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Runners, Bicyclists, Hikers, even folks who work in their garden want to be able to enjoy their favorite podcast, audiobook, or music while still being alert to the environment around them. That's the magic of open ear headphones that rest *on* your ear rather than go into your ear canal. Tech expert Dave Taylor checks out the latest from 1MORE, the 1MORE S70 Open Ear Headphones, and finds a lot to like with the design, the music reproduction, the sleek charging case, and the impressive multi-mic noise cancelling pickup. They're great for phone calls while on a walk too.
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0:00 Introduction
1:22 Overview & Specs
2:13 Kate Bush ❤️
3:04 Case Design & Battery Life
3:57 Mic Recording Demo
5:00 1MORE Mobile App
7:31 Let's Talk about the Sound
9:12 Concluding Thoughts
10:54 Pricing
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earbuds that fit on your ear not in your
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ear let's check them
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out Dave Taylor here and I'm checking
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out these These are the one more S70
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open ear headphones and I really like
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these they're really cool because when
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you put them on this goes behind your
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ear this goes on your ear so there's
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nothing that actually goes into your ear
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so you have complete access and can hear
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everything around you which is
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particularly important if you're doing
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outdoor sports and you're still getting
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really nice music reproduction and no
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one around you can hear it cuz it's
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pointing into your ear and really
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interesting physics you can see in this
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closeup how it sits on top of my ear so
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it's not blocking my ear canal at all
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and the audio quality is surprisingly
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good these open ear designs have come a
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really long way in the last 5 years or
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so and if you've tried one of these I
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don't know 5 or 10 years ago you were
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just like well there's not much audio
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but I guess it's better than nothing but
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it's come a long way they are so much
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better and super easy to work with it
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has a travel case and you just take them
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out and again it is that same design I
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just put it behind my ear and then turn
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it it back until it basically won't
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rotate back any further and I'm good to
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go I've got both of these in they
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feature dual titanium drivers with
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diamond flex diaphragms and they have
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what one more calls their balance air
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plus design and the idea is that there's
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actually three points holding the weight
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so they really feel like you have
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nothing on or in your ears they are
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extraordinarily light in fact they're so
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light that each unit is
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8.7 G or less than half an ounce so
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honestly you could wear these all day
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and not know and since they're paired
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with my iPhone I will just play
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some I'm playing some Kate Bush I've
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been going through her some of her older
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catalog really really love Kate Bush but
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it's also really well-engineered audio
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so it's a really fun listening
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experience now back to the units I'll
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come back to the sound in a bit so multi
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Point Bluetooth 5.3 there's even an
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experimental mode that they have through
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the app where you can listen to two
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sources simultaneously which is a little
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weird I guess if you want background
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music while you're on a phone call or
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something then you could do that they
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are ipx5 waterproof water resistant
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they're certainly waterproof enough that
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you can wear them while you go for a
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bike ride in the snow or in the rain I
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live in Boulder Colorado there are lots
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of people that ride their bikes in the
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snow I don't understand it but that's
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just how it is um each individual
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earpiece has a 12-hour charge and then
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you put them in the case and it gives
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you more charge like that and a total 40
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hours of playback and five minutes of
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charge will give me two more hours of
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playback so it's super easy to work with
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the case is a little bit bigger than
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normal but it's also thinner and it's a
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very elegant design with a transparent
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window in the front and USBC for
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charging in the back and no surprise it
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comes with a very small USBC to usba
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charging cable along with instructions
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but it turns out you don't really need
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the instructions because the app
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includes all sorts of useful features so
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before we get to the app however I will
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going to put this back in or on I should
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say and it includes four
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ENC or environmental noise cancelling
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microphones powered by Ai and you're
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going to hear me say that a lot over the
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next few years cuz every product's going
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to have that but I thought one fun demo
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would be let's hear how they pick up
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audio so I'm going to come over to voice
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memos
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and what you're hearing now is my voice
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as picked up by the one more S70 open
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ear headphones and it does a
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surprisingly good good job I'm just
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talking at a normal volume and this
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would be very easy to be on a phone call
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or a zoom call or something and you get
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all the benefits of really good audio
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pickup and really good audio playback
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and you can still hear the environment
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around you which in many cases is a very
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important thing now let me switch
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back so I'm back on my regular
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microphone and super easy demo now let's
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check out this app so I'm going to do is
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I'm going to actually Turn on screen
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recording and then we'll go into the one
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more app and they've done a nice job
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with it it's not
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necessarily
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the most featureful application but it
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certainly gives us everything we need so
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you can see I have two different one
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more devices paired with the app these
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are the S70 so I'll choose them you can
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in the app choose the color cuz they
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come in black or white so you want to
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get your app icon to match your product
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which seems reasonable and shows you
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charge levels and it has built-in EQ so
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I've been leaving it at Studio but it's
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very easy to switch it to one of these
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other five settings which makes it easy
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and then in terms of custom settings
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custom settings is probably the best way
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to Simply see what tap sequences get me
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what results so you can learn how to
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better use these um the one only one I
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work wor about is the double tap gives
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me pause play which is very helpful and
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then shortcuts you can actually have
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they only have one but maybe there are
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more coming down the road but you can
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switch it into low latency mode if
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you're into gaming or if you're watching
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a video and you're starting to notice
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that it's slightly out of sync then you
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can go into low latency and you'll be
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more in sync with the audio and the
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video now I didn't notice any issues
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when I was watching a couple of videos
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on my phone but you might be different
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and that's okay so then we can get into
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actual settings and probably the most
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important setting here is the firmware
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upgrade the first thing I had to do when
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I pulled these out of the box was do a
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firmware upgrade which was easy enough
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and then there's the product color you
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can probably you'll want to go and turn
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off ads so the next time you start the
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app you don't have to see a one more
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advertisement I really appreciate that
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they offer that option and then here's
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that experimental dual device connection
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if you want to play around with that and
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then the most other thing or the other
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thing I wanted to show you was the quick
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guide to product so this is just an easy
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way to remind you of how to actually use
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this device and between all of these
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features I feel like they've done a
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really good job of giving you the key
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functionality in the app along with
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reminders of how to do important things
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so that's most everything that I have so
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let's talk about the sound now it is
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absolutely the case that if you're in a
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noisy environment this does nothing to
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eliminate any of that noise so if you
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are at a ball game and you're trying to
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listen to the radio or something then
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you're still going to have the
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competition of all the people cheering
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and yelling and screaming and all the
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conversations around you if you're at a
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concert if you're on a commute these are
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the opposite of active noise cancelling
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in fact their design is to make sure you
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can still hear what's going on around
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you if you're going for a jog down the
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street you want to hear when there's a
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car behind you or when there's someone
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on a bicycle saying on your left or
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something so that's exactly where these
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are so great which brings us to what
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does it actually sound like and I'll say
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I was favorably impressed I think as I
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said at the beginning the these
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companies are really understanding a lot
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more about the sort of physics and
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Acoustics of ears and hearing and open
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ear designs and stuff and the sound will
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surprise you it's extremely listenable
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it's very enjoyable there is not a huge
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Sound Stage this is not an audio file
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product it's not intended to be an audio
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file product this is not something that
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you're going to wear instead of your
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$700 headphones but you don't want to go
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for a jog with your $700 headphones
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either so in that regard these are
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really nice and by the way Bluetooth 5.3
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not sure I mentioned which version of
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Bluetooth some people are really
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interested in that but all in all I
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really like these I think the sound is
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really good I really like the design so
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I can hear everything around me and with
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a double tap I can stop the music but I
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don't have to take anything out of my
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ears I don't have to take my headphones
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off it's very very elegant and I
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actually really kind of like the design
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of their charging case because it's just
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small and sleek and there's a nice light
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inside that gives you some feedback on
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if it still needs charging if they're
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charging when you put them in all this
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sort of stuff and I'll also give them
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props one more did a really nice job of
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making sure you could see all of the
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shipping stickers and plastic that you
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need to take off for them to work
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properly there are so many companies
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where I'll get get a product from them
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and it will have plastic over the
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charging points or something and it's
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almost impossible to see that it's there
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so you just sort of claw at it and hope
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for the best but they did a really nice
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job of having little colored tabs that
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weren't sticky that made it super easy
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to lift it off on the earpieces on the
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case you know on the around the case and
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everything it really and sort of
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produced a really nice user experience
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pulling it out of the box so that is
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pretty much everything I wanted to talk
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about I've talked about the weight and
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the Comfort these are one of the most
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comfortable earphones headphones that
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I've experienced I mean absolutely you
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could wear these all day and you would
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never even realize they would just you
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would stop thinking about them being on
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your ears in just a few seconds very
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very well done now I am going to ask you
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found this of value of course I hope you
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did now these let me put one of them in
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the case let's see that would be there
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so these are the one more S70 open ear
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headphones and they are
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$129.99 currently discounted down to
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$99.99 at amazon.com and that is a
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pretty darn good price remember if you
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know someone who does outdoor physical
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activity gardening running bicycling
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walking hiking and they listen to music
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and you kind of worry that maybe they
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can't hear what's going on around them
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and that might be a safety issue these
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are a beautiful solution where they're
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going to have great sound whether they
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listen to music or podcasts or audio
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books or talk on the phone with someone
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and they're going to be able to hear
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their environment and that's going to
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make them or you a safer person that's
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pretty important so that's everything I
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got I hope you enjoyed this and found it
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of value and I hope to catch you in my
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next video
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