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as one of the internet's most prominent style icons air pods

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more like poverty pods Abyss

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ew where's the Gucci logo

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but Louis Vuitton earphones

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my wallet senses are tingling at 1200 US dollars I can rest assured

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that if I buy these not only will I be getting the best of the best but I'll

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know that I am the best of the best

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right they specialize in cutting up leather and sewing it together what

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exactly makes you think that any of that translates to designing Electronics oh

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shut up poor lioness you're just jealous jealous you're jealous of me and my

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thank you like most of you I'm skeptical

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that the LV Horizon earphones can live up to both their lofty price tag and the

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Bold claims on their product page but let's give them a chance okay right out

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of the gate you have to give credit where it's due when you buy something

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this expensive you expect an experience from the moment that you open the box

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and Louis Vuitton delivers the outer box

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opens to reveal wait is this real leather

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gotta admit that's pretty extra you unzip your little luggage and

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wow this charging case is quite the

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statement the earphones themselves are beautifully

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displayed through a sapphire glass top bearing the iconic Louis Vuitton

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Monogram around the crown the body is made of this sandblasted steel that has

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a reassuringly expensive feeling weight to it and it features what feels like a

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basically seamless ceramic bottom for wireless QI charging if your top

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priority is making sure that everyone knows what brand of earphones you bought

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then boy howdy did you ever come to the right place the lid opens with a

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satisfying springiness and closes with a nice plaque or at least it did after

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only a few days of gentle use the case now has kind of a grainy and looseness

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to the hinge that Frankly Speaking feels more h m than Louis V and for all its

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external niceness the plastic on top where the earphones actually reside

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where you kind of like fumbling and putting them in was so easily scratched

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by my gorgeous painted fingernails that it made it look all scuffy and abused

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after just two weeks thankfully the same is not true of the headphones which

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still look exactly as luxurious as the day my assistant wired them the money as

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for whether the luxurious look transfers to the owner well

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I'll let you guys be the judge of that

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gorgeous baby but I'm more concerned with how they function in terms of

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features they have everything that you'd expect from a pair of Premium true

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wireless earphones Bluetooth 5.0 active noise canceling and proximity sensors

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for auto pause and play and I gotta be

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honest with you guys I love the interface there are physical buttons on

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both earphones that you press down from the top which is way better than

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inconsistent touch controls or buttons that cause you to mash the earphones

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ever deeper into your ear canal the right one has a single button for pause

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play and change tracks and the left has two buttons for volume control thank you

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lV for not forcing me to engage with a voice assistant just to change the

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volume of my music you can also use these buttons to toggle between active

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noise cancellation and transparency mode as for how they sound however truthfully

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they're mediocre at best they feature a strong v-shaped sound signature and

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while the highs do have nice detail without Crossing into harsh territory

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the base is an absolute ready mess I

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believe is the term for it very low frequencies get boosted so much more

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than the mid bass that low instruments that sit above the thump of the kick

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drum get completely lost in the mix and if there's a bass line that moves up and

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down the neck it becomes really distracting how much that instrument can

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vary in volume so if you're someone coming from a mid forward headphone like

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Apple's airpods Pro you may find your music sounding a little bit Hollow and

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this trend continues looking at the quality of The Horizon's active noise

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cancellation it's serviceable aided

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significantly by the strong noise isolation of their in-ear Canal design

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but it falls really flat compared to the competent Galaxy buds Pro and the

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excellent airpods Pro both of which I can't believe I'm saying this are cheap

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in comparison thankfully the ANC isn't

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unpleasant to use like I didn't get a strong pressure sensation on my eardrums

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but there is a noticeable background hiss when it's active and it also didn't

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manage to do much to minimize constant background noises like an airplane

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engine or a GPU fan let alone a maniac

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on a rooftop screaming about the incredible products at lttstore.com the

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headphones feature Qualcomm app decks for low latency content consumption and

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mobile gaming though how much content you'll want to consume is tough to say

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because they're really that comfortable even with the smallest ear tips you got

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to really push these into your ears to get a good seal they'll again credit

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where it's due their claims of long battery life appear to hold water I fell

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asleep wearing them on my flight to Tel Aviv and I woke up pleased to find out

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that they were a still running hours later and B that my ears didn't hurt

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though I never forget that I'm wearing them like I do with my daily driver

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airpods Pros oh excuse me

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my quality is decent but I gotta say it

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falls apart a little bit if you're surrounded by noise or traffic

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with that said nobody chooses the horizons for any of

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the stuff that I just talked about I mean even for Shoppers in this price

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band they could never justify how much

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these cost based on how they perform you

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can only justify their cost based on how they make you feel so

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let's get back to the packaging the box is huge and we've actually only explored

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half of it I'm sure for twelve hundred dollars they've got all kinds of little

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premium goodies in here we've got a braided USBC to C cable along with an a

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to c adapter and what appears to be a leather cable tie classic cotton baggie

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full of bits and bobbles some extra ear tips we got some extra

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ear wings and each and individual

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plastic packages wait that's it

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why is this box so big I mean here's a

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box for airpods pros here's a box for an iPhone 13. now with

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100 less charger and this is the box for

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the Horizon earphones this is a problem

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at lttstore.com we've put significant time into making our packaging more

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sustainable and to see lvmh a multi 100

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billion dollar Corporation claim on their website that this is somehow

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eco-friendly it's frustrating I mean it does appear

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to be mostly made of cardboard which is good but it also comes with a leather

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case that serves no purpose other than to slow down your access to your

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earphones not one but two of these non-recyclable cotton bags and

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unnecessary plastic waste in a massive

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box filled with mostly empty space meaning that when you ship a crate of

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these things you're shipping mostly air I mean I'm not saying it's the worst

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packaging we've ever seen not even by a long shot or I'm not even saying that

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we're so much better to be very clear I'm just saying that calling this

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eco-friendly is disingenuous green washing and they need to stop fronting

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and that's kind of the main issue with this product it's all fronting Louis

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Vuitton wants you to think that this product is better than it is so that

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people who want to look and feel richer than they are can spend exactly 472

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percent more than these are worth how do we come to that figure you might ask by

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dividing 1180 US Dollars over 250 US

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Dollars the price of these the master in

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Dynamic mw-07 plus earphones buy these

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ones hmm the shape identical the sound identical

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the controls identical the materials

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features accessories identical identical identical the case

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different also the design on the earbuds

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themselves is a little bit nicer in my opinion and the packaging is far more

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reasonable so Louis Vuitton is charging you about nine hundred dollars for their

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admittedly nice carrying case and their design work here and a little Leather

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Pouch with a zipper on it though oops really that strange actually is it what

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is strange is that Master and dynamic are a reputable headphone brand known

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for their quality products and yet their name is absolutely nowhere to be found

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on the horizon earphones nowhere on the product packaging or website do they

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even hint at the partnership like you might see with LG's with Meridian or

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Samsung's Sound by Sam's excuse me I mean AKG maybe they don't want to

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confuse their potential customers I mean I'd be confused if I was spending twelve

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hundred dollars on 18 grams of goods and getting something other than solid 24

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karat gold to be clear I don't have a problem

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paying more for high quality stuff that's totally okay I mean I bought

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Cinema cameras back in the day to elevate our content for fifty thousand

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dollars a piece I mean there's there's a reason that LTT products aren't as cheap

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as a lot of other merch I care about quality and I care about longevity I

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just also care about value

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and these earbuds they are going to be so worthless in a couple of years when

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their battery dies that they will almost certainly end up in a landfill at that

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point so while I will not go as far as to say never buy anything from Louis

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Vuitton it's stupid I will say that if you really want to

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buy something from Louis Vuitton buy a bag or a watch something that could last

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you a long time conceivably that you could pass down to your spoiled children

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