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You don't have to be an audiophile to appreciate the terrific Audeze Euclid Planar Magnetic In-Ear Headphones, but if you are, you'll totally appreciate the great specs. For the rest of us, they sound excellent and offer a surprisingly versatile listening experience, with 3.5mm, 4.4mm balanced, and 1/4-inch jacks. The "Cipher" Bluetooth adapter even lets you enjoy the Euclid wirelessly! But as great as the hardware is, the packaging leaves a lot to be desired, as tech expert and audio fan Dave Taylor explains in this detailed review...
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Elevate your audio experience with these tiny in-ear headphones. Let's check them out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out these. They're small but these are the
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Audis Euclid planar magnetic in-ear headphones and they're pretty remarkable. They're also pretty small and they use what's known as the MMCX plug. So here's
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the actual earbud itself. This is where all the magic happens and it's a pretty
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small little device that's a combination of aluminum and carbon fiber. But oh my
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gosh such good sound. It features 18 millimeter single planar magnetic drivers and the specs on these are very impressive. Remember these are not big
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monster headphones. These are just tiny little earbuds basically and they have a
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105 decibel sensitivity, a maximum SPL of 120 decibels, 10 to 50,000 Hertz
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frequency response and total harmonic distortion of less than 0.1% at 100
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decibels and they're 12 ohm impedance. And even better they come with both the
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4.4 millimeter balanced. Yay! I'm so happy to get 4.4 millimeter balanced and they
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also have 3.5 millimeter braided if you have that older connection. So really
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really nice. They feature a 5 millimeter ear port and a ton of different types of
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ear tips. I'll show you that in just a second. Let me tell you that it also includes, so
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it also works and they're over ear. They're sort of, it's sort of a funky way
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to put them on but you put it over your ear, the wire over your ear and then you
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put the earbud in your ear. So it takes a little bit of getting the hang of it
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but do that on both sides and it's actually pretty easy once you get the
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basics. So there we go. They're both in, ready to go and now I can just plug this
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into any audio source. Now this is the 4.4 millimeter balanced so luckily I
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happen to have this. This is the IFI Go Bar portable DAC and it's terrific and
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one of the things I most like about it is it is 3.5 millimeter and 4.4 millimeter
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balanced connections. So I can just plug it in and then I can just listen right
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off my phone and get a really great audio experience. Now the better your
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source the better it's all going to sound so I was using Tidal but you could
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use Spotify, you could use Pandora, you can use Apple Music. There's obviously a
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ton of different sources for you to be able to get nice sounding audio but
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before I talk about the audio let me actually show you what's in the box
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because as much as Audis has engineered beautiful headphones these are really
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nice. I have to say their packaging doesn't really live up to snuff. These
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are $1,300 earbuds right? They are really top-end but it comes in a
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waterproof plastic container and in fact some of the pieces don't even fit in
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there. So open this up and inside there is a bag and this bag contains all the
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different ear tips. So it has a little tiny clip if you want to clip the wire
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to your shirt so it doesn't dangle and then whoops there is a tiny tool to
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clean things that just fell. And then there are three sizes of comply
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isolation ear tips which are the sort of foam ear tips that you squish and squeeze
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and then put it in your ear and then it expands to give you the best possible
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fit. So here's the third one there's three of those and then it comes with
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three different sizes of their own silicone ear tips. So I actually switch
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to the large size which is what I do as a sort of typical move. Take the time to
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try different sizes you will get better results when you have the right size in
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and you can tell because the bass will go from that's pretty good to wow that's
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a lot of bass. And then the third thing is the third choice is they have these
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spin fire ear tips too which are kind of fun to play with. They're designed not to
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just go straight in your ear but for you to sort of turn it as you go. So you
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have a lot of different choices to get a really comfortable fit and that really
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comfortable fit is important. Now back to the packaging there is a card that gives
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you the link to the downloads for drivers as needed. There is a card that
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is a certificate of authenticity. When you get to this level you want to make
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sure it's not some knockoff. There is a very small user guide and then also in
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the box are the spaces for the two actual in-ear headphones and then
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there's space for one of the two wires. This is what I was saying about the
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packaging. So this is the 3.5 millimeter and get to the end here so that's the
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3.5 millimeter and because as I said these are gold-plated MMCX plugs you can
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take these units and you can plug them into either of these wires or you can
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supply your own MMCX. If you have something where it's like a coil like an
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old phone cord you could use that. You know it's a standard for the industry
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and it's finally some standards that actually work well and you can also use
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this quarter inch adapter on the 3.5 millimeter so you have lots of options
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there. So that's that packaging and comes with a little carabiner but this
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whole thing I gotta say I expected it to be in like a velvet case and I was gonna
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open it up like some Tiffany diamond necklace or something. I mean this is at
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that level of price right and it just comes like this and it's just like hmm
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maybe that's the one thing the company needs to work on a little bit to give
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you that great out-of-box experience. Now they also sent me one more piece which
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is this let me sort of unwind it and show you because the MMCX is a standard
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connection that means you can also get this Bluetooth adapter. So if you really
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want to you can use this plug these into here and you can use this as a
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Bluetooth set of in-ear headphones if you want and that comes with a charger
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it's micro USB charging my least favorite port but this is at least very
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affordable although by itself it doesn't get you anything because you still need the units but if you have all of this it's super versatile it gives
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you a lot of options and a lot of possibilities. So that's everything in
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the box and as you can see I am using that DAC and I'm hooking it up to my
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iPhone 14 Pro and okay now let's talk about the sound because I've talked
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about everything else here so the sound is fantastic it's really good it's
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really on the top end of one of the probably half dozen best audio
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reproductions that I've heard and I was listening to some music from Tambuco and
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they're such a great percussion group and it just sounded fantastic big sound
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stage very precise sound reproduction all the way from the low ends all the
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way on up to the ring of the cymbals and stuff everything just sounded so
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good it was just one of these things there's certain audio gear that when I
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plug it in and I just start going through my playlists I'll just close my
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eyes and just let the music take me away as they say and it's just such a pleasant
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experience it's just like wow listen to all that detail in the music that I
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usually don't hear so I gotta say I'm really a big fan of these you know I
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have to say as I've already mentioned the packaging could do with a rev maybe
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they can hire someone from Apple to teach them how to do world-class
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packaging this is kind of a mess here let's untangle all this but it really
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all with any of these audio devices it comes down to sound reproduction and
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sound fantastic they really sound good if you have it in your budget to get
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some really high-end units and you don't want to have some monster headphones
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that are just super hard to carry around these are obviously eminently portable
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and super easy to work with and they sound really good which means we do need
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to talk about the price but before we get to the price I'm gonna ask if you
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shot I hope that's demonstrated in this review but I'm always gonna be candid
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with you so subscribe we're connected awesome now these hold them up again are
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the Audis Euclid planar magnetic in-ear headphones and they are $12.99 at
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audis.com or if you use the affirm payment system you can get them for a
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hundred and nine a month for 12 months I think this is how that would work out
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mathematically and if you're interested in this Bluetooth adapter this is known
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as the Audis cipher Bluetooth adapter and it's only $120 so yeah 120 bucks for
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something that doesn't actually do anything without the little earpieces but it does give you a lot more versatility when you plug it all
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together so that's everything I've got on these I really want to go back to my
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Tambuco so I'm gonna just go ahead and put these on give me just a second to
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put them in my ears there's one having longer hair is not always convenient in
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this regard there's the other one so you can see pretty darn easy to get them in
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and I'm back to my music via my 4.4 millimeter balanced so cool so suffice
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to say I'll have to catch you in my next video
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