you think you've seen it all with wireless earbuds but you know what you
haven't because these puppies right here have something special that I've never
seen before Paulie sponsored this video we're gonna check them out these are the
poly Voyager free 60 plus the plus being
key here they've got a screen on the case simple packaging mostly cardboard a
bunch of paper at the bottom don't need that though
more screens you never know with these guys okay we've got some tips so these
are the silicone in your ear type those largest I gotta say are among the
largest I've seen kind of intimidating you know it bends though it'll fit in
there and then there's small so azure's tradition the mediums are equipped then
there's a cable or two one's a USB a to
c a little kind of charging cable and it comes with one of these special guys
which is USBC to three and a half millimeter Jack useful on planes you
basically plug this into the in-flight system like in the chair then you plug
the US you see into the case and then now your Bluetooth transmitting from
that audio Source the plane or other audio sources handy to have
and look at that it's alive so what it's showing right now is battery indication
for the case which is that green circle around it and then each Bud right on
there but that's not all because I can hit the X then what's it do okay there's
a music icon more different what is that
like an equalizer those are grayed out because presumably because nothing's
playing but I can also swipe Bluetooth is that turning Bluetooth on that's
great on so I guess that that'll illuminate when it's connected volume
even handy uh whatever that means a QR
code hold on I'm tempted okay there it
is poly.com safe for work we don't know
hey I'm on the website tells me to download the poly lens app see the world
through the lens of poly let's take a look at the inside actually no the
outside there's a port a USBC port for charging there's the hinge and that is
presumably a pairing button now let's go inside you got your stem
type earbuds then also a little hidey hole
for a USB that's cool you can dongle it
if you want I always appreciate this because I honestly I hate pairing
Bluetooth it's always finicky it seems to be even more finicky on Windows so
nice to be able to just plug that in kind of shows that they maybe are
focused on office use or work use and
then you got these puppies here they are big grill on the side there and also on
the bottom and the logo right there and
they do have that little mesh to keep your earwax out in the hole
on the inside and the contact points for the charging are on the stem all right
let's get these puppies turned on and paired they are making contact with my face a
little bit there your miles just gonna marry you married your mileage may vary
on whether or not they actually touch you there I don't know if I
like or just like that this is what it'd be tap to unlock oh you gotta tap it
three times pair device there they are poly V free very successful that was
actually one of the more painless pairing processes I've had in a long
time especially on camera poly lens the app would like to communicate with the
Plantronics Voyager 360 Series so many names this is a nice app they got little
animations here all the language seems super clear and written properly
so here we are in the app settings what is that
a little book icon oh it's the manual
all right that's cool so there are different three different eqs I actually
have measurements from Labs for all of them we'll look at those in a bit after
I listen to them myself mute alert types oh that's cool you know like you do an
action like like muting and you'll hear someone usually you don't have a choice
there's just a voice in your head that goes mute on or something like that but
it looks like you can actually make it go from voice to single tone boom to
double tone notification tones hear notification tones from other connected
devices while streaming audio that's a choice second incoming call oh you can
choose the ring behavior when you've got another line coming in to call you when
you're already on a call you can ignore ring once or ring
continuously God who would do that mute reminder receive a helpful reminder that
your headset is muted during a call huh it says the on-screen reminder will
display it on your PC only not mobile devices it's too bad it doesn't come up
on the screen on the case you can get alerts for if your volume is
too loud oh it actually just tells you when your volume is maxed and not I
think I can control the volume on here so let's try that
can I swear oh I gotta press the button volume maximum she was very oh God why
is it oh God that really is a lot I want to show you guys that
oh God it's still beeping I think the the dings are unnecessary man there's a
lot of options here adjust the volume of your voice that you hear when you're
speaking volume level tones when adjusting the volume do you hear like a
beep beep beep beep beep every step or just at the minimum maximum I'm gonna
say right now it's like boop boop that's annoying
Minimax only these have ANC there's actually three modes for it you can just
turn it off it can be standard or adaptive which is going to use a microphone to tell how loud the
environment is and then adjust the strength of the active noise canceling
accordingly and again we do have measurements for the ANC I'll show you
those in a little bit wow select the transparency mode level and sound
signature environment or speech at this point I
think there's too many settings for me to go through all of them which is a good thing like that's cool it just
makes for a boring video rest assured you got options in here holy cow custom
swipe sensor what's nice is on the stems you can actually do swipe gesture so you
can increase the volume or you can actually customize it like you can here
to make it mute during calls and then you've also got the the tap function as
well and hold first Google assistant oh yeah it's actually super tactile yeah it
literally is just a little button there
now there's also an advanced menu like holy where were we before anti-startle
eliminate acoustic shock from loud sounds oh I've heard of this before that
might be something that's when you've got transparency on and you're hearing
the world around you if something happens that's loud like someone drops a
hammer on the concrete floor or something like that the ANC will kick back on for a second just to like remove
that noise and then the NC will turn back off onto transparency again let's
just use them and see what it's like especially this thing oh yeah here we go turning it down
turning it up I think that both earbuds are equal oh it's on this side here
don't don't use the front no double top or triple tap just the button so you
actually do have to use this to switch tracks or your phone I would like it if
they just add a double tap to the button oh no they do have double top and
redialing the last outgoing call now
here's the ANC button it's on adaptive can I change that from here transparency
on environment the sound didn't change too much it's
pretty natural sounding and now it's on speech yeah it's gonna talk to me please
yeah I'm just switching between environment and speech and environment
you sounded kind of more ambient where speech definitely it made it sound
like it was more directional I don't know if that's what's actually changing
but that's my perception of it and then here's the ANC
oh that's how I can actually change devices can I just pair to a second
phone right here okay now I'm paired to this phone
connected switch device wait I'm actually am I
actually connected to both what that music is playing from the
iPhone hold on a second here what does it mean to be connected to two
things oh hold on a second I'm gonna do not disturb on here oh the music is
playing okay what happens if I go like that
it's refreshing over there you've got to pause the existing device
and then play on the next device so many earphones advertised being able
to do this kind of thing they never work this is so sick it works and it's it's
just all the more clear the fact that they have the screen you just get more
communication because it's telling you I I am in fact connected to these two
things so you're not guessing as much finally it's a sec
color theme damn they have a dark mode sick hey this
is what the mic sounds like I'm actually sitting in an office environment right
now and there has to be someone sitting next to me clocking my other keyboard
can you hear it oh well let's get to the graphs okay check it out this is what I
what I believe to be the default EQ setting which is the base one so here
you can see it's a v-shaped curve you got a boost in the bass you got a boost
in the treble and then you've got a little bit of a
dip in the mid so that could make voices sound a little bit thin but these again
are designed to be used in office and Enterprise environments so that's why
they've they've overcooked it over here because this is the part of the human voice that
is about intelligibility human voice is really across this whole range but if
you blocked out this range you'd still be able to hear what people are saying
and understand them but if you blocked out this range and only had this range
it would sound like like peanuts adults
now a lot of people do enjoy listening
to music with this shape uh you might
say that you prefer flat headphones because you want what the artist
intended and you want something closer to the our Target curve here but a lot
of people actually don't want that they want beefed up bass uh and they want a
brighter trouble now if we if this base was not beefed up over here and you just
had this without this extra boost it
would sound bad it would sound maybe shouty and too bright but when both ends
are boosted up uh it sounds better and people like it and they sound excited
it's kind of like looking at an image that's oversaturated like really
overcooked greens and reds when you're at the Best Buy and you see the the demo
tapes playing wow that looks awesome it doesn't look real but it looks awesome
it's kind of analogous to this now let's look at the other presets this is the
preset they call Flat you can see the bass has been brought down a bit but
actually it's a little bit less flat in the mids and the low mids the high base
you know around 100 so that actually
might sound worse to some people depending on your preferences but again
speech intelligibility is up there so that'll be fine and then the bright EQ
is kind of just even more of that that's going to be in terms of audio Fidelity
and trueness like maybe the worst one now all those graphs
were with ANC on we do also have them with no ANC
not gonna comment on them they're actually pretty close
but here they are just for your reference and here's the actual ANC
measurement so what you're seeing here is the dotted line as if you weren't wearing headphones at all the red line
is if you put them in you have the passive isolation and then green is when
the ANC is on so that's why the green line is lower you're hearing less
when the ANC is on with the exception of
this dip over here and this is something you see commonly uh on almost all ANC
headphones you actually have in this frequency range Better Sound isolation
with the ANC off this isn't bad though I've actually seen
the gaps here be even greater than this and then once you pass that little dip
these track really tightly ANC on and
off doesn't matter at all in this region of the spectrum so this is about 20 yeah
20 DB sound isolation on this end which
is okay there are other earphones that maybe go to like 40.
um but these will be fine especially if you're in a office environment that's
going to be okay and here's the mic quality you can see it tracks pretty close to the Target
for a lot of the parts that matter these
bumps over here might even be intentional again you're getting into
the range where speech intelligent and ironic speech intelligibility becomes a
factor so it's possible that they intended for these to be bumped up over
here and then with these huge drop-offs this is the range of hearing that's just not really going to be relevant to human
voice so you're kind of just filtering
out other sounds that you don't want to get passed through at that point now I
haven't worn these for very long but I don't think they're uncomfortable they
seem like they could reasonably deliver on their claim of all-day wear they're
pretty light as well um I think that like having the screen
on here is kind of cool I I don't like when I'm doing a thing on my computer
and I have to leave the work thing I'm doing to go to like tab with the music
and mess with that it might be nice just to know regardless of what device I'm
using I control it from here and I don't have to leave my spreadsheet or my
actual task and get distracted by all the stuff flashing around on my music
app I can just use this now how about
battery life though with this bright screen actually it's pretty normal you
get five and a half hours on the buds we've seen more we've seen less and then
the case will charge them twice pretty typical stuff plug that puppy in for 15
minutes to get over an hour of talk time and also I never mentioned wireless
charging is supported it's the wireless chargers are sold separately but this
case supports wireless charging that is another premium kind of bonus feature
very cool so there are actually multiple models of this thing they start at 2 30
but you're not going to get the touch screen you're not going to get the dongle the one I've been showing you
today is 330. now if that sounds good to
you or your business you can actually deploy these it sounds weird to say but
your IT personnel can deploy these easily with the app that actually are
meant to be remotely monitored through the app so to make it easy for it teams
I never really thought it was someone deploying earphones but I guess in the
in this world we live in it's part of your workstation and a lot of people are
working from home as well so why not that's actually a nice to have and I did
notice in the app that there was uh the software version was like right on the
front page so I guess that tracks check them out at the link below thanks for
probably for sponsoring this video really interesting product I'm looking
forward to seeing more from them