so, guys, I wasn't really planning to make this video but I guess here it is these
are the Edifier 1280 DB studio speakers and what I would consider the best
hundred dollars you can spend for your studio or your computer setup now I
bought this pair almost a year ago and I've been using them ever since so I
would say I've learned quite a bit about them by now and well in this video we'll
discuss all the goods the best and the worst about these speakers now when I
was looking to buy these almost a year ago it was solely because of the price
tag and I wondered around countless I was trying to find a good and honest
review about them and I couldn't really find anything but because they were so
cheap on Amazon I decided to buy them anyways and after almost a year of
enjoying them I decided to share my opinion and my review on them with you
guys now starting off unfortunately I can't do no unboxing because I wasn't
planning this video but I still have the box they came in and inside the box was
pretty much just the speaker's the front speaker grilles and some wires to power
them up they were supposed to come with the external remote and an optical input
cable but that didn't show up in my box so I pretty much just had the speakers
and the wise to power them up now before getting into a detail review let's get
the basic specs out of the way just in case if you were looking for that info
but getting into the video list I will power these speakers are 42 watts and
what I truly love about them are the input options they give you so in the
main monitor which is ideally the right-hand one we have two RCA inputs
for two separate channels labeled has Lane one and Lane two we can easily
switch through them and I'll show you how just in a bit but besides that we
have an optical input and a coaxial input and on the other side this is the
output to power our left side of the speaker and luckily enough this wire
came within the box for me and it's actually pretty long so you can place
your speaker's pretty far apart now these are proper studio stereo sounding
speakers and what's rare to find in this price range is built-in bluetooth which
is a huge feature alone and it gotta be one of my favorite features on these
speakers now obviously the Bluetooth connection wouldn't be as good and it
wouldn't be has detailed but I love them because of the convenience I can easily
hook up my iPhone or when I have friends over
I can easily have them play their music and connect my
to their devices whenever the light and switching back from Bluetooth and lane
one Lane two or optical or whatever other input you're using is actually
pretty simple as well so we actually put all the technical things too aside the
Bluetooth actually sounds really good the audience really clean there's little
to no noise and I overall just love this feature to stream music now talk about
build quality I wouldn't expect something top-of-the-line $400 but in
general is built pretty well we have a completely wooden frame instead of a
beam cardboard and on the size of what seems to be real wood is actually just
plywood but a she gives a really nice texture and you can't really tell this
plywood it looks like real wood so material wise no complaints really they
actually build pretty well and moving to the front we have a 13 millimeter
Tweaker and a 4 inch woofer on each side and let me tell you the sound quality
coming out of this thing is really good the bass is strong and punchy and the
mids are crispy and clear and another feature I really like about these
speakers are the ability to tweak the sound so on the right hand side of the
main speaker which is the right one we have three different knobs and these
knobs are where all the magic happens so the first one we can use that to tweak
the treble and we could increase it or decrease it or leave it at normal where
it would ideally be on a studio speaker the second knob is for the bass so again
if we just leave it in the middle or at zero the bass will be where it would
normally be on a studio speaker but if you want to add a little bit more
punchiness a little bit more bass to your sound you
can always increase the bass and the woofers go crazy without losing any
quality or sound usually what I notice with cheap speakers or whenever you
increase the bass and you turn up the volume the speakers will start crackling
but I haven't faced any issue like that using these speakers and lastly the
third knob on here is our volume control so this is what we could use to increase
or decrease the volume now by default whenever you power on the speaker's the
volume is always around 60 to 80 percent I'm not sure exactly where but it's
pretty loud so you're able to control your volume using your computer and you
can get a pretty loud but if you want that extra loudness you can always go
into the monitors and increase the volume from there and the volume knob is
also where we can change our inputs and we can see that information with the
light indicator at the bottom so each time you want to change the input
settings you just press the volume button and it will cycle through
different input modes so for example when the light is green we're either
using a lane 1 or lane 2 you press it again and the light goes red this is
when you're using the optical input and you press it the third time and this is
where you're using Bluetooth has an input and this is where the light would
go blue so everything's pretty basic simple and straightforward to use and
that's what I really like so in general the sound quality is pretty good I like
the ability to tweak the sound where if you need more bass you have that option
or if you want to increase the treble or decrease the treble you have those
options as well and the ability to connect your smartphone or other smart
devices using bluetooth is really convenient and after using these
speakers for almost a year I don't really have anything to dislike they're
actually pretty good speakers and they come at a great price if I have to
pinpoint something I don't like about these speakers or would have that
improved would be the actual design and when I say design I mean the wooden
texture I'm not really a big fan of the wooden design they might look good if
you're using them in your living room has bookshelf speakers or something else
but in my case using them in my studio I don't think the wooden texture suits
them the best I would have personally like the speakers to look a little bit
more modern maybe a complete black or white color maybe a gloss finish mate
finish or something like that because I personally find having a good color
combination is pretty hard when using wooden textures because wood in general
just has so many different textures and different colors it's almost close to
impossible to have a matching set up or have a color combination or a color
theme going on using these speakers but yeah guys let me know your opinion on
these speakers I would say they're pretty good for the price I would also
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