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hey team today we are reviewing the audio engine d2 wireless deck and streamer device as you can see from the picture here it has sending unit and a receiving unit here so you can wet it wirelessly streams high-definition music and audio files from the convenience of your computer through a USB port or speed if optical so we're gonna do a quick unboxing here and we'll get right to it it comes in two super boxes as you can see the first of which has the sending units this is it here some literature external power supply standard cord there's a bag here fits the unit not too bad and then it kind of does come with a pair of RCA cables sending unit as you can see here it has a power pairing button in case you guys get disconnected it also has a volume knob and an optical this is an optical input actually in case you wanted to send something digitally and a USB import input excuse me that also powers the unit which is very handy but in case you want to use the speed if you could part from a separate wall wart right here as well so in actuality this thing does have a couple of different functionalities to it aside from just streaming as you can see here it does do speed if USB to speed if conversion but also will you know just send this regular speed if and then be a regular deck as well volume knob pretty heady not too big as you can see it's a good size like the size of a sandwich basically a nice metal sandwich the second box here contains the sending unit in this box we have wonderful christmastime another power supply here another bag think this is the USB cable it comes with give you a better shot of that it's again same size as the other other unit basically here's the optical output and then the analog and same power power supply and the pairing button when I set this thing up it was very very easy no additional kind of software of course was didn't really have to put any extra software and you didn't have to really do anything it didn't not even have to hit this pairing button to get it started if I plugged it in and that thing was ready to go so that was really cool I am did find that call it be pretty good I mean I I compared it directly today I don't walk outs of all my squeeze box which is you know a very comparable product in the way of streaming and but that one does require additional software load on your computer since this one goes straight into the USB port it's pretty convenient and runs just you know simply all all in any of the applications I shouldn't on your computer that you could want so that's pretty awesome I think it's really versatile in that way more so than the squeeze boxes as far as the qualities and certain I did feel at this this particular unit had an upper hand to the squeeze box quality through the analog outputs so a big plus for that if you were looking for something for this type of solution where your wireless streaming is an issue and that's what you want to do you know I highly suggest you guys kind of check it out because it's pretty versatile it has you know the quality is definitely there I didn't notice like a pretty good clarity difference between the squeeze box and of course the clarity kind of lends itself more to the realistic sense the vocal presence was much more realistically represented I feel like and you know adds well three-dimensionally quality to the music when the resolution is there you know it's like see I've seen through a window and then you like wipe it off and it's clearer and you'd even know that you know it wasn't as good as before but now that you see things much clearer it's kind of that same thing clearing off the window but you know with an audible kind of response so that being said this is a pretty great product I really enjoyed it I think the quality is there for an audiophile level transfer a does retail for around $600 so it is more than the Squeezebox costs out of the box but you know I'm seeing more and more mods available for the Squeezebox to kind of up the outside output quality so I do think that a lot of people are kind of get its feeling the same way about the squeeze box without the output for the analogs could just be you know a tick better than it is and this definitely already has that out of the box so that's a great plus to this thing like I said plug and play go this thing fires up so easily handles everything on your computer so if you wanted to Pandora or even like higher end streaming services and of course this thing goes up to 24-bit 96 doesn't that go to the full but it does do it definitely does the high res stuff so anything you download from HD tracks or any of that good stuff that you rip yourself or should work up to 96 across the USB port and the speed up here so it's it's a pretty cool device I'd recommend checking out if this is something this is like one of the few solutions available for high res high quality kind of transfer that way so I mean before you obviously get into the price points where it's just cos astronomical I think that this is like a good middle ground if you're looking for a high quality device that you know fits your bill with the limited choices you kind of so if you guys get a chance we're gonna have a lot more products coming down the pipeline so feel free to subscribe to the audio head Channel and you can also check out the full review at audio - head comm and if you have a question feel free leave in the comment section the video thanks a lot guys until next time