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Nothing has done a lot to make their headphones one stand out. They've got

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40mm custom dynamic nickelplated drivers, comfy PU cushions that offer

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pretty consistent mounting across a variety of head shapes, strong rated

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battery life, and what's this? A return

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to physical buttons instead of touch controls. My goodness, have you ever got

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my attention there. They even worked with KE, a renowned audio brand, on the

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tuning of the headphones. It's just too bad that KEF is mostly known for

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speakers. And as it turns out from our Labs testing, which was done by none

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other than DMS, that's unfortunately the one thing that

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they kind of got wrong here, but it can be fixed. So, why don't we take a closer

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look? Ooh, I like this carrying case. It's thin, so we can already tell that

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they fold flat. And in terms of included accessories, we get a coba.

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Wow. But what about second coba? One 3 and a

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half mm cable and then a simple type-C to type-C USB 2 cable. Unfortunately,

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this is just a three pole, so you can't use the mic over the cable, which is

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sort of a downer. But the good news is that if you were going to plug in a

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cable, you could just plug in the C cable and just use them wirelessly

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because they do work while you are charging them. Now, let's take a look.

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Oh, I like the feel of this as well. Very stylish. Very, very nothing. Oh,

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these are kind of old school cool. I do

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like you've got that kind of square cost

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looking kind of vibe to them and yet

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with what appears to be some kind of like um and is this polycarbonate? We

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don't know. I'm getting the shrug, but boy does it ever look like it. At at any

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rate, at any rate, it's very clear and at least to my fingernails, reasonably

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scratch resistant. What a flipping vibe. And you know what?

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To their credit, in spite of the fact that we've got like a blasted anodized

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aluminum finish on all of this and all of this, they're not unreasonably heavy.

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They also aren't nearly as light as nothing advertises them at. We tested on

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two separate scales and found that they weigh about 60 g more than nothing

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claims. But if you want to compare to something like, you know, the AirPods

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Max or something like that, then this is downright reasonable. And speaking of

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comparison to the AirPods Max, one of the things that we noticed that nothing

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did really well is the adjustment

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mechanism here. That's really nice.

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Smooth. Basically, infinite adjustment this way.

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And the way that they're managing the clamping pressure with this hinge here

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resulted in very consistent mounting across our various setups. And I got to

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say that is that is not bad considering that they're not coming all the way down

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and putting pressure from the outside with a fork style mount like you would

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see with a traditional headphone. It's kind of hard for you guys to see, but

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like I've got a really good seal back there. The noise isolation is pretty

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solid and they have active noise cancellation as well. Although it should

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be noted that there is a significant impact on battery life from using it.

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They rate it at 80 hours if you are not using ANC and about 35 once you've got

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it switched on. Though that's obviously still well more than you could listen to

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music in a single day. That's for sure.

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They have the usual suite of features for their ANC. So, they do offer a

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transparency mode as well as AI assisted

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situational noise suppression, whatever.

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We found that overall it was pretty good ANC, but didn't perform as well with

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wind interference. Let's have a look at the interface, though, because this is

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where I think nothing is going to be grabbing a lot of people's attention. No

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swipes or gestures. Man, I still remember the first touchc controlled

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headphones from Parrot of all people. I

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told them, "Guys, I don't know if this is going to catch on," and I was wrong,

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but maybe now I'm right. Uh, we've got a single button here. This by default is

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bound to your voice assistant, if I recall correctly, but can be rebound

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depending on you want from within the Nothing X app. You've got a roller here

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with a bit of a rubberized texture on it that actually kind of reminds me of an

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old school ball mouse. This is used for volume adjustment and oh, it's got a

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little click. If you press and hold that, you can

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toggle between the transparency and less

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opacity modes. And then we've got a paddle here that can be used to advance

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the track, reverse the track, or if you hold it, fast forward, and vice versa.

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At the bottom, power switch, USBC for charging, as well as our 3 and 1/2 mm

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jack. Oh, hey, I can I can actually count the noise cancelling mice here. It

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looks like a total of three per side on the outside and then I've got to assume

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there's at least one inside. Oh, I've also got what looks like a proximity

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sensor in there. So, they should be able to tell if you have them on your ears or

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if you are just wearing them stylishly around your neck looking so cool. Ignore

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from the chin up and from the like collar bone down. Cool. The pads were a

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strong point for us using a nice squishy PU foam that conforms well to your head

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and rebounds very gently. And we found that there was a little bit more than

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average depth from the point where it contacts your head to the point where

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your ears um if you have wider ears tend to sit against the inside of headphones.

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They also cushioned this space, which is a definite plus for me. I hate it when

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like a hard piece of plastic is sitting right up against my earlobes. Ooh. Oh,

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that's cool. Oh, that's cool. Okay.

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When you pull them out wider, it's much harder to slip.

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So, when there's no tension on it, it moves easily. And then when your head's

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in it, you can see I can force it, but

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it takes way more force. That's pretty

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cool. Okay, good job. Nothing on that. Of course, this is all for nothing

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if they don't sound good. And let's go ahead and give them a listen, shall we?

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sale. Right away, I can feel the ANC kick in, which it's not by any means.

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It's not the worst sort of pressure feeling that I've ever felt, but I'm

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definitely aware of it a little bit on these ones. I'd say it's on the better

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side. Look at that. How awesome is that?

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It's a little bit hidden away, but there's a dedicated pairing button. I

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flipping love it cuz I hate having to look up the manual every time I want to

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pair a pair of headphones. One device found. Boom. Connect. Done. Love to see

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it. That's a cool sound effect when it switches to transparency mode. Not the

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most natural sounding hearing of my own voice in transparency mode. That's This

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is very last gen. Like it kind of sounds like I'm coming from inside of my skull.

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Um, but what about when you guys talk? How does it sound when we talk? Testing

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one, two. You guys sound great and very

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natural. It's only my own voice that sounds like it's my own personal Darth

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Vader talking inside my skull. Ah, I

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really don't care about head tracking at all, but there you go. There's an

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indicator that shows the direction my head is facing. I will turn that off

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now. Cool. I'm just going to try them on their own first without the ANC. H based

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on what I've seen so far from the frequency response curve, I will not

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need the bass enhancement. And we'll stick with the balanced setting for the

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EQ by default. This is a very reasonable set of quick actions with the

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programmable button. That doesn't mean I wouldn't like to see more. I don't know,

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launching an app or whatever the case may be. Answer and hang up calls with

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the paddle. That I wouldn't have expected. I would expect that to be a

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single press on the volume roller. I think there's a little bit more work

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they have to do here in terms of the programmability of the various buttons.

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Oh, and it has find my support. Oh, wait.

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It's just to play a noise.

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Would have been cool to see like a Google compatible, you know, Air Tag

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equivalent tracker inside them or something like that, but baby steps, I

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guess. All right, here we go. Let's start with a classic.

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I don't really know how to describe these other than just kind of mid. What

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does uh how much do they cost? Well, hold on. Hold on. No, let me guess. The

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design is super cool, so I'm going to be paying a premium for that. That means

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they're no less than 200 bucks. 200 bucks.

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No one's told me. I've asked like 20 people. We don't know. Someone knows. We

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now know they cost $300. Man, what is

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it? It's like they have kind of like a like a, you know, H in the bass, but it

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lacks precision right away. I find them

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kind of fatiguing to listen to. And I've talked about this before. I'm a bit of a

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Sennheiser veil boy. I don't love sparkly highs. So, here's the frequency

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response curve for these as tested by DMS. And you're probably going to notice

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that it looks a little bit different from the ones that we've shown you in the past. That's because the width of

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this red range here represents the difference in the experience across a

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variety of different head shapes. So depending on who you are, you might

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experience the bass as anywhere from

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within the desirable range to measurably

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above the desirable range. But no matter who you are, you are likely to notice a

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dip in the upper treble just below 10,000 hertz. And depending on who you

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are, you might notice a pretty unpleasant spike just above 10,000

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hertz. In a nutshell, they're not very flat. But that's not the end of the

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world. Let's come back to their app for a second here because this might be the

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saving grace for these headphones. Opening up the EQ, not only do we have

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the simple EQ where I can go more bass, more treble, more voice or custom, I can

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flip into advanced mode where I have a full parametric EQ. What this allows me

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to do is select more than just, you know, whatever the default frequency

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points are and turn them up and turn them down, but I can even adjust the

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width of that adjustment as well as the

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exact frequency. That is very

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customizable. And they take it one step further. Once I've set that EQ, it is

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actually stored on the headphones themselves. So I can take those

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headphones and pair them to another device, say my computer, which doesn't

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have the Nothing X app, and continue to take advantage of the tuning that I've

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done. So with that in mind, DMS, give me your QR code.

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Good gravy. That's what you had to do to

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get this thing flat. Labs tune. Okay.

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Well, let's listen to some tuned tunes,

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shall we? Really enjoying the bass guitar more. What did you actually

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change at the bass? Hold on. Kind of made it less muddy. Yeah, just just

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demodified it. Like I can hear I

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I can actually hear the baseline instead of just h I'm impressed at how much was

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able to be done with the EQ. That is both the strongest selling point, you

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know, the reason for these existing at all and also kind of the most

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embarrassing thing about the development of it. I mean, they even went to the trouble of working with a third party to

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tune these things and then we just had like one guy, you know, with a kind of

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tacky hoodie that was able to make them sound this much better. But it means the

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hardware is good. And if you start with good hardware, hey, you can fix it. Was

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it pretty consistent across our three sets of headphones at least? Yes,

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actually it was within two dec. Well, that's something too cuz that means that

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they could actually roll out a fix broadly through firmware. Oh, I haven't

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even tried out the ANC yet at a reasonable comfortable listening volume.

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I already can't hear can't be bad basically from where we're

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starting. Yeah, I can detect a little bit of pressure. So, I'm pretty sure

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it's on right now. Can you guys like do some stuff or something? I can actually

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feel them throwing things around or whatever it is they're doing in the

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vibrations in the table, but I'm not able to detect any of it with my ears.

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Can you take one of those tables and just like drag it around on the floor?

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Try and create like a consistent noise to it. Okay, hold on. I'm going to Let's

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play a game. I'm going to say whether you're dragging the table or not. Go.

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Okay, that's a really really loud table drag.

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Why don't we go with something a little more reasonable? How about um

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Sure. play music in the background. Sure. Let's Let's try that. Nothing. Is

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that loud? That's really loud. Yeah. Far

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be it from me to try to, you know, objectively determine the strength of

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the active noise cancellation or whatever just by sitting here listening to it. But what I can say is that I'd be

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very unlikely to be bothered by typical ambient noise if I was listening to

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music on these. And for me, that's pretty much the threshold. I don't even

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know that a lot of the time if I was listening to music, I would even bother

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turning on the ANC. There's one other key point from nothing. They claim 5

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hours of non&c playback from just 5 minutes of charging and about 2 and 1/2

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hours of&c playback with 5 minutes of charging. That's pretty darn useful if

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you're the kind of person who forgets to charge your headphones overnight right

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before you go on a trip and you're going to be on the plane. This guy. But other

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than that, it's pretty much going to come down to price. We have seen rumors

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that it could be around $300. And with the fixes to the frequency response

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curve, actually, it looks very, very compelling at that price, especially

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with this style. My good lord, they're

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cool looking headphones. But if you don't want to put in the work to tune

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them or if they start to get up closer to the $400 plus range, they become a

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little bit harder to recommend. But what I can recommend is subscribing

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to ShortCircuit.