Bob Lindabury

I just don't understand what all the fuss is about concerning the Peachtree Audio deepblue powered speaker system. I see on Crutchfield this is billed as "Audiophile Bluetooth Speaker System". So, right off the bat, I'm skeptical because I know for a matter of fact that the Bluetooth wireless specification is NOT up to the task of producing audiophile-quality sound. It's just not possible because of the following issues: "Bluetooth is a protocol allowing low power devices to communicate wireless.With a nominal bandwidth of 3 Mbit/s (2.1 + EDR) it is not suit for bit perfect audio. Due to this limitation it is not possible to send CD quality audio (16 bits/44.1 kHz) over Bluetooth without applying lossy compression. Most of the time the A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) protocol is used for audio. This profile limits the available maximum bit rate to 320kb/s for mono, and 512kb/s for two-channel modes." So, right off the bat the audio is compromised by using lossy compression to achieve the low-bitrate bluetooth audio transport spec. I figure, what the heck. I'll go to their website and they'll make me eat crow with their audiophile specifications for this $400.00 speaker-in-a-box system. Low and behold! No audiophile specs. No S/N Ratio, no THD specs. No efficiency ratings. I see this instead: Power: 240-watt 5-channel amplifier Frequency response: 40Hz-20kHz What's the rolloff over the range of those frequency specs? What's THD on those amps and how is the amplification split up between the tweeters, mids and woofer? What's the power handling of the speaker and what's the DB/watt efficiency. Those specs mean absolutely NOTHING if they are not qualified. How can any of you even consider this device without some kind of real-world audio specifications? It boggles my mind. This tells me this is NOT an audiophile device and that these guys at Peachtree are trying to ride the wave of millions of people who absolutely either have no knowledge of audio or what an audiophile device sounds like or they just don't care. They've been listening to crappy computer speakers and compressed MP3's or the like for so long they don't even know what high-quality audio coming out of some high quality equipment connected to high-quality speakers can sound like. Or maybe they're just too young to have experienced anything other than output from their smartphone. Either way, it's difficult for me to even believe someone here calling themselves the "Computer Audiophile" could gush all over this thing especially at the ridiculous price point. I see everybody falling all over themselves about this overpriced, under performing speaker device. My how the world of audio has tumbled if this is a device to be praised for it's outstanding sound quality. -- Bob