 The first thing you're gonna notice about the Sauna is it's size and welcome inside the Evolve Mini. You've also got a light button here. It's Alex here from AlexFews.com. Now if you're looking for a well-priced extremely healthy low EMF compact infrared Sauna then I think I found it and it's this, the Sunstream Evolve Mini infrared Sauna. I've been using this Saunas for over a year and have quite a bit of experience in the infrared Sauna space both reviewing research and using them and this one which I've had now for a week or two I have to say is very impressive. Not only is it very small which is great if you're in an apartment or a tight on space but it's extremely well priced. It's only $2,200 US plus shipping and taxes and whatnot but for that you are getting extremely powerful, extremely fast to heat up and extremely safe Sauna. So in this video I'm going to do a comprehensive review looking at all the good things and some of the bad things about the Sauna. So stay tuned. The first thing you're going to notice about the Sauna is it's size. I stand at 5'10", 178cm and I'm actually taller than the Sauna. Now most Saunas you can stand up in. I know my Evolve 20 from Sunstream Sauna. I can stand up but I hit the top. But you know there's a bit more space in there. This is a small Sauna. There's no denying that and hence the name Mini. Sunstream also do a slightly larger one man Sauna called the Evolve 10. Later on in this video I will do a quick comparison about specs and prices there but it's obvious who this Sauna is marketed towards. It is marketed towards those people who one are on a budget which will speak about so and two are a space conscious. So I currently live in a four bedroom house. We have plenty of space. I have two men's Sauna. It's great. However I used to live in a little apartment and after that a one bedroom little townhouse. I would have loved to have a Sauna in those environments but space was an issue. The other benefit of the small size is how quick it heats up and also how powerful, how hot it is with those powerful heaters in there. Small is actually quite good. Now I've referred to this in previous reviews and videos. For instance in my Evolve 20 review and the blog post review over at AlexFinger.com. I mentioned how smaller is better when it comes to Saunas because one it uses less electricity. Two it heats up a lot faster which is a great thing for you know those evenings when you think hey I want a Sauna and you flick it on and you can jump in it 15 minutes later rather than waiting an hour or so. Footprint obviously is a big one and the other great thing about the small size is cost. It brings the cost right down. So speaking of price this Evolve Mini is currently available for $2,200 or thereabouts. That is a special that's going on at the moment but if you mention my name Alex Fergus I'm pretty sure you've got to lock in that price. That's US dollars for US customers. You will have to pay some shipping charge though it's not too bad and maybe taxes depending on where you're getting it. It's also available in Australia and New Zealand excuse me for about three and a half thousand Aussie dollars. You know what let's go inside. I'll show you around. It's not that there's too much room to show you right. I'll show you around inside. I'll show you around the layout. Comfort we'll do a quick look at the panels. Layout panel layout and then we'll test the EMF and there's still a lot more I want to talk to you about. I want to talk about my experiences with. I want to talk to you about my wife's experiences using it. I want to talk to you about the comparison of using this one versus the larger two man warranty shipping and other options. So don't go away. Let's go in and have a look inside and welcome inside the Evolve Mini. I forgot I had this running and it is quite warm in here. So one thing I will mention this heats up. What are we? We're going into spring here in New Zealand. So it's not too hot but it's not too cold either. I've turned this on on full power, 100% intensity and within 10 minutes we're at about 55 degrees Celsius. Now I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit but to put it in perspective this tops out at 65 in terms of the setting 65. 10 minutes you're already in a hot like environment. If I sat in a 55 degree the sauna with the panels going within a few minutes I'm sweating already now we're at 40 degrees and I feel like I'm going to start sweating. So the cool thing is it heats up very very fast and that is because of the size. It is very small. I mean I'm sitting down and there's not too much clearance above me. I'm a larger guy. I weigh 100 kilos maybe 220 pounds. I've got if my shoulders hit one wall I've got you know five inches maybe on the other side. It's not a big space. Okay speaking of the door it is a little bit small. I don't know if you noticed when I went in you kind of go in on the side and you sort of wiggle in and then ah you're in. It is kind of amusing the first time I saw the door. I was like oh it's like a half door and that's exactly what it is. If you were someone that was quite large you know we're talking six foot and or large obese you know big belly you may you'll get in it's just going to be a bit of a squeeze. The thing is you're doing this on your own. It's not like a communal sauna and everyone's watching you thinking oh god I mean you might struggle whatever you get in it's not into the world. For me it's like okay you just sort of pivot where you go. My wife got in she didn't even say anything about it and she's like half my size. This is the control panel. I can turn the sauna off on. I can set the time up to an hour 60 minutes. I can set the set temperature up to 65 and I don't know if you can see this but down the bottom here is intensity and now there's an intensity button and I've talked about this in the Volvo 20 sauna. I think this is a really cool feature so you got 100 75 down to 50. Why is that such a cool feature? The cool thing is if you're new to infrared saunas or you're pushing a really big session you know you put the temperature right up and you get 100% you might only last like 10 15 minutes. It's that intense right now you some people use saunas for the comfort factor to warm themselves up after like a day out in the snow or in the rain. Others are using it for therapeutic reasons others just use it for hot cold you know contrast with cold swims. There's various reasons. Some people want to be in here a little bit longer especially if you're new to saunas right. That's where that intensity setting comes in really handy. You can set the temperature to what you want and put the intensity down so the panels will hold that temperature but that power intensity coming out is a lot less. You've also got a light button here which turns that light on and above me you have a speaker or two speaker units and a vent for pulling yourself down. So compare this to the Volvo 20 and the Volvo 10 which is like a step up the Volvo 20 being a two man the Volvo 10 being a one man a larger one man with a few more bells and whistles. They include the color therapy option which I believe you can get as an extra in this anyway and they also come with Kenwood speakers. So these speakers are non-branded you know cheaper speakers do just as good of a job. I mean if you're playing a YouTube video or listening to a podcast it doesn't really matter. If you like your music or if you're sitting in saunas doing music and listening to music then hey you might prefer the the better quality sound speakers. Personally for me it doesn't make a difference. Yeah so that's that. They do use bluetooth so you can connect via bluetooth. You can disable the bluetooth if you're worried about emf. All right I've got my cornet electric smog meter here. I'll put a link to this below. It's about two three hundred dollars really good meter for testing electric fields magnetic field and microwave fields. So again I have done a full test full video testing emf levels in these sunstream saunas. Check that out later on if you want to watch that. I'm just going to do a real quick test here to make sure that those numbers line up. So I won't get too much into the details here. I'm going to sit this on the seat about a couple inches from the back panel here. The meter's up the top. Now let's hope you can see this. The sauna is currently off and this has been programmed to building biology standard so the green is where we want to be on the side here. There we go. All right so I'm going to turn this on. You might see a bit of a spike as it turns on. I'm going to make sure the intensity is up a hundred percent. All right and there we go. The sauna panel is now on and those numbers are still rock bottom. If I move this even closer well closer again rock bottom and we're only about an inch from the panel which is great. Let's test electric field and the same thing. The panels are on rock bottom on the green. So as you can see it is a rather cozy space. The cedar backrest comes included in the price which is great. You can put that on the side or behind you or choose not to use it at all. You have panels in the front. Nice glass window looking out straight into my Volvo 20. Panel on the side, panel behind you and then on this side you have the door and a small panel. Now speaking of that door as you can see it's reasonably small. If we compare that to the Volvo 20 sauna over there. A few other things I should mention. Oh and yeah we have the back panel down there. So all of these panels come off are magnetically attached. You can pull them off which is great if you want to clean them. If you want them fixed then there are screws. They supply the screws so you can screw them in place. But for instance down here a lot of saunas don't have this. I know my old clear light sauna just had tiles down here which would get all gross. But here you have the the infrared rays coming up underneath you which which is pretty cool. As you can see I'm standing right I've got to crash down to be level with this sauna right and that door is quite small. If I get in there isn't really much room to turn around in and yeah get set up and I can't stand up so I'm crashed down. Again it shouldn't really matter because you're just coming in you're going to sit down and away you go. But for those that are bigger again there could be a bit of a problem. But what about using it? Do you feel claustrophobic? Now that was the one concern I did have. I haven't had those concerns. I've done a few sessions in here now. It definitely hasn't happened. In fact I'd almost say it's it's it's quite a cozy like intimate sort of feeling. It's weird you get in here and you're in this tiny little space and you know you're reading your book or listening to the podcast or doing your meditation and yeah you sit and you and you sweat it out. So that that's good. I mean that's some good feedback. Now my wife is done I think two sessions in here now. She's not a big swan to use it but she's used the two man one and my previous three man one. She's used all sorts of the saunas that we've had here in the Fergus household. So I asked her last night it was the first time she'd been in one man's sauna. I said how'd you feel? She said I was fine. I said did you feel claustrophobic or like it was too small? And she said no not at all. She said like me she had those concerns going into it but it wasn't an issue. So there we go. One thing I forgot to mention before was sit up. This here I sit the whole thing up in about 15 minutes with a little time lapse video which will show you the prices. I didn't even read the instruction manual. I just you know haven't done these over the over the years. I kind of know how they go. But yeah super simple to sit up. It is quite light. I mean you can move the sauna once it is assembled. Like if you wanted to push it across the other side of the room you can do that no stress. All right so there's a few other technical things I wanted to talk about before we give into my comparisons and overall conclusion with my review here. So this sauna the Volvo Mini draws and I gotta check my notes here excuse my unprofessionalism draws 1390 watts. Now when this is converted into a wattage per area figure it works out to be 41.4 watts per cubed foot. I think that's what you say. I'm used to using metrics which would be meter square. So this is feet squared 41.4. Now to put that in comparison an Evolve 20 from Sunstream Sauna draws 2,060 watts. So you know it's a good 700 watts more but it's only 34.8 watts. So 35 versus 41 and that's because of the surface or the space inside this sauna. They use a carbon near infrared heaters the same heater panels that are used in all the Sunstream Saunas. What else is it clean we expect about that. All right so included with the Sunstream Evolve Mini some goodies. Here we have the Cedar backrest which comes included in the price. I know some other companies you pay an extra 100 to 100 bucks whatever to get one of those. That comes free with it which is awesome. The one that I had set up in there is actually for my Evolve 20 because I have two of them in there plus you get this little goodie box. You get a sauna hat branded in Sunstream infrared saunas. You get a Sunstream infrared sauna towel which is a really big great towel to have. You get a brush skin brush. You get a little shot glass with a shot holder. No it's not meant to be used for shots. It's meant to be used for aromatherapy so you can put essential oils in there and all the screws to put that in place. Plus you get a single cup holder there which you can screw onto the wall. I haven't done that yet. I just haven't got around to getting the drill out. So this is my Evolve 20. We have two cup holders with Evolve Mini. You just get a single one and then you've got your little aromatherapy unit there plus the adjustable back support which is pretty neat. All right so I know earlier on we touched on price but I thought I'd just do a quick summary section here where we look at price shipping warranty. Warranty on the Sunstream Saunas is 10 years. 10 years for the electronics and heater panels which is what's in my mind. I think it's comparable with all the other brands if not better. And I think in Australia it might even be Australia and New Zealand customers. I think they even get a longer warranty period so that is really cool. And price for the Evolve Mini which I have behind me is $2,195 USD plus your taxes plus your shipping. Again mention my name and you may get some half price shipping or a freebie or you'll get some sweeted deal. For Australian and New Zealand customers it's about three and a half thousand Aussie dollars and I think shipping may be included to main cities but don't quote me on that. Again I mentioned my name and you'll be looked after. So now I want to speak to you about comparisons. How does this compare to other Saunas within the Sunstream range and then within the competitor range as well. So on my left here I have the Evolve Mini. On my right I have the Evolve 20 two-man Saunas. First thing you need to really decide is what's your budget when it comes to purchase price. Actually no that shouldn't be the first thing because I think there are times in this world where you can push a budget and get something that you know maybe you can't afford right now. But maybe the first thing you should decide is space because if you are confined to a very small footprint you're in an apartment and you don't have the space for a two or three-man Saunas then straight away that's going to narrow your options down. On that front you have the Evolve Mini from Sunstream. You have the slightly larger Evolve 10 and then you have competitor products from Sunlighting and Clearlight. You know what if you're coming if you're looking for a low-cost small Saunas one of the best Saunas in the market in terms of build quality and health and performance I'm going to have to say it but just just go with the mini. I don't know if you can really justify that extra thousand dollars for the Evolve 10. Now if you can if you do have the money to go up then you should start looking at the two-man Saunas right. So over here I've got the Evolve 20 which is 3900 so about $700 more than the Evolve 10 but a good you know $1800 more than the Evolve Mini. The great thing with the Evolve 20 is of course you can fit two people in it. Not only that you can stand up in it you've got the stool bench so you can put your feet up in it which is pretty cool for a two-man Saunas because typically you need a three-man Saunas to put your feet up in it. I have some pros and cons here. All right let's go through the positives first. Amazing price market leading for the quality you're getting this isn't some cheap Chinese wine full of God knows what with horrible EMF output and you know it's probably gonna have a year-long warranty you know for quality well-built Sauna a healthy safe Sauna it's the best on the market hands down. Great compact size if you are tight in space in an apartment or in a spare room or even in your in your main room like it's only room you got you just got it tucked away in the corner. Great option super fast to heat up 10-15 minutes like I've never experienced that with a Sauna ever. It's really really cool. Ultra low slash no EMF levels again you won't find that with any other Saunas at least that I've tested and seen online and no toxic materials no off-gassing the downsides it is tight to get in and out and for some people who are not a fan on small small spaces you may decide you want to get the Volvo 10 for a little bit more room though again it's it's not a deal breaker but some people might not like that you can't stand up in it again if you're pushing yourself you know for those hardest sessions where you just need to get up and you know need that space to move you're not going to get that with here no external control unit this is a downside I had with the Volvo 20 and it was coming from clear light so the clear light control panel was you know on the exterior and then you could also access it from the interior um it was a downside I had with the Sunstream Saunas because you have to open the door reach in and adjust the numbers it's not again it's not a deal breaker you're not gonna not buy one of these because of that but it's just little things after years of years of using Saunas it's something you're like oh it's just nice to come along and push the buttons without having to reach in and you know miss around plus if your wife or someone else is going to use the Saunas afterwards they can quickly see how long you got left same thing with the Volvo Mini it's in the far back corner so you've got to open this little half door and reach in again it's just it's it's my feedback um and the other negative with the Volvo Mini and Sunstream in general is as of 2020 there is no European distributor you've only got Canada, America maybe central and South America I think um Australia, New Zealand but you don't have any ones shipping these in Europe and I know a lot of people are asking me like what can I do about it and uh yeah so if you're in Europe watching this and you've watched the last 20-30 minutes I need to hear that I'm sorry leave questions comments below be sure to like hit subscribe stay tuned as well for more videos I am going to do a direct comparison between the Evolve Mini and my Evolve 20 I can do a bunch of testing in there and compare the numbers I'm also going to do a comparison between on paper comparison between the Mini and the Volvo 10 if you'd like me to compare any other ones let me know you know maybe the larger ones um though I'm sure I'll need someone else to help me uh assemble those well let me know if you want me to review or compare any other products or my team let me know as well um because this is what we do here at alexfix.com we review and test and experiment and compare things so check out my other videos and yeah be sure to say hi bye