WEBVTT 00:00:00.350 --> 00:00:03.560 - I don't know if this is a good thing, but I feel like my whole career has brought me to this moment 00:00:03.560 --> 00:00:08.040 because when I was a kid, I always wanted to have those awesome earphones that are molded 00:00:08.040 --> 00:00:11.900 and custom fit. Today I finally get a chance with something like it. 00:00:11.900 --> 00:00:15.830 The UE FITS. Whoa, cool box. 00:00:15.830 --> 00:00:21.670 I kind of like this. This already looks like it's like molded. So it kind of evokes the whole reason. 00:00:21.670 --> 00:00:26.720 This thing exists. What the heck? Oh, it says ear tips are light sensitive. 00:00:26.720 --> 00:00:30.683 Set up promptly after opening. Maybe I'll just put this aside. 00:00:30.683 --> 00:00:35.630 USB A to C cable, presumably for charging the case. 00:00:35.630 --> 00:00:38.980 Ah, ah, this is like in American Psycho 00:00:38.980 --> 00:00:42.090 when he peels off that like skincare stuff. 00:00:42.090 --> 00:00:46.020 Now let's get to the fun part. Pop both earbuds into your ears, 00:00:46.020 --> 00:00:51.483 gently adjust them until they feel comfortable and secure. You will mold both sides at the same time. 00:00:52.350 --> 00:00:57.850 This is an interesting look, right and left. It says, put them in and kind of twist. 00:00:57.850 --> 00:01:03.480 These already have pretty good isolation. Next, apparently these are molded in 60 seconds. 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:06.600 Let's do this. Gently hold your Earbuds in place the entire time 00:01:06.600 --> 00:01:10.630 I'm also going to keep my mouth open. Cause I saw the other types of earphones that mold 00:01:10.630 --> 00:01:14.673 they always have like a biting block. - [Andy] What? 00:01:14.673 --> 00:01:16.773 - This is totally my own thing. 00:01:17.830 --> 00:01:19.633 Hmm. It is warm. 00:01:20.940 --> 00:01:25.460 Okay. What a pleasant experience. This is really, it's really warm in the ears, 00:01:25.460 --> 00:01:30.700 and the music that was playing the whole time was really nice. And the visuals that went along with that process, that was 00:01:30.700 --> 00:01:35.330 that was a great experience. The story about the bite block thing. There's been other types of earphones 00:01:35.330 --> 00:01:38.610 that mold to your ears for a long time. They use different methods though, but almost all 00:01:38.610 --> 00:01:43.158 of them ask you to have a bite block. And the reason is when your mouth is like one to two inches open, it'll open your 00:01:43.158 --> 00:01:47.020 ear canals a little more. And that way, when you close your mouth, 00:01:47.020 --> 00:01:50.360 they'll like tighten on the earbuds. So you just, you get it even tighter seal. 00:01:50.360 --> 00:01:54.100 Okay. We're set up. We're in the App now. Press the button to check out 00:01:54.100 --> 00:01:58.630 the equalization curve they've applied. By default, you've got UE signature and you're, 00:01:58.630 --> 00:02:02.530 you can actually see what their signature curve is there. It's not flat it's actually bass in the boost 00:02:02.530 --> 00:02:06.295 and they bring down the highs a little bit, which is interesting. 00:02:06.295 --> 00:02:13.240 It looks like they have some presets, there's Bass Boost Bright, Hi/Lo Boost, Loudness which is just flat 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:19.160 but louder and Spoken Word, like a preset just for podcasts, I guess. 00:02:19.160 --> 00:02:22.590 And it looks like it takes off the low end which I guess kind of makes sense 00:02:22.590 --> 00:02:26.440 cause people often use like really big compressor mics that make them sound boomier. 00:02:26.440 --> 00:02:32.340 You're like you've ever had a car drive past you when it's listening to a podcast. And it just that's like, (muffled sounds) 00:02:32.340 --> 00:02:36.800 if this were me, I would probably hit the plus button for a new preset. 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:41.420 And I would just save this flat unless maybe the UE preset 00:02:41.420 --> 00:02:47.770 the EQ that they have on there, maybe that signature accounts for the characteristics 00:02:47.770 --> 00:02:51.000 of these earphones and actually boosting the base 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:55.380 and taking down the mids, makes it flat. So you might actually be making them worse 00:02:55.380 --> 00:02:58.420 if you just apply the flat EQ, so I don't know, 00:02:58.420 --> 00:03:02.500 regardless, I'm going to test it with the signature, EQ out of the box. 00:03:02.500 --> 00:03:05.560 Let's see how these puppies sound right after this message from our sponsor, PIA. 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:10.870 Private internet access VPN helps you access services and websites as if you are in a different country. 00:03:10.870 --> 00:03:14.490 They encrypt all your internet traffic and use a safe, protected IP 00:03:14.490 --> 00:03:19.010 and you can connect up to 10 devices at once including clients for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS 00:03:19.010 --> 00:03:25.080 and even Linux. You can buy a one-year plan for 39.95 using our link below. 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:30.360 And you should because PIA is good and only good things should exist in the world. 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:33.770 You know, bad things are bad. Bad sucks. Be good. 00:03:33.770 --> 00:03:38.210 Get PIA. Let's start with some electronic music. Have you seen this video of these guys? 00:03:38.210 --> 00:03:42.320 Like in Norway, like thousands of feet. It's just insane. 00:03:42.320 --> 00:03:44.633 This is like one of the sickest DJ sets ever. 00:03:46.200 --> 00:03:48.420 Oh, there's a big drop coming. I'm excited for this. 00:03:49.530 --> 00:03:53.513 (music builds) It's pretty immersive. 00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:58.690 How loud is it though? If it's super loud, then that's just kind of cheating. 00:03:58.690 --> 00:04:02.163 Oh, the bass just kicked in, it's low. 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.754 Andy's trying to talk to me, I can't hear you. What? You can hear my, it's bleeding. 00:04:08.754 --> 00:04:14.640 - [Andy] Yeah! - It's not even that loud, here, I'll max it out. It's about halfway, Oh, I don't even want to max it. 00:04:14.640 --> 00:04:18.620 It goes pretty loud. Hoa! I'm going to test now. 00:04:18.620 --> 00:04:20.533 Will they pause when I take them out? 00:04:22.590 --> 00:04:27.400 Nope, Still playing. I can Name my headphones, single tap On and Off, 00:04:27.400 --> 00:04:31.310 double tap On and Off. Okay, So that's where you're working with single and double taps. 00:04:31.310 --> 00:04:36.660 You can have these set up so that the actions are symmetrical on both earphones or you can have different commands for each ear. 00:04:36.660 --> 00:04:41.060 So let's see on the left right now there it's Play and Pause and so is the right, 00:04:41.060 --> 00:04:44.610 but you can also go Next Track, Previous Track, Volume Up and Volume Down. 00:04:44.610 --> 00:04:49.610 I'm going to go for Double Tap on the left is Previous 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:53.300 and double tap on the right is Next. 00:04:53.300 --> 00:04:58.490 And then I'll single tap will be Play and Pause. I guess I'll just do Volume on my phone. 00:04:58.490 --> 00:05:01.920 So these options aren't as rich as what we saw on the Razer Hammerheads. 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:05.870 There's no triple tap. There's no long press, but this is workable. 00:05:05.870 --> 00:05:09.560 It's not my favorite, but it's workable. You could get used to it. 00:05:12.060 --> 00:05:15.400 These single taps are doing nothing like how hard 00:05:15.400 --> 00:05:18.560 and how flat does my pad have to be on here? 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:23.000 Okay. That registered with double. I'm going to toggle single top on and off. 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:28.360 It is cool that you can toggle these different interactions just off if you want. 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:31.770 Yeah, the single tap is just not working for me. I'm going to try changing the single tap 00:05:31.770 --> 00:05:36.913 to a different action, like Volume Down. Let's see if that does anything. That's working. 00:05:37.930 --> 00:05:42.650 Okay, I do not recommend tying volume actions to a single tap because you're gonna end 00:05:42.650 --> 00:05:46.460 up going volume down, down, down, down, down and then that's going to be a double tap and change songs 00:05:46.460 --> 00:05:49.840 which is what just happened to me. Okay, now I'm going to make it Play, Pause 00:05:49.840 --> 00:05:51.340 and see if that does anything. 00:05:53.440 --> 00:05:56.760 Okay, we got it. We just had to change it and change it back. 00:05:56.760 --> 00:06:01.220 Still, the interaction isn't very consistent. You can see, of all those strikes, 00:06:01.220 --> 00:06:04.830 only the final one did anything. It seems like you gotta be really deliberate. 00:06:04.830 --> 00:06:07.940 You can't just say quickly go like that. Oh, actually that did work. 00:06:07.940 --> 00:06:13.820 And that was like a glancing one. Okay. So it seems like it's less about where 00:06:13.820 --> 00:06:19.270 and the contact and more about the impact. If I hit it with like pretty good, nevermind. 00:06:19.270 --> 00:06:22.980 Nevermind. That didn't do anything. Okay. So the interaction is a bit spotty 00:06:22.980 --> 00:06:26.860 but I think you could probably get used to it. But I just learned something new. 00:06:26.860 --> 00:06:32.050 I had the earphones disconnected from my phone and then the charge case died. 00:06:32.050 --> 00:06:35.830 Even though the ear phones still have lots of battery on them, then I went to reconnect the 00:06:35.830 --> 00:06:41.500 earphones to my phone and I couldn't reconnect them. Even though they have battery, I think this thing needs to 00:06:41.500 --> 00:06:46.730 have some battery for them to reconnect. So I plugged it in, put the earphones back inside 00:06:46.730 --> 00:06:50.770 then it reconnected. I don't think all wireless earphones work like that. 00:06:50.770 --> 00:06:55.550 I don't think my SoundCore Liberty 2 Pro's work like that. Although they have buttons on them for pairing. 00:06:55.550 --> 00:06:58.990 So that's probably the difference there. Just something to be aware of. 00:06:58.990 --> 00:07:04.560 Now I want to test another claim from Ultimate Ears which is that they're like the best fitting ear phone, 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:10.020 that they have this Fall Out Free fit. So for that, I'm going to need some very noisy 00:07:10.020 --> 00:07:15.810 heavy metal music to bang my head around to while listening. And I'm going to use arguably System's best song, 00:07:15.810 --> 00:07:20.357 Deer Dance. (loud music playing) 00:07:25.320 --> 00:07:28.550 While they're in there, those are not a, whoo, kind of dizzy. 00:07:28.550 --> 00:07:32.220 I'm confident you could, you could do burpees 00:07:32.220 --> 00:07:35.434 or honestly you could probably get slapped in the face with these on. 00:07:35.434 --> 00:07:39.610 They're going to stay. There's still one other intermittent issue I keep having 00:07:39.610 --> 00:07:43.260 with these is that I get a spotty connection sometimes. 00:07:43.260 --> 00:07:47.910 And it's really disconcerting because maybe they'll go away with an update. 00:07:47.910 --> 00:07:51.380 Maybe I'm the only one experiencing it. And it has to do with my phone or something 00:07:51.380 --> 00:07:56.160 but maybe like five or 10% of people who buy these will have these connection 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:01.060 issues where it starts studing or stuttering or hitching. That leads me to my final take 00:08:01.060 --> 00:08:05.790 on these earphones, the 250 bucks. But to me, these are pretty much comparable 00:08:05.790 --> 00:08:09.880 to other $200 ear phones I've used, except I guess they tack on an extra 50 bucks 00:08:09.880 --> 00:08:13.810 for the forming quality. I kind of wish they didn't 00:08:13.810 --> 00:08:17.083 but the industrial design is awesome. I think they look good. 00:08:17.083 --> 00:08:20.910 They look unique. They don't look like AirPods rip offs, they don't look like generic beans. 00:08:20.910 --> 00:08:24.360 The sound quality is great. The fit is very comfortable. 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.620 I could probably wear these for hours. The interaction is okay. 00:08:27.620 --> 00:08:31.670 I could probably get used to that and the connection issue or I don't know about that. 00:08:31.670 --> 00:08:36.900 So I would recommend these, especially since they have a 30 day guarantee 00:08:36.900 --> 00:08:40.610 you can send them back after. And that's really nice to see considering 00:08:40.610 --> 00:08:44.710 that these are one-time use. Once you mold these to your ears, there's no going back. 00:08:44.710 --> 00:08:47.740 They do say that they're going to sell replacement 00:08:47.740 --> 00:08:50.780 silicone tips on their website. 00:08:50.780 --> 00:08:54.030 I don't think you can buy them just yet though. And unless you buy new ones, 00:08:54.030 --> 00:08:58.150 you can't redo the molding process like you can with some other moldables. 00:08:58.150 --> 00:09:01.440 So I think that it's pretty safe to audition them for for a month. 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.530 See if you have a connection issue, see if you like the fit 00:09:04.530 --> 00:09:08.870 and then if it doesn't work out for you, send them back. It's nice that they're giving you the option. 00:09:08.870 --> 00:09:14.020 Also I'd be remiss, if I didn't show you the other colors now, I can only just show you these briefly 00:09:14.020 --> 00:09:18.870 because as soon as the light hits them they're going to start the molding process. 00:09:18.870 --> 00:09:22.360 So these ones are black and these ones are lilac. 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:25.969 That looks a little different cause it's still in the plastic. But I think those are nice color options. 00:09:25.969 --> 00:09:29.970 I personally, I think I'd go with the white. If you liked this video hit like hit subscribe 00:09:29.970 --> 00:09:35.260 and hit us up in the comment section if you end up getting these things with how well that EQ setting works 00:09:35.260 --> 00:09:38.930 the podcast EQ, I want to know how that works. You know what? 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