Gadgetory

Sam McKinney I am the chief commercial officer Crackerbox audio and welcome to the echo box CES experience at CES 2017 we've got a lot of cool stuff for you guys at CES this year it's a really really interesting time for us we're launching a brand new line of products including two new earphones the traveler and the nomad up until now I'm sure you guys are who are familiar with our company have seen this earphone right here it is the finder x1 made waves with this thing over the last year as a solid titanium earphone using a peak dynamic driver diaphragm on the inside it is nine point two millimeter peak which is Paul yet they're out there ketone the cool thing about peak material it is at a high tensile polymer it is very very very strong but you can also cut it very thin now that works for us and an earphone is obviously we can make a super thin diaphragm you can pump an enormous amount of energy into and it's not going to distort it's not going to blow and it's gonna reveal an enormous amount of detail and dynamic range and a very very broad spectrum of frequency response this earphone the traveler and the nomad all have the exact same frequency response range 15 Hertz to 40 which is absolutely spectacular fully high-res certified if you've heard them you don't really need the certifications to get the high res aspect of it you'll get it just by listening they are spectacular so anyways I want to talk about the new products here so let's start with the traveler the traveler is is designed very specifically to be an introductory audiophile earphone for those people that are a little bit more unfamiliar with the world of eye-fi audio and don't want to really make it very large price plunge to be able to get into it these are priced affordably at $99 full MSRP they come in three different colors available right now is Blu rose and the signature echo box orange right here there are solid titanium housings they use a tin plated copper cable and a gold connector for ultimate transduction and noise cable lish miss IVA know the word but just they sound really good there's a lot of very high quality components that go into this they come in two different available models both with microphones one of them is Android certified the other is iPhone certified so no matter your device you can find the right one for your taste each one of them features comply to 400 memory foam ear tips thermal dynamic thermal reactive memory foam ear tips by comply which actually go into your body if you're unfamiliar with them they go into your ear canal and work with your body heat to contour to the inside of your ear for a perfect fit they're spectacular they're very comfortable and for this new range of earphones we've also partnered with a really phenomenal company out of the UK called snugs snugs are right over here with their 3d scanning station you can see their scan ologists hard at work scanning the interior of people's ears with a really really crazy new scanning technology that they're pioneering with the help of a lot of very cool technological companies what it does is as a non-invasive scanning procedure that replaces the traditional injection molding experience that a lot of audio files are familiar with to be able to get custom earphones instead of getting this giant waxy substance shoved into your ear and filled it up and pulled out for a really uncomfortable suction cup kind of aspect this is a non-invasive technology they simply have a little scanning gun that uses light emission to capture the entire concave of your interior ear built a 3d profile for it which they then send back to their factory and 3d print a custom molded ear tip that is made to fit perfectly in your ear just as any custom monitor would and snap on to any up number of our line of three year funds so what it does in essence is it takes any of our ear phones that are universal in nature and turns them into a perfect custom ear very very cool so check out snugs if you go through their website I think it's snugs Kota UK slash echo box or something along that line they're actually doing a discounted offer for anybody who buys echo box ear phones to be able to upgrade to custom-fit from their Universal so check them out let's get into a little bit of what we're got going on here so the traveler $99 audiophile introductory year phone sounds amazing very simple very cool check it out Nomad on the other hand is our new powerhouse this is our new flagship product we've worked very hard on making it and we're very proud of the results that we've accomplished so I've actually got one around my neck here these are snugs that are on it you can kind of check it out how they look just turns it into a completely custom mold and they just snap off it's very easy it's really cool so as you probably knew with the finder the Nomad also features our signature after system after system is acoustic filter tuning the way that it works is you unscrew the little nozzle on the end of your earphone and you screw a new one back on and just by changing the filter it completely changes the dynamic response of the earphone itself the sound profile will just be adjusted the way that it works is through passive noise filtration it's a pretty simple concept to be honest you have certain densities of material made in different types of material that allow certain types of frequencies to pass or be blocked so the silver one is going to allow more bass to come through and be the base filter the black one is going to be more of a reference audiophile sound more flat and the treble is going to be red and it's just whose treble to your heart's delight I would not recommend the treble for anybody that doesn't love treble or have some upper range hearing loss because it is very treble II ship standard with the bass on it I honestly prefer the bass over everything but to each their own and that's why we do it right the other cool thing about the Nomad is that it's an ergonomic design the way that this is done is to fit perfectly into the interior structure of your ear so that it doesn't have any type of address abrasive pressure you can see it when I put it on right here over your cable style and it just sits for the concave of your ear kind of like a kidney bean shape it's extremely comfortable and as you've probably noticed full range of motion on the actual cable and if I can get it off because I put lotion on my hands a little earlier there we go replaceable MMC X connector in life right now we have three cable options available for the Nomad we have a Apple certified microphone cable an Android certified microphone cable and a non microphone cable over the next three to six months we will be releasing a lightning cable a USBC cable and an apt X Bluetooth 4.0 cable which we are working with our in-house bluetooth engineer to develop our own proprietary protocol for to hopefully I say hopefully because we're not on 2% confirmed on this but I have tested it and so far is working well hopefully do a full 24 192 lossless transmission over bluetooth we'll see what happens but if we do wouldn't that be exciting be very exciting so right now it's at the very least Bluetooth 4.0 which sounds really great for Bluetooth I've actually been testing a prototype cable for the entire duration of the show the battery life on it's amazing the range is spectacular it's comfortable to wear and the sound quality is definitely up there there's definitely a difference between the standard cable and the bluetooth but from what I've noticed so far it's the most minut that I've ever experienced publish you of course being MMC X you can also buy any number of third-party MMC X cables that are currently available customized to your heart's delight so this is the Nomad it is available for 399 dollars and it will be launching in February the traveler will also be launching in February so stay tuned check out for updates on our Facebook our website social media all of that and you will see when these two earphones are coming out so if you familiar with our company at all I'm sure that you have heard the word explorer and the word delay associated in the same sentence a number of times well we are here to tell you today that the delay and the wait is over the Explorer is here and we are very very proud to announce the launch of it welcome to the Explorer high fidelity audio player it is a $600 player encased in solid hardwood it's absolutely beautiful it does not come with the name salmon and I promise you this just mine four different wood types there's zebra wood mahogany maple and ebony it runs a stock open-source Android 6.0 operating system completely customizable and very clean there's no bloatware on it they're only three programs that come pre-installed on this operating system APK Pierre is a third-party app store very much like the Google Play Store but not um however it works in an almost identical fashion it's extremely easy to use you get featured apps new year apps games on and so forth you can search them down though and just like you can on the Play Store and keep your apps updated see exactly the same functionality it's very smooth through that you can put as many apps as you want on the Explorer I've got on this one Netflix Facebook WeChat facebook Messenger you know play around with it it's it's fun the other two programs that it comes with our title and USB audio player pro title I'm sure you guys are all familiar with is a hi-fi music streaming service very much like Spotify but it streams in black it's unbelievable there's over 47 million songs in this library currently and they're adding more by the day you in search go through playlist sort by genre there's an entire music video library which is actually a very unique to title which is phenomenally fun to look through and plays in beautiful resolution on the 720p screen of the Explorer and my favorite functionality of title is the ability to save songs on offline content and take them with you wherever you go without the need for any type of internet connection so seamless functionality especially in offline mode you can save your music for on-the-go listening without Wi-Fi great for long distance travel I use it on you know 12 hour flights overseas it's got a four thousand milliamp hour battery on here so depending on what type of listening you're doing it'll get anywhere between 10 to 20 hours of music playback it's phenomenally long so title is really cool I highly encourage you guys to check it out you come with three months of free title hi-fi subscription when you purchase the Explorer and after the three months trial period is up you get a discount so instead of I think it's like twenty-seven dollars a month right now is what title is charging you get it for twenty bucks easy on your pocket really easy on your ears so we've also partnered up on the Explorer with a company called USB audio player pro they are a powerhouse of a company out of the I think it's the Netherlands that makes an unbelievable audiophile music playback software they have customized a completely for echo box for the Explorer reskin it with this nice wood background appeal and tweaked the functionality of it so that it works properly on this device in a flawless functionality there are a couple amazing things about this that I kind of want to go through not only do you have your standard artist functionality genres playlist every type of sorting thing that you possibly want to do present it in a beautiful layout that you can switch between album view or list view depending on what you want to do it's beautiful when you start playing it you've got the album in the background this will actually fade out really nicely once the song starts playing yeah but the coolest thing about this app is for people that want to get really techy with it it's got API integration so on the inside you've got a whole bunch of different networking options you can log in directly through the app to your title account cuba's shoutcast radio so on and so forth or if you have your own home network server you can port in directly to the app using DLNA UPnP or any other type of network protocol that you could program into it so it's fully integrated for for in-home streaming options as well as local playback options and through USB audio player pro it will actually allow you to play DSD files they are software converted to PCM because we have a PCM DAC inside of the Explorer but it will play the DSD files they sound absolutely spectacular I've got a Pink Floyd album on here that was remastered in DSD and it sounds great it just gets converted in losses Kuantan a to PCM it's really cool so check out out USB audio player pro or UF PB for short the explorer itself a little bit about it 64 gigabytes of internal memory storage comstock with the Explorer it also has a micro SD slot which you can take up to a 200 gigabyte SD card at least that's what we've tested I know that they recently came out with I think it's like a 256 there's somebody that SD I'm pretty sure it works in here because it's an Android 6.0 operating system but I haven't tested it so I'm not gonna say it it definitely takes it to hundreds so you can put up to 264 gigabytes of music on this thing and swap out the 200 Giga SD card to your heart's delight USB connectivity for data transfer over your computer and when you use USB audio player Pro it will do USB audio output I'll be Explorer so if you have a cord mojo or some other type of outboard DAC that uses USB connection you can do that on the top of the Explorer you have a standard 3.5 millimeter or yeah 3.5 millimeter headphone jack for analog output and on the left you have a 3.5 millimeter optical Toslink output for digital out this is awesome it bypasses the DAC of the Explorer so you can use it as a source for your home system go into your own DAC with a full digital signal that's not compressed not deterred from anything that's in the actual Explorer device going to your home system and just Network it to your heart's content it comes with a docking station so use it at your home then pick it up take it with you lossless quality everywhere you go so the Explorer is retailed for $6.99 you can pre-order it right now on echovox audio comm and it will be shipping out in February so it is done hardware software is finished there are some tweaks that we'll probably have to make because we've discovered a little bit of bugs here at CES it always happens when they do a QA type thing we will be shipping to our indiegogo backers and our pre-order customers from the website in January we're working very hard to make that happen over the next couple weeks and we'll be communicating with them to keep everybody up to date on that but you can expect a full global rollout of the Explorer sometime in mid February to early March you can also check us out on 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