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Sports earbuds that are water resistant, have a clip that goes over your ear, and are designed for use in the gym or on a run? There are a lot of choices in this category. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the JBL Reflect Contour at the gym and finds that they're distinctly middle-of-the-road, nothing fantastic but decent enough for the price.
Learn more about the JBL Reflect Contour: http://amzn.to/2GpxMJA
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are these your next sports headphones
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maybe let's talk about them
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Dave Taylor here and this time I'm
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listening to sports headphones
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specifically these and take them out
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these are the JBL reflect contour and
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they are pretty interesting sports
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headphones so they come in a nice
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package and you open the package comes
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with the micro USB charger and much more
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importantly it also comes with a whole
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bunch of different ear tips and
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different over earpieces and stuff so
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lots of ways you can get just the right
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custom fit and I will tell you as with
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all of these it's really important to
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try different sized ear tips to get the
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right ones however even when you do that
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I can't say these have great sound so
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let's talk about them and then we'll
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come back to the sound so these are the
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JBL reflect contour wireless bluetooth
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sports headphones and frequency response
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is 10 to 20,000 Hertz
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they have 5.8 millimeter drivers
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built-in microphone and control buttons
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all on this typical three button strip
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and everything's double loaded so that
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volume up if you hold it becomes next
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track pause play if you hold it becomes
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power off and so on has bluetooth 4.0 so
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not the latest version of bluetooth but
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reasonably functional and you'll notice
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the design has the over ear component
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and then the piece that goes in here and
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you can mix and match this if this is
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not your favorite but this is what they
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call their dual lock listening so even
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on the most vigorous and enthusiastic
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workout these aren't going to fall out
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and that I will say is true these things
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stay in your ears pretty well they have
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eight hours of playback on a couple of
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hours of charging there's not much space
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for a battery but eight hours it's
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pretty good and it charges off a micro
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USB cable so that's pretty typical comes
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with the cable they are sweat proof they
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are not waterproof I do not recommend
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wearing these while surfing or while
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swimming
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and don't wear them while showering
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that's just a little weird but
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ultimately with sports headphones it
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really comes down to that mix of are
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they sweat proof do they stay in your
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ears and do they sound good and I gotta
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say for a company that really knows
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speakers JBL kind of let me down with
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these is a lot of people complain they
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don't get loud enough I did not have
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that issue these get plenty loud but
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there's just no depth to the sound and
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until I put on the right sized ear tips
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there was nothing on the low range at
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all it was just gone and when I put
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these in and actually it or tried
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different sizes then I got to the point
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where they were ok sounding but really I
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can't really recommend them unless you
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actually are just working out somewhere
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noisy and you just want something to
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distract you or you want to go for a run
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and maybe you're listening to podcasts
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or NPR or something then these could
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work just fine these are going to work
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really well for voice but if you want to
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listen to hip-hop or blues or something
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where there's a lot of bass going on
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there these are really not going to be a
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great choice for you and they're a
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fairly premium price but before we get
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to the price let me ask if you can go
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ahead and click that subscribe button I
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really appreciate that and you know give
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me a thumbs up if you think I work it
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and work it if you think I earned it and
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if I'm working it I don't know I'll work
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about some more when we're done but
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anyway so JBL reflect contour not a huge
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recommendation they are $89 even at
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amazon.com go read other people's
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reviews there's a lot of consensus that
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these aren't just the best sound
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reproduction which is too bad I know JBL
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can do better so this is Dave Taylor and
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I'll catch you in my next video
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