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the launch of the airpods Apple's Bluetooth headphones created a hole that

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most consumers didn't know they needed filled and as always spawned a plethora

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of imitators who promised to do the same thing without being

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overpriced but are the airpods

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overpriced or compared to the other products in the market are they better

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enough to justify the Apple tax well

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folks I've got eight pairs of bluetooth headphones with me to help us get to the

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bottom of

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this the new master keys Pro RGB and PR

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s white from Cooler Master are coming soon check out their lineup at the link

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below let's meet our contestants shall we wow that's a lot Pro tip by the way

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way you can watch videos at half speed with the button down there the airpods

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are going to be our Baseline so we'll start with them they've got a striking

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look that For Better or For Worse lets everybody know just how much you love

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Apple they come in a lightweight charging case that feels fantastic in

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the hand and they pair effortlessly with your iPhone or even other devices with a

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couple more steps I would put their sound on the tiny side and the Sound

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Stage is a bit Nar narrow but the articulation is good and there's enough

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base present that most people honestly

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will be happy with them battery life comes in at 5 hours of continuous

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listening plus four to five quick charges from the included dock compare

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all of that to the dash from braggy the

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only earphones in our lineup that are actually more expensive than Apples but

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should they be they're comfortable they're reasonably light and

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subjectively they look a little cooler than the airpods 2o and the sound is

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better as well with big bass and a full sound and they even pack some cool extra

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Tech in like the airpods they can pause when you pull them out but wait there's

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more they have onboard storage and are

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waterproof so you can swim with them while listening to music they have a

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touch interface for taking calls and controlling media playback and they even

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function as a fitness tracker though especially those last two don't work

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particularly well leading us into the cons the big two are range James didn't

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experience it but I've had issues with signal drops while holding my phone in

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my pocket and the high noise floor it

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sounds like a in the background and it's a big issue

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if you listen at relatively low volumes battery life is also kind of me three to

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four hours plus four to five charges from the case sounds okay on paper but

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in practice the bulky and heavy charging case is much less convenient to carry

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around than Apples J Bird's Freedom

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sound quality beats most of the competitors in this review pretty

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soundly bass is strong and you'll hear things you wouldn't if you were

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listening to the same song with the airpods they're lightweight and while

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you might think that having your phones connected bya wire is maybe less premium

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I don't personally mind it with the wire behind your neck it's very unlikely to

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get in the way and you'll get to keep inline controls which can plug into a

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little charging clip to extend Freedom's battery life from an advertised 4 hours

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to 8 it's easy to pop in ear out and there's no way to lose one of the

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earphones the only real drawback is that they're pretty pricey as well the axo

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atom gets some style marks for the ability to offer your friends an

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earphone like it's the 1930s and smoking

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is still cool but while it's fully Wireless which is neat it gets some

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significant points against it two and a

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half hours is too often to be recharging

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in my opinion even if you can do it up to 18 times in a row and the case also

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functions as a battery bank which is cool the pairing process is relatively

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complicated and the multi-purpose button

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doesn't work for track skipping play pause and phone calls only with that

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said they are reasonably comfortable as long as the ear tips don't stay stuck in

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your canals and actually sound pretty decent I'm tempted to say they sound

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better than the airpods because of their deeper Bas expanded Sound Stage and

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reduced tinniness but your mileage may vary because the high hats in one of our

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metal test songs sounded absolutely

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abominable I was actually embarrassed to wear the boots by smartomi or as I'll be

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calling them the Shrek ears in public

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they are lightweight and reasonably comfortable but never felt quite right

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due to their size I would rate their sound is maybe comparable to the airpods

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but a little distant sounding and turning the volume loud can actually

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make you winse the Hallmark of bad

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earphones so what do they have going for them then well you can access Siri by

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double tapping the onboard buttons and the battery life is solid there's no

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charging case but they lasted a full 5 and 1/2 hours in my test not too shabby

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but I can't say the same about these they're the worst ones of the bunch the

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Apple Air Twinkies also known as the daycom from

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twws again I did not leave my house with these ondoing testing because they

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actually look like an intentionally comical parody of the real thing and not

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only do they look like Hot Dogs coming out of your ears they pretty much sound

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and feel like it too they have no no punch no bass over pronounced ties they

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have a horrible pairing process the positions in the charge case are

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reversed from when you take them out of your ears and they never really felt

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like they were in your ears so I didn't

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wear them long enough to find out how long the battery lasts because I don't

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care they're awful fortunately the downward price quality spiral ends here

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the $50 axio Dash earphones are my

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favorite budget pair of the bunch I even like them more than the $99 axio atams

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they pair more easily have physical buttons for pausing track skipping and

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even volume control and even have longer battery life at 3 hours meanwhile the

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sound quality is just as good as the atoms but with arguably more Bas and I

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would rather listen to these than the airpods and although I thought they

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would be heavy and look stupid they're not and I don't think they do if you're

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on a tight budget and don't need a charging case the axio dash are worth a

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look and would be my Undisputed budget

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pick if it weren't for the AI EP

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b4s so cheap they don't even seem to appear on ai's website they're light

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they're comfortable and believe it or not they sound comparable to the airpods

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but with strikingly bigger base the poor build quality can make the volume rocker

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and other buttons a little difficult to use but hey the functionality is there

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my only gripe is the elante

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pasta noodle connecting the two phones that makes you look and feel a bit like

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a dad on a safari but Aesthetics aside

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these things punch way above their weight class their low price and 5-hour

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battery life makes them a perfect pick to throw in the gym bag or ski jacket so

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trophy time if you want great sounding wireless earphones that you can listen

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to all day it's hard to go wrong with something from jbird the freedoms we

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covered here or their blue buds line which we've covered in more detail

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before if you want a ball on a budget then go for the axio dash or the AI EPB

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Force but if you want a polished

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experience and Imo fantastic industrial

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design with seamless switching between your Apple devices the airpods are there

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for you considering what else is out there they're not that bad Just For the

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Love of All that is good don't don't get the air

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Twinkies look at these things can you think of a cool product

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or online service that would make sense to advertise on linest Tech tips in a

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ask you to give us some inspiration

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tweet Colton Potter we're going to put

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that up on the screen tweet at Colton Potter and give him some ideas because

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apparently he is just Plum out of them

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all right let's do it D look it he's not

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not even he's going to be stuck in that hole nope let's go here we go Colt first

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