Everyone's always saying that I have a big head, and somebody's finally made a
pair of headphones to fit my thick noggin. JLab XL [music] is a new product
that are a little bit more of than just headphones.
Oh god, they are a Bluetooth speaker in
kind of the shape of a headphone, but bigger, I guess. I'm told that that's
better, but I guess we'll find out. Here they are, bright and blue.
Comes with a lot of cardboard, but that's probably about it. These are very
normal-sized headphones. They're actually a strange pair of Bluetooth
speakers. The I don't know, the ergonomics isn't that
great, probably two out of 10. They're marked left and right for for some odd
reason. Probably be good for, you know, the whole family, if you know what I
mean, or maybe if I had a a friend
one day. We we can hope. These seem to be more of a gimmick product from
JLab's, so you can't really buy one. They seem to have some sort of football
stadium thing down in Alabama. It's called the JLab's Birmingham Bowl.
Actually used to be called the Papa John's Birmingham Bowl thing, which I I
think [music] is hilarious. Title sponsors are strange. These are to
celebrate the end of their season or something like that. They make a lot of
different headphones. I don't have a lot of experience with them. They're kind of twisty. I can see them getting broken
maybe pretty easily, but I mean, they're big and heavy, so hopefully these are
going to last a little while. But I mean, they're supposed to be more of a
of a joke product. They're covered in this kind of pleather. There's some nice
soft cushioning here. There's very nice soft cushioning in the headset as well.
>> JLab on. They're turned on.
>> They fold up, which is also kind of interesting. Kind of sit like that.
Looks like we've got a USB-C port on the side here. It's got this big old knob on
the side, which feels cold, so the outside is metal. Sadly, it doesn't seem
that there is an AUX port, which is disappointing. I mean, I'm probably one
of the only people who actually has a phone with an AUX out. These are battery-powered. They're wireless
Bluetooth speaker headphones, headphone speakers,
speadphones and speakers. And they've got about a
20-hour battery life. I think it's made of two 3,000 mA batteries. Not too much.
Take about 3 hours to charge. We've got some fabric on the inside covers here.
Um just feels like there's plastic there. Kind of like hollow, but I mean, we'll
find out if that's going to become a problem. They should have about a 2 and
1/2-in driver in there. I think that they're supposed to be stereo, but we'll
just double-check that. It might just be that there's two drivers rather than
them actually being stereo. Don't know if that's going to be too much of a problem, though, cuz you're not really
going to be wearing these. Although, they do say that they're kind of
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JLab on. Ready to pair. Wow. Nice thing
about these is there's no app. They are
literally just Bluetooth speakers. Bluetooth connected. Battery full. Oh,
that's good. I think they came charged. Got to make sure that I'm wearing them
the correct way around. I guess you could also kind of wear them like a kind
of a cross body bag thing like yeah.
I'm I'm cool. Uh
>> [music] >> They are certainly a lot better than I
was expecting for like a little gimmick product thing. I really like the clicky
feel of the knob here. It's you know,
it's got a metal outside which is kind of cool. They work quite well around the
neck. They're not super jarring to wear
kind of I think more as intended. Sound kind of comes out here so it's not
deafening and you can still have it at maximum volume. They get reasonably loud
which is probably good. I think these are more intended to be maybe at a
tailgate party or something like that. Maybe a little bit tinny but they seem
to have some pretty good bass response. They're reasonably comfortable. They're
not super heavy. One problem though is if you really do want to use them as a
Bluetooth speaker, I haven't quite figured out how you're supposed to stand
them up. The website shows that you're able to kind of hold it up like this or
supposed to be doing uh something like that but I mean it's a little bit
finicky. It'd be nice if there was maybe like a bigger flat on this side to kind
of help it hold itself up. What if we kind of nestle it like that? And still a
bit tippy. Yeah.
Definitely definitely going to be a neck speaker. Yeah, if it came with a stand
or something that'd be kind of nice or even just if this side here had a big
flat on it like it wasn't curved like this. That would probably make them a
hell of a lot more useful and probably would make them a really neat little
like centerpiece thing. The rotating arms might also work really
well if they could rotate all the way around and then you could kind of just
have them on here but those also don't do that. But for what they are, they
seem reasonably well-built. Um certainly a conversation piece if
you're out and about. These would be perfect for wearing and playing music on
the train for all of your friends that you don't know. Well,
bring them up to maximum.
One thing I'm noticing immediately is you can kind of like feel the bass around your neck, which is actually kind
of cool. I kind of like that.
>> [music]
>> They are a little crunchy. And it seems like there might be some
sort of built-in limiting or something during the initial drop. They kind of
like ducked out for a minute. When they're kind of pointed away, maximum volume,
quite loud, sound pretty okay. Uh when they're kind of pointed at you, maybe
not so much. I've I've heard better. Can we push the button to resume the music?
We'll try them in stand mode.
>> [music]
[music] >> Aha, I got it. Nobody breathe. Hey, yeah, I mean they're getting a little
bit more crunchy. They're probably maybe a bit too loud, maybe medium volume.
What's kind of irritating in this mode is now one of the speakers is blocked.
I'm also not entirely sure that they are stereo. I think it's just mono times
two. I might take these to the office and Yeah, these are perfect train
speakers. I'm really into this. This is cool.
Put them over your backpack. I think this will be great. Yeah, how's this?
You're the coolest kid in school, Dan. I think I'm cool. Aren't they fun?
>> [music] >> Actually, this would be awesome if they
had a microphone in them. Then I could definitely take meetings in these. I
think that'd That'd fun. And yeah, we're actually going to have to lay off 500
people today. Um you know, investments are down,
unfortunately. Should we go play golf? If you can get one of these limited
edition blue beauties, they're only going to run you about 100 US dollars,
which is kind of crazy for like a gimmick
product. They're weird and giant and kind of neat, and they sort of shoot in
about the $100 range for reasonably strange Bluetooth speaker. If you like
football and do a lot of tailgate parties, these would be kind of cool. I
think people will ask you questions about them, and uh they're certainly not
really a product I've seen before. Honestly, I think if they were a little bit more refined, this might actually
work quite well as a real product. If these could angle out a bit more, maybe
if these sat a little bit lower, uh just
on the chest there, the rear band is quite comfortable. Um
yeah, this is weird. It's weird.
Uncomfortable. But, you know what would make me less
uncomfortable? Comfortable? I think that's the word. I've not really used
that term before. Uh if you subscribe to ShortCircuit,
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