free bird bear dynamic it's the new hotness
mayor dynamic has taken their first step into the truly wireless audio space with
their free bird headphones beard dynamic is a massive a long time player in the
audio space they make some of like the de facto studio recording equipment like
the dt 770 pros so bear dynamic is bringing years of experience in the
audio game to these wireless headphones
but just because you make good sounding headphones doesn't mean you make good
wireless headphones because there's a lot of other tech that is expected of
wireless headphones such as noise canceling
microphones for doing voice calling and stuff like that get off of there and
these have a lot of that tech built in they support qualcomm aptx adaptive as
well as aac i'm not sure if they support ldac i really hope they do that's a
just because you know bear dynamics an audio company lossless audio from ldac
it features qualcomm's cvc microphone technology which is a
noise cancelling technology for microphones so like if you're in a noisy
room or there's wind it'll help cut out some of that noise but yeah bear
dynamics hitting it hitting a lot of the things we want and also looking pretty
slick but before we get to those let's see what else is in the box because it's
telling us it's telling us right here see find out more
paper whoa holy cow look at all the ear tips uh we
have a USB-C to a connector for charging your case and a whole
lot of ear tips we have
five silicon ear tips and three sets of foam ear tips which is amazing because
everybody's got different ears having this kind of selection make sure that you get a proper seal and the things
sound great and also having foam tips is great because uh there's people who have like silicon allergies or get irritation
from silicon and foam tips tend to be a little bit softer on the ear and we
should mention price these are 250 dollars which puts them at about 30 more
expensive than airpods pros but in terms of features and what you're getting in
the box it looks like a good start also you know what else is nice is that they
color-coded the insides of the ear tips so that if you don't have them in the
box anymore you can still tell which sizes are which because they won't have
labels on them but at least you have this tiny little piece of paper so you
can just keep this and then not have a box taking up space
these also support fast pairing with Android phones which is nice that's basically the uh like magic pairing
equivalent for Android so you just kind of open these near your phone your phone
recognizes it and then you're off to the races also something i've just noticed now is that i think this is all
recyclable packaging so kudos aerodynamic that's great
oh these kind of look sick hinge is a little bit mid tier not gonna
lie better dynamic your hinge game is a little bit weak but uh
look at those don't those look pretty i mean just look at these these are
pretty big they're thick boys also these are rated ipx4 which is sweat resistance
like so splashes stuff like that don't take them swimming but if you're gonna work out in these uh
they'll should have they should hold up to sweat sweet these i'm actually so stoked about these this is like these
look great they kind of look like guitar picks they look like a plectrum
oh they designed them to look that way too
uh that's kind of cute sweet i'm really i'm very excited to listen to these i'm
gonna get some ear tips on these let's try the foam ones today something to
note is that your choice in ear tips can affect the sound a lot of times foam ear
tips can soften things a little bit um
you know kind of makes sense if you think about how foam absorbs you know sound waves and stuff like that
it's tough to say but it depends on what fits in your ears the best that's the
most important thing is what works for you but before we listen to these let's
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buttons on these which i don't like i like buttons personally it looks like they use this central band across the
middle that's where the touch commands actually happen tap and hold to activate
the voice assistant oh yeah speaking of voice assistants apparently these have
alexa i'm not a hundred percent sure what that means because i think it would
just use the voice assistant that you have active on your phone
um so maybe these have alexa like at any time if you're not connected to
something or if you're connected to like your computer that doesn't have a smart
assistant these do have fast pairing to like with airpods on an iphone you just
open them and then they go wow apparently you have to press the buttons
on these tap tap hold oh and there you go they popped up right
there okay and in the app we have ways
to select our anc modes on off and transparent our low latency mode which
is great you can see uptime playback time phone time and starts which is kind
of interesting so if you like keeping stats i don't know maybe you're a last
fm kind of person i know i am and see sound profiles personalize your sound
with mimi oh okay so you do a hearing test
set a volume that is loud yet comfortable how uh how do these look do they stick
out pretty far it feels like they stick out pretty far
equalizer oh do they not have a they
don't have a real equalizer they only have sound profiles which is kind of a bummer but they have
lots of different ones okay they have a control demonstration
in here which is cool open manual online we're going to take a listen before we
do any sort of app personalization we're going to take a listen the anc is currently on it's quite nice a lot of a
and c a lot of automatic noise canceling will cause like a small hiss to occur i
hear nothing this is just like
silence at least it doesn't sound like anything's coming from the headphone there's not a lot of sound on set right
now but it's doing a good job of like blocking the low hum of the hvac that's
going around the building like it just completely disappears when i put the a
and c in a and c off i am now hearing
the hvac system come back on transparency mode
just hi oh it sounded great
it's tough to tell can you talk like quietly
talk like yeah talk like you're telling a secret to david
i hear you the transparency mode sounds good and relatively natural audio quality
lossless okay
we're in um these first thing that i noticed is that
these have quite a wide sound stage um
this seems like the hi-hats in this song they're usually panned pretty far to the
right um whereas the snare is like right in the middle it's very positional
there's quite a lot of detail like in this song you can hear it feels like i
can almost hear the bassist like plucking the bass as
opposed to just a bass note these sound really good listening to like sue found
stevens it sounds very the intimacy of the track comes through his voice it
sounds like he's always singing directly to you at the same time i still feel like i'm capturing like the grandeur of
all of his orchestrations in this track
well everything also is very distinct and separated it feels like i can hear every single instrument that's in the
mix out of the box they sound great but let's do their
audio personalization maybe maybe my sound will be the best sound it says
during the test you will have to focus on the beeping sound the beep will disappear into the noise the background
noise will always be there they give you a sample of what to expect okay let's
start let's practice round oh
i did it wrong range of details i usually hear versus
range of details restored by sound personalization oh apparently i am very
sub-optimal i'm going to listen to something that i know very
well also these automatically these have in-ear detection they keep pausing when
i take them out okay so basically what it's doing is that it's applying
uh customized eq based on my results on the hearing test i think there's a
little bit of a performance error on my part to me it's
a little bit overbearing they do bring up the highs because i do have like some
hearing loss at my age like it's the natural thing you just kind of lose the
higher end of your hearing it didn't ruin the music but it uh
it did change it a little bit so let's do a quick
airpods comparison just to uh you know probably the most direct
competitor you can see a little bit thicker
a little bit longer a little bit shorter
very similar shape though um you know they both sound really good
these definitely have more presence in the low end compared to the air pods and
it definitely they might have a bit of a v curve assigned like applied to them so
a v curve is where the mids are kind of recessed and you hear a little bit of a
bumper very at the very low base end to like get extra oomph and thump and then
at the high end you get a little bit of extra detail and sparkle because they
crank up some of the higher frequencies yeah these sound so good that extra kind
of like they bring that kind of extra life to the mix and the extra little bits of detail that i'm hearing don't
seem just to be from an equalizing curve it sounds like there's actually a little
bit of a more detailed response so these get up to 11 hours of battery life on a
single lesson i assume that's without noise canceling on these get
five hours without noise canceling on
like even if so like even if noise canceling is on and assuming they're not just straight up totally lying you're
still gonna be expecting like probably eight hours of listening time
that's ridonkulous this is a mic test for the free bird uh
the bear dammit free birds um if i leave here tomorrow
would you still remember me for i must be traveling on now
because there's too many places i've got to see
but if i stay here with you girl
things just couldn't be the same because i'm as free as a bird now
and this bird you cannot change i've learned how not to miss the age of
tenderness that i'm so lucky to have seen once and now that i've become older
i've learned how to brush over my history and how it's sequenced
um listening back to the microphone quality
you can tell that there's a lot more processing on the bayer dynamics than on
the apple air pods but the airpods did sound better and
that's probably because they put their mics on the little sticks they're just literally closer to your mouth
that's always going to be better i'm trying to do the volume
tap tap oh okay so it's tap hold and then it will like go up step step step step step
step so it's not like tap hold tap hold tap hold um there's no delay the
controls seem to be working well i have it
like they're definitely like you can brush against them and stuff will happen
it's still touch controls but they're pretty responsive i like that from the
time i've spent with these i can just i can wholeheartedly recommend them they
sound excellent the app needs some work still there's features missing like a full eq
and like it's kind of wonky with the connection sometimes like sometimes i'll
have them beside me and in the case and it won't let me edit them or anything
let's see how the anc sound works on these we'll start with the airpods
because we know that they work really well
apple airpods they have good a and c who would have thunk
now let's see the bare dynamics it definitely
it's cutting out less
than these but it's like it's sounds more natural i don't know yeah
the anc is definitely working better on the airpods um so i think if anc is
really important to you then you might want to stick with airpods pros
i'm gonna i'm gonna keep them
i'm gonna i'm probably gonna keep these around i definitely wanna spend more time with these
so uh yeah that's the second fun this is this is
the second pair of headphones that i've really enjoyed on here