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Mitchell Acoustics uStream One Wireless Stereo Speakers -- REVIEW
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Jun 22, 2024
Tired of pretending your budget speakers are doing a good job of reproducing your favorite music? Then you'll love the Mitchell Acoustics uStream ONE wireless stereo speakers. With no wires needed to connect the bookshelf-size speakers, the system offers lots of input options, most notably including Bluetooth, and pushes out a terrific sound at a room-blasting 100W. Tech expert and audio enthusiast Dave Taylor auditions them and talks about the good and the quirks both. Update! A clarification from Mitchell Acoustics clears up the left/right confusion: The first speaker you power on BECOMES the left channel once they pair wirelessly. FYI. Check it out at: https://amzn.to/3WDikQf Then visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #mitchellacoustics #ustreamone #speaker #audio #auidiophile #bookshelfspeaker #ustream #askdavetaylor
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Great sounding speakers that pair wirelessly. Let's check them out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out these. These are the Mitchell Acoustics U-Stream 1
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wireless stereo speakers and there are no wires connecting the two. They pair with each other via
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Bluetooth just like true wireless stereo earbuds but these are not little tiny earbuds. These are
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big room filling speakers with a lot going on. They feature a 106 millimeter woofer which gives
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you 35 watts and a 38 millimeter tweeter 15 watts. Total power across these two amplified speakers
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is 100 watts. That is enough to fill a really big room or to enjoy your music from a different room
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entirely. Very nice. So 20 to 20,000 hertz frequency response, total harmonic distortion of 0.5 percent
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and a signal to noise ratio of greater than 70 decibels. They have a really nice sound. It's a
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big sound and inside of them is the other piece that's powering this is a 20 ounce voice coil made
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of neodymium magnets. So there's a lot going on here. Now there are controls on the top. You can
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see a close-up here of the different buttons but there's also a lot going on on the back. So let me
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show you the back of one and explain. You have inputs. You have optical. You have AUX. You have USB
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You have RCA but of course you also have Bluetooth 5.0 so you can just use this wirelessly. So
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pair these with your phone for example and you're ready to rock and roll. Not only that but it comes
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with the remote control which looks suspiciously like one of the Apple TV remotes but it is plenty
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enough for you to go next and previous track, pause and play, volume up and down and change which input
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mode it's using. If you maybe have a turntable plugged into the USB or the RCA plugs and you want
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to use Bluetooth you can switch between them from that remote. Super easy. Now let's see what else
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can I tell you that they have. Let's see. Really that's kind of everything. It's really all about
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the sound. So let's just switch to the sound. Now realize the speakers are facing the camera not
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facing my microphone but let's hear what they sound like and I've just paired this with my
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Apple iPhone so I'm going to turn the volume up a little bit. And there's a lot of sound going on here. This is
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filling up this room. I have a dog sleeping just down here and I know that he's like
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what the heck's all that noise. But let's wait till we get to some bass. In fact let's just move forward a bit
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And I hope you can hear it is a big room filling sound with a lot of dynamic range and it can get even louder. That's only 50 percent volume. They get really loud and they're really fun and part of that is because they're basically wireless other than a power cord and I'm going to unplug one so it has this and then there's the big fairly big transformer and it's going to
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complain a little bit because I unplugged one of the speakers but it'll connect itself afterwards and
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then you plug each speaker into 110 volt up to 220 volt and it turns out that it comes with a variety
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of wires. So the one I'm using is one that plugs into a US 110 volt so it's two vertically oriented
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prongs but it also has this as an option and then there's an adapter to give you this as an option
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so you can plug one of these into let's see how does that work like that and so now I could even
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plug it into one of these European outlets. So there's a lot of flexibility and part of that is
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because Mitchell Acoustics is Paul Mitchell and it is actually an acoustic and audio engineer out
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of the UK. So very smartly he's made sure that it is compatible with all the different options. So
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now I powered this on and it should automatically pair with the other speaker we'll find out
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but while that's happening it comes with this extraordinarily good user guide
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There we go speaker two connected so it did the right thing it's a bunch of different languages
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but I gotta just compliment them it's so nice to have a manual that is not three inches by three
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inches but is full size and easy to read and understand. Now the remote control does require
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a little bit of fiddling when you first get the unit there's this sort of mechanism on the bottom
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you have to pull out the battery and then flip it over so the battery is included but it's not
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inserted in a way that will make the remote control work but that's cool it's easily done
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Now the bigger issue I had with this is it says start by plugging in the left speaker and then
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turn on the right speaker after a couple of seconds and for the life of me I can't figure
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out which speaker is which. So I just turned one on and then turned the other on and then waited
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for it to pair the two and as you heard it works perfectly fine. If you see multiple sources of
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bluetooth multiple ustream ones then you need to go back turn them both off turn one on give it a
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couple of seconds and then turn the other one off or turn the other one on I mean and then they'll
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pair automatically and it's just so nice you have one bluetooth source and you have these speakers
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that you can separate as far as you want you can put them on opposite corners of your living room
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or you could use them with that optical connection and either one you can use this optical so it's
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very convenient you could use that with your television this would be a wicked interesting
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sound bar but you might have to tune your tv settings to get it just so but tell you there's
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a big lot of sound here now dimensions wise they are pretty substantial speakers they are 5.9 inches
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by 9 inches by 9.3 inches and they're 7 pounds each so they are fairly heavy now they do support
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you can put them on a stand which is probably a really good way to do it putting it on a surface
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like a table is going to muddy the bass a little bit but that reminds me we need to talk about the
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sound and I love these things um they just have a big sound there's a nice crispness to them but
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mostly it's like this huge sound stage and because they can get so loud with so little distortion at
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the higher volumes it's really fun to just jam your favorite music and I've been listening to
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all sorts of stuff from Bruce Springsteen to I don't know Supertramp and stuff and all of it just
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sounds just fantastic these are really fun speakers and my son has already called dibs on
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them so we might have to arm wrestle for that one might not be a good strategy for my actually
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winning that arm wrestling but that's another story suffice to say these are really sweet now
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they come with a premium price tag but these are the kind of speakers you're going to hook up
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you're going to plug in you're going to like position them in your room and you're just going
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to enjoy the heck out of them for years to come so much to like here I wish I could figure out the
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left and right still haven't quite figured that piece out but it doesn't really matter because
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once you get it plugged in you could also use like your music source and you can just slide it all
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the way to the left on your balance and you can say okay well that's the left speaker and then
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you know so I might even probably put like a little sticker on the back of one that just says left or
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something like that not sure why they didn't do that but really if that's the only criticism of
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these speakers that's pretty sweet now as with most audio equipment when you first pull it out
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of the box they need a little break in time so I would say give it a couple of weeks of listening
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to music before you really you know critically listen to the sound reproduction and you'll find
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that it's become a little warmer a little sweeter and a little more accurate in terms of its high
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low balance so so much to like here really a fan of these sorry if you think that reviews always
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have to be mostly critical there's just not much to complain about I mean they're expensive but
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they sound fantastic and they have such great functionality so we do need to talk about the
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price but before we get to the price I'm going to ask if you you could subscribe to my channel
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and if you found this to be useful and gave you some great information about these speakers
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a like or a thumbs up is always appreciated cool these including the remote control are the Mitchell
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Acoustics Ustream 1 wireless stereo speakers and they are $499 at amazon.com that sounds a little
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spendy compared to all the very very inexpensive alternatives there but what you need to ask
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yourself is do you want really really nice audio reproduction or are you just looking for noise
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so if you're looking for an audiophile level experience these are definitely speakers worth
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checking out and they're so flexible they really make others look like they're really kind of
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clumsy to work with that's all I got I'm going to go back to my music so I'll catch you hang on
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it's so loud so I'll catch you in my next video