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earbuds are great and compact but there's a reason why I'm always walking

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around with a big set of headphones I don't like the feeling of my ears being

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plugged and I get irritation from having

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stuff in my ears but there's something in between big bulky headphones and

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compact earbuds and that's open earbuds these don't go in your canals instead

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they sit outside of your ear like this the issue is that they can kind of sound

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like garbage but nothing thinks they figured it out with the ear open they

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promise a great sound set of headphones that are also provide all of the

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benefits of open earbuds at the very least they look pretty dang cool uh

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there's a QR code of course it looks stylish and there is so going be like a

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USBC cable for charging and there is a

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nice short USBC cable and just in case

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you needed another USBC Cable in your life they got an instruction manual this

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might not be the most compact way to store these I'm kind of surprised they

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didn't go for like more of a nested option even this feels like it's a

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little more pocketable I have pretty big Pockets but let's let's let's try are

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those the nothing buds or are you just Happ to see me a lot of the time you're

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going to end up with really bulky cases and this is might be actually nicer case

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is is plastic with a magnetic hinge it's got an indicator LED that will tell you

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the state for charging as well as for pairing and these are held in place by

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simple magnets and they connect to Pogo pin so pretty typical they look pretty

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dang cool I still love the fact that they're going with the clear design like

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you can see the layers of pcbs which are really cool uh you can also kind of see

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the the driver in the back I will say one of the downsides of these is that

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they are white and the color of this white is going to be different than the

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color of the plastic white on the inner earbud quickly the ear hooks are a nice

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Soft Touch silicone they're not like firm metal though they just kind of have

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like some spring in them to go back but they're not the kind of thing that you're going to shape and reposition

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that means you might have some issues with getting a good fit compared to

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firmer armed headphones honestly they're they're pretty comfortable and the nice

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thing is it feels like I don't have anything in my ears cuz I kind of don't as you can see they just sit in front of

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my beautiful ears people have always complimented me on my ears keep doing it

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in the comments below I also think wonder if these are going to be a

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problem for glasses users they feel like they're going to fall

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off shake your head they're not yeah they're on there

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but it does feel very precarious yeah they claim 8 hours of battery life and

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this guy right here and with the case you get a total of 30 which is going to

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be plenty for pretty much any listening session that you'll be doing and if you

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need to do a quick little recharge it just takes 10 minutes to get 2 hours of

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playback time I think it's kind of funny how they've branded some things uh like

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they call this open Sound technology just because it doesn't go in your ears

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which is honestly uh a benefit because people like cyclists often when they're

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on a commute they might want to have some music playing but they also need to be aware of their surroundings L they

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get hit by a car because we have gnarly bike infrastructure that doesn't allow cyclists to be safe not only not only do

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they have open Sound technology but you're also going to have sound seal

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technology because you I don't get their sound seal

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technology is not actually a seal of any sort it's just a directional speaker

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that they've put in here apparently these are angled at a 50° angle so it

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tries to shoot basically straight into your ear canal so that this has a

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minimum amount of bother for people around you say if you're listening to

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these at your desk and you don't want to bug your co-workers or you have a very

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private phone call they say soundwaves at the front and the back back of the

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bud cancel each other out I think that that probably means they're using some

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sort of active noise cancellation but we'll try and figure that out later but

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description let's get listening I want to check this out cuz if I open them

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like this do they just do the auto pairing thing hey okay sweet they got

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that the Quick Connect that is awesome on Android feels like magic oh it's a

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pinch mechanism single pinch play pause answer and hangup calls double pinch

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skip forward decline incoming call Triple pinch skip back pinch and hold

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right volume up left volume down that's all we're in the app and they got an

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equalizer which I love to see you can use your band equalizer you can use you

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can set custom frequencies that's so nice so many equalizers are like you

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just get what you get you get 12 bands and you don't have any say oh

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you can even adjust the Q factor which controls the shape of your curve I'm

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going to set them to default so that I don't screw anything up but that's great

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I'm so happy that they actually uh implemented like a fully featured

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equalizer no one else does this and then you still have simple if you if you

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aren't super picky which is amazing this it's that easy it's that easy everybody

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should be doing this especially brands that have a background in high-end audio

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Sennheiser doesn't do this focal doesn't do this Sony doesn't do this nothing's

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actually listening to what the Nerds want looking through it if you tap them

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you can see all of the different controls you can modify the controls I

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wish that you could modify every part of the controls they do limit certain

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options depending on it so like the double pinch can only be skipped

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backwards skip forward and voice AI which apparently is you get chat GPT

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with these I appreciate the level of customization and you can also see your

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case power and your headphone battery power they also have a low latency mode

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which gets the latency below 12 120 milliseconds which is like not really

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that impressive it's better than uh being

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above 120 milliseconds uh that's for sure thanks to having Bluetooth 5.3 you

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get all of those features as well as potential future features like orac cast

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but don't buy anything based on future features enough about the app let's just

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take a listen ah yes Library the only album in here Seas of cheese by Primus

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can you hear what I'm listening to I cannot or is it directed directly into

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my ears can you hear it no I can't hear anything I can't hear you I'm too let me

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turn it down a little First Impressions is they sound pretty good but there's something that is really really

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important and that's that that even just slight adjustments to how these are

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positioned on your ears will have a massive effect on the sound the

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difference between this and this is a

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noticeable change in sound and you're probably going to do that just from

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adjusting for comfort so your experience and my experience listening could vary

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massively just because of the shapes of our ears so remember that fact as we go

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into the testing numbers that we got from our friends at headphones.com

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thanks guys starting at the low end of our frequency response chart you can see

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that there's very little subbase and that's basically the consequence of just

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not having a good seal however as you get up to the 100 HZ region you have a

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decent Basse response and I agree it's enough to get the job done to

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communicate most of the sound that you're going to be hearing from instruments and it does a great job in

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the mid-range but that tinniness that I mentioned kind of pops up and you can

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see that in these peaks in the high end around 5 khz and 9 khz it uh ends up

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making a little bit of a bright sound that they can make it sound a little cheap and maybe even irritating if you

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have particular sensitivities to frequencies in those ranges basically

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this is the kind of shape that we'd expect from headphones like these though you can see that there's a lot of

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variants across the different testing they did the purple line is going to be

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the average of all the tests the gray lines are the recordings from each

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individual test thankfully they did include that really in-depth equalizer

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so you could tailor this to sound the

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best for you but you're probably not ever going to have any real success in

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with the subbase for me these sound I

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would say good maybe they're a little Hollow in the top end a little tiny

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decent Basse response that is until you turn the volume up and there's a point

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where they just can't add more base and the only thing that they add is more

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treble which in the context of you're trying to use these out and about or in

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a louder area and maybe you're trying to take a call that's okay because you're

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going to hear the details of speech but it just music at the top volume just

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sounds bad when you have a nice tight seal it is easier to produce good Bas

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frequencies that's why closed back headphones and say airpods Pro will have

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a better base response on something that doesn't seal like airpods normal or

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these Let's test those claims about privacy and sound leakage uh B you want

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to come over here 30% volume but it's we're not in the main part of the song

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we're just going to wait a little bit we'll skip to the lyrics I can hear a

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little bit but nothing I you make out what the song is I couldn't make out what song it is okay I'm going to turn

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up we're at about 50% volume

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you know this song yeah if I was sitting next on the bus I wouldn't be upset like

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it's not that loud but here's the thing is that it's not very loud in my ears

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like if I if I was on the bus I don't

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know if I would be able to really hear much over the sound of the bus cuz if I

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get louder that's when I get to the point where the bass drops off and now

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it's and now it's just like it doesn't sound very good I can hear everything

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very clearly now this is a test recording of the nothing ear open I hope

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they sound good if I go s huh right

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or how do they sound let me know overall

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what do I think I think that if you are somebody looking for a pair of open

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earbuds these are a good option I appreciate the features that they pack

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they also are rated for ip54 Ingress Protection so pretty nice you could wear

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them when your work out 150 bucks I think there really are something

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that you need to try I would not give a recommendation because everyone's ears

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are shaped different these might not be the product for you are they a bad value

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absolutely not I think they're a pretty decent product for what they are but do

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not blindly buy them and throw away the receipt but you know what you can throw

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away the receipt on this video cuz it's over if you like this video why don't

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you check out our coverage on the shocks headphones