WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.920 Razer, our relationship about audio products has been a bit tumultuous. 00:00:03.920 --> 00:00:07.040 But Razer, I'm ready to give you another try. 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:10.540 With the Razer Moray, as in the eel, or thatsa. 00:00:10.540 --> 00:00:14.120 This is a little bit different from some of the offerings that we've seen from Razer in the past. 00:00:14.120 --> 00:00:18.520 It's a pair of IEMs. Look at that, there's just little guys. 00:00:18.520 --> 00:00:24.320 But Razer isn't calling these a pair of gaming IEMs. They're calling them streaming IEMs, 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:27.760 which is a bit of a weird category that I've never really heard of. 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:31.200 I mean, yes, streaming exists. But the question is, what makes these 00:00:31.200 --> 00:00:35.360 specifically for streaming? And is that gonna result in a good headphone? 00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:40.040 And presented nicely in the phone, we have the Razer IEMs, as well as their Triskellion logo. 00:00:40.040 --> 00:00:43.600 They're not wireless earbuds. They are just wired. 00:00:45.760 --> 00:00:49.800 Fun fact, your wingspan is about the same as your height. And the rest of the stuff in the box 00:00:49.800 --> 00:00:53.560 comes a nice little carrying case. We have like a leatherette. 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:57.360 Very, very structured, very sturdy. 00:00:57.400 --> 00:01:00.840 As well as accessories. It comes with a carabiner, 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:04.160 in case you're the kind of person who likes keeping your valuables on the outside of your bag. 00:01:04.160 --> 00:01:09.240 And a reusable cable tie. And in the accessories bit, we have three sizes of silicone ear tips 00:01:09.240 --> 00:01:13.520 and three sizes of foam ear tips. I am going to switch these to the small ear tips. 00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:17.720 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 00:01:17.720 --> 00:01:21.000 because it helps people find a proper seal and make sure that the earbuds fit more people. 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:24.060 But while we have the ear tips off, why don't we take a look at the drivers? 00:01:24.060 --> 00:01:27.080 It is quite a shape. Like, look at that. 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:30.320 Definitely not like your average set of earbuds. 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:33.400 The ear tips are made of a piano gloss black plastic. 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:38.040 They're very, very lightweight. And they have a recessed MMCX connector. 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:41.360 But this kind of recess could cause compatibility issues 00:01:41.360 --> 00:01:44.440 if you have other cables. One thing I appreciate is that the nozzle size for this 00:01:44.440 --> 00:01:49.240 is not too big, as a man with narrow canals. I get worried when I see a headphone 00:01:49.240 --> 00:01:52.560 with really, really big nozzles. And the cable itself that it comes with 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:56.440 is actually pretty nice. I would just stuff these in my pockets 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:00.080 so it's a relatively tangle resistant cable. But it has a lot of cable memory. 00:02:00.080 --> 00:02:03.800 Like you can still see that it's bent and wiggly from when it was in the box. 00:02:03.800 --> 00:02:07.520 And there's no inline microphone, which is weird because it's a streaming headphone. 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:11.660 I guess the idea is that you're a streamer, you're gonna have a better microphone already. 00:02:11.660 --> 00:02:16.080 But it hurts the versatility of these. Like even $20 ear pods have good microphones on them. 00:02:16.080 --> 00:02:20.400 And this just feels like a glaring omission on Razer's parts. Oh, I also didn't mention that, look at that. 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:23.400 It's a 90 degree termination. 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:26.240 I feel like they're underselling it as a pouch. This is a case. 00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:32.080 That's firm. These are dual driver ear buds. They contain one dynamic driver and one balanced armature. 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:35.080 The impedance is 32 ohms. The sensitivity is 106 decibels. 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:38.440 And the frequency response is from 20 Hertz to 24,000 Hertz. 00:02:38.440 --> 00:02:43.480 Thanks to the very strange shape, these actually fit really nicely into my ears. 00:02:43.480 --> 00:02:49.600 And because they're so light, they actually feel really, really comfortable. 00:02:49.600 --> 00:02:53.240 Oh, head shot. Yeah, they stay in really good. 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:56.280 They're pretty, they're in there. You can tell that Razer has a couple of goals. 00:02:56.280 --> 00:03:00.680 One, to make it non-fatiguing, something that you can listen to for a long time, and to make a streaming headphone, 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:04.760 something that will accentuate human voices. And the way they've tuned these, 00:03:04.760 --> 00:03:09.200 I think they kind of hit the mark. There's a lot of like presence in the treble, 00:03:09.200 --> 00:03:12.480 which is like really not what I'd expect from a gaming company. 00:03:12.480 --> 00:03:17.320 Gaming forward companies that make audio products tend to really love just motion everything up 00:03:17.320 --> 00:03:21.000 with way too much bass. And Razer's quite reserved here. 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:24.840 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 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:28.520 with other people, but I'm really just surprised with the maturity that Razer has brought to these. 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:32.240 This doesn't have spatial audio gimmicks. This doesn't have a bunch of weird, dumb features 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:36.240 that just destroy the sound quality. Razer's kind of figuring it out. 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:39.480 Let's compare these to our target response curve. Looking at the measurement of our Razer Moray, 00:03:39.480 --> 00:03:44.080 that's the green line, against our target curve, the dotted line, we can see that the bass is slightly lacking 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:48.400 and the treble is noticeably overemphasized. This makes the overall sound profile forward, 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:52.600 as in like it almost kind of feels like those at higher instruments are closer to you. 00:03:52.600 --> 00:03:56.320 Razer claims that these earbuds can provide up to 36 00:03:56.320 --> 00:04:01.920 decibels of isolation. So a 36 decibel decrease in the loudness of something, 00:04:01.920 --> 00:04:07.120 which is true looking at this chart, if we're only talking about 20 kilohertz 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:11.360 and five and a half kilohertz. If we're talking full frequency attenuation, 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:14.480 it's not that great. We see very little attenuation in the bass 00:04:14.480 --> 00:04:18.760 and sub bass regions, which is completely normal for non A and C headphones. 00:04:18.760 --> 00:04:22.960 And very good isolation at the top. Again, normal. 00:04:22.960 --> 00:04:27.840 But just saying 36 decibel noise isolation is meaningless because there's such a huge spectrum of noise 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:33.080 and it's gonna be literally impossible to cut all of that out. Even the best full frequency earplugs 00:04:33.080 --> 00:04:37.440 can't attenuate that well. Razer's released a solid pair of IEMs that I think 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:41.080 bring a lot of maturity that I haven't really seen from the brand. The biggest misses are really just 00:04:41.080 --> 00:04:44.880 the no inline microphone. The tuning, you might not be to your tastes, 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:49.360 but you can always EQ that if you like. But none of that matters if the price is wrong. 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:54.080 And that price is. 130 USD, which is actually a fairly relaxed razor tax. 00:04:54.080 --> 00:04:57.800 I think that's a pretty fair price for these. If you're like me and you like the headphones that I like, 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:01.080 I think you might actually enjoy these. And I think they're at a pretty reasonable price. 00:05:01.080 --> 00:05:04.560 For IEMs in this price segment, things are super competitive right now. 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:08.160 So make sure to look around at all of your options before pulling the trigger on anything. 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.360 Thanks so much for watching ShortCircuit. If you're a streamer looking for a pair of cans, 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:15.880 why don't you check out our video on the Audio Technica ATH M50Xs. 00:05:15.880 --> 00:05:17.200 The pretty dang goo.