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Rock on with the ADAM Audio D3V Active Desktop Speakers
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May 29, 2025
Imagine having the best speakers in your house connected to your computer. The music, the streaming, the gaming, even video chats, would all sound fantastic. That's exactly what you get with the powerful ADAM Audio D3V Active Desktop Speakers with their powerful 80W output. Tech expert Dave Taylor walks you through all the key features, starting with a demo of just how loud they can be, even in a big space. But there's a quirk to the design too that you'll want to know about before you make a purchase decision, as he explains. Check it out at: https://amzn.to/41ao4oH Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #adamaudio #desktopspeakers #bookshelfspeakers #computerspeakers #d3vspeakers #askdavetaylor
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it's time to upgrade your computer audio
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let's check these speakers
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out Dave Taylor here and if you're like
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me you might have gotten used to audio
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coming out of small speakers or having
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to wear headphones or earbuds to enjoy
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any audio any music any game soundtrack
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any TV or streaming audio from your
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computer but it doesn't have to be so
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that's what I'm checking out today these
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are the atom audio
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d3v Active Desktop speakers and they are
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just ridiculous let me just start by
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playing some music and remember they're
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pointing away from me but we're going to
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play this and you're going to
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hear right and now let's turn up the
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volume a little bit
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they get really loud and they have
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beautiful
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sound I mean there's a lot of sound
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going on there let's just slow that down
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a little bit and I'm going to pause it
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because I want to be able to talk at the
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same time but these are Active Desktop
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speakers so this one is actually plugged
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into the wall and then there's a wire
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going from this to this one and so the
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idea is that this is the one you're
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going to use for all your controls and
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you can see on the picture on the back
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it has a bunch of switches and a bunch
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of inputs and stuff so it's a pretty
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complicated speaker obviously on the
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front it also has a little feedback
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light and it has a 3.5 mm Jack so if you
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want to plug in headphones or earbuds
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because it's 11:30 at night and these
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are a little loud for your neighbors and
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it has that volume and on the other
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speaker the right hand speaker there's
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really nothing so the intention of this
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is that everything you do you'll do on
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this speaker and it's a really logical
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design now each speaker features a 1.5
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in Dart ribbon Tweeter and a 3.5 in
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wooford so you're getting that high
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frequency and low frequency pretty darn
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low frequency and on the sides you can
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see that it has two 3.5 in passive
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radiators one on each side and the
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intention of those is that there's a lot
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of bass frequency inside the speaker and
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those help it sort of get out not just
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from the front but from the sides so it
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gives you a much bigger Sound Stage a
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much more enveloping sound which is
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really fun actually together we're
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looking at 80 watts of sound so back in
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the day when people had W Hi-Fi and they
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were worried about how many watts were
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your speakers and everything 80 Watts
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was a room filling volume and these
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definitely deliver the power switches
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there's a DSP involved a digital signal
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processor system that volume knob is
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your best friend because what I would
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highly recommend always is have your
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music Source at maybe middle volume and
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then let this do the work if you want to
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really Crank It Up super high the
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headphone socket I already talked about
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that the stands are really cool let me
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just show you so it comes with these
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little stands that give you that perfect
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15° angle
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but you don't have to do that you can
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just have them pointing straight at you
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I will tell you you're going to get
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better sound if you put the stands on
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it's super easy to work with but let me
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point out when you take the stand off
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you also have access to that 3/8 in
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microphone mount so if you want to put
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these on stands or something then that's
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the way to go you could also ostensibly
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hang them from the ceiling or something
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um but I guess you'd end up with the
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words upside down proba not a big deal
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and while we have this one take um sort
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of on display let me show you the back
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and
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so this let me pull the cable
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out so this is the cable that connects
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the two and this is sort of a classic
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four pin cable so there's you know good
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shielding there's not going to be any
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noise or anything and it's really easy
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to work with in terms of the length of
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the cable well this is about as long as
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it gets here so so if you want to have
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these speakers really far apart cuz you
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have an enormous desk then you might
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have to fiddle with this but really
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they're intended to be just like three
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or four maybe 5T apart so really easy to
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work with and while we're disassembling
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it so I'll pull this cable off we'll put
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it aside along with this
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speaker and then the USBC one of the
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things I really like about this is it
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has a USBC input so it comes with its
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own USBC to USBC cable but don't be
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surprised if when you pull it out of the
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box you're looking at USBC to usba
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because it's a very Sleek adapter so pop
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that usba end off and now you've got
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USBC to USBC which is perfect for my
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MacBook Pro because I'm on a Mac doesn't
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mean I don't want to have beautiful
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sound whether it's music whether it's
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the soundtrack to something I'm watching
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whether it's the soundtrack to something
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I'm playing so all of that really really
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nice so there's another wire here let me
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just put this one aside and then finally
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on the back of this one you can see the
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only wire we have
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left is power and so power is a fairly
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clumsy thing so you have that
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Transformer box and then it's two pieces
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and then the other piece
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just plugs into the wall so it gives you
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a good length to be able to plug this
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into the wall but these do require power
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so you are going to have to think about
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that but generally the way people have
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their computers set up or their computer
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space set up you're going to have power
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you probably have a power strip that has
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some sort of protection uh for over
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circuit or for surges or something and
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just plug these right into that and then
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plug it into your computer and you are
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absolutely rocking so
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lots and lots to like here now the
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biggest issue with these that is worth
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knowing especially if you want to have
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these plugged in and you leave your
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computer on all the time is that they
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have an auto time off so after 20
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minutes of no music they will
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automatically go into sleep mode and
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then when they first get a signal it
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will take a second or two for them to
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wake up and generate that sound so what
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this means is if you have your computer
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and it's all plugged in and everything's
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running but you're not actually running
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any software and you get a notification
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you might not get the sound of that
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notification cuz what'll happen is that
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Bing or whatever it is will wake up the
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speakers and then they'll wait for more
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audio that they can actually play then
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they won't get it then they'll go back
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to sleep and then the next time a
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notification comes 2 hours later you go
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through that same cycle now nothing's
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going to be wrong nothing nothing's
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broken but if you really want to have
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the audio on all the time then that is
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something to know about for me I don't
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care at all because when I'm using my
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computer and I want to listen to music I
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generally just have the music on the
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whole time I'm working and if I turn it
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off I'm probably not going to go 20
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minutes without some sound and you know
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these are pretty wild if you're on a
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zoom call or something and the people at
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the other end suddenly sound like
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they're really important because they
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have so much base so really pretty fun
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but I did want to let you know about
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that sleep timer issue which has caused
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some people a little bit of heartburn
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but overall I think these are fantastic
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speakers I think that the sound is just
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fantastic I mean it is blow you out of
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your room level sound and there's a lot
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of Base there's not a lot of mid-range
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but that's something you can adjust with
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the EQ in your software on your computer
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and I think I would probably fine-tune
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that a little bit particularly for
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louder volumes but that's all user
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adjustable and of course on the back of
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the leftand speaker let's look again at
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those switches cuz there's a couple of
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different ways that you can change
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settings to try to get exactly the kind
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of sound you like and that's great to
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have all those options and that's really
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adjusting the digital signal processor
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that's built into the speaker system so
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that's pretty much everything like I
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said it comes with that adapter for the
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USBC it has a quick start guide it has a
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a guide that explains all of the reasons
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you shouldn't listen to it so loud that
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your head will start to like vibrate
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generally a bad idea no big surprise and
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Adam audio if you haven't heard of them
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is a great German audio engineering
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company I don't know what it is about
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Germany but they sure have a lot of
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companies that do really great audio
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gear so that's everything I really like
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these these are going to end up on my
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desk so that I can enjoy the best
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possible sound whenever I'm using my
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computer I am going to ask you to
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earned it I hope I did great well these
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hold this one up these are the Adam
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audio d3v Active Desktop speakers they
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are 7.9 in by by 4.5 in by 99.5 in and
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they're 6 lb each they're pretty heavy
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cuz there's a lot of magnets going on
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here okay atom audio d3v Active Desktop
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speakers black or white
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299.99 at amazon.com a little bit on the
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spendy side but I'm telling you you'll
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never buy other speakers cuz these sound
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so good and I don't care if you're
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working in the closet or you're working
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in a really big space and you want to
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fill it up with music these are going to
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cover all your needs highly impressed
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that's what I got hope to catch you in
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my next video
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