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very quickly before we get into today's video I would like to remind everyone of a little something called quarterly I spoke about this on a previous video regarding the PlayStation 4 and Xbox one because I will be picking one lucky quarterly subscriber to actually win one of those consoles in conjunction with the quarterly package I'll be sending out to every single subscriber if you're unfamiliar go back and watch the original video I'll put a link in the description but the reason for this update is because the deadline is fast approaching I believe it's happening on the 11th you can ask me for sure on twitter i'm at unbox therapy but you have to subscribe very soon there are a limited number of spots that are left up to break it down very simply it's a box i send to you with some of my selections in it a little personalized letter and some other things so you basically are subscribing to products from me and on top of that like I said one lucky person is also going to win a gaming console it trust me it's a good value I already know what's going to be in this particular package it's taken a little while I apologize for that but this is our first one so we just really wanted to get it right so if you're already a subscriber the package is coming soon if you're not a subscriber yet a limited number of spots still available a link down in the description don't miss out let's get into today's video what's up guys Lew here and today we're going to take a closer look at the audio engine 5 plus my brand new speakers for my simplified setup as you can tell the box is kind of large it hardly fits into the frame right here but I picked these speakers for a couple of different reasons one of which is the fact that they're powered they don't require a separate amplifier and I am going for a very minimalistic set up in my new sort of home office space behind me which I will be showing you guys shortly I'm also going to connect my brand-new turntable so anyways let's go ahead and jump inside the box I'm going to switch to camera B to give you guys a better perspective because we're a little bit cramped in here so let's jump to that camera and get moving on this so from the top of the box you can see some of the specifications over here on the left-hand side so you've got two speakers one of them is powered I don't know why they list it like that anyways the amp is in the left speaker which then powers the right speaker I guess that's the accurate way of saying it so they aren't both powered one is which then powers the other there's a remote control speaker wire detachable power cord mini jack audio cable which is 2 meters RCA audio cable which is also 2 meters a microfiber speaker bag micro fiber cable bag set-up guide and a product brochure so let's go ahead and open this up a lot of people ask about my knife that's something that I've been getting a ton of questions about I will try and find it and link it down in the description though I'm not sure if they make it anymore if it's still available I'll try my best to find it but it is a very cool knife and I've actually got a couple of other cool knifes on order so if you guys are interested in seeing some of my knife collection then leave a thumbs up down below but that's not what this video is about this video is about my brand new speakers which I am super excited for I've been dealing with headphones for a long time and a lot of people sort of agree that mixing on headphones is ok but there can be after a certain amount of time there can be some fatigue that occurs when using headphones and sometimes you can get a more accurate mix and you can also a be test to figure out how things are going to sound when you're mixing them not just on headphones but also on a set of speakers and you know that's that's sort of one of the rules of mixing anyways power cable inside of course kind of important a little microfiber bag over here which is the first one to open up this feels like more cables okay so we have standard RCA cable 4 analog audio a standard mini jack cable nice and long one as well so this is going to go from your portable media player computer laptop etc into the speaker's directly as I said remember they are powered and then we have some speaker wire which I assume is to connect speaker B to speaker a it's nice that they come in a little organizational bag alright let's pull out some of this foam here this is probably going to be pretty heavy whoa so here they are I'm gonna get a few woes in this unboxing as well guys and now that I've started doing them live you're getting a lot more of my reaction in there which didn't really carry over to the voice-over after the fact because there is excitement whenever you get anything new although I'm sure you guys are aware of that okay so I decided to go with the white ones as you may or may not be able to tell just pull this out real quick I'm just going to put this to the side for a moment get the other items out of the box first this is the user manual and guide as well as the little tiny remote which I'll pull out okay might as well open this right now so it's a little you know portable remote there's a little nighttime button I don't know that's for maybe it's backlit we'll have to wait and see it's soft touch plastic convenient volume mute straightforward stuff and then the other speaker all right let's get this box out of the way before we continue did I forget something a giant bag of silica gel do not eat throw away you heard it here first okay so speaker time so they come in these really cool microfiber bags pull this out and I got the glossy white finish which again I'm just trying to have a minimalist set up and so the idea here is to have them not really take up as much visual space as a big giant set of black speakers since my walls are white in my setup over there they'll kind of just blend into the background and you'll just see the central portions these are really nice actually heavy too it's a nice cabinet and then on the back you can see you have your connection points here these are for the speaker cable as I mentioned earlier from speaker to speaker be the the next speaker is a more interesting one because it has all of your connections on it let's go ahead and open this one up once again a really nice microfiber bag and this one I can feel the amp on the back already okay and piece of tape I noticed also they have mounting points on the bottom if you want to mount them so if you have I guess speaker stands or maybe you have I don't know it looks like almost like a tripod screen you can probably mount these on a tripod if you really wanted to so I'm not sure why you would okay so there is speaker number two right away you'll notice a difference on the front there are two lights as well as a volume knob and then the interesting part is on the back where you will find all of your connection points so we have an input for a mini jack connector that's this cable here so that'll go from you know your portable media player or your laptop that uses mini Jack's straight into here again no amplifier needed in between a USB power which is cool so if you're using you know an iPod or something that you want to leave connected and powered all the time you can plug it into there or maybe you just want to charge and play at the same time from your phone tablet etc we have our input for RCA s right and left there's an output as well you can send the source to somewhere else that's pretty cool okay and then the speaker connections on this speaker here which we'll send out to the right speaker so left speaker to right figure because the amp as you can tell is built-in to this one power switch a voltage selector and then your power connector for the power cable I like the fact that they built the power brick into the actual unit instead of having it outboard which is a little bit of an annoyance sometimes so all right I'm gonna just flip the back over this one actually sits a little bit flatter so you can see the front a little better but you've got a Kevlar woofer here I don't know how big that is I think it's five inches hence the name five I believe so I've heard these before at least I heard the previous generation and they were really really impressive with a fair amount of low end which is something that I look for I listened to a lot bass-heavy music but also you can add a subwoofer at a later date if you want even more bass the subwoofer kit comes in white and black as well and will obviously improve the amount of low-end which would also sort of help these in a multimedia environment if you wanted to hook them up to your TV or something like that alright guys so that wraps up the unboxing portion of this video the next step is of course to get them connected to some audio sources and test them out since my setup is not a hundred percent ready and I still have to do an unboxing video for the record player that I purchased it's a project audio record player which I'm really excited for as well I guess the sound test will be up coming very shortly I apologize for not fitting it into this video right here but I really have nothing set up right now so stay tuned for the vinyl LP player unboxing which is coming up shortly and then of course my updated mini little minimalistic setup tour which is going to happen in the space right behind me a lot of people have already seen a preview of it by checking me out on Instagram if you aren't following me there it's a great way to see what I'm working on when I'm not making videos or the stuff in between videos I guess I will link my Instagram down in the description but my name is unbox therapy and as you can see in my Instagram photos of my setup the whole goal here is to build a set up that is minimal that there are only items there that I absolutely need and want because I've had some very cluttered setups in the past and they just get complicated and convoluted and there's too many ways of achieving the same thing so I'm looking for items to add to it that will have that minimalistic appeal and it'll be easy to keep it tidy and just to keep a clear frame of mind while working there because a lot of these setups can get crazy and intense and 200 monitors okay that's a bit extreme but you know you can you can get crazy with it and never stop and ask hey is this really becoming more productive for me or am I just adding stuff for the sake of it so this the goal of this setup is complete minimalism and I can't wait to show you guys as soon as I get these hooked up as well as a sound test on these so make sure to subscribe if you haven't yet if you guys enjoyed this content then please make sure to leave a thumbs up down below and I will catch you very shortly on the next episode thanks guys