WEBVTT 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, 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:10.900 which are apparently solar powered and I live in the Pacific Northwest 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. 00:00:16.299 --> 00:00:19.340 (laughs) This looks like the actual retail packaging. 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. 00:00:23.790 --> 00:00:27.670 Los Angeles, Los Angeles solar powered headphones, 00:00:27.670 --> 00:00:31.940 always charging, Powerfoyle by Exeger. 00:00:31.940 --> 00:00:35.810 It's a cool box. All the same crap there. 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? 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. 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. 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. 00:00:54.030 --> 00:00:58.700 I like this little, what do they call that on a saddle, bullhorn, 00:00:58.700 --> 00:01:02.610 holding that together, and what's this, a charging cable, perhaps. 00:01:02.610 --> 00:01:06.143 They really don't stand by this infinite battery thing, do they? 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. 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:15.683 This case is interesting. It's soft, it's actually squishy. 00:01:17.010 --> 00:01:20.210 It's probably cardboard or something, but there is a little squish to it. 00:01:20.210 --> 00:01:23.370 It's kind of rigid. 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. 00:01:27.850 --> 00:01:31.550 So these walls are just stretchy like this. 00:01:31.550 --> 00:01:38.610 Cool, there they are. And yeah, I mean, it's not nothing. 00:01:38.610 --> 00:01:42.333 It's case is all right, and here they are. - [Jono] How big are they? 00:01:42.333 --> 00:01:45.630 - They're all black, they are 40 millimeter drivers. 00:01:45.630 --> 00:01:49.500 They are dynamic drivers. Left and right clearly marked here. 00:01:49.500 --> 00:01:53.450 I'm immediately thinking that this driver looks like it might touch my ears, 00:01:53.450 --> 00:01:59.830 which is the worst, that always hurts. The ear cups are fairly squishy. 00:01:59.830 --> 00:02:03.830 They take a while to expand. They look like the kind of ear cups 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, 00:02:07.970 --> 00:02:11.900 but they are designed to be on ears. You can see these cups swivel, 00:02:11.900 --> 00:02:15.900 which is nice when you have them like this, 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, 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. 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 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, 00:02:33.290 --> 00:02:36.980 I guess rubber finish on the plastic here is nice. 00:02:36.980 --> 00:02:40.700 The branding, the Urbanista kind of iconography 00:02:40.700 --> 00:02:45.053 there is cool. I can see there's some buttons, three buttons here. 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:50.173 They're really tactile. Oh, sound is not consistent. 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. 00:02:58.510 --> 00:03:03.300 That button's way louder. The headband we've got foam all the way around 00:03:03.300 --> 00:03:08.040 but damn that is thin. That basically just like, looks like a thin veneer of leatherette 00:03:08.040 --> 00:03:13.020 over top of like something hard. And then it looks like it breaks right here. 00:03:13.020 --> 00:03:16.970 That's where there's actually some foam and that, oh yeah, 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. 00:03:23.310 --> 00:03:27.610 And then says Powerfoyle on the top, which I guess is the name of the technology 00:03:27.610 --> 00:03:31.730 for the solar power. I guess, is that the solar panel at the top, 00:03:31.730 --> 00:03:35.780 this whole thing? I'm told that it's the same technology as a solar panel 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. 00:03:40.810 --> 00:03:45.000 Let's put them on. - [Jono] Whoa, before that. - What? Oh my God. 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? 00:03:49.460 --> 00:03:53.000 You guys got merch, you guys, us? 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:56.076 Am I, do I work here? (laughs) 00:03:56.076 --> 00:03:59.990 Cool, you can get blue bananas. This is pretty dope. You know what, and this doubles 00:03:59.990 --> 00:04:03.540 as a very discreet airline pillow. 00:04:03.540 --> 00:04:06.093 Oh, and there's the logo on there too. This is really cool. 00:04:07.340 --> 00:04:11.183 Don't try to peel it. All right, I wanna wear them. This is left. 00:04:12.570 --> 00:04:14.543 The caliper pressure is pretty tight. 00:04:17.070 --> 00:04:20.569 Yeah, my ear is like, this half of my ear is just immediately inside of that, 00:04:24.820 --> 00:04:28.400 which is probably not gonna be great. They don't go that small. 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. 00:04:34.130 --> 00:04:39.130 So if you got a tiny dome, maybe look elsewhere, 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 00:04:46.681 --> 00:04:52.210 actuation of this, it seems to be friction base. It's not ratchet, it's continuous. 00:04:52.210 --> 00:04:59.040 Oh, it just powered on, I heard a little voice. There they are, 76% charged. 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:02.210 Now, I wonder if they'll go up 00:05:03.400 --> 00:05:08.130 as we sit here under these studio lights. looks like there's three ANC settings. 00:05:08.130 --> 00:05:11.230 There's ANC on, there's ambient sound transparency mode, 00:05:11.230 --> 00:05:16.360 and there's default, and I can hear a voice cue when I switch that. 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:20.120 - [Virtual Voice Assistant] ANC, ambient sound, default. 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:23.220 - Nice. Draining, it's draining right now, oh God. 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. 00:05:29.930 --> 00:05:34.540 Wait, now it's gaining? Oh, wait a second, it's simultaneously gaining and draining, 00:05:34.540 --> 00:05:38.220 but overall it's draining. That's how I'm reading this. 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 00:05:42.260 --> 00:05:46.120 if I know what they look like, okay. What does this do? 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. 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:56.370 Activate voice assistant, that sounds good, or toggle ANC and each other stuff, yeah, okay. 00:05:56.370 --> 00:06:00.640 On ear detection that's on music. We'll pause when I take the headphones off. 00:06:00.640 --> 00:06:05.810 Decent settings, cool. 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You know what I'll give it is they're pretty silent. 00:06:45.700 --> 00:06:48.950 They're not too creaky. That looks nice, with that little marketing. 00:06:48.950 --> 00:06:52.630 Facebook Meta. This one's pretty good. 00:06:52.630 --> 00:06:56.960 The base is pretty good. Billie Eilish, you need the base. 00:06:56.960 --> 00:07:00.540 The music is so like after party. 00:07:00.540 --> 00:07:03.540 So like, meh, this bar is supposed to be closed right now, 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. 00:07:08.310 --> 00:07:13.310 Oh, it pauses the music and goes ANC, pause ambient sound. 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:20.590 What'd you say? Yeah, I don't think this is really doing much. (finger snaps) 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. 00:07:25.810 --> 00:07:29.380 Let's put the ANC back on. Ah, the interruption's brutal. 00:07:29.380 --> 00:07:33.260 Oh, this album, this is a good Hi-Fi album. 00:07:33.260 --> 00:07:37.460 Pretty warm sound. This guitar sounds nice and soft. 00:07:37.460 --> 00:07:40.303 Left, left ear just sounds so much more prominent. 00:07:41.470 --> 00:07:45.410 Maybe I'm going deaf. The backwards, you got to test the backwards on 00:07:45.410 --> 00:07:49.480 because if you're one of those weirdos and I've been this guy, 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:52.780 who wears actual headphones to the gym 00:07:52.780 --> 00:07:56.490 and you're holding dumbbells and you go down to like bench press or do flies 00:07:56.490 --> 00:08:00.770 or something laying down, I've worn headphones where they're like, (laughs). 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. 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 00:08:13.070 --> 00:08:14.323 or if they get distorted. 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:18.333 This is a, don't go that loud. 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 00:08:26.500 --> 00:08:30.750 in certain circumstances, and it's not that loud. Although I am listening to title 00:08:30.750 --> 00:08:34.430 and sometimes it's just quieter. 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. 00:08:38.670 --> 00:08:42.700 Axl Rose, man. (laughs sarcastically) 00:08:42.700 --> 00:08:47.490 His voice is hilarious. I'm satisfied, I've made my final appraisal of this product. 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 00:08:53.130 --> 00:08:56.840 is going to go to non-oral properties 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, 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, 00:09:04.760 --> 00:09:09.760 I think the sound is like, good enough for this price range. 00:09:09.780 --> 00:09:15.230 They don't sound markedly worse than like say truly wireless earphones in that price range. 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, 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. 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. 00:09:30.150 --> 00:09:34.370 Even if they didn't have the solar thing, they would still be like, all right. 00:09:34.370 --> 00:09:37.820 Without the solar thing, they probably should be like 130 or something, 150. 00:09:38.830 --> 00:09:41.963 The biggest thing you wanna evaluate in a review, which this is not, 00:09:41.963 --> 00:09:45.410 is how well does the solar aspect of it work 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, 00:09:51.030 --> 00:09:53.080 searching for device again, come on, man. 00:09:55.460 --> 00:10:00.500 Baloney. - [Brandon] Baloney. - What? Dude, I can't get back into the app. 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? 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:07.200 Cell is at 80. Cannot confirm or deny. 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:10.270 I will say they don't seem to be, they're a bit heavier. 00:10:10.270 --> 00:10:15.610 They're a bit heavier a little and bulkier than on normal headphone this size, 00:10:15.610 --> 00:10:19.200 but it's not really, not like too noticeable. 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:22.510 The weighting of them like you can tell there's weight in the headband, 00:10:22.510 --> 00:10:26.430 but it's not onerous. I would be concerned about again, 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. 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, 00:10:35.630 --> 00:10:39.490 I probably wouldn't even bother bring my cable. If I knew that, yeah, 00:10:39.490 --> 00:10:42.610 it's gonna be sunny from six to six, I just put in by the window. 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, 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, 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. 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, 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 00:11:04.890 --> 00:11:09.730 like what, once every couple months, honestly, my earphones, I use it in the gym 00:11:09.730 --> 00:11:13.660 'cause I'd never work out. I'd charged them like twice, 00:11:13.660 --> 00:11:17.300 like I never have to charge them. So what are you really gaining? 00:11:17.300 --> 00:11:21.520 I don't know. Your mileage may vary, but I think these, they don't suck. 00:11:21.520 --> 00:11:26.020 Of course, inconclusive findings on the solar panel. 00:11:26.020 --> 00:11:29.567 You know another real cool thing is there's no like striations on the solar panel 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. 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 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. 00:11:44.450 --> 00:11:48.080 So thanks for watching ShortCircuit. If you like our headphone or earphone reviews, 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:51.090 then check out more of them by me or Riley, 00:11:51.090 --> 00:11:54.810 the other earphone guy here. David, you've done them? 00:11:54.810 --> 00:11:56.053 - [David] One. - Watch David's.