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it's a crisp clear december morning and i've never felt better

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look what i got i just paid over 300 for a pair of

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airpods wireless earphones from some guy on craigslist without having done any

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research whatsoever i don't know what devices they work with

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i don't know what kind of battery life to expect and i don't know if they sound

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good all i know is they're the newest product from apple and i need them

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so let's find out are they air amazing

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or pedestrian

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a new mouse and keyboard check out the cougar gaming attack x3 mechanical

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keyboard and revenge your gaming mouse at the link in the video description

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i've got to give apple this the pairing process with iOS devices is pretty

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magical just pop the lid open on the airpods charging case hold it near your

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phone press the button and you're greeted by a handy dandy battery

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indicator for both the airpods themselves and the charging case

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as a not really apple person macbook pairing was a little less

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straightforward for me the auto pairing through icloud did work

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but apple's instructions simply say select airpods in the menu bar and i

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didn't realize i had to manually enable the bluetooth icon in the menu bar

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before that would work for a non-apple device setup is still

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easy but less magical hold the button

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select them in your bluetooth menu and wait about a second then you can get on

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with your hamilton fix that is unless someone interrupts you

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taking out one side mid playback was my first experience with another magical

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feature of the airpods they're on board accelerometers that let them start and

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stop playback when they're inserted or removed from your ears

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as someone who actually does wear earphones all day

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this design choice smacks of made by

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people who don't do that because i often find myself working with one side in to

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increase my awareness of my surroundings the good news is that within the

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bluetooth menu apple allows this setting to be changed along with the behavior of

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a double tap on the stem which can trigger siri or play pause media

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playback the bad news is that unlike the wired

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equivalents the airpods rely on clunky

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voice control for volume adjustments and

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track skipping voice control that doesn't work without

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an active internet connection for siri and while these settings are stored on

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the airpods themselves and carry over to

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other devices there doesn't appear to be any way to configure them in the first

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place without using an apple device

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of course if they don't offer a compelling balance of portability

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convenience value and sound quality i

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doubt many Android users will be queuing up to buy them anyway

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so how do they fare in this regard the answer is

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okay the charging case is small enough to fit in my pocket much smaller and

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lighter than braggy's aluminum one and smaller than the case i already carry

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for my ie80s and a lightning dongle

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it's bigger than jaybird's charging adapter for the freedoms but that

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doesn't have its own battery on board so it's not really an apples to apples

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comparison with that said you are less likely to

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need a charging case with the freedoms since the airpods dropped 50 percent of

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their battery after working on this video for a few hours listening to them

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only intermittently as for sound quality

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they're sure not worth what i had to pay for them but as bluetooth earphones go

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the auto switching between the integrated microphones in both earpods

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works really well they've got great range even without line of sight to my

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phone with a low enough noise floor that i didn't perceive any background hiss

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and they've got a pleasing enough sound signature that i think most people will

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have no complaints bass is punchy and not overdone mids and

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highs are serviceable and as someone who normally uses iems i actually really

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enjoyed their more open natural sound

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are they as good as audiophile earphones like my daily driver ie80s

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no don't be stupid and i like the fact that

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they fit in my ears more snugly than normal earpods without the weight of the

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wires but i don't think i personally would

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trade away in-line controls and a much lower price for that small benefit

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not to mention that there are literally thousands of earphones out there that

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aren't ear pods then again if you're the type of person

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who treats headphones as a fashion statement

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i don't think they look nearly as weird as my initial impressions when apple

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unveiled them and they aren't priced that outlandishly compared to other

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accessories or even other wireless earphones

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low profile key switches all of which are fully programmable and

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which feature 16.8 million color RGB lighting and a braided cable and the

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zone balance features a sturdy steel frame a heightened backrest with

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adjustable armrest and backrest and polyurethane faux leather all you gotta

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all right thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if it was awesome get subscribed hit

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that like button and maybe leave a comment letting me know if you prefer

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the more sick Linus sound to my normal

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voice which is what i'm doing right now or if you'd rather i just go back to

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being a yappy little chihuahua in all of my videos also linked in the video

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description i don't think i gave you a link in the video description that's okay is where to buy the stuff we

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featured at amazon and a link to our community forum as well as our merch

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store which has cool shirts like this one now that you're done doing all that stuff you're probably wondering what to

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watch next so click that little button in the top right corner to check out

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my review of the braggy dash

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which has gotten some firmware updates since i did that but it has not fixed

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the bluetooth range i did check that while i was working on this video