Speaker 1: Welcome everyone. It is Wednesday, December seventeenth, and we are
Speaker 1: trucking through our holiday gift guide. Time is running out,
Speaker 1: but never fear. We have a wonderful idea for your list.
Speaker 2: Best one on our list so far. This is the
Speaker 2: best one coming from of a guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it could go to anyone, Like there isn't
Speaker 1: an age, a gender, a person. Maybe a baby wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to use this, but short of that, this
Speaker 1: is you know what, maybe a baby would even like
Speaker 1: this to. This is gift number thirteen on our Holiday
Speaker 1: gift guide and we are talking about the Marshall Emberton
Speaker 1: three portable Bluetooth speaker. It looks good, it sounds good.
Speaker 1: It's an exciting gift unwrapped, it's sexy.
Speaker 2: It's a sexy speaker. There are a lot of Bluetooth
Speaker 2: speakers out there. Yes, this is another one we use
Speaker 2: a lot. This is the best one we owned, and
Speaker 2: we owned it before it was sent to us to
Speaker 2: try out, and that's why we had this is the
Speaker 2: one we have the most knowledge.
Speaker 1: Of, correct and we actually were thinking this is also
Speaker 1: going to speak to how much we like the speaker.
Speaker 1: It's already boxed up. The producers gave it to us,
Speaker 1: and you said to me, should we give this as
Speaker 1: a gift to someone? And we decided, nah.
Speaker 2: We like it that much that we want to want
Speaker 2: two of them. That is a true story, and that
Speaker 2: can we give a better endorsement of a product yet?
Speaker 1: Correct? And I thought, let let's have this one or
Speaker 1: the one we already have be our travel speaker. Just
Speaker 1: keep it in our luggage and everywhere we go we
Speaker 1: will have an amazing speaker with us, which is always
Speaker 1: fun on vacation. Here is the actual write up about
Speaker 1: this product, A rugged, waterproof portable speaker that delivers a
Speaker 1: classic Martial signature sound wherever you go. I didn't know
Speaker 1: it was waterproof, by the way.
Speaker 2: I was just about to write that note down to
Speaker 2: say that that makes me love it even more.
Speaker 1: Correct, It's pretty awesome. So the Emberton III uses dynamic
Speaker 1: loudness to automatically balance your audio so your music sounds full, rich,
Speaker 1: and brilliant at any volume. It's true stereophonic three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty degrees sound fills the room, or the beach
Speaker 1: or your backyard with immersive, multidirectional audio that flows all
Speaker 1: around you. You know, Ava has one of these speakers too,
Speaker 1: and she's brought it along and we were fighting over
Speaker 1: it at one point. Like love, she brings it with
Speaker 1: her everywhere. It says it has thirty two plus hours
Speaker 1: of playtime on a single charge, so you can listen
Speaker 1: all day and well into tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Now. I didn't think it was thirty two. Yes, but
Speaker 2: that's just one of the things I would say about it.
Speaker 2: Once this sucker is charged, I don't have to think
Speaker 2: about it again for a while.
Speaker 1: That's pretty awesome. And listen to this. So it features
Speaker 1: a I didn't know this either, a built in microphone
Speaker 1: for hands free calls whether you're getting ready, cooking or
Speaker 1: mid road trip.
Speaker 2: Okay, this thing is amazing.
Speaker 1: See I didn't even know it did that.
Speaker 2: Because we don't use it for that, so we didn't know. Yep.
Speaker 1: And how about this. It has an IP six seven
Speaker 1: dust and waterproof rating. But here's what it says about
Speaker 1: the waterproof.
Speaker 2: I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: I was like, what, Okay, I believed you, damn it.
Speaker 1: I'm so gullible. But listen to this. You can submerge
Speaker 1: this Marshall speaker up to three feet of water for
Speaker 1: thirty minutes stop nope.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't believe that it can go.
Speaker 1: It says it can go into three feet of water
Speaker 1: for thirty minutes. Well underwear yet, Well I don't know.
Speaker 1: We should test it out, but it says making it
Speaker 1: perfect for travel, outdoor adventures and anywhere life gets messy
Speaker 1: the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I worry, you know good? Hell, well, I go
Speaker 2: into the bathroom all the time with something playing. You
Speaker 2: do I either got music, but usually iPad something's playing.
Speaker 2: All of that moisture. Can't be to think that this
Speaker 2: is okay.
Speaker 1: You know what? This should be our bathroom speaker narrative.
Speaker 1: Now we don't have to worry about bringing something into
Speaker 1: the We have a bathroom speaker.
Speaker 2: Is that something people do?
Speaker 1: I like to listen to music and show.
Speaker 2: A great shelf in there.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, let's do it. We now know where it is.
Speaker 1: Forget to forget leaving it in the luggage. We're putting
Speaker 1: it in the bathroom, all right. For more than sixty years,
Speaker 1: Marshall's has been synonymous with legendary sound and iconic design,
Speaker 1: beginning with their first amplifier, built in nineteen sixty two
Speaker 1: by Jim and Terry Marshall, and that is still crafted
Speaker 1: in Bletchley, UK today.
Speaker 2: Did you know that I did not know about the
Speaker 2: background in the history of this company.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What began as the heartbeat of rock and roll
Speaker 1: has evolved into a global audio brand, powering musicians and
Speaker 1: music lovers around the world. I didn't know this was
Speaker 1: their lingo. Marshals remain simply the home of Loud. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that was their thing.
Speaker 2: It's amazing the company can continue to thrive with such
Speaker 2: a slogan. It doesn't sound attractive, right.
Speaker 1: I was like, loud if I want Loud?
Speaker 2: The product is so good that we can have such
Speaker 2: a bad slogan and you still will buy our stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. So I mean, do we normally this
Speaker 1: is the time where we say what we think about
Speaker 1: the product, But obviously we've been giving ringing endorsement throughout
Speaker 1: the entire product description. It's very exciting. I have also
Speaker 1: some sample Amazon reviews, by the way, again feel validated here.
Speaker 1: Ninety three percent of folks gave it five or four stars.
Speaker 1: Eighty four percent gave it five stars, nine percent gave
Speaker 1: it four stars, so ninety three percent of reviews okay.
Speaker 2: Can I ask the negative ones? Was there a theme
Speaker 2: to them.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull them up right now, because actually it's
Speaker 1: really hard to find the negative reviews because everywhere I
Speaker 1: look it's all positive. So I think I can search
Speaker 1: through like the one stars. Yes, okay, it says. My
Speaker 1: mom told me that if I had nothing nice to say,
Speaker 1: then I should be quiet. But she also told me
Speaker 1: that if I were to charge one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: nine dollars for a portable rechargeable speaker, I should be
Speaker 1: I should be aware that some buyers might suffer an
Speaker 1: expectation that the speaker would arrive with the charging device.
Speaker 1: It's not. So he's upset that there's no charging device
Speaker 1: that came with the speaker.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope he doesn't have an iPhone.
Speaker 1: Because they don't. Those are thirteen hundred dollars and they
Speaker 1: don't come with a break anymore, or with a box.
Speaker 1: You don't get a.
Speaker 2: Box, right, Yes, they don't give it that break anymore.
Speaker 2: Give you it. Okay, I get that, and that's fine.
Speaker 2: That can be an annoyance. You have twenty of these
Speaker 2: at the house. You have twenty of these charges, do
Speaker 2: you not? Yes, it's the same one that charges the
Speaker 2: most recent, which one of the USB es. See it
Speaker 2: is the thing, yeah, the lightning or whatever they call it. Yes,
Speaker 2: it's that thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's another bad one. This is the crappiest
Speaker 1: speaker I've ever owned. Good noise, but way too complicated
Speaker 1: to work. It shouldn't be this hard to play on
Speaker 1: a speaker. I have a Son NOS and once plugged
Speaker 1: in and connected to Wi Fi, I've never had issues
Speaker 1: ever connecting any device to it. See, I've had plenty
Speaker 1: of issues with sons. That's so funny. This speaker is
Speaker 1: not worth the price it takes. It takes too much
Speaker 1: energy every time to connect.
Speaker 2: Stop. Okay, fine, if that was you, happen to be
Speaker 2: your experience. But nobody couches it that way. But you
Speaker 2: all this this person that's talking about how complicate it
Speaker 2: has literally one button. It's got one button on top
Speaker 2: and that's that's it. So it is actually one of
Speaker 2: the simpler ones that I have used. And again I
Speaker 2: am looking in our library here, one, two, three, I'm
Speaker 2: looking at three different ones up there, three other Bluetooth speakers.
Speaker 2: We use them every day all day as we travel everything.
Speaker 2: What I'm saying is we are qualified on this speak
Speaker 2: yes to rate the Martial one. It is the best
Speaker 2: one we have in the house. It might be the
Speaker 2: best one I have ever used.
Speaker 1: Wow, I agree, And there have been There were a
Speaker 1: couple other a couple other negative reviews that just said
Speaker 1: that they didn't like the sound. That one got really
Speaker 1: specific about I don't even know what it means, cris
Speaker 1: Pie's subdued sound, flat whatever. I don't know what all
Speaker 1: that is. But yes, the reality is ninety three percent
Speaker 1: of people said it's the best speaker they ever had.
Speaker 1: Like their Rave reviews. People love this thing. They love
Speaker 1: the speaker, and we're right there with them. We think
Speaker 1: it's amazing. And it is a little pricey. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's pricier than other speakers, but it's absolutely worth it
Speaker 1: if you like good music. And the fact that you
Speaker 1: can get it wet, and that's huge to me because
Speaker 1: we're constantly moving these things around, and especially if you
Speaker 1: have kids, it's nice to know you could spill a
Speaker 1: drink on it, it could land in the pool. It's
Speaker 1: totally gonna be Okay, that's that's an amazing function.
Speaker 2: We're gonna wait on the price until.
Speaker 1: Yes, I will wait on the price because you know what,
Speaker 1: it's cool. This is the one that we're actually profiling. Specifically,
Speaker 1: the one that was sent to us is the Emberton three.
Speaker 1: Do we have the Emberton two?
Speaker 2: I think we have two. The one is two, so.
Speaker 1: The Emberton three. And the point being is these different
Speaker 1: iterations of these speakers are still available, and some of
Speaker 1: them are at a lower price point if they are
Speaker 1: older models. So that's a good way. And I'll just
Speaker 1: suggest that for anyone who's thinking about this, when we
Speaker 1: come back, we'll tell you the price. But if it's
Speaker 1: a little too pricey, you could go to older models
Speaker 1: because they look the same and the look is so cool.
Speaker 1: It's that iconic Marshals speaker look so clean.
Speaker 2: That's one of the highlights, yes, for us. But we
Speaker 2: have our ours actually sitting and what I would argue
Speaker 2: is the nicest area of our home that's most decorated
Speaker 2: with fine stuff that's not supposed to be touched. That
Speaker 2: is our dining area, and it sits in that area seamlessly.
Speaker 2: You never think it's gaudy or looks off there's a
Speaker 2: speaker sitting over there. But it can sit in a
Speaker 2: kids room, it can sit there, you can travel. It
Speaker 2: is a gorgeous gorgeous speaker that we use. It's attached
Speaker 2: to our record player here, so we have one area
Speaker 2: of the house we want to play music. That speaker
Speaker 2: is you specifically for our record player in the house
Speaker 2: that we're trying to say, trust us on this one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a sexy speaker, like you said. And I
Speaker 1: actually wanted since I read some of the bad reviews,
Speaker 1: I wanted to read some of the better ones. Sound
Speaker 1: quality is excellent. This speaker is about half the size
Speaker 1: of a brick, but it gets plenty loud. It can
Speaker 1: fill a medium or large size room with.
Speaker 2: Ease to that about the size of a brick. There's
Speaker 2: something about the way it's made that's a very manageable.
Speaker 2: They make me all kinds of we're looking at our three.
Speaker 2: One is a smaller rectangle, one is a round short
Speaker 2: flat one, and another one is a tall cylindrical. They
Speaker 2: can come in some odd shapes. This is a manageable,
Speaker 2: but it feels solid and firm.
Speaker 1: It's the best looking of any of the speakers that
Speaker 1: we have. And this is something else that this it's
Speaker 1: funny one. People talked about it being complicated or whatever.
Speaker 1: This user wrote, I love the power indicator. Many speakers
Speaker 1: do not have a visual battery indicator, but I always
Speaker 1: like to know when I should go plug it in.
Speaker 1: The battery life on this device was excellent and I
Speaker 1: was able to use it for a full day with
Speaker 1: still over half power. He also said he likes the
Speaker 1: design of the brass control knobs because it provides an
Speaker 1: easy way to increase or decrease the volume or to
Speaker 1: skip tracks, and again he talked about the look. The
Speaker 1: speaker has a great look. You can place it anywhere
Speaker 1: and it will not clash with any other items. And
Speaker 1: the texture gives it a great nostalgic field. That's a
Speaker 1: good point. It goes with any design, if you have
Speaker 1: a modern house, if you have a country home, if
Speaker 1: you like anything in between. It fits all designs because
Speaker 1: of it's retro look. It just goes well with everything.
Speaker 2: They nailed this one. They nailed this one. And so
Speaker 2: I'm very curious now about the price. We're not getting
Speaker 2: too that yet, but now I'm I'm very curious.
Speaker 1: Yes you are, Okay, So when we come back, we
Speaker 1: will give you the price, we'll tell you where you
Speaker 1: can buy it, and we will preview our gift number fourteen.
Speaker 1: It will be our second to last. We're winding this down,
Speaker 1: but hopefully you've enjoyed some of these really cool, cool
Speaker 1: holiday gift ideas. We'll be right back. Welcome back everyone,
Speaker 1: as we are still on fire with our holiday gift
Speaker 1: idea list. And this one is actually our favorite. I
Speaker 1: think if we had to pick our favorite gift, this
Speaker 1: is it. It is the Marshall Emberton three portable BLUETOOTHS speaker.
Speaker 1: It's waterproof, it's sexy, it sounds great, it can travel
Speaker 1: with you everywhere. This is the perfect gift. The only
Speaker 1: drawback is the price tag. Wow, you get what you
Speaker 1: pay for, though, well, you get what you pay for,
Speaker 1: and I think that that certainly is the case with
Speaker 1: this one. This is the third so I said, this
Speaker 1: is the third iteration in this design, and our our
Speaker 1: producers had it listed at one hundred and eighty dollars
Speaker 1: and that's what it normally is. That is the retail price.
Speaker 1: That is expensive. But on Amazon right now it's on
Speaker 1: sale for one hundred and forty nine ninety nine, so
Speaker 1: it's thirty bucks off. And I looked if you wanted
Speaker 1: to get the Marshal two instead of the Marshal three,
Speaker 1: right now it's on sale for eighty nine ninety nine,
Speaker 1: so I feel like that makes it a lot more reasonable.
Speaker 1: This is for somebody who you really love, you know,
Speaker 1: But that is that is a higher priced item than
Speaker 1: than typical a typical speaker. You can get speakers for much,
Speaker 1: much cheaper, but you can't get a speaker like this.
Speaker 2: I would. Okay, if you want the Emberton two, I
Speaker 2: promise you you're good, because that's the one we have
Speaker 2: been sampling. I don't know if the one we had
Speaker 2: previous had the waterproof feature. May maybe not, but assume
Speaker 2: they improved along the way. But this is a really
Speaker 2: I love this itel.
Speaker 1: Yes, So you can go onto Amazon and get it
Speaker 1: because those are where I found the sale prices, or
Speaker 1: you can go onto Marshall dot com and order directly
Speaker 1: from the company as well. But again I would go
Speaker 1: where the sale is, and Amazon certainly is having it,
Speaker 1: you know. I wonder even this is we're at a
Speaker 1: point now where people might even be considering like they
Speaker 1: might be getting money for Christmas or anticipating getting you know,
Speaker 1: a cash or some sort of Venmo option. If you
Speaker 1: then want to buy your own presence this who knows
Speaker 1: things always go on sale even more after Christmas, so
Speaker 1: this is a fun one you could even buy for yourself.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas to me.
Speaker 2: If anybody is in the market. And we have Bo
Speaker 2: speakers here, it's not a maunt of sound quality, but
Speaker 2: this sound quality is good. But the way it looks
Speaker 2: and the combination here makes this by far the best
Speaker 2: travel small bluetooth speaker I have ever used. For sure,
Speaker 2: that is good looking.
Speaker 1: I see it in your head right now. I know
Speaker 1: it's funny because you're right. We have Bo's, we have Sonos,
Speaker 1: we have Jbo, we have everything, but this, the Marshal
Speaker 1: is and you know, I actually consider getting the big
Speaker 1: one for you at one point, yes, because those are those.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much those run, but they're so.
Speaker 1: We actually stayed in an air and Airbnb exactly yep,
Speaker 1: where they had the big Marshall speaker and I thought, wow,
Speaker 1: that looks so nice. All right, well, happy shopping everyone
Speaker 1: on that one. Tomorrow. It'll be Gift number fourteen. This
Speaker 1: is going to be something. It's a gift that you
Speaker 1: give to someone, but you're also giving back when you
Speaker 1: use the gift that they gave you. It actually elevates
Speaker 1: everyone in the room if you use this gift. So
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of another way.
Speaker 2: To teach you. Even I don't know what the next
Speaker 2: one is, so I don't know it. It's is that
Speaker 2: that one there?
Speaker 1: Or no?
Speaker 2: The other one? The uh oh, the little set.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's a little set. It could be a stocking stuffer.
Speaker 1: But you just want to make sure you give it
Speaker 1: to the right person because this could be taken badly
Speaker 1: if you give it to the wrong person, Like I
Speaker 1: would give this to Annalyse because she actually specifically loves
Speaker 1: this brand. But is that a tease?
Speaker 3: I think you have a better way to tease it
Speaker 3: for the person who is uh challenge with odor. This
Speaker 3: is why you have to be careful who you give
Speaker 3: this gift to.
Speaker 1: Alight.
Speaker 2: But I will also say when Sabine saw it, she
Speaker 2: wanted as well.
Speaker 1: This is a very popular brand, especially with young girls,
Speaker 1: and you will see it everywhere in Sephora, So I
Speaker 1: think this would probably be for the young girl in
Speaker 1: your life.
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, okay, terrible, terrible, I apologize, I'll do
Speaker 1: better tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I chimed in as well. I made it worse with that.
Speaker 1: Everyone. Thank you for listening. I'm Abe Roebuck alongside DJ Holmes.
Speaker 1: Happy shopping everyone,