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If you're a musician you already know Orange Amps for their great gear and distinctive visual design. But it turns out that Orange also makes headphones too! Tech expert and audio fan Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Orange Crest Edition Bluetooth Headphones and finds them really terrific. With a few little hiccups you should know about before you buy a pair...
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Bluetooth headphones from Orange? Let's check these out
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Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out these. These are the Orange Crest Edition wireless headphones
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Now, Orange has been around since the late 60s, and they're really well-known in the musician space
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because they make really great amps. So, in fact, when these arrived, my son turned around and said
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Orange? Like the guitar amp company? So, they have a big reputation, and they know a lot about sound
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and a lot about amplification, and that's reflected in these headphones. They have really, really nice sound
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But let's start with the mechanical. So, folding metal hinges, so it has a really nice feel to it
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Includes this carrying case. It's a hard case. Not a huge fan of these, but at least this one's relatively small
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so it actually works fine. The headphones have the ability for you to use them wired
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It is just a standard 3.5mm wire, and this is a nice braided cloth-covered wire, so it has a nice feel
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Also has a microphone on it for making calls and such, though really that's not its primary purpose
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So, I find that that worked, but was not fantastic. And let's see, so one of the cool things is it has this whole on-ear touch control
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So, as you can see in the close-up, pause, play, next, previous
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volume up, volume down, all of those sort of features, and that ends up being on, let me get this right, on your right ear
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So, you just sort of learn to orient your hand, and then you can swipe up or swipe down, or forward or backward
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or tap in the middle, and that will get your music to pause
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and then you can take them off, and you can actually talk to people. So, the other thing is that Orange has done a lot to make these visually interesting
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Now, the company, again, they come from the swinging 60s in England, man
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so, you know, they have this, they actually have this great classic psychedelic logo
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I love the logo, really much more than the modern one, but, you know, the modern one is just solid orange
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Be that as it may, when you look closely at this, you'll see there's like these delicate engravings on each ear
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that are, they look like sort of classic Grecian gods and goddesses or something
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So, there's really a nice attention to detail in the appearance of this
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If you plug this in, you get a 16-ohm connection, so that's going to work fine with just about everything you could possibly plug it into
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Running Bluetooth 4.1, not 5.0, not such a big deal, because 5.0, the big improvement is when you have wireless earbuds
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so it actually helps them stay in sync, but when you only have a single unit, it actually works just fine
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I found these had extremely low latency and huge range. When I was using this with Bluetooth, I was honestly probably about 75 feet away
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and it was still working just fine with no dropouts. Now, I don't know that they rate it to be that far away
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but suffice to say, if you're listening off your phone or off your computer or whatever
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and you actually have to step into the next room or go outside or check the mail
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there is no reason you have to take the headphones off. You're going to have great music all the way around
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Now, in terms of the drivers, they have 40-millimeter drivers that they call the Voice of the World drivers
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so this is a specific proprietary driver that they're using, and they sound really clean
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20 to 20,000 hertz frequency response, 126 decibels of sensitivity, 27 hours of battery life on a charge
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Yes, obviously they're rechargeable, and the charge, there is a plug over here
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One of the things I will take points off for here is micro USB
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Now, it includes the micro USB charging cable, but I just don't like micro USB
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and I'm really excited for companies to stop using it. So, hopefully, the next edition will feature USB-C
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and then you don't have to try to figure out which orientation it is. But, be that as it may, 27 hours
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Obviously, if you listen at maximum volume, A, bad for your ears
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and B, you're going to get less battery life than if you listened at something like middling, you know, middle volume
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I found that like two-thirds volume on my Apple iPhone was perfect
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It was really a big, rich, full sound, but it wasn't so loud that when I took them off, I was like
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what? I can't hear you. They also work with AAC, so they are great for iPhones and other iOS devices
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because that's what Apple wants you to use. Now, obviously, it will work with non-AAC devices like Android or your laptop
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but AAC is a nice addition for these. And so, there's really not much else to talk about other than the sound
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Like I said, really nice packaging, you know, comes with all the cables you need
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You can use it wired if you prefer not doing the Bluetooth route, which is fine. It's still going to sound terrific
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But that sound, it's a really nice sound, especially for the price point
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These have a really full, rich, and detailed and precise sound signature
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It's a bit bass forward, so I found that I had to go and adjust the EQ on my phone
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to get a little bit less bass and a little bit more treble
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But I was listening to Antonio Carlos Jobim's songbook, and oh man, it was just take you away and have
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I could smell the beach and I could hear the ambient Brazilian town sounds and everything
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It was just beautiful. It's a really nice, full soundstage, and there's just such a warm clarity to it all
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that it'll just take all your music and make it sound better
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and you will enjoy the heck out of these. So, you know, lots, lots, lots to like about these
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I'm really, really impressed by the sound signature. Really like the build quality
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They feel like they're going to last for 20 years, and the case, well, you know, if you like the hard cases
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it comes with a hard case. So, not a big fan of the micro USB
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and I will say that they are isolating, not active noise canceling
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So when I use these in loud environments, I did have to crank the volume pretty high to shut out everything else
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Probably not great for my hearing, but if you're in a relatively quiet space like your home office or something
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then these are going to be fantastic because you can have them really low
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and still hear all the details and all the clarity out of the music
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So, really, well done, Orange. Well done with the Crest edition. So, let's talk about the price
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but before we get to the price, I'm going to ask if you can give me some feedback. So, you know, always really appreciate subscriptions, likes, comments
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Go ahead and let me know what you think of this review. Really appreciate that. Cool
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Now, these are the Orange Crest edition wireless headphones, and they are $124.88 at orangeamps.com
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and that is a pretty solid price for something that no one else you know will have
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These are not going to be the run-of-the-mill Sonys or Bose or Beats
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that everyone else has in the world. These are unique, have a great sound signature
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really fun design. I really like the orange and black and the little etchings and stuff
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So, definitely worth checking out, and this is a solid price point
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These could be really great for the musician in your life, too. So, with that, I am going to go back to listening to my music
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so that means, hang on, I'll catch you in my next video
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Thanks for watching
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