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Tired of your earbuds and ready to slip on a pair of true audiophile headphones? Tech expert and audio enthusiast Dave Taylor checks out the Master & Dynamic MW75 Adaptive ANC Wireless Bluetooth Headphones and finds so much to like, including great design, super long battery life and a surprisingly good audio pickup with its 4 beamforming microphones But the cornerstone of the MW75 is the audio reproduction and it's terrific, making these some of the best ANC headphones on the market.
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These are the last headphones you'll ever need to buy
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Let's check them out. Oh, hang on a second
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out these. These are so gorgeous. These are the Master and Dynamic MW75 ANC wireless headphones
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and they're absolutely just some of the best headphones I've ever heard
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The music is just gorgeous in them. It's a big lush sound
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There's a huge soundstage. I was listening to some like really well engineered music and it's just sublime
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It's really really nice. Now, let me give you some specs and we'll do some demos and then we'll talk about the price
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because these are not actually budget headphones. These are a little more expensive than that
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So they are powered by 40 millimeter beryllium drivers, which gives you if you plug it into your computer
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or audio source high-res audio up to 24 bit at 96 kilohertz, adaptive active noise control
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So you can get rid of all that pesky background noise. Super helpful
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Bluetooth 5.1, which gives you better connectivity and much more range and perhaps most importantly multipoint connectivity
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So you can simultaneously have these connected to your phone and your computer
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for example, listen on your computer. And when a call comes in just have it switch to your phone so you can take the call
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and it does have built-in microphones and then you can go right back to your laptop and enjoy some more music
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So very nice. Features aptX adaptive, which is a really wide high bandwidth communications protocol
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that gives you a lot of information from your music source. Assuming you have something that does aptX and battery life, lots to like there
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It's 32 hours on a charge or if you have ANC on the whole time 28 hours
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A 15-minute charge will give you six hours of additional listening. And how do you charge it? USB-C
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There's a whole bunch of cables and stuff in the carrying case. We'll get there in just a minute
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And there are microphones. It has four beamforming microphones, which gives you two ambient listening modes
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So the microphones are needed for ANC because it has to hear the music around you to be able to hear the noise around you
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to be able to cancel that out. But it also means you can use this for a phone call because you can talk
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These are a microphone. It's not as good as a headset with a boom mic with it sitting right in front of your mouth
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but I'm going to test that in just a second. There's also an app called MND Connect and it is one that gives you control over things
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And you know, we've talked enough. I'll come back to some features in a minute, but let's go ahead and get this thing rolling with our demo
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So I'm going to turn on recording. And then the first thing we're going to do is we're going to go into the MND Connect app
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And you can see here's my MW75s. I'll put them on and I'll show you why I'm doing that
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And there's not a ton of things you can do here. Probably the most important is that the firmware can be updated
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And you see in the middle your headphones are up to date
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But if I go to the gear icon, then I go to sound, then I can change ANC settings
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I can change my sound profile. I can also turn on or off audio prompts
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I like having my headphones tell me something like connected, but some people don't
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You can turn that off. We go to controls and then there's a bunch of other things you can do
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And I think the one I most want to highlight is that on head detection at the bottom
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And this is something where right now they're not playing music. But if I put them over my ears, then the music starts
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And when I take them off, the music stops again. And it's a feature that takes a little getting used to
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And I think some people probably disable it and now you know how
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But you can also leave it on because I find that because it also has that auto off timer
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which you can also adjust, then that makes it pretty easy for you to actually just sort of forget about all of that
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And just like put them down and not worry about it. And know that they'll turn off automatically and they'll be ready to go next time
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because they won't have wasted hours and hours of battery. I can't tell you how many earlier generation headphones from different manufacturers I have had
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where I forget to turn them off, put them in my computer bag, pull them out the next day, and they're dead
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Because they have been on the whole time even though there was no music playing or anything
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So I really like auto off. So that's pretty much all the key features
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There's a little more on the side here with some quick start information and various links and stuff
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But that's probably the highlights of the app. So let's go to a demo for voice
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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to the voice memos. And then I have, before I put these on, I have background noise
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We're going to test the environmental filtering of the microphone. So when you see me touch this, this is what's going to happen
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It's going to be a lot of background noise like I'm at a really loud cafeteria or yes, possibly a bar at happy hour
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And that's going to be the background against which the microphones will have to try to pick out my voice
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So let's temporarily leave the bar. And I'm going to put these on and then we're going to start the recording
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So now what you're hearing is my voice is picked up by the MW-75
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I'm not yet in the noisy environment. So this is just a quiet environment pickup
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But let's turn on that noise and let's, let me even move it a little closer to me and let's hear what it sounds like
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So you can hear a little bit of background noise. But as I talk, it's doing a good job of canceling out that noise
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So even though I'm in the noisy environment, you can still focus on what I'm saying
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Really, really nice. Now let's stop that again. And so now it's just my voice being picked up again
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And obviously it works with the recording. It works with anything because they're just Bluetooth headphones
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So you can pair them with anything. You can use them for calls on Android or iPhone or your Mac or your PC, whatever
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It's going to work with all of that. It's simple technology. And so we need to talk about the sound
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But let me stop the recording and then let me stop the screen recording
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And let's talk about this sound because these are some of the nicest sounding headphones I have heard in a very long time
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They are gorgeous. I was listening to some Sting, some of his great studio recordings
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And I know that because he is a, you know, a musician and, and a sound engineer and everything, his albums sound fantastic
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And on this, they sound amazing. I mean, literally like I was going through music
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I have been listening to for years and hearing new things. That's how nice they sound
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They have a big, rich, very pleasant sound signature. The highs are very listenable
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There's no brightness or tinny-ness to them. There's plenty of bass without it being overpowering
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So these are not disco or hip-hop headphones per se. But boy, they're going to make that music sound really good
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There's so much to like here. Now, let me give you a quick tour of some of the buttons because that's important too
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On the left earpiece, you have power and an ANC button. And then on the right earpiece, you have a multi-function button and volume up and down
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And I'm going to be candid. Most of the time, I just do all of those controls from my source device
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So if I'm listening off my phone, I'm going to adjust volume on the phone rather than try to find the buttons on this
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But a lot of people like this and this is something that lets them actually have control without pulling their other device out
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So that's cool. We should also talk about this hard shell case
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And not a huge fan of hard shell cases because they're so big
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But to be honest, these headphones are going to be something you're going to want a baby and you're going to want to really take care of them
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So it also gives you access to a lot of other things
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So it includes a 3.5 millimeter to quarter inch adapter. It includes an airplane adapter if you're using one of those old airplane plugs
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It also includes a USB-C to USB-A adapter because it has two wires
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Let me get these out. And one of which is this, which is a USB-C to 3.5 millimeter
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So you can plug this into the headphones and then plug them into a 3.5 millimeter source
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Or by using this adapter, you can plug it into a quarter inch source and that gives you a ton of flexibility
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It also gives you USB-C to USB-C, which you can use for charging
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But you can also use this to plug it into, for example, your PC and then get the best possible sound
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That's how you step up to that high-res audio. But even without that, if you're just sticking with Bluetooth, you're going to get that aptX adaptive and you're still going to get great sound
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So not a huge fan of the case. But, you know, if you're going to have a case, you might as well have one that's going to protect your headphones
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And these will definitely do that. And in terms of the materials that they used, it's pretty interesting
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It's anodized aluminum and tempered glass. There's tempered glass. I think it's on those earpieces there
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And then this is all soft lambskin leather. And the earpieces can be replaced if they get a little bit tired after a while
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But they are super comfortable. I have worn these for hours now
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I have big ears and they fit perfectly well over my ears
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That's something you probably want to know. And they are comfortable. They are light
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It's 338 grams or 11.9 ounces. That's not much weight, particularly given the battery life
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I don't know how they put so much battery life into something this light. But, you know, I don't even care if it was heavier
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The sound is what absolutely sells these. These just sound sublime. These are such nice headphones
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They're really worth your time. If you have the budget to get something that's going to let you re-listen to all your old music
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and find new details in it, that's exactly what these will do
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So, let's talk about the price. But, before we get there, I'm going to invite you to subscribe to my channel
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Click on that subscribe button. And if you found this useful and interesting, a thumbs up or a like, very much appreciated. Excellent
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These are the Master & Dynamic MW75ANC Wireless Headphones. They come in five color combinations
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This is silver and navy, one of my favorites. And it is $599 at Amazon.com
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Definitely worth checking out if you can afford it. Like I said, these are wonderful headphones
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They're super comfy. And most importantly, they have beautiful sound reproduction. That's all I got
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I am afraid I'm going back to Sting's Field of Gold, Fields of Gold
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And that means I'll have to catch you in my next video. Stay tuned for more videos like this one
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Subscribe to my channel. And I'll see you in the next video
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