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Beyerdynamic is more known for its high end audiophile headphones, so the Custom One Pro is an interesting, far more affordable option. It also has an unusual design element: A sliding switch on each earpiece that lets you boost the bass to quite extreme levels. Some people can't have enough bass - like my teen daughter! - while others like to hear the full range of music.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the bass boost with the Beyerdynamic Custom One Pro Plus and isn't as impressed as he expected, as explained in this detailed video review.
Warning: lots of sound effects added. Possibly too many. :-)
Learn more about the Custom One Pro Plus: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PK2LJ4E/
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headphones with super base enhancement
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let's find out if they're worth
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it Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about headphones this time I want to
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talk about these These are really
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interesting these are the Bayer Dynamic
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Custom 1 Pro plus plus is plus an
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accessory kit so let's start there all
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right so you can see here that on the
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ear cups there is this space on each
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side these headphones come with all
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these cool inserts so there's a lot of
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different designs in fact they are
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two-sided designs so there's quite a lot
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of different ways that you can customize
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the look of your headphones that's super
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fun but of course really what matters
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with headphones is what do they sound
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like so let's talk about these because
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these have super base
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enhancement and what does that look like
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it's these slider switches on both of
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the ear pieces that actually let you go
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from a normal standard um audio to
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having enhanced super enhanced crazy
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super enhanced base and you know what
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they sound really good when you don't
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have it on at all so maybe it's just the
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kind of music I listen to but I've tried
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you know some fairly Industrial Music
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and some more techn pop and stuff and
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the Bas is just kind of Overkill it just
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gives you so much base that there's
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really not much space for anything else
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in your music so the good news is you
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can even adjust them while you have your
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headphones on you can literally just
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move the slider up and down it's a
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little stiff but you can do that and
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just hear what is my music sound like
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with all that extra base or what does it
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sound like without it now I'm doing this
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but don't be confused these are not
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wireless headphones you are required to
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plug in a wire and what's cool is they
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include two wires so this one is your
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more standard headphone wire and it has
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as you can see an adapter if you want to
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use an old school headphone jack or 3.5
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mm but the cooler one is this one which
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is a little shorter but it has a
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built-in remote mic and so you can
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actually plug it in
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and now you can actually take phone
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calls with it so of course I immediately
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had to try that by plugging it into my
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phone and making a phone call and the
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person on the other end it was kind of
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weird they sounded better on these than
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they do in person sorry Steve you just
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sounded great when you were on my
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headphones and he said that I sounded
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Crystal Clear really really good so
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that's really nice and you would expect
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no less from Bay or dynamic cuz they
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really know what they're doing with
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microphones and with headphones
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particularly in the microphone side they
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do a ton of stuff with microphones and
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you know so so really good stuff now let
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me also point out that these are the
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style of headphones that really seal
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around your ears now they're soft and
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there's lots of padding but this really
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there ain't no sound when you put these
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on but they're not active noise
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cancellation so they're not what's
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called andc These are more of what they
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call passive noise cancellation which
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means you can't hear nothing else cuz
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they're on your ears so snug um on a hot
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day when you're sweating these are not
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going to be great but normal listening
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environment these are a nice way to cut
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out a lot of background noise will they
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compete effectively on something like an
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airplane probably not I think in a
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really loud environment active noise
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cancellation can be a huge win but if
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you just want to hear something while
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you're studying at school or you're at
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work and you just don't want to hear the
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chatter from the people around you while
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you're in your cubicle sorry you're in a
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cubicle so it goes um these can work
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really well now one thing I did find is
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that when I first plugged them in I only
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got one channel of audio and I thought
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hm that's weird so I reversed the cable
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and then I got both channels and I said
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okay so there's something about the
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connector so then I went back to the
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regular connector cuz of course you
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don't really want your microphone at the
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phone end you want your microphone at
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the headphone end so again I put them in
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and what I realized is that they're
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different size ends and I'm not sure why
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they designed it that way but this one
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actually requires a little bit of
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enthusiastic pushing to get it to really
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connect properly and if you don't have
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it in quite far enough then you're going
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to get left Channel audio but not right
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channel audio so it's pretty easy to
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know you didn't do it right but I found
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that to be surprising that I had to push
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it in so enthusiastically and that might
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be something that over time becomes less
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of a hassle let's see what else can I
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tell you so it comes with both cables
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comes with the cool accessory kit which
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is what the plus means comes with this
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little adapter it does not come with a
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carrying case and these do not fold up
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so these are not the greatest portable
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headphones in the world cuz they're
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going to be just like this in your bag
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or your backpack so that's up to you to
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decide if that's an issue um the remote
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microphone is compatible with both
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iPhone and Android cool and let's see
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these there are actually 16 pairs of
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stickers whoa and I haven't decided
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whether I'm going to put any of them on
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but hey I could be hash happppy so there
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is
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that seriously # happppppy are you going
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to put those on yours it's cool I'm not
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judging you I'm not # judging
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you um frequency response is just crazy
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it's way better than you're hearing it
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goes from 5 Hertz up to 35,000 Hertz
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honestly you're not going to be able to
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hear that much I know I can't hear that
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much and in terms of the sound let's
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talk about that for a second I wasn't
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really Blown Away by these now you know
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to be fair beay Dynamic makes some
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really beautiful high-end headphones
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that are in the $900,000 range and they
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have amazing sound
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so I didn't expect these to sound quite
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like that but they sound good but not
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great there's a sort of I don't know
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there's like the mid-range is a little
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low and it's not too bright which is
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nice but I just was wanting a little
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more out of my music than I was getting
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uh kind of hard to describe but they
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sound really good for the price range
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but maybe I've just been spoiled by
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having far more expensive headphones on
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my as a sort of daily wear
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um if you can try them you know I think
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you you'll like them you know you go
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look on Amazon people love the sound on
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these things and frankly some people
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like the base boosts I don't get that
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but they are happy and that's all that
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really matters
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um but you know these are Big
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substantial headphones they're
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comfortable they you can wear them for a
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couple hours they don't have the issue
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I've had with some recent headphones
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where I suddenly feel like my head's
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about 4 in too wide maybe it is I don't
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know but I don't want my headphones
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telling me that um and the 1.6 lb so
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they're not the Super lightest
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headphones in the world but that's also
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because of the style the ere sealing
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style there's a certain amount of
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Hardware you have to do to be able to
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make
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these now speaking about a certain
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amount of things you got to do one of
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the things I'm going to ask you to do
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right now is go ahead and click on that
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subscribe button done great thank you
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really appreciate that now the only
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other question is all right with all
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these cool stickers and everything how
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much do they cost and actually to be
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fair they're not stickers they're like
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little plastic inserts um so these Bayer
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Dynamic custom one Pro Plus
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headphones with the accessory kit
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included and both cables and this box
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how do you not like that box is
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$173 4 I'm not kidding you
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$734 at
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amazon.com why the 4 cents why
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$173 who the heck knows but that's how
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much they are and I like them I don't
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love them but I like them and for some
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people these could be a really rocking
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solution especially if you're just never
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happy with how much base you have just
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be careful that adding more and more
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Basse by using the sliders doesn't end
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up washing out the rest of the range of
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music that you're listen listening to
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but again for some people that might be
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awesome anyway this is Dave Taylor and
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I'll catch you in my next video
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