Samsung DA-E750 Wireless Speakers with Dock iPod iPhone Galaxy S2 S3 Unboxing & Test Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to lus Tech tips we've got something pretty cool here today this is
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the Samsung da e750 wireless audio with
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dock so it's not necessarily a wireless audio dock because it's a wireless audio
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device that also happens to have a dock it is compatible with apple AirPlay as
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well as Bluetooth for Android devices so you can even use Samsung's AllShare
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technology in order to play whatever music you want and with a custom Samsung
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App it can even remember things like where you were in your last song before
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you got a call and resume right where
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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
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tube amp a vacuum tube amp is built in so it's not cheap it's about
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$700 so it better deliver you know a
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pretty decent amplifier and some pretty decent speakers for that price but I
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think Samsung feels they've really hit the nail on the head as far as that's
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concerned compatible with all your iOS devices there's your AirPlay logo you
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got your Bluetooth it is also of course fully networking capable so it is Wi-Fi
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ready and you can also plug in Ethernet to get it connected to your network as
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well plays Windows media okay I didn't see anything about that on uh on any of
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Samsung's documentation but there you go it has a built-in subwoofer it is dual
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docking so it's compatible with Samsung Galaxy S2 Galaxy S3 Galaxy Note as well
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as iPhone and uh well iPhone iPod I
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suppose would also work moving right along wireless streaming in high quality
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so yeah it uses an apex codec in order to enable the stream to be higher
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quality and this is pretty much all the same stuff and
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okay and that's pretty much it so let's open it up because one of the big things
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about this device is that it is absolutely beautiful is it necessarily
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the best audio quality you can buy for
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$700 no and that's fine because the best
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audio you can buy for $700 is usually
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some kind of like weird looking thing that sounds really great and it's like
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this Niche brand that doesn't seem to understand that you have to actually put
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the thing in your living room where people will see it Samsung it kind of
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gets that on account of they make like TVs which are pretty much the
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centerpiece of the modern living room whether you sort of like that or
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not and I would love to be able to get this out of here oh my goodness it's
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really heavy okay
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um whoa give me a sec guys I'm going to
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make you guys sit through the accessories before we actually take the
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sleeve off it because I'm really excited to see how the unit looks now I've heard
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Talk of the finish on it but I haven't seen it in person yet here we've got one
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of those filters for for your power cable uh we've got the remote the remote
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which actually looks
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surprisingly like a small iPod Touch
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except with a brown back the remote's kind of cheeseball but um the reality of
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it is this is designed to be controlled by your tablet or your smartphone 99% of
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the time so I wouldn't worry too much about the remote in fact I can't think
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of a good reason why you'd even dock a device to it unless it's just an iPod
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touch that you have for the sole purpose of keeping it docked to your uh to your
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iPod dock and you want it to continue to charge that's the only reason I would do
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it other than that I'd just be using AirPlay or I'd be using Bluetooth or I'd
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be using AllShare or or some other wireless device uh it comes with an
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auxiliary Jack and comes with an auxiliary cable in case you want one of
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those power cable and uh Ethernet cable
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because you do want this to be connected to your home network and let's go ahead
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and unveil this this Cherrywood
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finished living room
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centerpiece a yeah there we go that's what I'm talking
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about check this out so let's do a quick
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overview of the outside of the yeah you know what
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cameraman's gone in h actually oh yes we have a special guest for today's
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unboxing the legendary NC cameraman is
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back it's not slick today so uh yeah
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there you go so let's start with the speakers at the front so there you've
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got your mids speakers your tweeters and
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a subwoofer built right into the bottom so that means that you've got all the
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ranges covered with dedicated speakers most docs aren't doing that most docs
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cost less than $700 but if you're going to get a premium one you might as well
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get one that's got uh the the actual means to deliver all the different
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ranges of sound that you want there are your vacuum tubes so most amplifiers
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these days are done with opamps they are Amplified or most amplifiers these days
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are digital they are not using analog amplification so if you have a high
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quality amp built into a device such as this one what you're going to want to do
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is stream the audio or transmit the audio to it however you do it in at the
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lowest possible volume you want to rely on your you know iPhone as little as
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possible to amplify the sound and rely on this tube amp in order to do it for
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you so at the front yeah there's not much there other than four speakers and
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a Samsung logo at the top you got this you've also got controls on the top so
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you've got your play volume up volume down as well as the F button whatever
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whatever that does that's the like Angry button ah F there we go uh we'll don't
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worry we'll figure out what that does at some point and we'll update you so there's the porting for the subwoofer
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right there here we've got the Dual docking capable dock so I can throw an
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iPhone on there or or if I had a USB
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device such as a Galaxy S2 S3 or Samsung
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Note Galaxy Note rather I could put it on there as
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well nice all your connectivity it's
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back here so there's your Ethernet USB WPS setup I'm going to go ahead and
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remove the uh the sticker on here that's making it look kind of brutal aha there
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we go that's more like it auxilary in only for service wow that's very clearly
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labeled um and your power so oh oh this
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is oh this is brilliant cameraman wasn't sure why it had a USB port on the back
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and now it's become obvious to me if you don't have an iPhone and you don't have
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a Galaxy Device you can plug in your USB
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here plug your auxiliary in here and you can run any device off of it for as long
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as you want you just kind of hide it sort of you know under here or something
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and nobody ever has to see it so it can remain you
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know just looking like this and not have anything wrecking the uh the look of it
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so if if you want to check this thing out actually you can go to the NC
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Aberdine store and hear it in person and
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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
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cameraman's iPhone docked on there now there's a couple more things I did want
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to cover so the speakers are using glass fiber construction with a phase plug
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design uh also you can play music directly off a USB stick which is kind
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of cool and one of the other things I did want to say is you can connect using
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Bluetooth more than one device at a time so so you can actually rather than
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having to manage a bunch of different docks on a bunch of different devices
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that are just for that dock you can actually connect things however you want
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whenever you want and uh I think that's kind of cool now cameraman and I weren't
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particularly enthralled with the sound I
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mean tubeamps do have a bit of a warm sound and it's not to everyone's tastes
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and the lack of an equalizer built into the device it might be a bit of a
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challenge uh for some users however if you know you like the tuam sound and you
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do want something that is an absolutely beautiful
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looking device dock then I guess you could do a whole lot worse than the da
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750 thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look on lineus Tech
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tips and don't forget to subscribe and cameraman figured out what
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the f stands for f is for function it's on the remote as well see f for function
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so that actually changes the input so here I can change it back to back to the
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iPhone and I could potentially play music again there we go