as one of the internet's most prominent style icons air pods
more like poverty pods Abyss
ew where's the Gucci logo
but Louis Vuitton earphones
my wallet senses are tingling at 1200 US dollars I can rest assured
that if I buy these not only will I be getting the best of the best but I'll
know that I am the best of the best
right they specialize in cutting up leather and sewing it together what
exactly makes you think that any of that translates to designing Electronics oh
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thank you like most of you I'm skeptical
that the LV Horizon earphones can live up to both their lofty price tag and the
Bold claims on their product page but let's give them a chance okay right out
of the gate you have to give credit where it's due when you buy something
this expensive you expect an experience from the moment that you open the box
and Louis Vuitton delivers the outer box
opens to reveal wait is this real leather
gotta admit that's pretty extra you unzip your little luggage and
wow this charging case is quite the
statement the earphones themselves are beautifully
displayed through a sapphire glass top bearing the iconic Louis Vuitton
Monogram around the crown the body is made of this sandblasted steel that has
a reassuringly expensive feeling weight to it and it features what feels like a
basically seamless ceramic bottom for wireless QI charging if your top
priority is making sure that everyone knows what brand of earphones you bought
then boy howdy did you ever come to the right place the lid opens with a
satisfying springiness and closes with a nice plaque or at least it did after
only a few days of gentle use the case now has kind of a grainy and looseness
to the hinge that Frankly Speaking feels more h m than Louis V and for all its
external niceness the plastic on top where the earphones actually reside
where you kind of like fumbling and putting them in was so easily scratched
by my gorgeous painted fingernails that it made it look all scuffy and abused
after just two weeks thankfully the same is not true of the headphones which
still look exactly as luxurious as the day my assistant wired them the money as
for whether the luxurious look transfers to the owner well
I'll let you guys be the judge of that
gorgeous baby but I'm more concerned with how they function in terms of
features they have everything that you'd expect from a pair of Premium true
wireless earphones Bluetooth 5.0 active noise canceling and proximity sensors
for auto pause and play and I gotta be
honest with you guys I love the interface there are physical buttons on
both earphones that you press down from the top which is way better than
inconsistent touch controls or buttons that cause you to mash the earphones
ever deeper into your ear canal the right one has a single button for pause
play and change tracks and the left has two buttons for volume control thank you
lV for not forcing me to engage with a voice assistant just to change the
volume of my music you can also use these buttons to toggle between active
noise cancellation and transparency mode as for how they sound however truthfully
they're mediocre at best they feature a strong v-shaped sound signature and
while the highs do have nice detail without Crossing into harsh territory
the base is an absolute ready mess I
believe is the term for it very low frequencies get boosted so much more
than the mid bass that low instruments that sit above the thump of the kick
drum get completely lost in the mix and if there's a bass line that moves up and
down the neck it becomes really distracting how much that instrument can
vary in volume so if you're someone coming from a mid forward headphone like
Apple's airpods Pro you may find your music sounding a little bit Hollow and
this trend continues looking at the quality of The Horizon's active noise
cancellation it's serviceable aided
significantly by the strong noise isolation of their in-ear Canal design
but it falls really flat compared to the competent Galaxy buds Pro and the
excellent airpods Pro both of which I can't believe I'm saying this are cheap
in comparison thankfully the ANC isn't
unpleasant to use like I didn't get a strong pressure sensation on my eardrums
but there is a noticeable background hiss when it's active and it also didn't
manage to do much to minimize constant background noises like an airplane
engine or a GPU fan let alone a maniac
on a rooftop screaming about the incredible products at lttstore.com the
headphones feature Qualcomm app decks for low latency content consumption and
mobile gaming though how much content you'll want to consume is tough to say
because they're really that comfortable even with the smallest ear tips you got
to really push these into your ears to get a good seal they'll again credit
where it's due their claims of long battery life appear to hold water I fell
asleep wearing them on my flight to Tel Aviv and I woke up pleased to find out
that they were a still running hours later and B that my ears didn't hurt
though I never forget that I'm wearing them like I do with my daily driver
airpods Pros oh excuse me
my quality is decent but I gotta say it
falls apart a little bit if you're surrounded by noise or traffic
with that said nobody chooses the horizons for any of
the stuff that I just talked about I mean even for Shoppers in this price
band they could never justify how much
these cost based on how they perform you
can only justify their cost based on how they make you feel so
let's get back to the packaging the box is huge and we've actually only explored
half of it I'm sure for twelve hundred dollars they've got all kinds of little
premium goodies in here we've got a braided USBC to C cable along with an a
to c adapter and what appears to be a leather cable tie classic cotton baggie
full of bits and bobbles some extra ear tips we got some extra
ear wings and each and individual
plastic packages wait that's it
why is this box so big I mean here's a
box for airpods pros here's a box for an iPhone 13. now with
100 less charger and this is the box for
the Horizon earphones this is a problem
at lttstore.com we've put significant time into making our packaging more
sustainable and to see lvmh a multi 100
billion dollar Corporation claim on their website that this is somehow
eco-friendly it's frustrating I mean it does appear
to be mostly made of cardboard which is good but it also comes with a leather
case that serves no purpose other than to slow down your access to your
earphones not one but two of these non-recyclable cotton bags and
unnecessary plastic waste in a massive
box filled with mostly empty space meaning that when you ship a crate of
these things you're shipping mostly air I mean I'm not saying it's the worst
packaging we've ever seen not even by a long shot or I'm not even saying that
we're so much better to be very clear I'm just saying that calling this
eco-friendly is disingenuous green washing and they need to stop fronting
and that's kind of the main issue with this product it's all fronting Louis
Vuitton wants you to think that this product is better than it is so that
people who want to look and feel richer than they are can spend exactly 472
percent more than these are worth how do we come to that figure you might ask by
dividing 1180 US Dollars over 250 US
Dollars the price of these the master in
Dynamic mw-07 plus earphones buy these
ones hmm the shape identical the sound identical
the controls identical the materials
features accessories identical identical identical the case
different also the design on the earbuds
themselves is a little bit nicer in my opinion and the packaging is far more
reasonable so Louis Vuitton is charging you about nine hundred dollars for their
admittedly nice carrying case and their design work here and a little Leather
Pouch with a zipper on it though oops really that strange actually is it what
is strange is that Master and dynamic are a reputable headphone brand known
for their quality products and yet their name is absolutely nowhere to be found
on the horizon earphones nowhere on the product packaging or website do they
even hint at the partnership like you might see with LG's with Meridian or
Samsung's Sound by Sam's excuse me I mean AKG maybe they don't want to
confuse their potential customers I mean I'd be confused if I was spending twelve
hundred dollars on 18 grams of goods and getting something other than solid 24
karat gold to be clear I don't have a problem
paying more for high quality stuff that's totally okay I mean I bought
Cinema cameras back in the day to elevate our content for fifty thousand
dollars a piece I mean there's there's a reason that LTT products aren't as cheap
as a lot of other merch I care about quality and I care about longevity I
just also care about value
and these earbuds they are going to be so worthless in a couple of years when
their battery dies that they will almost certainly end up in a landfill at that
point so while I will not go as far as to say never buy anything from Louis
Vuitton it's stupid I will say that if you really want to
buy something from Louis Vuitton buy a bag or a watch something that could last
you a long time conceivably that you could pass down to your spoiled children
or at least resell later or better yet actually just don't and
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