This is the Edifier s 350 DB octave speaker
all right coming in from a defier Wang an approximate total of 6,000 kilograms
and I've just lifted it up on the table taking it out of the packaging box that
it came in so I'm a little bit out of breath because it's really heavy this is
the s3 50 DB active speaker other languages up here we can see that it's a
defier 150 watts RMS 8 woofer DRC wireless controller DSP bluetooth
optical input coaxial cable and auxiliary input the box itself has
already been opened by someone else but this is what we should expect to see in
the box contents I'm hoping that it's all there we have a subwoofer a passive
speaker an active speaker a remote control a power cable a 3.5 millimeter
RCA audio cable a speaker connecting cable a fiber optic input cable and a
user manual
the box looks to have had some better times I've seen some better days inside
the box we have some cables as it said on the bottom there on the exterior of
the box we have a simple power cable which will plug in ready for action we
have phone o2 3.5 guessing this is maybe the speaker connection cable I recognise
the port but I haven't seen it quite so often in speakers but then I don't
generally go for these high quality speakers and then we have a little
inside this horrible plastic bag so certain medical equipment would be
stored in this this tip doesn't help you we have a remote control that's small
and round and takes a we run battery that they included in the packaging like
so like so
I'm done so the remote control has power button volume up and dying and a
Bluetooth button auxiliary PC opt and coax and skip skip forward and back and
play pause very simple remote infrared on one side nothing else elsewhere and
it's nice because it's reign'd it's a hockey puck sighs I suppose and we'll
see how well it works okay at the bottom of the box I find the optical cable and
we're gonna try to set it up as we would expect to find it so this is the left
speaker it's really heavy because it's all wood and it's got rubber feet on the
bottom decent rubber feet it is particularly heavy bring it back right a
bit so you can see it'll even there's a slight across the desk you can feel the
weight of it we have the tweeter here we have tweeter up here with a gauze over
it there's nothing on here and there's no panel to put over the front list so
kids fingers could very well just go book I was even touching that as lightly
as possible I know I shouldn't but I can't help myself
and then there's rubber ring around here for reverberation now we got some
exposed screws which are of a particular type they're not standard screws that
you would find on a Phillips or flathead screwdriver knifes would affect down
here no more the fact that is actual wood I'm pretty sure and then run the
back we have that connection for the speaker air hole
nothing on this side and it's really I do apologize for deafening you all and
that looks nice yeah right we're going back a bit so the who started off with
the back bit because that's where it landed this thing is heavy right so we
have our CAS here we have the optical connector there oh no where did that go
just put that back for safekeeping coax here connect to satellite speaker right
we've got a VGA port there or a joystick port whatever you like to call it I like
to think of its of the back of the spectrum your joystick course but then
of course it it carried audio frequencies didn't connect to satellite
L speaker and then power button here power connector they're relatively
simple we're going to attempt to turn this Rhino which means standing up here
like Marty McFly would stand here with this guitar in front of this it's huge
found Samsung Galaxy S II its errors in comparison to a 70 centimeter ball of
Jack Daniels it's not a leader ball but scale-wise
yeah that's big
I'm then running this side nothing to take a word for it there's nothing else
to to show there well we'll have a quick look underneath just in case how we go
we have some nice feet that actually help slight signs of damage a little
blue sticker they're both not yeah a white hair from whoever looked at this
before lovely thank you very much for I
know this one which seems incredibly light after handling that one we have
our treble bass and volume input that's a clicky rotational that's smooth with a
with a notch at the top whenever you get to zero house is that there appears to
be some kind of led done there which must be a power indicator on there we
have a little plastic bit which might be for the Bluetooth infrared e-type yeah
it was just bluetooth but oh no further remote control there nothing on this
side around the back very little so we'll get her hooked up and turn it
on
okay so we're all hooked up I'm gonna be playing music through it like this
I know it's hardly ideal I'm just noticing down there it says auxiliary
pressing the volume button switches over to optical in coaxial in bluetooth PC
I'm back to auxiliary just thinking about this little grid it's little it's
mildly infuriating the way it works its way ruined but well nevermind I'm will
just check the remote power off power arm yeah we'll go to bluetooth because
we're going to be tuning in through bluetooth on your on my phone I don't
have any neighbors particularly close to me so we're gonna go pretty high on this
and probably blow up the microphone no it should be kind of cool so searching
Bluetooth we find the Edifier 30 or s 350 BB pairing paired okay so those
handsome Devils over the tech addicts have gone and recorded themselves a new
podcast which was out on the 10th of October if we hit play we're going to
hear it coming out of this speaker and then I'm going to control it with the
remote control and see just highlight we go and hi good designers then we'll have
a little tanker on the side here with the the bass and the treble connections
see what happens
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hello and welcome to the tech addict podcast I'm your host Gareth you might
know me from while tech addicts beforehand the projector room and talk
sport okay so initial impressions are the sound is quite good there was a bit
of breakup there whenever I got to the hi-hats of me introducing the show
however that might be more to do with me introducing the show them the actual
quality of the speakers the remote control has to be pointed directly at
this in order for it to control it which is a bit of a pian if I do this it
doesn't start if I do this it still does I'm joined tonight by the editor of stip
it doesn't it starts so you've got to be careful to be pointing at that so you've
got to have nothing in front of this in order to be able to control over the
remote control the controls on the side if you would cast your eyes right over
to the very side here we have it sent out travel as zero basis or basis zero
travel as you know it's traveled zero base 0 and then volume turns forever and
ever because obviously it's controlled by this so account go up to ten or
eleven here without causing a paradox we have the light there to show that there
all I'm getting
and then chattel what I'm going to do is off-camera I'm going to have a quick
play with this on various tunes so that we don't get flagged and see how it
signs
okay so having worked through a little selection of music from different genres
and it all sounds pretty amazing so I decided to ramp it up to try some
flack as well some some lossless signs that I've captured myself from my CD
collection and it's pretty astonishing the bass comes through this beast is
it's pretty and seeing my my door started rattling so I I think I need to
have that looked at before I carry for this cuz it's it's immediately jarring
whenever you're trying to listen to this and having the actual building shake
which makes this a bit of a neighbor annoyer
which is no bad thing by any stretch of the imagination now this does cost about
two hundred and forty pounds for this little collection of air of speakers and
I am wondering how this is going to sign whenever you hook it up to your
television watch a movie on it all that kind of stuff and see just how freakin
awesome it really is we're gonna pass it over to Paul for his review because he
looked at our last set of arrow fires and had a fairly positive experience
with them save for a few a few small points to note and see what he makes
these because obviously these are a bigger brother with more quality
materials used in their construction and and they look the part as well it's a
nice combination of a modern look using it is plastic on the front here with the
the wooden rears to them which which is really quite nice and then the exposed
nature of it really does scream audiophile but not quite extreme
audiophile you know you're not paying 1,500 points for these speakers this is
250 points this is an enthusiast stream just to have it sitting in their living
room to through some music to as they as they like so what we're talking about
here whenever it comes to actual numbers is that this is a 70 watt subwoofer
which is pretty big and whenever you come into comparison for versatile home
non enthusiastic ear and the the little speakers have about
15 watts for treble and 25 watts for bass and mid-range each so that's times
two and then there's a bluetooth 4.0 built-in which isn't the top end of
Bluetooth Bluetooth five is out at the moment but it still allows for a decent
amount of connectivity if there's not too much tinkering with the audio levels
the subwoofer is eight inches in size which is pretty big and then the whole
combination weighs 20 kilograms which is pretty heavy especially whenever you're
considering that you're gonna be lifting this up and putting it on a shelf or
something like that or in rowing technology that you don't want the
damage and so you gotta be careful where you're putting it so it is considerable
wit to include somewhere in your house or your living room or lounge or if you
end up putting it it has a lot of options it it has some connectivity and
things like that so I'm really thinking that this is going to be a decent review
coming from Paul but that's obviously obviously up to him and he could find
some glaring flaws with it may be that it doesn't do spoken word or something
like that particularly well but yeah the only downfall is the fact that you have
to point this at that in order to get it to work but then that's something that
we've had to deal with for years some televisions get around it but it's not
something that I'm prepared to market down for I'm loving this I'm gonna have
a play with it for the rest of the afternoon and then pass it on to Paul
who's going to spend a couple of weeks with them and get the most of them burn
them in and get them Rocking okay so check back in the show notes
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