The Bayan Audio 7 is the daddy in a family which furthermore includes the unassuming Bayan 5 and little mono Bayans 3 and 1. It's a five-way speaker scheme with not one but two iPod docks, and has a distinctive -- dare we say, masculine -- gaze, with 8in subwoofer flanked by twin 2in midrange drivers and a two of 1in broad dispersion tweeters all jutting out rather phallically from a border of clear acrylic.
That revealed woofer sans grille certainly won't be for every person, and if you're a family man, you'll need to beware of tiny appendages poking it to glimpse what donates.
possibly even more characteristic however, is the fact that it can contain two iPods or iPhones at once and ascribe both at the same time, while allowing you to play music from either. It's absolutely unusual, but also, not that practical when you arrive to believe about it -- why would you need two?
You can furthermore use the USB slot on the back for powering a tablet or non-Apple contestant, though you can't use the remote to control it and you'll need to connect it by the 3.5mm analogue jack to hear it.
A cable's supplied, but it's so little as to be all but impractical to use.
Behind each iPod dock is an adjustable rest that you can move in and out utilising a screw at the back of the unit, and there's a power switch at the back as well as a touch-sensitive on/off button on peak.
The amps in the back can bowl out 120 watts of power, with separate amps for sub and midrange/tweeters. It'll go pretty blaring when you impel it, certainly more than enough to power a good-sized dwelling party, though distortion starts to creep in at full whack.
There are two self-acting equaliser settings -- one for "voice", another for "music". Voice takes out a alallotmentment of the reduced end to offer a crisper sound with focus on the higher midrange, and is designed to impart more clarity on the spoken phrase. melodies on the other hand, woofs up the bass and smaller mid to get you rocking the party. Fortunately, you can also fine-tune both backgrounds with bass and treble controls on the isolated control though with no visual representation, you'll just have to seem your way to what noise good.
The sound is usually pretty good, and if it doesn't have floor-rumbling bass consequences, the reduced end is habitually clear and well-defined. Mid and high range too are well characterised and without ever getting rough or overly superior.
As a use for the two docks, you can get some funky blending going between two iPods, just about, since it will play both at one time, though you'll need some adorned hands-on digit work with the on-screen controls on each iPod. swapping between devices using the isolated is less glossy however, since the switchover takes a second or so from the time you press the button.
regardless of its sleek, all-black gaze, the isolated is rather a disappointment, thanks to its rubbery buttons, which are sticky and unresponsive. Try as we might, making changes to the sound or swapping between docks was habitually more of a chore than a pleasure and we completed up forsaking it in favour of hands-on command of our iPods.
