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Great ANC and great sound are a solid foundation for headphones, but the Cleer Enduro ANC Headphones one up that with astonishing battery life. 60 hours, with active noise cancelling enabled the whole time. That's a charge! Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Cleer Enduro ANC Headphones and finds them a great addition to the Cleer lineup of audiophile gear without the ridiculous pricing.
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Wireless ANC headphones with crazy battery life. Let's check these out
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Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out these. These are the Clear Enduro ANC headphones
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and they are pretty sweet. They have really nice sound, they have excellent ANC
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and they have a battery life you won't believe. Now, let's start with the basics. So, they feature 40mm ironless drivers and aptX adaptive
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so they're going to sound really good, and if you have an aptX compatible device
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like an Android phone, then they're going to sound even better. Now, powered by Bluetooth 5.0, and the ANC, or Active Noise Cancelling
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actually can drop as much as 25 decibels of background and ambient noise from your environment
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and that's a lot. These are going to be really great on an airplane, on a train
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if you're on your commute, if you're just walking around the city, and you just don't want to hear all of those hums and whirs and low frequency sounds
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All of that is exactly right in the wheelhouse for good ANC
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Now, they also have two microphones for phone calls, and the person on the other end
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they say that you sound pretty good, but still, you have that fundamental mathematics
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which is that my voice is going this way, and the microphones are up here
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They do use Qualcomm CVC 8th Gen, so they are trying to get rid of some of that background noise
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when you're talking, too. So, I found them good for phone calls
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It's a little disconcerting because they're so isolating when you're on a call
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That's not really how I like to do it, but they are entirely functional
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especially if you have to make a quick call while you're listening to music. That'll work totally fine. Now, they also have extremely low latency
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so there are no issues if you want to be streaming off your phone or your tablet or your computer
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and you want to watch YouTube or Netflix or Hulu or HBO Max or any of the thousands of other streaming services
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You won't have any issues with being out of sync, which is great
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And so, let's talk about the battery life. These have a 60-hour battery life with ANC on, using them via Bluetooth
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Now, a lot of companies will say, we have a maximum battery life
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but as soon as you turn on ANC, you're going to lose half of it. Clear doesn't do that. Clear actually measures it based on the assumption, which is fair
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that you're actually going to use the features that are the key elements of the headphones
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So, props to them for that. Here's something even more amazing, is that a 10-minute charge will give you two more hours of listening
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So, if they're running low and the little voice inside your headphones, or inside your head
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says, you know, battery low, you can just plug them in for five or ten minutes
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and then you're going to be good for another couple hours. Really nice. Now, one of the things about these is that they do have a pretty typical design
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There's a soft, I think this is an artificial leather, not a real leather
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and a metal band on the top. And, of course, you can pull these out, and then they are flexible
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I wish they had a little more flex in this direction, and I'm not sure why they couldn't have done that, but they didn't
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And then there are tiny indicators for left and right, but it's actually easy
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because you have all these buttons on the left side. So, here's a close-up, so you can see what I'm talking about
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And the buttons give you all that multifunction goodness of volume up and down
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and next track, previous track, pause, play, you can answer phone calls, you can hang up phone calls
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you can turn on ANC, all of that is pretty darn easy to do
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You just put them on your head, and now everything's on your left thumb
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But, where this gets much more interesting is that there's actually an app
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So, they have a Clear Plus app, so you pair your Bluetooth device, you install the app
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and then it takes over control of the headphones, and then you have the ability to, for example, adjust the ANC level
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or you can actually do an equalization, and you can say, I really want even more bass than it's already giving me
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and you can do that. I was a little surprised that the app didn't have preset EQs
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that seems like a really easy thing for them to add, but you can certainly adjust it for your preferences
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Now, one of the things that I read from other people's comments on this is they said it doesn't get very loud
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and I don't know what the heck they're talking about. These got plenty loud for me, pairing them with my iPhone 12 Pro, and I was using the volume control
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and I was listening to some music from Tidal, and then I was trying Sirius XM, and boy, it all sounds really good
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So, let's talk about that sound, because these have a really nice, rich sound with a nice, there's a nice bass on it
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but it's not bass-heavy. I would say they're actually a really nice flat response
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so they sound really good with a lot of different kind of music
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There's no harsh high ends or anything, if you're listening to vocals or something
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but you put on something that's a really well-engineered album, like some symphony
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or maybe some classic Steely Dan, or something like that, and you're going to be blown away
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These will give you that old classic experience of just closing your eyes and drifting away to your favorite music
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That's really nice. Solid soundstage. There's really very little I don't like about the sound
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It's really good. It's really clean. It really has a nice, full sound
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Now, I do have a couple of issues, however. So, the biggest one is that I don't find them super comfortable
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Like I said, I wish that the earpiece is tilted in just a little more
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I feel like that would give me better coverage, and I noticed as I moved around that they tended to slip back on my head
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Now, it might just be that I need to adjust the band just perfectly, just so
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but these are not the most comfortable headphones I've ever worn. But, they are actually really nice sounding headphones
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Okay, now, let's see. You charge it with USB-C, so it comes with both a USB-C to 3.5mm cable
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if you want to use them wired, so that's actually pretty handy, but it also comes with a USB-C to USB-3 charging cable
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because you will need to obviously charge them if you want them to last a super long time
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It also comes with an airplane adapter, though every airplane I've been on recently just has a 3.5mm jack, if it has anything
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And, they have a nice canvas carrying bag, which I like a lot, actually. They did a nice job with this
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And, that's really everything. That is everything you need to know about these
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And, these are the Clear Enduro ANC headphones. Okay, but, before we get to the price, which is obviously the only other data point you need
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Alright, these, as I said, are the Clear Enduro ANC headphones. They come in black or this light gray, and they are $149.99 at Amazon.com
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And, they are a solid option if you're looking for good wireless ANC with great sound and amazing battery life
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So, with that in mind, I am going back to my music, so I'll have to catch you in my next video
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