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hey guys today we have the transparent one by vana - this is a all-in-one speaker DAC USB interface and amplifier in a single unit as you can see here from the back panel there's a wide arrangement of inputs for you to utilize with this thing it's pretty great the price point on this particular unit is around five hundred dollars for the black and about 550 for the cherry which this one is in cherry the transparent one has a lot of different inputs it's really great to see in something like this all-in-one encompassing kind of thing has an optical input a coaxial digital input that you can connect directly from another device if you so desire however this one also has a USB input located right here which plugs directly into your computer now that will give you a pretty good sound I test it out I find it quite quite pleasing and then obviously these speaker taps go to the other speaker also really handy in this model if you can see here is a left and right switch which allows you to move the source to either speaker so if your computer is closer to one side the left or the right you can go ahead and run the wires that way very cool in addition to that we have a sub out located right here the sub out actually activates with the DSP that's internal on this on this device and allows it to do a frequency cutoff so only bass signals are sent to the sub woofer and then the rest of the signals are actually utilized for this for these speakers when you do that it actually allows it to kind of free up a little bit of the the power or a lot of the work for these speakers and hopefully you get a little bit better sound because they're handling less of the frequency range so that's pretty fun too I found the volume on needs to be pretty adequate if you really want to power a small room it's probably the best size for these smaller sized speaker they didn't blow me out of the water with their volume if you want like to have a raging party you might want to step it up to a bigger speaker and a bigger amplifier but for the most part they worked exceptionally well when powering small to maybe medium sized rooms and definitely enough juice for more of a near field listening so something that's sitting on your desk don't even worry about it they got plenty of power they also have an analog in so you can plug in your iPod or or whatever you want right into it the inclusion of a digital optical input on this device is actually very cool because it'll allow you to plug directly into an Apple TV if you so desire or even an airport Express output so you can kind of have like a satellite listening station anywhere you want in your house it doesn't have to be locked down directly to a computer these speakers do not have built-in airplay unfortunately so you will need another kind of delivery device to get it to there but once it's there it has all the digital decoding built right in which works out very nicely for anything you want to do out and about the house as you can see from the back here there's a five and a quarter inch rear radiator that helps with the base I found that these speakers work best when they had about seven inches or so of space behind them when they're put up right against the wall they kind of have tend to be a little Basie you can adjust that however with these tone adjustments here so if it's too close to the wall you could do this but for the tightest base I find a little bit of breathing room is the best actually when that was done I did find these two have a pretty flat frequent frequency response which is very nice not too much bloating on the bottom end and a nice nice texture on the top end as well so give him a little space bill where they'll work the best the overall signature was good for five hundred dollars they did deliver on sound quality and volume they're not the most acute the most detailed speakers I've ever heard in my life obviously my reference system here has a bit more detail across the board maybe some high maybe better extensions on the in the bottom but for $500 not too shabby really enjoyed them they have a great they have a great sound to them and they're really fun so you can go ahead and slap them on your desk tech desktop set up if you want a computer speaker plug out these are ready to go right out of the box for that kind of thing also if you want to have a satellite kind of set up moon in your house these will definitely outperform a lot of the iPod docks especially since a lot of the price points are pushing past $500 for the fancier docks if you're just looking to base straight up definitely something you want it you might want to check out because these do have pretty good surprising base for what I was expecting I mean it's thumping when it's on the desk it actually vibrates the desk so something if you like bass check it out you can crank it up all the way and and you might find something really enjoyable for your taste feel free to check out the website WWE have 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