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If you're like most people, you're convinced that big speakers always sound better than small speakers. Toss in an Echo or similar and you might think a single speaker is plenty for a good stereo effect too. Wrong, and wrong!
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Kempler and Strauss X2 Wireless Surround Sound Speakers and finds that they're startlingly good, with big sound and great design. And for the price, they're a steal!
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can speakers this small actually sounded
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let's check them out Dave Taylor here
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I'm looking at more audio gear this time
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I'm looking at these these are the
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Templar and Strauss x2 wireless surround
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speakers and you're looking at these and
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you're like no way seriously dude these
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are gonna sound horrible you know what
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they don't let's just start with that so
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two speakers one of them pairs with your
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device and the other one then becomes
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the sort of secondary unit it's already
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paired let's give it some sound let's go
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ahead and pause that music a little more
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funk that I'm ready for today but these
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little x2 speakers
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it's kind of weird they put out a lot of
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sound now you know for something of this
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size you're not going to be challenging
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your huge electric stat speakers that
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are you know taller than your child but
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for something this small it's really
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remarkable how well they work and what's
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cool is that they have what they call
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their own surround technology so you
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actually can take these two speakers and
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put them pretty far apart and it will
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actually sort of envelop the space with
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not just stereo but like sort of a 3d
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sonic music it's kind of hard to explain
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but it actually the speakers themselves
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will split things so that you get
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different music out of different
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speakers assuming it doesn't already
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have a stereophonic signal now that's
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really cool because of course we're
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getting into a world where everyone just
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listens to single speakers right whether
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it's an echo whether it's something else
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we've sort of lost this whole concept of
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two speakers gives you more music than
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one speaker does but kempler and Strauss
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with these tiny little gadgets have done
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something
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really remarkable now let me tell you
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they have a four-hour playtime to our
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charge comes with this really nice
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charging stand and that's easy enough
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you just drop them on it's a magnet and
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just goes ahead and you're charging away
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easy enough
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you can listen while it's charging which
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is handy let's double check that's true
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apparently that's true so that's great
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so you can do this now obviously they're
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really close together and here's the
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thing is they've really all basically
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over engineered this and that's great
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because so many companies don't think
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things through so you look at the bottom
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of one of these and as you can see in
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the close-up there's the two electric
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spots I don't know what to call them and
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that's how it does the charging but
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there's also a micro USB connection
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which means that it is true you can take
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just these and charge them on the go but
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we're not done there let's do our super
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quick examination of their box they did
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a cool box too so take the sleeve out
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and then it opens up and then actually
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the speakers would be here already got
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them out and this is the base for the
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charging and then on this side they have
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a bunch of cables so you get the
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charging block you get a single micro
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USB cable that I'm using loops here to
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charge this but they also include
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something really cool that's a split
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cable so you can plug both of these into
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a single USB if you want to charge it
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while you're on the road when you're in
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your office whatever it is now the only
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thing they didn't do on the design is
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that when you're charging it directly
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obviously you've plugged it into the
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bottom of the speaker so now you can't
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lay it flat but honestly that's your
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biggest concern you're doing really well
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really love that they've included this
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and they even have little hand straps so
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you can put them on here I don't know
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where they fit somewhere on here I see
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there's a couple little slots there you
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can go through the extraordinary
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challenge of how patient you are to get
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this to go through and then you could
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even tie them honestly to like your back
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pack and then when you're ready to
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listen to music you just put them on
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opposite sides of your campfire or your
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picnic bench or whatever and now you got
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it rockin and they're tiny I mean oh my
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god you can put these in your pocket so
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nice like their packaging like the whole
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design of it the sound is really quite
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remarkable now let's talk just a tiny
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bit more about the sound because I also
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will say that it's really remarkable for
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these little speakers but they're pretty
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bright so you know this is not an audio
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file level reproduction but when I tell
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you the price you're gonna be blown away
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at how inexpensive they are so you know
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these are not gonna compare two three
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four five $600 speakers obviously but
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for these little tiny things they do a
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pretty darn good job now they say that
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it's 20 to 20,000 Hertz frequency
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response these are two point four ounces
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each so they're super light and it's
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running with bluetooth 4.2 which is
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pretty good actually so it should stay
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connected and work just fine and pairing
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super easy it has a voice system built
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into it and then you basically you know
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pair them they see each other and you
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only see one device on your on your
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phone or your computer now I will also
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say that I tried these with Netflix on
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my phone and boy there's a huge lag it's
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really not usable at all in that regard
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because you know you see their mouths
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move and then like I don't know maybe a
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third of a second later you hear the
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audio so in using these for video for
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video work unless you have some way to
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change your video delay and this is
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really aren't gonna work but for music
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total win now before I tell you the
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price because the only thing left to
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talk about let me ask you if you can
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too now okay kempler and strauss x2
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wireless surround speakers in black or
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silver will set you back you ready for
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this it's crazy thirty nine ninety seven
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at amazon.com now they started out at
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about ninety bucks but they've clearly
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done a huge price adjustment because
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thirty nine
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dollars for these these are pretty cool
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these would have been a really great
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Christmas stocking stuffer I mean these
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are a really nice birthday present for
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someone even a teenager I think would
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really enjoy these maybe ideally a
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teenager right you just stick them on
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your two shelves on either side of your
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room and you're rocking and then when it
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says you know battery low you just say
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oops and you go ahead and drop them
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easily enough drop them under the
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charger now the only other thing I will
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say is that the charger there's you can
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see there's lights on the bottom of
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these and there's a light that shows you
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your charging status but it's super hard
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to see it's so low down that you
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basically see its reflection I know
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there's no way I can get a picture that
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will show you this I'll try but you know
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there's this tiny little red dot down
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there and I wish that would have been a
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little more obvious even maybe a light
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at the top of the speaker so I could
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just glance over and say oh they're
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charged let's go so really that's like
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my only complaint otherwise there's so
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much they've done right I really like
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these kempler and Strauss these are one
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of the better devices of seen in a while
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so this is Dave Taylor I say check them
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out and I'll catch you in my next video
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