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You don't have to spend hundreds of dollars to get great Hi-Res Audio reproduction with solid Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) and even an ENC-enabled microphone to eliminate background noise. Audio and tech expert Dave Taylor checks out the 1MORE Sonoflow Hi-Res Audio Bluetooth headphones and finds they're an excellent choice for almost all users. And oh! That crazy affordable price...
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High-res audio ANC and great battery life. Let's check these out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out these these are the one more Sono flow high-res audio headphones and they're pretty darn sweet even better
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They're at a very reasonable price, but we'll get there Let me start out by telling you that they have 40 millimeter drivers featuring DLC composite diaphragms
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Putting out really nice audio. So they're not only high-res audio, but they're high-res audio
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Wireless too, which is not exactly the same thing. They handle both. They also are compatible with LDAC as a
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Compression algorithm, which is three times better than regular audio music. So you're gonna get really nice
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Crisp and detailed reproduction from these they also have what they call quiet max ANC or active noise
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Canceling which is pretty cool. Now. I will warn you that in the carrying case. Let me just open this up
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It's this hard case not hugely a fan But at least they put some effort into making it small in the carrying case
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it also includes two little cables one of which is a 3.5 millimeter cable and that is so you can use these in wired mode if they
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Battery is run out or you just want to just take a break from the endless Bluetooth. You can run them in wired mode
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However in wired mode the ANC doesn't work. That's pretty typical for most of these sort of headphones, but it's something you should know
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Most likely though you'll be using them wirelessly. And then the other cable is actually a
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USB-C to USB-A My music on USB-C to USB-A charging cable because that's how you charge them now
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You can see it's a pretty sleek and low-key design and it expands the head part
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Padded the ear pieces are padded. There's a nice big R and L
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So, you know without anyone else having to see you can very easily figure out orientation to make sure you put them on correctly
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Which is important because there are buttons on both actually No, I guess the buttons are all just on the right hand side
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The left earpiece has that USB-C plug for charging but on the right hand side
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I'll give you a close-up It has four buttons and they're spread out in a really sort of weird way
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So all the way to the right hand side is power and of course all of these buttons do multiple things depending on if you push them once or twice or long or short and
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Then there's volume up and down and then the furthest button all the way on the top is
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Actually to turn on and off ANC and it does some other things like actually let you answer phone calls
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Because it also has a built-in microphone, so I'm gonna give you a demo of that in just a minute but
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Battery wise I told you it had great battery life 70 hours of battery life now that's without ANC turn on ANC and you drop about 20 25 percent of that
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But still that's 50 hours with ANC. There's a lot of battery life now it turns out
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One of the other things that turn out is that it pairs with an app
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So when you get your phone and you get it all paired, let me get find the app here somewhere the other here
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It is and I'll show it to you by recording my screen
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So you can see here on the app that it shows my headphones and it lets me change ANC mode
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so I'm gonna put on proper ANC and So now that's gonna make a big difference if I had them on my head and I was in a noisy
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Environment and then there are sound options and what one more is really proud of is that they have a lot of preset
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EQ settings and it's fun to play with them listen to your favorite music and try different settings
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But you can also do your own custom so you can drag things up Maybe there we go and you can drag things down
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Depending on if you want more or less of the music at that particular Frequency if you listen to things like podcasts or audiobooks that can be very helpful
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to just get rid of some of the really the bass and some of the highest of the highs just to get that mid-range where
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Our volume is for when we're speaking that really can be good
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You can do firmware updates OTA stands for over the air. I just become a popular acronym. I'm not sure why everyone likes it, but
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There's a quick guide and then what I like is there are also lots of soothing sounds
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I'm gonna go ahead and put these on then I'm gonna go into soothing sounds and we'll just do water
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and So now it's as if I have a sleep machine with some calm sound effects, but you can see
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They have a lot of different sounds There's a lot of different ways that you can get this to really help you relax if you're at a stressful
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Pause that if you're at a stressful point at work or you know
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Someone's just been really upset and you just need to chill out. This is exactly where that can be really helpful
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I don't know that I would go to sleep with these on they're not that comfortable But they are pretty darn comfortable and very light. There are only 250 grams
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So there's really not a lot on your head. They are nice and loose
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So they're tight enough that you get a good seal around your ear
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But they're loose enough that you don't feel like your head's in a vice which I can promise you is not a good feeling
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It's multi-point Bluetooth 5.0 so you can connect to two devices Simultaneously and it'll figure out which one's actually sending it audio so that it knows which one to switch to
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That is super helpful because you can have it on your laptop And then if your phone rings you can just switch to your phone for a call
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Without having to unpair and repair and fiddle around with it all like that So all of that's really great. Let me give you a demo of the actual
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microphone because it does have ENC as I said, let me see we can get to voice here and
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What you're hearing now is you're hearing what this is picking up through its microphone and it does have
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Environmental noise cancelling that's what ENC stands for and as you can hear it does a pretty good job
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So that ENC if I was in a noisy environment it would help cut out some of the background noise so that you'd hear my voice and
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Hopefully not be too distracted by other people on the train other people in the office other people at school
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Wherever it is that you're using these so audio very nice. Now, let me stop this and
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Let's talk about its actual audio reproduction because that's probably the most important feature, right and I gotta say these Sony
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Oh flow do a really good job. Now one more has long since established that they're doing really good
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Budget audiophile level equipment and these follow in those footsteps. They have a really nice soundstage
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There's a technical accuracy to them. Everything's very clear and precise. I was listening to a lot of music
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I was listening to some Bollywood music soundtracks and oh my gosh, it just sounded so good
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There was just a rich warmth to the sound really a lot to like here
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You know that really nice sound reproduction and the ANC that you can obviously turn on and off with your app or through that
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ANC button so you can do it either way And the ENC for making it work while with the microphone if you're on a phone call
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I have to say I'm not a huge fan of being on calls when I have a pair of headphones on
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But maybe you are or maybe it's just you need to make a quick call or speak to someone very briefly
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It's really nice to not have to take these off and then have to put your phone by your ear and stuff
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That's probably a lot more work than you want to do So the fact that this does have a mic and the mic works
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Well is just like a nice bonus as I said, it comes with 3.5 millimeter comes with that
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USB-C charging cable and it comes with this hard case and it's a pretty nice hard case and you can see these headphones
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Actually fold up and they are convenient for travel You can just take them like that in your bag or backpack or if you turn them
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Sideways, you can then figure out how to get them to fit in the case
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This is something that requires a little bit of fiddling around because they actually have an illustration
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In the guide on how to get these to fit in the case, which I think is actually kind of funny
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But good news is that when you're ready to listen to them again, they snap back out
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You can check your earpiece to make sure you have it oriented correctly and you're ready to go
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It's super easy to work with and they really sound very good
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now one of the other really great things about these is the price and
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Let me get back to my music because it keeps playing the music which is what it should do
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But the price is gonna really surprise you but before we get to the price
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Excellent, these are the one more Sonoflow high-res audio headphones and they're
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$99 at Amazon, but right now there's a $20 coupon available dropping them down to
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$79 at amazon.com That is a pretty killer price for something with this level of audio reproduction and high-res audio and LDAC and
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ANC and ENC and a microphone and all of that. There's a lot going on here. They're comfortable
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They're very low-key in their design lots to like lots to check out. That's all I got
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I think I'm gonna go back to my soundtracks. So I'll have to catch you in my next video
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