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what's going on PC fans Jays two cents here and we just finished up Tech Talk and now we are gonna take a look at a product here that technically it's not PC hardware but that's not all I do around here anyway you couldn't flow use it on your PC if you wanted but today we are looking at these simple audio listen stereo speakers and these they've got a heck of a price tag that goes along with them so there's something you would definitely want a price drop or a little bit of a wherever my words todays video is sponsored by master op the largest community commerce platform in the world had to master up today and suggest something to be dropped and I'd like literally drop it you know where they bring the price down and stuff if you guys aren't a member of mass drop it's absolutely free it's definitely worth taking a look at in fact you'd be surprised how many people were actually signed up on mass drop because basically what it is it is like bulk discounts where mass drop will go and negotiate group rates for cheaper pricing on products that users like you vote on that they want to go and get a cheaper price so if enough people said hey we want this motherboard and we want it cheaper they'll go and negotiate it and then they'll come up with a group rate so it's really like a win-win now we'll go ahead and of take a two around the box there it is we have gone around the box you guys know me I don't care a whole lot for the unboxing so yeah whatever packages kind of need on this though it's got a sleeve with Nvidia green and there they are alright so first thing I've noticed is they're actually pretty heavy and there's a cord that just fell out on me there and accessories and a remote control that's pretty cool okay so before we talk about the accessories that come with it I just want to point out that these are very very sturdy made you've got a nice fabric grill on here kind of a mesh grill but it is fabric not metal but you do have what appears to be aluminum or aluminium depending on the part of the country that you are in and the top is a very polished plastic and that's because all of the controls on this thing are handled through capacitive touch so we'll talk about that a little bit in the future you have a headphone port as well as an three to 1/2 millimeter input jack so you could hook this up to an iPod or an mp3 player something that maybe didn't have Bluetooth so you could input sound into this thing and then you have a subwoofer preamp on here which is important to you because to get a nice full sound you would want a subwoofer so it does have expendability for that and then you have your speaker out port on there which wow I almost whacked myself somewhere I didn't want to so you can plug in the left speaker right there but let's say you're in a situation kind of like I am with the computer behind me here where you want to separate the speakers out a bit more you can take this extension cable plug it into the speaker cable and you get a really wide capability of separating these speakers out for wider soundstage if that's what you want now you also have a USB a micro USB port on here so that you hook this up to a computer it becomes its own sound device and then you have on here your power port our power plug other than that that's pretty much all the buttons that are on there when it comes to physical buttons in the package here I'm assuming this is pretty much just gonna be our USB cable and probably the power brick because this thing does require power and I was right what do you know oh and it comes to the three-and-a-half millimeter male to male plug so that you could use it plug it into your phone or whatever it does have your Quick Start Guide so you would want to consult that for doing things like bluetooth pairing and here is your mode control you pull that out now the battery is active so this thing will work so what I'm gonna do right now and by the way this is a three meter extension cable so you can see you've got an extra what nine feet of length on there which is good so we got the speaker grille off right here and you can see it is just a nice fabric and you can see that it is basically a two-way speaker system where you've got your main woosh or driver there and a silk dome tweeter now if you remove the back there's something else built into these speakers and that's what makes these start to get a little bit into the audiophile range it's one of those terms I really hate to use but for the price of this you know the technology should be in there you have here basically it's like a dampening cone but it is going to help the sound a little bit especially when it comes to the base by having this cone on the back okay so I went ahead and plug this thing into power and you can see on the top here it is capacitive touch you got your power button one of the things I hate hate hate about polish finishes at chat attracts dust and fingerprints so I do really hate that this is a Polish finish on top but the lion input button did illuminate on here since it can tell that we have something plugged into it so I went ahead and turned on the computer while using this PC sound but first I want to go ahead and do something here on the the old iPhone and we'll see how it sounds so I can't really play much on here because I don't have any music that I'm actually allowed to play but that's not gonna stop us okay so I didn't actually play it so that you guys could hear it for very long because I don't have a royalties to listen to this music but I do want to say that it's a bit louder than I thought would be there's a bit more bass and I thought it would be but it's not incredibly loud that could be because I'm just using on a device like this but although it does have its own ant built-in it shouldn't matter what the input volume is so not quite as loud as I thought that they would be but of course just plugging it in was extremely simple bluetooth would be just as easy where you're gonna pair it like you would any other Bluetooth device but what I think I'm a little bit more interested in with these is how well these work as PC speakers now I find myself in the position where I have my my Logitech z-series speakers on there but I don't like having to constantly reach for it to turn it up and down I am lazy and do like the idea of a remote control but also a speaker system that I can switch inputs and do more than just PC sound on which is fortunate unfortunately what you get with PC speakers so what I'm gonna do now is I'm just gonna go ahead and plug in the USB cable and then we're gonna see how well this these actually work as as some PC speakers so I guess it's time to roll that a transition there so actually since I can't get those stupid twist-tie off I can build a hell of a computer but I can't operate it twist tie now the first thing I want to point out is the second I plugged in the USB cable it automatically detected it installed well didn't even install it doesn't even require a driver it's a plug-and-play and it did go immediately to that as the sound source so let's go ahead and see probably turn them on all right turned it off am i doing wrong here unplug the three and a half cable let's see what's happening that was weird it like clicked off and didn't come back but I think I was doing something wrong ooh that computer speakers all right so let's put these theoretically in the position they would be for computer speakers sort of kind of and I don't know let's see how well this this works out here if these actually work out well then I'm gonna use them as computer speakers I'm really starting to hate this be as good as advertised so if anything we'll just go ahead and use the test bench here and we'll do some light benchmarking we'll just show you guys how it's really a bunch of crappy now let the buyer mount it in a standard 120 millimeter fan slot in their case just like the 295 days alright so I said the last couple of minutes listening to these and like my videos and as well as some other music and such and I have to say they don't have very crisp highs considering they have a silk dome tweeter but they do sound a bit more like monitors to me they were they have more would be kind of like IPS panels for 4 monitors they sound more like IPS speakers to put that into a term you would understand I guess if you weren't into audio they do some more like monitors where they would be more accurate to real-life but there's not a lot there's no EQ option I can't even control bass or treble built into them they have their own setting and that's it and I think that's that takes a little bit of getting used to in terms of sound I think on top of that is silence it's awesome like explosions no fractal add gtx 980 hybrid well as I said and we I'm just noticing that I have to turn it up way high to get volume out of it so I'm not entirely sure how well these were cast as standalone PC speakers I'll probably leave them hooked up on this machine for a while and just kind of try them out and see really all you're gaining with these is the Bluetooth capability and capacitive touch and a remote control that I personally don't know how much I would use so in terms of these being PC speakers I think the the jury's still out they don't sound terrible at all it's just they don't they don't sound full because these little 3-inch drivers are not able to get very much bass I do have a 10 inch subwoofer that I could hook up to these I'm not doing that for this video but I do think with a subwoofer then it might sound more full I wish the highs were a little more crisp and clear but they're not it has a much more flat sound signature or soundstage to these so I don't know the jury's still out on these but tell me what you guys think have you guys looked into this brand before do you know anything about simple audio they come off to me as a little bit like a brand that's trying to be a bit more of a boutique brand audiophile grade but compared to other speakers in the same range like the bose companion fives i've heard those those are on my father's computer actually and those were 299 bucks and they sound phenomenal they sound a lot better than these but again they don't have a remote control they don't have the bluetooth capability where you can hook up you know a phone or something to it and have a do dual purpose so I'm not I'm not sure exactly where these fit in you guys tell me of course mass drop doesn't really care a whole lot about whether or not you guys like the product cuz mass drop is independent from the product themselves so obviously be brutally honest but I'm gonna leave these hooked up as a PCS speakers here for a little bit and we'll see how it goes but other than that guys tell me what you think follow on social media if you guys have any questions and of course thank you guys for using the Amazon affiliate link down the description zee I can't believe we have sold eight hundred items in a month that's crazy you guys absolutely blow my mind with that so anyway keep being awesome guys and as always thanks for watching it cool gaming headset so today we're gonna take a look at what is probably regarded as one of the most favorited headsets on the market the HyperX cloud but what's cool about this is this is the cloud - it's the predecessor to the famous HyperX cloud and they have put some pretty cool features into this thing and I'm pretty excited