Xiaomi Sound smart speaker experience： the design is invincible, and the small body has great energy

[TechWeb] As the hub of Mijia’s ecosystem, Xiaoai speakers have always played a central role. In the field of AIoT, the popularity rate of Xiaoai speakers is even higher than that of Xiaomi mobile phones. Many people may not be loyal users of Xiaomi mobile phones, but every technology-loving consumer will have a few smart ecological products from Mijia to some extent.

A sentence of "Xiao Ai Classmate" was not only a wake-up call for Xiao Ai speakers, but also an enlightenment for voice interaction for many people. However, Xiao Ai Classmate was just an interesting soul after all, and the body that carried it – Xiao Ai speakers, still had some shortcomings. Such as design.

Similar to the vast majority of Mijia ecological products, the previous Xiao Ai speakers have been very restrained in design, simple and simple plastic material, cold black and white color scheme, can indeed be integrated into the modern home decoration with simple design, but it is undeniable that the cookie-cutter shape always feels a little too low-key.

Moreover, after all, it was called "Xiao Ai Speaker", but in terms of the performance of speakers, Xiao Ai Speaker has always been difficult to present excellent sound quality. Although a few hundred yuan speaker is incomparable to a feverish audio equipment, Xiao Ai Speaker can only be heard, which is a bit unworthy of its name.

Therefore, in order to solve the two core issues of design and sound quality, Xiaomi Sound was born.

At the Xiaomi new product launch conference that ended this month, Xiaomi Sound proudly debuted as a new blockbuster smart speaker. On the basis of retaining the "intelligence" of Xiaoai speakers, Xiaomi Sound also integrates cutting-edge industrial design concepts and far-exceeding sound field experience. With its own efforts, it has changed the shortcomings that have made up for Xiaoai speakers for many years, adding luster to Xiaomi’s AIoT ecosystem.

First look at the appearance. Xiaomi Sound uses a transparent body material, a suspended touch top cover and a sound cone integrated design, which presents a completely different design language from previous smart speaker products.

Taking the black version in our hands as an example, Xiaomi Sound is crystal clear, with a low-key and restrained black when viewed from the front, and the transparent material is partially exposed when the viewing angle is deflected. The overall feeling is full of technology and has a strong futuristic atmosphere.

The top of the Xiaomi Sound is a floating touch top cover, full of brushed metallic texture, through which you can control the volume increase or decrease and audio playback/pause. The entire circle of RGB light strips is located under the top cover, which can show different colors, which in turn indicate the working status of the speaker. Blue means normal operation, pink means disable the microphone, orange appears in network mode or when the network is disconnected, and red means abnormal.

The integrated design of the suspended touch top cover and the sound guide cone guarantees a 360-degree full-up sound under the premise of an explosive appearance, which can effectively reduce the impact of the environment on the sound quality and ensure excellent listening in an all-round way.

When it comes to hearing, Xiaomi Sound has to mention its efforts in sound quality. Built-in 2.25-inch neodymium-iron-boron dual magnetic circuit full-frequency unit can bring a shock sound pressure of up to 90dB, which is very powerful on a small cavity speaker with a height of only 128mm and a diameter of 134mm.

A pair of 54 * 44mm double suspension passive radiators are also symmetrically arranged inside several boxes, which also helps to bring better low-frequency performance in smaller sizes, with deeper bass diving and more elastic listening.

In addition, Xiaomi Sound also added computational audio technology for the first time. Real-time dynamic tuning can perform 330 dynamic calculations per second, allowing each music to be optimized exclusively. The innovative "Nightingale Algorithm" can dynamically adjust high, medium and low frequencies at all levels of volume, so that listening to music at lower volume at night can also achieve full sound quality.

The HARMAN Golden Ears team, renowned for its tuning technology, has brought a master tuning standard to Xiaomi Sound, and it has also obtained the Hi-Res Audio high-resolution certification as an international high standard, which can achieve better lossless sound quality than CDs, allowing every melody and every scale to be perfectly restored.

The huge leap and improvement in sound quality is one of the most distinctive features of Xiaomi Sound as "Xiaomi’s first high-end smart speaker". But this is not all about Xiaomi Sound.

Xiaomi Sound is equipped with the industry’s advanced UWB connection technology for the first time. When the mobile phone is close to the top of the speaker, the music can be transferred to the speaker for relay playback, and when it is close again, the music can be transmitted back to the mobile phone. Through the Xiaomi Miaobo function, under the same WiFi, through the control center of the mobile phone, you can choose the speaker for air playback, or you can choose multiple players to play at the same time. At present, Xiaomi MIX 4 can already be matched with Xiaomi Sound to achieve sensory relay playback, which is a wonderful feeling.

At the same time, Xiaomi Sound also supports intelligent combination, which can be turned into a stereo, and can also be played in multiple houses. You can even buy up to 8 Xiaomi Sounds to form a whole house sound system, so that users can not only enjoy music seamlessly in any corner of the home, but also use the intercom function between the speakers to achieve direct voice communication throughout the house.

Of course, all of the above is just the foundation of Xiaomi Sound, and its inner soul is still the familiar Xiao Ai classmate. Through Xiaomi Sound, you can still skillfully wake up "Xiao Ai classmate", and then realize voice control of the whole house appliances.

Xiaomi Sound, which has been comprehensively improved in design, sound quality and intelligence, brings a good sound to the previous generation with its small size. As Xiaomi’s first high-end smart speaker, Xiaomi Sound has enriched Xiaomi’s product line and brought more choices to consumers. Combined with its price of 499 yuan, I believe it is a good choice for consumers with higher requirements for sound quality and design.