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Everyone's always saying that I have a big head, and somebody's finally made a

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pair of headphones to fit my thick noggin. JLab XL [music] is a new product

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that are a little bit more of than just headphones.

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Oh god, they are a Bluetooth speaker in

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kind of the shape of a headphone, but bigger, I guess. I'm told that that's

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better, but I guess we'll find out. Here they are, bright and blue.

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Comes with a lot of cardboard, but that's probably about it. These are very

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normal-sized headphones. They're actually a strange pair of Bluetooth

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speakers. The I don't know, the ergonomics isn't that

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great, probably two out of 10. They're marked left and right for for some odd

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reason. Probably be good for, you know, the whole family, if you know what I

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mean, or maybe if I had a a friend

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one day. We we can hope. These seem to be more of a gimmick product from

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JLab's, so you can't really buy one. They seem to have some sort of football

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stadium thing down in Alabama. It's called the JLab's Birmingham Bowl.

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Actually used to be called the Papa John's Birmingham Bowl thing, which I I

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think [music] is hilarious. Title sponsors are strange. These are to

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celebrate the end of their season or something like that. They make a lot of

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different headphones. I don't have a lot of experience with them. They're kind of twisty. I can see them getting broken

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maybe pretty easily, but I mean, they're big and heavy, so hopefully these are

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going to last a little while. But I mean, they're supposed to be more of a

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of a joke product. They're covered in this kind of pleather. There's some nice

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soft cushioning here. There's very nice soft cushioning in the headset as well.

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>> JLab on. They're turned on.

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>> They fold up, which is also kind of interesting. Kind of sit like that.

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Looks like we've got a USB-C port on the side here. It's got this big old knob on

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the side, which feels cold, so the outside is metal. Sadly, it doesn't seem

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that there is an AUX port, which is disappointing. I mean, I'm probably one

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of the only people who actually has a phone with an AUX out. These are battery-powered. They're wireless

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Bluetooth speaker headphones, headphone speakers,

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speadphones and speakers. And they've got about a

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20-hour battery life. I think it's made of two 3,000 mA batteries. Not too much.

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Take about 3 hours to charge. We've got some fabric on the inside covers here.

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Um just feels like there's plastic there. Kind of like hollow, but I mean, we'll

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find out if that's going to become a problem. They should have about a 2 and

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1/2-in driver in there. I think that they're supposed to be stereo, but we'll

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just double-check that. It might just be that there's two drivers rather than

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them actually being stereo. Don't know if that's going to be too much of a problem, though, cuz you're not really

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going to be wearing these. Although, they do say that they're kind of

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intended maybe to be worn around the neck. So, it'd be kind of nice to get

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some in-your-face music. I'm excited to hear how they sound, but first, you have

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JLab on. Ready to pair. Wow. Nice thing

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about these is there's no app. They are

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literally just Bluetooth speakers. Bluetooth connected. Battery full. Oh,

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that's good. I think they came charged. Got to make sure that I'm wearing them

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the correct way around. I guess you could also kind of wear them like a kind

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of a cross body bag thing like yeah.

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I'm I'm cool. Uh

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>> [music] >> They are certainly a lot better than I

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was expecting for like a little gimmick product thing. I really like the clicky

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feel of the knob here. It's you know,

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it's got a metal outside which is kind of cool. They work quite well around the

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neck. They're not super jarring to wear

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kind of I think more as intended. Sound kind of comes out here so it's not

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deafening and you can still have it at maximum volume. They get reasonably loud

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which is probably good. I think these are more intended to be maybe at a

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tailgate party or something like that. Maybe a little bit tinny but they seem

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to have some pretty good bass response. They're reasonably comfortable. They're

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not super heavy. One problem though is if you really do want to use them as a

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Bluetooth speaker, I haven't quite figured out how you're supposed to stand

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them up. The website shows that you're able to kind of hold it up like this or

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supposed to be doing uh something like that but I mean it's a little bit

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finicky. It'd be nice if there was maybe like a bigger flat on this side to kind

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of help it hold itself up. What if we kind of nestle it like that? And still a

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bit tippy. Yeah.

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Definitely definitely going to be a neck speaker. Yeah, if it came with a stand

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or something that'd be kind of nice or even just if this side here had a big

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flat on it like it wasn't curved like this. That would probably make them a

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hell of a lot more useful and probably would make them a really neat little

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like centerpiece thing. The rotating arms might also work really

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well if they could rotate all the way around and then you could kind of just

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have them on here but those also don't do that. But for what they are, they

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seem reasonably well-built. Um certainly a conversation piece if

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you're out and about. These would be perfect for wearing and playing music on

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the train for all of your friends that you don't know. Well,

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bring them up to maximum.

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One thing I'm noticing immediately is you can kind of like feel the bass around your neck, which is actually kind

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of cool. I kind of like that.

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>> [music]

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>> They are a little crunchy. And it seems like there might be some

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sort of built-in limiting or something during the initial drop. They kind of

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like ducked out for a minute. When they're kind of pointed away, maximum volume,

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quite loud, sound pretty okay. Uh when they're kind of pointed at you, maybe

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not so much. I've I've heard better. Can we push the button to resume the music?

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We'll try them in stand mode.

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>> [music]

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[music] >> Aha, I got it. Nobody breathe. Hey, yeah, I mean they're getting a little

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bit more crunchy. They're probably maybe a bit too loud, maybe medium volume.

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What's kind of irritating in this mode is now one of the speakers is blocked.

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I'm also not entirely sure that they are stereo. I think it's just mono times

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two. I might take these to the office and Yeah, these are perfect train

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speakers. I'm really into this. This is cool.

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Put them over your backpack. I think this will be great. Yeah, how's this?

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You're the coolest kid in school, Dan. I think I'm cool. Aren't they fun?

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>> [music] >> Actually, this would be awesome if they

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had a microphone in them. Then I could definitely take meetings in these. I

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think that'd That'd fun. And yeah, we're actually going to have to lay off 500

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people today. Um you know, investments are down,

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unfortunately. Should we go play golf? If you can get one of these limited

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edition blue beauties, they're only going to run you about 100 US dollars,

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which is kind of crazy for like a gimmick

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product. They're weird and giant and kind of neat, and they sort of shoot in

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about the $100 range for reasonably strange Bluetooth speaker. If you like

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football and do a lot of tailgate parties, these would be kind of cool. I

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think people will ask you questions about them, and uh they're certainly not

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really a product I've seen before. Honestly, I think if they were a little bit more refined, this might actually

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work quite well as a real product. If these could angle out a bit more, maybe

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if these sat a little bit lower, uh just

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on the chest there, the rear band is quite comfortable. Um

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yeah, this is weird. It's weird.

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Uncomfortable. But, you know what would make me less

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uncomfortable? Comfortable? I think that's the word. I've not really used

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that term before. Uh if you subscribe to ShortCircuit,

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maybe like comment down below what music you would play on the train to all of

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your not friends and strangers and business partners and

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well, nobody's going to like you [music] anymore.