my phone dies, rather than having to wait a couple of minutes for my phoen to charge enough to start up..
Thankfully fast charging has mitigated that for me for the most part. It's not as convenient as swapping in a fully charged battery but people forget how awful battery life was on early androids.
@@SimulatedGoat Don't get me wrong. I'm rarely away from a socket long enough that charging my phone is a real problem, and when I am, I have a portable battery pack with me. It's just not quite as conveniant as being able to just quickly swap a new battery in.
From an environmental point of view, I'd like to see swappable batteries because it might persuade some people to just change their battery when it dies, rather than have to upgrade to the phone. I know they can get a new battery fitted, but this isn't always easy (try looking for someone to fit a battery to a kindle if you don't want to, or can't fit one yourself).
Certainly not as easy as unclipping the battery cover, removing the old battery, putting a new one in and closing the cover.
Wow I really like this radio music player.
I'm so glad you could change the operating language. Lol
I've got to say yes I knew that Kate Bush song before Stranger things, which I've never watched. I was a big fan as a teenager. I had posters up on the ceiling of my bedroom ( no wall space). I still have the original vinyl albums and singles (45)
Anyway back to this device. I am impressed by the sound reproduction. That Big Sperker is pretty decent, I do wonder how good it would sound using headphones. Plus it's bloody loud.
Glad you are back and slowly getting back into the swing of things.
Looking forward to the forthcoming reviews of the stuff you bought in Japan. ❤
took me a whole day to watch the joblot, was interesting to watch, two vids in one day, great work, smoz❤
welcome back! i really like this speaker, the bass, top and even some mids are all there. something i would like to have around. can't wait for all the stuff you found in japan
Dang that sperker driver flex's more than my cheap Bluetooth sperker
What a lovely big sperkerr. Nice to have you back. This reminds of the Retekess V115 radio with GM recorder.
107db out of that tiny thing is amazing, But having it sound that good at full blast is phenomenal.
smoorez is back - happy days
*_Welcome_* back Smoorez!
Smoorez!! Welcome back!
That Ama thing's got a speaker that's too strong for its own good!
It's really damn neat. It would be even better with two speakers. Also, if the voice recordings could have been of higher quality. But I don't know. That's $5 for ya. : ) WTH! It's neat, and I love gadgets like these.
What if instead of the screen and buttons it just has a right speaker there. And the buttons and screen are on the back and can be flipped to face forward like on a camcorder
@@zzoinks Now you're talking! : ) Yes!
Apparently we've all abandoned smoorez completely and unsubscribed from his channel for no posting..... Yeah joking aside it's great to see you back making stupidly long videos! WE HAVE MISSED YOU SMOOREZ! 😊
Finally, a smoorez review after a while
DJ1000: You Son of a B you did it😂
The BEEEG SPERKER
I also have a little radio but it has no brand, it's some sort of alarm clock/radio like the radio stuff is on the left and the clock on the right, someone wanted to throw it away because the volume rotary knob was loose, and i unscrewed the back of it and i saw that the screw was just loose so i just screwed it tight and it works just fine. It's some sort of Travel Alarm Clock Radio.
Someone bought me one from China at about 7-8 years ago (I think it is by Nontaus). It has the same interface and the same button layout. According to my sources, this appears to have a lyric display feature with an appropriate .lrc file for the song.
In China, these radios are marketed for the seniors, and sometimes used with another SD card / USB preloaded with 1,000+ songs for entertainment use. The exact same unit are sold in a variety of brands, so it's an OEM device.
Interesting "Ahma" is Finnish word for an animal called "Wolverine" :-D
I saw another comment saying it's also paternal grandmother in chinese
It's clearly an aiwa ripoff
Great video first of all.The thing you saw is a bass reflector, its not electronic, so it dosent need power.It just uses the air flow coming from the speaker to create a more full sound, cause it beeing closed up completly would cause the speaker of sounding more tiny than it is. I hope this explains it, its like the 2 things on the sides on a jbl box
I remember using software SRS WOW 3D and 1st gen Beats Solo in CoD4:MW and it had the best explosions and gun sounds ever. I never heard of SRS WOW since these days.
Cool !!
I bought someting similar for 10 Euro back in 2014.
Same functions, but mine had "only" six buttons + a bigger *PASSIVE RADIATOR SPEAKER and it was made by a company called Mitian.
After all this years the backlight display is very dim, the battery auto-drain himself for some reason and the FM radio reception is now mediocre.
BUT the device still sounds GREAT (despite the only 5W speaker).
*13:23
Welcome back 😀👍
I was watching a Hugh Jeffrey’s video about the mobile phone changes and banning go in on in Australia and wondered how it has affected your collection? Might be worth covering in a separate video? Given the number of new phones the carriers will be able to sell I can’t believe that this will become common round the world very soon.
I said it in the job lot, and I say it again. This had me face turn into stank mode, this is how well it sounded out of every sperker that you had on the channel.
Actions ATS2506, one of the later generation of S1 (Z80-based) media players. I thought it'd be Actions when I saw the UI, a ton of players from that era used that - especially the loading hourglass when it's booting up.
NOBT in the firmware name is No Bluetooth, they presumably made a version that has Bluetooth too.
Hey I remember that UI, the icons, volume bar... It is taken from those old and generic MP3 players that looked like pendrives (S1 MP3).
Welcome back !
The AHMA logo on the speaker grille kinda looks like it is styled like, and imitates the AIWA logo from years back!
Yes obviously, sad that aiwa is now sold to other companies making random stuff
Sad they miss the am band in radios, it's still used and tastes high, even the music stations (Brisbane at least)
Am for music is low quality, not worth it, it could be still useful for emergency and other interesting signals in shortwave (that most radios don't have)
I think the thing you think is a tweeter is a passive resonator, usually they are identical to the main speaker but don't have magnets or voice coils.
6:17 and 13:17 make me think they actually repackaged one of those generic dime a dozen s1 mp3 players and gave it a big sperker, creativity never ceases to amaze me ngl
That thumbnail text trminds me of the old "EHR MAH GERD" meme.
Nice little device
Ahma means "Paternal Grandmother" in Fookien Chinese. Fookien is as Chinese language used spoken mostly in Xiamen, China. It is nearly extinct in mainland China, but still exists in Taiwan and the Philippines.
Firmware version NOBT, guess it has no bluetooth. 😂
The "USB" at 5:30 is actually saying USB Sound Card!
So, you could probably connect this up to a PC and use the Big Sperker with your PC
There is a chance it may require a cursed USB-A to A connection
all of my cheap radios with a rechargable battery are all bl-5c's. there's an entire radio market for them too. it's a good battery if it lasts long enough.
You might be better off getting a retekess v115 though, that gives you a micro sd card slot, and you can plug it into your PC and use it as a DAC, and a line in. plus it's all in english.
2:19 I was expecting two PKCells 😅
I think this is S1-based! If you can hook it up to a computer you can probably use a tool like S1res to dump its firmware!
Might be too new to be supported by the existing s1 tools, unless there's some new developments I missed in the past few years. (I was in the s1 "scene" when ATJ209x and AK102x were the most common, and ATJ211x/213x were just starting to appear, and the latter didn't get any tools written for them AFAIK.)
@ This seems to run an earlier chipset or at least hardware “style”, so it might be worth a shot.
I've seen the exact same UI in cheap MP3 players. Most of them use chips by Actions, like this one.
yep, good ol actions S1. the gold standard in non-gold standard media players
@@GroupNebula563 or the JieLi chips. you know, those 16-pin (or more) standalone mp3 players with SD and USB readers, even FM radio, in one chip. The new ones have bluetooth, they are on almost every bluetooth speaker, even my smart christmas lights with a bluetooth app have a jieli chip, a Bluetooth speaker one. Probably because it has a microphone for music syncing, and the chip has an MIC adc.
I get Smoorez alert, I click instantly! ❤❤❤
I can see myself as a kid and this radio being one of my biggest treasures back in the early 2000s.
And still today I kinda want one as a mp3 player 😅
Ngl for the small speaker it sounds pretty good!
the oval thing is a passive radiator for better bass
yoo the goat is back
That is a good, clear sperker for $5
That's the first time that mick gordon (?) tune you always use has ever sounded like anything even approaching something that could be approximated to music. Shame it doesn't make calls lol
I wonder if the equalizers are meant for the headphones jack because srs wow is a surround sound simulator and isnt gonna work on a mono speaker
wow that sperker went over nine thousand !
Pretty good for 5$ I might order one
Ahma is Wolverine in Finnish. :D
I got a very similar one from EBay UK, branded 'Audiomax'
0:59 Is that a challenge?
Trump and smoorez have returned!
Life is good 😊
It's even sealed for the radiator.
ah ma is hokkien chinese for grandma so this is probably designed for old people
Actually amazing and now I want one
Where can i find one in the US?
GOOD video
That black thingi is not a Twitter bro. That is a passive radiator for bass 😅
Nice sperker!
Ah ma(n), those fingerprints on the inside of the glass are getting me triggered. Please tell me you cleaned those after the review (you can say yes even if it's not true, it will put my mind at ease 😅)
Wait this ain't DankPods
wait, when it started up, te loading sand clock cursor thing is from windows 95, right?
What the hell is going on here??? I think, and i know i may sound like a nutjob saying this, but, i have a feeling it MIGHT be based off of windows CE. MAYBE
Gotta love the ripoff Aiwa logo xD
Literally the first thing I noticed too 😂
Same thing
AHMA AHMA do doooooo do do do
MAAAAA! GIVE ME POPCORN SMORES UPLOADED
Classic Chinese construction there 😂 Nice on the outside, ungodly mess inside.
I think you should have a "Sperker Count" ala Civvie
Man I used to watch Civvie a while back but I didn't keep up with his uploads.
I'll forever have "NICE FUCKING MODEL *DUN DUN*" in my head thanks to civvie.
I didnt know that aiwa is popular enough these days to be targeted by bootleg names!
Ah-Ma is kinda mean “grand ma” in Thai ;)
funny how there are knockoffs of Aiwa radios now, the font and name is certainly trying to be how "pony" is to "sony" or the good old "smasnug" for "samsung"
Or Panesonic for Panasonic.
I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it!
@@SMOOREZ and here's magnetbox and sorny
Love you smoorez
Don't you find it disturbing to have so many buttons on a radio?
SRS is for fake surround sound. Obviously it doesn't do that well with a mono speaker
Hello!
Find them under many names
Loudest 🔊ever 😅seen
Bass radiator.
Early!
ahma translated to english would mean grandmother if i my chinese is not rusty ... 😅so grandma brand radio media player .
fyi ahma in chinese actually means grandma 😂
Its so desperately trying to be an ""aiwa" with that logo. Like the Zsus brand of monitors on Ali
maybe an item for dankpods??? wade would love that i guess, and your'e both ausies so maybe you know eatchother???
The logo is a fake of Aiwa lmao
Cool TechImma1st
Don't take my comments seriously. It's only a meme
haha its trying to ripoff aiwa brand name
Ripoff Aiwa logo!?
"Buttons are all in Chinese"
Chinese is NOT a language! It's a Nationality!
"Cantonese or Mandarin" is what you should say!
*goes to google translate*
- sees option for "Chinese Simplified"
:/
They don't speak Cantonese in Taiwan where they also use traditional Chinese writing so your statement is wrong. It's either simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese when talking about writing