1
00:00:01,110 --> 00:00:07,000
- We're going in blind, everyone. It's a new dawn. It's the Los Angeles Earphones from Urbanista,

2
00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,900
which are apparently solar powered and I live in the Pacific Northwest

3
00:00:10,900 --> 00:00:16,299
where there is no solar power. What? These aren't ear buds. These are actually headphones, blind.

4
00:00:16,299 --> 00:00:19,340
(laughs) This looks like the actual retail packaging.

5
00:00:19,340 --> 00:00:23,790
Let's see if I can get this out of here without actually opening it, there we go.

6
00:00:23,790 --> 00:00:27,670
Los Angeles, Los Angeles solar powered headphones,

7
00:00:27,670 --> 00:00:31,940
always charging, Powerfoyle by Exeger.

8
00:00:31,940 --> 00:00:35,810
It's a cool box. All the same crap there.

9
00:00:35,810 --> 00:00:39,860
There's no power above the moon. Why would they even put the moon on here then?

10
00:00:39,860 --> 00:00:44,512
They didn't enumerate all the other various circumstances where I'm not gonna get any power.

11
00:00:44,512 --> 00:00:48,960
- [Jono] Moonlight is the bad light. - Okay, there's no moon power guys, I'm sorry, that's V2.

12
00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:54,030
Let's just check them out though. Okay, we've got a case and it looks kind of nice.

13
00:00:54,030 --> 00:00:58,700
I like this little, what do they call that on a saddle, bullhorn,

14
00:00:58,700 --> 00:01:02,610
holding that together, and what's this, a charging cable, perhaps.

15
00:01:02,610 --> 00:01:06,143
They really don't stand by this infinite battery thing, do they?

16
00:01:06,143 --> 00:01:10,760
You know what, you know, that's why they have the moon on the back. If you use it at night, you're gonna need this.

17
00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:15,683
This case is interesting. It's soft, it's actually squishy.

18
00:01:17,010 --> 00:01:20,210
It's probably cardboard or something, but there is a little squish to it.

19
00:01:20,210 --> 00:01:23,370
It's kind of rigid.

20
00:01:23,370 --> 00:01:27,850
Wait, maybe that's just the headphone. Yeah, yeah, that's just, this doesn't have walls.

21
00:01:27,850 --> 00:01:31,550
So these walls are just stretchy like this.

22
00:01:31,550 --> 00:01:38,610
Cool, there they are. And yeah, I mean, it's not nothing.

23
00:01:38,610 --> 00:01:42,333
It's case is all right, and here they are. - [Jono] How big are they?

24
00:01:42,333 --> 00:01:45,630
- They're all black, they are 40 millimeter drivers.

25
00:01:45,630 --> 00:01:49,500
They are dynamic drivers. Left and right clearly marked here.

26
00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:53,450
I'm immediately thinking that this driver looks like it might touch my ears,

27
00:01:53,450 --> 00:01:59,830
which is the worst, that always hurts. The ear cups are fairly squishy.

28
00:01:59,830 --> 00:02:03,830
They take a while to expand. They look like the kind of ear cups

29
00:02:03,830 --> 00:02:07,970
where if your ears are small, they might just go in there and then these would cease to be on your headphones,

30
00:02:07,970 --> 00:02:11,900
but they are designed to be on ears. You can see these cups swivel,

31
00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:15,900
which is nice when you have them like this,

32
00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:20,530
'cause this can sometimes be a little scarf, you know, you're on the bus and it's just,

33
00:02:20,530 --> 00:02:23,850
Windows are all fogged up, it's a winter and crap. When you're outside it's good.

34
00:02:23,850 --> 00:02:27,770
When you're inside, you might want to lay that down. Although they really have a tendency though to go fully there

35
00:02:27,770 --> 00:02:33,290
and then it's kind of weird. I feel like it's choking me out a bit. I really liked the look, this like soft touch,

36
00:02:33,290 --> 00:02:36,980
I guess rubber finish on the plastic here is nice.

37
00:02:36,980 --> 00:02:40,700
The branding, the Urbanista kind of iconography

38
00:02:40,700 --> 00:02:45,053
there is cool. I can see there's some buttons, three buttons here.

39
00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:50,173
They're really tactile. Oh, sound is not consistent.

40
00:02:51,190 --> 00:02:58,260
It looks like there's a microphone there. On the other cup, we've got a USB-C port and another button.

41
00:02:58,510 --> 00:03:03,300
That button's way louder. The headband we've got foam all the way around

42
00:03:03,300 --> 00:03:08,040
but damn that is thin. That basically just like, looks like a thin veneer of leatherette

43
00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:13,020
over top of like something hard. And then it looks like it breaks right here.

44
00:03:13,020 --> 00:03:16,970
That's where there's actually some foam and that, oh yeah,

45
00:03:16,970 --> 00:03:23,310
that does not look very pillowy. That looks like it's gonna compress and hurt right away.

46
00:03:23,310 --> 00:03:27,610
And then says Powerfoyle on the top, which I guess is the name of the technology

47
00:03:27,610 --> 00:03:31,730
for the solar power. I guess, is that the solar panel at the top,

48
00:03:31,730 --> 00:03:35,780
this whole thing? I'm told that it's the same technology as a solar panel

49
00:03:35,780 --> 00:03:40,810
you see on like a calculator and those never died and there are way smaller than all this.

50
00:03:40,810 --> 00:03:45,000
Let's put them on. - [Jono] Whoa, before that. - What? Oh my God.

51
00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,460
Yeah, this is how big they are. This is our new ShortCircuit merch, isn't that cool?

52
00:03:49,460 --> 00:03:53,000
You guys got merch, you guys, us?

53
00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,076
Am I, do I work here? (laughs)

54
00:03:56,076 --> 00:03:59,990
Cool, you can get blue bananas. This is pretty dope. You know what, and this doubles

55
00:03:59,990 --> 00:04:03,540
as a very discreet airline pillow.

56
00:04:03,540 --> 00:04:06,093
Oh, and there's the logo on there too. This is really cool.

57
00:04:07,340 --> 00:04:11,183
Don't try to peel it. All right, I wanna wear them. This is left.

58
00:04:12,570 --> 00:04:14,543
The caliper pressure is pretty tight.

59
00:04:17,070 --> 00:04:20,569
Yeah, my ear is like, this half of my ear is just immediately inside of that,

60
00:04:24,820 --> 00:04:28,400
which is probably not gonna be great. They don't go that small.

61
00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:34,130
I'm on the smallest setting out and I think I would leave it there. I don't have like a tiny dome, I have like a media melon.

62
00:04:34,130 --> 00:04:39,130
So if you got a tiny dome, maybe look elsewhere,

63
00:04:39,930 --> 00:04:45,450
and this is as big as they get. If you got like just a huge knock and noggin

64
00:04:46,681 --> 00:04:52,210
actuation of this, it seems to be friction base. It's not ratchet, it's continuous.

65
00:04:52,210 --> 00:04:59,040
Oh, it just powered on, I heard a little voice. There they are, 76% charged.

66
00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:02,210
Now, I wonder if they'll go up

67
00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:08,130
as we sit here under these studio lights. looks like there's three ANC settings.

68
00:05:08,130 --> 00:05:11,230
There's ANC on, there's ambient sound transparency mode,

69
00:05:11,230 --> 00:05:16,360
and there's default, and I can hear a voice cue when I switch that.

70
00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:20,120
- [Virtual Voice Assistant] ANC, ambient sound, default.

71
00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,220
- Nice. Draining, it's draining right now, oh God.

72
00:05:23,220 --> 00:05:28,083
It's draining faster and faster. This is so cool that it shows you the rate of the drain.

73
00:05:29,930 --> 00:05:34,540
Wait, now it's gaining? Oh, wait a second, it's simultaneously gaining and draining,

74
00:05:34,540 --> 00:05:38,220
but overall it's draining. That's how I'm reading this.

75
00:05:38,220 --> 00:05:42,260
What's this button do? I don't know, do I wanna look, why would I wanna look at a picture of it

76
00:05:42,260 --> 00:05:46,120
if I know what they look like, okay. What does this do?

77
00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:50,360
There's a feature button, I'm guessing that's the big one. Long press on that same button.

78
00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:56,370
Activate voice assistant, that sounds good, or toggle ANC and each other stuff, yeah, okay.

79
00:05:56,370 --> 00:06:00,640
On ear detection that's on music. We'll pause when I take the headphones off.

80
00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:05,810
Decent settings, cool. Well, let's listen to the sound quality

81
00:06:05,810 --> 00:06:09,440
right after this message from our sponsor. Thanks to Corsair for sponsoring this video.

82
00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,753
Corsair recently launched their first gaming monitor, the Xenon.

83
00:06:12,753 --> 00:06:15,940
It features an ultra slim 32 inch QHD IPS panel

84
00:06:15,940 --> 00:06:19,700
up to 165 Hertz refresh rate, quantum dot technology,

85
00:06:19,700 --> 00:06:23,437
the best, with 100% SRGB, 100% Adobe RGB

86
00:06:23,437 --> 00:06:27,490
and 98% at DCI-P3 color gamma coverage, which is the one that matters.

87
00:06:27,490 --> 00:06:31,250
And that will get you more vivid, natural colors. Mount your camera, your mic,

88
00:06:31,250 --> 00:06:36,030
your lighting with an integrated multi mount point, built into the aluminum stand

89
00:06:36,030 --> 00:06:39,520
and learn more at the link below. Get a Xenon guys, why not?

90
00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:44,353
All Corsair build, let's go. You know what I'll give it is they're pretty silent.

91
00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:48,950
They're not too creaky. That looks nice, with that little marketing.

92
00:06:48,950 --> 00:06:52,630
Facebook Meta. This one's pretty good.

93
00:06:52,630 --> 00:06:56,960
The base is pretty good. Billie Eilish, you need the base.

94
00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,540
The music is so like after party.

95
00:07:00,540 --> 00:07:03,540
So like, meh, this bar is supposed to be closed right now,

96
00:07:03,540 --> 00:07:08,310
but it's not and you're allowed to smoke in here. Hold on, let me put you in transparency mode.

97
00:07:08,310 --> 00:07:13,310
Oh, it pauses the music and goes ANC, pause ambient sound.

98
00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:20,590
What'd you say? Yeah, I don't think this is really doing much. (finger snaps)

99
00:07:20,590 --> 00:07:25,810
Okay, it was, it was. It's not that aggressive though, it wasn't like really amplifying everything around me.

100
00:07:25,810 --> 00:07:29,380
Let's put the ANC back on. Ah, the interruption's brutal.

101
00:07:29,380 --> 00:07:33,260
Oh, this album, this is a good Hi-Fi album.

102
00:07:33,260 --> 00:07:37,460
Pretty warm sound. This guitar sounds nice and soft.

103
00:07:37,460 --> 00:07:40,303
Left, left ear just sounds so much more prominent.

104
00:07:41,470 --> 00:07:45,410
Maybe I'm going deaf. The backwards, you got to test the backwards on

105
00:07:45,410 --> 00:07:49,480
because if you're one of those weirdos and I've been this guy,

106
00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,780
who wears actual headphones to the gym

107
00:07:52,780 --> 00:07:56,490
and you're holding dumbbells and you go down to like bench press or do flies

108
00:07:56,490 --> 00:08:00,770
or something laying down, I've worn headphones where they're like, (laughs).

109
00:08:02,940 --> 00:08:08,410
Yeah, I think with the $200 range these sound okay. I'm still gonna try some rock and roll music.

110
00:08:08,410 --> 00:08:13,070
You could be mine. Let's turn it up and see how harsh and crappy they sound

111
00:08:13,070 --> 00:08:14,323
or if they get distorted.

112
00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:18,333
This is a, don't go that loud.

113
00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:26,500
This is louder than I want to listen to, but I could see myself maybe putting up this loud

114
00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:30,750
in certain circumstances, and it's not that loud. Although I am listening to title

115
00:08:30,750 --> 00:08:34,430
and sometimes it's just quieter.

116
00:08:34,430 --> 00:08:38,670
I find like I have to turn my AVR up higher than I would on YouTube Music, for example.

117
00:08:38,670 --> 00:08:42,700
Axl Rose, man. (laughs sarcastically)

118
00:08:42,700 --> 00:08:47,490
His voice is hilarious. I'm satisfied, I've made my final appraisal of this product.

119
00:08:47,490 --> 00:08:53,130
I think that they sound good enough. I think that a lot of what you're paying for

120
00:08:53,130 --> 00:08:56,840
is going to go to non-oral properties

121
00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:01,010
such as the solar powered thing. But I think if the solar power thing appeals to you at all,

122
00:09:01,010 --> 00:09:04,760
it has some value for you. Like if you're willing to pay 20 or $30 for that,

123
00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:09,760
I think the sound is like, good enough for this price range.

124
00:09:09,780 --> 00:09:15,230
They don't sound markedly worse than like say truly wireless earphones in that price range.

125
00:09:15,230 --> 00:09:20,240
Although I'm not going to sit here and say, there's not $200 headphones that sound better than these, there are,

126
00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:25,590
but with that, with the look of them, the overall build quality, it's got the companion app.

127
00:09:25,590 --> 00:09:30,150
There's no EQ in the companion app, but I think these are like, they're decent value.

128
00:09:30,150 --> 00:09:34,370
Even if they didn't have the solar thing, they would still be like, all right.

129
00:09:34,370 --> 00:09:37,820
Without the solar thing, they probably should be like 130 or something, 150.

130
00:09:38,830 --> 00:09:41,963
The biggest thing you wanna evaluate in a review, which this is not,

131
00:09:41,963 --> 00:09:45,410
is how well does the solar aspect of it work

132
00:09:45,410 --> 00:09:51,030
and I can't do that right now. And let's see what happened after like three minutes of music, whatever that was,

133
00:09:51,030 --> 00:09:53,080
searching for device again, come on, man.

134
00:09:55,460 --> 00:10:00,500
Baloney. - [Brandon] Baloney. - What? Dude, I can't get back into the app.

135
00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:04,120
I'm sorry guys, we can't get back in. What does it say in Bluetooth power level?

136
00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,200
Cell is at 80. Cannot confirm or deny.

137
00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:10,270
I will say they don't seem to be, they're a bit heavier.

138
00:10:10,270 --> 00:10:15,610
They're a bit heavier a little and bulkier than on normal headphone this size,

139
00:10:15,610 --> 00:10:19,200
but it's not really, not like too noticeable.

140
00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:22,510
The weighting of them like you can tell there's weight in the headband,

141
00:10:22,510 --> 00:10:26,430
but it's not onerous. I would be concerned about again,

142
00:10:26,430 --> 00:10:30,820
how comfortable they're gonna be after an hour, especially with the actual weight up there and the thin padding of the headband.

143
00:10:30,820 --> 00:10:35,630
But while I've been wearing them here, they've been fine. If I was going to LA,

144
00:10:35,630 --> 00:10:39,490
I probably wouldn't even bother bring my cable. If I knew that, yeah,

145
00:10:39,490 --> 00:10:42,610
it's gonna be sunny from six to six, I just put in by the window.

146
00:10:42,610 --> 00:10:47,720
That's actually pretty sweet. Whatever I can do in my life to have a lighter kit,

147
00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:52,400
a lighter everyday carry, the best. Like if you have a car that doesn't need keys,

148
00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:58,430
or if you have a garage opener, so you don't need a fob, you have a pin pad, like a code on your door.

149
00:10:58,430 --> 00:11:01,640
You don't need a house keys, I love that stuff. So if you're one of those people,

150
00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:04,890
these could be awesome for you. But if you don't mind just plugging your headphones in

151
00:11:04,890 --> 00:11:09,730
like what, once every couple months, honestly, my earphones, I use it in the gym

152
00:11:09,730 --> 00:11:13,660
'cause I'd never work out. I'd charged them like twice,

153
00:11:13,660 --> 00:11:17,300
like I never have to charge them. So what are you really gaining?

154
00:11:17,300 --> 00:11:21,520
I don't know. Your mileage may vary, but I think these, they don't suck.

155
00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:26,020
Of course, inconclusive findings on the solar panel.

156
00:11:26,020 --> 00:11:29,567
You know another real cool thing is there's no like striations on the solar panel

157
00:11:29,567 --> 00:11:34,020
and you can't see all of the cells. It really just looks normal. No one would know that these are weird.

158
00:11:34,020 --> 00:11:38,870
So that's very cool, that's another bonus for them, but yeah, you'll have to check out other in-depth reviews

159
00:11:38,870 --> 00:11:44,450
of this product to know whether the recommendation is, I'm just saying right now it's not a don't buy.

160
00:11:44,450 --> 00:11:48,080
So thanks for watching ShortCircuit. If you like our headphone or earphone reviews,

161
00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,090
then check out more of them by me or Riley,

162
00:11:51,090 --> 00:11:54,810
the other earphone guy here. David, you've done them?

163
00:11:54,810 --> 00:11:56,053
- [David] One. - Watch David's.