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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I want to talk about audio specifically
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I want to talk about audiophile quality
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sound because we miss a lot of the audio
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quality on the stuff we listen to
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nowadays and we don't really realize it
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and that's where this fabulous little
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gadget this is the audio engine d3 and
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this is what's called a portable dak dak
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is digital to analog converter and it's
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basically a little tiny amplifier so let
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me pop it out of its packaging and props
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to these guys for some very nice
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packaging they've did a nice job with
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their box you can see it is basically I
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mean I can get it out this little device
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so it's pretty darn small here's a
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close-up so you can see what it is and
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it comes with a little carrying pouch
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and a little adapter if you have the old
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classic big Jack headphones and
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basically the idea is that I can take
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headphones like these beautiful Bay or
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dynamics and plug them into my computer
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and they're gonna sound good and the
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whole thing's gonna work pretty well but
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the fact is is that there's a level of
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fidelity that's missing so instead of
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plugging the headphones into the audio
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jack the idea is that you plug this d3
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into a USB port and then you plug the
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headphones into that and now when I
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listen and I'm not going to do this
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because I will totally zone out and you
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will lose me especially with these
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beautiful bayar dynamics but the idea is
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that when I'm now listening to any audio
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source whether it be a streaming movie
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off of Netflix or whether it might be
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something out of my iTunes library or
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Spotify Pandora whatever what this
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little gadgets doing is it's like magic
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it's taking the music and it's making it
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bigger richer fuller and stronger so
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what it's doing is it's actually
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processing digital audio up to 24 bits
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that up to 96 kilohertz if you know the
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and that means that there's a lot of
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headroom this gives you a lot of
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fidelity and it's kind of hard to
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describe what it does but if you imagine
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that you have a stereo and you hook up
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an amplifier and so suddenly instead of
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your volume being maybe this much you
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can now get way super loud that's what
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this does but it doesn't just make your
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music louder it just makes it richer and
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fuller now there's no magic it can't
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find information that's not originally
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in the music but it really compensates
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for the fact that with modern computers
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especially they don't have a vast amount
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of circuitry dedicated to audio playback
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so I really like this I've had audio
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engine Dax for a long time and I really
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never listen to my computer music or I
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listen to never listen to music off my
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computer there's the phrase without
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using this along the way because it
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really makes that much difference and
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what I would recommend if you have a
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friend who has one just try it literally
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30 seconds you know be like oh my god I
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had no idea I was missing so much and I
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promise you this can make even the
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cheapest little earbuds sound way better
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and if you're into high-end audiophile
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gear like these bayar dynamics then this
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is gonna go from being an a to an
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a-plus-plus and just blow you away I
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mean if I put this on like I said I will
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tune out and you will watch me just
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blissfully close my eyes and listen to
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music it's that good so here's the nice
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thing it's also just 149 bucks you can
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go to amazon.com or you can learn more
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at the audio engine web site now hold on
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cuz I'm not quite done because you see
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down there that little red you little
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red square that's the subscribe button
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so here's what I'm asking you to do is
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I'm asking you to subscribe to my
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youtube channel because that would be
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great and then you'll catch all my other
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reviews now back to this audio engine d3
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portable digital to analog converter
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available at amazon.com for 149 bucks
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and you owe it to yourself if you're
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listening to music all the time you owe
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yourself to pick up one of these because
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it will make a huge difference this is
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Dave Taylor thanks for subscribing I
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can't I see you click on it thank you
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and I'll catch you in my next video
