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This is a great headset for talking while you're driving
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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 Exa Telecom H16 Professional Wireless Headset and it's really pretty sweet
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Now, it has 40 millimeter drivers so even though it looks small and very low-key
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it actually has really nice music reproduction and when you're talking to someone
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they sound really good. In fact, specs wise, it is 20 to 20,000 hertz frequency response
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with an impressive 115 decibels of sensitivity plus or minus three decibels
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Now, the real shining star here is the microphone that's on the stem here
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because it features their VoicePure ENC or Environmental Noise Cancellation and they say that eliminates over 99% of background noise
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We're going to test that so stick around for just another couple of seconds
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It also has Bluetooth 5.2 so it's easy to pair this with any modern smartphone or device
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and then you get somewhere about 15 to 20 meters or 50 to 75 feet of range
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You'll probably get more if you have line of sight unobstructed but if you're walking around your RV or your truck, that's plenty of range
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to stay connected and having it sound good even as you walk all the way around
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Very helpful. It also features in a secret compartment, pop this off, and there's a USB-A dongle
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so if you don't have Bluetooth, you could plug this right into your PC
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and you are ready to go with having it be connected and using it for voice
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If I can just get this to fit again. Let's see, what am I doing wrong here
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Haha, there we go. Always something with a demo, right? Okay, cool
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So Bluetooth 5.2 or that USB-A dongle gives you 15 to 20 meters of range
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That magnetic cover actually is usually a lot easier to work with than that one but it's okay
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The microphone, the mute button is on the stem and when you push it when it's in action
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then it will actually say mute on, mute off. So you'll know whether the other person is able to hear you or not
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That can be really important if you're telling the boss that you're on the road
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and then you have to actually because you're in the drive-thru tell the person that you want a Big Mac and fries
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You probably want to make sure that mute is on. So the ear pads themselves are very breathable and comfortable
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and the whole unit's really ridiculously light. It is 5.3 ounces or 150 grams effectively meaning that when you have it on
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it's essentially forgettable. It's so light and so comfortable that you could wear this for many hours without any issues
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I probably wouldn't. I would wear it for a while and then I'd take it off and I'd like give my ears a break
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but it's just really, really comfortable and just super, super light. Now, button-wise it's really well designed
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There's a power button and then volume down is on the same side
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which is the back of the earpiece and then volume up is on the front
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and I looked at that and I thought that's a very unusual design but in practice it's actually really easy to remember that
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if you push the back button volume goes down and if you push the front button volume goes up
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It's really easy on an actual using basis, usage basis and then finally there's also a USB-C plug to charge it
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and there is a USB-C to USB-A cord included in the box obviously and typically
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and the battery life here is pretty impressive is when it's fully charged
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you can listen to 55 hours of music or use it for 35 hours of talk on a charge
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and if you're running super low on charge then five minutes of charging will give you two hours of more music
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So really not much else to talk about from a specs perspective
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So let's do a demo. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually put them on
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and we're going to start recording so you can hear the microphone
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but I'm going to add some road noise. So this is what we're going to hear in the background
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and hopefully it sounds like I'm in a truck. It's pretty loud
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It's a little harder for my microphone to pick up and work with so we're going to find out how does the EXA unit do
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So let me stop this and we'll turn it on at the appropriate moment
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Now on my iPhone 14 Pro I've already paired it so we're going to go into voice recording
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and now you're hearing the microphone pickup and if I push the mute button
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now you can hear me again. Really the mute demo is not super exciting
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but you can hear the audio quality is really good but what happens when there's background noise
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So I'm going to turn that on and I can hear this
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but it does a remarkably good job of getting rid of the majority of that sound
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so you can hear it's pretty darn good. Now let me turn it off again and you can hear the difference again
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So what this means is that when you're in your truck when you're in your RV
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when you're in your car and you're driving and you want to have a conversation with someone
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you don't have to raise your voice because you don't have to compete with all of that ambient noise
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Now let me switch back to my other microphone. So there really is a lot to like here
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I think that EXA has a great track record. I've reviewed a lot of their headsets and a lot of their headphones
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and they really have this technology really like nailed and this is another really good example
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and it's at a really remarkably affordable price. So before we get to the price
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we really do appreciate when you do that. Cool. This is the EXA Telecom H16 professional wireless headset
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and it's $69.99 currently discounted down to $43.99 at exatelecom.com that is a no-brainer price for something like this
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that can change your experience of being in a vehicle if you are a long-haul trucker or you just drive a lot
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or you're just endlessly in traffic because you're a salesman and you keep going salesperson sorry
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and you keep going from client to client something like this is a game changer
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versus having your hands free built into the car and then having to yell all the time
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so much more pleasant. Anyway that's all I got I'll hope to catch you in my next video
