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Recently, Nut has launched a new 4K tricolor laser projector-N1S Pro 4K. This product has been pre-sold on the shelves and is scheduled to be sold at 6999 yuan. As an upgraded version of the nut N1 Pro, the nut N1S Pro 4K focuses on upgrades in terms of resolution, speckle, brightness and so on.

Nut N1S Pro 4K in the field of home projectors, nut is both a leader and a staunch supporter of tricolor laser technology, so what different experience will this N1S Pro 4K bring? What are the experience advantages of the N1S Pro 4K, which claims to be the first 4K tricolor laser head projection in the 6K price range?

With these questions, CTOnews.com got this new product and now brings you a hands-on experience.

N1s Pro 4K, N1 Pro configuration comparison 1. Compared with the traditional projector, the nut N1S Pro 4K has two obvious experience advantages in design and packaging.

First of all, unlike the "founder" shape of traditional projector products, the Nuts N1S Pro 4K continues the family's highly acclaimed "integrated head" design, with a bracket base under the projector mainframe, achieving 360 °horizontal adjustment and 135° vertical stepless hover.

Friends who have used the projector should know that the traditional square projector can only project the picture directly in front, and if you want to cast it in another direction, you can only adjust the position of the projector. In addition, because the orientation of the projection lens is also fixed, so if you want to adjust the height of the projection picture, you need to use cushion books, installation of desktop tripods and other ways to adjust.

By contrast, the advantage of the "all-in-one head" of nut N1S Pro 4K is obvious.

With the help of the head, users can easily achieve one-handed fuselage pitching adjustment, up and down 135 °pitching adjustment, the height of the picture can be arbitrarily adjusted, and even the picture can be cast to the ceiling, and the posture of the product itself does not need to be adjusted.

Many users like to project the picture of the projector to the ceiling and watch it on the bed, or project some dynamic pictures to the wall and ceiling to create their own atmosphere space. With the nut N1S Pro 4K, this operation becomes very simple. Imagine that the nut N1S Pro 4K at this moment is like a searchlight, shining wherever you want.

It is only the "head" of the physical structure, which is obviously not worth "bragging". Nut N1S Pro 4K's "all-in-one head" advantage is more reflected in the "real-time ladder algorithm".

For example, when adjusting the pitching of the fuselage, the built-in gyroscope of the nut N1S Pro 4K detects the angle in real time, and the projection screen is synchronously calibrated and focused, keeping the picture square and clear at all times.

"Real-time ladder algorithm" with the physical structure of the head, this soft and hard algorithm optimization, the final nut N1S Pro 4K to achieve the real sense of "freedom of control", you can cast wherever you want, without the need to manually correct the screen twice.

In addition, the nut N1S Pro 4K also provides four installation methods: forward projection, rear projection, hoisting and hoisting. Thanks to the blessing of "head", Nut N1S Pro 4K has achieved "nothing without me" in the most important part of "projection adjustment".

The second advantage of nut N1S Pro 4K is reflected in the outer packaging.

In recent years, with the popularity of outdoor camping, more and more users like to bring projectors to outdoor use. To a certain extent, users also put forward more requirements for the portable properties of the projector.

As a result, the outer packaging of nut N1S Pro 4K uses a portable design. The outer packaging of this EPP foam material can be used many times. When you go out, put the nut N1S Pro 4K inside, close the lid and carry it, which is very convenient.

This kind of packaging design, which does not seem to be "environmentally friendly", is actually truly environmentally friendly.

Let's take a look at the detailed design.

Nut N1S Pro 4K uses dark gray color matching, with dense heat dissipation and speaker openings on both sides. The rear side is a large heat dissipation hole design.

Below is the interface part of the nut N1S Pro 4K, including the HDMI 2.1mm port.

The power key is designed in the center of the bracket at the bottom.

The DC charging port is placed on one side of the bottom bracket.

The JMGO logo is placed on the front, the projection lens and the sensor are on the same level, and the collision color design is used and is wrapped in a light gray material. The deep projection lens looks like a "big eye cute" and looks kind of cute.

The Nut N1S Pro 4K has a remote control that supports near-field voice.

Second, I wonder if you still remember a heated live debate between Nuts and competitors in May this year. The core topic of this live debate is around the "tricolor laser" of nuts and the "super mixed light" of competitors.

As an unswerving proponent of tricolor laser technology and one of the first carriers of the technology, Nuts even held a "projection image quality public showdown" in the core business district of many cities offline after the live debate.

The strength of nuts, on the one hand, is the forward-looking prediction of the technological route of "tricolor laser"-Nuts always believe that tricolor laser is the future of high-end projection.

On the other hand, with the launch of tricolor laser projector, this technology is generally accepted by consumers. Monitoring data released by Loto Technology show that laser projection has surpassed LED in the market share of 4K resolution high-end projection in the first half of 2023.

Nut MALC eye krypton ™tricolor laser technology schematic map we know that the core of projector products is the light source, and the current home projector light source is divided into three major routes: traditional light bulb machine, LED light source and laser light source.

CTOnews.com has done popular science before with regard to these three technologies.

To put it simply, the traditional light bulb machine has the advantages of low cost and high brightness, but its service life is short. Within the range of household machines, the "light bulb" has gradually stepped off the stage.

Compared with the traditional light bulb machine, the LED light source has a long life, compact size and better color, but there is a brightness bottleneck.

In contrast, the laser light source has a longer service life, slower light decay, pure color, higher brightness, lower power consumption, wider color gamut and higher contrast. It can be said that the laser light source integrates the advantages of light bulb and LED light source.

So in the field of flagship aircraft, manufacturers are beginning to embrace the "laser" embrace.

It should be noted that laser projection is also divided into two technical routes-monochromatic laser and tricolor laser. Competitor's "super mixed light" technology actually combines monochromatic laser and LED light source into one.

So from the nut's point of view, these technologies are transitional solutions, and tricolor lasers are the ultimate solution.

Of course, again, there are no inappropriate products and technologies, only inappropriate prices.

There is no conclusion here about the technical route of the projector, but an obvious trend is that laser has surpassed LED to become the most mainstream light source technology.

In addition to the light source, another factor affecting the image quality of the projector is the DMD chip.

The optical machine chip size of nut N1S Pro 4K is 0.47, which is also the mainstream choice of products in the same category.

Like its competitors, nut N1S Pro 4K finally achieves 4K resolution by "shaking 4K". Don't complain, take a look at the price of the real physical 4K projector. I'm sure you'll soon understand long live-several times higher, get a real 4K with weak experience gain, and your wallet will soon help you make the right decision.

Let's talk about the image quality parameters of nut N1S Pro 4K:

110% BT.2020 high color gamut

1600VR 1 contrast

2000CVIA brightness

Brightness uniformity ≥ 95%

High color gamut and high brightness are the core advantages of nut N1S Pro 4K, which also brings impressive super HDR effect. Next, CTOnews.com simply tested the N1S Pro 4K picture quality and color performance with a 4K test chart and 4K HDR video.

In particular, it should be emphasized that, like all tricolor laser projectors, the photos taken by cameras and mobile phones will be reddish (invisible to the naked eye) due to the ultra-high color gamut of tricolor lasers. CTOnews.com also restores as much as possible what the photo sees (actually better with the naked eye), but still does not represent 100% of the true quality of the nut N1S Pro 4K.

Therefore, uploading pictures is for reference only.

The first is the most basic 4K picture quality.

The performance of this part of nut N1S Pro 4K is in line with the expectation, the display effect of 4K is delicate, and the text is not blurred. The tone level and the color ball also show a uniform and soft transition.

Let's take a look at the rendering effect of 4K pictures and 4K HDR videos.

Nut N1S Pro 4K has a high color gamut of 110% BT.2020, and the BT.2020 color gamut is far beyond our common Adobe RGB and SRGB, and is closer to the maximum color range that can be recognized by human eyes.

According to the conversion, the color gamut of 110% BT.2020 is equivalent to 152% DCI P3 and 149% NTSC, so when nut N1S Pro 4K plays 4K pictures and videos, the first feeling of the picture is gorgeous and the color is very full.

Especially in the pure dark environment at night, the color of the picture is like an amazing OLED screen hanging on the wall. If it is not specially emphasized, it is difficult to make people believe that this is a projection picture.

Live shooting of 4K pictures

Live shooting of 4K pictures

Live shooting of 4K pictures

Live shooting of 4K pictures

Live shooting of 4k video

Live shooting of 4k video

4k video live shooting, on the other hand, in the daytime environment, even if the shading curtain is not all closed, so that "pure black", nut N1S Pro 4K can still ensure a good color presentation.

For example, the above picture is suitable for shooting at noon, and the shooting environment is not "all black" (the camera lowered the exposure slightly during shooting).

This is mainly due to the 2000CVIA brightness of nut N1S Pro 4K.

It should be emphasized that this time the nut N1S Pro 4K does not use the traditional brightness standard, that is, the international mainstream ANSI standard, but "CVIA".

CVIA is the Chinese projection luminance standard, its birth, on the one hand, has a more rigorous, standard, unified description and test specifications, more able to restore the actual viewing scene. On the other hand, this set of luminance standard is more suitable for tricolor laser projector, while the ANSI test method is mainly aimed at the traditional light bulb light source to bid farewell to the possibility of bad manufacturers falsifying the brightness.

Since there is no professional luminance test tool for the time being, there will be no luminance test here.

In the experience, the brightness of the nut N1S Pro 4K is really impressive, such as opening the living room shade directly at noon in the sun, when the picture fades, but it is still "available".

Of course, it is important to note that if you want to watch without drawing the curtains during the day, or using projection instead of watching TV during the day, this will not work. This is not a problem with the nut N1S Pro 4K, and no home projector can do that at the moment.

After all, the meaning of the projector is not to replace TV, but to complement the viewing experience that TV cannot achieve.

Finally, we are concerned about the "speckle". Due to the coherence of the laser, it will lead to the phenomenon of "speckle". To put it simply, there will be a lot of "noise" in the picture, which is a bit like the "cloth screen" of a mobile phone. of course, this is a common problem faced by tricolor lasers.

The method given by nuts is LSR dynamic speckle reduction technology, which claims to achieve 97% speckle reduction. This data shows that there is a certain upgrade compared with 96% of the previous generation of products.

Despite the 1% gap, according to Xu Zuyan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, in a media interview, the State Standards Commission lowered the speckle below 3% invisible to the naked eye.

Therefore, the speckle control of nut N1S Pro 4K is just within the range of "imperceptible to the naked eye".

As for the author's experience, the "speckle" phenomenon of nut N1S Pro 4K is basically invisible to the naked eye. Of course, speckles still exist, but they are very weak and will not affect the overall viewing effect.

Unless you have to stare, such as staring at the edge of the white text, you will see some "rainbow lines", but I'm sure no one will do that.

Even, for the average consumer, if he is not instilled with the phenomenon of "speckle", then it is believed that he will not find this problem in the following movie experience.

Third, the audio part of the audio section, the nut N1S Pro 4K is equipped with 210W & Dana stereo, officially known as "temple-level Tanner HiFi sound quality", bass to 45Hz. This is also the only one of the projection manufacturers that dares to standardize the subwoofer parameters.

It is still the old rule to play teacher Cai Qin's "Ferry".

Nut N1S Pro 4K audio part gives the author the biggest feeling is that the three-band performance is very balanced, including low-frequency drum part, high-frequency string music, and medium-and high-frequency vocal part, with distinct levels and a very obvious sense of presence. I don't feel that the sound is coming from a particular area, but that the sound is wide in all directions.

In terms of experience, the overall audio performance of the nut N1S Pro 4K is worthy of this price.

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The N1S Pro 4K carries the flagship MT9 chip. No specific model has been given officially, but it is equipped with 4+64GB storage. This configuration specification is sufficient for a projector, and the system interaction experience of the nut N1S Pro 4K is also very smooth in the CTOnews.com test.

However, the lack of support for WiFi6 is puzzling, and upgrading to WiFi6 won't cost much, will it?

Go back to the interaction section.

Nut N1S Pro 4K is equipped with this "Bonfire OS" system is very interesting.

According to official sources, the system, designed jointly by Apple Royal Design firm Frog, is built with a game engine and brings a new visual and interactive experience.

So, when you open the nut N1S Pro 4K, the first thing that appears in front of you is not the information waterfall stream style of traditional TV UI, but a new "borderless" interface.

As shown in the image above, "Bonfire OS" provides a natural dynamic desktop full of personalization and provides quick access to high frequency utility.

This set of dynamic desktops can also change according to time.

"Bonfire OS" also provides viewing space, music space, atmosphere space and rhythm space.

Take "Music Space" as an example, in this interface, Nuts N1S Pro 4K will present an immersive music experience-the system will show different background videos and special effects of lyrics according to the rhythm of the music, which is very interesting. And also connected to NetEase Yun Music, KuGou Music and other third-party platforms.

For example, under "Rhythm Space", Nut N1S Pro 4K will present a Zen interface and provide a series of Buddhist and Zen functions: awakening, hypnosis, nap, white noise, etc., as well as light and shadow pictures, music, alarm clock, message broadcasting and other integrated content services.

There is also the "atmosphere space" in the following picture, which supports one-click switching at the projection end and custom creation of nut-controlled App to create a variety of different wall atmosphere.

From the perspective of this new UI design, Nuts' intention is clear: they do not want users to buy back this tricolor laser 4K projector, but rather to use the "projection" function to integrate this product into users' digital lives and blend with home nature like a "digital bonfire".

In terms of functional experience, Nut N1S Pro 4K supports real-time ladder effect & focusing, brightness adaptation, wall color adaptation, smart anti-shooting eye, automatic obstacle avoidance / a pair of screens, picture memory and other functions.

For example, when a smart bulletproof eye detects a human body in front of the projector, the system will immediately turn off the projection and give a reminder. The speed of recognition and response is quite fast.

For example, with brightness adaptation, the nut N1S Pro 4K can follow the ambient light intelligently like a smartphone, eliminating the hassle of frequent manual brightness adjustments.

For example, the metope color adaptive function, even if projected onto the colored metope, nut N1S Pro 4K can also achieve more accurate color correction through the algorithm.

Written at the end: the release of Nutty N1S Pro 4K shows Nuts' confidence and determination in the popularity of "tricolor laser".

In the past, the price of tricolor laser projector was often over 10,000, but in recent years, with the release of excellent tricolor laser products such as nut N1S Pro 4K, the threshold for consumers is getting lower and lower.

As the technical route of high-end projection future, "tricolor laser" can be known, understood, tried and experienced by more and more consumers, which is obviously one of the goals that "tricolor laser" advocates want to achieve.

Going back to the product itself, compared with the same price product, the most obvious advantage of nut N1S Pro 4K is the high-quality color performance of high color gamut, high brightness and high contrast.

And compared with competitors of the same "tricolor laser" products, nut N1S Pro 4K also has the advantages of "head" and portable, adjustable angle and free hover, so that nuts N1S Pro 4K can be competent for what kind of environment, with the use, there will not be a past projector installed after the "dare not move" phenomenon.

Therefore, for those users with high picture quality, high brightness and high demand for the "ease of use" of the projector, as the first 4K tricolor laser head projection in the 6K price range, the nut N1S Pro 4K is the right choice.

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