The home economy seems to be continuing in recent times, and in the context of frequent restrictions on travel, many people have chosen to stay at home to play, play games, and listen to music to relax. Many friends around the author have begun to buy a game console, playing games is naturally to pursue the audio and video experience, in addition to the monitor, a set of affordable audio naturally can not be less. Most of the friends said that they hope to buy a set of thousand-dollar audio, just Huiwei OS-10 recently arrived at the Tianji network evaluation room, as a price of 888 yuan of active stereo sound, its performance in the end can stand firm in the price of thousands of yuan, we together through the actual measurement and experience to find out.
Unlike most of Huiwei's products, the appearance of Huiwei OS-10 is not a classic wood grain design, but a large area of fabric wrapping the box, with a front matte panel, the overall design style is more avant-garde, quite modern. Like Huiwei's previous audio products, the OS-10 is equipped with a remote control to control options such as the volume of the speaker itself. However, it is worth mentioning that because the design of Huiwei OS-10 is for desktop users, the distance between the speaker and the user itself is relatively close, so the upper part of the main box is also equipped with touch buttons, and the user can control it as soon as he reaches out.
The box of Huiwei OS-10 is streamlined as a whole, the front panel is not set up with a dust net, long-term use may require users to clean the dust on the surface of the audio unit from time to time, and friends who have pets at home also need to pay more attention to avoid fragile diaphragms being scratched or even scratched.
No matter what kind of positioning sound, connectivity is always an unavoidable topic, because no matter how good the cavity design, how many top-level diaphragm materials, you need to first ensure the quality of the sound source at the input end. The back of the OS-10 is equipped with a full range of input ports, which can meet the access of most audio sources on the market. In addition to a set of line access, the OS-10 wired port is also equipped with coaxial input and optical input, which can be used to connect PCs, TVs, Blu-ray DVDs and other audio-visual entertainment devices. At the same time, in the face of the wireless desktop that young people prefer, os-10 is also equipped with Bluetooth 5.0 wireless input, which can connect mobile audio source devices such as mobile phones and iPads.
Huiwei OS-10 main and secondary audio back connector
On the core audio unit, the Huiwei OS-10 is equipped with Huiwei's newly designed speaker unit, of which the tweeter is a 20mm soft dome "cat's eye" treble, the mid- and low-frequency unit is a 4-inch long-stroke unit, and the outer frame adopts an acoustic horn design, which Huiwei said can make the speaker more excellent in near-field sound and image positioning and directivity.
According to official data, the 20mm soft dome "Cat's Eye" on the OS-10 uses a 20-core transparent silk film material, which can make the sound quality more delicate, and the internal part of the unit is supplemented by a magnetic circuit system of NdFeB supplemented by liquid magnetic cooling, so that the entire unit can withstand greater power.
In the low-frequency unit part, Huiwei uses an aluminum carcass pot bottom with a natural rubber folding ring, which can make the sound more transparent and enhance the overall resolution. The iron basin frame inside the unit is equipped with a 25-core aluminum skeleton copper wire voice coil and a ferrite dual magnetic circuit system to improve the transient response, and the existence of anti-magnetic design also makes the sound interference less and more accurate.
As an active audio, the Huiwei OS-10 has a built-in high-efficiency and low-distortion digital power amplifier module, while equipped with a wide voltage switching power supply, and the digital processing chip is from Texas Instruments, which can be programmed for electronic crossover. The rear stage uses two amplification chips to drive a total of four loudspeakers for high/low sound, improving the output dynamics of the speakers.
The above is some of the basic hardware content of Huiwei OS-10, and the implementation of specific sound quality still needs us to audition to reach a conclusion. In order to more fully evaluate the sound quality of this speaker and better adapt to the needs of its target audience, we have selected the following auditions, namely Eagles' "Hotel California" 94 live version, Coldplay's "Viva la Vida", Beyond's "Cold Rainy Night" live version, and the anime "Mobile Suit Gundam UC" for the sound restoration test for complex fight scenes. to measure how effective this speaker is when actually watching movies and playing games.
In the song "Hotel California", the author personally prefers the instrument part at the beginning, which also tests the restoration and differentiation of the instrument by the equipment. The actual sound of the Huiwei OS-10 is still good, the overall sound conversion has a good differentiation, and the resolution and dynamic range are satisfactory, which can make a good presentation of the instrument with a low sense of volume.
"Viva la Vida" is a rock-based song with relatively high requirements for bass. The overall listening sense of Huiwei OS-10 is still good, for the restoration of complex scenes in place, the performance of the low-frequency part, the performance of Huiwei OS-10 is satisfactory, compared to the products at the same price point have a better dive.
Beyond's live version of "Cold Rainy Night" often appears in the author's experience article, this song I generally listen to the middle bass Solo part, here, Huiwei OS-10 presents a transparent and clean sound, tight strings, or quite good.
Finally, the watching of the anime "Mobile Suit Gundam UC", there are more explosions, metal collisions, vocals and some instrumental Bgm in the plot, which can be said to be a comprehensive test of OS-10, of course, for gamers, this scene is also quite valuable. Overall, the performance of Huiwei OS-10 can meet our expectations for this price point, due to the blessing of the cat's eye tweeter, OS-10 is quite realistic in some of the more sharp sound presentation, with the bass unit, the overall sense of presence is still a relatively good guarantee, and you can get a pretty good sense of immersion when playing games.
Overall, the performance of the Huiwei OS-10 still met our expectations. As a desktop active audio priced at 888 yuan, in terms of detailed sound quality, the performance of OS-10 in all aspects is remarkable. It can well meet the needs of users' daily audio and video, games, and has a good competitiveness at a price of 1,000 yuan, and it is also a recommended audio at this price.