All right, guys. Today, we are going to cover the Razer Hammerhead True Wireless
earbuds and I am blind. I I know nothing about this. Not This is
a way bigger box. They can't possibly
have this box on the shelves. Razer Hammerhead True Wireless Pro
free from noise. I don't know if that means cuz it has noise cancellation or
because it doesn't have a lot of distortion. Hopefully, both. Advanced
hybrid A ANC, THX certified sound. Not
sure how it's done on this. I guess maybe they're just trying to say that these are also good for watching movies,
but a lot of time when you see THX certified like certifications like that,
it's a new way to charge more money for something that lots of products have the
capability of passing. Okay, now I see the the packaging that
you're going to see in store. This looks like the actual headphone box. Very
slim. This is What is this? THS case?
Does this not have charge case? Or is this just like a skin? Okay, we're going
to find out. And then here we have a phone case in case I have a new Apple
iPhone 6.1 inch, apparently. I don't. Is
there an Easter egg under this confetti? Okay. Put it in your hamster cage.
Uh let's start with the goods.
THX certified.
Is this Am I doing this right? Uh
Oh, that's some friction. How do you design a box like that, you know? Crazy.
Okay, there is a charge case in here. Thank god. Uh bunch of instructions I
hope I don't need. This case.
This is a good size. This looks like it's smaller and lighter than the case
from the Sony WF-1000XM3s.
And the weight of it is 43 grams. I don't I don't normally
weigh the charge case, but this is just feels very light in the hand. Says Razer
on the top embossed. That's cool.
Sounds okay. Wait a second though, which side is this? This is left. It goes on
the left. That's nice. Okay. Bare minimum, you know? Okay, what else
is in the box? That green light on there is cool. Very Razer.
We have a charging cable. This is USB-C
right here. It's a Razer branded cable. It's a very
short. I would maybe that's 16 inches or something.
It's braided and on the other side it terminates in a nice green USB-A. Oh,
these are foam ear tips in here and then these are the silicone ones. Silicone
ones. Those kind of look medium. Those are the bigger and those are tiny.
And of course, there are some already on the headphone. That looks like the same
size. So, you get extra of the medium one.
They go in. Uh
Huh. I feel like it's pretty in my left ear, but not so in my right ear. I think
they go in farther than an AirPod though. The seal is okay. Now, do I pair
through the case or just through the headphone? Oh, it's already appearing in
here, so that's good. Bluetooth connected. What a dork voice they have
in here. Uh hi, thanks for choosing Razer. I get my braces off really soon.
Not to say braces are dorky. Well, braces are dorky. I have braces.
Uh I kind of want to try the foam ear tips though. I wonder if these are
specifically made for these or not because the ear tips have a round um
port hole, whereas the male end on the
Razer is actually an ellipse. On the silicone one it doesn't really matter,
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
there. I mean, it works. Oh, yeah.
Pretty isolating for not being completely in your Oh my god, it's
playing music suddenly. This is way louder than I would normally do, but it's
also very clear and very groovy.
I guess we're suddenly we're suddenly doing the music test. I wasn't ready for
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band. I don't know how to say their name. Khruangbin? That's what I call them.
Very smooth music. These are pretty damn good.
I have it pretty loud, which is kind of cheating. Usually, the louder you turn
something up um to a point, it sounds better because
your ears are more sensitive to certain frequencies. Now, of course, if you turn
it up very loud, that's when you can expose the crappiness of headphones if
they start to get distorted or harsh sounding.
These are I have them about three-quarters right now and they still sound pretty good.
These have pretty deep bass. Okay, let's put on some tunes I know really well.
California is a little bit warmer.
You know what's always a good sign? When you put on a song that you maybe never listened to with headphones before and
you notice a bunch of stuff you never noticed before. So, um
some people describe that as being really articulate. I would say these are
pretty articulate. I can hear a lot of different instruments going on.
Yeah, these are pretty damn good. Okay, now let's see about the interface.
How do they work? Is this play? Are they touch? I have no idea. They got to have
some controls on them. If it's all phone, I'm going to be If If I swear to
god, if this is another headphone review where I really like the sound, but hate
the interface, I'm going to be so chuffed. The fact that I have to open up
the the instructions is already a bad sign. Two Okay, 2 seconds. I think that
turns the noise canceling on. Ooh,
fragrant instruction manual. It's off-gassing. Okay, so the green
light on here is the battery indicator light. You can turn them on by holding
down for 2 seconds. Tap. Answer call, end a call, or
play/pause media. So, that is supposed to play and pause.
Oh, okay, that worked. I think I just did it like a slower like instead of
going like pop, I would like really smoosh my finger pad onto it. That's
acceptable. Little learning learning curve there, but uh whatever. ANC on.
All right, need a crying baby here.
I couldn't hear that at all. Oh, really? Yeah, at all. At all. Okay, now I'm
going to turn ANC off and I want to know.
Okay, ambient is on and I still can like I can hear it, but not that much. Like
even my own talking, I still feel like I'm wearing earplugs, which I essentially am. And that's So, I don't
know about the ambient mode. It's supposed to be using its microphones to amplify things around me and it's kind
of not. Okay, now it's off. Let me hear your wife.
Okay, I can hear you. It's very quiet, but I can hear that you're doing that.
And it pauses when you pull this out. That's nice. Interface is okay. It
functions the way I would want it to. It's just a little annoying to use cuz
you have to kind of press hard. It's not not very sensitive. Maybe that'll save
you in a couple situations though. Razer Hammerhead app, there it is. How is this
have 50,000 downloads already? Location required. Okay.
Only this one time. Now, I open.
Connected. Begin the tutorial. Sure. Let's do it, guys. We're in this
together. All right, try out the gestures. Single, double Oh, there's a
triple tap. What's that for? Oh, previous track.
Remapping. Oh, man, they give you so many options.
I don't think I've ever seen options this robust. So, your options are uh
play/pause, next track, previous track, stop, voice assistant, game mode, ANC,
or just nothing. It's cool that they have a nothing button because then I
could avoid misclicks, but I feel like I don't need it because this is already so
hard to press. So, uh make it easier to press. You get all
those same options no matter which action you're looking at and the actions
are single press, double tap, triple tap, long press for 2 seconds, triple
tap and hold last tap for 2 seconds. Oh,
and then you have all these options again if you're on a call. So, single
press while on a call, triple tap while on a call. This is nice. I want to see
this emulated in other apps. Okay, these guys are kind of two for two right now.
They sound good and the the usability is pretty good. You get uh separate battery
indicators for each headphone here in the app. EQ presets. So, you can totally
make your own. They've got THX, amplified, enhanced bass, vocal, and
enhanced clarity. That is most of it except there's a settings button here.
Earbuds fitting test. The fit test is designed to improve the
overall sound and noise cancellation of your Hammerhead True Wireless by reducing sound leakage.
I'm going to do this. Put on both earbuds and ensure a
comfortable fit before taking the test.
Take the test. Both your earbuds are a perfect fit.
I didn't even do anything. I think what it does is it plays music
and it also runs the microphones at the same time and it's trying to ensure that
the microphones don't pick up that sound beyond a certain like volume threshold.
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
in. Cool. I'm happy with the app. Build quality seems okay.
Sound quality sounded quite good. Price?
Jono? 199. 200 bucks. Okay, 200 bucks.
So, at $200, these are more like 20 to $30 more than Samsung Galaxy Buds Live
or the Google Pixel Buds. So, a little more than those, but not as expensive as
some of the heavy hitters from Bose. Not bad. They don't suck. I mean, they're
Razer, so you never really know. They Maybe they're Maybe they're not going to
last that long. Um two-year warranty though.
I mean, and plus you get their little their promise here.
My My only thing is they only last for 4 hours.
4 hours of playback isn't the longest battery life I've seen in the
category, but um it's not the worst.
It's like kind of kind of standard. Do you know Do they have any rating for
water waterproof? IPX4 IPX4, that's
basic. So, you're you'll be fine for working out at the gym and getting splashed with sweat and stuff. Just
don't wear these in the shower. Overall, I'm kind of impressed with these. I'm
going to give them a recommendation. They're pretty cool. Um price is kind of
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
tier. So, they probably deserve to cost more than like the Pixel Buds for
example. Let's see what the heck this was.
Oh, no. Okay, this is just another case. Oh, it's a
it's a hard shell for the case. It's a It's a ruggedizer.
Okay. It's kind of cool.
Wow, they're the setup sure is easy. Like, I'm done already.
It Yeah, and then you can put this onto your backpack. So, it
hangs right there. So, I do that when I'm traveling, you know.
I'll get this. Pocket test with this on.
I don't dig LastPass's pocket test, okay? He does like He thinks things need
to fit into here. That It's definitely not going to happen with this. I This
isn't even for that. Um okay.
In my nudies, they fit
in here, but it's so annoying to try to make that happen and so tight on the hip
that that's just dumb. Everyone knows this pocket's for lock
picking tools. Yeah, in the pocket, that's fine. That's
not much more than like a wallet. I'm not going to I'm not going to hate on
anyone who wants to buy these. I think like I wouldn't see these and be like, "Oh, god.
Buddy bought those." Like, I think these are fine. Good job, Razer.
Christmas. 200 bucks. Worth a look. I I would say
these are worth putting into your roundup evaluation, your spreadsheet
that you're going to make where you're comparing all the features. Uh
these are worth a look. So, thanks for watching ShortCircuit guys. If you liked this video, like,
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