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I want spent some time with these the wf1000 xm3s which are a premium truly

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Wireless active noise cancelling in your

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monitor from Sony but today's video is not about these it's about these the WF

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XB 700s XB stands for extra base and

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they're $100 cheaper what do you think about

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that let's see if the expensive ones suck $100 less than these come on

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baby I feel like already the packaging is more auser than this one and here it

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is who very lightweight plastic AF not completely

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opaque and here they are these are bigger these are definitely bigger than

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the xm3s but they're not huge holy these are

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isolating my voice sounds weird even they're like earplug almost these do not

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have active noise cancelling the isolation that you get when you put them in is all you're getting but that might

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be enough the other thing is that these don't have any capacitive touch they

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don't swipe they don't have gestures they're not capacitive each has a button

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on the right button you can play and pause that's a single tap you can double

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tap for next you can triple tap for previous you can hold for the virtual

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assistant in my case that's going to be Google Assistant cuz I'm a Android boy

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baby and then on the left side that's your volume you click it to increment in

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steps going up louder and louder and you hold it for continuous volume going down

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so one stepped while one's continued which is a bit weird but it's easy to

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get used to you just hold it until it's as quiet as you want and then you let it

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go so let's see how it actually works with music when I pair it to my phone

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100% battery rock and roll uh one of the differences between these puppies and

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the more expensive premium counterpart is battery life these ones a advertise

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18 hours of battery life whereas the more expensive ones advertise 24 hours

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now that's not just on one go from the earbuds that's including the charge case

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interestingly these ones advertise a longer play time from the earbud itself

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they say 9 hours from the earbuds themselves whereas the xm3s advertise 6

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hours might as well just open these up you already see the packaging is quite a

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bit more involved but here we go the charge case is quite a bit bigger

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between these too um it's obviously Slicker looking it's got this nice click

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this one you're not really going to be able to fidget with but you can see the size difference this has a way bigger

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battery I think because it provides three full charges to the headphones so

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that's three 6-h hour charges plus whatever you can hold on the headphones or a total of 24 whereas this one I

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think is only 100 milliamp hours so you just get one additional charge so 9

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hours per charge total 18 okay let's play some music I've been obsessed with

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this song by Annie Lennox called walking on broken glass I'm pretty pretty sure

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it's an ' 80s songs ever since I listened to the strong songs podcast

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from uh Kirk Hamilton I both he did an episode on this song and I've just been

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blasting it sorry wife holy cow with

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these things they live up to the name the extra Bas this song sounds almost

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like a dance remix when the bass kicked in it was just pulsing driving if you're

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a bass head I think you're going to like these but more and more I'm thinking

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these are probably great for the gym they're IP X4 rated and that means that

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they have no rating for dust that's the X but they do have a rating for water in

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this case it's a four I believe that's out of nine and the four means that they

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can wasand splashes from any direction and that's basically just sweat so it

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looks like they are geared towards jimm goers that that actually makes sense it

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kind of looks like it get splashed and survive it almost has like a boat finish

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they look like they could plop out of my ear and land on a dumbbell and like

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they're going to be okay someone else could maybe step on them they might

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survive and this case is just going to easily slip into a bag I think these are

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going to be great for the gym especially since they're so isolating you can drown

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out the music that the gym is playing above your music pretty easily with

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these let's see how loud they go yeah they go loud enough louder than I would

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go for a healthy listening you're going to have no problem hearing your music

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over top of ambient noises at the gym and stuff like that they don't have uh

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fins let's look what else is in the Box there's only this instructions an

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adapter for us USB C2 a and then more

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ear tips a lot of athletic centered inur will give you optional silicone fins

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that you can put on and they kind of Nest into this part of your ear these

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didn't come with that but I think it's okay like they feel pretty sturdy and

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it's because they use the same um design

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mentality as these ones which is the three-point contact kind of system in

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your ear and they're really

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stable you could do box jumps you could

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headbang you could fall off your skateboard and

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uh you know hit something cuz you weren't listening properly with these and they're probably going to stay in

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your shoes might fly off though similar to the higher priced premium version the

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case it does have these little indicators which I really like red and

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white as is also indicated on the headphone so it's just a no-brainer when

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you want to put them back in the case and they snap in really nicely too uhoh

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my tip fell off just the tip though let's listen to some more tracks They

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are Punchy on the base you're going to love these if you like EDM and stuff but

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when I'm listening to non dance content they're still good headphones they're

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really articulate I'm noticing things that I might not notice when I'm

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listening to my car for example now as for the high frequencies which can be

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harsh on crappier headphones if I listen to some rock and roll a lot of the times

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those guitars can sound harsh on crappier headphones on on these they

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still sound nice and clear not bad at all they don't hurt and these I would

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say are competent on the higher frequencies but are they the best I mean

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do you think that these have the same sound quality as these ones for $100

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more let's find out okay yeah you can see there's a lower profile the rounder

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kind of sweet Sleek looking yeah these sound different they

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do sound better they sound different it's not just an EQ thing the more

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expensive ones have an app a companion app and there's various eqs presets and

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you have the ability to make your own and then you can kind of you know adjust

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the music as you like it these ones don't have a companion app they have no ability to change the EQ so I thought

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maybe they just had a baseer EQ applied to them and locked in that doesn't seem

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to be the case they sound quite a bit

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different than the more expensive ones but they do sound good still these are

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pretty comfortable they come with several different ear tips and you

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should change them out because if you don't get a good seal in your ear canal

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you're not going to feel that really good base you need that three different

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sizes on here in addition to what they came with so you'll probably be pretty

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covered and they're the standard ones that you can you can buy Replacements on Amazon and stuff like that uh one note

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that I found about the Google Assistant functionality is that you cannot hail

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the assistant using just your voice you have to hold and press the button down

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for the assistant to get hailed um that doesn't mean that it blocks The Voice

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like if I just say blank blal my phone

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will still hear it and pick it up but I'm talking to this microphone other

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differences include the Bluetooth actually these have Bluetooth 4.2 rather

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than Bluetooth 5 um I mean I mean functionally it's probably going to be

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okay but theoretically Bluetooth 5 has double the bandwidth and four times the

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range so depending on your use case you

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might have some kind of deficiency there but you're probably going to be okay the

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advertised Quick Charge speeds are different so if you charge the premium

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ones for 10 minutes you get 90 minutes of playback if you charge these ones for

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10 minutes you only get 60 Minutes of playback I mean that's still a pretty

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sweet stat I like that spec it's good it's just not as good as these though

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all in all though I think for $130 right now these are really good if

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they had been included in my Roundup of like 50 wireless headphones that I did a

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few months back um they would have been the best in the bunch I think of course

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they're more expensive what was the limit on that one 50 bucks 50 bucks well

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these are a lot more they're almost triple that they're 130 bucks I think

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they're awesome I think if if you're new to audio these might be the best

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headphones you've ever had if you have the extra 100 bucks these are fantastic

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and they have active noise cancelling they're sick on a plane like if you have expensive headphones if you have planer

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magnetics that you wear in your bed at night and then you want to go to the gym

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and have something that like doesn't kill you like I have this pair of truly

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Wireless that are garbage and I don't even want to wear them when I go to the

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gym these aren't going to do that to you if you're used to good headphones and

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you just want something not that expensive to wear to the gym these are going to be great I think these are

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really good all-rounders and I recommend them thanks for watching ShortCircuit

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today you guys should subscribe because I'm going to be reviewing some other

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really expensive headphones from Odyssey planer magnetics in a coming episode or

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maybe two episodes we do have two pairs