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Imagine being able to enjoy the signature sound of Sennheiser audio while still remaining aware of your environment. That's the design concept behind the Sennheiser ACCENTUM Open TWS Earbuds, and it's an interesting experience. Tech expert Dave Taylor got a pair pre-launch and tried them for a few days, finding a lot of the tech quite captivating, though a few aspects that are worth knowing about before making a purchase decision.
Please note that this is a preview of the product, though the company assures that it's identical to the final, shipping product. The ACCENTUM Open will be available in mid-June, 2025.
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these tiny earbuds have the signature
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Sinheiser sound and a lot of really cool
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features Let's check them
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out Dave Taylor here and I'm checking
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out these These are the Sennheiser
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Accentum Open TWWS earbuds and they're
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new from the company In fact they're so
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new that this is actually a preview of
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what I'm pretty sure is a very late
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prototype There's some things on the box
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that make me think they haven't quite
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dialed it all in but they sent me a pair
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to check out and there's lots to like
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here As you can see it is really small
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It's a really small case They're
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incredibly light earbuds that you will
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forget you have in your ears And they
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have really nice Sennheiser sound Let me
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start by showing you a closeup or two so
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you can see just how small they are And
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if you're thinking "This looks like
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they're competing with the Apple
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AirPods." You're spoton That's exactly
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who they're competing with whether they
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admit it or not Same price a lot of the
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same functionality same design
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characteristics So the question then
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becomes are these better But we'll get
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there Let's start by talking about the
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fact that they're powered by 11 mm
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dynamic transducers They support AAC
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which means if you have an iPhone like I
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do that you are perfectly set for the
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best possible sound experience Bluetooth
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5.3 multi-point connectivity I use
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multi-point all the time where I have it
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connected both to my phone and my
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computer I'll typically be listening to
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music on my computer but then if a phone
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call comes in I'll just answer the phone
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and my earbuds will just switch to the
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right source and then switch back when
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I'm done It's pretty remarkable actually
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They are IPX4 water resistant and they
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have dual microphones with environmental
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noise cancellation So they are not ANC
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They are not active noiseancelling
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earbuds So if you use them in a noisy
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environment you're gonna still get a
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bunch of that noise leaking through It's
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kind of the nature of the beast But ANC
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adds a chunk of price So for the premium
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audio vendors like Sennheiser and Apple
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and Sony adding ANC typically puts I
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don't know like $80 $70 onto the price
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Um perhaps the next generation will not
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have that issue but 6 and 1/2 hours
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playback on the individual earbuds and
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they're a little tricky to get out
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upside down So 6 and 1/2 hours playback
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you got enough more charges in the case
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that you get total of 28 hours of
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playback And there's USBC for charging
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on the bottom And if you put these in
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the case for 10 minutes you'll get
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another hour and a half So if you're
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almost done with the latest podcast and
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your earbuds start to complain put them
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in take a 10-minute break pull them back
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out and you got enough to listen to the
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rest So very handy They are so
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lightweight that I almost don't notice
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that I have it in my hand So I want to
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give you a demo of the voice pickup and
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then I'll talk about the audio So let's
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see I'm spin these around so I can put
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them in the correct ear So that's the
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left ear And there are no ear tips So
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there's no fiddling with different size
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ear canals and any of that which is nice
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except I kind of like having those
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because it does give me the ability to
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have the best possible fit I feel like
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these are super comfortable but they're
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just not all the way in my ears And so
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as sort of an audio experience then
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that's something that's a bit of a drag
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But let's actually give me let me give
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you the example of the voice pickup and
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then I'll talk about all the audio
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components So this is my voice is picked
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up by the Sinheiser Accentum open and
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you can hear it does a pretty good job
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It might be a little overly aggressive
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with its environmental noise
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cancellation So you have to speak a tiny
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bit louder perhaps to compensate but
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overall I think it's doing pretty well
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Now let me jump back on camera I think
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that again there's a lot going for them
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and certainly the music reproduction is
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really good I was listening to some
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Mission Impossible movie soundtracks I
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love those soundtracks I just it's so
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exciting The music's so exciting The new
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movie is really good too but that's a
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whole another story Um so really fun
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music to audition with and I found that
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it did a really good job but if I pushed
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them in just a little bit I got a lot
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more bass a lot more of that sort of
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overall experience of the music And
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that's the balance That's the tradeoff
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of having them be just sitting on your
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ear canal rather than being closed And
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that's the open design So they are
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working exactly as they should But it is
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sort of an interesting experience that
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if I just push them in just a little bit
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I actually get much better music
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reproduction And I will say they feel a
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little bit like they're going to fall
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out of my ears if I move around
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strenuously But I have moved around
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strenuously and they did stay in So I
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don't know It might just be the shape of
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my particular ears No jokes please No
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comments I've heard them all before Um
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but that is a tradeoff And I will say
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that I have Apple AirPods Pro and I
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don't feel like that So when I put those
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in my ears I feel like they're in pretty
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solid but the AirPods Pro have different
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ear tips that you can change to get the
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perfect size So you know when Sennheiser
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decided they wanted to have the open
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design that's sort of the trade-off that
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they are sort of giving all of us to
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experience So really nice sound I think
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the pickup is really good There's lots
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of great functionality I love that it's
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so darn tiny and so easy to work with I
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mean if you don't have a space in your
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pocket for something this small and
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light then I'm suspicious It does come
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with a fairly cryptic wordless
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explanatory document on how to get it
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paired with Bluetooth but
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basically put the earbuds in the case
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plug the case in open the case and then
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go onto your phone and it'll be
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transmitting and it'll be able to pair
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and you'll be done So if you don't want
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to interpret this that's okay There's
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also a card included for feedback and
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then there's all the legal regulations
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which honestly these are about 25 times
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the length of the actual user guide
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which is sort of an interesting thing
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but I guess these sort of devices are
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pretty simple So there's not lots to do
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here So does come in a nice small case
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You can see the company is really
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working to have more entrylevel products
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And it does come with a USBC to USBA
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charging cable because as I said on the
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bottom there's USBC And I'll tell you
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this all feels so light that there are
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times I pick it up and I'm like "Oh this
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is just the shell They forgot to put the
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circuitry in." And then I realize oh no
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they've just really really dialed in
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having super lightweight components It
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is plastic It is sort of a smooth
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plastic Has a nice hand feel And that
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same plastic finish is used on the
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earbuds And that might be part of why I
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feel like they're you know aren't fully
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and securely in my ear Uh but it might
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just be a matter of just getting used to
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them So there's that That's pretty much
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what I got This is a preview unit It is
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not exactly the same as what the company
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will ship The box design might be
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slightly different I don't know Um but
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all in all these are really good
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competitors to the Apple AirPods Not the
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AirPods Pro which add these don't have&c
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but for the regular Apple AirPods And I
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know there are people that don't want to
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buy Apple products I get you I totally
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understand Obviously these are going to
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be completely compatible with Android
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and any other phone OS that's coming And
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there are other phone OSs coming over
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the next few years And I think AI will
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completely change our experience with
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smart devices That is a total aside
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Really nothing to do with this preview
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But that's everything I got We do need
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to talk about price Before we get there
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previews So this let me put the earbuds
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back Let's see that one Oh wrong side So
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that one goes there This one goes here
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This is the Sennheiser Accentum Open
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TWWS earbuds and they will come in cream
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or black The cream is just a slightly
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off-white They will be available in
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midJune
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2025 at
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$129.95 If you're waiting to learn more
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then I suggest you go to the
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sennheiser.com website They're not up
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yet but they will be up mighty soon So
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thanks to the company for sending these
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to me It's really fun to get a chance to
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preview new products and I think they
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have what could be a nice entry level to
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the Sennheiser audio world for a whole
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lot of people That's what I got Hope to
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catch you in my next
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