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the power of the sun

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back in the year 1949 a man heard a very

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fast baby say its first word he said Adidas and that's when John Adidas had

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the idea to found a company that makes sports apparel like shoes and pants and

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now headphones ooh today we're gonna be

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taking a look at the rpt02 Soul headphones from Adidas I don't know if

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it's supposed to be repeat I assume it but I've been pronouncing it armpit like

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carpet so what makes these really interesting is that they're solar powered yes by the gods raise the cast

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down upon the Earth you too shall listen to music through his Goodwill and

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actually it's the sun's nuclear fusion UV radiation on the top of this on the

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headband there's a whole uh there's like a solar panel which is a pretty neat so

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what features does Adidas have on their headphones aside from the solar panels

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well they have one powered by light we

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covered that two built with from recycled Plastics that's cool three

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designed for durability four up to 80

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hours of stored play time and five they

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have intuitive controls and because they're actually solar powered they

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don't include a charging cable luckily you can still charge them via USB-C now

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an interesting thing about this is that Adidas obviously doesn't make headphones so somebody else is making it for them

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it's a company called zound Industries they're behind Marshall like the amp

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companies headphone division they also make Urban ears which I haven't seen a

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product from in a long time but I remember like maybe six seven years ago

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Urban ears were like really popular because they were like a style focused

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headphone and now there's a lot more competition in the style focused

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headphone and here they are one of the things I

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really like about how these look is first off they have this cool texture

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all along it it's a consistent theme across the top of the headband and the

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other thing I like is the weaving of the fabric that goes on the headband on the

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inside and on the ear cups it's very reminiscent of some of the really cool

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kind of weaving patterns that are on the upper soles of like a lot of their shoes

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so these kind of remind me of like the like Yeezy boost 350s or some of their

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Ultra boost lineup you have like a solid weave there with this cool modeled

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pattern that goes into like this full cross Hatchet and they do another cool

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thing that they do with the shoes which is like having a bottom layer that's colored so as you can see these have

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these little specks of this like neon green that's coming through because

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these are actually removable the fabric which is great because what are you

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going to be doing with these headphones these are really designed for you know what Adidas wants you to do Sports so

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you can take off the whole piece you can wash it this is just solid plastic you

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can also take off the headband come off

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and the same deal you can take the fabric off and wash it which is great

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because you're going to get sweaty in these especially if you're like I don't

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know in the Sun going for a run which is what I did with them this whole headband

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is the solar panel it's this textured plastic that they have it doesn't look

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like your usual solar cell there's an adjust there's adjustments it's this

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textured plastic that allows you to adjust I think the way they put the

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labels is really cool too which is great because you might get these a little mixed up another thing that was smart

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about what they designed is that you can see that here there's a USBC port and if

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I took this off nozzle pass-throughs separate from it so they actually have a

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label on the inside of the ear cup and on the inside of the headphone so that

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you can line them up when you're trying to get them back on so might be thinking

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hey these are pretty small ear cups so that's because these are on ear

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headphones as opposed to over ear headphones whereas these have a lot of

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climbing ports and they go right on your ear so that when you put them on and

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you're moving around they stay relatively in place which is great when

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you're running or if you're doing movements like if you're at the gym

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doing movements like lifting and stuff that like

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they say pretty firm I had no issues my

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usual gym and workout headphones are the Beats Solo 3 which has another pair of

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on-ears they're about the same size so on the controls you have this a one button it's a multi-purpose button by

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default one press is that it lights This Little Light here up so what this is is

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that it's your light meter it tells you how much charge you're getting in from

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the headset so if you're like in direct full sunlight you'll see this turn on

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and all three layers will be lit up on this side this is kind of neat it's a

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joystick it's like a you can go up down left right or press it's like the

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navigation nipple on the back of your uh it's like that navigation nipple on your

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back on the back of your monitor it's like the navigation nipple I didn't have

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any issue controlling things accurately but I did notice like when I was wearing

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these and laying down on the couch it might push up and like push this in a

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Direction so it's like my videos kept changing I was watching YouTube videos these just look like sucks I know well

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they look I was gonna say they look like the uppers on a lot of uh like a lot of Runners I mean Adidas does make socks

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yeah they also make Runners did you not know this is this you see no okay I was

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like Adidas makes shoes man that's like their thing well we'll talk about that

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10 today let's look at these headphones so these have Bluetooth 5.2 they also

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have Qualcomm aptx HD for that high quality audio as well as I believe AAC

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as their default codec with the iPhone I

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think they just default to AAC ldac would have been nice to see especially

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on a new pair of headphones I understand if that might be a little bit of a high

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power codec and you wouldn't be able to benefit from it because these are solar

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powered they're supposed to sip on it you know they give a little sip sip they also have ipx4 sweat resistance so

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splashes sweat it's going to have you covered there I would have liked to see

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a little bit of a higher IP rating for water just because if you're like I

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don't know getting soaked out in the rain on a longer run you want to just be

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sure that these are going to be okay especially if you don't have a place to stash them like if these could fold in

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to be smaller that'd be great because the whole point is I want to toss these in like my gym bag and have them be as

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small as possible and I'm carrying as little on me as possible sadly they

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don't fold so this is the size and they also don't come with a carrying case

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which at their price is very disappointing speaking of price

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229. compared to my Beats which are 199

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but like they've been on the market for a long time and you can get them for

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just substantially cheaper I saw them at Costco for 150 that's when I or I guess

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180 Canadian was what I bought them for so like 150-ish probably less and now

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we're gonna take a little listen psych I've already listened to these so I

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don't need to do it right now I have a few thoughts on them one is that they

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have a lot of bass like a lot of bass which is great for when you're working

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out because it's you want that pulse that kind of pushes you I think these

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sound amazing for all of the music that I'm listening to in my pumping playlist

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which is you know for Pump and iron they're not detailed they're not

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reference at all and I say out of the box they're way too boomy but they have

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an EQ in the app which we're going to take a look at in a moment and you just

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crank that down it sounds a lot better you still get that oof but it's not

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overpowering and destroying the music I

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usually get annoyed when apps are kind of essential for headphones but in this

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case I think there's it makes is a better point when you get into the app you can see the drain and the charge

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that's currently happening to the headphones so right now they're draining

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because we're in a studio there's no sunlight and they're just wirelessly

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connecting if I start playing music on it you can see that the power usage

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increases and down here has historical data so you can see like in the last six

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hours how much charge and discharge there's been so they've been off for the

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most part and they've just been slowly just a neutral level discharge just because the

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batteries slowly discharge over time but if we take it outside like if I run

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outside right now you should see should see it to see the app it'll show you how

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much sun is getting so you can see I've left them literally on the ground

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outside and you can see in the app right here that says plus 6.7 milliamps so

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that's because it's actually currently charging because we're playing music it

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is discharging but if I go and if I pause the music just down here you'll

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see that the power is just going down it was at 10 now it's at six yeah there we

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go it's turned yellow so as you can see we're now gaining

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charge so it does depend on your angle towards the Sun as well as the

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conditions when I had perfect sun on it over the weekend it was charging at

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about 30 milliamp hours which is not fast at all I left it in the sun for

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like two hours and it went up from 50 to 56 which is really not much but if I was

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running outside right now I'd be losing almost no charge and if it's actually

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sunny out I gain charge I gained battery on a run at one time I went from 53 to

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54 which is nuts and speaking of battery

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life these claim 80 hours which is kind

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of crazy but also really hard to test because if you literally leave these

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anywhere near a window they just charge you use them in the sun outside they

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just charge I was unable to make them

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drain I got them when I unbox them they're at 51 I use them for a couple of

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hours inside they dropped to 49 then the

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moment I had like there was any sunshine shine in the room and I wasn't listening

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to them they started charging just passively and by the end of the weekend

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they charged to like 58 50 60 and that was with continued use trying them out

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it's really neat honestly as long as you

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have them like out and about which makes kind of I guess kind of lends Credence

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to the idea that they don't give you a case because you're gonna just leave

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them out in the sun that I I would worry

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about like maybe some of the degradation of the other materials in here leaving

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things in the sun is uh pretty famous for you know being bad for Stuff other

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things in the app you got equalizer you have an equalizer you have some presets

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you can also just make a custom equalizer you can see this is how I've made set my equalizer this is what I

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thought sounded the best bumped up a little bit in the higher frequencies and

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turned everything down really low in the base I have a couple of issues with the

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app so one thing that I find really annoying about this is that it has a

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permanent notification icon in my shade that tells me that my headphones are

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connected I know I can I can turn off the notification shade but it's so

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stupid why why is this here and the worst part is that if I disconnect the

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headphones from turning them off the app will still stay up here you can change

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this button they call it your action button so it allows you to take so

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single press or hold is always tied to checking the lighting conditions which

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is dumb because if they're on my head why can't I press that once to do

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something like just I'm not I can't look at it you can change it to double press

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and these are your three options you get three options default voice assistant

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Spotify and Adidas running why are you limiting me I ca I get the idea of like

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you know integrating it into your running routine so the idea is running

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Apple allow you to do like segments so this would like to start and stop a segment or pause and resume your running

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and with Spotify you can just like have a button so that like you go this is my

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workout playlist I just want my playlist to be played on shuffle and it'll just

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automatically integrate with Spotify well I can't integrate with integrate

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with other apps also why is it the default voice assistant the only options

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it's just like it just you could give me other things that aren't covered by the

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joystick with your multi-directional control nipple you get power hour a long

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transfer power longer press for Bluetooth one press for play pause right

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and left are skip up and down our volume you're doing anything like fast

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forwarding or rewinding through a song you can't scrub anything would be nice

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so yeah I guess I got a little angry there I did get a little worked up and I'm a little hot it's a RGB sweater from

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lttstore.com is a they're getting me a

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little bit sweaty so hence the name sweater but that's just because it's

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warm down here it's great in almost every other circumstance not too hot not

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too cool lttstore.com

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and this is a mic test of the Adidas rpt02 Sol do I sound like a robocaller

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or do you get to hear the details of my sultry baritone let me know in the

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comments would I recommend these at 230

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dollars yeah I think they're actually pretty good at what they do their build

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quality is quite good it is all plastic but still feels very strong very premium

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the fabric covers are great for being able to just easily being able to wash

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them because you're going to get sweaty with these and I think that they're pretty comfortable I mean any sort of

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on-ear headphone is going to suck especially if you wear glasses and your

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ears are going to get a little sweaty but that's why you got all this fabric here they sounded pretty good and the

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charging works a lot better than I thought it would it charges really slowly but it charges faster than it

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discharges and if you want to charge faster you do have the option of USBC

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one thing that would have been nice is if they had like an auxiliary input so I

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could listen to them attached to something and then not use any of the

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battery at all because with all of the charging and discharging Cycles I would

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wonder if 80 hour battery life is going to degrade but quickly and then also

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like I don't know how the battery longevity is going to be affected by it

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I think they're pretty good they're great for working out they've nailed

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that aspect compared to my solo 3s on sale these are a bit of a hard recommend

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if you're going to be if you're looking for something in this price range though that's specifically for working out I

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think these are great they've nailed the features that you want to see from a

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from a exercising headphone and I really

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enjoy these because I don't like putting things in my ears when I'm running or

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when I'm working out you get all the body noise when kind of plugging your ears these end up being a great option

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some of you might be like oh there's no noise canceling well you can't do noise canceling with on-ears and they actually

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do a pretty good job of isolating anyways I would I don't know I like them

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a lot I think they're really good and I think they nailed what they set out to

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do the price is kind of expensive and I think you really have to be the judge of

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whether or not you want to spend 230 on what I'd say is a dedicated exercise

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pair of headphones thanks for watching ShortCircuit if you like these solar

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powered headphones maybe check out James's review of the urbanistas there

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are solar power headphones that he did not like as much