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no okay no this is going great we're back again

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with Intel xtreme tech upgrade where Intel has given 5 000 tech makeovers to

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Anthony riley dennis tons of members of the team so far we've seen some great

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themes like vr gaming extreme comfort

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and minimalism but today's is unlike anything we've seen so

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far james has what i would describe as the most honest theme hey

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it's five thousand dollars i'm gonna take advantage of this to the greatest

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extent that i can don't you knock

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my name is james and i'm head of writing at LMG so i make sure the videos get

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made

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describing my current setup in one word adequate

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or sub-optimal

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if you're a glass half full half empty person you could pick which way to go

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there not gonna lie your setup is pretty sick

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already what exactly are the pain points we're trying to address today i have

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this giant tower speakers my speakers are pretty good i didn't think that it

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was worth changing them out with this budget these are way way way bigger than

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anyone should have ever especially this room i should have got bookshelf but i

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didn't know at the time but even though they have these big eight inch drivers

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that's still not as good a base as an actual subwoofer they don't go as low as

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an actual subwoofer so the biggest problem with my home theater setup is

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that i don't have a subwoofer right now you don't have

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you have these bolon speakers

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and no subwoofer yeah exactly

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this is pain point number two this doesn't seem that bad this is this is

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okay but it doesn't have atmos not that i have any atmos speakers right now but

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i want them the future and it's also underpowering my speakers i don't need

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more power for making them louder but it's nice to have more headroom to have

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a more dynamic sound right when you get those transients coming in it'll be more

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lively sounding plus this doesn't have the greatest room

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correction and the solution that i have for it has great room correction so i'm

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excited for that hey remember when we did the review

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video of this thing but james actually has it legit do you want this at the

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christmas party right that's right and so today i'm keeping this chassis and

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everything we're just gonna shove a new GPU in this same form factor and use a

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new rocket lake CPU on a new itx motherboard i don't want to be a downer

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but i couldn't help noticing there was a 3080 over on the table there what are

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the odds that's going to fit in here it's going to fit the final pain point

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is another home theater related one speakers are only half the equation the

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other half is the room this is a giant reflective room

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look at that big blank wall yeah and that's the first reflection point from

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this speaker just going bunk right off of that right so your surround is going

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to be just kind of all over the place and they can make it harder to

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understand what people are saying in movies now this is a living room not a

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home theater i can't do anything about this you know this i can't put acoustic

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panels here or anything like that and i mean you can but the wife approval

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factor is gonna be pretty low well case in point look at this

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this is seemingly a boho shelf but actually these are acoustic foam inserts

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that i made oh that's pretty cool who knew you were crafty don't look too

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close at them so on that wall over there i figure we

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can make a bunch of diy acoustic panels maybe even an art panel

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and just fill that all up with as much treatment as we can are you telling me

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that these are just a devious ploy as well are these just bass traps no we

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bought these in morocco but you actually did uncover another thing that i'm upgrading these cables under here they

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were taped up with electrical tape and everything but it doesn't matter my kid grabs them and rips them apart anyway

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and like i just hate how they're dangling here that's why i got this

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adhesive vinyl that matches my floor that's kind of genius actually except

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that i'm moving in like two weeks so before we look at the receiver i have to

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do some of the traditional poking around in people's homes

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nice cat tree love it oh man

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okay this is completely staged if you're gonna stage it you might as well just

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put them on like this you know there these are some good quality baby

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toys hey is this the same penguin that nicole has at her desk oh maybe i

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recognize this one stolen out of the hands of my child these things are like

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a the best because kids absolutely love them and use them all the time but b

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impossible to store that's nothing look at this thing you know what

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this is is it a puzzle no it looks like a puzzle no it's a potty no it's not it's a

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headstand trainer no this is the kind of stupid stuff my wife

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buys oh my phone so it doesn't

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prevent you from falling over i don't oh it does oh so yeah it keeps you from is that

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what it is yeah because it'll support your shoulders have you never tried it

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no i don't need this it's actually not the stupidest thing ever i mean if you

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use it this is one of those there's a little window behind it that opens like

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that that's pretty cool i like it i like this so that whole cat

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door apparatus like slides out and check this out see right here this i made this

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in the winter and this is all left like extraneous rockwool from the acoustic

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panel stuff i like it oh hold on there's one last thing we have to look at books

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are the absolute best way to judge someone when you go into their house especially if you know them a little bit

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already chris hadfield astronauts guide to life on earth i believe you actually

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read this i didn't i bought it for my wife do you actually

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read lord of the rings hold on hold on hold on hold on i think you forced

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yourself to read it once but you hate tom bombadil as much as i do

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i read lord of the rings in high school that copy i've only read like the first

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hundred pages wait damn it is this the you haven't actually read it shelf i was

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bamboozled no you're missing all the best ones i fell for it american psycho

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being honest i've only read parts of hurricane no he's a poser no no this is

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the best book this is a copy of the wealth of nations by adam smith that i

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got from a used book store with this is from like 1915 or something like that

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i'm not really a milton friedman kind of guy but you've got to know your enemy right did you read it oh i'm not the

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whole thing but i've read it hey look wait i just saw my bookmark

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poser i gotta say after seeing particularly david's and dennis's

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mountains of technology your haul here looks more focused maybe quality not

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quantity eight hundred dollars twenty seven hundred dollars wait what

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is that this is my new avr you spent half your budget on a receiver yes yes i

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did wow

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okay well why don't we go straight into that

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you've got your mainstream kind of best buy receivers from sound united like

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marantz and denon and then you've got your next level of more expensive ones

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that some people think is a waste of money this is a higher tier supposedly

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made with better components kind of amplifier from anthem which is a

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canadian company i was searching for something that had really good room

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correction so the top of the game there within reason is gonna be either dirac

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which you get in nad products or arc which you get in anthem products i was

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really interested in getting an ad one but then i read all the owners forum

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reviews and there was just so many problems go for it buddy so i went with

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anthem because they seem to be more reliable okay i wanted something that

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was modern like atmos and stuff powerful and aesthetically pleasing and i think

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this is the balance of all three one of the sweetest things about this is that has chromecast built in and the reason i

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care is because i hate youtube music

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what what do you do that has chromecast functionality built-in yeah the tv has

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to be on okay all right all right dude don't get me into this i have okay look

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look at this using the shield remote is better with the shield however

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i have to still use the lg remote if i want to use the feature where i can hold

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down the voice command and say screen off which would allow me to play music

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and then have the tv screen turn off right but then if you hit any button it

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turns back on and then using this remote freaking sucks like there's a lot of

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problems that it doesn't interface quite well with cec so it's like no

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this feature matters to me okay all right thanks Intel you're so fired up

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james i've been waiting for a long time for this this knob it feels real good

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that's a good knife i already touched it when you weren't looking wait there's more Linus wait is this like room

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correction emperor apparatus or something yeah so receivers typically

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come with a microphone with which you can yeah but like

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it's a toy but this one as far as i can tell

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this is just a rebranded umic one and the umic one is a is a 200

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kind of the standard measurement microphone that people use and now i've

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also confirmed that this thing is not software locked to their software you

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can just plug this into your laptop and use it with roux or whatever software

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you want does it come with like a stand for it now yeah a full tripod what the

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hell i got to tell you as someone who's pretty happy with my sonos arc i'm

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finding some aspects of this upgrade a little hard to justify so why don't we start

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with the before why do we always end up in bed together this always happens i

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think it's my turn to wear the wig the acoustics in this room really are

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terrible the volume of air in here goes all through the house yeah the my home

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theater doesn't know that there's an imaginary wall right here it

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has to pressurize all the way to the front door and so i passed i think these

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eight inch woofers just can't do that plus they're not gonna the extension they're just not gonna go as low as yeah

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i'm just i'm still very surprised at how bad it sounds you can hear the bass more

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on that one yeah i can hear it but you're not supposed to hear a bass

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you're supposed to feel like there's nothing there's no arousal whatsoever

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i'd love to help but you know how it is with cats you can't really

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oh you're not good oh you moved her poor

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thing stop looking at her butthole i'm not looking at her butthole her tail's

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down i think what we should do is unplug the existing receiver yep put on banana

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plugs which will make it way more convenient when i move

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into because i have to plug everything back in yeah and get this in place okay

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let's do it oh god oh no

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the plant was over watered and it sogged in and swelled damn it i spent 30 on

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this thing all right give me some banana plugs i'm ready

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oh they're all individually wrapped no that's way more plastic than i want i

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want this to be in the same spot this is in so it's not so easy as like taking

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them and putting them here because they have to go through the same cable management hole so is this a one-person

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job if we only have that one screwdriver that fits yes okay see you later oh i'll go to bed

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i might even join you for those of you who aren't familiar this is how this works you just take your bare wire and

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usually you would like i don't know sandpaper it a little bit or something

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because you care about it making really good contact but realistically we all

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know that's not going to make a difference so i'm just going to pop that in there and this is the subwoofer i got

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the ever popular svs sb2000 pro the s

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means it's sealed the b means it's a box instead of a cylinder and the pro means

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i can use it with an app and now we go from just having ugly horrible bare wire

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that is a pain in the butt and hurts your fingers to plug in to screwing this

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guy on oh look at that and it plugs right back into that same

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well you gotta tighten the thing i guess then it plugs right back into that

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very very good there i guess it comes in two colors

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black ash which which is similar to my

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speakers and then glossy piano black

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but i went for the black ash you like that black ash don't ya that's not good

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they sent piano black this costs a hundred dollars more oh really i'm not

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taking that into my budget i appreciate you svs my budget allocated 800 not 900.

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this is gonna sound so much better oh this thing's gonna haul i just i

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honestly thought that you were kind of wasting a lot of your money until i

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heard the before i would like to run naked no grill but i

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have a toddler that's why even on these beautiful clips i have all the grills on

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because they like to touch stuff and color and crucially i got this kit the

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sound path subwoofer isolation system so these are for decoupling your subwoofer

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from the floor the last thing you want is for your subwoofer to growl and then

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to hear a rattling somewhere else in your house so these are the feet i come

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with they are not hard plastic they're not that substantial and here is the

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foot we're going to be replacing it with look at that oh i like feet i want to see it

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well it kind of looks like a flashlight actually oh god so subwoofer placement

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is a thing especially if you have multiple subwoofers if you only have one

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subwoofer and you're in a small room and there's only one or two logical places

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to put it then you should just put it where you're gonna put it but if you have multiple

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potential spots you should do what's called a subwoofer crawl and so what

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that is is you play bass sweeps and you move your subwoofer around to different

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parts of the room until when you're sitting in your main listening position

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that bass sweep is at equal volume across the frequencies i'm not going to

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do a subwoofer crawl right now i'm just going to plug it in

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because i'm moving in two weeks yeah exactly my kid is going to use this to

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climb onto the couch phantom cables i don't think this is the most expensive

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one they sell but this is a nice amount of shielding i'm pretty happy with this

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i'm excited about the cable hey i mean i'm sitting over here fondling cables

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for the last half an hour so this couch has made it really hard to find a new

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place to live because it's just such a huge couch i'm basically in bed all the

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time i am done the banana plugs should we do the vinyl floor thing

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oh totally but i think we should do that after we put the new receiver in i keep

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trying to sit on this table and it's a piece of yeah i spent like 99 on

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facebook marketplace for that thing okay that was too much goodbye slim friend

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hello chunky hybrid class a

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okay that that that's deep enough that's what he said oh there's a really stiff

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HDMI cable james no no no no no i got this i got this are you trying to

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capture the moment where i realize i don't got this one thing to know about this receiver is that it's not the best

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option for people who have multiple subs and that is because inside there's not

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two different circuit paths it's actually just an internal y-splitter so

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the two different ports you have for subs just go to the same thing and the

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reason that's not great is because when you get to the room correction part of

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it it can't separately tune the two subwoofers you work on the pc

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i'll build some acoustic panels uh-huh we'll do the art genesis setup after

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because it requires using the pc and we'll be ready to go but i'm going to

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work backwards and show you the finished product this is a finished acoustic panel it's got

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some white fabric on it that is acoustically transparent you can tell

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because you can hold it up and see light come through it and you hold up your mouth and you can breathe through it i

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just stretched it over this wooden frame and stapled it and put some hangers on

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it this is a partially completed one

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that's full of rock wool this stuff is cool it's not like the

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pink insulation that you have to wear a mask and goggles for and that irritates

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your skin this stuff is super workable you can cut it with just a bread knife

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you can touch it handle it now james i couldn't help overhearing before that

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you're planning to sell your receiver to david after the video's done and i

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couldn't help noticing that you've got an rtx graphics card already in your rig

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so are you planning to not just get a tech upgrade but also make some money

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here you know i got to keep up with all the other guys here and get a 30 80

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because that's the thing to do being able to do so at msrp giving me two very

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good pcs at the end is great because i have some people in my life who i'd love

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to give a pc to how hard is this system working

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it's clearly designed to be built once at a factory and then not really worked

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on but for a pre-built it uses completely

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standard components so i can't really complain oh crap it split the wood oh

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man this is really freaking tight james

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how am i gonna put the new motherboard in here okay this is oh god don't even

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look at this this is really bad oh what the what are you doing over there i

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didn't think i was doing this home upgrade with dennis your wi-fi is hooked

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up like internally to antennas that are built into the case how does this power

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supply screw i am going to have to completely tear this thing down i have

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to get the power supply out in order to remove these wi-fi wires i pulled it

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david that's not what happened with me well not exactly but similar hey david

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david david yas oh my god you're in luck

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james i'm extracting your wi-fi thank you

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there's just a couple little antenna pcbs here that need to pop off the

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bottom feet all right i'm just gonna do this over my kitchen sink i think what

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are you even doing i'm just lopping an eighth of an inch off over the sink oh

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yeah i could scoop it out let's have a look at the motherboard we're using for

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the upgrade really nice little board lots of features so we've got wi-fi ac

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now with an Intel chip we've got usb 3.1

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we've got type c we've got is this two and a half gig lan i believe it is nice

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we've got support for the latest Intel 11th gen processors on lga 1200. so

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because james isn't going to be overclocking it's not necessary for us

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to go with a z series chipset we've got a core i7 11700 we've gone h570 and then

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we're actually reusing his memory from his old system which is

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wow 2666.

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eye protection use it yeah if you ever

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feel like upgrading your memory that's probably going to hold you back just a

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little bit with this puppy but hopefully it's fine

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we don't i have a plan first let's go ahead and

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install the CPU oh no way this is awesome

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check this out so this motherboard because you've got support for pci

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express gen 4 on Intel's 11th gen

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processors you can have a high speed m.2

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that runs at gen 4 speeds and then you can have like a normal gen 3 one and

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even though this is an itx board they actually managed to put two m.2 slots on

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it without like a a big sort of like

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riser that comes off the board or anything like that check this out it's just right here under their m.2 armor

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heatsink freaking awesome i love it so

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if you need help with the power tools i can't help you

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it's just so annoying not having like clamps and stuff and the vice grips

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here's my plan we don't have any thermal compound but i have some experience with

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these things reusing thermal compound unfortunately there's not enough really

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on here for us to just kind of plonk it

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onto a new clean CPU so what we're gonna do is we're just gonna kind of salvage

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as much of this back as we can here pilots are done no

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okay no this is going great oh yeah we're gonna

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be done at like two oh i mostly just met my thermal paste application here now i

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understand david you might look at this and go gee Linus i don't know if that's

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enough thermal paste especially because it's kind of it's old and desiccated

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that's where the stock heatsink that came with the CPU comes in we don't want

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to use this heatsink but we can get a little bit of extra

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fresh thermal paste off of it oh wow this stuff's way better i should have

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just used this is Linus somehow trying to make my upgrade more jank than yours

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david not trying succeeding i found the extra

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rock wool the highest frequencies that come into your stereo can get absorbed

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by like curtains or a thick rug but the lower

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you go the deeper you need because the wavelengths are longer so this is about

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four inches actually i think it's five and a half inches thick this is kind of too thick to hang off of my wall that

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wouldn't really look like a normal painting or anything so i'm actually gonna take a bread knife and cut this in

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half oh this is really tight

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just get out of the way it really does just go right in there so

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i'm just pulling this tight so it's wrinkle free on the other side

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i did the opposite ends first to get that axis

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tight and then now i'm going to go to the side starting with the middle i'm just checking the front panel connector

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configurations usually from one brand to the same brand it's the same but

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sometimes when you switch brands they're different usually they print the key somewhere on the pcb but on these really

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small boards they often can't fit it right next to it so you can see this one's over here but it looks like

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they're the same so i can just plonk that in excellent so one of those front

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usb ports has some gunk on it that doesn't work i was hoping to hear that

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maybe you could uh do something about that oh i see that's where you're going

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with it well you don't just get five thousand dollars of Intel's money you get eight hours of Linus's time the only

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thing left to do now is put some fabric on the back so you don't want to use the

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same fabric you did on the front you can cheap out and get either burlap or

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if the fabric store you go to just has a bin of crap that's like refuse that's

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what i got so this mine happens to be white but

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it just serves to cover up and make a little nicer and i've got an update too

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i've got my motherboard and CPU in i've got all the cable management done on

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this side i think this panel should close so all that remains for me

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is to put in the rtx 3080. look at that

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it's almost like it's new you left the peel on there and everything you

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pretended that you weren't using it for three weeks you know what this was a

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little annoying to work in but good job MSI for making a pre-built that's

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actually upgradable with completely standard parts look how spacious that

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GPU yeah cave is totally you could absolutely do like anything in here as

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long as it's not triple thick we're finished with all the acoustic panels i

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have four white ones like this but

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why just stick with white when you can get printed art panels so what i've done

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is i got some artwork from my friend jasmine

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who's an artist she does prints now so i got one of her prints i have another one

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in my bedroom and i got it printed onto fabric using dye sublimation printing

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that is a very colorful art well it's mostly orange that's really not what it

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meant so do i get to listen to it now no we have to do the arc genesis setup are you

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ready for arc genesis yeah i'm pretty sure this gives you a live feed oh

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really from position one position the microphone at your level and point it

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towards the ceiling okay okay now once you hit start boy hi how are you doing

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we should actually get out of the way um i'm getting down

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let's be quiet! everybody stood up

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worst

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there's some room rattle on that one i think this little bump right here is

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actually me saying to you when the sub was running because

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uh the other one didn't have anything above one kilohertz for the subwoofer

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this is super cool

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okay it says it's done please wait for your correction curves

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is ready to upload corrections to your device so i click upload now i guess oh

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we should probably swap out your shield before we do sure that's the last piece

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okay well also don't forget about the floor oh right right right okay you get

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the shield i got this i got this this is going to be really high effort because i

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know james is staying here a long time this self-adhesive can be applied to all

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smooth clean and dry surfaces i don't know let's eyeball it oh in that case

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it's not really long enough realistically over here i don't really

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care though honestly whatever man at this point this is a waste of 20 dollars

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so um this is not going very well

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no it folded in on itself um okay here hold on hold on i got it

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deeper end are you proud of me yet oh god i can see why they want the

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surface to be clean oh there you go

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all right enjoy james totally not noticeable is that worse than the

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speaker wire i think so yeah

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and we're back to square one and the worst part is that i taped down the

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wires right under the hair right under the legs like sitting on you

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what are you gonna do ask for a refund oh my god this is getting so bad

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oh my god this feels like an infomercial fails level like this is awesome i'm

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gonna wrap you in this for a prank one day go away okay i'm

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ready are you ready who gets your daughter's pee spot here hey that's a

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baby animal pee oh i'm totally gonna be that guy that goes

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into someone else's home and takes the alpha listening spot right in the dead

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center and i just dropped a silent fart onto

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your alpha listening spot

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that is night and day do you feel like the sub is super localized no

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you probably do because you're right literally feel the vibration of it one

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thing i did notice though is there's only so much that your arc calibration

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can do exactly i can there's still a void over there it's the cherry on top

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it's not gonna change your world no but it's better

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what about your impressions this is your setup let me sit there a few pieces

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i want to see some intelligibility of dialogue wait you're not going to give

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music compressions other than that i'm not ready to it just i need to audition

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for longer than that

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that sounds awesome this is like neighbors complaining level

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though the sound stage i can pinpoint all the sounds like when

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he stepped on that cello and broke it yeah it was like right in front of me

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i can't wipe the smile from my face this is so sweet yeah it's night and day man

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any regrets about spending twenty seven hundred dollars of your budget on the

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receiver not yet but a receiver is the type of thing you like you learn about

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over time the quirks and stuff but right now i'm very happy it looks awesome it

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sounds awesome and it's gonna be future proof enough for me for many years the

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way james flips his computer over to his tv for now is just by moving the cable

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because he's only got a single HDMI output but what we'll do in the future then is

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you'll just go displayport out to a new monitor because this one doesn't have

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displayport and then you'll go HDMI out to your receiver and then you can just

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switch the input and boom now we're ready with the gaming pc hold

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on i need to be able to see this from my wired keyboard over there you do where's your

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wireless one in my storage locker oh i haven't couched gamed in a long time

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okay this is co-op gaming oh it looks fantastic how's it sound

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high fidelity so that's pretty much it once you move into the new place you can

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get the wireless keyboard mouse out you'll have gaming movies music

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everything freaking covered it's sick i'm very happy it sounds amazing i saw

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your setup and i was like wait a minute we're upgrading something that is

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already freaking amazing but then i tried it and it blew chunks and now it's

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awesome man now you didn't totally waste your money on these speakers because

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those weren't as expensive as you would have thought marketplace baby

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my stuff's all used all the time this is the first new stuff i've ever had and

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yet when i give you a budget you go and buy a bunch of stuff brand new i see how

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it works or rather Intel did so thanks again to Intel for sponsoring extreme

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tech upgrade diameters edition we will

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see you guys at the next one which i believe is going to be maybe alex oh it

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might be the one and only alex clark if you guys are looking for another video

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to watch make sure that you guys check out our previous Intel extreme tech

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upgrades with dennis riley Colton all

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kinds of colorful characters oh dennis