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PADMATE had a huge hit with the PAMU Slide, so it's no surprise that the new PAMU Slide 2 with ANC, game mode, vocal enhancement and a smartphone control app looks pretty excellent too. Tech expert Dave Taylor got his hands on the PAMU Slide 2 and offers up an unboxing and detailed preview with closeups in this video!
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The Pamu Slide 2. Let's open the box and see what's inside
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Dave Taylor here and I've got my hands on the Padmate Pamu Slide 2 ANC Bluetooth earbuds
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Now the Pamu Slide I originally reviewed and they had a huge hit on their hands with that
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They raised over six million dollars on Indiegogo for those earbuds and these are improvements in
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so so many ways. Significantly bigger drivers, ANC, there is a dual connectability, there's
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vocal enhancement, there's an app now that you can pair with to control everything
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Pretty darn sweet. So let's open this box and see what's inside. Now as always you need to
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cut the tape and then we will hope it's not so tightly fixed that ah great. So some of these
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boxes are not very easy to open because they have such tight measurements. Now here we have it and
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it's a pretty sweet device. How do you open it? You slide it, hence the name the Pamu Slide 2
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and I just want to show you right off the bat I am unboxing it but I have sneak previewed a couple
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of the features and stuff. So I have this wireless charging base from Otterbox and when you put this
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on it wirelessly charges. Hopefully that's working and it has a really cool display. I really like
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what they call the breathing light there and it is pretty slick a way of showing you that it's
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charging or that it's fully charged or showing you your battery status. So that is one of my
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favorite features already. Now let me open it up, pull one out, give you a close-up and tell you a
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little bit about it. So you can see it has a design where this part of the unit is actually
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going to be pointing towards your mouth. So in other words this is going to go in like this
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and it's already paired with my phone and I'm already playing some music. We'll get back to
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that. Like I said I kind of cheated a little bit on the unboxing but the drivers are much bigger
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These are 10 millimeter pen plus titanium compound membrane drivers and they sound really good. It's
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a big rich sound. They support AAC to give you the best possible sound off of your iPhone and SBC
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Bluetooth 5.2 means they never lose their pairing and connectivity. They're super easy to work with
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They pair lightning fast and like I said they have dual connect multi-point pairing
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So you can pair these with your phone and your computer and then just switch which one's pushing
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audio to it and it works great. Now one of the other interesting things they have is they now
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have a low latency game mode. So you'll have to go into the app to actually set that and I'll show
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you the app in just a second. But it actually means that you can use these for gaming without
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worrying that you're like a second or almost a second and a half behind what's actually going
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on in the game because that is not good when someone's sneaking up behind you. More interesting
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to me is they also have a vocal enhancement mode in the app which means if you have the tiniest
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bit of difficulty hearing voices over background noise this kind of device now can actually help
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you with that. How cool is that? It's also a hybrid ANC with an impressive up to 42 decibels of
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noise reduction on both the low rumbly sound and the high hissing sounds and we live in noisy
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environments. We rarely take time to acknowledge that but you know there's a lot going on around
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us. Let's see voice background noise canceling when you're on the phone, auto pairing, IPX4
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sweat resistant and I will say that they are famous for having them stay in your ear because
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of their design and this one's no different. I mean it doesn't loosen up or anything regardless
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of what craziness I do and move around. I mowed the lawn. I did all sorts of stuff and they are
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just in your ear and they just stay there and that's very pleasant. Now since it is an unboxing
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let me show you some other stuff. In the box is obviously this and the charging base and in fact
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why don't we just let it charge. So we'll let it sit there and charge while I show you what else
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is in the box. Let's see there's this insert very exciting and then underneath that is a big
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envelope. So I don't actually know what's in this because I haven't looked yet but
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let's pop it open and let's see. So maybe from this end
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more stuff in here maybe that comes out from this end. There we go. Okay so now this I'm going to
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guess is different size ear tips. I think we have a winner. Some of these are really hard to
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work with. There we go. Okay so it includes four different sizes of ear tips plus the ones that
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are already on the unit for a total of five different sizes. It is super important to take
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the time and get the right size ear tips on these sort of units that will make a significant
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difference particularly with both the bass and the active noise cancelling. Get a good seal. Don't
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just go to the largest one but take a few minutes and experiment with different sizes. Now it also
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has this nice sort of faux leather carrying case. I'm not sure who would use this but I guess they
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have that as an option and a tiny charging cable with USB-C on one end and USB-A the rectangle
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on the other end. So if you don't have access to wireless charging then you can use a cable and
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you can charge that way. So either way if you're going to plug it in it's on the back USB-C super
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easy to work with and there are instructions. Let's see. Okay that's pretty big. That's a lot
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of instructions but it's not actually that complicated. It's in a lot of different languages
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so if you are a polyglot and read and speak 10 different languages this is going to keep you busy
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seeing if they get everything right and exactly the same in every different language. Otherwise
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you can just use this and you can let's see you can see there's a tiny little cheat sheet for
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example on the different button taps and one thing I should mention is that the ends of the
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ear tips actually are little tiny touch sensitive pads so taps and slides and different motions
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actually do different things. Now that's everything in the box so we have achieved and attained our
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unboxing instructions, a little carrying bag, different size ear tips and a charging cable
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along with a decent amount of cardboard all of which feels recyclable which is good. I think
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that's important and so we come back to the actual earbuds themselves. Now I will also tell you that
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they have six hours of playback time and they have four more charges in the case so you can
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put them in and they'll charge four more times giving you a total of about 26 hours. Now two
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things affect that. Number one ANC costs energy so if you want to have your ANC on and dialed up
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and we'll get to the app in a second I'll show you that then it's going to use a little more
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battery life and two if you turn the volume all the way up if you're one of these people that
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likes really really really loud music then you're going to find you get less battery life and
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then you're going to find you get less battery life than if you just turned it down like 20
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or something. That sometimes can be significant. I haven't done battery tests on this unit to tell
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you how this works in that regard but I'm sure loud ANC on is going to have less battery life
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than a more mid-range volume either without ANC or without ANC being dialed up to its maximum
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capability. So having said all of that I'm going to go ahead and put them in my ears and it is
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symmetric to when you're looking at it. So the right hand side goes in the right ear
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and it's already paired and ready to use and ditto the left one
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ready to roll. So now let's get that app. So this is a whole new innovation for
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Padmate so it's kind of fun to see them expanding out. So here's the app
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and I haven't yet paired it so let's go ahead and pair the unit in the app
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So connect oops let's choose that and now connect. Hopefully it'll work. Bluetooth pairing request
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And here we go. So you can see I have wind pass-through reduction. Now I've turned on ANC
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and I have two ANC modes where I can use mode A or mode B. I think that affects what happens when
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I tap and hold. I have advanced settings so I can change EQ settings. That's new
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I'll stick with pop and game mode and vocal enhancement and I can check for a firmware
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update almost always when I get a unit out of the box. There's a firmware update available. Let's see
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oh look at that they they got that covered. Well done. And personal settings. So this is great. It's
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a complicated way to show me this information but I can decide what I want to have happen when I do
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left versus right tap versus double tap press and hold. All of these different gestures I can assign
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them to specific things or of course I can just turn them off and just say I don't really want
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any of that stuff. That just makes me very confused and then I get anxious about touching
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to like you know set them more properly in my ear or something. So that's pretty much everything and
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I can rename my device on my phone if I want and I can also see that it is fully charged. I got left
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and right at 100 percent. So pretty sweet actually. Very well done. These apps don't need to be
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particularly complicated but I like that they just have a nice elegant solution which brings
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us to the sound. And I will tell you take these out and show you these sound really good. One of
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the things I really liked about the original PadMu slide was that it had really good sound and they've
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upped the sound on this one. I was listening because of Stranger Things. I was listening to
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Kate Bush. Now I have to admit I've been listening to Kate Bush since the 1980s so I way predate
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Stranger Things. Love Bush. Love her to death. Great stuff. I was listening to some Kate Bush
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and boy this makes her sound really good. It's a really nice rich sound with a big sound stage
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It's not a huge sound stage but it's a very listenable kind of a more intimate sound
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The highs are sweet. The lows you have that nice bass line on songs that have a bass line
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and it's just a very enjoyable listening experience combined with that ANC. It's really
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nice. There's a lot to like about these. Now there's not much else I have to tell you about
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these other than they are a pretty sweet solution and I think PadMate again has some really
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trend-setting earbuds here. They do a good job. So we should talk about colors. I wish I could
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talk about price. We don't have a price set for these yet but once we do I'll go ahead and add
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that into the description. But before I talk about colors and such let me ask if you could subscribe
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to my channel. Click or tap on that subscribe button and turn on notifications and we're
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connected. Cool. Now this is the PadMate PadMu Slide 2 ANC Bluetooth earbuds and they will be
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available in black and white and green. You can learn more at PadMateTech.com and in terms of
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pricing I'm going to guess they're going to be somewhere around $230-$240. I'm just taking a
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shot in the dark there. I don't know. They might be less expensive. They might be more expensive
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but in any case you can definitely learn more about their pricing and pick up a pair for yourself when they're available at PadMateTech.com. And with that out of the way I have to admit
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I am going to go back to Kate Bush because I want to hear her singing about running up that hill
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So I'll catch you in my next video
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