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apple what could you possibly be thinking according to the internet i'm the

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biggest apple hater out there and yet here i am on launch date with

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the airpods max why would you send it to me

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oh we bought them all right well we bought them so these come in

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at 550 us dollars which means that

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naturally in the uh current

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environment we paid how much was it 400

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canadians 1200 canadian all i have to say

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is these things better be flipping awesome

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i have cloistered myself i know absolutely

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nothing about them other than what is on my spec sheet here

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they come in five different colors so we got the

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basically black i guess is what this space gray with a black headband

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that's what we've got they've got eight active noise cancelling microphones and

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if there's anything i know about apple's active noise cancelling technology based on my

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experience with the airpods pros it's that my

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expectations for this are extremely high it's got three mics for voice so two of

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those are also used for anc that gives you a total of

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nine microphones on these things and they've

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got an apple h1 chip in each ear cup what kind

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of carrying case is this

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truly it is the bra purse

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oh i can already tell that that's probably not going to be enough cushion

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for my head pushing i mean it's one thing for a pair of

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headphones to be comfortable when you first put it on for like 10 minutes

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it's quite another for a pair of headphones to be comfortable when you've been sitting listening to them for

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you know three hours on a super long train ride or whatever the case may be

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all right well it's got a magnetic dudata majig there

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two apples credit it's fast to put in and take out i guess

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okay first let's finish the unboxing okay lightning charging cable lightning

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to type c cable included no charger do you see brazil challenged apple's stance that including

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a charger is or not including a charger is for environmental purposes they were

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like sorry what a charger is sort of fundamental to using the product you

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guys are going to need to include chargers okay we've got little

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paper protectors this is nice though nice environmentally friendly packaging

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okay all right only twist one way so

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that means it's you know you don't have to have any like muscle memory for which way it folds to

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put in the case the ear pads are removable it's magnetic

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absolutely freaking love that nice big drivers in

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there although i wouldn't have expected anything less from an audio product that

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cost 550 us dollars although i do want to take a second to

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comment on the price i saw people outraged about a 550

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price tag for these and i guess if all you've ever known

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for high-end consumer audio is like

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bose you know qcs then 550

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seems like a lot but i can tell you from the audiophile community point

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of things that's like wow well these are like bang for the buck

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wow they've even got wireless built in at that price what is a disappointment

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from an audiophile standpoint is you don't even have the option of driving them with an external

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amp and dac so you can see here the only interface for these

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in true modern apple fashion is you've got lightning down here for charging

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and guess what that's flipping it

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so if you want to plug them into your you know hi-fi setup at home or whatever

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you might as well just give up bluetooth is all we've got a

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crown kind of wheel and button up here another

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button over on what is the right ear cup i love these nice clear labels on the ear cups

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you see that david not that that is how i would evaluate a

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pair of headphones but they do look pretty freaking sick in

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terms of sizing i'd say if you've got a super

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you'd have to have a pretty super small head for this to not go small enough for

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you like i don't think my kids could wear it but if you're an adult it should be no problem

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and oh they powered on immediately so intuitive i already figured out how the

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active noise cancellation works i just went to like adjust them on my head

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and immediately the exact same noise that i expect from my airpods pros

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uh the active noise cancellation i think was on by default so it kicked off and

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now i've turned it back on it's a little bit of hiss just a little

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bit a little bit of that active noise

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cancellation pressure they're heavy though like metal

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construction has been attempted many times on headphones and rarely

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well but to their credit they're holding really well you're holding back

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shake test oh there's a little bit they've

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they got momentum to the headband's credit

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this held up way better than i expected

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like usually i can tell very quickly like oh yeah there's a

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ridge running across my head they've got just enough ear clamp

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pressure that it might be okay but like i said i'd

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have to really wear them for two hours to see if they eventually fatigue me

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hold on a second sorry i'm having a hard time hearing you just have to turn on the transparency whoa

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to an even greater extent than the airpods pros

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i kind of feel like i am listening to myself on the radio

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can you guys just tell tell me uh james tell me about uh

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how's your how's your daughter doing well uh she's

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she climbs on everything yeah okay you sound totally normal to me though

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it's like it's damn close like that's impressive

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okay so the crown controls so you turn it for volume control

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press once for play pause or to answer a phone call twice to skip forward

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three times to skip back this button has a nice feeling to it actually

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and press and hold for siri i think it's a little easy to press for my liking

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though like every time i grab them i'm like i'm pressing and holding it it's the

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kind of thing that once you own the product realistically you're gonna get used to it in time but

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it's it adds an adjustment period that there maybe didn't have to be when you put it

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into the smart case it makes them go into a lower power state

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why wouldn't they just go into a lower power state when you take them off your head like

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every other pair of wireless headphones in this price bracket you don't want

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everybody walking around with stuff so you have to carry this stupid case

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around with you that is completely asinine why wouldn't you just have i mean this is

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ugh see i sit here and i try to

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appreciate the good things but then apple just has this like

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point of clarification it does eventually go into low power mode

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but it takes two hours to get there why don't we just

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have a button combo for this i just i fixed it for you apple

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let's pair it to a phone we're gonna go with my iphone because there are some

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features that work better on iphone apple's spatial audio

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uh 360 degree virtual surround only works on iphone uh the seamless

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sharing and switching features are unlikely to work on Android uh so this

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lets you sort of seamlessly switch between your mac and your iphone which

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is pretty cool or share an audio stream with another pair of airpods uh voice activation will

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be specific to siri and the headphones have a lightning port

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for charging rather than usb type-c that's not strictly speaking something

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that is you know works better on iphone but it'll certainly integrate better into

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your the rest of your ecosystem if you have an iphone and use lightning for all of

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your charging so normally you just like bring airpods close to an iphone and it

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just like kind of magically pops up is it do i have to like take it out of the

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magic case to magically pair i don't know yeah like if you just open up the

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case of your pods it just pairs so i'm just kind of like making assumptions here nope magic case

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doesn't even have that functionality thanks magic case smart case i don't whatever hold the

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crown press this maybe holding them both is

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bluetooth pairing oh wait whatever it's here i don't even

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know what put it in pairing mode why does it not just have a light for pairing mode

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oh yeah it does there it is i think okay whatever it's connected

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magical enough all right let's go with songs that you guys are allowed to hear

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can you guys is it completely noise isolated like can you guys hear anything i can't hear you

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okay i hear something so if i like crank it and i'm like vibing on the bus or

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whatever i can hear a bit now yeah even even with

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transparency mode on i can't hear a damn thing you're saying sorry i can hear it a bit you can hear it okay

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so that's a good sign when you're trying to build a product

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with active noise cancellation one of the first steps is building

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something with good noise isolation because it's obviously a lot harder to

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compensate for sound waves that are getting right through it into your ear holes if

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you can just block out most of it in the first place it makes life a lot simpler now let's

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just pop into the settings app uh so there's transparency there's just

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off so this is no anc but wow these are really isolating like i feel like i'm

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inside my own head yeah like i can i can hear it but it's

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like it's like i've got my bed sheets and my pillows like over top of my head

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and i'm like talking to myself like i can almost feel the vibration of

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my voice in my own skull that's actually kind of

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trippy i would definitely have them in transparency mode or anc all the time i

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would never do this not really a whole lot to adjust i'm

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sure there's like third-party apps for eq but that's something we can explore

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in the full review make sure you're subscribed to Linus tech tips so you don't miss that we'll also be comparing

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two boses uh what are these noise cancelling headphones 700's as well as

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sony's i think these are their gen 4 xm4 yeah they sound a little

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better to me in this like off mode but everything

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else is kind of weird and trippy so all right let's try transparency mode

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and can you guys uh i'm going to listen at like sort of a reasonable volume here

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let's see if i can kind of hear you i can hear myself much better and i don't actually know i don't notice the

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unnatural sound of my own voice anymore jono how's your how's your dog doing

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how's cadence he's doing fantastic can't hear a damn word you're saying okay

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uh let's try someone louder david yeah tell me tell me about cyberpunk

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cyberpunk is a video game that is a hot

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mess but i'm enjoying the heck out of it and all right wait to go home and play more

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yeah okay so it's usable i'd still have to turn down what would i think would be

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my typical listening volume but it's working let's pop it in noise cancellation

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because this is probably how i would use them the vast majority of the time

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so even at i would say a fairly modest listening volume

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i'm not expecting to hear a word you guys are saying

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james how was your commute this morning

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okay i can tell you're just making noises now because i could see

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i could barely hear that okay were you doing it loud

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oh i see so just like with the airpods

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pros i'm really impressed with the active noise cancellation apple's done a great job of

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reducing that that pressure feeling on your ears and

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it works really well i take issue already with apple's claims

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that what what did they call this the the best audio experience

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possible or on the market or something like that they're not

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like within about four seconds

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they're not why does apple make me do this

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like if they had just said yeah they're pricey because they're made of a solid

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piece of aluminum for each ear cup and they have great modern features like high-end

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bluetooth connectivity and spatial audio you know what do you want from us

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they're pricey they're you know 150 more than the competition deal with it

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if that's what they said i'd have been like fair enough apple i get it don't call

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them the best sounding headphones yeah rated for 20 hours of listening

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time on a single charge with anc or transparency

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up to 20 hours of movie playback on a single charge with spatial audio on so

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that's pretty sweet uh we're gonna have to try that in the full review i'm actually kind of excited

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for that that'd be pretty sweet being able to take like a

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5.1 setup around with you effectively at most actually that actually makes

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sense five minutes charge time provides one and a half hours of listening time

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that's pretty sweet so you can top them up right before you you know leave and 20 hours of talk time on a

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single charge man i would feel like such a douche bag like walking around having

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phone calls on this thing i mean maybe it's just like it just needs to become you know the norm though

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like i'm sure people felt like douches with their air pods at first

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maybe this will just become normal because lord knows apple is

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not having any difficulty selling the things first impressions then

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build quality feels great they're surprisingly comfortable

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they look outstanding i mean you know what it's not like i'm gonna gloss over

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that they look absolutely sick and they sound

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pretty damn good even if it just doesn't hold up to what

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apple claimed they sounded like go get yours for 550

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just kidding they're gonna cost you probably another 250 bucks on top

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of that because scalpers you scalpers

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thanks subscribe to Channel Super Fun wait short second i forgot what

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look i forgot what each cheer channel i was on today okay

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