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B&O Beoplay A1 vs A2 active - soundcheck

2016-11-20
hi everyone and welcome is already promised today I would like to do a short comparison of the Bengal dogs and we'll play one against the new a to active of course you can also compare them by also for the audio database or switcher but I thought it might be interesting as well to hear them live through a video and some of you already notice that I upgraded my equipment slightly so the action cam I'm using now is the Sony x3000 which I think has slightly better image quality also barrel distortion is fun of the strong as it was before especially the image stabilization is much better as it's optical and the other thing I upgraded was some Lightning now as it's close to winter and lightning outside is really dark I thought I will need something I bought an LED panel as you can see and I hope it allows me to do also videos when the Lightning on side is not that great as usually I was really relying on the net on natural lightning how it was outside but now let's concentrate on the speakers I would start with the a1 volume is about half and a kind of smooth just like so please and listen so how volume is where they are really within their sweet spot very - I come a bit closer I think were the a1 has a slightly more natural frequency response although they're a to abuse a bit more spacious and also deeper let's right now track also more acoustic I think you can hear the difference quite well another flag let's check the muscle of X's the a1 appears like in order but now the a tool is more directional so it will be as loud and the a1 projects more upwards maybe let's try another track here you should hear the difference quite well we're a to definitely has the edge with bass also travel is more pronounced but the meets sounds somehow Hollow he also the base is not as clean anymore although we are only slightly about half the a1 already starts traveling slightly maybe another track where we can hear some deep bass notes a little here they can render them all in the first note is barely livable but the a tool doesn't really play it as well either I think the first place not around 42 Hertz but you can also hear the difference in the overall frequency response Samarra trek from princess freesia and you can maybe check how they perform at lower levels so I will reduce volume slightly on the a2 as well I will reduce it even lower the a1 doesn't apply any loudest compensation while the a2 active as we've seen from the measurement has some loudness adjustment for low level so at low levels it will definitely sound a bit better let's try maybe increasing volume slightly sauce for more elevated loudness levels and let's see how they perform them they start to even out slightly so the base advantage of the atoll is starting to get lost maybe not attract some kind of lock but the still sounds somehow clearer and bigger here's something else I have been freshness is that a woman had slightly more space punch also less than any compression I would increase volume even more mmm yeah I think we can hear that there he won't sound less sauce yes sounds slightly more full-bodied also a less dynamic compression let's try not attract some kind of dance track this is the a1 now both apparel already closer to maximum now there is not that much difference anymore I will increase volume to maximum on Bosh a 1 as well and what's interesting here is that the a1 simply sounds louder or so more dynamic with more bass so it's really funny it's the smaller speaker with less drivers let's try maybe another track to get increase in volume to maximum only way to follow combate maybe hear much more dynamic sound from where a1 while the end goal is this complaint it's repressive not affect they warmed really shines at high levels so the a two while really something nice for normal levels up to half simply loses all its dynamics and also base at higher levels why this sounds amino it also has some stronger base reduction but it seems as if it could perform or keep the level much higher they could have definitely boosted base for lower levels to make it more comparable to the a tool or even a bose soundlink mini but obviously they really kept the base level always at the same level the base level at a level so yeah I mean it's a mono speaker so you would need to to get stellar sound you don't really get any stereo sound out of this either but you get this nice floating sound cloud it's not really stereo but it gives you a very nice spatial sound I mean that a one is much cheaper the a two is especially the new version the a two active costs currently four hundred dollars or bucks or euros or whatever but the a one can already already be found for around two hundred so by two and you get a real stereo system even much louder than one A two and I think they sound great more natural the meets are not as hollow as from the a to ten as you've heard it's it keeps the level somehow at high volume while this starts to sound really a bit strange and thin so I hope this could give you an idea about difference between these two for normal levels they're a tool really shines but in this case I even prefer that the leakage much more as it has an equally natural frequency response like they want but much better so I'm not sure way where the a tool really fits in especially with this battery life it makes a mom it would play for less than one hour why the a tool sorry the a1 being louder place for more than two hours at maximum yeah I mean if s have the drivers we can try opening this has just one full and driver in the Twitter when this is two 4-inch drivers to Twitter's and to basically eight as this without basic creator I mean it's a sealed system still manages this great bass deep bass which is impressive so maybe not forty Hertz but you will definitely hear frequencies down to 50 Hertz 45 maybe with some placement closer to wall you can also you can also enhance bass likely or let hang it from from the wall yeah how does it fit all cannot find the right position yeah I will do this later on yeah I hope you liked it I hope the new lightning is not too artificial but yeah I cannot really do videos when it's so dark I also switch to 30 P because 60 P or 50 P in my case would be would increase noise too much as the camera has to use double the shutter speed therefore when lightning is not as great I will switch to 30 P otherwise the image will be too noisy I think it's still a little bit noisier then when sun is shining from outside but currently it's really horrible there is some some some fog and rain and horrible weather typical for November so yeah thanks all for watching some big surprises are coming so stay tuned and until then have a nice time and bye bye
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