I have always wanted to try these! - UE Fits Earbuds
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,035 words · ~10 min read
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- I don't know if this is a good thing, but I feel like my whole career has brought me to this moment
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because when I was a kid, I always wanted to have those awesome earphones that are molded
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and custom fit. Today I finally get a chance with something like it.
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The UE FITS. Whoa, cool box.
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I kind of like this. This already looks like it's like molded. So it kind of evokes the whole reason.
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This thing exists. What the heck? Oh, it says ear tips are light sensitive.
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Set up promptly after opening. Maybe I'll just put this aside.
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USB A to C cable, presumably for charging the case.
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Ah, ah, this is like in American Psycho
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when he peels off that like skincare stuff.
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Now let's get to the fun part. Pop both earbuds into your ears,
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gently adjust them until they feel comfortable and secure. You will mold both sides at the same time.
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This is an interesting look, right and left. It says, put them in and kind of twist.
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These already have pretty good isolation. Next, apparently these are molded in 60 seconds.
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Let's do this. Gently hold your Earbuds in place the entire time
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I'm also going to keep my mouth open. Cause I saw the other types of earphones that mold
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they always have like a biting block. - [Andy] What?
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- This is totally my own thing.
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Hmm. It is warm.
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Okay. What a pleasant experience. This is really, it's really warm in the ears,
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and the music that was playing the whole time was really nice. And the visuals that went along with that process, that was
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that was a great experience. The story about the bite block thing. There's been other types of earphones
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that mold to your ears for a long time. They use different methods though, but almost all
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of them ask you to have a bite block. And the reason is when your mouth is like one to two inches open, it'll open your
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ear canals a little more. And that way, when you close your mouth,
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they'll like tighten on the earbuds. So you just, you get it even tighter seal.
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Okay. We're set up. We're in the App now. Press the button to check out
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the equalization curve they've applied. By default, you've got UE signature and you're,
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you can actually see what their signature curve is there. It's not flat it's actually bass in the boost
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and they bring down the highs a little bit, which is interesting.
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It looks like they have some presets, there's Bass Boost Bright, Hi/Lo Boost, Loudness which is just flat
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but louder and Spoken Word, like a preset just for podcasts, I guess.
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And it looks like it takes off the low end which I guess kind of makes sense
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cause people often use like really big compressor mics that make them sound boomier.
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You're like you've ever had a car drive past you when it's listening to a podcast. And it just that's like, (muffled sounds)
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if this were me, I would probably hit the plus button for a new preset.
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And I would just save this flat unless maybe the UE preset
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the EQ that they have on there, maybe that signature accounts for the characteristics
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of these earphones and actually boosting the base
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and taking down the mids, makes it flat. So you might actually be making them worse
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if you just apply the flat EQ, so I don't know,
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regardless, I'm going to test it with the signature, EQ out of the box.
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Like in Norway, like thousands of feet. It's just insane.
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This is like one of the sickest DJ sets ever.
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Oh, there's a big drop coming. I'm excited for this.
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(music builds) It's pretty immersive.
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How loud is it though? If it's super loud, then that's just kind of cheating.
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Oh, the bass just kicked in, it's low.
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Andy's trying to talk to me, I can't hear you. What? You can hear my, it's bleeding.
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- [Andy] Yeah! - It's not even that loud, here, I'll max it out. It's about halfway, Oh, I don't even want to max it.
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It goes pretty loud. Hoa! I'm going to test now.
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Will they pause when I take them out?
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Nope, Still playing. I can Name my headphones, single tap On and Off,
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double tap On and Off. Okay, So that's where you're working with single and double taps.
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You can have these set up so that the actions are symmetrical on both earphones or you can have different commands for each ear.
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So let's see on the left right now there it's Play and Pause and so is the right,
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but you can also go Next Track, Previous Track, Volume Up and Volume Down.
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I'm going to go for Double Tap on the left is Previous
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and double tap on the right is Next.
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And then I'll single tap will be Play and Pause. I guess I'll just do Volume on my phone.
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So these options aren't as rich as what we saw on the Razer Hammerheads.
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There's no triple tap. There's no long press, but this is workable.
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It's not my favorite, but it's workable. You could get used to it.
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These single taps are doing nothing like how hard
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and how flat does my pad have to be on here?
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Okay. That registered with double. I'm going to toggle single top on and off.
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It is cool that you can toggle these different interactions just off if you want.
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Yeah, the single tap is just not working for me. I'm going to try changing the single tap
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to a different action, like Volume Down. Let's see if that does anything. That's working.
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Okay, I do not recommend tying volume actions to a single tap because you're gonna end
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up going volume down, down, down, down, down and then that's going to be a double tap and change songs
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which is what just happened to me. Okay, now I'm going to make it Play, Pause
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and see if that does anything.
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Okay, we got it. We just had to change it and change it back.
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Still, the interaction isn't very consistent. You can see, of all those strikes,
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only the final one did anything. It seems like you gotta be really deliberate.
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You can't just say quickly go like that. Oh, actually that did work.
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And that was like a glancing one. Okay. So it seems like it's less about where
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and the contact and more about the impact. If I hit it with like pretty good, nevermind.
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Nevermind. That didn't do anything. Okay. So the interaction is a bit spotty
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but I think you could probably get used to it. But I just learned something new.
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I had the earphones disconnected from my phone and then the charge case died.
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Even though the ear phones still have lots of battery on them, then I went to reconnect the
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earphones to my phone and I couldn't reconnect them. Even though they have battery, I think this thing needs to
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have some battery for them to reconnect. So I plugged it in, put the earphones back inside
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then it reconnected. I don't think all wireless earphones work like that.
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I don't think my SoundCore Liberty 2 Pro's work like that. Although they have buttons on them for pairing.
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So that's probably the difference there. Just something to be aware of.
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Now I want to test another claim from Ultimate Ears which is that they're like the best fitting ear phone,
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that they have this Fall Out Free fit. So for that, I'm going to need some very noisy
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heavy metal music to bang my head around to while listening. And I'm going to use arguably System's best song,
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Deer Dance. (loud music playing)
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While they're in there, those are not a, whoo, kind of dizzy.
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I'm confident you could, you could do burpees
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or honestly you could probably get slapped in the face with these on.
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They're going to stay. There's still one other intermittent issue I keep having
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with these is that I get a spotty connection sometimes.
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And it's really disconcerting because maybe they'll go away with an update.
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Maybe I'm the only one experiencing it. And it has to do with my phone or something
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but maybe like five or 10% of people who buy these will have these connection
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issues where it starts studing or stuttering or hitching. That leads me to my final take
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on these earphones, the 250 bucks. But to me, these are pretty much comparable
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to other $200 ear phones I've used, except I guess they tack on an extra 50 bucks
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for the forming quality. I kind of wish they didn't
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but the industrial design is awesome. I think they look good.
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They look unique. They don't look like AirPods rip offs, they don't look like generic beans.
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The sound quality is great. The fit is very comfortable.
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I could probably wear these for hours. The interaction is okay.
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I could probably get used to that and the connection issue or I don't know about that.
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So I would recommend these, especially since they have a 30 day guarantee
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you can send them back after. And that's really nice to see considering
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that these are one-time use. Once you mold these to your ears, there's no going back.
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They do say that they're going to sell replacement
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silicone tips on their website.
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I don't think you can buy them just yet though. And unless you buy new ones,
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you can't redo the molding process like you can with some other moldables.
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So I think that it's pretty safe to audition them for for a month.
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See if you have a connection issue, see if you like the fit
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and then if it doesn't work out for you, send them back. It's nice that they're giving you the option.
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Also I'd be remiss, if I didn't show you the other colors now, I can only just show you these briefly
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because as soon as the light hits them they're going to start the molding process.
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So these ones are black and these ones are lilac.
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That looks a little different cause it's still in the plastic. But I think those are nice color options.
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I personally, I think I'd go with the white. If you liked this video hit like hit subscribe
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and hit us up in the comment section if you end up getting these things with how well that EQ setting works
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the podcast EQ, I want to know how that works. You know what? If you have to listen
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to a podcast to test it, why not check out the Carpool Critics movie podcast co-hosted by myself
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David and Riley from TechLinked. See you later.