Sound really good love it a lot

Sound really good love it a lot  Read Less

I've only been listening for a couple hours and I know I'm keeping this thing. It's not perfect but it's very enjoyable and ha...  Read More

I've only been listening for a couple hours and I know I'm keeping this thing. It's not perfect but it's very enjoyable and has become a good value with the recent price drop. I'm using this unit in a home office to listen to music. My only concern is of longevity, I could use this thing for 20 years, but if complaints about units dying are anything more than a noisy minority, it might not last (knock on wood).Overall sound quality impressions:Stereo separation is dulled compared to hi-fi speakers spread at a wide angle, but it doesn't sound anywhere near as bad as a mono speaker. They could have used horn tweeters and faced them forward and it probably would give a very sharp stereo image directly in front of the speaker, but if you want to fill a room with music and not require sitting exactly in the sweet spot to notice a difference the deepblue2 with its dome tweeters facing slightly outward does the job very well. It's a trade-off to consider when you think about what kind of sound system you want and what its job will be.Frequency response is very good. Mid-range is good and voices are clear, though it's sometimes a little soft, but it's not weak or completely absent like every other Bluetooth speaker I've listened to (example: AudioEngine B2 = weak/spotty, anything Bose = absent). Bass is very strong and decently low; it's really incredible for a unit this compact (and doesn't have the fake mid-bass hump that I've heard from just about every other Bluetooth speaker), but it doesn't go super low compared to big subwoofers (but hey, it excels at its job as a semi-portable singular speaker unit). Treble is fairly sharp and lends detail without turning the sizzle up to 11; it's kind of in the middle, so some will find it a little soft, some will like it, and some will think it's too hot... a treble control is a feature they should consider adding to future revisions to appease a wider audience.Other notes:It's really easy to use. I literally just plugged it in and started using the remote to turn it on and pair it. I'm not bothering cabling anything to it, aptX all the way, tapping Bluetooth button on remote to switch devices. I also have a Klipsch sound bar with aptX. My impression is that it sounds great, noticeably better than standard A2DP, and indistinguishable from 16-bit 48khz stereo S/PDIF/Toslink (I think aptX HD is supposed to support 24-bit audio, but it's only available on a few devices so far, and it's not worth waiting for or being a deal breaker if you want a piece of audio equipment).Bluetooth issue: Android 6 and up has a buggy feature where it tries to synchronize the Bluetooth volume with the device (it doesn't work on all devices, it must require the device to report volume changes back to the host). Using the deepblue2 With my Nexus 5x ends up limiting the volume to 5 levels (at or below 50% volume)... you can make finer volume adjustments on the deepblue2 remote and/or turn it up past 50% volume, but 1-2 seconds later Android will correct you and readjust the volume to the nearest one of the 5 levels. It's really annoying because you can't make fine volume adjustments or turn it up loud. Everything works fine with a Windows 10 laptop or tablet, you can just turn the Bluetooth volume to 100% and use the deepblue2 remote to adjust the volume however you like. (NOTE: The volume sync issue appears to be gone in Android Oreo... it happened for a minute and then the volumes seemed to unlink and become independent, and have remained so after several connect/disconnect cycles).Speaker break-in: don't believe in it. This is a solid state world. While newly-manufactured speakers do need a little stretching of their surrounds, it's either been done at the factory or just needs a few minutes of loud music to do the trick. I've even seen articles written by those who've scientifically tested and measured speakers for break-in, proving there is little effect after a few minutes. Thus I call it brain break-in: you get used to the response of the new speakers and your brain compensates, just like if you wear yellow colored sunglasses or goggles; you get used to it and everything starts to look normal, then when you take them off an hour later everything looks starkly blue. The deepblue2 won't need much brain break-in because it's already pretty high fidelity, your brain doesn't have to compensate for any significant lack of frequency response, thus it will come down to some personal preferences. You'll probably know within 10 minutes whether you like it or not, and only a couple hours will give you a clear understanding of its performance characteristics, dozens of hours of break-in not needed. If you dislike a sound system the first day, send it back, it's not getting any better (if you were on the fence you might change your mind after getting used to it, but that doesn't mean the sound actually got better).Edit: I noticed a few days later that the amplifiers make a bit of a low hiss that's noticeable when listening at really low volume or when nothing is playing. It doesn't really bother me but it does raise the noise floor if you're concerned about that, and isn't quite what I would expect from a modern unit in this price range. It might be because the amps are turned up to 11 to pump out high volume, and the volume control is just changing the pre-amp volume... it's not like a big receiver with a motorized volume knob where you hear the hiss change volume with the knob (the hiss is the same volume at all volume levels so the noise floor is fixed, so the hiss is inconsequential at high volume).Edit: Using Android Oreo on my Nexus 5x I'm able to connect to the deepblue2 using AAC. The Nexus 5x was supposed to support aptX but Google didn't enable it, likely because aptX requires a per-device licensing fee, whereas AAC can be negotiated as a blanket license for a software product (just speculating but I have AAC but no aptX). Anyway, Peachtree didn't list AAC in the specs, just aptX, but AAC works. This is particularly interesting if you use iOS devices as Apple currently only supports AAC, so you can rest assured you'll get hiqh quality Bluetooth audio on the deepblue2 whether you use iOS (AAC), Android (AAC, aptX, LDAC), or Windows devices (aptX).  Read Less