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it's been six long years since we've seen a revision of the Power Beats

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pros and in those six years A lot has happened and competition has gotten

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pretty fierce especially for workout focused buds you've seen like the rise

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of a lot of different companies making more hook style earbuds that also offer

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like an open Vibe as well as just a lot of better headphones right you get stuff

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like find my integration and uh better noise cancelling all of these things can

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be found on buds that are cheaper than the Power Beats Pros thankfully they

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finally made an update to the pros in

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the form of the pros too but they still come in an absolutely chunking case like

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it's it's it's huge let's see what else you get in the Box Inside the Box we get

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uh some documentation I do like how they actually give you a little bit of a home

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for your ear tips here however it would

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be nice to just have like a little bag no why do I need to keep the Box what if

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I don't want to keep the box you can sell it later what do you think comment

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down below and tell us do you do you keep the box so that you can sell your

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earbuds or would you like a tiny bag I'm a tiny Bag Man myself the main features

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that they're touting is that they are true wireless earbuds with a USBC

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charging case that's great to see um active noise cancelling and transparency

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mode cool up to 45 hours of battery life that's 10 on the earbuds and 35 in the

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case which for a case this size seems kind of low I feel like you can get a

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lot of battery life from Far smaller cases like just to give you some

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perspective these are airpods Pro 2 and it's not even close it's just a bit

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too shy of being pocketable but a big

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reason why it's so big is because they got a hook style look at that and it's a

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pretty well-matched orange like uh it's almost impossible to tell the difference

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between the different types of plastic on here like this the ear hooks are like

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a silicone type uh material it's not

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quite as soft rubber as I felt on a lot of other brands like it's not as soft as

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say the ear tips you can almost barely tell that there's actually like a slight

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seam pretty slick and I got a B which stands for Dre before we take a tour of

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the earbuds themselves we're just going to take another look at the case there is a button for pairing other than that

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the case doesn't feature anything like a speaker which is kind of a bummer one of

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my favorite features of the airpods case is that ability to uh use find my and

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have them like chirp so you can find the case cuz it's really easy for these things to get separated you put your

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case down you have these in your ears you go into a different room you've lost

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your case so these could be easier to lose than you'd expect it's just a nice

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feature that I would have hoped for on a kind of Premium focus a pro level set of

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uh earbuds you know on the earbuds themselves these are nanoid hooks so

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they're a classic kind of spring type of hook we also have a rocker here this is

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really cool having rockers on each side I love it I love it now you might be

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wondering what is this stuff that's going on down here well these are

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actually heart rate monitors yes these have heart rate detection in them the

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nice thing about having heart rate tracking on your earbuds is that some health trackers like wrist watches or

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even smart rings can be a nuisance in certain forms of physical activity like weightlifting you can't have a ring on

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because you could injure your hand and wrist watches can just get in the way

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these will provide you another option to get heart rate tracking there's also the typical uh presence detection it's very

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much like the ones on the airpods pros which means that these actually have

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Optical presence detection system so unlike say just an IR system where if

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you just cover it it goes oh I'm in an ear it could start playing your music if

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you have it like in a bag or on a table and waste battery life this will

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actually go to sleep unless it sees your skin you can see that it has these U

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metal Pogo pins as opposed to just doing a fully wireless charging system people

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have reported that that has caused failures whether that is Chargers short

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circuiting or otherwise hey that should

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be a YouTube channel I can't comment if they fixed that nor can I comment if

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that how widespread that problem was but it's something to note let's put them in

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in see how they fit okay first off

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already uh one problem already identified this button is really easy to

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press this is button right here and if you're going to be putting these into

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your ears you might accidentally start playing them and that's kind of a that's

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kind of annoying because of they have the Apple's H2 chip they are able to

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take advantage of some of the improved

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noise cancelling on I guess it's it's not even new anymore it's the same chip

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that's found in the airpods Pro too and so you get the benefits of the improved

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noise cancellation from that as well as you get the nice easy pairing and quick

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response with iOS devices with any sort of um hook based earbud I always

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recommend that you just kind of have to try them everyone's ears are different I

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find that they very rarely bother me these are a pretty gentle um like

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squeeze there's not it doesn't really squeeze my ears at all if you had

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somebody who had like thicker ears it might be a little bit less comfortable I

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find these to be quite nice and it seems

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like they stay in pretty well one thing

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I want to know is how well they kind of stay in if I'm moving my jar tensing

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because when you're lifting heavy you kind of do all sorts of weird stuff with your face

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like yeah they that's good another thing to note is that these hooks can be

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really really annoying for glasses users so I'm going to get our producer uh and

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good friend Jake bellance coworker you exercise I've been known to exercise I

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actually have airpod Pros twos and I had to buy third party little hooks because

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they always fall out my ears like when I'm on the treadmill or if I'm talking

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and it's really annoying to carry around this like little baggie that has hooks

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just for when I work out so I'm actually keep the Box well they didn't come in a

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box they came in a little bag oh that's that came a little comp yeah they go on

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my uh on my keychain yeah that fits and sounds

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pretty good and I feel like I'm getting some of the um like noise cancellation

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off today listening Impressions they sound pretty good if you're somebody who

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wants bass hey look at that beats is a place to get it but it's not like kind

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of overbearing like it used to be I think that beats for the past few years

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have had quite a good sound profile on all of their uh lineup it's nothing like

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you know it's not refined or calculated or clinical or anything like that but it

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makes music sound good there's a weird almost like tinniness or graininess or

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something there's like just some part of the treble is a kind of too spikes quite

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high for me and I find it very cheap sounding and is not pleasurable and I

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think can really come up in some sorts of distortion has a kind of a bad effect

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on like a lot of acoustic guitar it's not awful and it's probably something

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that if I spent a little bit more time I would get used to um but I wouldn't say

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that these are by any means bad sounding headphones but maybe my ears are just

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having an off day so let's take a look at the results that we got from

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headphones.com who did the testing for us for this video I just want to read

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part of this email that Andrew from headphones.com sent us about the testing

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just like the airpods Pro 2 the Powerbeats Pro have a wear sensor that

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needs to be engaged before being measured and when I say A wear sensor I mean a meat sensor unfortunately testing

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rings are not made of human flesh so I had to spoof it by using a piece of ham

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which did the trick I fully expect there to be data from other sources where the

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meat sensor is not properly engaged engaged my meat sensor is always engaged

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this is a frequency response chart for the Power Beats Pro 2 the dash line is

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our headphone Target this is what we think will be a good sounding headphone

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for most people so the closer it is to the Target the more likely that you will

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enjoy the headphone that doesn't mean that it'll be perfect for everybody

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we're all built very different it's more like a a one- siiz fits most scenario

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and looking at a chart in the base and subbase this matches our curve quite

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well and I agree it's a a nice fun Bassy

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sound that isn't super overpowering one thing that is pretty impressive is that

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it doesn't really roll off at all even at the really really low end like the 20

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HZ end once we move to the mids and upper mids I think that's where I

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noticed the weirdness in the sound when I was just kind of talking about my

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Impressions I kind of misplaced it I think I said it was in the 5 khz region

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but this graph is indicating to me that it's coming more from what's happening

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in the mids you see there's a big kind of four or 5 D dip right around 650 HZ I

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think that might be where you're getting kind of that cheap sound because we're going to have this like lull where

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you've scooped out as a little section of the mids that kind of is where a lot

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of human voices and many instruments live overall though there's nothing

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remotely catastrophic about this this is a I think this is a pretty good sounding

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headphone and most people will be quite happy with them now we're going to take

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a look at a and C results so with no noise cancelling on we can see that

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these attenuate noise that is they make it quieter pretty similarly to other in

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your headphones where stuff in the higher ranges and the upper mids get

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blocked out pretty naturally but as you go down to the lower end a lot of stuff

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still gets through this like kind of low mid area is exactly where ANC works the

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best that's why it's great for stuff like engine noise and when we turn on

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ANC does it does a really good job improving the attenuation of lower

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noises so the ANC is mostly working on everything below 1 khz everything above

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1 khz is basically just going to be from the natural seal of having those

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headphones in your ears I think the ANC it's not the best it's I don't think

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it's as good as airpods Pros 2 or even Sony's best ANC but it's it's really

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good and compared to my daily drivers at my desk the falp these sound this way

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better ANC with very little audible hiss and uh it doesn't give that kind of

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pressure feeling some types ofc can give where it feels like your your ears in

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like a vacuum terms of audio quality and noise cancellation I think these do a

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bang up job they're not incredible they're not terrible for the gym I would

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actually think these would be pretty great but of course these don't just

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listen they also have microphones so we're going to do a quick little call

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Quality test where I'm going to call the one and only Jake bellance producer of

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ShortCircuit Jake says I sounded like I lived in a can I would you say it was

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below average no no just just fine yeah

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if you are an Android User you will need the app especially if you want to use

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the heart rate you need to download the app to connect with everything else if you're an Apple user it just uh it just

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works I will say the app's a little disappointing you can turn off automatic

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ear detection stuff like that you can select some controls you can decide

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which side of these will be which operation or they can be the same

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operation but it's still a little Limited in terms of what you're allowed

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to do so like these Rockers are only ever for volume it's a bit of a bummer

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to not get that kind of customization and further more it's a big bummer that

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there's no EQ built into this um not even a simple one especially cuz you

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know it would be nice to be able to fix the kind of one of the only problems I

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have with the Sound by just a quick little EQ fix where does that leave us

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with the Power Beats Pro too I think that if you were a Power Beats Pro fan

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this is going to hit all of the marks for you the case is smaller still huge

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uh but it's a similar form factor I think it's improved decent battery life

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there's nothing about these that make me go no but you might want to go with

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airpods Pros 2 they're the same price they're tried in true they're also a

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great set of truly wireless earbuds but you get better find my integration and

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you get the little like speaker on it to help find stuff if you are somebody who

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needs that kind of tight seal that great fit for physical activity I can see

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these being a great pick but if you're somebody who's not that into the

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exercise side of stuff I'd say there's a lot of other places to look especially

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at the $250 price range that's where a lot of great wireless earbuds live

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thanks for watching if you like this video I why don't you check out the video where I checked out the Beats

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Studio buds plus oh man they should have done the clear plastic oh I would have

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loved if these had the transparent plastic that would have been so cool that would have been so cool orange is

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good though oh oh