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taotronics reached out to us to sponsor a showcase of their new sound surge 46

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active noise cancelling wireless headphones which unlike the headphones

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we looked at in our last roundup don't cost

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350 us dollars so let's take a look

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shall we

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the sound surge 46 comes in a reasonably low profile rectangular case similar to

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the one that comes with the microsoft surface headphones because like those

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ones these headphones are solid and don't fold

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in the box there's a seat belt a netted pouch and a few accessories including a

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three and a half millimeter audio cable for wired listening assuming of course

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that you still have a device with a headphone jack you also get a two foot

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long charging cable which believe it or not is actually longer than the cables

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that come with lots of premium brand headphones including sony and bose and

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while it is micro usb it does still support fast charging and they claimed

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two hours of music playback after just five minutes of charging and a full

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charge in just 45 minutes looking at the industrial design of the headphones

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themselves they are closed back over ear headphones with swiveling and tilting

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earcups which are welcome features because they not only make them more

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portable but also more comfortable as they conform to your head better and

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sometimes it's nice to be able to rotate them when they're sitting on your

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shoulders as i manipulate the headphones here something you guys will probably

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notice is that they are nearly silent which is

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great because lots of headphones are quite creaky which can be annoying the

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ear cups are plastic and anodized aluminum with nice plushy protein

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leather ear pads and as a total bonus a bit of padding right here in front of

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the 40 millimeter drivers many headphones put only a thin piece of

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cloth here which can be immediately uncomfortable if your ears stick out far

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enough to press against the driver the headband can be ratcheted through 10

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graduated steps which was large enough for the biggest melons in our office and

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offers about a centimeter of padding at its deepest point now all the playback

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controls are on the right ear cup with all the functions controlled by just

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three buttons the volume up and down buttons are also used to skip tracks if

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you hold them down while the power on and off button also plays and pauses

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during media playback or hangs up during calls which you can make hands-free with

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the onboard microphone you can also double tap power for redial or hold down

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for bluetooth pairing for up to a claimed 30 hours of play time finally

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there's the active noise canceling switch on the front of the earcup which

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does take a little bit of getting used to it's got a green led that indicates

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that anc is on now tautronic says this will reduce any low repetitive

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frequencies like engine noise on a plane or the hvac sounds in your office by up

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to 96 and it works by using a microphone to

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listen to the environment around you then produce equal but opposite sound

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waves to cancel out the noise there's also some noise reduction acting on your

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phone calls as the microphone uses qualcomm's clear voice capture 6.0

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technology this is a suite of algorithms that are built into the microphone audio

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processing circuit that makes your voice sound better to the person that you're

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talking to it's nice to have when your headset doesn't have a protruding mic

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boom but instead houses the microphone within the ear cups like what we've got

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here now sound wise they've got a lot of bass and a wide sound stage and perform

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their best at low to medium volumes though they will go louder if you want

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to so that's the sound surge 46 available

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now at the link below if you're looking for something similar but a bit more

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compact by the way caltronics also offers the foldable and less expensive

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sound surge 60 as well as the sound liberty 53 truly wireless earbuds for

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even less than that so thanks for watching guys thanks to

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taotronics for sponsoring this video if you guys disliked it you can hit that

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