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yeah this sounds pretty good it doesn't sound like

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what's that looks like razer's finally making stuff i might want to use today

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we're looking at the razer barracuda x a uh back to basics headset no none of the

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frills none of the nonsense just all the features that i think are kind of great

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in a under 100 wireless pair of headphones

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there's no RGB which is fine some people want RGB but on my headphones when i

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don't get to see it no thanks if i don't get to see the RGB

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it doesn't even it doesn't even exist regular razer box green and black

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a little instruction fold out you can see where some of the corners are cut

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often razor boxes are really nice like you'll pull out a thing and it'll lift

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the box out with the headphones out here it's more like an amazon basics box

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which is totally okay a little bit of padding to protect the headphones and then it comes in this

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little uh protective baggie so these are the headphones i

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like their kind of more subdued look so sometimes razer does

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stuff where i'm like oh that's almost good looking but then like the ear cups will be lime green or or they'll be a

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big RGB thing or they'll be cat ears or something this

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is just like a basic pair of black headphones and that's

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great yeah exactly andy less is more we're

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going to come back to these and kind of evaluate the build qual i almost dropped them okay razer

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stickers

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oh god there we go here's the mic

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it's like most gaming headsets you have an optional mic that you can attach

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which is great this is a pretty decent length we'll see exactly where it gets

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to on my mouth uh how much spit i'm gonna get on it but build quality is

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okay on that

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oh perfect okay here's the actual dongle it's pretty cool actually i think it's a

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smart choice to do a USB-C dongle that means there's compatibility with

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everything including switch which is kind of a big pain right now most

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headsets just don't have compatibility with switch because they can't do bluetooth it needs a proprietary dongle

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so you can plug this right into your switch it also goes right into a ps5 but

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there's also a a to c adapter or an extender

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that you can use to use on xbox or on your pc if you don't have a USB-C slot

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in fact here it is trademark razer green it's pretty long

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that's pretty nice i actually like for wireless stuff having them above my desk

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my desk is fairly thick and there's lots of computers and a lot of wires and so

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sometimes wireless has trouble if i have it plugged in below so it's nice to have

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an extender that i can put on the desk not worry about that this is a charging

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cable it's a to c uh the headphones charge through c you can't use them as

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just like a wired pair of headphones like some of the wireless ones i've seen uh that's all right this cable's

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decently long you could have it under your desk into your headset if you were

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running out of battery it'd be okay i'm gonna be honest with you guys i'm not a

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huge wireless headset guy when it comes to pc gaming

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you're in your chair your pc is right there uh i prefer

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just having the consistency of wired headsets if you spend the same amount of

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money on a wired headset you're going to get better sound so to me that's more

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important than the convenience of being able to move around that being said i do

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have wireless headphones but mostly for streaming and uh like console gaming and

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i really do like that when i like get up to go grab water or something i can get

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up and i don't like pull everything with me and try and destroy my entire life

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around me so i'm considering switching you know okay i was wrong apparently you

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can plug them in wired today we are testing the wireless

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at home my wireless headphones are the sony whl 600s uh which aren't quite

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comparable they're 200 more expensive they come with a base station but i

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choose them because the connectivity i can connect them through arc to my tv uh as well as to my

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pc and to another source and it all just works it's great but this has a similar

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look to that i and i i like this look uh i don't want to be a walking

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advertisement for companies and it's okay if you have like razor branding on your thing but i don't

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want people from 100 meters away to be able to be like oh he's wearing razor

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and so i like the look of this it feels a little bit cheaper but the build quality isn't bad it's got memory foam

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padding for the ears and it's not like a leather it looks pretty breathable which

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is nice that can be definitely a big problem especially in the summer man

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headphones get so warm and i prefer playing competitive games with

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headphones even if i'm playing on like console or something but man i get so

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sweaty there's padding at the top it feels a little bit inadequate

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considering there's no other support but it's a really light pair of headphones i

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believe this is razer's they say it's their lightest headset ever to 250 grams

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which is great so you have all the buttons and controls on this side i

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believe that's the left ear cup there's your mic

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there's your charging there's your audio in there's your power button this looks

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like a volume knocker uh and then there's your mute button

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man if you're doing a wireless gaming headset and you don't have a mute button

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for your mic what are you doing there's so many times i like don't want to talk

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to people for a second and just like mute and have a sip of water or a

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handful of chips you know so this is great that's a good set of features uh

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decent build quality it feels light and sometimes things that feel light feel

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cheap but it doesn't feel cheap this feels pretty darn adequate so the

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drivers are 40 millimeters they're branded as razer triforce

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uh as in like base mid and high as if

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they invented drivers that can do basements and high

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oh my goodness i'm excited to get into it right after i talk to you about our

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today let's try these there's uh not much more to it i can comment on

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aesthetics but you guys can see them you can decide for yourselves build quality

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i've already talked about now it's time for the most important thing how does it

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sound all right i kind of want to try using it on a switch first because i know that's

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been for me someone that's only like an occasional switch user uh a big pain

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when i'm traveling is like needing wired headphones so let's

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see how easy the pairing process is

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so i plugged in the dongle i'm gonna turn on the headphones

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i think it already is connected wow that was that was really easy

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oh it feels pretty comfortable pretty secure like if i really tried

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like off they come realistically when i'm on

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a bus or on a plane or something walking

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yeah it'd be fine the weight of the dongle is so light too that it doesn't

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feel like it's like pulling in any way it's just there if you wanted to put it

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in tabletop mode you're gonna have a bit of trouble yeah it's it's not gonna work

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that's nintendo's fault yeah yeah i mean the sound resolution is pretty

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good because like i can't hear what john was saying i had to take the headphones off so like that's pretty good

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yeah this sounds pretty good it doesn't sound like

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what's that oh yeah the sound is excellent i have

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the sound turned up pretty high uh but like it was like 60 65 percent honestly

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i didn't really want to mess around too much with the switch i just wanted to see how well worked it worked it

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connected really well sounds pretty good sound isolation's excellent i mean it's

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way too cheap of a headset to expect noise cancellation but in terms of just

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like blocking out sound it's clearly really good i can already tell this

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sounds like a little bit thin on the the low end but it sounds good and it's a

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100 pair of headphones man that's that's good let's try it on something i know a

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bit better uh i really like the shape of this dongle but i could see in some

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builds uh some cases uh maybe some other

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boards usually there's an extra gap around the type c this could be a

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problem where it starts blocking another port or kind of gets in the way not a

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huge deal and it works perfect for the switch i wouldn't want it to be longer

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but it's definitely a consideration is how big this thing is going to be on your setup

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but before we get into gaming we're actually going to do a little microphone test uh so it's a razer

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proprietary mic it's cardioid so they say so that it's better for directional

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audio we'll see how it sounds uh i don't have super high expectations usually

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cheap headsets come with cheap microphones it should be adequate and like a lot of

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people use like i remember the day when you got that

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free uh plug-in headset for the 360. a

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lot of people use mics of that quality like those 15 best buy insignia ones so

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this is probably a little bit better than that but we're about to find out

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it's a little less seamless on pc it seems like it's connected so let's see

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if it's picked it up in Windows i guess i probably have to get the razer

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drivers razer

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why i don't want to use your proprietary software i will i don't want it

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installed i just want like almost every other device on the planet for it to

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plug in and work and then maybe unlock some extra features with your software

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big downer for me big bummer let's see oh my god it is

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oh no we had the dongle plugged in as we

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restarted it and then we would get no display to our monitor

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and so it seems like it's competing with whatever's going on to like be the

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display so we're gonna try it with the extender uh which is usb a to c and see

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if that helps plugging into the extender seems to work so if you are buying this

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uh i would recommend using the sender to start there might be a firmware update

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that becomes available that will fix this but i will remember this

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my mic is recording it seems like an appropriate volume i

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wonder how it sounds uh you guys can be the judge for yourself bit of bobble

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bibbing boops the bag of bottom john is

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going to speak in the background let's see how the noise cancellation is

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not bad uh it's definitely like a cheap mic but it's clear and that's what's

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important if someone was speaking to me using this mic i'd be able to hear i think the usually the compression they

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use in-game is so crappy anyway that that would be the bigger bottleneck uh

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in discord if you get this quality i'd be fine with that if someone was

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speaking to me with this on my team i'd be like this is totally okay i don't

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know how advanced their noise cancellation is uh they don't even talk

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about noise cancellation in their promo material so i'm guessing it's just counting on the cardioid pattern as soon

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as you're talking that's gonna take precedence it's fine it's an okay mic

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and it's totally serviceable on the switch i felt like the like lowe's was

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lacking but here it's like really boomy bass

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so maybe it's just a switch thing that's what i would expected usually cheap

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headphones to make up for their lack and clarity they kind of add a bunch of

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oomph on the low end honestly i'm having a hard time like hearing like the like

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the little high ends and the mids are like kind of low it's

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kind of an uncomfortable hearing experience and i don't really want to turn it down

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because i want to like hear the the speaking and stuff in game it kind of

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feels like i'm getting a pretty decent amount of the audioscape when i'm

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listening with with higher end end phones when i walk through the map i can kind of feel that i'm close to places i

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can feel that i'm close to the lava or that i'm close to a vent

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and i can hear all these little details that help kind of add texture to it i

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just can't hear them they're just not there um which is kind of a bummer yeah like

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these would be good for like edm music not for games where you need kind of a

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broader sound spectrum maybe i'm giving an unfair comparison to the headphones

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that i have overall i'd say the razer head headset's fine if you're okay with

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like aggressive bass they kind of do everything else i'd want otherwise

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they're 100 so that's pretty good and there's a bunch of other options at that low end that maybe we'll unbox so if you

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want us to see us unbox other uh budget headphones let us know give us

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a subscribe a like maybe leave a comment below with a device you want us to unbox

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uh but for now thank you for watching this ShortCircuit and i will see you on

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the long circle of life