Antec Mobile Products ISO & DBS Earbuds Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing first look at another aspect of ank's new amp thing
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they got going on antech mobile products the one we already had to look at was
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the sp1 and this one is sort of a similar to jam boox by Jawbone portable
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uh USB charging Bluetooth speaker guy
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that actually sounds a lot better than Jambox by Jawbone so I'm hoping to see
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similar results with these kinds of devices so here we have the iso which is
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uh for wireless music and calls so it's basically a wireless headphone with mik
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thingamabobber okay so again this is nothing revolutionary nothing we've
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never seen before just anex take on the
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whole mobile products thing okay next
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we've got the DBS which is just a pair
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of IMS so well not just a pair of iems I hope it's a good pair of imem but I
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guess we'll find once we open it up so here's the iso here's what it looks like
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on the side of the packaging here's the DBS uh let's see what antech has to say
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for themselves on the inside here so there's lots of languages none of which
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look like English to me and on the back there's English Superior design inear
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noise suppression remember this is the iso this is the wireless guy okay high
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definition Bluetooth technology full range drivers provide exceptional sound built in microphone and controls place
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and pickup calls compact form practor DBS one technology superiorly designed
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indor suppression and up to eight hours high capacity batteries all righty then
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let's open that up and have a look at
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the earbuds themselves and how the whole
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thing works so the first thing we find is a user's manual although this should
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be pretty straightforward shows you how to use the controls you got volume up
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volume down next song previous song pairing and Power on off play pause
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phone call function so that's sort of a multi-purpose button car and maintenance
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keep dry do not store in a damp place or direct sunlight and all kinds of oh
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active noise cancelling is included with these that's cool
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okay so let's go ahead and uh how on Earth does this come
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acart oh there we
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go so you got your standard imem sort of
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thing going on here where you have sort of speakers that sit like this and then
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things that go in your ears like this see you'll look like this with them
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in do I look stylent enough for you guys thank you well we'll have to sort
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of do something about that and then the uh the wireless module here so this is a
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battery module it is um a Bluetooth
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module it is a control pod and that's
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actually kind of cool so there's your back forward your pairing as well as
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your power and or rather your power your
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play pause pick up calls don't pick up calls volume up and down and then it
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just Clips onto stuff that's it's actually kind of neat maybe I'm just a
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shut in but I've actually never seen sort of this kind of an implementation
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before I'm I'm sure someone's done it before but uh you know what it comes
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down to audio quality for me so give us a second and we'll get this fired up now
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after spending some time auditioning them the whole device actually works
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very very well so it's really nice to have such a low profile thing you can
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just kind of clip it somewhere clip it here and then you've got okay don't clip
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it there clip it somewhere else clip it somewhere closer to you so clip it sort
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of here and then actually that's sort of
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awful um but you can clip it somewhere nearby and then you can run your music
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off of this little pod that runs for kind of 10 hours or so sound quality
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would be what I would say is kind of consumer grade um lots of Base however
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the mids and highs were a little bit on the muddy side about what I'd expect
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because that seems to be what people want these days but there you go it also
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includes uh three different sizes of uh
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rubber pieces for theems and I think that pretty much wraps it up for the
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isos right and the charging cable as well now let's turn our attention to the
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DBS so what do these have to say for themselves full range drivers provide
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exceptional sound Superior designed in near noise suppression oh yeah and the
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noise suppression on these is outstanding um extreme zero loss
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performance cables sturdy lightweight construction and tangle-free nylon
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cables so they must be zero loss nylon cables zero loss is
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probably kind of a misnomer because nothing has zero
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loss let's go ahead and open that up and
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go ahead and open these up I have no idea where they would have gotten the
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idea to style these in red and black
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from no idea at all but if they remind
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you of anything then it's probably purely coincidence because unlike Beats
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by Dre earbuds um which have ribbon
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cables these have nylon cables okay so
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that should make them relatively easy to untangle same thing here where we've got
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uh actually not that many this time so
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oh yeah there they are so we've got three different sizes of rubber bits
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here so we have a big one a small one and the medium one ships on the one
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that's the right size for me anyway so I'll go ahead and try these out and see
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what are my initial Impressions honestly guys take everything that I say for the
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sort of ignorance that it is because the best iems that I've ever used are cpch
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S4 I um and those I really liked so
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there you go whoops that was a little loud okay well
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these are a lot louder than the wireless ones I'll give it that
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but okay pretty similar overall sound it
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doesn't take long to figure it out there's a lot of bass again a lot of
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bass but the mids and the highs are something where if you're really into
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listening to music where the mids and the highs are more important than the bass so anything but sort of your hip
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hop your rap um then they might not be something that you'd be as into so thank
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