High WAF BenQ Trevolo2 bluetooth speaker 

Yeah, this is something different guys. I like to try reviewing other stuffs and hope you guys enjoyed it.

Thomas, I love the new look of these reviews, GREAT JOB!

Hi Thomas , i like your open mind & bravery approach to audiophile & non audiophile audience. Well said.

You need to use a pair of linear power supplies, DSP to high pass @111hz, replace all the power supply capacitors with PIO (105°, and up the capacity by at least 30% over stock, use Orange Drops for the board capacitors, all metal resistors (of course), new thicker internal wiring (preferably OCC Silver), use a MicroRendu for streamer (w/linear power supply), add a reclocker to the DAC, a linear power supply to the reclocker, put felt on the front, put Dynamat on the back/base, use speaker spikes, mount them on vibration free pads, and a trio of REL subs low passed at exactly 107hz (must use the Speakon connectors, or you're wasting your time. This requires more rewiring of course) to approach audiophile level. That's it. And after that you're good. 😉 Great video Thomas. You had me rolling. Especially the one girl joke. And the cat in the picture. Not even a dog!? 🤣🤣🤣 BTW I've actually thought of buying one of these myself just for fun. I think they're pretty cool actually. Bet my Mom would love it. My girl would probably just break it though. She could find a way to break a solid block of metal. 😂

Wife: "I don't like how our speakers look...They are ugly" Me: (As I reach over to turn the system up)..."i'm sorry Honey,,,what was that?"

Hi Thomas.Wife approved or not, if I add another piece (or two) of equipment I will be approved to leave the house.

Will this speaker pair with an Emotiva XPA 2 and Schitt Freya? Or will monoblocks be better? LOL Thanks for a fun diversion! Love your reviews!

Hi Thomas, recent got into hifi audio and purchased the lsim705's was wondering what front end equipment I should use with it(bought the iotavx stack but both were defective).

Man, you're hilarious!!! You must be hell of a nice friend to have around.

i have been intrigued by these since i first came across them. So many thanks for the review. I think that the price is great value. Now i do not need a pair. But just for the aesthetics i would love a pair. However i will not be buying a pair as i really really do not need a pair. but they are so CUTE

Thank you, good review. Oh, I have a speaker design for somebody to work up. Patent pending. MK1 looks like to handbags and Mk2 looks like one handbag and a pair of high heel shoes. The Mk1s are far easier to fit drivers and tweeters and can be stand mounted. The shoes in the Mk2s a liitle more difficult but not impossible to scram everything in them without occultation. My test version of the Shoe speakers only sings when it plays sole music, don't know why though 🤔 Suggestions please as to their market viability.

Something different and more affordable is good for a change of pace. Very expensive gear often gives me sticker shock and makes my hi-fi budget seem très pétit.

...and here I'm still loving my Audio Engine A2+ being fed by a Cambridge DacMagic XS with a Rolls SX45 splitting the signal out at 150hz to the A2+ and the rest going to an 8" sub under my desk.

Amazing videos always Thomas. ? ? The IOTAVX SA3 is out of stock. I wonder do you think the PA3 Amp World it work ok with a schiit Freya Tube preamp

LOL for the Chart! Too true! LOL

This is not my idea of high end, Thomas, what happened?! LOL. At first, I thought your children gave you these for Father's Day! They are rather cute actually...your family friends might ask, "do they fly?!" From the sound demo, they image pretty well! They look like a good lifestyle product for reproducing some nice music with ultimate convenience in mind.

The speakers in the sound demo sort of sound like they're muffled/30% of the sound range is missing (as a beginner audiophile it's hard for me to explain these things sadly)...is this the limitation of the speakers or recording via the mic?

Thomas says "find the right product for you". Well it's not this one. I'll drop out early and catch you next time.

You REALLY need a breath/pop screen. I actually thought someone was shooting outside my house. (Not uncommon, when you live in rural South Texas)

Hoping that you will one day get a Paradigm Persona 9H testor to go with this. LOL.

omg Thomas has gone full Cnet lifestyle ? lol. No seriously the best part is where you explain how to not to pair these speakers and get them both working. It's in such small things where you might learn a thing that might be useful to solve another problem. Well done also to do your own thing and in daring to bring non audiophile grade stuff to audiophiles. A bold move :-)

LOL I love my cat!

Good videos.. .but there is a a "hum/tone" in all your videos ??

😝 audio files are very rare they only come out at night.. As, by day they work hard to support their habit..😁

For a personal and quiet system so not disturbing any one but yourself, try out the now just discontinued while stocks last, the excellent astell and kern kann, tidal hifi master subscription player, then use it with the beryllium driver dynamic headphone MW65 closed back from master and dynamic, a very neutral and flat response headphone, no peaked up bass and treble frequencies, with no tipped up ragged uneven high frequencies like the 90% of current high end headphones do, from the likes of focal etc, and some manufacturers of the high end planar headphones do. I also use this player as my tidal music source player in my biamped main audio system rig, using the dac direct line output with adjustable voltage regulation. Noise floor - 116 decibels, currently better than 99% of even all full sized streamers out there. Very smooth very neutral Wideband frequency capability, while still hearing all the details, using the pro equlalizer dac setting to on, as this is the totally flat full range frequency response dac setting. Distortion is 0.00 figures lower than you will find in the vast majority of the high end full size streaming sources, Channel separation is far below its own extremely low self noise floor. For example the linn selekt at over £4000 with its silent smp power supply has an electronic noise floor of -110 below line output. While the likes of the company naim, their high end streamers are not noiseless at all, but suffer from noise and hiss at their line output, which is not very good considering naim streamers cost in the multiple thousands of uk pounds. This is where using some knowledge of an audio components electronic design capability comes in to play in its electrical performance capability realm also, and not just its perceived sound quality performance capabilities. The kann also has the ability to let through a recordings subsonic frequency range clearly delineated and defined, as long as the rest of your system, been your amplification / loudspeakers can let all of pass through the audio chain at speed as to not mess up the kann's information ability at the time it finally exists your loudspeakers clearly delineated. Yor system should sound as if has literally disappeared from itself and just the music is set entirely free naturally in space in your room, while been able to hear all the recorded material detail in a recording all the way back to the smallest of inflections been able to be resolved by the used microphones recording abilities. Today there is still an awful amount of amplifiers / loudspeakers that are still not able to fully exploit properly a source component even like the kann in what it is actually really capable of. All low quality amplification / loudspeakers need not apply as they are not fully able to fully exploit and extract the kann's actual full ability.

Hehe i like that, always something for someone...

No wife. Just a cat for me lol

I dig it

Thomas, what is your definition of air?

WAF is positive here, HAF not so much. Luv that you can have a sense of humor about it, hard for me tho cuz my wife has zero humor about my gear addiction. Or maybe that is exactly why it is funny bcuz no one's wife has a sense of humor about it?

i was hoping you would try it on nice stands or put nice isolation feet on it to try to get it sound the best

Wow

you want two 10-inch subwoofers DSP has it got built-in Try them the opposite way round close to wall 3 -6 " see how they sound How much is that recorder

No wife...no problem!! 🙆🤷😂😂

Hey Thomas i have cat too :-)

Quality sound is getting cheaper. I am often surprised by audio coming out from my MacBook Pro and Galaxy tablet. 20 years from now on, my audiophile gear would belong in a museum....

Thomas, please don’t do anymore sound clips

NO LDAC NO HIRES AUDIO NO TRANSPARENCY NO DLNA NO NETWORK STREAMING NO DTS No way near Sony Audiophile sound. Save your money and buy Sony ,SRS33 SONY SRSGH1,

almost first! lol.

They look cool, (and I think the original Trevolo looks better) but for anything other than background music, don't bother. The BenQ is too expensive for what it offers in terms of SQ. If you just care about looks and WAF, no worries. But the upper midrange and treble dispersion from the "electrostatic panels" on the Trevolo is like a laser beam. You have to be perfectly 100% on-axis both horizontally and vertically to hear any midrange or high end detail whatsoever. I've had the opportunity to hear to just about every make and model of these portable Bluetooth type speakers while working on thousands of location photo shoot productions. If you want this type of portable Bluetooth speaker, the Bose SoundDocks are still WAY ahead in terms of SQ, while admittedly a bit bulkier. Yes, I said it! BOSE, haha!... Of course, this is in perspective to what these types of portable BT speakers are... NOT high-end audio. Just a portable "party" speaker. The tiny, round JBL CLIP ''hockey puck" Bluetooth speakers are just as good as the BenQ in terms of background music listening and are way more portable. And you can make one of these DIY that sounds WAY better using a cigar box or plastic shoebox, a BT chip amp, some Tang-Band or Dayton Audio wide-band drivers from www.parts-express.com and an inexpensive rechargeable USB power bank, totalling about $40, and it would be much more of a conversation piece, while perhaps not gaining the WAF, LOL. I still have the original BenQ Trevolo collecting dust on a shelf in my grip truck that a production company gave to me at the end of a photo shoot... they purchased it just to use on this photoshoot and were so unimpressed that they didn't want to bother keeping it, haha. For information on how to record your speaker demos so that they translate more accurately and realistically to your viewers, watch the following videos: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-riXAOTRdTNA.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NrqfbiWSftM.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8EAFBysViAg.html