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this is probably the best choice for you
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to get audio into your stereo system let
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me tell you all about
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it Dave Taylor here and this time I want
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to talk about high-end audio now I'm not
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talking high-end Audio headphones though
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we have a lot of those I'm just talking
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about the audio signal itself and turns
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out that the audio signal that you get
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generally is richer and has more dynamic
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range and more information than your
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headphones your earbuds your speakers
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are actually able to reproduce that's
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why audio files use something called a
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DAC it's a digital analog converter and
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what it does is it actually makes your
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music sound bigger richer and Fuller the
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problem is is that good ones tend to be
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big and tend to be pretty darn expensive
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which is why when IFI actually hit me up
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and said hey we got this new i1 do you
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want to check it out I said absolutely
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and as you can see it's a little guy
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it's a third of a pound it weighs almost
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nothing it feels like it's like they
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forgot to put the circuitry in it but
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it's really pretty slick and it does a
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really great job particularly if you're
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trying to hook up Bluetooth to an
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existing audio system although it
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obviously has a lot more capabilities so
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let me go ahead and hook it up and we'll
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run it through its paces and I'll tell
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you a little more about ITS
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Technologies all right so we have it all
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hooked up and what I'm done is I've
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hooked the i1 up to my audio engine
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speakers great nice sounding little
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speakers and they're connected via the
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RCA output and then I have USB coming in
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from my computer and then I've also
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paired it with Bluetooth on my phone and
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we'll come back to that phone connection
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in a minute cuz that's important but now
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on the front I want to choose the USB
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input and then on my computer I'm just
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going to go ahead and press play and
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now you're hearing really nice rich
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sound coming out of this and you know
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it's loud there's a lot going on let's
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pause that and now let's change inputs
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and I'm just going to go to Bluetooth
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and now off of my phone will have the
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experience got a message coming in
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that's where that went away for a second
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pretty sweet output from an iPhone right
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now here's the thing um let's pause that
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here's the issue the issue is that this
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uses what's called aptx which is a
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technology that hooks in with Bluetooth
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that gives you better Dynamic audio
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range and makes the music sound really
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good the downside iOS doesn't support
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that so Apple devices don't actually
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have apx now your Android phone might
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well do that your comp computer might
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but these devices do not so most of the
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systems that you can get that are
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Bluetooth receivers they just say oh
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well whatever we'll just use regular
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Bluetooth audio doesn't sound as good
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but what the IFI Nano guys what II's
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done is they've said Hey what if we use
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AAC so this little device very modest
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little device actually uses a different
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compression technology with iOS devices
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to give you that better quality audio so
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it is not aptx but if you have an apx
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device then this is going to sound great
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if you have an iOS device it can use AAC
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instead super cool and here's another
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thing this works with high-res audio so
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this is what's known as DSD 256 but if
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you have a system that's pushing out
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high-res audio this can absolutely work
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with it and as a Dack it also gives you
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the option and I'll show you the front
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here is you can actually turn different
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audio filters on now to be totally
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honest I can't hear the difference
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between them but someone with maybe
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better ears or with a better audio
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system can do that oh and one more thing
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is because I have this hooked up to the
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computer it can drive power out of the
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USB if you aren't going to have a
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computer in the loop like maybe you're
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going to have this hooked up to your
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stereo and you want it as a bluetoth
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receiver smart idea then you'll need
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some sort of a little wall charger USB
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cord so that's pretty easy it comes with
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this um the cable's obviously super
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short it's not really intended to be 10
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ft snaking out of your audio system and
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into the wall easily solved that's not
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an issue whatsoever in my book and the
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audio quality is just great this really
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takes music that's like this wide and
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makes it this wide that's the job of a
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deck but what they've really done here
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is they've made this super functional
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and for a surprisingly modest price for
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high-end audio gear this is a great
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addition even for your TV you can use
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this to hook up to the audio system on
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your TV and now you have better quality
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audio even with your video games so
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think about that next time you hear a
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little explosion instead of a big
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explosion so let me just go through the
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specs again real quick so inputs are
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Bluetooth or USB and it's USB 2 or 3 not
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USBC those of you on the latest
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generation MacBooks and other devices
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you might need an adapter or a different
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cable for that not the end of the world
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um USB and spdif never know whether to
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pronounce it SPD or not um but it's cool
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because that particular input circuitry
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actually uses what's called galvanic
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isolation so you get incredibly little
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noise and chatter which is really
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important because you want to hear the
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music and if there's no music you want
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to hear nothing you don't want to hear
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crack Ling and hissing or any I any
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noise from power or anything does all
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that automatically outputs are the RCA
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jack and the SP diff so it can work as
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an input and or output which is Handy if
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you're hooking it up to a computer and
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the dynamic range for those of you that
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understand that number it's 109 DB so
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that's a lot of dynamic range that's
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going to go from super soft to Crazy
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loud and before I tell you the price one
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more thing please click C the Subscribe
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stay in touch cool now how much does
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this cost how much would you pay for
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this high-end audio file deck the answer
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is it's less than you think it's 199
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bucks and you can pick it up at places
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like B&H and just do a Google search
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there's tons of different places that
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you can find out about this and you can
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also find out more at the IFI website so
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this is Dave Taylor I'm going to get
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back to the music so I will catch you in
