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The Air Conduction technology powering the new EKSA S30 Open Ear Headset is amazing (you can still hear everything around you because they don't cover up your ear or go into your ear canal!) but what's really impressive is the VoicePure environmental noise cancellation that lets the S30 remove 99.9% of your environmental noise on conversations. Tech expert Dave Taylor checks out the S30 and offers a demo so you too can experience how well they work.
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It's an open-ear headset with amazing environmental noise cancellation
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this
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This is the XA S-30 open-ear air conduction headset and it's pretty amazing technology
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As you can see, it's like an earbud but it goes over your ear rather than in your ear
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So let me put this one on and you just, And you just basically spin it behind your ear and then the top piece just sits over your ear
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So you can still hear everything around you in the environment, but you're also getting the benefit of this for audio playback
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Now, the left one actually includes a boom mic. So that's even more cool
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So I'll put this one on. And now, again, it's super easy to work with
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And now I'm ready to actually take phone calls or be on a Zoom call or whatever
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Now, they actually have 16.2 millimeter drivers and they're run with Bluetooth 5.3
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the very latest version of Bluetooth. They're also IPX5 water resistant, which makes them sweatproof, but you don't want to go swimming with them
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which wouldn't work anyway because they'd float off your ears. So that's an easy reminder
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They run nine hours of talk or 16 hours of music. But they have this really cool charging station, USBC on the back, and somewhere there's a USBC cable for charging
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But once it's fully charged, you can get up to 70 hours of playback, all told
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If your earbuds or your earpieces are running low, then easy enough
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All you need to do is put them in, and five minutes will give you an hour of listening
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And this is light and comfortable. And most importantly it also very professional looking So this is something you could easily have on your desk at work So it not just some weird homebrew thing Now I already paired them with my iPhone so I ready to give you a demo
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But I want to show you something first, or let you hear something first. Because they talk about what they call their voice pure
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They say they can remove 99.9% of environmental noise. And I thought, hmm, that's a heck of a claim. So let's test that
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So here's how I'm going to test that, is I have a device that's going to give me background noise
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You ready? So now it's like I'm in a loud bar or coffee shop or maybe at the airport
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And this microphone I'm using for the video doesn't have any ENC at all
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The question is, how will the XA handle it? So you'll see with my finger when I turn that sound on and off
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But let me go onto my phone and I will go into voice
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Let's see there's this one and now what you're hearing is my voice as picked up from the XA S-30 open-ear air
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open-ear air conduction headset and right now my environment is very quiet so there's no work that the ENC has to do
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but let's give it some work so now I'm going to turn on that background music or background noise
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you would think I hadn't done that because you can't hear it
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So let me get really close. So it's really even that much louder
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And I'm going to just talk through all this noise. And I'm not raising my voice at all, but you can hear it does a pretty remarkable job
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Now, that's enough with the bar. So I'm going to go ahead and turn that off
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And now let me switch back to my regular microphone so I can tell you just a little more about this device
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So the ENC works remarkably well I was very impressed Now each unit actually has a button on the bottom
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and there are various, unfortunately, somewhat complex button sequences to change tracks
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increase volume, it's all sorts of stuff you can do. Honestly, what I do is I use my source device
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for those sort of controls, but you don't have to. It does give you Bluetooth pairing
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You can use just one. one if you want to just listen. If it's a podcast or audio book, you could just use maybe this one
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and use this for listening while the other one's charging or you could be on a call with just one
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year while you're driving or something. So it really gives you a lot of flexibility. The way the
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microphones work, there's actually four microphones built into the unit, two on each side. And that's
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why it does such a good job of picking up audio. And I will also note that on the boom, there is a
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button and that's super easy and you can just push it click mute click not mute
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but if you push and hold you get into what they call privacy mode and that's
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something I'll let you research but it's actually a pretty slick idea range
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wise because it's Bluetooth 5.3 you get about 30 meters or just around a hundred
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feet of range from your source device which would be my phone and the audio
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sounds weirdly good I mean I've listened to a lot of these sort of open
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ear and bone conducting and air conducting headsets and they sound okay but there's
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rarely any bass these guys XA solved that problem with what they call tube
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base and it actually works pretty darn well so you can use these and listen to
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music listen to your favorite jazz or techno or hip-hop or pop music and it's
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gonna sound remarkably good just as importantly when you're on a phone call
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that also going to sound really good So it really everything I wanted to tell you in the box it comes with a charging cable It comes with a very comprehensive user guide with lots of details including all those little button sequences Comes with a separate entire booklet just about warnings You got to figure those lawyers were busy there And it also comes with a really nice travel case And in fact in the travel case is that USBC to USB a charging cable So all of this very nice
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this charging case is an absolute win this is a great thing to have if you're on a
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road trip and you might need to take a couple of phone calls so really a good
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solution for that now we need to talk about the price because they're on
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Kickstarter right now for a little bit of time so you want to jump quick if
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you're interested in these you definitely want to go quickly on to quick starter so the manufacturer's suggested retail price for this unit the
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XA S30 open ear air conduction headset The MSRP will be $199, but currently on Kickstarter, it's $119 for just the next couple of weeks
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So these are of interest to you. You want to jump and you want to get them at almost 40%
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Actually, I think it's exactly 40% off their ultimate retail price. These are a really great solution, and I'm going to hold on to them
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and next time I'm on a road trip, you bet these are going to be on my ears
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because mostly it's not that they're going to sound better than my car
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stereo but the voice pickup is a thousand times better than what my car has so
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that is a huge win definitely wants to check out that's all I got I'll hope to
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catch you in my next video
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