You've heard of truly wireless earbuds, but how about an open wearable stereo?
This is some pretty cool compostable packaging here.
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Now, none of this goes in your ear. That would be kind of a stretch if you know what I mean,
but it goes around your ear, so you can hear other stuff.
I'm very interested to see how they fit, how they feel, if they stay on, how they sound.
So first, gotta look at what's in the box.
People enjoying life. Little bit of info about the company.
Plus, apparently there's a suede carrying case,
which looks kind of sick. Also have a bit of a quick start guide here.
Tells you about the touch controls. Yeah, this thing just keeps going.
But we'll get to all, this is easy stuff. I don't need to look at this thing.
What about charger and stuff? You get a cable, USB-C to A.
That is a nice twist high wrap. That is like a machine.
A machine did that one. That's all you need. USB-C in the back of this charging case.
All right, so let's look at this charging case and what's inside it.
The case is this big and this heavy. Wow, 100 grams on the dot.
What about the buds themselves? 27 grams.
And you know, in the case you don't like to do math, there you go.
The case looks very clear. Like there's no way you're gonna be confused
as to how these go in. You can't screw this up.
Which actually I think is something that matters. I don't like fumbling with the case.
It's very lightweight. Well, you saw that. Contact points for charging at the top of it.
Indicator for left and right. Very basic, simple.
This is what it sounds like. And on the front it's got some indicator lights,
four indicator lights for battery life. I'll give you guys a little pocket test
in my Lulu's here. Woo, drop it down.
All right, let's look at the things themselves. They come in lots of fun colors.
This is the most subtle color, the kind of gray on black two-tone.
But some of these other colors are like, boom. Like look at that green.
The reason it's two-tone is because half of it, the part that is in contact with your head
is this soft touch silicone. It looks very nice.
And there's just a lot of doodads on the outside of this. That looks like the charging contacts for the case.
There's a little vented grill here. I think sound is actually gonna be coming out of there.
Then there's more vents on this side. And then some holes.
Those are gonna be your microphones. There are six microphones in here.
They're gonna be collecting noise from the outside to block winds down during calls.
And there's actually some active noise canceling with these guys, believe it or not, as well,
even though they do go on the outside of your ear. I see a little power button icon there.
And then this is a button. Like it doesn't really click like a tactile button,
except for the sound. It looks like they have some amount of play
for all the different heads that they're designed to go on.
It's funny, you can tell looking at this thing, like, yep, that's for your ear.
All right, let's get these things on the body. This has a little indicator that says it's the right side.
So I guess this goes behind the ear. And that just sits like that.
All right. Shoop. Man, that's like crazy fast to put on.
Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all. It feels kind of counterintuitive because you're so used to like drilling these things in
and like getting that seal. No seal here.
You could totally go skiing, ride a motorcycle.
Would they fit in a helmet? I think they might. And other activities where you wanna listen to music,
but you always feel a little bit weird, trepidatious,
having a seal in your ear. These really just let you have the elements around you.
Have a conversation, go hiking. A big one for me is going to bed with music on
and not wanting to be that kind of parent who's like, hey, spouse, you listen for them crying in the night.
With these, I can have both. I can have my cake and eat it too.
You could definitely have your head down on a pillow this way.
Can you be a side sleeper? Can we get a pillow in here?
You're sweet. Let's see what that's like.
Probably wouldn't recommend sleeping directly on them like that.
Wow, that camera angle from the top. I think you could easily work out in these.
Like if you're dropping down to lay on a bench, they feel pretty in there.
They do, they put a little bit of pressure downward
on the back of your ear. So it's like normal earphones in that they weigh something,
but the place that they put that weight is just a little bit of a different place.
I wanna see how they sound and how they interact. So let's get the phone going.
This is the homepage of the app. We got a visualization of the headphone.
What do I call these, earphones? Battery life indicator for left and right.
And what is this? Okay, here's where you configure what the controls do.
And there's a separate page for music and for calls. That's cool.
And I guess, wow, you can just turn all the touch controls
off altogether if you want. So it's not really a button. It is a pressure sensitive touch control
with micro sensing technology. So let's see what that does.
Right now a single squeeze is set to play and pause,
but you can change it to do nothing or to be next and previous and volume up and down.
Cool. I think it basically looks like, oops,
you tap each one of these to be adjusting it.
And they all have the same option inside,
which is my preference. When I was looking at the manual earlier, I wondered if it mattered which ear you did these commands on,
but the volume up and down is actually just sliding forward
and back on either earbud. So that is cool.
That said, I don't know how double squeeze can be both next and previous.
That might be left and right. So I'm gonna set it up assuming that
and I'll put voice assistant on triple squeeze. Let's go.
Oh, I haven't heard this one in a bit. That's a good song.
Okay. This is a weird sensation. I understand now why they call it a stereo,
a wearable stereo. It's a very ambient, ethereal, open back sounding.
Cool. Now let's try the controls. Where do I press?
I heard the click noise. It paused. Click noise, play.
Same over here. Cool. All right, so how do I go back?
Do I double tap on this?
Yes. Double tap here.
Next song. That's it. We solved it.
It is left and right. And then for the swipes, the part that you swipe is same as the button.
Right there. Oh man, these go loud.
Back to the app. Those are equalizer looking buttons. You got default, surging bass, pure voice
and customized by personal taste. Click on that.
It doesn't really look like a button, but it is. And then what do they give us?
Low, middle and high. Eight knobbies is actually pretty good.
Sometimes you get only three knobs. Sometimes you get five. Eight, I'm pretty happy with this.
125 Hertz is the lowest one though. Highest 16, sound balance.
Oh, crazy. Just like any other stereo.
Like in your car, you can use sound balance where it's like heavier to left and right.
That's actually pretty interesting because most people don't have equal ability
to hear in both ears. But I've never seen that in an app before.
That's sweet. Other tabs of the app looks like there's a login page.
I haven't logged in yet. So evidently you don't need to log in, which is great.
That was enjoyable. Let's check out the graphs. Our first chart is a frequency response graph
using the default sound profile. And you can see it has really great adherence
to our target curve throughout the mid range. It's overemphasized in the highs,
which is gonna make it sound really exciting. And one thing I noticed when I was listening
is I could hear a lot of like the hip hop callbacks,
like the other Snoop Dogg voice tracks. Going back and forth more than I'm used to hearing.
But it was cool. And then on the low end, in the deep bass,
in the sub bass, it's really under emphasized, but it's actually over emphasized.
Around the between 100 and 200 Hertz.
In the surging bass profile, you basically just get even more of that.
The range is a little wider. It looks like maybe 90 to 250 Hertz.
You get a bigger bump that's almost 10 dB. So this will be due to their new second generation
bass algorithm that increases the dynamic power to up the bass.
You can see there's a limit though, with just physics. Like the driver's so far from your ear
and there's no seal in your air canal. So there's only so much they can do.
Sam said he was actually pretty impressed with the frequency response of these headphones,
given the constraints they're up against with this design,
which is definitely gonna have its limitations. Then you've got the pure voice presets,
which is just really nice in the mid range, less of a bass hump.
The next chart is volume dependent EQ, which is a feature of these headphones.
What it does is it makes the sound more consistent across volume levels,
because our ears are more sensitive to treble and bass. So as you turn the volume up,
the treble and bass actually get muffled down a little bit. And that gives it more consistency across the volume range.
Next, we have a chart for their focus mode, which is kind of like active noise canceling,
but you can see that it only affects a pretty narrow band here in the mid range.
Unique New York. This is, that's what I say when I answer the phone.
If I ever call you, you're gonna hear like, red leather, yellow leather,
other warm up tongue twister things. I like a cold open on a phone call.
Yeah. It sounds like a Bluetooth mic, but you know, it's trade-offs.
It looks like they have put a lot of attention and care into trying to make these sound as good as possible,
while still offering you this open design that gives you the safety benefits and, you know,
convenience benefits too, of being able to hear people talking to you. Maybe you're at work and you want to get away
with having headphones in. You don't want to look like one of those F-off people
with the headphones and the sunglasses and the hat. Don't talk to me.
That's worth something. Now let's talk battery life. It's actually pretty huge.
I would say 16 hours on these and then 58 hours
with the charging case. As far as ingress protection, they are IPX4 rated,
which is very typical for, I would say,
the vast majority of truly wireless earbuds. And what that means is that there's no,
no measured protection for dust. The X means they didn't measure that.
And then the four means it'll do splashes. So you're gonna be good in the rain.
I would not swim with them splashes. And these are using Bluetooth 5.3.
They've got multi-point so you can connect up to two devices and switch between them very easily.
And all this can be yours for 230 US dollars.
I wore this for quite a while and no discomfort. Maybe a small amount of warmth,
but nothing compared to actually on ear or over your headphones.
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