{"id":1580,"date":"2019-02-25T12:06:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T23:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2019-03-28T12:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T23:34:02","slug":"heco-direkt-800-bt-musictech-magazine-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/heco-direkt-800-bt-musictech-magazine-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Heco Direkt 800 BT MusicTech Magazine Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two is always better than one and while these sound great joined together, they would sound better apart. A great Bluetooth listen, anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Price<\/strong> \u00a3599
Contact<\/strong> Heco<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Direkt 800 BT key features:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  • All-in-one, two-way speaker system, Bluetooth and wired<\/li>
  • Comprises 2x 125mm bass\/midrange drivers and 2x 25mm tweeters<\/li>
  • Output power: 2x 45 plus 2x 100 watts<\/li>
  • Frequency range: 35-40kHz<\/li>
  • Dimensions (w x h x d): 480 x 320 x 228mm<\/li>
  • Weight: 8.6kg<\/li>
  • Available in black and white<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    We review a fair few Bluetooth speakers here, but \u2013 and let\u2019s make this clear \u2013 not because we believe you should be monitoring with them. Not as you are making your music, anyway. They\u2019ll introduce latency when recording and we\u2019ve yet to find a set that we\u2019d truly recommend for playing back music to pinpoint mix inaccuracies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    However, they\u2019re often pretty cheap, portable, very easy to use and set up, plus they come in all shapes and sizes. They are ideal, then, to add to your \u2018multiple listening test device\u2019 list (along with your car stereo, kitchen hi-fi and so on), for when you\u2019re checking your mixes to see how they sound on different systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The 800 BTs could be about to challenge us on the quality stakes, as they are made by respected German hi-fi expert Heco Audio, which has been making high-end hi-fi speakers for 70 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    They also have the specs to deliver. Along with decent power and frequency-range stats, these are also housed in a well-constructed body, with the same high-quality drivers found in Heco\u2019s higher-end systems. As well as Bluetooth input, which is an absolute cinch to set up by way of the supplied remote, you can also run analogue Ins by way of RCA and 3.5mm jack sockets, plus digital optical and coaxial Ins. This means you can have four devices connected at the same time and switch betwixt them via the remote. All good stuff so far\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    And the speakers themselves sound very good \u2013 as they should for the best part of 600 quid. There\u2019s a nice sense of presence right across the range, with the mids and lower-mid detail shining through and the high frequencies sparkling. Even the lows felt solid; we say \u2018even\u2019, as the specs might point to a lighter bass, as does the fact that there\u2019s an output available for optional sub \u2013 but we\u2019re not convinced you\u2019ll need that. So do we have a set of Bluetooth speakers accurate and suitable for monitoring?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sadly not. While these might be some of the best-sounding Bluetooths we\u2019ve heard \u2013 and pretty accurate with it \u2013 they are two monitors in one enclosure, so you simply don\u2019t get the width you crave in mixing. To be fair, they were never intended as studio monitors, but came so damn close, we nearly got a saw out to split them asunder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    REVIEW OVERVIEW<\/td><\/tr>
    OVERALL SCORE 7<\/td><\/tr>
    SUMMARY
    Two is always better than one and while these sound great joined together, they would sound better apart. A great Bluetooth listen, anyway.
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    Two is always better than one and while these sound great joined together, they would sound better apart. A great Bluetooth listen, anyway. Price \u00a3599Contact Heco Direkt 800 BT key features: All-in-one, two-way speaker system, Bluetooth and wired Comprises 2x 125mm bass\/midrange drivers and 2x 25mm tweeters Output power: 2x 45 plus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hifihq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}