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Looking for audiophile earphones without the ridiculous audiophile price tag? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the FiiO FH3 Triple Drive Hi-Res Audio Hi-Fi Earphones and finds they're a great option. Priced way below what you'd expect for MMCX connector-based triple-driver earphones, they deliver warm, rich audio that makes anything you audition sound terrific.
Check 'em on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3elYvtG
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Hi-res in-ear monitors and you'll be shocked at the price. Let's check these out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out these. These are the FIYO FH3 triple driver hi-fi earphones
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And in the biz they call these in-ear monitors or IEMs. They're really pretty sweet. So triple
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driver. They feature a dynamic driver that's using 10 millimeter beryllium plated diaphragm
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and two Knowles BA drivers in each ear. They have balanced air pressure so you don't get that weird
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sort of out of pressure thing going on inside your brain. Not good. And they have monocrystalline
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silver plated copper cables. This is a pretty hardcore cable and if you look at that connector
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this is also probably one of the most heavy duty connectors I've seen yet from a device. Fits into
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my Google Pixel 4a just dandy because it still has that 3.5 millimeter jack. Where is that jack
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on modern phones? I don't like Bluetooth only but we'll come back to Bluetooth in a minute
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All right so the earbuds themselves feature an aluminum magnesium alloy shell and they come with
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a ridiculous number of ear tips. But before we get there let me tell you a little bit about
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frequency response. They have 10 to 40,000 hertz frequency response, 114 decibels of sensitivity
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and when you plug them in they are 24 ohm impedance. So your little smartphone or tablet's
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going to drive them just fine. In fact my issue was they were too loud because I'm very sensitive to
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not damaging my hearing. But even just a little bit of volume increase generated a lot of volume
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on these units which gave me a lot of listening. So really really fun. Now it also comes with what I
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would say is the coolest little carrying case. This is this hardcore waterproof case and then
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in there is a little soft case. You can use that instead and I'm going to move stuff out of the way
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because it comes with a crazy number of ear tips. It comes with 11 pair of ear tips. Here we go
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and as you can see in this close-up they're different styles. Turns out that there are
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balanced sound ear tips, enhanced bass ear tips, enhanced vocal ear tips and then there are foam
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ear tips for people who like foam. I'm not personally a very big fan but you might be
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I have tried all the different ones and I settled on the orange with the white outside. I'm not sure
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which ones they consider them but I would say that they gave me a really nice even balanced response
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So hopefully they're the balanced ones. Otherwise I'm not sure what that says. High-res audio and
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what's really cool about these is they have what are known in the industry as MMCX connectors. So
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you see here's my ear tip. I can pop it off and then I can plug it into something else and in fact
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Feiyu makes a UTWS3 Bluetooth adapter for these. That's about 80 bucks and you plug this unit into
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the Bluetooth adapter and now you have wireless. Now I have so many wireless things I actually
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prefer to have something wired just because it's nice to sometimes not have all of those air
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frequency and all of that waves going around your brain. So I like having wired and this is the style
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that as you can see from its shape it goes over your ear. So you put it in and a cable goes behind
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your ear and comes down. You can see in this close-up what I mean and it's really nice because
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it actually means that it's not pulling down all the time. So it's a much better and I feel like
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it's a more stable way to have earpods in your ear. And let's see not much else I can tell you
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about it. So let's talk about the sound. These sound fantastic. They really sound good. Now that high-res
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audio you don't get certified for that unless you have really good you know an even frequency
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response. But these I was listening to some old Ella Fitzgerald and honestly some of her songs
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just brought tears to my eyes. It's so sweet. She has such an astonishing voice and even those
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old recordings through Tidal which is how I listen you know getting those on master quality
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man so nice. So how do they sound? They sound really good. There's not an overemphasis on the
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bass. The highs are really sweet. They're not tinny or bright and there's a big soundstage. I mean you
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put these on and you put on some good music source and you're just going to be just zoning
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out just going away with that music which is exactly what you want. And tons of volume on top
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So if you really want it to be really loud I don't recommend that. Take care of your hearing. But if
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you really like it loud for a particular track or something these will have you covered even using
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something like a pixel as your audio source. So so much to like. And the thing is is that I have
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thousand dollar earbuds that are IEMs that are amazing and are super expensive. These are so much
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less expensive that I think you'll be pretty rattled by how much they cost. But before we get
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to the price can I ask for you to subscribe to my channel please? Just a quick tap or a click on that
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little red subscribe button and we're connected. Super easy. Thank you very much. All right these
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are the FIO FH3 triple driver hi-fi earphones and they are a remarkably inexpensive $129.99
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at amazon.com. Now just so there's no confusion that these don't have a microphone. These are
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not intended for phone calls or anything. This is just for listening enjoyment. So if you want to
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have something where you can be on your zoom call or something this ain't that. But if you want to
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have really excellent fidelity without having that sort of intrusiveness of headphones then
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these can give you a really good result. And as with any in this product category spend the time
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to explore different ear tip sizes and styles to get the ones that match your listening profile with
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your favorite music. That's really all I got. I'm a big fan. I'm a fan of FIO anyway and I think that
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these are a great addition to their lineup at a remarkably budget price for the sound
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Definitely worth checking out. I'm going back to Ella so I'll catch you in my next video
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