Hello i'm Graham Houghton and welcome to my review of this 20-inch soundbar by Dyplay.
Now first of all a full disclaimer I was sent this free of charge by Dyplay
to do a full review on my channel for you. It does not affect the way that I review this product it's
fully independent and what you see is what you get with my reviews. Looking at the packaging
for this device it's just a stock cardboard box to protect the soundbar in transit you can see
from the graphics on the front it says it's a 2.0 channel soundbar which means it's just a stereo
sound bar it doesn't have the sophistication of something like 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound so
there's no export to a external speaker such as a subwoofer or any front and backs because
it's just a stereo front-facing soundbar. Now it does say on here that it's a bluetooth soundbar.
Now first of all you wouldn't want to connect this to your television over bluetooth
there's something like a half a second latency in that system and you'd have lip sync problems so
it would be a bluetooth soundbar if you're using it with your phone or any other bluetooth
device where you want to have an audio output now normally you'll be connecting this either by hdmi
which is ARC compliant so it will be controlled from the remote of your television system
or you'll be using the optical connection from the television to the soundbar either one of
those systems will provide adequate audio output from the device no difference between hdmi and the
optical it will have a 3.5mm input socket which is used as the auxiliary line in either from your
phone or any other audio device which has that 3.5mm connection. Now this device also supports a
micro SDcard so you could load audio files onto there and play them through this sound
system and in conjunction with that there's also a usb a part which again you can plug in there a
usb stick or a usb hard drive with external power and be able to play unlimited numbers of
sound files from those devices but mainly you'll be using optical input or hdmi input so
let's unbox this and see what you get for your asking price here in the UK of £60 (45$ USA). So
you can see here now the package contents we have the user guide we have this mini remote controller
which allows you to optically control the soundbar from a distance of up to say three meters it's
infrared so line of sight we've got the 3.5 to rca connector so in case you want to connect this to
older devices that only have the red and white audio output we've got the 3.5 to 3.5 auxiliary
cable one has got a right angle plug and one's got a straight dependent on the connectivity you want
we've got the tosh link or the optical connecting cable and we've got the hdmi cable that's supplied
with the unit and then the country specific power adapter for the device and of course the device
itself so let's have a look at this in a little bit more detail so this is the soundbar unboxed
and i must say it looks very attractive in the piano black plastic case it's got a metal grille
on the front with the decal of die play on the front and if i just tilt this you can get a hint
as to the internal construction where we've got a small speaker here we've got a tweeter with the
looks of it here again on the other side we've got the other speaker so i guess these are the
main speakers for the left and right channel and i guess we've just got one tweeter for a
commonality between both channels and over this side we can see the window which has got the led
to enunciate the mode that you're in and also the IR detector to switch over if you look at the top
of the unit you can see that a nice lustrous black finish um it is a very highly polished finish
and obviously going to be a fingerprint magnet and it will show dust as dust settles on the unit so a
very very nice attractive cover what i'd like to see is the fit between any of the side panels and
this is extremely good this metal grille fits inside the plastic case absolutely no space
whatsoever really nicely finished off no sharp edges and even the outside edges are perfect there
is no indication that there's any roughness here it is really a nice finish so on the right hand
side of the unit we've got four push buttons one is the power button then we've got the mode change
and then we've got the plus and minus volume controls on the side quite a nice tactile feel
and they're easily located on the side so we've got a nice tactile feel for the movement of those
buttons having a look at the input compartment of this device you can see here on the top right
we've got a usb a input that allows you to use things like usb sticks with your audio files on
or you could probably use a uh usb hard drive which is externally powered with all your audio
tracks on it next to that we've got the 3.5 audio input socket and that allows you to use a
3.5 millimetre audio input from your phone or mp3 player or any other device which has a line output
3.5 millimetre socket next to that we've got our optical input socket which is for the optical
fiber cable trapdoor on there allows it to close and stop the ingress of dust when you're not using
the device we've got our dc input port there for our 80v input from our country-specific adapter
bottom left-hand side you can see the slot for the micro SD card and over on the right-hand side here
you can see the hdmi socket probably see how close the socket is to the outside wall which
prevents you from putting largest uh cables in there and even the one the supply with uh does
interfere with the side and it's quite hard to get that in there and puts quite a bit of strain
on this socket on the back of the unit you can see we've got two wall mounting fixtures the standard
type where you'll screw a screw into the wall and leave the head slightly powered and then just slip
this unit over the slots again foam rubber on there to prevent damage to your wall or other
fixture and it will stop it vibrating and moving around again and again that nice black finish
is continued all the way around again on the base of the unit we've got some rubber feet which will
prevent damage to the base of the units and provide some audio separation from the unit
as well so it won't vibrate and move around and again in that nice black piano finish again a
magnet for fingerprints you need to wipe that with a microfiber cloth to remove those fingerprints so
these black shiny cases the same with the phones are fingerprint magnets so be aware of that
i'm back to the front case so you can see i've got the soundbar set up here and for an audio input
i've got a usb pen drive plugged into the usb a port on that pen drive i've got some royalty-free
music so we can actually listen to this without striking any copyright restrictions i want to
play you just a sample of sound from this device compared to the standard speakers which are in my
imac 27 inch and you see the difference between the imac speakers and this sambar so let me play
those clips and you can see the difference between this soundbar and the 27 inch imac
on the front of the unit you can see the enunciator led light here
which is signalling that we're using the usb port if i put the unit in standby you'll
notice we've got a red light and that stays on all the time that the unit is in standby
now you could argue for visually impaired people that this is a good feature along with the
audio warning if you are visually impaired you probably appreciate that but for the rest of us
i find that a bit obtrusive let me turn it on and you'll see what i mean
usb you always get an enunciation of the mode that you're in
and if i switch modes, if iIgo over to hdmi "please insert hdmi" it always tells you to insert
hdmi if you've not got it in if i go to line input line you can see the color of the led changes to
tell you which mode you're in if I go to bluetooth it will go to
blue led light or flash waiting for pairing now pairing is very easy with this you just select
the name of the this device in your bluetooth list and connect to that device very very simply
if you're using the small sd card in there the micro sd card no sd card switch to the
tf and you get that magenta light going up optical input optical fiber would connect to your tv over
optical fiber and then the hdmi input would give you the arc connected signal from your hdmi.
On the little device here which is the remote controller um an array of buttons which give
you the on off mute and then the functionality of bluetooth sd card optical fiber the hdmi usb and
line in volume plus and volume minus and then the eq mode and the eq mode will allow you to set one
of four eq modes now if you do look at the amazon listing there is a discrepancy in the listing
one stage three one says four but their device actually has four mods additionally if you're
using the micro sd card or the usb input you can skip the track or go to the beginning of a track
or the end of a track or pause it using the three buttons across the bottom of it
the buttons on here are not very tactile if i go to the power off switch
there's little to tell you that you've actually pressed the button there's not much of a tactile
feel more like a spongey feel as with all these cheap uh remote control infrared units they seem
to be made to the same pattern they're just little domes of metal inside there which act as spring
contacts so they don't really give you much of a tactile feedback as to whether you've actually
made contact and unless you're actually in line of sight to this receiver then you won't notice it
changing so we've seen some of the functionality and the tests of this product but who exactly is
the target audience for it i guess it's going to be a rather niche market it's for the visually
impaired or those with hard hearing because the visual prompts to tell you what mode you're in
plus the audible parts for the hard of hearing will be a great asset to them but for normal users
i think they are an irritation the bright light is quite a distraction and certainly when you power
this on or you change modes that audible prompt is a little bit too loud and isn't unnecessary
in my opinion once you know what mode you're in you're going to leave it in that mode but once
you turn it off and turn it back on again you'll get this grated noise which is the audible problem
to tell you what a mode you're in i think that's totally unnecessary for normal users the other
features i don't like about this product apart from that bright light and destruction of audio
is the configuration of the inputs if this is wall mounted it does limit you to either the optical
cable or the hdmi cable as you won't be able to put in there a micro sd card or insert a usb stick
so that would limit this to being dismounted so you can gain access to the back compartment and
also with the placement of that hdmi input socket with the normal size of hdmi cables for modern
televisions they tend to be quite large because of the cable diameters but this will preclude
you from using those because you can't fit them physically into that socket the cable size and the
casing around it is just too big to allow you to put it into that socket now also the position of
that micro sd slot is in the wrong position when you try to eject that little card it sometimes
just shoots out and lands in the compartment again you could only use this on a desktop situation
apart from that i think the design of it is quite nice and the sound output certainly
gives you an increase in volume over the typical with two and a half or three and a half watts
you get with standard laptops or television so it will enhance the output power of your television
i do question the amount of bass response from this unit from these two small speakers and uh i
guess it's not going to be a 100 watts music power i haven't got meters to validate it but i guess
it's probably something in the region of 25 to 30 watts in total power output so not as high as
you would expect it is quite loud but it does tend to distort if you got it in the higher volume
settings and the higher volume settings will be indicated by the led which is flashing red when
you hit maximum volume there's no other way of knowing what volume you're at there's no physical
level meter on here to tell you what your volume level setting is so once you set it it's probably
adequate and you can throw the input volume from your input device if using your phone or either
audio device or from your tv remote now the tactile feel of this infrared remote controller
isn't very good sometimes even when you're in line of sight of the infrared receiver
pressing these buttons nothing happens and that's because you've not fully depressed the button
to make contact with the secretary underneath to change channel or change volume so the device
is not very good it's better if you've got the hdmi c arc audio return channel you can use your
television remote to change the settings so that would be preferable then using this device so that
was my review of the die play 2.0 channel soundbar ideally suited to these small flat screen tvs with
very small speakers or laptops with very small speakers it will improve the audio performance of
those devices doesn't have enough bass to warrant you using this in larger tv setups where you
want more bass especially if you're watching movies and want the full immersive experience
that these new tvs presets can provide you need a much larger sound bars with either 5.1 or 7.1
surround sound systems to get the true benefit of those larger format tvs so thanks very much
for watching please do take care and of course i'll put links to the display of this unit from
the amazon website in the video description below so until the next video thanks very
much for watching please do take care and i hope to see you all very very soon goodbye for now.