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and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1089.6,"end_s":1098.539,"text":"check out a video about another expensive pair of headphones like the master and dynamic MW 75s 65s I don't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1096.38,"end_s":1105.039,"text":"know I still use those at my desk I think they sound pretty okay also very","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":1100.58,"end_s":1105.039,"text":"expensive wait you still have those I do","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"ShortCircuit where we are the focal bathys or if you are French the focal batis which is actually how they're pronounced because they are a French company known for making all sorts of wonderful expansive audio equipment and this is their first attempt at making it big in the truly Wireless space and they've come in with the batis what is that well it was named after the bathosphere which is a predecessor to the submarine that basically just went down and up a lot of uh people died in it a lot of French people too because they were pretty popular lots of scientists there and it's named after the bathosphere because they believe that it represents silence and being cut off from the world because these are noise canceling headphones with Hi-Fi sound and French design take a look at the boxy cat here Home Collection your maturities collection and professional collection cool don't know what those mean features finally active noise canceling SBC AAC Qualcomm aptx and aptx adaptive that's a little misleading SBC is the default Bluetooth codec for any sort of audio and aptx adaptive is backwards compatible with app decks so really it just has sp8 and SPC is not another feature it just has AAC and Qualcomm aptx we don't have ldac which is a great Hi-Fi proprietary audio codec and apparently they didn't want to pay Sony the licensing money just too bad one thing interesting about these headphones is that they have a USB DAC included a DAC is a digital analog converter which takes a digital signal like the one from your USBC port or your computer and converts it into an analog signal so that it can be played through speakers that bump back and forth they claim 30 hours of battery life and speaker drivers hand crafted in France opening the box right here we have the first steps this QR code to scan for a quick start guide and a QR code to scan for an application so downloading the app these are the headphones in a nice case we'll get to that in a second and uh some paperwork that's neat this is a nice hard shell case um the zipper feels good this is like just very premium it's also not too thick it's pretty good which uh inspires confidence I hate when you have a travel focused headphone that has a very thick case kind of defeats the purpose oh and look at those those are just beautiful you got this kind of like spiraling almost like Fibonacci Sequence kind of thing coming out from the middle you have their logo right in the middle inside we get a three pole headphone connector so 3.5 millimeter uh so that means no microphone in this and kind of a less than exceptional cable it is just made of like uh soft plastic which is a little disappointing from this brand and this price point I'd expect something a little bit more premium feeling but as long as it's not like a loud cable and there's no cable noise introduced that's A-Okay we also get a USBC 2C cable again similar quality it looks like it's about the length I think they're both four feet I do appreciate the cable ties that makes it easy to keep things nice and neat and I also like how they have this little section for uh your cables that are relevant to the headphone just keep them right in there and I really like this there's a mesh pocket at the top which allows me to store a bunch of extra stuff and let's take a look at the headphones again as I said I am just smitten with the design I think they are beautiful um very striking too the top is I believe it's real leather this is almost like an Alcantara or something on the headband very soft it's more of a firm kind of foam there it seems like it's gonna be very comfortable uh you have metal for the headband this feels like there's metal construction on these hinges here might just be plastic but it's a nice firm feeling plastic or it's plastic with like a metal they're not too heavy so I'd be surprised if there's too much metal in here nice deep ear cups these ear cups are removable which is great because they're usually the first thing that goes I believe they're also leather real leather ear cups and inside you can see the drivers they're angled towards your ears which typically tends to help with the Sound Stage so you can kind of see how there's like a little lip there's a little up here but it's not totally flat focal has this proprietary Tech where they have an m-shaped speaker so basically it's like the cone goes like this and then down in the middle as opposed to just being a straight cone and they credit that to why they have such a unique and distinct and uh incredible sound so they put those same kind of drivers in here these are similar drivers to what you'd find on their high-end audiophile headphones speaking of which high end so these are relatively cheap and when I say relatively I mean relative to the rest of focal's lineup these are 800 this is a company that sells like five thousand dollar headphones and even more expensive speakers so for anything this is this is kind of mainstream which means that it's not competing in a similar space than what most Shoppers are looking at this is competing against the mark Levinson's number 5909 which is a thousand dollar headphone and the Bowers and Wilkins px8 which is like a 700 headphone they're competing with lots of audio files which means I have very high expectations for one audio quality two ANC and three usability if I'm spending this much money on a wireless headphone something that's supposed to be about convenience probably more so than audio I need to make sure that these companies need to nail it when you buy something like airpods Max Apple has such a great user experience they have great noise canceling that you can forgive the less than perfect audio that's on them they're not don't worry airpods Max users you guys have good audio the headphones are ugly as but so you have to be able to you have to be able to compete with the Heavy Hitters and the if if I'm having a better experience on my 400 Sony headphones or my 600 Apple headphones that's a problem unless these sounds somehow way more immaculately better than other headphones um but let's talk about the user experience on the headphones themselves we have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack a USB type-c a button There's No Label this is for your voice assistant we have the off DAC and on setting so the DAC again is for that USBC DAC that we talked about earlier we have a volume up and volume down as well as your multi-use button so that'll be your pause play Skip ahead skip back we also have a button on the left ear cup specifically for controlling your noise canceling which is great having lots of physical buttons makes things really easy to use I know what buttons I'm pressing I know what they're going to do it's a lot nicer than gestures or many different combinations of TAPS you'll be using the DAC whether you are listening through the USBC cable or the three and a half millimeter Jack uh one thing to note that is that that means that these are active headphones which means that they will be using battery even when you're listening to the 3.5 millimeter Jack I think they charge at the same time as you're listening if you're using the USBC DAC if they do die on you it's just a 15 minute plug for five hours of battery which is great love fast charging when you are using the 3.5 millimeter Jack it's important to note that you cannot charge these at the same time it doesn't matter if you have the USBC plugged in and the headphone jack plugged in you just can't charge because it's using the active amplifier oh you can't use a microphone with the 3.5 millimeter Jack even the microphones that are included in here why because when you're listening through the 3.5 millimeter Jack you can't be connected to another Bluetooth device what would have been nice is if they made this a four pole a combo headphone and microphone Jack but uh sadly they didn't this isn't the biggest problem but it's a convenience thing and when you're paying this much money for something I want every part of this experience to be smooth I don't have to think about anything which at all just work and also I found very I found virtually no difference between listening to any of the inputs whether it was Bluetooth the DAC or the 3.5 millimeter Jack it was all sounded great now let's turn them on oh look they light up just like Linus's eyes light up when we tell you about sponsors like brilliant thanks brilliant for sponsoring this video brilliant is a Hands-On and interactive way to learn stem topics they offer thousands of courses with new topics to learn each month like their computer science fundamentals course their services can be used to supplement a college education or you can use it if getting Smart's just something you like to do if you don't understand the basics of a problem how are you going to troubleshoot them brilliant avoids teaching you what to think and focuses on teaching you how to think allowing you to solve problems on your own sounds like a good time well the first 200 people who head to brilliant.org ShortCircuit will get 20 off an annual premium subscription one thing I find that's really nice about these is that these have really nice big ear cups so they go all the way around your ears they're very spacious um they're not the deepest so if you have ears that stick out a lot to the sides you might find them kind of uncomfortable I think they are amazing I've worn these just for hours and hours at a time and uh have not had any issues with Comfort I also haven't had any issues with getting a good seal which keeps the sound consistent and the automatic noise canceling working well like they articulate and they tilt blah blah blah like they got everything you need for a really comfy pair of headphones and because they're not too heavy they're not exhausting and like if you're moving around a lot they stay on your head pretty well I mean doing that you're going to knock off any pair of headphones I wouldn't work out in these because they're way too expensive could you imagine dropping like a 20 pound weight on this thing you'd be very very sad but feasibly if you're like in a hostel you're going to be able to move the clamping force is great the foam on the side is plush it's just a wonderful wonderful experience these guys have been doing it for a long time in the luxury space and you can tell everything that they've learned over the many years they've been making luxury products has been put into this and it's just an impeccable feeling experience and that carries over to sound full disclosure I've been listening to these for a little while I took them on a trip with me and then I left them in another province which was stressful because they weren't mine and they are eight hundred dollars luckily they made it here shout out to my mom for getting them in the mail and I have some thoughts about them they sound really really freaking good these are very much tied to the harman Target curve uh what the heck does that mean the harman Target is a research-based target curve for how to tune your headphones so that's how loud they should be at any given frequency the harm and Target will sound relatively neutral to 60 of people and just sound good to like 90 of people and when we look at the response curves then we got Labs to do we can see that this is a very accurate reproduction of the harman Target on the y-axis is a normalized volume so if you're playing a tone across the whole frequency everything should and it's totally flat you should see a very flat line that means that nowhere on the frequencies whether it's 400 Hertz or 1000 Hertz is anything louder than anything else we can see there's a base shelf there's a pronounced increase in the base then it follows with a dip in the mids and then a spike kind of in the higher treble area and we fall off towards the really really high notes so things like around like 16 000 kilohertz and stuff it dips right off a lot of people can't hear those kind of sounds because most people have hearing loss from just existing and as you can see this headphone the Orange Line matches that curve very very nicely there's a lot of wavering and stuff in the high end a lot of that is due to just the effects of high frequencies and how they don't really go through stuff and because measuring those high frequencies is kind of imprecise now this doesn't mean that this is going to sound great to your ears this is based on headphones plugged into a robot specifically the one at the headphones.com offices shout out to headphones.com for letting us use their head simulator because ours hasn't come in yet we're going to look back at another graph later when we talk about noise canceling but let's just talk about how they sound to my ears they sound great they have a beautiful Sound Stage to me things are located beautifully around me when I'm listening to these headphones especially for closed backs they have great bass reproduction and I think vocals really really shine on this especially uh some of the higher female vocals I listen to think like singers in the high range like Whitney Houston artists like St Vincent who kind of are in that like soprano like mezzo-soprano kind of area just wonderful there's really nothing I can fault about it maybe it's a little laid back because in the high end frequencies it's not quite so raised so to some people who are used to that it might sound a little imprecise or warm to me sounds sounds right on the money in terms of noise canceling though it's kind of mid it's not as good as the Sony's it's not as good as the airpods when you have the ANC on you do hear a little bit of a noise floor increase so there's kind of a static that's always kind of playing however they do an admirable job it blocks out sounds like on the airplane they were fine blocked of a lot of the airplane noise you can see in this image this is in comparison to the airpods pro now I get that that's a pretty different uh set of headphones uh one they're in ears the green line is the focal Batiste and the blue line is the airpods pro what you can see is that on the low end these block out less noise the LA the line is closer to zero what we want to see is maximum noise reduction and you can see really in the mids kind of around the 1000 Hertz area or lots of human voices are we really do not do as well as the Apple airpods these tend to win out in the higher frequencies because they're over ears because they're just bigger higher frequencies are easily blocked just by General Mass so these having ear cups and like plastic at the back and stuff like that makes things cancel a lot easier in the high end so like the fricatives you're talking about like your s's your t's your your all of those high-pitched sounds like this is oh a little bit disappointing there just because of the price point these are at but they probably are as good as the Sennheiser momentum threes if you if you want kind of like a baseline if you don't how those sound I've had some opinions from around the office saying that these are a little bit lacking in bass luckily you can fix that with the equalizer that's in the app the app is called focal and name uh n-a-i-m they're like another company that makes like receivers and other digital audio products they've teamed up with focal to create this app and it works with some other speakers and other things like that so in the app there are three main things you can adjust you can adjust the EQ the noise cancellation and the led the the LED is a good one I remember I took these on a flight and when the cabin lights turned off the my girlfriend who was sitting beside me she just stared at me like this she was like because these things they don't seem that bright right now in the studio but they're really really bright in the dark room luckily there's settings between dim and off they're not RGB though noise cancellation you can choose between silent soft and transparent there's no way to turn it completely off I wish that you could because sometimes I like to be able to hear a little bit more than even what soft will do but I don't want to have transparency mode where it's actively blasting noises into my ears if you didn't like the sound signature you can fix it in the EQ thankfully they include one however it's just a five band EQ which I think is not enough I would rather have eight or even 12 to really be able to dial in exactly the sound that I want but some is better than none uh they come with a couple of presets and you can customize your own preset you just drag them to where you want them to be you click save as new preset type it in yeah so the app is very Bare Bones you can configure your voice assistant Auto standby settings whether or not you want that to happen you do want it you're gonna forget to hit the switch sometimes you want Auto standby to be a thing it gets the job done one interesting thing is that if you set the EQ in the app it adjusts the EQ of the headphones no matter where you're listening to them so say I go I said that you keep the loudness and then I disconnect from this phone and go listen somewhere else those EQ settings will actually be maintained which is great because then you know how it's going to sound with any device you can dial it in exactly how you want it and it's stored on the headphones that's a great feature I don't need to be like oh it sounds amazing on my Android phone where I have my dialed in EQ but like garbage on my Windows device where I don't have an EQ or on my Apple device where there's no system-wide EQ Apple just let me have just just make one at the end of the day where does that leave us with the focal with the focal batis they're very expensive um they're out of the price range of most people lots of people you can buy cars for 800 not good cars mind you but cars which makes these hard to recommend however these are a truly Hi-Fi pair of headphones and if you're in the market for something that's High Fidelity and versatile and you don't mind traveling with 800 of merchandise on your head at any given moment these are an excellent solution especially if you're not in need of massive amounts of noise canceling but if you're everyone else consider something like the 400 Sony xm5s those have solid sound better noise canceling and Sony has years of experience in the market making high quality headphones they also have a better app in my opinion or you could go with the Sennheiser momentum Force for 350 which will give you a sound signature that's closer to these but at less than half the price I know that those are completely different price categories but you are really getting 80 to 90 percent of the performance of these at like half the price but if you want the best of the best this is not a bad place to start and if you want the best of the best YouTube content get subscribed to ShortCircuit where we talk about tech all the time always and forever and check out a video about another expensive pair of headphones like the master and dynamic MW 75s 65s I don't know I still use those at my desk I think they sound pretty okay also very expensive wait you still have those I do"}