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Reviews (3)
Dec 11, 2018
Cheap and cheerful
These are not rigid but hold up Tannoy 802s well enough tucked behind a desk. Poke them and they wobble for several seconds but they don't risk falling over. No instructions but easy to assemble. Triangular bases tuck in well alongside desk legs in my application.
Nov 02, 2016
Great streaming device and network extender
I grabbed the Airport Express to stream music with Airplay to a Peachtree Deepblue2 countertop speaker with an optical cable. As a huge bonus, the AE extends my Wi-Fi network to the busy kitchen/dining/seating area of the house, and I'm fortunate to have a wired Ethernet connection handy at that location.
There are concerns about jitter performance of the AE as a streaming device, but I don't think any impact from that outweighs the benefits of the streaming and network extension. My Apple devices play to the AE destination very easily, and there are no dropouts or other flakiness.
I bought this used. To wipe out previous settings and passwords, I had to do a few hard resets. I also needed to hook it up directly to a laptop to get it configured the way I wanted; I couldn't get it to set up from the intended location, which connected to the network via a switch.
After some initial fiddliness, the AE is doing a fine job streaming to the DB2 and extending my Wi-Fi to a rocking household network. It was worth replacing the spare Apple TV generation 2 puck I had, which didn't stream over the wired connection, converted the standard 41 kHz CD-quality music stream to 48 kHz more suitable for video, and was difficult to manage "headless" without a TV connected, which stands to reason because it's a purpose-built video streamer.
Nov 02, 2016
Optimal countertop system
1 of 2 found this helpful The Deepblue2 is a pricey replacement for a countertop radio, but gets more interesting as networked audio streaming destination, especially at the refurbished price on eBay. The DB2 really dials in the “countertop hi-fi” segment, getting the most from day-to-day household listening while neither underperforming nor outclassing the application.
The bulk of my family listening and entertaining is in the kitchen/dining/sitting area, out of reach of my more “serious” main room and desktop rigs. In between scant dedicated sessions with the good stuff, I’d spent most of my time streaming lossy news and music to an old Bose Wave Radio AWR-1 on the kitchen counter, tethered to the most handy iOS mobile device with a minijack-to-RCA cable. I picked up a Deepblue2 to improve that setup.
I didn't want to invest too much in a casual listening environment or put together multiple stereo components in the kitchen. I also didn’t require true portability with battery power, which narrowed the field of “Bluetooth speakers” down considerably. Top contenders were the B&W Zeppelin, Audioengine B2, the Marshall offerings, Minx Air 200, and the Wren. The DB2 won out with pedigree, reviews, price, inputs, form factor, and the big woofer.
I envisioned using the Bluetooth connectivity most, but wound up relying on Airplay over Wi-Fi instead. We’d recently taken the plunge with a Tidal subscription, and still have a formidable ALAC collection in iTunes. Airplay seems the most viable way to get a hi-fi digital stream into the DB2 and take advantage of the capable Peachtree DAC. Another Airplay bonus is simultaneous multi-room playback, albeit only from iTunes as the source.
Airplay requires an Airport Express or Apple TV connected via optical cable to DB2. That gets klugey, and I might have chosen an Airplay-equipped speaker in hindsight. But none of the Airplay offerings seemed to have price/performance as favorable as DB2.
I had an old ATV2 handy that worked as an Airplay destination from all the household Apple sources, but I couldn’t get it to work over wired Ethernet that I’m fortunate to have near the DB2. The ATV is also hobbled by two-factor authentication and “headless” operation without a monitor. Another video artifact is that the ATV awkwardly converts the 44.1 kHz Redbook audio stream (and others) to 48 kHz output, which relies on an algorithm to maintain sound integrity that isn't bit perfect and might audibly compromise the sound.
I sprung for a used Airport Express here on eBay to get around the ATV limitations. A major bonus is that AE extends my Wi-Fi network directly to the busy area using wired Ethernet—which ATV and airplay-embedded speakers don’t. Unfortunately, AE introduces excessive jitter into the digital audio stream, which also might degrade the sound. I like to think that’s less of a concern than lossy Bluetooth streaming and well within any margin of audible error for countertop listening, and that onboard Airplay devices would have similar issues.
I haven’t subjected the DB2 to terribly critical listening, but it does justice to a lossless CD-quality stream. It delivers ample range with no gimmicks, and aptly fills the kitchen/dining/sitting area with music that doesn’t sound compromised. I haven’t entertained with it yet, but I think it will deliver audible clarity in a noisy room without drawing attention to being pushed hard.
DB2 doesn’t have the resolution and punch of a well-equipped desktop system or the heft of a main system, but it completely outclasses an otherwise decent battery-powered Bluetooth speaker I have, the Oontz XL. The DB2 can sound a bit “boxy,” an unsurprising consequence of packaging all that kit in one box. The DB2 is certainly an upgrade over the AWR-1—although I actually miss the clock. The DB2 isn't the smallest option, but fits well on the counter against a wall under a cupboard, and takes up the same footprint as the AWR-1, but with more height to accommodate that 6.5” woofer.
Obviously I'm happy with the Deepblue2, and heartily recommend it for optimal countertop listening.