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a Bluetooth speaker that's not ugly
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out Dave Taylor here and this time I
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want to look at the Archer Wireless
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bamboo speaker that's this guy and as
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you can see it's a pretty decent size
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it's thick and most importantly it has a
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beautiful finish to it this is actually
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a bamboo surface that they've um put on
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it on the front and the back and then
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the parts that aren't bamboo are
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actually covered with a nice fabric so
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the whole thing has a really nice
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aesthetic but of course with any speaker
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what's really important is the sound so
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music and it's connected via Bluetooth
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off of my iPhone 7 so nothing special
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going on there and if you can he there's
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a lot of Base there's so much base that
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depending on what you like you might
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want to a lift it off of your playing
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surface perhaps or B you might actually
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want to change your EQ settings to have
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it be a little more mid-range and high
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let me pause that so in fact actually
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one of my criticisms and I know that my
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teen daughter wouldn't agree with me but
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one of my criticisms is is almost too
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much base there's so much down at the
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low end that you're not getting a lot of
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mid-range and high but again you can
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sort of fiddle with the equal
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Equalization settings on your device to
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get different sound music now it has two
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tweeters there are 5 watt tweeters and
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this woofer they call it a subwoofer I
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don't really think it's a subwoofer I
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think it's just a woofer has 15 watts so
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it's considered a 25 wat speaker and
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they have little passive radiator hole
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in the back so you're getting a little
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more base coming out of the system too
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why not um they refer to it as super
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base and I know that when I've read the
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comments online people love the base on
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this thing so it is rather startling how
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much it's pushing out it's running
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Bluetooth 4.0 and the batter is nice
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it's a 5200 milliamp battery which means
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that at 50% volume that gives you 11
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hours of play which if you do the math
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means that if you have it at maybe 20 or
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25% of its volume and this thing gets
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pretty darn loud then you probably got
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20 or more hours of play so that's
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really nice um the only issue I have
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with this other than the base is there's
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an issue of how you charge it because
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the speaker comes with a wire and the
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wire you plug into the back here's a
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closeup and you can see there's a micro
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USB so it comes with the micro USB wire
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but it doesn't come with a little wall
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charger so you end up using whatever
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wall charger you have which ends up
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being a problem because it's really
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rated they want you to use a 3.4 amp
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charger and most likely you have like a
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1 amp charger what's the difference the
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difference is it's going to take a lot
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longer to charge so if you can find a
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3.4 amp charger or even a 3 amp charger
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then you're going to have better results
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with this but it doesn't come in the Box
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FYI now um what I was can to tell you is
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I do like it I really like the aesthetic
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in particular and I really like the fact
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that this would fit in very attractively
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into an off setting or into a retail
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setting if you have a store and you want
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to have something nice sitting on top of
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a shelf it's a very attractive looking
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unit and the controls are very
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straightforward on the top you have
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power on and off pause play and then
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volume up and down and you got to be
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careful because if you push and hold
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either the plus or minus then it
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actually becomes next and previous track
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so it's sort of a overloaded buttons
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which you get the hang of it after a
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while and instead of holding it down to
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make it super loud you just tap it a
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bunch of times not a big deal first time
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you do that though you'll be like what
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whoa and hey speaking of what and wo can
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channel thank you awesome now the only
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other topic of discussion with this our
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cheer Wireless bamboo speaker is the
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price tag and it turns out that it is $
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6999 amazon.com which is a pretty darn
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good deal for something that has both
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has both really nice sound and the
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aesthetic that really the vast majority
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of bluetooth speakers are desperately
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lacking I mean so much of what's out
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there for Bluetooth is just ugly and
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this is really quite attractive and the
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fact that it comes with nice sound makes
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it a real win in my book now there is a
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funny thing when you go on Amazon I
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noticed it was shown as the number one
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best seller in its category then I
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looked a little more closely in the
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category is ceiling and in wall speakers
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now it might just be me but I don't see
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this as something I'm going to actually
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put in my ceiling or dig a hole for and
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have it in my wall so that might be a
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little miscategorization so don't be
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swayed by it being number one but
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nonetheless it's a pretty darn nice
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speaker so this is the Archer Wireless
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bamboo speaker I say check it out this
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is Dave Taylor and I'll catch you in my
