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Do you love to listen to music really loud or have a family member who constantly has the volume set to 11? Unfortunately, that can damage your hearing. Enter the terrific PuroPro Volume Limiting ANC Headphones to solve the problem with hi-fidelity. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out these new PuroPro headphones and find that there's lots to really like, not the least of which is the terrific audio reproduction. But we do need to talk about the packaging...
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These headphones sound great and protect your hearing. Let's check them out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out these. These unassuming headphones are the Puro Pro
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volume limiting ANC headphones and they're really pretty sweet. Now what they do is they give you
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really good audio fidelity but you can't get more than a certain volume. So if you have someone in
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your family or you like to listen to super loud music for a super long time that is doing your
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hearing no favors and over a long period of time you will start to lose your hearing. That is not
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a good outcome. So these actually have built-in volume limiting and not only that but there's
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nothing to indicate that's what they are. So you can just be confident knowing that you can go and
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use your source device and crank it up as far as you want and these will max out at a certain point
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and your hearing will be in good shape. So 20 to 20,000 hertz frequency response, 120 decibel
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sensitivity, 32 ohms if you use them in wired mode and the volume limits are automatic and it limits
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you to 85 decibels. Now you can fiddle with the settings and get the limit up to 95 decibels but
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here's how to think about these right. According to OSHA which is the basically the workplace safety
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government organization, OSHA says you can listen to 85 decibels sound for up to eight hours without
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any hearing loss but if you jump it up to 95 decibels you can only listen for 50 minutes
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and then you're going to start experiencing at least some short-term hearing loss. So now think
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about that three hour long monster loud concert you went to and now you couldn't hear for the
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next couple of days. Yikes! This solves that problem really handy. Now it also has active
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noise canceling and it's a really nice ANC. It's two different levels one of which gives you minus
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15 decibels and the other one gives you minus 32 decibels and it's just buttons. In fact let me give
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you a quick tour is that you have the ANC button and then microphone and then the 3.5 millimeter
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audio jack comes with the wire so if you want to use this wired and turn off that bluetooth
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it can do it and then power on and off and volume up and down. So one of the things they've also
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done right is they've engineered this so if you turn it on and have ANC on and then turn it off
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it automatically turns off the ANC. A lot of headphones seem to have those as completely
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independent circuits which is really frustrating because you're listening, you're enjoying it
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you turn off your headphones, you put them back in your bag or you put them on your little
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headphone rack or something and then they promptly die because that ANC is still running. So this
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sidesteps that. Now they're really really light and super comfortable. These are one of the most
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comfortable headphones I've worn and they have a 750 milliamp hour battery which gives you
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28 hours of playback with ANC on or if you don't want ANC and you're already in a quiet environment
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you can get 32 hours of playback on a single charge. That's a lot of music, that's a lot of
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listening. Bluetooth 5.0 supports AAC which is good for iPhone users but not aptx so it's still
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going to sound good but it's going to sound just a little bit better if you're on an iPhone
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And the ear cushions are what they call protein leather and it is eminently foldable so it's easy
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to transport and I will tell you when you put them on just pull it down a little bit and they're
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really comfortable. These are really headphones you can wear for a couple hours without any problem
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and they also have built-in microphone and you sound actually really good. I've tried some test
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phone calls and such. I'm not a fan of being on the phone when I have my ears acoustically
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isolated the way these do but if that doesn't bother you these would be really good for phone
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calls or video conferencing or something. No latency that I could tell so if you want to watch
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a video or something and use this for the audio portion of it everything's still in sync but
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I know we got all the way there but there's something that I actually have to complain about
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is that their packaging is kind of whack. Now there's a cardboard part and then there's a
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wooden box but let me just start let me turn this over but let me just say that it took me literally
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a couple of minutes to get this cardboard off of the wood. It's that tight and I actually tore the
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box apart and redid it so it would be a little looser and I still can't use it as a demo because
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it's really hard. I understand the need for packaging but that's super annoying and then we
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get to the wooden box right this feels like it's balsa wood or something it's a really really light
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wood and you open it up and it is not a treasure chest full of jewels it is a box full of the
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actual headphones case and instructions. So here's what I'm going to say to you Puro, lose the box
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Seriously this is great they're great headphones there's no reason to include this and people are
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just going to throw this away or something and it's unnecessary give it to me in this in a much
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more environmentally friendly packaging and we'll all be happier. Now having said that it's a pretty
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nice little case and these are what they call a hard travel case but at least this one's reasonably
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small because the headphones fold up and then inside there is a charging cable so it charges
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via a micro usb connection here again usb c would be nicer than micro usb I'm really not a micro usb
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fan and comes with a 3.5 millimeter wire and that is a decent length I would say that's probably
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about a five foot or so and you can use these as wired headphones you don't have to worry about the
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power you don't have to turn on the bluetooth or anything so this gives you another option and
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they're still volume limiting and then of course the case itself is a actually a very pleasant size
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so I really like these headphones I really like the sound in fact let's talk about the sound they
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sound fantastic I mean I was really startled I already know that the Puro Pro line has really
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good audio fidelity that's one of the things the company does but these in particular sound
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terrific I was listening to some old classic Cal Jader and oh man it sounded like I was just like
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on the beach listening to Cal and his band just play just five or ten feet away good sound good
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spatial sense there's just a depth and a richness to the music and of course with the ANC all of
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those ambient background noise and sounds around you all just go away so it's a nice isolating
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very intimate musical experience really a big fan of these these are solid headphones and again
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between this and this there's nothing to say volume limiting so these become a great present
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for one of your family members if you have a teenager who listens to music crazy loud give
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them these and just say here's your trade-off it's not going to get in quite as loud as your other
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headphones but they're going to sound better so work on listening and really enjoying the music
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and then I think a whole heck of a lot of teens and 20-somethings would love these headphones
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they're not flashy there's not glowing neon or anything they just do their job which is good ANC
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and really good sound reproduction so lots to like I really like the idea of volume limiting
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headphones because I really don't want to mess up my hearing and I actually listen to music
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for a long time at a high volume so knowing I have these is really reassuring that I can
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crank it up and know that I'm not actually damaging my hearing because it literally won't
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let me get that loud pretty cool now I actually kind of wish that our phones and our audio sources
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did the same thing but that's an entirely different story so these definitely worth checking out and
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they are a little spendy but before we get to the price could you be so kind as to subscribe
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to my channel just a click or a tap on that subscribe button on the lower right and we're
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connected great thank you now these are the Puro Pro volume limiting ANC headphones and they are $199.99
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at amazon.com and honestly if you're someone who wants to listen to really good music at a really
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nice volume and not worry about hurting your hearing or you have someone in the family who
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fits that characteristic then these are a solid option definitely worth checking out
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and with that I think I am going to go back to Cal Jader which means I will have to catch you
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in my next video bye
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