oh no another Kickstarter project that
lonus backed way back in holy crap March
2014 with an estimated delivery date of
January
2015 all righty then well at least they
delivered something which is more than a
lot of kickstarters ever do this finally
is the dash from bregy which raised over
$3 million on the promise of being the world's first truly wireless inear
headphones let's see how they did shall
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I give braggy full marks for packaging and presentation but companies that
create successful Kickstarter campaigns are usually good at that stuff even if
they suck at everything else the dash comes in an attractive box that opens up
to reveal a Charming booklet style quick start guide that's built right into it
then small compartments containing the small medium and large fit sleeves the
extra small is pre-installed the magnetic charger cradle with the
earphones pre-installed in it a sliding aluminum cover that fit very snugly over
the charger with a clever slit to peek at the charge indicator lights on the
earphones that can be activated by shaking them and finally a clip to keep
from losing your earphones along with a USB cable cool and it gets cooler
actually when you put them in your ear they start automatically talking to you
hi I'm the dash explaining that the
right side is for communication and music while the left
is for activity tracking then they tell you to hold the right side until you
hear the pairing sound which I never heard but when I fired up my iPhone it
showed up in the list and connected in a couple of seconds making it a very cool
and seamless experience out of the box and the goodness continues their Android
app is well rated at over four stars with 5,000 downloads but it's the iOS
one that I ended up using which was good as well when you open it up there's a
slick animation for how to insert the earphones correct and instructions for
connecting the app to the dash by holding the left ear phone for a few
seconds one frustrating thing is you
have to avoid using the earphones with any other apps in order to get the full
functionality of the braggy apps so you can't make changes on the Fly while
you're listening to music then you have to eject them from the Bry app once
you're finished configuring not knowing this caused a glitch a couple of times
where even after ejecting I could control music playback supposedly but I
couldn't actually hear anything without refreshing the earphones by putting them
into the charging cable weird anyway from inside the app you can select
running cycling and swimming for the activity tracker you can also do it
through the uh touch sensitive interface on the left earbud by the way but
activity tracker stuff isn't really my thing so that won't be a big Focus for
this video it is sick however that the earphones are waterproof to 1 meter
which something I actually didn't know until they arrived and I read it on the
box though in my defense I did back this thing like two years ago of course being
able to wear them while running or swimming would count for nothing if they
didn't stay in and stay comfortable and I've got to give bregy a lot of points
here I was fully expecting the dash to
be unreasonably heavy and uncomfortable due to their completely self-contained
design battery drivers touch interface motion sensor microphones it's all in
there and they managed to make them fit well enough and be light enough that any
of these activities were no problem for me in spite of my extra Smalls size ear
canals great job guys there are a couple of more app things I should cover before
moving on there are gestures uh right now nodding and shaking your head to
accept or reject a call neither of which worked in my testing but your mileage
may vary with more gestures to come and each earphone has a regrettably
non-configurable but surprising range of functions that you can access by tapping
double tapping swiping holding and long
holding including a transparency mode
that sounds cool in theory allowing the Dash's microphone to pass surrounding
sounds through to you with the speakers so you can hear them better but in
practice makes very little difference since the microphone is not that
sensitive to ambient noise and the earphones passive noise isolation is not
a strong point of the product in the first place with or without music I
could hardly tell the difference between the two modes I don't want the poor
ambient noise sensitivity of the microphone to reflect that negatively on
the product however the dash uses a Jarone microphone for phone calls that
isn't supposed to pick up ambient noise
I'll let you judge for yourself how well that works here though the audio
recording you just listen to was recorded in room the one you're
listening to now was recorded on a call to Brandon's iPhone
on York City for comparison's sake I've
got a few other microphones what you're listening to right now is being recorded
on the iPhone 6s buil-in mic what you're
listening to now is being recorded on the jbird BlueBuds X also a wireless
earphone well not technically completely wireless I
guess and this finally is being recorded on the first party microphone cable
that's available for the Sennheiser I80 headphones that I use as my daily
drivers battery life was frankly nothing impressive at around a few few hours per
charge at best and I suspect most people will find themselves carrying around the
charging case but there's good news here another thing I forgot the case has its
own battery that charges up the earphones a few times so you only have
to plug it in Via micro USB once per day
all right lonus you teas when are you going to get to the meat and potatoes of
this how do they sound they're okay
actually better than okay surprisingly okay well-rounded pleasing sound
signature with solid not overpowering base and reasonable Clarity in the
high's okay I mean no they are not comparable to a similarly priced wired
imem like my daily driver ie80s they
have a shockingly high noise floor they don't get very loud and they're just
playing not as good but considering all
the additional functionality I'd have given sound
quality a great score
if the Bluetooth connectivity wasn't so
shockingly bad across my time with the
dash the first time I had my signal cut
out I initially thought I had bumped the earphone causing it to pause while
scratching an itch but it turned out that with my phone on the bed next to me
even putting my hands near my ears caused the signal to cut out momentarily
line of sight range is a pathetic 5 m
but I found that having my head between my phone and the right earphone caused
issues even at that distance and it gets
worse with my phone in my pocket and I'm
a short dude right leaning backwards is
enough to cause the signal to crackle momentarily or even drop for up to a
second at a time any body of water and
we're made of water folks is enough to screw up the
connectivity which means final conclusion time that in spite of all the
positive things I had to say about this product in spite of all its innovative
features and clever Design Elements I simply cannot recommend it even at half
the price at $300 especially it's not
enough to be a really cool touch controlled 4 gig in your mp3 player oh
yeah you don't have to use Bluetooth it does have 4 gigs of storage but the
wireless connectivity also has to work
sorry braggy better luck next time I
hope that you survive long enough to bring a dash2 to Market to take on the
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