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Vendors claim things, but can you believe 'em? When Anker Soundcore insisted that their new SPIRIT Sports Earphones were completely waterproof "like a submarine", we decided to give 'em a test!
In this review tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ takes the Soundcore SPIRIT for a spin and finds it a very nice addition to your audio gear and even more so if you love hitting the gym and cranking some music while you're puttin' in the reps.
Learn more at https://amzn.to/2lUsEEa
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when you can put your earphones in a
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glass of water they're waterproof let's
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check these out Dave Taylor here and I'm
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looking at sports earphones that's
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what's actually in this glass of water
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and you're looking at that and you're
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going what why would you do that the
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answer is because if there's sports
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earphones they have to have a certain
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level of waterproof they have to be
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sweat resistant they have to be able to
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work with you even if you're out on a
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run and it starts raining or you're just
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sweating up a storm because it's a
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really good workout so enter these I
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shall pull them out of their glass of
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water these are the sound cor spirit
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sports earphones and they're actually
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really cool some just dry them off real
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quick and as you can see one thing is
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that the earpieces have a magnet which
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makes it very nice if you are like many
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people I know and you like to just sort
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of carry them like this that works
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really well now when you're ready to
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wear them you can either wear them with
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the wire behind your head or you can
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wear them on the wire in front of your
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head either way works totally fine as
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you can see they do have that sort of
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ear catch part to it the little hang
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here pretty sure you can take that off
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if you don't like it but it comes with a
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ton of different sizes of everything so
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here's our let's get our little stunt
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shot here is these are all the ear tips
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and extra ear pieces that you can use to
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get a perfect fit for your own ear so
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they're actually called ear wings these
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are ear wings now you know that also
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comes with a little clip if you want to
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have that wire clipped onto your clothes
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somewhere and it also comes with some
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we're in this pile it's this little tiny
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tie clip thing I've never used such a
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beast but it is included more
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importantly the headphones also include
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this really nice little snap open soft
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plat a brick case that's also beneficial
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but honestly let's not talk about the
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accessories let's talk about the
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headphones themselves so these use
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composite drivers and they're running
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bluetooth 5.0 very nice
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much less susceptible to breakup or to
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have issues if you're not exactly within
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a foot or two of your device which
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frankly you probably will be anyway but
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Bluetooth 5.0 is much better with
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connectivity they also have what they
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call base up which is a boost for the
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low end and actually works surprisingly
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well so I actually really like these
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earphones they actually have a
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surprisingly good sound particularly for
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the money and you know there's not a
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lushness to the sound it's not a big
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rich sound that you might get out of
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more expensive earbuds or headphones or
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something but for what they are and for
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the size that they are and for the
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functionality the sound will surprise
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you it's actually quite good now it
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features as I said ipx7 so they talk
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about submarine inspired design I don't
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know about the submarine thing but I
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will say that I've had them immersed in
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water for a couple hours and then I take
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them out dry them off and they are ready
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to go no issues no buzzing no nothing so
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that's actually a really nice feature
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might be something you would test with
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your own earphones and see what happens
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now if you damage your earphones well
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yeah it's on you dude so chill out okay
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fish them out again and it's nice
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actually because my iPhone 10 is also
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waterproof so I don't have to worry
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about if it drips on that but dry it off
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and we are back in action now the unit
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also features some microphones so you
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can use this for phone calls and when I
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did a test phone call the person on the
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other end sounded really good to me but
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they were saying that I sounded a little
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bit muffled but you know not terribly so
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and we certainly continued to have a
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conversation so not sure what their
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expectations were versus me being in the
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room or versus a regular telephone call
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but certainly functional and that's good
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enough for me because secretly I don't
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really like talking on the phone anyway
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now takes one and a half to two hours
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for a full charge and then depending on
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the volume you're using you can get
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around eight hours of playback time
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which is really nice because that means
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if you
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charge this every two or three days on
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your way to the gym then you're gonna be
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good to go for you know the weeks and
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months on end by just remembering you
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know every sell off and give it a little
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boost or a little extra charge as I said
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it comes with lots of different sized
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ear tips comes with lots of different
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sized ear wings so it's actually four
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different ear tips sizes three different
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ear wing sizes and the travel pouch
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don't forget that and that's really all
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I have to tell you we interrupt the
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video to highlight two extra features
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that weren't in the original footage
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number one inline controller three
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button pretty standard design so its
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volume up and down forward backward
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track and then the middle button is
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power pause play on/off so on and so
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forth easy strimm poll straightforward
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there's the micro USB charging plug on
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the side it works it's good now second
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thing I wanted to say is that they're
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also great audio cues in the system so
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when you power it up when you power it
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down when you connect on bluetooth
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whatever it is you get really nice
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little audio cues not words but
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different sounds that give you the
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feedback that things happen the way you
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want that's particularly important when
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you want to know that you did in fact
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turn it off and that you're not going to
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be draining the battery so that's great
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and now back to your regular video in
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terms of like the soundstage and all of
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that audiophile stuff these are not
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audiophile headphones these are however
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really nice sounding headphones that are
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going to work great for the gym your
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audiobooks or podcasts are gonna sound
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really good and if you're listening to
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music while you're out running or
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something well be careful so you're
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aware of your environment it's another
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issue but it's gonna sound perfectly
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fine so I'm really really impressed with
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the sound course spirit these are a good
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solid choice at this price point now
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before we get to the price speaking of
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which let me ask if you can click on
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definitely appreciated here on YouTube
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cool now finally these are these sound
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course spirit sports earphones and they
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will cost you thirty two ninety-nine at
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amazon.com now pay attention to the
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price because the price seems too
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up and down a few bucks so you might do
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a little comparison shopping before you
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click that Buy button but it's a good
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choice and I am actually going to go
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back to listening to my own podcast
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touch well someone else's podcast
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listening to a podcast so I will catch
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you in my next video
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