These Were MADE For Me! - 1MORE Evo Earbuds
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2023-05-05
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1,887 words · ~9 min read
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This video was sponsored by OneMore
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and they've got us checking out their Evo earbuds today.
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They are available in at least white and black.
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Ooh!
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And it looks like they have compacted up their case
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quite a bit.
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They boast 28 hours of playback time on a single charge,
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eight hours on the earbuds themselves,
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the other 20 in the wireless charging case.
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They've got Qi charging.
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They can also charge via USB-C.
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They have antimicrobial ear tips,
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which is a pretty useful feature.
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I mean, I'm not usually that concerned
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with getting microbial infections from my own ears,
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but if you were to share, which I would never recommend,
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I guess that could be a concern.
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They offer two different types of transparency mode,
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one that's just a basic transparency mode
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and another that actively looks for voices.
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And they've actually got multiple tiers
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of active noise cancellation as well.
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So in terms of feature richness,
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these are looking pretty darn complete.
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They boast six microphones for rejecting ambient noise
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when you're on a call.
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And that's actually where I'd like to start
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because that's a big problem that I have
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with my current daily drivers, the AirPods Pros.
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Because of the highly subjective nature of audio products,
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I should lay out that even though this is a sponsored video,
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I still can't say anything I don't believe.
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So if I were to say these are,
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in spite of looking kind of deep and bulky,
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extremely light and comfortable,
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then that would be because that's what I actually think.
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And I do need to kind of, uh,
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Mark, you're going to have to try
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and kind of catch me over here
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because I need to lie down.
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Really for me, the main mark
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of a wireless earphones comfort
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is not necessarily day to day.
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And these are, these are, I mean,
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these are just kind of really solid there.
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There's no way they're coming up in my ears.
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Just even with the stock tips right out of the box,
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really liking that, really lightweight,
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but can I lie on them?
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Okay.
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Wow. Okay.
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On a hard ARM rest,
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there's a little bit of a pressure point right here,
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but I looked at these and I thought, wow,
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these are going to be really uncomfortable
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and they are totally not.
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Included in the box are five different size of ear tips.
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You can see them laid out here on the table in front of me,
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as well as the USB-C charging cable.
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And of course the wireless charging case itself.
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Let's get a quick size comparison in here.
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Apple still sets the standard when it comes to
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super compact charging cases,
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but you can see that one more has actually made up
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a ton of ground.
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And when you factor in that they've actually got
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greater battery capacity,
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then at least there's a justification for it.
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Unlike how it used to be.
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They will fit comfortably in what I like to call
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my earphone pocket, slide in and out pretty easily.
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I was worried that this textured finish
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might be a little bit too textured,
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but actually it seems not bad.
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You kind of get under it and there you go.
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And if we want to go any further than this,
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we kind of need to install the app,
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which conveniently I have already done.
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Let's see how well their magnets guide them into,
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okay, that's not bad.
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Not a lot of fuss, that's nice.
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Every once in a while you'll encounter ones
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where it's just like kind of finicky to get them in place.
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So if I'm just, yeah, I want to be just kind of careless.
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Let's check them in there.
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Yeah, not bad actually.
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Love how painless it is to pair these days.
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Oh, and they're Bluetooth 5.2,
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which means that they support multi-device.
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Pretty sick.
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Really?
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10 millimeter dynamic driver plus a balanced armature
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driver for punchy base and smooth mids.
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I don't know if I have seen a wireless earphone design
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that's hybrid dynamic and balanced armature drivers.
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Maybe I have and I just forget
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because I'm doing this for a long time, but.
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Okay, put the headphone in a comfortable position
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in the ear, turn the talking mic towards the mouth
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and leave the earbud uncovered.
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Oh, so there's your main microphone right there.
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And I guess this one and this one
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are both for ambient sound rejection, which makes sense.
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You're gonna need an internal mic
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if you want to have any kind of chance
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of active noise cancellation.
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Okay, listening modes.
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Touch and hold for one and a half seconds.
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I do wish that that auditory feedback
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for changing modes would happen once it registers.
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Oh wait, it does eventually.
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So are there three different modes I'm cycling through?
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Okay, I wish it was a little faster.
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I wish it was one second.
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Okay, so let's hear transparent mode.
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This is full pass through.
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Hi, how are you guys doing?
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I'm doing good, yourself?
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I will say compared to the XM5s that we just looked at,
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oh, sorry, the over the ear.
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So WH-1000XM5s, one more is not doing as good a job
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of naturally passing through my surroundings to me,
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but to their credit, my voice in my own head
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sounds way more natural and it's far less off-putting.
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I also don't have voice enhancement on yet.
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So can you guys hit me with a voice again?
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Hi.
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Jono, you wanna talk to me at all?
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I think you're a swell guy.
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Oh my God, don't suck up.
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I do think you're a swell guy.
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I don't detect much difference between them,
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but both of them are absolutely usable.
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It's nice to have easy access
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to just no active noise cancellation.
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That can help you save some battery
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if you just want to passively block out noise.
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They are IEMs and there's no actual air channel
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through them or anything like that.
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So they will naturally block a lot of the surrounding noise.
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And then ANC is gonna take that to another level.
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By default, they're on strong.
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And I can tell you that quieted down
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basically all of the ambient noise here.
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No strong pressure sensation,
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but even their strong is not the strongest I've encountered.
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I can say that much already.
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Now, the thing about clapping is that any ANC
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is gonna have trouble with that,
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but you'll still be able to take some of the edge off of it.
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I will say that it is surprising how far we've come
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for anything other than an Apple
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or a Bose product for active noise cancellation performance.
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Like we are gonna need to do a serious ANC roundup.
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Once we've got our dummy head working and all of that,
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guys, check out that LTT video.
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It's coming very soon.
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We're gonna be benchmarking like $40,000 dummy heads
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for testing acoustic equipment.
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Sound ID.
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Oh, this is that personalization thing.
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Choose the sound you like.
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This is a really cool way of doing this.
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So it plays around with the EQ a little bit.
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And then you just A, B, choose which one you like.
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And then it kind of dials it down and dials it down.
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We're at the point now where they are extremely close.
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Okay.
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Let's see what my sound signature is.
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Obviously that could be genre specific,
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but they actually do a pretty good job of providing
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at least a handful of different genres for you to choose from.
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It's now personalized.
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Okay.
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Well, what does this mean?
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Are you gonna show me what my, like,
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EQ is?
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Oh, well that's lame.
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Okay. Well, there's a bit of feedback that I would provide.
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I'd like to see what kind of EQ I ended up choosing.
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Sure.
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How about some ABBA?
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ABBA is a really cool way
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for any idiot normie
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to go through and dial in a customized EQ.
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Because the reality of it is
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between two similarly priced headphones,
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a lot of the time you can make up a lot of the difference
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between them by EQ-ing too much bass out
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or by EQ-ing down some of the sparkle and the highs.
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And so by just having this simple little setup process
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that's really intuitive,
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these just sound really good.
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How much do they cost anyway?
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170 bucks.
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Okay. So they're priced right up there
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with what you would expect for a pair
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of feature rich wireless in-ears.
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But honestly, like I see a ton of value
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in that particular aspect of the software,
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more than just about anything else.
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Like they sound great
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because I tuned them to make sure
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they would sound great to me.
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I ended up making it all the way through the video
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before remembering to do this test call
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to check out the mic.
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So, hey John, are you recording the call?
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Yep. I am recording.
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Well, I would ask how I sound,
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but honestly it's kind of irrelevant
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because we're going to let the audience decide
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for themselves how I sound.
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You sound great though.
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Thank you. You sound fantastic.
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Thank you.
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I mean, in fairness,
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there's not actually a whole lot of like ambient noise
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around me right now though.
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Do we even...
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Do we really have anything
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that makes a ton of noise at the moment?
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Mark kind of makes a lot of noise.
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Mark, okay.
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That's not the kind of noise though.
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It has to be like traffic noise, like that kind of thing.
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Okay. Here's something.
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I can rattle this chain.
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Okay. So I'm talking to you
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while I am raising a bay door.
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I don't know.
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I don't know how much this is making a difference or not.
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Okay, cool.
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So that's kind of what it's supposed to sound like.
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And then whatever Jono has
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decided is what it's managing to subtract from it.
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No, they're not IE 600s,
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which we checked out recently.
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Guys, you can check that video out
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if you're looking for something else to watch,
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but they also aren't intended to be.
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They don't have a wire.
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It would also be really nice if it spat out the EQ
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and then, you know how it says,
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hey, you should listen to some music and try it out.
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So it should spit out your EQ,
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then allow you to play some music and fine tune things
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so that you can find something that works across
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the different genres that you like.
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I definitely didn't leave enough in the highs
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for music like this, for example.
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Still tons of potential.
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Just like you have the potential to subscribe.
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Thanks one more for sponsoring this video
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and thanks to you for watching.
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See you soon.