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yes they're from Sennheiser but they're not strictly speaking earphones or

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headphones they are that but they're not just that they're also they're kind of a

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hearing aid but not it's the idea with

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these things what are they even called the conversation clear plus is imagine a

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situation like I was in last night I went to a crowded loud bar that had live

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music and I wore these things and they

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helped suppress the ambient noise around

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me and enhance the people talking to me

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so I could hear them more clearly and it worked there was times where I took them

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out it sounded worse in there and harder to hear people the music was kind of too

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loud and it wasn't good enough to make me want to listen to it over the person

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I was talking to no offense musician guy for listening to this nice guy but these

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actually have a place so let's do the unboxing it's a simple box you get the

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charge case and then in this section I'm expecting to see a lot of normal

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earphone stuff instructions looks like

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you can get these kind of fins there's a

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couple more sets of ear tips of course a

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USBC to a charging cable and some like warranty and you know

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those little setup stuff this is a pre-release product but this looks

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pretty final I I would think if I open this up after buying these I wouldn't be

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surprised to see any of this stuff pretty basic charge case is pretty big

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it offers two extra charges

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um it really looks like it just has like so much extra space and pardon me wants

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to give them a pass on that just because this product's a little bit different but part of me says No if anything I'm

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going to be carrying these around maybe more than a normal music listening

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earphone because if I'm the kind of person who wants or needs this product

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like I have a hearing issue and I rely on these things I really want them to be

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pocketable so it would be nice if this is more compact now let's look at the

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earphones themselves they're pretty basic looking truly wireless earphones

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they've got the little little guy there's a default size

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already equipped on there I probably wouldn't wear it without that it looks

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like really just exposed hard plastic but you can see that this default sleeve

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is way more subtle and Tiny than compared to some of these look at that

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wing tip on those let's see that's supposed to go in here how deep is your

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in here and then you can also see on here that they kind of are prioritizing

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this mic so that's the kind of difference between these and normal

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earphones like why couldn't this just be an app why couldn't they just uh update

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their algorithms on their existing earphones well it's because these have

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more and better mics and they do beam forming so the fact that this kind of

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points out I think is probably a little bit um quarter with functionality and

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they slip in like normal and they look pretty normal and we can talk about

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whether that's a good thing or not but then once you put them on you can hear

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yourself it's kind of like you're in transparency mode

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um and we can talk about whether or not that's a good thing soon okay so who are

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these for um this the centers are rep told me that

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there are what did you say a hundred million people in the world who have

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some kind of hard of hearing issue and then that figure is going to grow to

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like 900 million and I don't know what he said by 2050. sometime soonish and a

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lot of these people will never go to and speak to an audiologist and many of them

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who do will walk out of the audiologist's office without buying

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anything because maybe hearing aids are really expensive or the process of

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getting one is really arduous and you're like you just don't feel like you need

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it that bad or maybe you're ashamed these are supposed to bridge the gap

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where they're not as expensive as a lot of hearing implements in that space and

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they're also they're just not like as much of a heavy lift they just kind of

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give you like a bit of a boost but if you're gonna wear these for a night out or at work all day they ought to be

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comfortable so let's get them in and check out the companion app which is

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very techy you know how to use Google perfectly yeah can you do one thing for

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me what go to shortliness.com

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the reason it's optional is because everything is adaptive on here so you

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walk through different environments and it'll adjust how aggressive of a

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suppression it does around you but the app is definitely good to have because

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you can actually tune your preference in terms of what kind of suppression you

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want there's actually a little slider that they give you where you get to

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adjust whether you want it kind of smooth or clear like you can have it

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crispier and crunchier where you can probably hear people a little better but

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things are a little you're going to hear other sounds as well on the smooth side

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it kind of sounds like you're in a in a

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little bubble almost like when you have ANC headphones on whereas if you put it

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onto the clear side now it sounds like I I have a microphone set up and I'm

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hearing the monitoring so if something I don't know if someone drops a glass ball

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on a table over there it's going to be as if it's like right in my face things

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are just really really boosted and picked up so I kind of like it in the

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middle but toward the clear side and to figure out what your preferences are they have this onboarding setup through

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now the first thing is you just hear speech the show is a seller you're in

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here the weekend is always busy that's why I got our tickets in advance and the

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next thing is setting how loud you you want that these

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are they're they're all pretty loud this is the uh slider I talked about before

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I find the best way to go through that is just to do the extremes like do

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number one and number seven and then do okay put two and six and then just go

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back and forth which one do I like better until you land on one oh

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14. take me down

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but you can see there's actually other tabs in this app so relax is basically

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just don't do any kind of boosting or helping me in any way just turn on

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active noise canceling headphones so you get to just isolate yourself and read a

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book that's nice and you don't have to use the app for that you actually just

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hold down on the headphones the button on the left so the headphones is

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interesting because it actually has buttons that Sennheiser logo is a button

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that you can click pretty tactile but also this is

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capacitive so there's actually quite a lot of interactions you can do with this thing I actually just held the Google

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Assistant by double tapping on that if I want to get out of relax mode I can hold

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down the button on the right side to go back to conversation mode and you can

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see there's also this little Clarity boost button I guess that's kind of like

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a temporary maxing out and if I hold

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down the button on the right side again I can get into that boost and I can

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toggle that off by holding it again the other tab that you see in here is the

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stream Tab and this is what happens when you listen to music or any other content

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on your device so these are headphones and they're pretty good headphones we'll

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try them out in a bit and the cool thing is when you do play music I have a song

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playing now you can actually decide how pronounced the music is so I'm turning

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the slider to the left and it's actually turning on the volume of my music so

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that I can more easily hear people talking to me and I really like this

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because you could turn your music down to a real background level and still

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have conversations with people and just wear these around and talk to people

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naturally with your own soundtrack playing which I think is really awesome

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what's the soundtrack of your life James definitely caught Nigel

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I've been married a long time ago so if I go to earbuds tab at earbuds controls

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into communication you can see there's a

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short press a long press and a double tap for the capacitive and if I click

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into that can I edit these no you cannot

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it's just informational that slider with how pronounced your

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music is you can adjust that on the fly without using the app just by doing

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short presses of the of the button that's kind of like adjusting your

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volume so that's awesome so what was it like for

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me to use them well Comfort wise they didn't bother me I probably wore them

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for about two hours and normally earbuds

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that don't fit any well will hurt after the first hour these are are pretty low

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impact I like them um there was some weird things wearing

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them number one people think you're wearing headphones so maybe they're

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going to be annoyed although I think that is lessening as more and more

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earphones have transparency modes people get used to it I don't think the stigma

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is as bad as it was however it would be

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lessened even more if they looked more like a hearing aid like if they had maybe the style like those beats that

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just go behind the ear but that would be a turn off to some people so trade-offs

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there but you also can just hear like who you're talking to as you

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turn your head it'll kind of just like pick up the person you're talking to and

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make everything else just just a little softer and it's weird like I was sitting

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in between two people last night and when I turned away from one person they

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kind of left this pickup cone uh the person over here would be magnified and

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this person went quieter than even quieter than they would be naturally

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um so something to be aware of there's a little bit of a learning curve when you're wearing these things the other

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biggest issue is that it boosts your

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voice so when you're in a loud environment that doesn't sound loud to you and you can hear your own voice nice

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and clearly you think you don't have to speak up to talk to the person next to

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you but you do still they can they're

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not wearing these they're they're not hearing you as clear as you're hearing

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them and so a lot of people were leaning in and not I couldn't hear what I'm saying so you actually have to feel like

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you're yelling and to you sound like you're yelling uh just to be at a normal

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level and the thing that's really tricky about that is at one point I left the

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restaurant got in the elevator and Nick happened to be in the elevator started

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started talking to him and he said uh yeah you sound kind of yelly like I I

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didn't know that I had to like now tone it down because the sound that I was

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hearing my own voice was constant throughout those different environments so when you're not loud enough people

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can tell you hey speak up you can see cues for people leaning in like they

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need you to talk louder but when you are too loud A lot of times people just

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think that guy's annoying and they don't tell you that you're yelling unless

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you're really bugging people around you so I think that's a potential bug not a

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feature I kind of wish you could adjust how much of your own voice you hear

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through these another weird bug I felt it was once in a while probably five

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times throughout the night suddenly the Adaptive would just kind of freak out

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and it would change I could hear the

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background really loudly and then it would just go back to conversation mode

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without me changing any variables I'm still sitting there at my table I'm

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still talking the same person and suddenly these things are going wacky

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going wild so that's a bit weird maybe that could be improved but it wasn't

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that disruptive it didn't hurt my ears my years your mileage may vary the best

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test though was that I took these off and decided to put them back in after a

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couple hours when I was confident that I had used them enough to

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make this video I still put them back in because it was easier to hear people and

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I didn't want that musician in the restaurant making that much noise I kind

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of wanted to turn him down so they should exist however they are 850

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dollars and I think that's a lot it's definitely

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a lot for an earphone it's not a lot for

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a hearing aid so I think that's why they think they can get away with it but I

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really think they should take it down to like 500 I think I would be more

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comfortable but I guess we'll see if people buy these as far as how good they

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are as a headphone I would say that they are comparable to other truly wireless

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earphones in the 200 space they don't

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suck but they're not 850 good so if you're

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spending that money expecting uh commensurate audio quality

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don't that's a bad expectation these are for talking to people very cool though I

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would love to see Sennheiser just have this as an app or a feature that they

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expand to every headphone they make that would be

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cool but as a product on their own I still think they're cool I think some

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people should try them and these could

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really change your life they're pretty expensive they're kind of weird I think

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it's going to take a few years it'll be a Slow Burn but definitely interested in the concept

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and I would consider this pretty Innovative it's like a new product category

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