welcome to lus Tech tips we've got something pretty cool here today this is
the Samsung da e750 wireless audio with
dock so it's not necessarily a wireless audio dock because it's a wireless audio
device that also happens to have a dock it is compatible with apple AirPlay as
well as Bluetooth for Android devices so you can even use Samsung's AllShare
technology in order to play whatever music you want and with a custom Samsung
App it can even remember things like where you were in your last song before
you got a call and resume right where
you left off so let's start with what they have to say for themselves on the outside of the box this includes yes a
tube amp a vacuum tube amp is built in so it's not cheap it's about
$700 so it better deliver you know a
pretty decent amplifier and some pretty decent speakers for that price but I
think Samsung feels they've really hit the nail on the head as far as that's
concerned compatible with all your iOS devices there's your AirPlay logo you
got your Bluetooth it is also of course fully networking capable so it is Wi-Fi
ready and you can also plug in Ethernet to get it connected to your network as
well plays Windows media okay I didn't see anything about that on uh on any of
Samsung's documentation but there you go it has a built-in subwoofer it is dual
docking so it's compatible with Samsung Galaxy S2 Galaxy S3 Galaxy Note as well
as iPhone and uh well iPhone iPod I
suppose would also work moving right along wireless streaming in high quality
so yeah it uses an apex codec in order to enable the stream to be higher
quality and this is pretty much all the same stuff and
okay and that's pretty much it so let's open it up because one of the big things
about this device is that it is absolutely beautiful is it necessarily
the best audio quality you can buy for
$700 no and that's fine because the best
audio you can buy for $700 is usually
some kind of like weird looking thing that sounds really great and it's like
this Niche brand that doesn't seem to understand that you have to actually put
the thing in your living room where people will see it Samsung it kind of
gets that on account of they make like TVs which are pretty much the
centerpiece of the modern living room whether you sort of like that or
not and I would love to be able to get this out of here oh my goodness it's
really heavy okay
um whoa give me a sec guys I'm going to
make you guys sit through the accessories before we actually take the
sleeve off it because I'm really excited to see how the unit looks now I've heard
Talk of the finish on it but I haven't seen it in person yet here we've got one
of those filters for for your power cable uh we've got the remote the remote
which actually looks
surprisingly like a small iPod Touch
except with a brown back the remote's kind of cheeseball but um the reality of
it is this is designed to be controlled by your tablet or your smartphone 99% of
the time so I wouldn't worry too much about the remote in fact I can't think
of a good reason why you'd even dock a device to it unless it's just an iPod
touch that you have for the sole purpose of keeping it docked to your uh to your
iPod dock and you want it to continue to charge that's the only reason I would do
it other than that I'd just be using AirPlay or I'd be using Bluetooth or I'd
be using AllShare or or some other wireless device uh it comes with an
auxiliary Jack and comes with an auxiliary cable in case you want one of
those power cable and uh Ethernet cable
because you do want this to be connected to your home network and let's go ahead
and unveil this this Cherrywood
finished living room
centerpiece a yeah there we go that's what I'm talking
about check this out so let's do a quick
overview of the outside of the yeah you know what
cameraman's gone in h actually oh yes we have a special guest for today's
unboxing the legendary NC cameraman is
back it's not slick today so uh yeah
there you go so let's start with the speakers at the front so there you've
got your mids speakers your tweeters and
a subwoofer built right into the bottom so that means that you've got all the
ranges covered with dedicated speakers most docs aren't doing that most docs
cost less than $700 but if you're going to get a premium one you might as well
get one that's got uh the the actual means to deliver all the different
ranges of sound that you want there are your vacuum tubes so most amplifiers
these days are done with opamps they are Amplified or most amplifiers these days
are digital they are not using analog amplification so if you have a high
quality amp built into a device such as this one what you're going to want to do
is stream the audio or transmit the audio to it however you do it in at the
lowest possible volume you want to rely on your you know iPhone as little as
possible to amplify the sound and rely on this tube amp in order to do it for
you so at the front yeah there's not much there other than four speakers and
a Samsung logo at the top you got this you've also got controls on the top so
you've got your play volume up volume down as well as the F button whatever
whatever that does that's the like Angry button ah F there we go uh we'll don't
worry we'll figure out what that does at some point and we'll update you so there's the porting for the subwoofer
right there here we've got the Dual docking capable dock so I can throw an
iPhone on there or or if I had a USB
device such as a Galaxy S2 S3 or Samsung
Note Galaxy Note rather I could put it on there as
well nice all your connectivity it's
back here so there's your Ethernet USB WPS setup I'm going to go ahead and
remove the uh the sticker on here that's making it look kind of brutal aha there
we go that's more like it auxilary in only for service wow that's very clearly
labeled um and your power so oh oh this
is oh this is brilliant cameraman wasn't sure why it had a USB port on the back
and now it's become obvious to me if you don't have an iPhone and you don't have
a Galaxy Device you can plug in your USB
here plug your auxiliary in here and you can run any device off of it for as long
as you want you just kind of hide it sort of you know under here or something
and nobody ever has to see it so it can remain you
know just looking like this and not have anything wrecking the uh the look of it
so if if you want to check this thing out actually you can go to the NC
Aberdine store and hear it in person and
uh I think that pretty much covers what I want to see you know I'll be back with a couple more details so we got
cameraman's iPhone docked on there now there's a couple more things I did want
to cover so the speakers are using glass fiber construction with a phase plug
design uh also you can play music directly off a USB stick which is kind
of cool and one of the other things I did want to say is you can connect using
Bluetooth more than one device at a time so so you can actually rather than
having to manage a bunch of different docks on a bunch of different devices
that are just for that dock you can actually connect things however you want
whenever you want and uh I think that's kind of cool now cameraman and I weren't
particularly enthralled with the sound I
mean tubeamps do have a bit of a warm sound and it's not to everyone's tastes
and the lack of an equalizer built into the device it might be a bit of a
challenge uh for some users however if you know you like the tuam sound and you
do want something that is an absolutely beautiful
looking device dock then I guess you could do a whole lot worse than the da
750 thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look on lineus Tech
tips and don't forget to subscribe and cameraman figured out what
the f stands for f is for function it's on the remote as well see f for function
so that actually changes the input so here I can change it back to back to the
iPhone and I could potentially play music again there we go