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Razer, our relationship about audio products has been a bit tumultuous.

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But Razer, I'm ready to give you another try.

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With the Razer Moray, as in the eel, or thatsa.

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This is a little bit different from some of the offerings that we've seen from Razer in the past.

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It's a pair of IEMs. Look at that, there's just little guys.

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But Razer isn't calling these a pair of gaming IEMs. They're calling them streaming IEMs,

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which is a bit of a weird category that I've never really heard of.

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I mean, yes, streaming exists. But the question is, what makes these

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specifically for streaming? And is that gonna result in a good headphone?

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And presented nicely in the phone, we have the Razer IEMs, as well as their Triskellion logo.

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They're not wireless earbuds. They are just wired.

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Fun fact, your wingspan is about the same as your height. And the rest of the stuff in the box

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comes a nice little carrying case. We have like a leatherette.

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Very, very structured, very sturdy.

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As well as accessories. It comes with a carabiner,

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in case you're the kind of person who likes keeping your valuables on the outside of your bag.

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And a reusable cable tie. And in the accessories bit, we have three sizes of silicone ear tips

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and three sizes of foam ear tips. I am going to switch these to the small ear tips.

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I tend to like foam, but I'm gonna try the silicone ones out today. It's always great to include a variety of ear tips

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because it helps people find a proper seal and make sure that the earbuds fit more people.

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But while we have the ear tips off, why don't we take a look at the drivers?

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It is quite a shape. Like, look at that.

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Definitely not like your average set of earbuds.

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The ear tips are made of a piano gloss black plastic.

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They're very, very lightweight. And they have a recessed MMCX connector.

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But this kind of recess could cause compatibility issues

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if you have other cables. One thing I appreciate is that the nozzle size for this

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is not too big, as a man with narrow canals. I get worried when I see a headphone

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with really, really big nozzles. And the cable itself that it comes with

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is actually pretty nice. I would just stuff these in my pockets

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so it's a relatively tangle resistant cable. But it has a lot of cable memory.

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Like you can still see that it's bent and wiggly from when it was in the box.

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And there's no inline microphone, which is weird because it's a streaming headphone.

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I guess the idea is that you're a streamer, you're gonna have a better microphone already.

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But it hurts the versatility of these. Like even $20 ear pods have good microphones on them.

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And this just feels like a glaring omission on Razer's parts. Oh, I also didn't mention that, look at that.

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It's a 90 degree termination.

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I feel like they're underselling it as a pouch. This is a case.

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That's firm. These are dual driver ear buds. They contain one dynamic driver and one balanced armature.

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The impedance is 32 ohms. The sensitivity is 106 decibels.

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And the frequency response is from 20 Hertz to 24,000 Hertz.

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Thanks to the very strange shape, these actually fit really nicely into my ears.

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And because they're so light, they actually feel really, really comfortable.

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Oh, head shot. Yeah, they stay in really good.

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They're pretty, they're in there. You can tell that Razer has a couple of goals.

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One, to make it non-fatiguing, something that you can listen to for a long time, and to make a streaming headphone,

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something that will accentuate human voices. And the way they've tuned these,

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I think they kind of hit the mark. There's a lot of like presence in the treble,

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which is like really not what I'd expect from a gaming company.

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Gaming forward companies that make audio products tend to really love just motion everything up

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with way too much bass. And Razer's quite reserved here.

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But that kind of makes sense. If the whole point of these is that you're supposed to be monitoring your own voice or having conversations

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with other people, but I'm really just surprised with the maturity that Razer has brought to these.

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This doesn't have spatial audio gimmicks. This doesn't have a bunch of weird, dumb features

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that just destroy the sound quality. Razer's kind of figuring it out.

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Let's compare these to our target response curve. Looking at the measurement of our Razer Moray,

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that's the green line, against our target curve, the dotted line, we can see that the bass is slightly lacking

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and the treble is noticeably overemphasized. This makes the overall sound profile forward,

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as in like it almost kind of feels like those at higher instruments are closer to you.

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Razer claims that these earbuds can provide up to 36

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decibels of isolation. So a 36 decibel decrease in the loudness of something,

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which is true looking at this chart, if we're only talking about 20 kilohertz

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and five and a half kilohertz. If we're talking full frequency attenuation,

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it's not that great. We see very little attenuation in the bass

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and sub bass regions, which is completely normal for non A and C headphones.

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And very good isolation at the top. Again, normal.

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But just saying 36 decibel noise isolation is meaningless because there's such a huge spectrum of noise

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and it's gonna be literally impossible to cut all of that out. Even the best full frequency earplugs

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can't attenuate that well. Razer's released a solid pair of IEMs that I think

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bring a lot of maturity that I haven't really seen from the brand. The biggest misses are really just

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the no inline microphone. The tuning, you might not be to your tastes,

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but you can always EQ that if you like. But none of that matters if the price is wrong.

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And that price is. 130 USD, which is actually a fairly relaxed razor tax.

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I think that's a pretty fair price for these. If you're like me and you like the headphones that I like,

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I think you might actually enjoy these. And I think they're at a pretty reasonable price.

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For IEMs in this price segment, things are super competitive right now.

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So make sure to look around at all of your options before pulling the trigger on anything.

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Thanks so much for watching ShortCircuit. If you're a streamer looking for a pair of cans,

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why don't you check out our video on the Audio Technica ATH M50Xs.

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The pretty dang goo.