WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:05.400 earbuds are great and compact but there's a reason why I'm always walking 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:10.200 around with a big set of headphones I don't like the feeling of my ears being 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:12.200 plugged and I get irritation from having 00:00:10.200 --> 00:00:17.119 stuff in my ears but there's something in between big bulky headphones and 00:00:14.440 --> 00:00:21.680 compact earbuds and that's open earbuds these don't go in your canals instead 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:26.640 they sit outside of your ear like this the issue is that they can kind of sound 00:00:24.560 --> 00:00:30.880 like garbage but nothing thinks they figured it out with the ear open they 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:34.800 promise a great sound set of headphones that are also provide all of the 00:00:32.559 --> 00:00:39.760 benefits of open earbuds at the very least they look pretty dang cool uh 00:00:37.559 --> 00:00:45.280 there's a QR code of course it looks stylish and there is so going be like a 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:49.280 USBC cable for charging and there is a 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:50.920 nice short USBC cable and just in case 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:54.960 you needed another USBC Cable in your life they got an instruction manual this 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:59.199 might not be the most compact way to store these I'm kind of surprised they 00:00:56.760 --> 00:01:02.680 didn't go for like more of a nested option even this feels like it's a 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:06.920 little more pocketable I have pretty big Pockets but let's let's let's try are 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:10.720 those the nothing buds or are you just Happ to see me a lot of the time you're 00:01:09.080 --> 00:01:15.439 going to end up with really bulky cases and this is might be actually nicer case 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:18.759 is is plastic with a magnetic hinge it's got an indicator LED that will tell you 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:23.759 the state for charging as well as for pairing and these are held in place by 00:01:21.759 --> 00:01:29.079 simple magnets and they connect to Pogo pin so pretty typical they look pretty 00:01:26.520 --> 00:01:32.720 dang cool I still love the fact that they're going with the clear design like 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:36.799 you can see the layers of pcbs which are really cool uh you can also kind of see 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:41.399 the the driver in the back I will say one of the downsides of these is that 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:45.200 they are white and the color of this white is going to be different than the 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:49.399 color of the plastic white on the inner earbud quickly the ear hooks are a nice 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:53.240 Soft Touch silicone they're not like firm metal though they just kind of have 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:56.600 like some spring in them to go back but they're not the kind of thing that you're going to shape and reposition 00:01:55.600 --> 00:02:01.479 that means you might have some issues with getting a good fit compared to 00:01:58.600 --> 00:02:03.479 firmer armed headphones honestly they're they're pretty comfortable and the nice 00:02:02.600 --> 00:02:09.800 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 00:02:07.960 --> 00:02:13.920 my beautiful ears people have always complimented me on my ears keep doing it 00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:16.959 in the comments below I also think wonder if these are going to be a 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:20.680 problem for glasses users they feel like they're going to fall 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:25.519 off shake your head they're not yeah they're on there 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:28.480 but it does feel very precarious yeah they claim 8 hours of battery life and 00:02:27.160 --> 00:02:32.239 this guy right here and with the case you get a total of 30 which is going to 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:35.920 be plenty for pretty much any listening session that you'll be doing and if you 00:02:34.200 --> 00:02:39.920 need to do a quick little recharge it just takes 10 minutes to get 2 hours of 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:44.480 playback time I think it's kind of funny how they've branded some things uh like 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:49.360 they call this open Sound technology just because it doesn't go in your ears 00:02:47.239 --> 00:02:52.400 which is honestly uh a benefit because people like cyclists often when they're 00:02:51.159 --> 00:02:57.120 on a commute they might want to have some music playing but they also need to be aware of their surroundings L they 00:02:55.519 --> 00:03:01.879 get hit by a car because we have gnarly bike infrastructure that doesn't allow cyclists to be safe not only not only do 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:07.000 they have open Sound technology but you're also going to have sound seal 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:11.920 technology because you I don't get their sound seal 00:03:09.640 --> 00:03:15.000 technology is not actually a seal of any sort it's just a directional speaker 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:18.840 that they've put in here apparently these are angled at a 50° angle so it 00:03:17.200 --> 00:03:22.680 tries to shoot basically straight into your ear canal so that this has a 00:03:20.519 --> 00:03:24.840 minimum amount of bother for people around you say if you're listening to 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:29.000 these at your desk and you don't want to bug your co-workers or you have a very 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:32.720 private phone call they say soundwaves at the front and the back back of the 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:36.400 bud cancel each other out I think that that probably means they're using some 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:39.200 sort of active noise cancellation but we'll try and figure that out later but 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:45.760 we're not going to be able to find out exactly what they mean until we talk about our sponsor MSI the weather might 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:50.480 be getting colder but MSI is turning up the 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Connect that is awesome on Android feels like magic oh it's a 00:04:30.280 --> 00:04:37.960 pinch mechanism single pinch play pause answer and hangup calls double pinch 00:04:35.520 --> 00:04:43.919 skip forward decline incoming call Triple pinch skip back pinch and hold 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:48.199 right volume up left volume down that's all we're in the app and they got an 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:53.440 equalizer which I love to see you can use your band equalizer you can use you 00:04:51.080 --> 00:04:57.000 can set custom frequencies that's so nice so many equalizers are like you 00:04:55.479 --> 00:05:02.039 just get what you get you get 12 bands and you don't have any say oh 00:04:59.960 --> 00:05:05.600 you can even adjust the Q factor which controls the shape of your curve I'm 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:08.840 going to set them to default so that I don't screw anything up but that's great 00:05:07.320 --> 00:05:12.000 I'm so happy that they actually uh implemented like a fully featured 00:05:10.440 --> 00:05:16.840 equalizer no one else does this and then you still have simple if you if you 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:19.280 aren't super picky which is amazing this it's that easy it's that easy everybody 00:05:18.080 --> 00:05:23.919 should be doing this especially brands that have a background in high-end audio 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:28.720 Sennheiser doesn't do this focal doesn't do this Sony doesn't do this nothing's 00:05:27.120 --> 00:05:31.639 actually listening to what the Nerds want looking through it if you tap them 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:36.400 you can see all of the different controls you can modify the controls I 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:40.240 wish that you could modify every part of the controls they do limit certain 00:05:38.520 --> 00:05:43.840 options depending on it so like the double pinch can only be skipped 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:47.919 backwards skip forward and voice AI which apparently is you get chat GPT 00:05:45.520 --> 00:05:50.919 with these I appreciate the level of customization and you can also see your 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:54.160 case power and your headphone battery power they also have a low latency mode 00:05:52.479 --> 00:05:57.120 which gets the latency below 12 120 milliseconds which is like not really 00:05:55.919 --> 00:06:02.120 that impressive it's better than uh being 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:05.600 above 120 milliseconds uh that's for sure thanks to having Bluetooth 5.3 you 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:09.520 get all of those features as well as potential future features like orac cast 00:06:07.400 --> 00:06:14.039 but don't buy anything based on future features enough about the app let's just 00:06:11.080 --> 00:06:18.360 take a listen ah yes Library the only album in here Seas of cheese by Primus 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:22.400 can you hear what I'm listening to I cannot or is it directed directly into 00:06:20.440 --> 00:06:25.360 my ears can you hear it no I can't hear anything I can't hear you I'm too let me 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:30.880 turn it down a little First Impressions is they sound pretty good but there's something that is really really 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:35.000 important and that's that that even just slight adjustments to how these are 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:41.560 positioned on your ears will have a massive effect on the sound the 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:43.720 difference between this and this is a 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:46.919 noticeable change in sound and you're probably going to do that just from 00:06:44.880 --> 00:06:50.599 adjusting for comfort so your experience and my experience listening could vary 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:54.520 massively just because of the shapes of our ears so remember that fact as we go 00:06:53.039 --> 00:06:58.520 into the testing numbers that we got from our friends at headphones.com 00:06:56.319 --> 00:07:02.080 thanks guys starting at the low end of our frequency response chart you can see 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:06.400 that there's very little subbase and that's basically the consequence of just 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:11.000 not having a good seal however as you get up to the 100 HZ region you have a 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:14.599 decent Basse response and I agree it's enough to get the job done to 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:19.440 communicate most of the sound that you're going to be hearing from instruments and it does a great job in 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:22.960 the mid-range but that tinniness that I mentioned kind of pops up and you can 00:07:20.840 --> 00:07:29.280 see that in these peaks in the high end around 5 khz and 9 khz it uh ends up 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:34.160 making a little bit of a bright sound that they can make it sound a little cheap and maybe even irritating if you 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:37.000 have particular sensitivities to frequencies in those ranges basically 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:41.960 this is the kind of shape that we'd expect from headphones like these though you can see that there's a lot of 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:45.080 variants across the different testing they did the purple line is going to be 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:49.240 the average of all the tests the gray lines are the recordings from each 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:54.800 individual test thankfully they did include that really in-depth equalizer 00:07:51.280 --> 00:07:56.840 so you could tailor this to sound the 00:07:54.800 --> 00:08:02.240 best for you but you're probably not ever going to have any real success in 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:04.520 with the subbase for me these sound I 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:09.479 would say good maybe they're a little Hollow in the top end a little tiny 00:08:06.599 --> 00:08:13.800 decent Basse response that is until you turn the volume up and there's a point 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:17.520 where they just can't add more base and the only thing that they add is more 00:08:15.479 --> 00:08:21.240 treble which in the context of you're trying to use these out and about or in 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:25.919 a louder area and maybe you're trying to take a call that's okay because you're 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:30.400 going to hear the details of speech but it just music at the top volume just 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:34.800 sounds bad when you have a nice tight seal it is easier to produce good Bas 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:38.440 frequencies that's why closed back headphones and say airpods Pro will have 00:08:36.880 --> 00:08:44.039 a better base response on something that doesn't seal like airpods normal or 00:08:42.200 --> 00:08:49.120 these Let's test those claims about privacy and sound leakage uh B you want 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:52.080 to come over here 30% volume but it's we're not in the main part of the song 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:56.040 we're just going to wait a little bit we'll skip to the lyrics I can hear a 00:08:54.080 --> 00:09:01.440 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 00:08:58.040 --> 00:09:01.440 up we're at about 50% volume 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:08.040 you know this song yeah if I was sitting next on the bus I wouldn't be upset like 00:09:06.680 --> 00:09:13.320 it's not that loud but here's the thing is that it's not very loud in my ears 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:15.000 like if I if I was on the bus I don't 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:18.240 know if I would be able to really hear much over the sound of the bus cuz if I 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:22.399 get louder that's when I get to the point where the bass drops off and now 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:26.320 it's and now it's just like it doesn't sound very good I can hear everything 00:09:24.760 --> 00:09:31.279 very clearly now this is a test recording of the nothing ear open I hope 00:09:27.920 --> 00:09:34.720 they sound good if I go s huh right 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:36.800 or how do they sound let me know overall 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:41.040 what do I think I think that if you are somebody looking for a pair of open 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:44.720 earbuds these are a good option I appreciate the features that they pack 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:48.880 they also are rated for ip54 Ingress Protection so pretty nice you could wear 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:53.560 them when your work out 150 bucks I think there really are something 00:09:51.160 --> 00:09:57.519 that you need to try I would not give a recommendation because everyone's ears 00:09:55.920 --> 00:10:01.680 are shaped different these might not be the product for you are they a bad value 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:05.880 absolutely not I think they're a pretty decent product for what they are but do 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:09.320 not blindly buy them and throw away the receipt but you know what you can throw 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:12.760 away the receipt on this video cuz it's over if you like this video why don't 00:10:10.839 --> 00:10:15.320 you check out our coverage on the shocks headphones