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it's about time it's been 20 years since Sono started making products and the

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most requested product throughout that whole time has been headphones now you

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can take your Sonos music on the go on

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the bus out of your home without looking like a weirdo who's carrying a soundbar

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on city transit for some reason Sonos sponsored this video for us to look at

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and react to the new Sonos Ace you

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trying to be the king but the ace is back it's my favorite um line from Dr

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Dre's The Chronic 2001 because I'm old we got white we got black both in these

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kind of felt hard cases you can definitely shove this in your bag pretty

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low profile case kind of green on the inside this is

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pretty sweet and then the headphones

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themselves lightweight they got this kind of like Dr Mario pill shape to them

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the Sonos logo just embossed there on one of the ear cups black is way more

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subdued I'm torn here I feel like the

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white ones are impressive but the black ones are Keepers you know man they look

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good when they're like brand new and clean are they going to fingerprint up

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not really a bit but not really all

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right we don't need to unbox them both cuz they're the same but there's a little CD size sleeve in here USB-C Toc

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USBC to 3 and 1 12 mil Jack so one USBC

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side is going to go to the headphone for wir Lessing and the other would go to your device depending on whether you

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know you're using a phone which 99% of them now have USBC or you're going into

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something else like maybe you have one of those big fat MP3 players that are

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$1,000 check out my unboxing and then

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there's some literature please help

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power on the ace scan the code to get the app and some quick

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controls wow they have this single button that does a lot we will look at

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that in a bit pretty compact experience now to take a physical tour of the

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headphones themselves and really I have to choose at this point I think for ease

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of just visibility so you guys can see what I'm talking about I'm going to go with white but I'll always love you okay

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first thing caliper pressure these feel very

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springy they don't feel too tight and I

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don't feel like they're being stretched out at all for my kind of medium head I

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can tell a and C's on already that's pretty cool now they have a kind of

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continuous as opposed to ratcheting adjustment here and they go to this big

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so if your head is this this

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big they'll fit you usually I go to like three clicks into a

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headphone here I'm almost at the bottom not quite but they are quite light and

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they're they're on their at all right amount this

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amount and they have cushy PU leather

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memory foam it's this much

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memory and this much on the top the top I think is really important cuz if a

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headband starts digging in after an hour that's just that's just the nail and the

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coffin I often have a problem where my ears particularly this ear might touch

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the actual driver in here I don't know it sticks out a bit I guess if that

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happens it's toast I can't use those headphones not a problem for me on these

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the ear cups are sufficiently deep they're this deep oh look at that whoa

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that is cool I've seen ear cups that pop off before but these actually have like

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this very fine mesh here that's part of

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the ear cup and you can see there's actually an L in this ear cup to

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indicate it's left and the other one not only has an R but it's green so just

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that is a very subtle way but an

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immediate way to know which way to orient the headphones when you put them

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on and you know it's good to see that these are replaceable this is always going to be the thing that fails first

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on your headphon so I assume they'll be selling these sold separately so to

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increase the longevity of your device you can see there's a sensor in here

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this thing has eight different microphones that's going to help beam

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forming make you sound good it has cancellation of the ambient noise around

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you so people can hear you clearly we'll show you guys that in a bit for buttons

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we got a tactile onoff button a

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tactile toggle between a and c and aware mode and then another tactile ooh little

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springy switchy guy called the content key I noticed that they're all different

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shapes the power button is a little rectangle over here thec toggle is round

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and then the content key is is like a a pill-shaped and a switch so it's very

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easy to figure out what you're touching at any given moment all right time to

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try them on and hear them we're using black for that okay

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they're on I'm going to use this button to toggle thec and see if the hum from

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this big electrical Transformer in this industrial building turns

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off I'm in a void it's absolutely gone

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and it has a little sound toggle when you when you switch it it's

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like which is cool cuz I have other

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earphones that a little voice comes on it goes like a andc on a and that's just

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kind of annoying sweet action all right let's getc on and listen to music all

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right so looks like I can sign into this app or just add headphones without

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signing in I dig that now as I

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understand it this app was recently redesigned to accommodate the use of the

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headphones cuz they wanted a unified app that had the headphones and all their

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sound bars and everything which meant that they had to change the app that people have been using for years and the

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new new app is different and also does not include some of the features that

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the previous app has Bluetooth iPhone I mean why would it tell me but you know

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what you can connect this thing to two devices at once so it's nice to have a

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little indicator there we got head trck I'm going to keep that off for now the

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EQ oh you can do balance like you're in a car that is wacky I never see that

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trouble and base just two different sliders not a lot of resolution there

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and what plus or minus five loudness

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boost the base and trouble at low volumes uh that's a good thing to do

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because your ears are not very sensitive to to Bass so usually the quieter the

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volume gets the more baseless it sounds

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but it's not the music it's your ears you're the problem uh there's a little

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noise control option here where you can make it that circular button actually

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just toggle like a wear mode on and off you can do all three modes you can say

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offs not an option you can say I never use a wear mode so just toggle noise

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cancelling and off I like that I'm going just going to blindly explore this uh

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content button here so intuitive you hold it down and

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it gets quieter and you can hear this

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little that is actually a great volume interface it doesn't matter if your

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hands are kind of like sweaty or whatever it's easy to grab there's like

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a lot of kind of grip or friction on this thing oh when you get to the bottom

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it goes like a different sound it's thoughtful you can click the content

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button that's how you pause it what if I double

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tap it next track triple P triple back so

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will it pause if I take him off no but I did see a setting in the

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app so maybe that's relevant here play and pause pause content you take your

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headphones off and resume when you put them back on that's what I was looking for and look at this where to answer

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you're getting a call just put your headphones on and answers the phone I

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feel like that's something I would turn on and and then maybe have a bad experience then turn off forever but for

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now yeah

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that's pretty good that's pretty good and pretty quick whoa this base is

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really it's like the kick drum is like this big just the Baton just slapping it

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and they got no pillows in there I think base people will like these I think if

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you like Sono sounds you'll probably like these if you like apple type sound

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you'll probably like these you can actually stream audio losslessly via

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Bluetooth or via the cable let's see what the graphs say we got some

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frequency response graphs here from headphones.com thank you guys for

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helping us out with the testing you can see the dotted line is our Target curve

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and then the color lines are the actual measured performance bit of a

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pronouncement in the bass particularly like the higher base you know around 100

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htz usually a crossover especially in the home theater world the crossover

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from your base to your other speakers is about 80 HZ so right in that kind of

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crossover zone is where it's more pronounced here bit of a mix bag in the

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mid-range here from 100 to 800 and then

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in the treble it tracks pretty closely around 3K but then around 6 7K it's a a

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little bit bright and here's some other graphs if you're interested you

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nerds this is what the mic sounds like there's not a lot of ambient noise in

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here right now but I'm going to turn on this YouTube video of construction sight

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sound effects and Ambience drilling Jackhammer metal hammering

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soundscape you can find anything on YouTube just amazing

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um hi thank you for joining this call I'm sorry I was just couple minutes late

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my last meeting went long how was that

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you tell me you be the judge now I want to watch some premium content on YouTube

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because you could use these for not just music you know in fact you can connect

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these to your home system so that anything that would have been routed through your select Sono Soundbar like a

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Sonos Arc will actually just get transmitted right to here for secret

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viewing at nighttime for example there's lonus you know knowing

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lonus in person I can say that this sounds like lonus anyways these of

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course support Bluetooth Bluetooth 5.4 Dolby Atmos

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Dolby audio for wearables and head tracking head tracking you know the

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source of your sound is here and when you turn your head like this you hear it

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more here and then you hear more here and it's more like you're watching TV

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some people really like it anyways battery life claims on these things are

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pretty crazy 30 hours of battery life that's mixed use with ANC on you can

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charge 3 hours of playback in just 3

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minutes we actually did some battery testing ourselves and we have results

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that are not very far off those claims so respect 450 bucks for these These are

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available starting June 5th so you can pre-order Now using our link uh thanks

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for watching and thanks to Sonos for sponsoring this video bye-bye