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bose quiet comfort earphones truly wireless

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little dynamites from bose here's a product that should have come out

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two years ago you would have thought that bose would have been first to

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market with active noise cancelling truly wireless earbuds

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but they weren't i think sony was and actually that's you would have expected

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them to do it too but this is a quite a long time coming you would have expected bose to have followed earlier

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i haven't used these yet i know sometimes i sneak my unboxings with

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earphones and headphones and actually listen to them before the episode but

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with this i didn't this is a sealed box so let's make that not

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true yeah simple box

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oh okay i thought i had a hinge i like the presentation

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simple not a tiny case oh my god do i

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have to actually press this button oh that's okay i mean it's gonna keep it

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closed in your bag better i guess this is kind of a chunk and i already

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looked at the bad respects of this thing you get six hours of playback on the

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earbuds themselves and then an additional two charges or 12 hours from

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the case and that's not a lot really for the size

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of this case this is not a case that i want to carry around in my pocket um but i can chuck

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it in my bag and i'll be able to do that safely because it has this little button uh you can see there's a battery life

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indicator it looks like i got three out of five dots right now uh but

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before i open that up and look at the bills themselves let's go through the rest of

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the box a little presentation stand uh looks

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like there's a quick start guide here

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explains the fit explains the controls has a bunch of finished language stuff i

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don't care about yeah that's about it safety instructions

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really what a waste of paper thanks regulations no one's reading this

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crap ever ever reading that and then we've got

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charging cable usb type c to type a the

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c end goes into this port on your charge case

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no wall wart pretty typical this is like

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10 inches long or something and then we've got two different types of

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sleeves here these look like different sizes of the exterior sleeves

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this is the part of the sleeve that actually is all integrated

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this is the left part of it is the silicone ear tip that will go in your

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ear canal try to create a tight seal for base response and passive isolation and then

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you've got the kind of wing tip here that's going to go in this part of the ear

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just to keep it all in place so there's three points of contact on the

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on the sleeve and that appears to be

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it hold on secret compartment oh

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there's a treasure in there what does this say i can't read what that says

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i'm breathing yeah

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mind freak all right let's check out the initial setup

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using my pixel 4. some earbuds have the pairing button on the charge case

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instead of the earbuds themselves and that's what i prefer and yes inside this glossy box there is

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a button with a bluetooth logo beside it here's the buds themselves

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glossy just looks kind of cheap to me but whatever let's try to see

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how do these work downward and twist

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oh wow

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i enjoyed that they played like a welcome sound

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kind of like a thx like this big rising

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uh treble and then a big boom like drop the bass

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and it sounded really lifelike and then it said connected

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so that's pretty cool this has like a soft touch rubber lid which is nice i

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guess that's just really gentle and maybe maybe it would stop a vibrating

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noise if these are rattling around just go to my bluetooth settings here

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and before i they're right there wow as easy as it's

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supposed to be that's great i'll press this power button right after

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blinkist right now okay so they're paired it's telling me right in my settings screen that i have

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90 battery which is cool if i hit the settings these days they

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pack a lot of features just right into the Android

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settings menu these zebras in particular there's not a lot here you can turn on and off

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hd audio toggle whether or not phone calls are allowed on them

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media audio and contact sharing which i will keep off

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even though this does support the google assistant so you can respond to your text messages by voice and it'll type it

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out and send messages for you without having to open your phone so if i did

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plan to keep these and i wasn't just at work right now working for the man

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then yeah i probably would i would do that oh let's see if we can use google

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play music for another couple weeks before it's like officially dead

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not now youtube music oh i love this track

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totally underrated tool song reflection from lateralus

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comes kind of near the end almost completely instrumental

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now is ac is anc on right now

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these sound pretty good but i'm going to open up the

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companion app and see uh how to use

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these things here because they're they're touch that didn't pause it swipe

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okay i think i pause it with a swipe use the touch surface to control your

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earbuds view product tips in the app to learn about

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touch control ah i gotta sign up i need an account

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continue with facebook what is this innocuous quest two

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a allow notifications the only option is got

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it there's no yes or no no you don't need access to location

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what if not enabled the app cannot discover your bose product oh my god

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only this one time thank you Android for exposing detailed location controls

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double tap the right earbud to play or pause audio

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so the swipe i did earlier must have just been like an incorrect alright

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double tap double tap to pause and play that's kind

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of a waste of an interaction because usually it's just one but i guess it

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keeps false positives from happening so much maybe like maybe i can change that later

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though use a shortcut touch and hold the left earbud

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to skip a track so it's a hold or check the battery level

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you decide you can customize your shortcut and settings oh that's a bad

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sign to me like i can't just bind any action to any

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interaction i have to like with this interaction there's two options i don't like that

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okay so noise cancellation is fully on right now okay and i have a bar here i

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can turn it up and down that's cool and i haven't had that on

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like say like qc25s it's just a toggle it's either all on or all off

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but i feel like active noise cancelling and transparency is more important on

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a device like this where i'm gonna be walking around i might be at the office

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i might be in the elevator and like colleagues trying to talk to me and

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they're not going to do that if you have a big headphones on but this is nice and if you put all the way down now it

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sounds like to me like the mics are actually picking me up my voice

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and reinforcing it into my hero so it's actually less isolation than just

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the passive isolation and i believe i can do that on the headset itself so let's find out how

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that's done settings okay control in ear detection

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autoplay and pause let's try see how quick the auto play and pause is

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i've been generally disappointed with the latency on other headphones

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particularly like the oneplus ones were pretty bad for that i think the sony ones those like uh

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working out sony ones i covered were pretty bad for that so let's see how good it is

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pretty much similar i think it's just a bluetooth limitation on the website it

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says like it's instantaneous it just pauses as soon as it's these

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advanced sensors detect that you moved it like micro sensors or some crap like that

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i would expect that to pause like here

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pause like yeah it's a little awkward

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not a deal breaker it seems like that's just the standard so okay

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auto answer call yeah don't leave that on that sounds annoying auto

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transparency noise cancellation changes to level zero when you're only wearing one earbud

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that's a nice option to have some people just rock one earbud all the time though

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so they would want that off but uh personally that annoys me i hate

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thinking that one of my ears is gonna wear out sooner than my other one like you know how like

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your your ears are kind of like like an ocean crashing on a rock cliff

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and over time your ability to hear just gets eroded i

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don't want that to happen more to one ear than the other so i i just can't have one in shortcuts touch

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and hold left earbud to use your shortcut oh so you can make your shortcut bound

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to your battery level battery 80

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or skip to the next track oh

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that is not a good sign that's it for controls like what the hell is going on

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in here double click is pause it just keeps going quiet for a second like

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so okay double tap is pause on the right

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double tap on the left

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i think double tap is toggling through the different levels

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of noise cancellation yes you can see right here

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i'm full now i double tap boom at half

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i double tap it's gone okay so it's made three tiers by default

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you can access by double tapping okay what if i hold on the left

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oh i already did that that's my shortcut what if i hold on the right

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hello google assistant what's up if these are touch then can't i swipe for

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next and previous

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why i'm so so disappointed i'm like

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kevin's sorbo levels of disappointed right now disappointed why

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you gave us touch controls why can't i

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like customize what the actions do why can't

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i swipe for next and back that's like so intuitive why can't i

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swipe for volume up and volume down i don't even have the option so

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underutilized i could throw this right now before i get like really rage quit on

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these let me just listen to them a little more

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i'm critically listening don't look at me don't

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uh how loud are these

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so noise canceling off they're still pretty isolating with the noise count

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thing off these go loud oh

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oh it's hurting me now jeez yeah okay they go they go plenty

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loud and they don't sound great when you're maxed that's for sure that was like harsh but the base is nice

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and low i know a lot of people don't listen to metal but i always like

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to test headphones with it because it is a good test of the highs because

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guitars that are loud just sound like crap on crappy headphones so

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let's use uh byob is a is a good one

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i like boio because it gets to the point like pretty quick in the intro here

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gotta do the fit test

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lies from the tablecloth

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all right the fact that i started having a lot of fun there uh they're good

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they're pretty damn good uh but i still

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can't really recommend them because they cost 280 dollars

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these are 280 us dollars

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and they're not perfect which is why that's too much

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especially in light of the competition which is like the sony wf-1000xm3s

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are now only 170 bucks and they're not alone at that at that price level that's

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where you find the pixel buds the new ones they're 180 bucks

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that's where you find the galaxy buds live they're also like 170.

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airpods pros are like 330 so so they're 50 bucks cheaper than airpods pro so i

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guess bose feels pretty happy about that but honestly these are pretty comparable

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to those xm3s from sony which have a smaller and

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more premium looking case like they're way more bougie and i would

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feel like way more like when i pull them out like check out my

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xm3s like they're sweet they have like two-tone black and copper

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these don't look that cool like no one who like wants

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air pods is gonna see you with these and be like whoa i screwed up by getting air

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pods even though these sound way better they like they don't look that cool

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they're kind of like big beans kind of disappointed with that

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i was hoping they'd be a little smaller than the xm3s they're not they do

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sound awesome but the fact that they screwed up the interface

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so royally i'll give them this they can probably adjust it in software they

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could probably do an update and give me more controls and they should

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boze you should oh you

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take made such a good product you're just devaluing it anyway

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if they fix that and if the price comes down by a hundred and

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hundred bucks like so they're competitive with that other

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price tier then these will probably fly off the shelves

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and then i'll recommend them because they sound awesome and they're going to have like market leading noise

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cancellation as well but until then i just think they kind of botched it a

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little bit and this case is just kind of big and clunky they need to get a lot cheaper

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that's all there is to it okay a couple things uh before we go that i didn't mention

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you can charge this wirelessly it's a wireless charging case

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if you have the correct phone like a pixel 5 you could even just put it on there

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get power that way that's kind of cool um they also apply active noise

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canceling to the microphone from the right earbud so i think you'll

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have to take calls from the right earbud but uh your voice should sound more clear

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because they'll take out some noise around you as long as it's like predictable noise

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and finally they have volume optimized active eq so what this does is it makes

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the bass still sound present when you're at low volumes and the reason this is a thing

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uh is because our ears don't hear all

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frequencies equally we are more attuned to the mid and mid high range like where

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human voices live and we don't hear the high frequencies or the very low frequencies

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linearly so when they master a track at

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like what's reference volume which is about 85 decibels and it's pretty loud

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the bass compared to the voice is going to be at a nice proportion

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but when you turn down from reference volume

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you're going down the frequency response of the human ear to places where we

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don't hear bass as clearly as we hear a voice and suddenly you're listening to music

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and all you hear is the mids and highs and you don't hear the bass anymore so

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at low volumes you're going to feel like you're there's no bass to your music so what

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they do is they have algorithms where they account for that roll off so they boost the base up as

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you turn the volume down kind of keeping it consistent across

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volume so that's what that is and that's appreciated it's a feature that you'll find on lots of avrs like

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from rants and denon and stuff like that as well it's usually called dynamic eq

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but yeah appreciate it here so yeah i don't hate the product i just kind of

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hate the implementation and the price right now but if you don't care about that and

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you're a bose fan great christmas great gift why not hey

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ipx4 production pretty typical you can sweat on them they'll be fine

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so thanks for watching ShortCircuit today if you like this video

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like and subscribe and come back for more and uh

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i don't even know you but i i wish every human on earth would have a great

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