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if you have no idea what these products are I don't blame you I mean obviously

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they're headphones and they're clearly made by nothing but the naming scheme

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guys the naming scheme you can't have a product called the nothing ear and then

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nothing ear to and then follow it up with the nothing ear and then nothing

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ear a how does this fit in the product stack they say this is supposed to help

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improve Clarity included accessories are

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a little tiny USBC cable three different

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sizes of ear tips but silly names aside there's a lot to like here priced at $99

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and $149 these things supposedly pack a ton

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of performance into a very reasonable size package if I was nothing I'd be

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saying it's going to be a whole new

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era okay in all seriousness though hold on a second hold on a second before we

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play around too much with these things let's talk about the differences between

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the two SKS they both offer over 8 hours of playback if you have active noise

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cancellation off and only about half of that if you have active noise

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cancellation on and it's even less if you're on the phone so while the active

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noise cancellation has been described as pretty darn good although not on par

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with the airpods pros it is going to come at a significant cost for battery

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life both of them run for about 40 hours if you include the batteries in the case

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and you don't havec enabled and both are compatible with the nothing X app which

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can be used to tune the EQ profiles which is by the way something you're

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probably going to want to do given that they're a little on the base heavy side

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out of the box even if their overall Clarity is actually quite nice and very

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competitive with even higher end audio brands for the price by the way shout

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out headphones.com for putting together these frequency response curves for us

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if you guys want to check those out we're going to have them linked down below now let's talk about some

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differences the ear A's the less expensive ones are available in this fun

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yellow color so you could look fun like this while the ears are only available

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in their classic colors although I got to say I am loving their industrial

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design on these things they're apparently using a super super clear

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plastic some kind of polyurethane material that gives it a very glass-like

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transparency of about what is it 89%

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also inside it's got ceramic drivers

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rather than the more traditional drivers in the E A and in practice we did find

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that this improved Clarity and the Sound Stage though

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by 50% cuz we're going from $99 to

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$150 n that's a lot tougher of a sell

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but definitely some improvement of course I haven't listened to them yet

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this is all notes from the Labs and from headphones.com so far got to say I am

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not finding the case to be the most intuitive thing in the world but it's

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not bad I think I could get used to it and it's pretty packable it's

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bulkier yep definitely bulkier man if it

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was me just for the size of the case alone I think I would be leaning toward

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the ear A's speaking of cases the ears

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are ip55 rated which honestly I find

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kind of hard to believe like this doesn't seem to have any kind of

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meaningful seal in it I don't see how it's going to keep any water out uh

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whereas the ear 2 H whereas the ear is

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see I don't know what to call these things oh you had a perfectly good

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naming scheme sort of is and then you've made it even worse sorry the ear A's are

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ipx2 anyway they both have USBC charging and

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will get you about 10 hours of playback on 10 minutes of charging which is

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pretty good as far as fast charging goes and the ears have wireless charging at 2

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and 1/2 Watts so if you want to vampiric

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sap power off of your phone then you can absolutely do that or you could just use

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a wireless charger I guess that's also an option can I just say shout out

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having a pairing button like seriously I

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hate obviously it works fine but I hate having to go dig up the manual for my

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freaking wireless headphones every time I want to connect them I have to have them in the case and you have to like

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press on one of them or something I can never remember like apple has made it

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clear they will eliminate buttons whenever possible even they have a

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pairing button so just include it oh wow that active noise cancellation is not

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bad um hold on a second first let me just have a look at oh oh there's

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squeeze it makes a little breathing noise oh that's weird like someone

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breathing in your ear noise uh hopefully that's something you can configure nice

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clear indicators for the sides are nice to see too look at that big red dot big

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white dot Big Red Dot big white dot actually they wow those really stay in

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very comfortable for me although some folks did complain that they didn't have

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enough assortment of ear tip sizes I'm finding the mediums perfect for me

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though you can configure the controls for them so single pinch is not

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configurable that's how you answer calls and all that but you can long press you

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can double press and hold oo you can configure that to some action on the

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right I've got noise control and then on the left I've got

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Voice Assistant which can apparently include chat GPT that's been

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preconfigured for me on the white one so maybe we'll try that in a minute and

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this is a funny one headphones.com pointed out that turning Bas enhance off

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doesn't seem to work for now but turning it on and all the way to the lowest will

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serve to turn the base down a little bit compared to what is the default low leg

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mode will apparently enable by default when you're in game mode and achieves

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about 100 milliseconds of latency it said 112 that sounds like a because it

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is but realistically Bluetooth 5.3 hasn't got any magic bullet to solve

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audio latency once and for all this is cool their ANC includes a fit test so it

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can actually compensate if there's louder noises or even if you don't have

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as good of a seal and with the ears if you pay the extra 50 bucks they've got a

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personal EQ configurator that will kind of play test sounds and then try to

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create a curve that will match your hearing and actually Gary from the lab

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said that it worked quite well for him they had to really chop out a lot of the

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high end he's getting kind of up there in age

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so he's right here I wouldn't say that about him except right to his

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face oh but first we should probably listen to this message from our sponsor

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and it's dbrand all I've been told is

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that it's something to do with nothing's ear earphones imagine if they use the

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resources that they dedicate to pranking me for something constructive Maybe they

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could build a clear phone case that doesn't have problems oh my God how many

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boxes do I need to open another

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box yo lonus we heard you like unbox so

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we put an unbox in your unbox so you can unbox while you unbox you know I don't

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think it says anywhere in my contract that I have to play along with these

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jerk offs oh my God this is truly riveting

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television packing peanut

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we don't make anything for this device go to short.com to see what they do make

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H YouTube music here we go is this loged in his Jake can I mess with him well he

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seems like probably a Coco melon Enthusiast I mean crazy frog for sure

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definitely Nicki Minaj Leonard Cohen you know what sure done be like who are you

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oh wait welcome lius oh no whose account am I in

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no all right well I guess we're we're going to we're going to be listening to

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some stuff then wow Live From The Ed Sullivan Show do you remember this

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performance can't hear a word you're saying got thec on one moment please did

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you find at any point that it felt like there might be too much stereo

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Separation on these things good gravy it sounds like half of the singers are way

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over there and half of them are over there I mean most people wouldn't complain about a wide Sound Stage let's

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find something a little more modern though just so I can have some idea what the clarity is like I definitely see

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what you mean about the base heaviness though it's a lot it's kind of beatsy

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decent Clarity especially compared to some of the early beat stuff but it's a

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little much I got to say even in the non

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andc mode these don't have pass through do

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they that's a big missing point cuz even

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though I can kind of hear through them they still isolate really well and if I

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wanted to be able to have any situational awareness while I'm wearing my earphones this would be a knock

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against them oh no I have transparency

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on right now I couldn't even tell this

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is cool they have adaptive noise cancellation though so it can detect if

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you're in a really heavy environment like on an airplane or a lighter

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environment like a coffee shop for example and amp it up or down yeah that

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transparency man is uh I'd want to be able to turn the base

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enhancement off entirely but they sound really good obviously it's been a couple

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of years and the industry's made a lot of progress on on active noise

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cancellation but that that pressure sound that you used to get with the older implementations I get none of that

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on these what's the general consensus on

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the nothing ear headphones hilarious the nothing ear one

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headphones were released in July 2021 they got a ton of attention for

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their unique design and features that is what I'm talking about your own

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assistant on your own headphones has no idea what product I'm asking about

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because your naming scheme makes no sense nothing

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okay they're also super base heavy this seems like even more maybe I haven't

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adjusted the EQ yet base enhance oh God

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it's already at level one yeah that doesn't seem to do anything does it it's

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a shame because like her vocals sound great if they weren't being overpowered

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if you weren't Side by siding them though honestly I think you'd be hard

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pressed to tell the difference between the sound signature of these two headphones so unless you're really into

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the wireless charging the additional battery life the better IP rating of the

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case and and the more comprehensive

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tuning controls man the ear A's kind of

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