1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:05,800 You've heard of truly wireless earbuds, but how about an open wearable stereo? 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:10,240 This is some pretty cool compostable packaging here. 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:14,280 All in all, sponsor this video to check out these, the OWS Pros. 4 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:18,840 Now, none of this goes in your ear. That would be kind of a stretch if you know what I mean, 5 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:22,000 but it goes around your ear, so you can hear other stuff. 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:27,600 I'm very interested to see how they fit, how they feel, if they stay on, how they sound. 7 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,720 So first, gotta look at what's in the box. 8 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,000 People enjoying life. Little bit of info about the company. 9 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,560 Plus, apparently there's a suede carrying case, 10 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:41,120 which looks kind of sick. Also have a bit of a quick start guide here. 11 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:46,240 Tells you about the touch controls. Yeah, this thing just keeps going. 12 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,840 But we'll get to all, this is easy stuff. I don't need to look at this thing. 13 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:53,000 What about charger and stuff? You get a cable, USB-C to A. 14 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,280 That is a nice twist high wrap. That is like a machine. 15 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:01,280 A machine did that one. That's all you need. USB-C in the back of this charging case. 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,480 All right, so let's look at this charging case and what's inside it. 17 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:08,960 The case is this big and this heavy. Wow, 100 grams on the dot. 18 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:12,680 What about the buds themselves? 27 grams. 19 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,600 And you know, in the case you don't like to do math, there you go. 20 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,800 The case looks very clear. Like there's no way you're gonna be confused 21 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,060 as to how these go in. You can't screw this up. 22 00:01:23,060 --> 00:01:27,540 Which actually I think is something that matters. I don't like fumbling with the case. 23 00:01:27,540 --> 00:01:31,900 It's very lightweight. Well, you saw that. Contact points for charging at the top of it. 24 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:35,140 Indicator for left and right. Very basic, simple. 25 00:01:35,140 --> 00:01:39,140 This is what it sounds like. And on the front it's got some indicator lights, 26 00:01:39,140 --> 00:01:43,500 four indicator lights for battery life. I'll give you guys a little pocket test 27 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:48,940 in my Lulu's here. Woo, drop it down. 28 00:01:48,940 --> 00:01:52,860 All right, let's look at the things themselves. They come in lots of fun colors. 29 00:01:52,860 --> 00:01:56,740 This is the most subtle color, the kind of gray on black two-tone. 30 00:01:56,740 --> 00:02:00,500 But some of these other colors are like, boom. Like look at that green. 31 00:02:00,500 --> 00:02:03,860 The reason it's two-tone is because half of it, the part that is in contact with your head 32 00:02:03,860 --> 00:02:07,460 is this soft touch silicone. It looks very nice. 33 00:02:07,460 --> 00:02:13,660 And there's just a lot of doodads on the outside of this. That looks like the charging contacts for the case. 34 00:02:13,660 --> 00:02:18,300 There's a little vented grill here. I think sound is actually gonna be coming out of there. 35 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:22,380 Then there's more vents on this side. And then some holes. 36 00:02:22,380 --> 00:02:25,820 Those are gonna be your microphones. There are six microphones in here. 37 00:02:25,820 --> 00:02:30,700 They're gonna be collecting noise from the outside to block winds down during calls. 38 00:02:30,700 --> 00:02:35,620 And there's actually some active noise canceling with these guys, believe it or not, as well, 39 00:02:35,620 --> 00:02:41,540 even though they do go on the outside of your ear. I see a little power button icon there. 40 00:02:41,540 --> 00:02:46,260 And then this is a button. Like it doesn't really click like a tactile button, 41 00:02:46,260 --> 00:02:51,740 except for the sound. It looks like they have some amount of play 42 00:02:51,740 --> 00:02:54,740 for all the different heads that they're designed to go on. 43 00:02:54,740 --> 00:02:58,260 It's funny, you can tell looking at this thing, like, yep, that's for your ear. 44 00:02:58,260 --> 00:03:02,780 All right, let's get these things on the body. This has a little indicator that says it's the right side. 45 00:03:02,780 --> 00:03:08,380 So I guess this goes behind the ear. And that just sits like that. 46 00:03:09,660 --> 00:03:14,260 All right. Shoop. Man, that's like crazy fast to put on. 47 00:03:14,260 --> 00:03:19,740 Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all. It feels kind of counterintuitive because you're so used to like drilling these things in 48 00:03:19,820 --> 00:03:23,700 and like getting that seal. No seal here. 49 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:28,700 You could totally go skiing, ride a motorcycle. 50 00:03:29,100 --> 00:03:33,660 Would they fit in a helmet? I think they might. And other activities where you wanna listen to music, 51 00:03:33,660 --> 00:03:36,940 but you always feel a little bit weird, trepidatious, 52 00:03:36,940 --> 00:03:41,100 having a seal in your ear. These really just let you have the elements around you. 53 00:03:41,100 --> 00:03:47,500 Have a conversation, go hiking. A big one for me is going to bed with music on 54 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:54,100 and not wanting to be that kind of parent who's like, hey, spouse, you listen for them crying in the night. 55 00:03:54,100 --> 00:03:57,940 With these, I can have both. I can have my cake and eat it too. 56 00:03:57,940 --> 00:04:00,980 You could definitely have your head down on a pillow this way. 57 00:04:00,980 --> 00:04:04,900 Can you be a side sleeper? Can we get a pillow in here? 58 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:07,820 You're sweet. Let's see what that's like. 59 00:04:09,460 --> 00:04:13,180 Probably wouldn't recommend sleeping directly on them like that. 60 00:04:13,180 --> 00:04:17,500 Wow, that camera angle from the top. I think you could easily work out in these. 61 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:21,780 Like if you're dropping down to lay on a bench, they feel pretty in there. 62 00:04:25,180 --> 00:04:28,420 They do, they put a little bit of pressure downward 63 00:04:28,420 --> 00:04:33,780 on the back of your ear. So it's like normal earphones in that they weigh something, 64 00:04:33,780 --> 00:04:38,500 but the place that they put that weight is just a little bit of a different place. 65 00:04:38,500 --> 00:04:42,200 I wanna see how they sound and how they interact. So let's get the phone going. 66 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:46,820 This is the homepage of the app. We got a visualization of the headphone. 67 00:04:46,820 --> 00:04:50,980 What do I call these, earphones? Battery life indicator for left and right. 68 00:04:50,980 --> 00:04:56,220 And what is this? Okay, here's where you configure what the controls do. 69 00:04:56,220 --> 00:04:59,900 And there's a separate page for music and for calls. That's cool. 70 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:04,900 And I guess, wow, you can just turn all the touch controls 71 00:05:04,980 --> 00:05:09,580 off altogether if you want. So it's not really a button. It is a pressure sensitive touch control 72 00:05:09,580 --> 00:05:13,260 with micro sensing technology. So let's see what that does. 73 00:05:13,260 --> 00:05:16,940 Right now a single squeeze is set to play and pause, 74 00:05:16,940 --> 00:05:22,060 but you can change it to do nothing or to be next and previous and volume up and down. 75 00:05:22,060 --> 00:05:26,660 Cool. I think it basically looks like, oops, 76 00:05:26,660 --> 00:05:30,680 you tap each one of these to be adjusting it. 77 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,580 And they all have the same option inside, 78 00:05:34,580 --> 00:05:41,100 which is my preference. When I was looking at the manual earlier, I wondered if it mattered which ear you did these commands on, 79 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:44,180 but the volume up and down is actually just sliding forward 80 00:05:44,180 --> 00:05:47,500 and back on either earbud. So that is cool. 81 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:51,500 That said, I don't know how double squeeze can be both next and previous. 82 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:55,940 That might be left and right. So I'm gonna set it up assuming that 83 00:05:55,940 --> 00:05:59,620 and I'll put voice assistant on triple squeeze. Let's go. 84 00:05:59,620 --> 00:06:01,780 Oh, I haven't heard this one in a bit. That's a good song. 85 00:06:02,940 --> 00:06:08,100 Okay. This is a weird sensation. I understand now why they call it a stereo, 86 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:14,420 a wearable stereo. It's a very ambient, ethereal, open back sounding. 87 00:06:15,380 --> 00:06:19,060 Cool. Now let's try the controls. Where do I press? 88 00:06:21,780 --> 00:06:26,180 I heard the click noise. It paused. Click noise, play. 89 00:06:26,180 --> 00:06:29,980 Same over here. Cool. All right, so how do I go back? 90 00:06:29,980 --> 00:06:31,140 Do I double tap on this? 91 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:35,980 Yes. Double tap here. 92 00:06:37,260 --> 00:06:40,340 Next song. That's it. We solved it. 93 00:06:40,340 --> 00:06:45,220 It is left and right. And then for the swipes, the part that you swipe is same as the button. 94 00:06:45,220 --> 00:06:49,100 Right there. Oh man, these go loud. 95 00:06:49,100 --> 00:06:53,740 Back to the app. Those are equalizer looking buttons. You got default, surging bass, pure voice 96 00:06:53,740 --> 00:06:57,660 and customized by personal taste. Click on that. 97 00:06:57,660 --> 00:07:01,500 It doesn't really look like a button, but it is. And then what do they give us? 98 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:04,620 Low, middle and high. Eight knobbies is actually pretty good. 99 00:07:04,620 --> 00:07:09,100 Sometimes you get only three knobs. Sometimes you get five. Eight, I'm pretty happy with this. 100 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:13,980 125 Hertz is the lowest one though. Highest 16, sound balance. 101 00:07:13,980 --> 00:07:17,060 Oh, crazy. Just like any other stereo. 102 00:07:17,060 --> 00:07:20,460 Like in your car, you can use sound balance where it's like heavier to left and right. 103 00:07:20,460 --> 00:07:23,580 That's actually pretty interesting because most people don't have equal ability 104 00:07:23,580 --> 00:07:26,700 to hear in both ears. But I've never seen that in an app before. 105 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:31,020 That's sweet. Other tabs of the app looks like there's a login page. 106 00:07:31,020 --> 00:07:35,060 I haven't logged in yet. So evidently you don't need to log in, which is great. 107 00:07:35,060 --> 00:07:39,020 That was enjoyable. Let's check out the graphs. Our first chart is a frequency response graph 108 00:07:39,020 --> 00:07:44,140 using the default sound profile. And you can see it has really great adherence 109 00:07:44,140 --> 00:07:48,100 to our target curve throughout the mid range. It's overemphasized in the highs, 110 00:07:48,100 --> 00:07:51,100 which is gonna make it sound really exciting. And one thing I noticed when I was listening 111 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:54,200 is I could hear a lot of like the hip hop callbacks, 112 00:07:54,200 --> 00:08:00,060 like the other Snoop Dogg voice tracks. Going back and forth more than I'm used to hearing. 113 00:08:00,060 --> 00:08:04,420 But it was cool. And then on the low end, in the deep bass, 114 00:08:04,420 --> 00:08:09,580 in the sub bass, it's really under emphasized, but it's actually over emphasized. 115 00:08:09,580 --> 00:08:12,740 Around the between 100 and 200 Hertz. 116 00:08:12,740 --> 00:08:16,260 In the surging bass profile, you basically just get even more of that. 117 00:08:16,260 --> 00:08:22,160 The range is a little wider. It looks like maybe 90 to 250 Hertz. 118 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:27,220 You get a bigger bump that's almost 10 dB. So this will be due to their new second generation 119 00:08:27,220 --> 00:08:31,220 bass algorithm that increases the dynamic power to up the bass. 120 00:08:31,220 --> 00:08:36,380 You can see there's a limit though, with just physics. Like the driver's so far from your ear 121 00:08:36,380 --> 00:08:40,260 and there's no seal in your air canal. So there's only so much they can do. 122 00:08:40,260 --> 00:08:45,700 Sam said he was actually pretty impressed with the frequency response of these headphones, 123 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:50,300 given the constraints they're up against with this design, 124 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:53,660 which is definitely gonna have its limitations. Then you've got the pure voice presets, 125 00:08:53,660 --> 00:08:57,520 which is just really nice in the mid range, less of a bass hump. 126 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,200 The next chart is volume dependent EQ, which is a feature of these headphones. 127 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:05,200 What it does is it makes the sound more consistent across volume levels, 128 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:09,360 because our ears are more sensitive to treble and bass. So as you turn the volume up, 129 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:14,920 the treble and bass actually get muffled down a little bit. And that gives it more consistency across the volume range. 130 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:18,440 Next, we have a chart for their focus mode, which is kind of like active noise canceling, 131 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:22,280 but you can see that it only affects a pretty narrow band here in the mid range. 132 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:26,240 Unique New York. This is, that's what I say when I answer the phone. 133 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,560 If I ever call you, you're gonna hear like, red leather, yellow leather, 134 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:34,160 other warm up tongue twister things. I like a cold open on a phone call. 135 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,360 Yeah. It sounds like a Bluetooth mic, but you know, it's trade-offs. 136 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:42,120 It looks like they have put a lot of attention and care into trying to make these sound as good as possible, 137 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:47,480 while still offering you this open design that gives you the safety benefits and, you know, 138 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:51,200 convenience benefits too, of being able to hear people talking to you. Maybe you're at work and you want to get away 139 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,920 with having headphones in. You don't want to look like one of those F-off people 140 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,540 with the headphones and the sunglasses and the hat. Don't talk to me. 141 00:09:58,540 --> 00:10:02,620 That's worth something. Now let's talk battery life. It's actually pretty huge. 142 00:10:02,620 --> 00:10:06,580 I would say 16 hours on these and then 58 hours 143 00:10:06,580 --> 00:10:11,180 with the charging case. As far as ingress protection, they are IPX4 rated, 144 00:10:11,180 --> 00:10:14,220 which is very typical for, I would say, 145 00:10:14,220 --> 00:10:18,860 the vast majority of truly wireless earbuds. And what that means is that there's no, 146 00:10:18,860 --> 00:10:24,020 no measured protection for dust. The X means they didn't measure that. 147 00:10:24,020 --> 00:10:27,820 And then the four means it'll do splashes. So you're gonna be good in the rain. 148 00:10:27,820 --> 00:10:32,660 I would not swim with them splashes. And these are using Bluetooth 5.3. 149 00:10:32,660 --> 00:10:36,780 They've got multi-point so you can connect up to two devices and switch between them very easily. 150 00:10:36,780 --> 00:10:40,660 And all this can be yours for 230 US dollars. 151 00:10:40,660 --> 00:10:44,960 I wore this for quite a while and no discomfort. Maybe a small amount of warmth, 152 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:48,540 but nothing compared to actually on ear or over your headphones. 153 00:10:48,540 --> 00:10:51,620 Check them out at the link below, guys. And thanks, I'll answer sponsoring this video. 154 00:10:51,620 --> 00:10:58,020 And I want to hear from you all in the comments whether this is like, yes, like they speak to you. 155 00:10:58,020 --> 00:11:01,980 Like you've been waiting for this design. And why not watch another ShortCircuit video? 156 00:11:01,980 --> 00:11:03,740 It's really good for the algorithm.