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I love wires and they've always kind of

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kept me away from you know the tiny little in Mirror buds you know you lose

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them you don't have many more they fall out the new Bayer Dynamic zelento

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wireless headphones kind of have the best of both worlds they've got wires

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yay they come down to a Little Neck thing and you're not going to lose them

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when you're out and about this is a new kind of Flagship product from Bayer

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Dynamic it's kind of their one of the most expensive things that they make and

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you know I've got new types of drivers that I've not really seen before and

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kind of a very interesting way to interface with your phone a kind of I

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guess like a standard in-ear monitor box

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is a bit mocked up I think I think Labs

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might have tried to open it with their teeth or something look oh my God

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did he like get in there with it no pull

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tab here this opens up like that oh my God they're tiny look at that over there

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what else we got in here we'll get a piece of plastic with some information

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we have I guess this is a little carrying case no this is the neck piece

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isn't it oh there we go

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but for now we've got our connection cables so you can use these wired which

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is great maybe you don't have your phone or you just want to use your own preamp

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or something like that you don't have to use their driver or DAC got a USB cable

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I assume for charging we'll find out instruction manuals a certificate of our

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senticity which is always cool this one comes with like loads of different tips

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and things like that you can't get there's a box oh okay it's it was glued

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to the Box sure sure bear in Dynamic

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whatever why why would you do that

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um what is this a little cleaning cloth oh that's cool it's not even tips these

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are like little clip things I have no idea what those would be useful for what

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else oh my God there's so much stuff in here look at all of those there's like

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hundreds of them from what looks like extra small all the way up to XXL 3XL I

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can't read today and look at these little guys they're adorable

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apparently these are handmade in Germany looks like they're all metal very nice

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matte finish on the side there the connection point for the cables here

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because we'll have a look at this thing so yeah this is the Bluetooth interface

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neck thing and so kind of like a really nice siliconized band here very flexible

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with our connection points for the headphones here and then there's your

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USB point for charging and we have this

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also metal kind of volume adjustment and

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your music switch or whatever else you make calls on this too it's got

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microphones is number two clicks in there really

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nice these rotate I like the look of the

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buds I like they're kind of the two-tone appeal of them with the the matte finish

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on the back and the now immediately covered in fingerprints shiny side on

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the front they feel really high quality the connection here is really good

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hopefully they stand out for sound

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quality I think the build quality is there Cable's nice and siliconized and

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easily flexible you're probably not going to feel that too much I'm just

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noticing the weight of this on my neck and it's not too oppressive but I'm

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definitely noticing it certainly touching here I mean you've got the cold

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of the metal so if you're using this in like I don't know Canadian winters like

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we have right now I think these would get cold and press into your neck and

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that would be unpleasant but I mean if you're outside wearing them then you're

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gonna have one around a collar like this I don't feel it at all now putting the

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man is not a problem you go up and over push them in wrap the cable around the

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top of your ear they feel really good in the ear they just sort of disappear I'm

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not going to be able to talk very well because I'm not gonna have any of the

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outside voice there we go seal feels good hopefully

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they have some sort of pass-through we'll check that out in a second we have

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an app with it as well but first I forgot to tell you about our sponsor D

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has a super grippy texture it's impact resistant it can be customized with any

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of dbrand skins like this new palettes collection that dbrand just released

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check them out at shortlineus.com I call

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them nipples because he only comes up to here we also have a companion app which

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is kind of always terrifying Boop linuses nose here one thing I like

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is you open the app and it doesn't ask you to make an account it just goes

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connect your headphones immediately so this little logo here is is a button I'm

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going to hold it down see if it does anything yeah it did we have a little light here and it's blinking blue and

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red hey there we are so I'll connect to these let's go back to our

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app here I guess there we are choose

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and we're done that was very simple and easy good job they do have firmware so

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we're gonna have to update them let's see how long this takes I've got a

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blinking white light here so we're doing the update or is that purple it's purple

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so we've got full RGB Baron Dynamics inspired by Razer it's going to take 12

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minutes for headphone firmware okay

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okie dokie our update is done and we're

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good to go let's uh let's have a look through some of the settings here

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um yeah we've got voice prompts so when you basically press this center button

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you can get your assistant you can make calls all that sort of thing now there

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is a special feature that Baron Dynamics is included called enhancement mode

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which changes the sound profile a whole bunch and we'll have a look at that I'm

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not sure if Labs measured it with that on and off to figure out exactly how

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that alters it oh we've got some statistics which is always nice to see how many times it's been turned on

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uptime all that sort of stuff we have all sorts of remote stuff which is kind

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of nice gives you a little manual right in the app of what this button does

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which yeah it's got a lot of different features that's kind of cool let's get

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some music into it I guess we got to try and get them in properly and all that

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sort of thing get our volume adjusted I did have a quick look at the manual and

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yeah these cables are supposed to go towards the back of the headphones let's

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play some crab rave

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okay so yeah the uh the first impressions are are pretty nice the seal

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in my left ear wasn't quite perfect and this is some of the problem with uh

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these in-ear style buds is that unless

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you know you kind of don't know if you have them in right there's some

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tutorials in the manual which kind of go over like if you have no bass response

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you've put them in wrong so you can kind of move them around and feel how the sound changes maybe try out some

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different tips I think my ears are different so I might need

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slightly different like a cup for my left ear composed compared to the right

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ear but yeah the the sound is is very

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good there's something missing though and I want to just try it again with

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this enhancement mode off and we will get a different impression hopefully

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yes that sounds very very similar I

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think the base roll-off is a little more and the sibilance kind of high band is

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is a little bit higher I mean this is probably a good time to talk about the

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Labs results yeah Sam's give me two charts here to have a look at one of

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them is from the bear Dynamics and the other one is from the Apple airpods Pro

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Gen 2 and we can see that there's a bit

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of a dip around 200 and some kind of

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increases looks like uh wow five nearly

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10 DB in the 3K range and that's kind of

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it's kind of where you're getting that kind of sound from the hi-hats at least

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in Crab Rave there is a bit of bass push as well and it's even more pronounced

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when we have this enhancement mode on they're kind of not performing at the

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level I would expect for a pair of headphones in this price range and there

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are 1200 US Dollars which is a hell of a lot of money now bear Dynamics does have

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kind of a characteristic sound where their high band is a little bit more

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pushed it's difficult to kind of recommend something in this price range

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when there is so much competition in the high end in-ear monitor kind of space

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500 bucks will get you a pair of sure five three fives which are an incredibly

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robust and well-built little piece of plastic ear junk I think for these

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you're kind of really getting that build quality and you're also getting the wireless functionality too like the

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sheriff 535s yeah they got a wire you know you don't get this this nice little

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band thing you're not really going to see like a wireless Bud performing like

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this for for any other amount of money it seems to have a lot of really nice

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features and kind of gives you the prompts the app is good this is one

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product that's not ruined by the software they've kept it simple they've

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kept it you know useful it gives you a

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tutorial right in the app of what it does it gives you lots of control let's

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have a look at the equalizer setting yeah we've got bass boost warm yeah you

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know all this sort of thing if we look at the charts that they've given us we

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can pretty much fix a lot of the problems with it by just you know

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picking one of their presets I really would have liked to be able to like

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choose and then we can use the chart that Sam generated to kind of fix all of

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the issues and then it's perfect it's got some high band that's kind of

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missing a little bit so if we smooth out the treble and give another listen

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you

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know

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ow that last one hurt

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um no okay none of those are good uh they don't improve it at all maybe

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that's because I have enhancement of on but yeah not too sure they alter the

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sound too much it doesn't sound too even it sounds like the music is wrong almost

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like there's too much bass and it's kind of hurting you or you know there's too

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much high band and it's kind of also hurting you but in a different way it's

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it's not kind of reproducing what the artist

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intended and they're classified right on the box as audio file and Tesla in-ear

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and and I don't I don't like that term I don't identify as an audio file and I

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know some people do but it's kind of a nebulous term right what kind of gear do

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you want to buy to make your music sound good and music sounding good is the

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subjective things I've already forgotten that I'm wearing them even with the kind

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of few ounces of weight that they have I'm not worried about losing them I can

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take them out I can just dangle them around my neck because of the Silicon

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I'm not worried about it kind of slipping off the side it has a bit of

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memory so it kind of holds itself in the CC shape but yeah it's difficult to kind

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of articulate why they're not at the level that I think they should be and I

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guess that that's kind of a a point four

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of the headphones as well if I can't properly describe why they're not good

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some of them are extremely obvious what the problem problems are I think for me

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my taste is that they have too much base and the high bands too much but that's

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kind of a Hallmark of a barrel Dynamic headphone looking at the graph there is

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a noticeable dip the 3000 Hertz which

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again is going to kind of maybe cause the issues that I'm looking at a lot of

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singers and vocals and a lot of instruments sit around that band airpods

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I hate to say it but I would prefer to buy like four pairs of air pods because

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I'm going to lose them rather than get these if I were to class these in what I

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think the price bracket should be I would say maybe 300 to 400 and that kind

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of 300 to 500 range of headphones is where you get a lot of choice and a lot

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of really good performing headphones for

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these these sound like 400 headphones and they look like jewelry I think

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that's pretty much where this product is going to be classified but if they were

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400 bucks I think I would use these as

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my daily driver you know on the bus on

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the train they're cool I think they look nice I think they sound nice they fit

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really well in the ears you get a bunch of different ear cups to fit them

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exactly to you yeah they're they're good they're good if you want to watch a

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review with the airpod pros you can go to the link somewhere don't forget to

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