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All right, guys. Today, we are going to cover the Razer Hammerhead True Wireless

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earbuds and I am blind. I I know nothing about this. Not This is

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a way bigger box. They can't possibly

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have this box on the shelves. Razer Hammerhead True Wireless Pro

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free from noise. I don't know if that means cuz it has noise cancellation or

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because it doesn't have a lot of distortion. Hopefully, both. Advanced

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hybrid A ANC, THX certified sound. Not

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sure how it's done on this. I guess maybe they're just trying to say that these are also good for watching movies,

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but a lot of time when you see THX certified like certifications like that,

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it's a new way to charge more money for something that lots of products have the

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capability of passing. Okay, now I see the the packaging that

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you're going to see in store. This looks like the actual headphone box. Very

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slim. This is What is this? THS case?

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Does this not have charge case? Or is this just like a skin? Okay, we're going

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to find out. And then here we have a phone case in case I have a new Apple

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iPhone 6.1 inch, apparently. I don't. Is

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there an Easter egg under this confetti? Okay. Put it in your hamster cage.

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Uh let's start with the goods.

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THX certified.

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Is this Am I doing this right? Uh

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Oh, that's some friction. How do you design a box like that, you know? Crazy.

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Okay, there is a charge case in here. Thank god. Uh bunch of instructions I

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hope I don't need. This case.

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This is a good size. This looks like it's smaller and lighter than the case

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from the Sony WF-1000XM3s.

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And the weight of it is 43 grams. I don't I don't normally

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weigh the charge case, but this is just feels very light in the hand. Says Razer

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on the top embossed. That's cool.

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Sounds okay. Wait a second though, which side is this? This is left. It goes on

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the left. That's nice. Okay. Bare minimum, you know? Okay, what else

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is in the box? That green light on there is cool. Very Razer.

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We have a charging cable. This is USB-C

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right here. It's a Razer branded cable. It's a very

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short. I would maybe that's 16 inches or something.

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It's braided and on the other side it terminates in a nice green USB-A. Oh,

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these are foam ear tips in here and then these are the silicone ones. Silicone

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ones. Those kind of look medium. Those are the bigger and those are tiny.

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And of course, there are some already on the headphone. That looks like the same

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size. So, you get extra of the medium one.

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They go in. Uh

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Huh. I feel like it's pretty in my left ear, but not so in my right ear. I think

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they go in farther than an AirPod though. The seal is okay. Now, do I pair

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through the case or just through the headphone? Oh, it's already appearing in

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here, so that's good. Bluetooth connected. What a dork voice they have

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in here. Uh hi, thanks for choosing Razer. I get my braces off really soon.

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Not to say braces are dorky. Well, braces are dorky. I have braces.

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Uh I kind of want to try the foam ear tips though. I wonder if these are

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specifically made for these or not because the ear tips have a round um

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port hole, whereas the male end on the

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Razer is actually an ellipse. On the silicone one it doesn't really matter,

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you just get it on there, but on the foam one it feels like I'm kind of forcing it. Doesn't really want to go on

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there. I mean, it works. Oh, yeah.

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Pretty isolating for not being completely in your Oh my god, it's

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playing music suddenly. This is way louder than I would normally do, but it's

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also very clear and very groovy.

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I guess we're suddenly we're suddenly doing the music test. I wasn't ready for

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Very smooth music. These are pretty damn good.

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I have it pretty loud, which is kind of cheating. Usually, the louder you turn

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something up um to a point, it sounds better because

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your ears are more sensitive to certain frequencies. Now, of course, if you turn

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it up very loud, that's when you can expose the crappiness of headphones if

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they start to get distorted or harsh sounding.

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These are I have them about three-quarters right now and they still sound pretty good.

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These have pretty deep bass. Okay, let's put on some tunes I know really well.

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California is a little bit warmer.

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You know what's always a good sign? When you put on a song that you maybe never listened to with headphones before and

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you notice a bunch of stuff you never noticed before. So, um

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some people describe that as being really articulate. I would say these are

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pretty articulate. I can hear a lot of different instruments going on.

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Yeah, these are pretty damn good. Okay, now let's see about the interface.

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How do they work? Is this play? Are they touch? I have no idea. They got to have

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some controls on them. If it's all phone, I'm going to be If If I swear to

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god, if this is another headphone review where I really like the sound, but hate

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the interface, I'm going to be so chuffed. The fact that I have to open up

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the the instructions is already a bad sign. Two Okay, 2 seconds. I think that

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turns the noise canceling on. Ooh,

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fragrant instruction manual. It's off-gassing. Okay, so the green

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light on here is the battery indicator light. You can turn them on by holding

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down for 2 seconds. Tap. Answer call, end a call, or

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play/pause media. So, that is supposed to play and pause.

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Oh, okay, that worked. I think I just did it like a slower like instead of

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going like pop, I would like really smoosh my finger pad onto it. That's

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acceptable. Little learning learning curve there, but uh whatever. ANC on.

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All right, need a crying baby here.

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I couldn't hear that at all. Oh, really? Yeah, at all. At all. Okay, now I'm

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going to turn ANC off and I want to know.

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Okay, ambient is on and I still can like I can hear it, but not that much. Like

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even my own talking, I still feel like I'm wearing earplugs, which I essentially am. And that's So, I don't

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know about the ambient mode. It's supposed to be using its microphones to amplify things around me and it's kind

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of not. Okay, now it's off. Let me hear your wife.

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Okay, I can hear you. It's very quiet, but I can hear that you're doing that.

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And it pauses when you pull this out. That's nice. Interface is okay. It

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functions the way I would want it to. It's just a little annoying to use cuz

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you have to kind of press hard. It's not not very sensitive. Maybe that'll save

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you in a couple situations though. Razer Hammerhead app, there it is. How is this

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have 50,000 downloads already? Location required. Okay.

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Only this one time. Now, I open.

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Connected. Begin the tutorial. Sure. Let's do it, guys. We're in this

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together. All right, try out the gestures. Single, double Oh, there's a

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triple tap. What's that for? Oh, previous track.

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Remapping. Oh, man, they give you so many options.

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I don't think I've ever seen options this robust. So, your options are uh

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play/pause, next track, previous track, stop, voice assistant, game mode, ANC,

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or just nothing. It's cool that they have a nothing button because then I

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could avoid misclicks, but I feel like I don't need it because this is already so

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hard to press. So, uh make it easier to press. You get all

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those same options no matter which action you're looking at and the actions

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are single press, double tap, triple tap, long press for 2 seconds, triple

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tap and hold last tap for 2 seconds. Oh,

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and then you have all these options again if you're on a call. So, single

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press while on a call, triple tap while on a call. This is nice. I want to see

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this emulated in other apps. Okay, these guys are kind of two for two right now.

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They sound good and the the usability is pretty good. You get uh separate battery

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indicators for each headphone here in the app. EQ presets. So, you can totally

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make your own. They've got THX, amplified, enhanced bass, vocal, and

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enhanced clarity. That is most of it except there's a settings button here.

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Earbuds fitting test. The fit test is designed to improve the

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overall sound and noise cancellation of your Hammerhead True Wireless by reducing sound leakage.

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I'm going to do this. Put on both earbuds and ensure a

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comfortable fit before taking the test.

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Take the test. Both your earbuds are a perfect fit.

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I didn't even do anything. I think what it does is it plays music

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and it also runs the microphones at the same time and it's trying to ensure that

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the microphones don't pick up that sound beyond a certain like volume threshold.

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So, I guess they were sealed good and there was not a lot of leakage. But that's just a cool thing that they put

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in. Cool. I'm happy with the app. Build quality seems okay.

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Sound quality sounded quite good. Price?

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Jono? 199. 200 bucks. Okay, 200 bucks.

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So, at $200, these are more like 20 to $30 more than Samsung Galaxy Buds Live

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or the Google Pixel Buds. So, a little more than those, but not as expensive as

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some of the heavy hitters from Bose. Not bad. They don't suck. I mean, they're

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Razer, so you never really know. They Maybe they're Maybe they're not going to

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last that long. Um two-year warranty though.

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I mean, and plus you get their little their promise here.

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My My only thing is they only last for 4 hours.

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4 hours of playback isn't the longest battery life I've seen in the

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category, but um it's not the worst.

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It's like kind of kind of standard. Do you know Do they have any rating for

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water waterproof? IPX4 IPX4, that's

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basic. So, you're you'll be fine for working out at the gym and getting splashed with sweat and stuff. Just

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don't wear these in the shower. Overall, I'm kind of impressed with these. I'm

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going to give them a recommendation. They're pretty cool. Um price is kind of

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middle of the road, but the sound quality I would say is better than a lot of the stuff you get at that lower price

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tier. So, they probably deserve to cost more than like the Pixel Buds for

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example. Let's see what the heck this was.

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Oh, no. Okay, this is just another case. Oh, it's a

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it's a hard shell for the case. It's a It's a ruggedizer.

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Okay. It's kind of cool.

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Wow, they're the setup sure is easy. Like, I'm done already.

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It Yeah, and then you can put this onto your backpack. So, it

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hangs right there. So, I do that when I'm traveling, you know.

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I'll get this. Pocket test with this on.

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I don't dig LastPass's pocket test, okay? He does like He thinks things need

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to fit into here. That It's definitely not going to happen with this. I This

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isn't even for that. Um okay.

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In my nudies, they fit

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in here, but it's so annoying to try to make that happen and so tight on the hip

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that that's just dumb. Everyone knows this pocket's for lock

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picking tools. Yeah, in the pocket, that's fine. That's

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not much more than like a wallet. I'm not going to I'm not going to hate on

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anyone who wants to buy these. I think like I wouldn't see these and be like, "Oh, god.

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Buddy bought those." Like, I think these are fine. Good job, Razer.

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Christmas. 200 bucks. Worth a look. I I would say

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these are worth putting into your roundup evaluation, your spreadsheet

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that you're going to make where you're comparing all the features. Uh

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these are worth a look. So, thanks for watching ShortCircuit guys. If you liked this video, like,

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Bye-bye.