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Wireless earbuds present some major challenges around where to have the electronics necessary for the connection, along with the battery. Most modern designs have the electronics as a "collar" around your neck, but audiophile favorite Klipsch has taken a different tact with its slick R6 wireless bluetooth earbuds, having the electronics tucked behind your ears. Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ tries them out and finds that they're quite good, particularly with the addition of aptX and AAC decoding support.
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hi Dave Taylor here and this time I want
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to look at the clips are six wireless
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earbud headphones it's a lot of words so
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let me just show you what we're talking
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about here
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these are the clips and they make really
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nice high end audio gear so this is
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their version of wireless earbuds and if
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you think about earbuds that aren't
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wired connected to your phone or your
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other listening device then you realize
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you got a problem with where do the
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electronics live do they live on a
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little box are they like that collar
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that you have with little earbuds
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sticking up what they've done is pretty
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innovative actually is they have
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actually electronics that go over each
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ear as you can see here and then it's a
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matter of just real quickly you can just
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put it over your ear slip the earbud
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part in and I can do the same with this
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one so you can actually see what I'm
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doing so behind the ear in the ear boom
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done and it's Bluetooth so all you have
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to do is there's a button actually I'll
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take them off again there's a couple of
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controls on the top here I'll show you a
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close-up there one of which gives you
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access to the charging plug and the
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other one is your basic on-off control
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it also lets you pair things and such
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but once you've bluetooth paired it
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which is pretty easy then all you have
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to do is put them in turn them on and
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then you're hooked up to whatever device
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you want and then like on here on my
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phone I can just choose music and play
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or of course I can actually listen to
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voice mail or whatever they do have
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signed sound isolation technology which
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is really kind of fancy industry jargon
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for you can get an earbud big enough to
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seal your ear and that's a good thing
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that actually works really well they're
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super comfortable when they're fully
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charged they have at least eight hours
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of listening life to them before you
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need to charge them again and here's
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what's interesting about them is if they
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actually have but what's called a PTX
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and AAC decoding and here's the thing is
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when you're listening to bluetooth
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bluetooth
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presses audio and it doesn't come out in
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full fidelity now you might have noticed
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this you might not have this is one of
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the reasons that we actually prefer here
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at ask dave taylor for people to
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actually send us wired devices wired
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headphones and such because you don't
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really i don't think unless you really
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need the bluetooth you're paying a price
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enter aptX or apt x as some people call
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it and the idea of this is this is a
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higher quality audio compression system
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that can be grafted on to bluetooth and
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the end result of that is that you
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actually get better quality HD quality i
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don't know why high-definition works on
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tvs but also on headphones be that as it
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may you get HD quality audio through
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bluetooth and AAC is another encoding or
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system where it can actually compress
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the audio and then decompress it on the
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device the end result of all of that is
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that if you have a modern device that
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can handle these more sophisticated
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technologies then these earbuds also can
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decode it which means you're going to
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get a better quality audio it's going to
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just sound better even exactly the same
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music will actually sound better on
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these headphones in practice I find that
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they're actually really nice and they
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work really well it's a good compromise
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because there's a little bit of weight
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behind your ear but not enough that it's
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really noticeable and there's certainly
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plenty comfortable for many hours at a
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time
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so really I'm a fan of clips anyway I
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think they make really nice audio gear
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and these are six wireless headphones
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I'll show you this part of the box
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instead are a really nice addition to
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the line and so if you're looking for
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Bluetooth but you don't want to have too
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much compromise on audio quality these
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could be a really good choice for you to
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check out so they are a hundred and
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forty 9.99 and you can learn more about
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the r6 wireless earbuds owns at clip
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comm this is Dave Taylor and catch you
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in my next video
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