 Hello everyone, this is Ahmed Dan of AhmedDan.com. Today I'll have another episode of unboxing and review video and I'll be presenting the MPAL Sound Hot B4 Mini Soundbar which I have it right here. So this is a true review. What it means that I purchased this with my own money. I didn't take money from anyone and I purchased this for my own use. So there will be no affiliated links to make money off you or know nothing. What you're going to get is totally true and unbiased honest opinions. So before I open the box, let's go through some of the specs very quickly right here and we'll look at some other specs on the box as well. So this one has 2.55 millimeter drivers with two base diaphragms and then Bluetooth 5.0, USB and TF card and 3.5 slot and then 2200 mAh battery. And each charge should give you 15 hours of use and then 920 gram is the weight which is lightweight. So the box just came like this. I haven't opened it yet. And if you look at it here, it says mini soundbar and you'll see the model number which is right here, BH374A and here we have some more specs which I already mentioned. But one thing I didn't mention is that the input is 5 volt and then the wireless range should be 66 feet or 20 meter. And basically that's all we have on the side and let's take a look at the side. So it has large acoustic capacity or sorry, cavity, handy volume control knob, 52 ohm speaker and then hands free calling. Now the reason I purchased the soundbar because of working from desk, sometimes you need to take calls or talk to people when you are working. So this gives you the access to hands free calling and then you can listen to music or anything you want and because of the knob right here, you can just lower the volume if a call comes in. So it should give you some advantages having a soundbar on your desktop or sorry on your workstation and it shouldn't take that much space because of its compact size. So I'll just start opening the soundbar and then we'll look at it from here. So I just wanted to mention that the review is going to be in two parts. Although you're going to be watching everything in one but you know I'll just open the box and show you what's inside and then after using for a couple of days I'll attach the second part of the video where I'll talk about how is the sound quality and what I like or don't like. All that stuff. So we'll just open this right now and we'll take it out. Okay so the box is empty. Let me just make sure that empty, let me just make sure that the box is empty here. So as you can see there's nothing there's nothing inside the box so I'll just set it aside here. Let's see what we have here. So we have a membership benefits card. I have seen this with other MPa products and it has two year warranty but you have to activate that within 15 days and then you can have two years warranty but usually you get one year warranty when you purchase something and then if you purchase with a parade card then you get another additional one year warranty but MPa is giving two manufacturers warranty just by registering within 15 days and then they have included actually a small manual or brochure so here it just shows you how to use and what the specification and some more information. I'm not going to go over it but here I just wanted to show you something and looks like that it has illustrations on how to connect to Bluetooth and everything so it should be fairly simple if you are stuck with anything you can just consult the manual which I'll set it aside and then we have a green card and looks like this is just an important reminder about the battery and other stuff and then in touch these are the cables so this is 3.5 cable and then we have USB cable but this is not USB-C this is micro USB which I'll set it aside so now we have our soundbar okay so here how it looks this actually looks better than what I thought in the picture it looks little bit different it could be that the picture showed older model but when I'm looking at it here it looks better than what I saw online or on other pictures so this looks very good designing and very good looking so you can see that this is where the speakers are so it has like 2.5mm drivers with 2 bass diaphragms and if you just look very carefully you can see kind of the speakers here here but I don't think camera can catch it but I can see it a little bit so this is going to sit on your desk just like this and here are the operational buttons another reason I like this product because of the buttons they are on top and very easily accessible so you don't have to search for them so let's look at the button so we have here volume button and then we have here the button to connect it to your phone when you have a call and then these are like two different buttons and then this is the M button pressing this button just switches the mode from usb to bluetooth to tf card that's what I'm assuming and then let's take a look on the other side so here we have some of the slots I mentioned so here we have the usb and then here we have the tf slot which is micro sd and here is 3.5mm and then here is the power input and on this side there is nothing else so basically on this side you know there is nothing else either and also this huge volume button is you know on and off button as well so I'm just going to see if there is power remaining ok I see some light here so looks like you know it has some charge and it's trying to connect to you know bluetooth probably looking for input information so I'm going to just you know just some music and then you know do the second part of the review hello everyone I'm back with the device and I have had 24 hours to you know test everything and to try out the sound quality and everything so I can tell you now you know how is the sound quality and what I like and what I do not like so when you connect this via bluetooth then it looks like you know the connection gives you a much higher sound quality or better sound quality than if you're connecting the device via 3.5 jack so I don't know why is that but you know connecting via bluetooth gives you a better sound quality so now I'll just you know give you an example of the sound how it sounds like it if I play music so it's not probably the camera is not going to catch you know the sounds that good but still you'll have an idea so let's start so you'll have an idea the volume is not bad you know it's not too loud you don't need to loud because you know this is sitting on your desk at your work station so this is good enough for you know work and when you are at the computer so this button right here which is the M button so this is the button to connect or change you know different settings and to connect to different input so if you want to like you know you can have actually two different setups for bluetooth connected and if you want to change between two devices then you have to just press this to connect from one bluetooth to another bluetooth device so that's a good feature and then here what I notice that if you look on the back so this is where actually you can use a USB connection to charge another device and this is the USB input to charge this device and so it's like you know if you're using let's say if you have only one USB output and you're charging this device it doesn't mean that you're wasting that device you can have you know this device to charge other devices so that's a nice feature and in terms of sound quality if you're comparing this with a like you know big sound bar then definitely it's going to disappoint you because this is not going to be same as like an expensive or big sound bar so do not expect sound quality that type but in terms of working at your desk or working at home or working at your computer the sound quality is good enough it's you know fairly okay the bass is not it doesn't have that much bass it just has little bit and in terms of like you know separating different elements of music it does the job but I wouldn't you know don't expect too much to get like you know crystal clear separation of different elements and everything and in terms of stereo you can feel that you know it's stereo but again due to it's like you know size and price and everything and definitely you know it's not going to come you cannot compare this with a big about the call quality so this one actually you can you know make calls or receive calls via bluetooth using this button and you can use this button to like you know pause the call or continue the call as well I tested both calling in and calling out so I wouldn't recommend using you know this device to you for phone calls because the call quality sound is not good you can have the conversation people can hear you but you know it sounds like you know not clear on the other side and you know they would definitely know right away that you know you're using every you know bad quality or cheap speaker or device to put through the call so I tested both you know calling in and then someone call me and I receive the call and it didn't make any difference both call qualities were bad so I wouldn't recommend to use this for a call or to make phone calls or use for calls or any conferencing or anything and the price is very reasonable I paid about $50 Canadian you can probably grab it on sale if you from time to time but you know I noticed that some online stores actually are selling that more prices or at higher prices so just like you know search for a few online stores and grab the one which has or which offered the lowest prices so this is not an affiliated or paid review this is for my own use and I purchased this with my own money and this sits right underneath your monitor or on your desk very nicely it fits anywhere it would fit anywhere because my desk is very small it's not a big desk it's very minimal you know desk setting or workstation setting and it fits there very perfectly which you can see but you know the size shouldn't be any problem and except that I'm happy with the purchase and definitely this is an addition to your workstation setup and you know if you play very soft music or relaxing music when you work definitely it's going to help through your work day or cut some stress so that's a good thing so thank you for watching this video I'll put some links below for my other soundbar reviews and other devices review so you can watch them and forget about subscribing to this channel forget about liking this video there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you