 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosel here. I'm here in a playground in Jerusalem at one in the morning. This is not my typical Saturday night pursuit, but I'm here to test out a wireless audio system. Excellent wireless audio. I picked up from Aliexpress, which for those who haven't had the pleasure of becoming acquainted with Aliexpress, it is a Chinese website. It's kind of the B2C or business to consumer equivalent of Alibaba. And because I live in Israel, it is useful if you don't have great Amazon service in your part of the world. They sell stuff straight from China to where you're living. And something else about this whole video project is I buy a lot of stuff from there. A, because it's kind of more accessible. B, because I'm definitely working on a budget. And my kind of modus operandi today has been to buy a lot of different gear, different connect different connectivities, et cetera, et cetera. Find something that works. And then when I'm out of Israel in the US, et cetera, I'll buy something decent quality. It's probably horrible for the environment, but it's what's worked for me and my budget up to this point. So for the sake of comparison, I got this sure microphone from Amazon last week. It was something I could get here. And I have it currently wired into my camcorder, the Canon XA40 using XLR cable. So I'm currently wired. And as I move away from the camera, we shouldn't really be seeing any, you know, there might be a bit of handling noise because the XLR cabling is dragging along the ground here. There's definitely substantial handling noise on the microphone. If I just pass it hand to hand, you know, it's a $40 reporter's mic. So you can expect a ton. In any event, this is going to be the control. This is the kind of baseline performance of the microphone. What I'm going to do now is pop in my $50 AliExpress wireless XLR system. And we'll see how that sounds by comparison. Okay, so I've gone ahead and swapped over to wireless. As you guys can see, what on earth is this wireless system for about $50? Great question. It is, it says on the product, MTU002. When you buy stuff in AliExpress, especially on the cheaper range, you typically don't buy from a brand. So it's not clear exactly who makes this, what the brand name is. What I can tell you guys is that I'm currently using the wireless system as 654.750 megahertz. Now, unlike a decent wireless pairing system, this one doesn't have a automatic frequency adjustment functionality. In other words, if I change frequency on the transmitter by hitting the button here, the receiver is not going to automatically pick up on the change of frequency. So you have to have them dialed in at the same frequency. So that's something, if you spend decent money, you'll get. But I mean, at $60, this guy's coming in at a few hundred dollars cheaper than, you know, what a decent XLR wireless system will set you back. Now it does have some basic functionalities. It takes a USB type C charge. So there's a little port for both. And it came with a USB type C cable with two heads. So you can just stick one into your charger and charge receiver and transmitter at the same time. There is a little notch here on the side for changing between your vocal transmission and music transmission mode. The performance of the microphone shouldn't be any different. Now, what I'm going to do is some sort of arranged test. So this is why I'm doing it at one in the morning when people aren't kind of staring at me. I'm about one meter away from my camcorder, the Canon XA40. What I'm going to do is move back in this direction and we're going to see how things change. So I'd say I'm about probably five meters from the camcorder now and let's go back further, further, further, further, further, further, further. I'm about 10 meters here, maybe even 15. In any event, once it gets to 10 or 15 meters, I'm not really concerned because I'm probably not going to be using, you know, for something like this, like a reporter or interviewing a microphone. I'm probably going to be at maximum about this far from the camcorder maybe interviewing somebody. So if it even kind of holds somewhat steady up to that kind of five, seven meter range, I'm going to be pretty happy. I have done my own test anytime I buy a new microphone from the internet. The first thing I do is go and record a test footage and that's why my YouTube channel says it has hundreds of video uploads. There's only about 100 public videos because it's full of all these videos of me testing at my gear that are set to private. So I've done my own testing so far. I have to say it's been pretty disappointing but you never know. Maybe I did something wrong with the frequencies and this will somehow turn out better. In any event, this is roughly the performance you can expect from a $50 white label or off label wireless XLR system purchased from AliExpress. I hope this video is useful. If you want to get more videos from me about video Linux, Israel, whole potpourri of topics, please feel free to hit that subscribe button and thank you guys very much for watching.