welcome to an unboxing and first look that i'm extremely excited about this is
the parrot zeke and while i've unboxed a couple of parrot things on this channel
before i have never looked at anything even remotely like this so it's got a
couple of seals one on the top one on the bottom we're gonna break those and
we're gonna have a quick look at the overall packaging so you can see they're
going with kind of a you know eco-friendly recyclable cardboard
packaging going on here there's the story of zeke which is about when
philippe stock and henry cedu decided to work together they made a vision so
apparently these were about four years in development just to give you guys
some idea how long it takes to bring a vision like that to life all right the
world's most advanced wireless headphones i think this is pretty much not open for debate at this point touch
control panel active noise cancellation automatic activation by motion detector
their concert hall effect which allows you to change a bunch of settings on
your phone more on that later wireless audio streaming hands-free calls simpler
connection via nfc and includes a usb charging cable lithium ion battery three
and a half millimeter line in user guide and protective pouch
all right so let's go ahead and see if it lives up to the hype now i should
tell you guys right off the bat they are not
cheap these are not inexpensive headphones these are meant to go up
against the likes of headphones like you know beats or those kinds of premium
headphones although it almost pains me to even utter beats in the same
sentence as these because based on everything i know about these so far and
based on my personal experience with beats they are not in the same league
at all beats
i mean i i love you guys all i really do like all of you who have beats but
it really wasn't the best choice for the money and as long as you know that and
you're comfortable with that then it's okay
all right so it comes just kind of packed in here with some twist ties
and we're going to go ahead and get that undone i'm going to start with the
accessories and then we'll get into the headphones themselves which actually are
lighter than they look um i've heard a few complaints about them being kind of
heavy but i mean in spite of the metal the
metal construction here they actually don't have too too much weight so let's
go ahead okay there's not much else in here there's just this box right here so
we're going to get everything else aside now there's the zeke themselves and the
accessory box so here's the usb charging cable depending on where you look the
user reports are such that you'll get anywhere from about you know five to six
hours of full functionality playback time so
that's when you're using the concert hall effects that's when you're using
the active noise cancelling or whatever else you you want to use so you do want
to charge this probably almost daily or every other day it also includes a three
and a half millimeter headphone jack cable so this one goes into
the bottom of this earphone there we go and the other one
goes that's a nice look at that beefy cable it's got a nice uh
braided sleeve on it so it's not going to snag on anything shouldn't tangle up
and this is extremely strong you'd have a really hard time putting any an undue
strain on the connector of your phone for example see if you were to put it in
there like that when it's in a pocket it's a lot less likely to get damaged
than a straight connector so i do like to see that the battery itself is right
here you can buy extra batteries i think they're about 30 bucks i'd love to see a
higher capacity battery at this time parrot says they have no
plans to release an external battery charger though so you do have to charge
the battery inside your headphones so there's a manual available in a variety
of languages but i think we're good without that and it includes a soft carry case
so sure that people wouldn't have minded
seeing a hard carry case but at least it's a nice soft material so you won't
you know have any scratches or damage or anything like that now getting into the
headphones themselves so let's get all these accessories out of the way the
construction feels extremely sturdy so there's a couple things that stand out
so first is the synthetic leather band on the top this is padded on the bottom
so you can see there's padding here i've already had them on so a little bit of
hair grease on there pretty hard on the top it's quite flexible so this allows
it to sort of form to your head whatever shape your head might happen to be and i
i actually find them quite comfortable already but i'm sure with uh with a
break-in period i would either discover that that's not the case or i discover
they're even more comfortable than i suspected they are they do fold flat for
storage so you can see these rotate 90 degrees just like that and they actually
go a little bit out past 90 degrees so if your ears are kind of you know
wherever whatever shape wherever they are on your head they happen to be
should line up with them just fine again i can't i can't emphasize enough
the construction feels very solid so it's nice to have metal implemented
without it contributing too much to the weight of the headphones so you can see
here that even though there's a lot of technology and a lot of stuff going on
in the ear cups themselves they have a plastic exterior well mostly there's
metal here as well and down here for the base ports so that's where your base
ports are it doesn't end up too too heavy now the ear cups themselves see
they're not huge by any stretch of the imagination however my ears
in particular do fit inside quite comfortably so there's soft cushioning
here on the inside between your ear and the driver soft cushioning here and here
there's also extremely soft cushioning here
all the way around so they end up very very comfortable if anything i'd suggest
maybe sort of for zeke v2 maybe a little
bit more cushioning on the bottom might not have been a bad idea but i don't think it's the end of the world either
uh here so check this out so they actually had to hollow out so you can
see there's a wire in there so they had to hollow out the solid metal in order
to run the wires that are needed between the left and the right ear cup
and let's have a look yeah yes so the difference is between the left and the
right ear cup so they're meant to be worn like this oh right adjustments
check this out
solid snapping adjustments so what i found is that it really contributes in a
big way to having them fit more comfortably and
more securely because when you have headphones that are just kind of willy-nilly adjusting themselves all the
time you're not going to be able to oh oh i did get them to move that time
you're not going to be able to like really shake your head and move them around without having them kind of come
off or get weak over time it feels like an incredibly strong mechanism and
that's one of the things that personally really bothers me about cheaper
earphones they are earphones headphones they're also extremely adjustable so i
only had to move them out a couple notches i don't have a huge head by any
stretch of the imagination but you can see that i'd be able to wear them even
if i did have quite a quite a large noggin there so let's go ahead and get
those back sort of in place all right let's get into some of the
technology here so at the bottom you can see on the left ear cup there is a
double microphone so the
the the heads headset headphones depends what you want to call them because it
can be used as a headset it has between
four and five microphones depending on who you ask because there's a double
microphone and then there's some internal microphones some of which are
dedicated to noise cancellation some of which are
dedicated to picking up on your voice and these right here are jawbone sensors
so what they do is they detect movement in your jaw it doesn't work the same way
as the the jaw bone okay so it does work differently from that but what they do
is they sit right here and they detect when your jaw's moving and using
software they allow the hardware inside the headphones to detect vocals more
clearly than when you're than when your jaw is not moving so
connectors on the bottom are pretty straightforward there's your usb
connector for charging that is a micro usb again sort of not really my favorite
there's that three and a half millimeter jack and there is your simple power
button now before we can power them on we will have to of course oh yeah i
should give you guys sort of here so you know there's your little philip stark
philippe stark sorry my bad my bad accents you got your little bit of
orange there a little bit of orange on the inside of the connectors as well as
the uh the three and a half mil there you go so powering it on is pretty
straightforward all you got to do is pick up this
this ear cup there we go it's magnetic
so it snaps into place there you go easy to get out once you
figure out which one you're supposed to be trying to get out we can go ahead and
throw the battery in here probably don't throw anything on tech
tips and once i figure out how to get the
battery in there we go works better when you do it
the right way now we can start getting into some of the more advanced
functionality let me just get the app installed we'll back in just a moment
powering on the headphones is really simple the power button has a little raised
notch on it so it's really easy to find then all you got to do my iphone 4
doesn't support nfc but check it out shows up almost instantly i mean
parrot's experience is with bluetooth i mean that's where they were at before
they did the whole ar drone thing so i would fully expect there to be no
glitchiness involved in any kind of pairing i mean yeah nfc is cool but as
long as it's as simple as just finding the device and just clicking on it then
i don't expect you know anyone wouldn't be able to do
that most of the advanced functionality of the zeek is controlled through software
so you actually can't change anything you know what i should increase my brightness here you can't in chain
really change anything just on the headphones themselves you have to use an
app so in this case we're using the iOS version where we can monitor all kinds
of cool stuff so let's just go through all of this in order oh
there's another thing okay and this this again is nothing to do with my
experience with the zeek i just want to disclaim that right now but i've been
using aerodrome v1 since it launched an ar drone v2 since it launched parrot
understands software they understand the complexity of providing proper software
updates to things and how that builds a customer experience so that is why
i would go for something like this where really
these headphones are all about support and software if they don't do it
properly then a lot of these cool effects we're just going to do this later won't necessarily even work now
active noise cancellation this does drain the battery so it can be the
difference between you know five to six hours and you know a lot more hours of
battery life but but
they do sound better by all accounts with active noise cancellation whether
you're using them in wireless mode or in wired modes so just bear that in mind we
can go into the system here where we can oh okay active noise cancellation during
calls on and off bluetooth auto connection enable or disable current
firmware available updates check that out awesome okay app version parrot
concert hall this this is cool so you can change to
different settings concert hall silent room living room depending on how big of
an area you want to listen in you can also change your speaker angle
by just oh sliding them around so
you know the interwebs seems to be in agreement that something around 120
degrees and the living room and the silent room sound really freaking sweet
battery level is well battery level there you go batteries in use equalizer
this is another good one so again the interwebs by and large seem to agree
that club is a very good preset for it but unlike some equalizers that i've seen
you are not stuck with whatever the manufacturer decides you should be
allowed to have you can change it and use the user
the user configurable one as well and finally help desks that doesn't really
seem to be much of anything so there you go guys that's the app and one of the
most important things to note about it is the fact that once you change any of
these settings that's done it's changed it will be
stored on the headphones themselves so even if you carry them over to some
other phone that you happen to use you did d-pair and repair to something else
no big deal it's all good so now let's get into some of the cool techy things
that make people like me go kind of crazy now the first time i tried these
headphones this is why i'm so excited about this unboxing was at ces
last year yes this was like a year ago at
this point and i put them on in the middle of a crowded ces hall okay
if you guys ever into ces you know it is loud and i was like whoa
25 decibels of noise cancellation that's what all those microphones are doing for
you plus the fact that they are extremely well sealed and well built to
the point where i'm having a hard time hearing my wife who's helping me film
when she tells me things off camera because they are already canceling a lot
of the noise on their own just completely passively and they have active noise cancelling as well now
other cool software features again i wouldn't buy anything this software
reliant if i didn't believe it was going to be supported in the long run
tap here to play and pause swipe forward to change the track swipe
back to change the track backwards and volume can be adjusted by swiping down
or up which is really really cool and last but not least you can actually
pause your music by going like this
because presumably you don't necessarily want to listen to your music
while the headphones are not seated on your ears
i've got to say i am really really impressed i mean i was preparing myself
to be impressed i mean i was ready to be impressed they're like
400 headphones so they don't impress then come on um so just to give you guys
some idea i mean probably the best headphones i've ever listened to are the
hd800s from sennheiser um i don't really
like open headphones that much is what i discovered i spent a lot of time with my
hd555s and then i switched over to a closed set
after discovering that doesn't really work that well for me these are outstanding with a person standing less
than a meter away from me i i can see lips moving can't hear a thing
when all the features are enabled and it's running now one of the first things my wife asked me and she's incredibly
fussy about headphones we found like one pair ever that she'll have on her head
which is the sennheiser pc350s and she says they're quite comfortable
the one thing for her was the band at the top so for me it's less of an issue
for her it's a problem and she said these are phenomenally clear for
wireless headphones like just unbelievable with beats and any other
active noise cancelling headphones i've encountered in the past there's a
discernible hiss it's annoying oh just pause my music there we go there's a
discernable hiss there's no hiss if anything the active noise cancellation
actually enhances the listening experience on these now i just tried it
for for walls and yes in unpowered mode with the 3.5 mil jack
it is not the same experience as when they're powered however what i
discovered is that you can run them like if you were to just use them like at
your computer you can just plug them in for power you can get a nice long micro usb cable you
could easily use them that way and then when you want to be unplugged you just
walk away so you can charge them while you're
using them and i'm going to have a really hard time modulating the volume
of my voice right now because i can't hear a word i'm saying
so let's give it a sec
turns off it's extremely intuitive to control them using the capacitive touch
interface here and what i do like about the materials they're using is it's a
soft touch finish so you can see some fingerprints and you can see that
kind of stuff going on here but you can easily wipe them off
and it doesn't stand out nearly as much as glossy surfaces which drive me
personally absolutely crazy and the
music's back on now so i'm uh tuned out
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