I love wires and they've always kind of
kept me away from you know the tiny little in Mirror buds you know you lose
them you don't have many more they fall out the new Bayer Dynamic zelento
wireless headphones kind of have the best of both worlds they've got wires
yay they come down to a Little Neck thing and you're not going to lose them
when you're out and about this is a new kind of Flagship product from Bayer
Dynamic it's kind of their one of the most expensive things that they make and
you know I've got new types of drivers that I've not really seen before and
kind of a very interesting way to interface with your phone a kind of I
guess like a standard in-ear monitor box
is a bit mocked up I think I think Labs
might have tried to open it with their teeth or something look oh my God
did he like get in there with it no pull
tab here this opens up like that oh my God they're tiny look at that over there
what else we got in here we'll get a piece of plastic with some information
we have I guess this is a little carrying case no this is the neck piece
isn't it oh there we go
but for now we've got our connection cables so you can use these wired which
is great maybe you don't have your phone or you just want to use your own preamp
or something like that you don't have to use their driver or DAC got a USB cable
I assume for charging we'll find out instruction manuals a certificate of our
senticity which is always cool this one comes with like loads of different tips
and things like that you can't get there's a box oh okay it's it was glued
to the Box sure sure bear in Dynamic
whatever why why would you do that
um what is this a little cleaning cloth oh that's cool it's not even tips these
are like little clip things I have no idea what those would be useful for what
else oh my God there's so much stuff in here look at all of those there's like
hundreds of them from what looks like extra small all the way up to XXL 3XL I
can't read today and look at these little guys they're adorable
apparently these are handmade in Germany looks like they're all metal very nice
matte finish on the side there the connection point for the cables here
because we'll have a look at this thing so yeah this is the Bluetooth interface
neck thing and so kind of like a really nice siliconized band here very flexible
with our connection points for the headphones here and then there's your
USB point for charging and we have this
also metal kind of volume adjustment and
your music switch or whatever else you make calls on this too it's got
microphones is number two clicks in there really
nice these rotate I like the look of the
buds I like they're kind of the two-tone appeal of them with the the matte finish
on the back and the now immediately covered in fingerprints shiny side on
the front they feel really high quality the connection here is really good
hopefully they stand out for sound
quality I think the build quality is there Cable's nice and siliconized and
easily flexible you're probably not going to feel that too much I'm just
noticing the weight of this on my neck and it's not too oppressive but I'm
definitely noticing it certainly touching here I mean you've got the cold
of the metal so if you're using this in like I don't know Canadian winters like
we have right now I think these would get cold and press into your neck and
that would be unpleasant but I mean if you're outside wearing them then you're
gonna have one around a collar like this I don't feel it at all now putting the
man is not a problem you go up and over push them in wrap the cable around the
top of your ear they feel really good in the ear they just sort of disappear I'm
not going to be able to talk very well because I'm not gonna have any of the
outside voice there we go seal feels good hopefully
they have some sort of pass-through we'll check that out in a second we have
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is you open the app and it doesn't ask you to make an account it just goes
connect your headphones immediately so this little logo here is is a button I'm
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
red hey there we are so I'll connect to these let's go back to our
app here I guess there we are choose
and we're done that was very simple and easy good job they do have firmware so
we're gonna have to update them let's see how long this takes I've got a
blinking white light here so we're doing the update or is that purple it's purple
so we've got full RGB Baron Dynamics inspired by Razer it's going to take 12
minutes for headphone firmware okay
okie dokie our update is done and we're
good to go let's uh let's have a look through some of the settings here
um yeah we've got voice prompts so when you basically press this center button
you can get your assistant you can make calls all that sort of thing now there
is a special feature that Baron Dynamics is included called enhancement mode
which changes the sound profile a whole bunch and we'll have a look at that I'm
not sure if Labs measured it with that on and off to figure out exactly how
that alters it oh we've got some statistics which is always nice to see how many times it's been turned on
uptime all that sort of stuff we have all sorts of remote stuff which is kind
of nice gives you a little manual right in the app of what this button does
which yeah it's got a lot of different features that's kind of cool let's get
some music into it I guess we got to try and get them in properly and all that
sort of thing get our volume adjusted I did have a quick look at the manual and
yeah these cables are supposed to go towards the back of the headphones let's
play some crab rave
okay so yeah the uh the first impressions are are pretty nice the seal
in my left ear wasn't quite perfect and this is some of the problem with uh
these in-ear style buds is that unless
you know you kind of don't know if you have them in right there's some
tutorials in the manual which kind of go over like if you have no bass response
you've put them in wrong so you can kind of move them around and feel how the sound changes maybe try out some
different tips I think my ears are different so I might need
slightly different like a cup for my left ear composed compared to the right
ear but yeah the the sound is is very
good there's something missing though and I want to just try it again with
this enhancement mode off and we will get a different impression hopefully
yes that sounds very very similar I
think the base roll-off is a little more and the sibilance kind of high band is
is a little bit higher I mean this is probably a good time to talk about the
Labs results yeah Sam's give me two charts here to have a look at one of
them is from the bear Dynamics and the other one is from the Apple airpods Pro
Gen 2 and we can see that there's a bit
of a dip around 200 and some kind of
increases looks like uh wow five nearly
10 DB in the 3K range and that's kind of
it's kind of where you're getting that kind of sound from the hi-hats at least
in Crab Rave there is a bit of bass push as well and it's even more pronounced
when we have this enhancement mode on they're kind of not performing at the
level I would expect for a pair of headphones in this price range and there
are 1200 US Dollars which is a hell of a lot of money now bear Dynamics does have
kind of a characteristic sound where their high band is a little bit more
pushed it's difficult to kind of recommend something in this price range
when there is so much competition in the high end in-ear monitor kind of space
500 bucks will get you a pair of sure five three fives which are an incredibly
robust and well-built little piece of plastic ear junk I think for these
you're kind of really getting that build quality and you're also getting the wireless functionality too like the
sheriff 535s yeah they got a wire you know you don't get this this nice little
band thing you're not really going to see like a wireless Bud performing like
this for for any other amount of money it seems to have a lot of really nice
features and kind of gives you the prompts the app is good this is one
product that's not ruined by the software they've kept it simple they've
kept it you know useful it gives you a
tutorial right in the app of what it does it gives you lots of control let's
have a look at the equalizer setting yeah we've got bass boost warm yeah you
know all this sort of thing if we look at the charts that they've given us we
can pretty much fix a lot of the problems with it by just you know
picking one of their presets I really would have liked to be able to like
choose and then we can use the chart that Sam generated to kind of fix all of
the issues and then it's perfect it's got some high band that's kind of
missing a little bit so if we smooth out the treble and give another listen
you
know
ow that last one hurt
um no okay none of those are good uh they don't improve it at all maybe
that's because I have enhancement of on but yeah not too sure they alter the
sound too much it doesn't sound too even it sounds like the music is wrong almost
like there's too much bass and it's kind of hurting you or you know there's too
much high band and it's kind of also hurting you but in a different way it's
it's not kind of reproducing what the artist
intended and they're classified right on the box as audio file and Tesla in-ear
and and I don't I don't like that term I don't identify as an audio file and I
know some people do but it's kind of a nebulous term right what kind of gear do
you want to buy to make your music sound good and music sounding good is the
subjective things I've already forgotten that I'm wearing them even with the kind
of few ounces of weight that they have I'm not worried about losing them I can
take them out I can just dangle them around my neck because of the Silicon
I'm not worried about it kind of slipping off the side it has a bit of
memory so it kind of holds itself in the CC shape but yeah it's difficult to kind
of articulate why they're not at the level that I think they should be and I
guess that that's kind of a a point four
of the headphones as well if I can't properly describe why they're not good
some of them are extremely obvious what the problem problems are I think for me
my taste is that they have too much base and the high bands too much but that's
kind of a Hallmark of a barrel Dynamic headphone looking at the graph there is
a noticeable dip the 3000 Hertz which
again is going to kind of maybe cause the issues that I'm looking at a lot of
singers and vocals and a lot of instruments sit around that band airpods
I hate to say it but I would prefer to buy like four pairs of air pods because
I'm going to lose them rather than get these if I were to class these in what I
think the price bracket should be I would say maybe 300 to 400 and that kind
of 300 to 500 range of headphones is where you get a lot of choice and a lot
of really good performing headphones for
these these sound like 400 headphones and they look like jewelry I think
that's pretty much where this product is going to be classified but if they were
400 bucks I think I would use these as
my daily driver you know on the bus on
the train they're cool I think they look nice I think they sound nice they fit
really well in the ears you get a bunch of different ear cups to fit them
exactly to you yeah they're they're good they're good if you want to watch a
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