Hey, it's Alex here from AlexFegus.com. Now if you're looking at getting a Sunstream Evolve Inferred Sauna and you're tossing up between the two-man Evolve 20 which I've reviewed here on my channel before or the smaller lower priced Evolve Mini which is the one-man Sauna which I have here on my left then this video is going to help you make an informed decision and find the right Sauna for your needs. So be sure to stick around we're going to compare these two Saunas over a bunch of metrics however if you're short on time and you just want to cut straight to the chase then here's my takeaway on after using these Saunas for a couple weeks now pretty much it comes down to two things budget and space if you have the space and you have the budget go with the slightly more expensive slightly larger two-man Evolve 20 if you're tied on budget and or tied on space then the Evolve Mini is your most suitable option both of these Saunas are great Saunas well-built awesome materials low emf super healthy no toxins you know nothing nothing damaging you're not exposing your body to any harmful radiation or toxins which is great so pretty much just comes down to what you can afford and how much space you have in your home. First things first let's look at size now here I've got the Evolve 20 the Evolve 20 is a two-man Sauna it's designed for two people however you can use it on your own of course and this is what I have been doing for the last six months or so as this has been my go-to Sauna the extra space does make things a little bit more comfortable in there I'm gonna go jump in there and you can see me sit inside it you have much more leg room you can move and slightly recline there's plenty of space for books iPad laptop accessories that you may use I'm 6'10 I can just stand up I'm in my head ever so slightly there's a nice big spacious door to get in like I said plenty of room to move around it comes with two backrests I often set them on the corner so you can sit in here and put your feet up using the movable L bench which I have here so if you're using the sauna on your own it is quite a spacious sauna but it's not overly big it's not I have had a three-man sauna in the past downside with the three-man sauna is it takes a while to heat up which is something you're gonna look at later in this video series and compare the two of them on time to heat up it uses a lot more power the bigger you go more expensive to run and of course you need more space yeah that's the ball 20 like I said a good size for single for people who want to use it on their own but occasionally like to use it for someone with someone else if you're planning on using the sauna with two people all the time you may even want to look at the larger you know three-man evolve range but I'm gonna go and talk about that here today let's go have a look at the evolve mini and how that compares all right so next to me right now I have the evolve mini now this is the smallest sauna in the Sunstream range it may even be the smallest sauna and fridge sauna that you can get that isn't the the dome lie down on the ground once that I personally don't find too appealing to use you know as you can see quite a small door here it isn't even as high as the evolve 20 so I can't stand up so I'm gonna stand right next to it here and I'm out of shot but I'm slightly taller than it so you can't stand up in this one you can in the evolve mini sorry in the evolve 20 which I was just previously in one thing I should mention if you are considering either of these corners I have done comprehensive reviews on my blog and YouTube channel on both the evolve 20 and the evolve mini this video I just want to make more of a comparison comparing the key features so if you are looking at one of these saunas go check those are video reviews out later on as well all right let's go have a look inside so as you can see it was quite a tight fit getting in it's got a narrow door every time I get in and it is a little bit a bit of a squish but you manage one thing I will mention though when you're getting out and the sauna is you know 65 degrees I'm always a little bit nervous that I'm gonna touch the panels here and then myself of course we do have the protection wooden slats which come off the panels which allow you to clean the panels and in fact allow you to have more surface area exposure that feature is also on the evolve 20 but you can't stand up I am hitting my head there with my knees still bent there is not much room to move around in if I want to bring a book in I've got to sit it on my lap or push it off to the side there's no room to place a laptop or anything you could sit an iPad I guess on the wall it does come with the back wrist if I have a choice in terms of space the evolve 20 is always a nice one to sit in because like I said you can bring books laptops phone you've got space you can't put your feet up you can't put your feet up in here I've tried squishing in and putting my knees up on the bench it is quite a tight fit and you know it wasn't very comfortable my wife did it for a little bit longer and she didn't mind it she's a lot smaller than I but again if you want that leg room the evolve 20 or something bigger is going to be your your go-to sauna all right now we're in the sauna I'm gonna again I'm gonna focus more on the differences between the sauna and the evolve 20 I don't want to look at the features because I've done that in the dedicated review so check that out first and then come back and watch this review series now both of these saunas use 360 degree heater panels though technically you're missing out on a little bit of sauna but infrared coverage on your left leg here as there are no there is no panel on the door if you look up top you can hopefully see there are panels under my feet panels on the side panels behind me panels on my knees that was a good shot on my back but yeah nothing on this paint paint here of glass if we look over to the evolve 20 you can see that there are panels all around and that greenish color on the door there is also another panel so you are getting a little bit more coverage you've got side panels going right off to the side of the wall there as well so you are getting a little bit more coverage in the evolve 20 than you are in the evolve many not a huge amount but you know again this is a comparison video so I want to point everything out I'm what else in here you have the control panel which looks just the same as the evolve 20 one difference that we have in here with two speakers however these are just generic brands branded speakers they aren't as good as the evolve 20 the evolve 20 has Kenwood speakers with Bluetooth functionality this also has Bluetooth functionality but if you really like your music or you're gonna be doing a lot of listening to movies or something the evolve 20 does have a slightly better speaker setup you also notice up the roof here once I turn that light off you have the speakers in the event and one central light now if you look over to the evolve 20 you have the speakers in the event one two lights and then also that big square or rectangle light in the middle which is your chroma therapy light I don't have the remote with me in here but what that does is it allows you to change colors from red to greens to blues yellows and benefit from chroma therapy this isn't they aren't high-powered lights you know you're not gonna get red light therapy benefits voted by modulation benefits that you would from you know platinum biomex light but it is it is nice for mood lighting you know for atmosphere you know I typically have it on an orange or a reddish kind of issue turn the brightness down if I'm using that in the evening daytime I might just have it on on white or yellow for more brightness if I'm reading a book in here of course you're not getting the L bench foot bit foot rest bench there's simply no space for it I'm sure you could purchase it if you wanted to and squish it in there but hey there's not really much since you are getting the cedar backrest which is handy I think that's really it but yeah the main thing is size it's not so small that my shoulders are hitting the panels the walls I mean it's actually quite a cool sauna I have done a lot of sessions in here and sometimes I will jump in here instead of the evolve 20 when both I have either option why is that because this heats up so much faster and that's we're gonna look at next in this video series but both saunas are very intense there's no issues there in terms of you know you're not sitting in there thinking it's not hot enough or I'm not sweet enough not an issue at all however the smaller sauna this evolve mini does heat up a little bit faster from a wattage point of view the evolve 20 does have a higher wattage drawer it's got more bigger panels and you know there's more power going to those panels however because this is such a small space this heats up a lot faster and one other thing I mentioned both of the saunas have the intensity button so you can change the intensity from 50% 75% or 100% alright let's just go talk about power so when we're looking at power the evolve mini draws 1390 watts the larger evolve 20 the two man sauna here draws 2060 watts obviously it's a lot lot more power however I'm it is a bigger sauna and it has a larger space to heat up if you are conscious about you know maybe electricity costs are really high or you're on an off-grid system you know then obviously a smaller sauna is going to be more beneficial here but interesting thing to note though is Sunstream have done a power concentration calculation now that looks at the power per area inside the sauna the Sun evolved many calculation comes out to be 41.4 watts per cubic foot the evolve 20 is 34.8 watts per cubic foot so what that means is the power is concentrated in a much smaller area in this one what I'm gonna look at next is I'm gonna look at the time to heat up because you know if you have used a sauna before you know someone that uses infrared saunas it's not just a matter of turn them on and jump in and you need a bit of lead time for the sauna to heat up of course you can jump in but you're gonna be sitting there for 15 20 minutes as the sauna heats up so that can be a bit of an issue you know if you're if you're in the evening time you've had dinner and dinner and you think I'll be nice to have a sauna but then you got to account for that 20-30 minutes for it to heat up and then you forget about it and then all of a sudden the night's over and you're like well that was a waste so from my own experience this evolved many heats up a lot faster than the evolve 20 but I'm gonna quantify it exactly now and we're gonna see what the temperature is after 10 15 minutes of running these saunas and just see how it goes and what else we're gonna look at we're also going to look at the accessories included in the saunas materials used and finally price all right I'm gonna do a time to heat up test so we're gonna start with the evolve 20 here I'm gonna set that on 100% power 60 minutes and set the temperature right up at the moment it is at 23 degrees so we're gonna come back in 10 15 minutes and see what the temperature is inside all right it's just ticked on to 49 so we're just over 10 minutes in 10 minutes and it was at 35 degrees so it's gone up 13 degrees we'll do another 10 minutes alright so 20 minutes is up and we're at 43 degrees I just saw it flick up to 44 it's 43 44 degrees after 20 minutes all right I've given the room an hour to cool down and now we're gonna do the same test with the evolve many here all right so let's set to 100% intensity and the starting temperature is 23 degrees so slightly higher than the evolve 20 was all right so we'll check back in 10 minutes and then 20 minutes all right 20 minutes is up and as you can see there we're at 57 degrees so there we go that is a pretty epic performance we started at 20 degrees in the volt mini after 10 minutes we're at 43 degrees which is the same temperature that evolved 20 was that after 20 minutes so um yeah like I said this thing is hot and it's intense and it heats up very very fast after 20 minutes you're at 57 degrees so it's what I was saying earlier like this the evolve mini is a great sauna if you are someone who is quite time-poor and you know it's often your sauna sessions the last minute like hey we're jumping in the sauna now versus someone who you know always has it is a certain time of the day like maybe you like having your son is that when you get up in the morning you get up and you do some stretching and then prepare I don't know your lunch or your breakfast and then you do your sauna session you know that's fine you can the evolve 20 would be great because you turn it on as soon as you get up in 20 30 minutes later it's ready but for me a lot of the times my sessions because I work from home and have a farm to look after and a company and a little boy and also it's going on a lot of times my sessions are very last minute like hey I've got 45 minutes up my sleeve I'm going to do a sauna session which is why that rapid heat up time is very very cool with the evolve mini and it's why I have been using this a lot of the times instead of the evolve 20 now if you've watched my review videos on this one is before you will know that these saunas are what I regard to be the healthiest saunas on the market toxins from a toxicity point of view they all use all that all free of plywood there's no plywood or anything like that particle board in these saunas it is all 100% quality natural timber and the glue used is FDA approved food safe glue there is a slight difference with timbers though so the evolve 20 that I have here is made from basswood it is a slightly more premium timber slightly lighter in color the lighting isn't great in here it's making this look a lot lighter than you know the sauna in the corner there but it is a little bit more whiter or yellowish compared to the evolve mini which is a hemlock now hemlock even though the basswood is more expensive timber hemlock is probably the most commonly used timber in saunas so it's just as just just as suitable a really good timber slight color difference like I said what about price now of course the one-man sauna is going to be cheaper than the two man sauna but there is quite a big difference the evolve mini here two thousand one hundred ninety five US dollars the evolve twenty three thousand eight hundred ninety five dollars now those are current specials I'll put a link to the website below Sunstream Saunas.com be sure to mention my name Alex Fergus you do get a special deal and you will be looked after I do get a slight kickback from that however that does allow me to continue to do these videos and compare products like this but those prices are you know they are very good prices in fact you compare them to some other brands that I've used and they are you know very very competitive so that is a seventeen hundred dollar price difference between the evolve mini and the evolve 20 and this is why the start of the video I said it really does come down to two factors space and budget what I should mention as well those prices I quoted before that are current special I don't know if they are going to stay at that that price so please don't quote me on those numbers and also they don't include taxes and shipping Sunstream ship to North America and also Australia and New Zealand there's a distributor in Australia New Zealand of course you'll be paying local prices which I don't have with me at the moment but you can I'll put a link to the Australian New Zealand site below this is what I think I have to write this down because there are quite a few points I would like to make it first things two men versus one man if you want a two-man sauna if you know you're going to be doing a your son decisions with someone else and or you like your son decision to be a social occasion then it's a no-brainer the volt 20 I mean you're not going to put two people in the volt mini even the slightly larger evolved in it's a one-man sauna so that's the three things to look at to consider our budget space and time all right so like I said if you if you want a two-man sauna give a two-man sauna budget if you can afford a two-man sauna I think you should go with the volt 20 yes it is about 17-18 hundred dollars more but if you're using it on a frequent basis you know you're gonna get your money's worth plus it's a much bigger nicer sauna to be in you can stretch out you can put your feet up you can put books down there laptop and if on the other occasion someone wants to jump in hey you can do that the other thing is space if you have the space again the volt 20 it's it's the obvious option I've got a 3-4 bedroom at home here we've got a sphere room where I can set these up you know I got two spawners right I can do that the third thing I want to talk about though is time now if you're a very busy very rushed someone who doesn't really have a lot of structure in their day-to-day life and and you know you'd like to get a few sauna sessions in but the thought of having to have it warm up for 20 30 minutes before you can get in it it's just going to be a deal breaker then you really have to look at some of the smallest smallest one of the Volvo mini and it's something that I have found myself I am actually doing more sauna sessions now that I have the Volvo mini in my home then I was doing with the Volvo 20 and that is because after 10 minutes we're at 43 degrees whereas 10 minutes of this heading up we're only at 35 these are um Celsius degrees so 43 you can get in there you're gonna start sweating straight away 35 it's warm but you still got to wait that are the 10 minutes to get up to the 43 in 20 minutes we're at 56 57 degrees in here like that that's hot you know you're getting that in straight away it's like cool game on so I found knowing that about this sauna there's been numerous times lately where I'm like I'm gonna quickly squeeze in a quick sauna session even if it's only 20 minutes I mean 10 15 minutes to heat up 20 minutes in this sauna 5 10 minutes to cool down or like to have a shower afterwards the whole thing's done in 40 minutes right from from the moment where you think I'm gonna have a sauna to your head of shower and you're relaxing we're going to bed 45 minutes with this one you really need that whole hour 20 minutes to get up to the hot enough temperature 43 degrees and even then it's not ideal you really want half an hour to get it up to temperature you know 20 30 minutes in the sauna you 5 10 minutes to clean up you know you've got over an hour and that's from the moment where you decide I want to have a sauna to the to the cleanup you're all done so it's something to factor in the equation when you're making decision yet now it would be really cool to test the volt 10 and see how that compares from a heat up time point of view because if that was as quick as this and your budget could stretch then you may say well that's a better option because you get a bit more space and a bit more of a nicer build if your budget can't stretch if your budget sits around that 2000-2500 dollar mark then evolve many because otherwise you're spending three in a bit for the ball 20 if you're tight on space maybe you live in an apartment or maybe you've only got a little house with one spear room and that's a guest room and there's already lots of stuff in it or maybe you're in a two-story place and you've got a perfect little nook under a steel well or a large cabinet even wardrobe this will fit in all sorts of spaces and you can see in some of the photos here where people have put the evolve many into their homes like it is very small it's very small footprint you compare that to the evolve 20 you know you're taking up a lot more space there so if space is an issue um again then evolve many and you're making this obvious choice and then finally if you know you're someone who when you want to do a sauna it will be a spirit in the moment hell it's still a sauna session you may seriously have to rethink the evolve many over the ball 20 just because you can get it up to speed so much faster I know I repeat myself here but these are the things you need a way out for me in my situation which one would I choose like if I had to get rid of one I don't know I really don't know because it is nice of being in the evolve 20 I can't put my feet up I can have my magazines and newspapers in there but then this hits up so quick and it's um that's a nice to have as well and I know I do more sauna sessions with this in the house than I was doing with that so I don't know maybe I'll just keep both you know when I went on to do a quick sauna session go to this one when I'm a bit more organized go to that one and there's lots more information and some really neat pictures over at Sunstream Saunas dot com as well put a link below check out those photos because you can see you know different angles and I've taken photos with some of the wolves off so you can see how it would look you know with one person or two people in there how they recommend checking them out of course speak to Kevin or Mark directly at Sunstream and they can help you with your needs your budget your space so get on the phone or send them an email be sure to mention that you have watched this video so then that will give them a bit of an understanding of where you're at and what you've seen and be sure to check out the other videos on my channel because I have a dedicated review of the Sunstream evolve 20 and I've also got a dedicated review of the Sunstream evolve many so you may want to watch them as well to help make a more informed decision I've also got videos where I just the MF levels have infrared sauna by a guy video and also some other videos so check them out hit subscribe leave any questions or comments below and I hope I even bought you today there's a lot I wanted to cover here and I'm gonna sign out and I'm gonna jump in one of these Saunas since that's so hot and do a quick session myself alright guys bye