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Sennheiser is back this is their second

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generation of fully wireless earphones and I'm actually really excited about

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these because what I liked about the original momentum true Wireless was the

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sound quality actually the fit was pretty good as well even though they were a touch on the heavy side what I

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didn't like was that the battery life was absolute trash not only was the

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advertised battery life low compared to other earphones available on the market

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like Apple's air pods but they had a bulky case so it's like what are you

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even putting in there if not batteries and they had a drain issue that caused

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the battery to just drain while you weren't using them so what I found was

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that every time I went to use the darn things they were empty here they've

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moved to a 21 hour battery charging case they've apparently fixed the idle drain

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issue and seven hours on the earphones themselves so they should keep you going

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all day like literally all day so we'll

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have a look at what's included in the box you got some documentation there you

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got some you know some extra ear tips

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there large small and extra small

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oh but the mediums by default and ship on the earphones themselves that

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explains the sizing they're got a charging cable one thing I like about

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these is that they do use Type C for charging no wireless charging

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unfortunately I did try that before I sat down so you do have to use a cable

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for charging that's a disadvantage compared to air pods and air pods pros

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and then you got lots more documentation

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you know the Germans right no we heard you like documentation so we included

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all the documentation that you could possibly need for wireless earphones you

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guys have a website so let's take a look

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at the momentum true Wireless twos they have got a ton of upgrades some that I

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asked for some that I actually didn't think to ask for so they're available in

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two colors now black and white apparently they've improved the

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ergonomics a little bit fundamentally they look and feel very similar so

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you've got that same cloth style case with the Sennheiser logo on it nice

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feeling hinge with a magnetic clasp hey you've got a pairing button back

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here USB type-c charging as I mentioned before and other than that these are a

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little on the bulky side I'd say they've got a really nice feel to them overall

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so kind of like a matte finish on the earphones themselves with that classic

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Sennheiser sort of ringed brushed metal

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look to them you can see one of the active noise cancellation mics right

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there there's another one right there and that's a big feature that I didn't

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ask for but that is included with the momentum true Wireless twos now one of

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the things that is a big deal for me with wireless earphones is obviously the

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size and you can see here I've got some air pods pros and I've also got some air

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pods so we can have a look at what they look like now I don't expect these to be

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the same size as an air pods case just because they've got active

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noise-cancelling and like type-c charging like they've got more features

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they're water resistant so they're ipx4 if I recall correctly but the air pods

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pros are really you know the standard that I want to hold other active

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noise-cancelling ear buds up to and you can tell they're quite a bit larger now

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one of my big tests is the you know the

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little useless pocket and jeans it's the useless pocket test does it fit

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the answer is yes as long as you've got a reasonably big useless pocket but

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where I run into a little bit of trouble is that it's quite bulky to the point

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where it's kind of hard to get my wallet into the pocket now that I've got that

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in there and because of the cloth texture of the case it's actually kind

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of hard to get in and out which is a little bit of a drag let's go ahead and

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throw these back in here and then get

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them paired have a listen flashing orange going to be closed two pair one

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guy's pairing should just be industry standard here

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new-new couldn't pair check this devices

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settings and try again all right well maybe that's why I need all this

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documentation okay

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yep they want you to wear them first fine hold both buttons for three seconds

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to start pairing so one of the things that they include is configurable

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controls so you're gonna want to use your Sennheiser app in order to

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configure that you can change EQ settings apparently they've got built-in

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tile functionality so my wife actually lost her regular air pods case about a

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week ago has not been able to find it so

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I want to see if maybe this could help her all right I'm gonna get the app

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smart control that's what the apps called wow there's so many touch

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controls so left is play pause next

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previous and volume down if you press

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and hold the right is voice assistant transparent hearings so that's where it

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passes through outside noise instead of active noise cancellation three times

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for active noise cancellation and hold for volume plus and then when you get a

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call it's one to accept the call and end it and then two times to reject the call

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also known as telling people that you

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are ignoring them how well so I agree to

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the terms definitely not as magical as Apple's process but it's working

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reasonably well hello yes I have already

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done these things alright new firmware update is it the update can take up to

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50 minutes what the hell are you

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updating that takes 50 minutes on

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earphones do not put them in the

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charging case during the update oh okay so I can just use them I mean in

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fairness apples update processes literally just have your ear pods near

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your iPhone there's no progress bar alright transparent hearing

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okay that works pretty well I'd say the quality is not up to par with what I

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remember from my ear pods pros hey

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Vaughn no sorry I just wanted to hear you talking to me and when I am what I

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yell it doesn't handle that very well I can tell there's a little bit of

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clipping that's something that the air pods pros do handle particularly well

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now I've got a and C on a and C is very

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pleasant sounding though there's no kind of pressure feeling on my ears they've

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done a good job of that and comfort I'd

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say it's pretty strong can do a shake test definitely feel lighter than the

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original male mentor to wireless whoo tap on okay cool so here's how you

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change all the controls I don't think I

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would change that that seems like a pretty sensible control scheme time list

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is a music people are judging my music taste right now I can feel it

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interesting that is an uncharacteristically sparkly sound for

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Sennheiser you know I don't remember the last time I turned on like bass boost on

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a product but where are the presets this

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is a really really stupid interface for an EQ guys your your an audio company

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you should know better all right I'm gonna turn the volume down

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and have a got a feel for how the ANC is

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when I'm listening either very reasonable like quiet enjoyment volume

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because that's really to me the benefit of a and C and wireless earbuds is that

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I can be in the office not like listening to music like rocking out but

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just getting my work done with background noise and not being able to

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hear people around me so this is

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probably about how I'd be listening to that hey hi I'm sorry to bother you one

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more time Vaughn oh okay that was all thank you

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that's pretty good what no I don't want to discard oh I

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have to add a preset

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okay bit of a delay on the play/pause behavior there but I can see why that

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might be because if I was to skip tracks

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it would need to know that I'm trying to do that okay did not register that so

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the taps only really register right in the middle of the logo and I'm already

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finding that I'm having a little bit of trouble consistently hitting it

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especially for like a triple tap gesture and if you do want to go back a song you

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know how it is you got to go back to the beginning of the song you're listening to and then back to the previous song

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that is six times mashing on your ear I could see myself reconfiguring that to

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maybe make it like two taps on the right or something like that I changed my mind about the default control scheme it is

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nice that you've got those three separate tones so you can really tell if

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you've tapped it three times now I'm gonna switch over to my ear pods pros

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sorry Vaughn can you yell at me one more time very similar actually very similar

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performance in terms of blocking out you know someone having a conversation in

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the room next to you not bad I hate this

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EQ it's frustrating because I can hear

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the potential and if these should sound better than the air pods pros but I

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can't get them dialed in customized no

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it's still this stupid see you even know you know what it's supposed to look like

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that's what the interface is supposed to look like it's just like really really

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veiled right now depending on the song

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yeah out of the box their pods pros

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absolutely blow these out of the water but I can hear flashes of brilliance in

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them and I think with a proper EQ

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interface I could easily get these outperforming the air pods pros one of

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the features that they have is to pause your music automatically if you take

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them out of your ears one thing I would like to see is for their touch interface to turn off when

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you do that because right now I'm actually controlling my music through

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these so if you're just handling your earphones if you're fidgeting with them or whatever you could easily

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accidentally activate the touch controls look at the time

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get started hey here we go

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Sennheiser momentum okay I need a title

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account I apparently have not used the tile app in a hot minute I'm Sun galaxy

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s7 okay so green or blue well I don't

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know this one doesn't seem to have a green or blue light it's not working

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okay so it looks like the tile app might not know that it supports the true

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Wireless twos yet so that's unfortunate I had really hoped to test that out

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today and the potential is there the

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case is a little big but I could maybe accept that if the app control was more

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to my liking a little bit easier to configure because the ANC is comfortable

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and effective having that water

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resistance built-in is great even having an Android app at all is obviously a big

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advantage compared to the air plods pros which I've been daily driving but in its

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current state I mean yeah if you can get that sound dialed in just the way you

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like it they look great ton of features in here

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but right now that I couldn't figure out

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the tile integration and I really need that EQ fixed and then these are a solid

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recommend thanks for watching this ShortCircuit I hope you guys enjoyed this

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little unboxing and first impressions if they do update the app with my requests

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and I do end up daily driving these things you can expect to see a review over the Linus tech tips channel so make

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sure to subscribe to both and I will see you in the next ShortCircuit in a short

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circuitous while