MPOW M9 TWS Stereo Earphones - REVIEWED

True Wireless Stereo for under 50 bucks. Let's check these out

Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at more True Wireless Stereo or TWS, earbuds, headphones, audio gear

I don't know exactly what to call it different companies, call it different things. But I'm looking at these

This is the M-POW-M-9 T-WS earphones, earbuds. I don't know. But they look a lot like the Apple AirPods. It is a big actually like all the electronics. There's an earbud. There's a piece that extends out that has the charging connectors and it has a tiny microphone and they fit in nice and easy and nice and comfortable. You put them in. You're good to go. And it automatically turned on when I put them in my ears because I've previously paired it with my iPhone. And if I put them back, then

it automatically turns off on my iPhone. So that's really great. Same behavior with Android

Now, one of the things that really differentiates these is that they work very well as individual

earbuds. So if you don't want stereo, you can just use one. For example, I'll just put this

one in. And now it's actually expecting stereo, but here we go. Let's see. So I can just use

this for a phone call, for music, for listening to the audio track on a video

video or something. It's very distracting to have that going on. And then when this one's running out

a battery, I can switch to the other one or you can share with a friend where you have one at each

person's ear. That can be tiny bit problematic with a lot of devices because they expect to be

really close. And if you then are pretty far apart and you're doing that six foot distance

then that might be problematic with it being connected. But for your individual use, these work great

So single and stereo mode. They have touch controls on the outside

It is fairly tricky to figure it out. Here is a cheat sheet with all the different touch controls

Do you understand this? I'm a little baffled by all of these. All I know is that you can tap to pause, tap to play

You can, I think, triple tap gets you to Siri or to Google voice

And you can interact with your device. Or you can just do all the controls on the device itself

Or you can just stream and don't worry. about it, right? So, they're using Bluetooth 5.0, which is really good because that's much less

of an issue with things like dropout or intermittent connections or the left and right not

connecting properly. Bluetooth 5.0 is really designed for these wireless, true wireless stereo

sort of earbuds. And let's see, take them out and you've got five hours of play off

of batteries Now that dependent on the volume you listen to You know think about that It makes sense because the drivers everything pretty much solid state except the drivers actually have to move to push the air to give you the sound right

So if you listen to them super loud, it uses more energy and you get less battery life

If you listen to them relatively softly, then you're going to get more battery life out of them

But roughly five hours on a charge of listening, and then you drop them in the case

The case actually, it's two hours. in the case from completely dead to completely full

Actually, I think it might be a little faster than that. I think that's the charge time for the case itself

But the case holds five extra charges. So I just put these in

That means I can charge them all the way back up when they're dying, all the way for five more times

which is six times five or 30 hours of listening or playback

That's pretty nice. Now, it's not 30 continuous hours, okay. But if you go to the gym and you work out at the gym for an hour and then you put these back in the case

and then the next day you're back at the gym, then every day you take them out, they're going to be fully charged

and you've got a whole week before you're going to have to worry about charging the base again

When you are ready to charge the base, it is USBC, which is nice

I'm really happy to see companies moving to that because micro USB where it's like, you know, wider on the bottom than on the top and you have the orientation

That's a bit of a nightmare. I really can't stand that connection. So I'm really happy to see companies moving away from that

USBC for the win. And let's see. Let's open the box. So it's kind of interesting because M-POW, I know them mostly for their batteries

but they have quite a line of audio gear, which is nice. So it comes with instruction manual

It comes with, I am now a VIP member, and it comes with a two-year warranty and a card to show that

and it comes with a warning card that says when you're charging don't use more than one watt it's really not designed for these like super industrial super fast chargers

i actually charged it with a fast charger don't tell anyone worked fine but you know if you want to really make sure that it's going to cover by warranty

then don't go for a super wattage charger some devices can handle it and other devices can handle it to a certain point

and then it just generates heat, and that heat can be dangerous. So, in the box, the case, the earbuds, the USBC to USB 3 mini charging cable

and two more sizes of ear tips. And I hope you understand how important it is when you get anything that goes in your ears

for you to spend the time to test out different size ear tips

to make sure that you get the right ones for your ear tips, c. It will make a world of difference. Put these in, get them the right size, and they are

pretty noise isolating They not noise control They not ANC but they can be noise isolating and give you really nice rich bass We get to the sound in just a minute But you put the wrong size

tips in and it doesn't make a solid seal. You don't get the base and you're sort of left wondering

what did I do wrong? Everyone's saying these have great base, but they have nothing. That's the size

of the ear tips you're using. So please try different sizes. It's pretty darn easy to switch

them and it makes a lot of difference. Another cool thing, these are IPX-7 water resistant, which means if you want to wear these while you go for a run in the rain, or you're super sweaty when you're at the gym, or you just accidentally drop them in a bowl of soup because you're like watching a movie while you're eating lunch, no problem

Now, in the soup case, you'll probably want to rinse them off. I'll leave that up to you

It might depend on the soup. But generally speaking, IPX-7 is pretty nice

These are going to be resistant to most environmental conditions. Now, the case is not IPX-7

So it's just the earbuds. So the case, you know, whenever you're taking them in or out, you'll then want to put the case back in your pocket or your purse or, you know, I don't know, in your running shorts, whatever it is

But the earbuds are nice and solid, which leads us to two more questions, and then we're going to talk about the audio

So first question is, how about latency? And I got to say, that was the one area I found that they were a little weak

So I tried streaming TV, I tried Netflix, I tried a bunch of different video content

I was looking at some YouTube videos and everything had a little bit of a delay

Not enough that you couldn't deal with it, but enough that I noticed. Now, a lot of people don't notice latency, but, you know, these are definitely not low latency earbuds

So if that's something where you're going to use these to watch a lot of content and that content is a talking head like this video

then you might not find this to be perfect for you because that latency is going to mean that the audio

is just shifted off a little bit from the actual motion of the person's mouth

which can be pretty disconcerting. Now, obviously, with something like anime, totally doesn't matter because it's not all synchronized anyway, right

So it depends what you're going to listen to. And then the other question is, what about for phone calls

And I found that they actually worked surprisingly well for phone calls. Now, the only thing I did find is they didn't do much

in terms of canceling environmental or ambient noise. So I used these for a phone call while I was doing some work

And people were like, what's all that background noise? It's really loud. But otherwise, they sounded really good

So as long as I was talking, and as long as I was talking in a relatively quiet environment

they were actually surprisingly good. And part of that is because if you look at the design, you know

the microphone isn't sitting in my ear. The microphone is down here at the bottom

So it actually gives you a little bit better audio quality, which is nice

Which leads us to audio quality. And you know what? These sound really nice

I was very impressed My expectations were sort of medium given the price point of these but they really deliver They have really nice sound However I will say that when you turn the volume up pretty

high, they get pretty muddy. And what I mean by that is it gets to be sort of this mishmash of

sounds as opposed to being able to clearly hear there's the bass, there's the drums, there's the lead

guitar, there's the vocalist. You know, instead of having that clarity of the music, it ends up being

something where they're not really great for really loud listening. But then again, if you're

listening really loud, it's probably not good for your ears anyway. So having it be somewhere

between soft and medium volume seem to deliver the best sound. And when I let my daughters both

listen to these, they were pretty impressed. They were so impressed, they both immediately called

dibs on them. So we'll have to work that out afterwards. But suffice to say, there's a lot to like about

these. You know, they have really good for phone calls. The audio is really good. They'd be really clear for like an

audiobook or podcasts or something. And for music, you do get a rich sound. You do get a nice bass. They

you know, say that they're base heavy and that's, they deliver. They actually have a nice bass line

And I was listening to some music like Steely Dan Asia, one of my favorite tracks and the title track from

the album. And it's so good for headphones. There's so much detail. It's such a beautiful

recording and these made it sound really nice and I could really just listen to one instrument or one

melodic line or something and just really enjoy that so there's a lot to like again if I turned it too

loud or if I wanted to watch a video with the latency issues those are probably the weaker points

of this but there's a lot to like so really the only thing left to talk about is the price but before

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cool earbuds are the MPOW M9 TWS or true wireless stereo earbuds and they are 4899

at amazon.com which is not a bad price for these and I think you will be pretty darn

happy with them if this is what you're going to opt for I say check it out and with that

I'll catch you in my next video