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60-watt desktop speakers with super high
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fidelity you know you want to hear about
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these hi dave taylor here again and this
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time i want to talk about audio fidelity
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because i review a lot of audio gear a
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lot of bluetooth speakers and they're
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generally single unit stand-alone now
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they might say they're stereo but if you
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have a single sound source it's really
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mono so if you have something like an
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Amazon echo then you're really listening
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toast stereo music mono it might have
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multiple speakers but it's still from
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one place that's why I was really
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psyched when audio engine came out with
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these these are the audio engine HD 3
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and these are 60 watt desktop speakers
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with tons of capabilities and it's a
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pair of speakers now yes you actually
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wire between them but you know what I am
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perfectly willing to have some wire
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issues because the quality the output
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that you get is well worth it so I can
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talk more but let's go ahead and let me
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show you I have them hooked up to this
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little guy this is an Amazon dot the
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echo family I'm trying to avoid the
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other word you'll see why and I haven't
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hooked up to the speakers and then I
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have it hooked up via bluetooth to my
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phone so I can actually hook my phone up
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directly to the speaker's by a bluetooth
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with aptX but it doesn't give me voice
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control and that's kind of cool so let's
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start out Alexa what's the weather
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outside Boulder it's 41 degrees with
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mostly cloudy skies tonight you can look
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for cloudy skies with a low of 26
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degrees 26 degrees BRR but importantly
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what you caught here is that we're using
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this system through these really nice
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speakers so it sounds really good
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but let's go ahead and listen to some
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so very nice let's make a little louder
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so you can hear better
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so stereo speakers 60 watts lots of bass
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lots of sound really beautiful Alexa
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stop when it gets loud you have to sort
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of yell at the device for it to hear you
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which i think is kind of funny but the
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hd3 yes I can hook it up directly to an
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audio source you could hook it up to
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your TV and get way better sound just by
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doing that in fact you can hook up a
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subwoofer too so these really can be the
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basis of a nice home theater system but
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let me show you on the back and I'll cut
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away because this is a lot to look at is
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there's a lot of inputs there's a lot of
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different ways you can use these
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speakers there's USB which is your
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preferred connection for a desktop
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system or a laptop and the reason those
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are the best for that is because on a
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desktop system if you use USB you bypass
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the frankly crummy little amplifier
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that's built into the computer and use
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instead the high quality amplifier
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that's part of the HD 3 system in
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addition you can see there's a mini Jack
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that's how I have the echo hooked up and
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there's RCA output and input there's a
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this is a wireless antenna connector and
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you know there's all sorts of stuff but
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notice also there's a bass reduction
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switch and I think that's kind of cool
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it's like you can actually decide this
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is pushing out a little more bass than I
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like so you can fix that now back to the
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speaker if we pop the little front
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grille off you can see that on the
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bottom we have a 2.75 inch Kevlar woofer
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and the top is a 3/4 inch silk tweeter
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so those are actually pretty nice it's
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nice components this is walnut it also
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comes in what they call satin black or
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cherry which is obviously a redder
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finish these are very nice they even
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have on the bottom they have screw
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mounts if you want to put them on stands
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like a home theater or you want to
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figure out some way to suspend them
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from the ceiling or something works out
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it's super easy and it makes life so
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much easier if you want to actually
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mount them somewhere what else can I
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tell you it has a headphone jack on the
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front and if you plug in the headphones
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the speaker's don't work so that's a
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perfect thing to do at work right so at
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work when you're by yourself or you're
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in working in the evening you use the
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speakers but during the day when there's
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other people around maybe you plug in
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your headphones and you do it that way
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instead and both ways you're still going
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to enjoy the really nice quality audio
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amplifier that's built into the speaker
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so the only thing I need to tell you is
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the price tag these are audio file level
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gear so these the pair are 399 dollars
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now that includes free shipping and the
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company covers sales tax so that's your
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price out the door out the door see that
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sounds very retail that's your price out
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the door in any of the three colors that
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you like you can learn more about them
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at Audioengine usa.com and if you're
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intrigued by this little Amazon dot and
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I actually think these are awesome I
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have many of these sort of devices
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throughout the house I love being able
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to say stream my favorite radio channel
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and it just starts playing you can
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interact with it in terms of timers and
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cooking and homework assignments lots
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you can do with it it's just super fun
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and these are on sale $39 if you don't
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manage to pick them up on sale it's only
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$49 standalone unit you don't even need
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to plug it into speakers but of course
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it's the perfect companion for the audio
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engine HD 3 now since we've had all this
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discussion can I ask you to do me a
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favor and click on the subscribe link
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and subscribe to my channel you've done
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awesome thank you this is Dave Taylor
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and I'll catch you in my next video
