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You can get earbuds, wireless earbuds, or you can get headphones, but can you have the best of all these aural worlds with the Soundpeats Force headphones. With a comfortable section that rests gently on the back of your neck these earbuds offer surprisingly good sound and long battery life through smart design.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ reviews the Soundpeats Force and finds that they're not only quite good for music but have a surprisingly good microphone for phone calls too. Quite convenient.
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they're headphones there a neck bad no
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their earbuds let's have a closer look
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at
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these these are the sound Pete's force
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Bluetooth neck band headphones headband
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neck phones earbuds a little hard to
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figure out what they are but here's the
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basic deal is that there is a portion of
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these that go around your neck and then
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you have the earbuds that are wired not
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Wireless and they go in your ears and
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you are good to go now
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the unit itself obviously is Wireless so
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this is actually a Bluetooth device and
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here's what's really cool it's really
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nice there's a lot they did right in
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this surprisingly affordable unit so 16
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hours of playtime because the battery is
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in the neck part so they have lots of
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space to put in a battery has a built-in
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microphone and I will tell you I made
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some phone calls with this and the
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feedback I got was that this was one of
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the best sounding microphones I've used
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for calls in a while so that means this
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is as good according to the my listeners
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this is as good as the Apple earpods
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which are my reference level for making
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phone calls so really nice obviously
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super comfortable it works with
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Bluetooth 4.1 so it's not the latest 5.0
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but they worked pretty well I used them
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and then walked away from my phone and I
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had a good 5 10 15 feet without any
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issues includes CVC 6 dot Ono's
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canceling although I can't really tell
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that there's much noise cancelling going
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on if you put in the right ear buds or
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your tips then you're gonna get a pretty
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good seal anyway so they're gonna sound
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good
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it also supports aptX and it's IP x5
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waterproof so hold on that doesn't mean
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you can wear them swimming but it does
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mean if someone attacks you with a water
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pistol or a super soaker you're fine
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literally IP X 5 means it can survive
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being splashed by water so they actually
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call that the Super Soaker test how cool
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is that
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now in addition to ok and by the way
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notice that the earpieces are Meg
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netic when you do it right so that's
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nice so the whole thing tends to sit on
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your neck
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it's very nice very easy to work with it
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just tends to sit like this and you just
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put these in when you're ready and you
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know when your don't want to be
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listening or anything you could just
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take them out and just let it sit around
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your neck it has hundreds of hours of
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standby time if you're not actually
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listening to anything so that's really
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nice
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and the ends the ear pieces I have them
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with just the ear tips but it actually
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comes through this huge variety of ten
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different ear tips just really just a
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whole bag of them out so there's ten
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different ear tips and there are also
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six ear hooks so that your hook actually
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goes between the ear tip and the bass
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and for people that like these you can
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actually then have it sort of screw into
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your ear so it's a little more firm and
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it's been you know holds better so if
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you're going for a run or something
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they're less likely to fall out also
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comes with possibly the waltz we're in a
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world smallest carabiner if you need
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this to be able to hook it onto
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something you can but honestly it's
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pretty easy to work with these anyway so
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I don't know that that's particularly
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critical but I really like having all
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the different ear tips because as I
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recommend in every one of these reviews
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try different sizes to get the style and
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the size that works best for you it
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makes a world of difference in the sound
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and speaking of the sound they sound
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really good now again I was a little
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disappointed with the noise cancelling
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really just don't even think that as a
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factor it's not like it's active noise
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cancellation or anything but put the
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right ear tips in and they sound really
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good even in a fairly noisy environment
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so I was using these in a fairly busy
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Starbucks and I was listening to some
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music and you know when the music got
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super soft I could hear all the ambient
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noise around me but otherwise it was
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remarkably good there's a decent
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soundstage there's you know nice crisp
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reproduction there's actually a decent
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amount of bass to listen to some music
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that had a lot of bass line and it
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actually sounded good
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again it also works really well for
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phone calls huge win it will obviously
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pair with iPhones it'll pair with
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Android phones will pair with whatever
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you want you could use and even use it
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and pair it with your computer if you
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want to do that because it's just
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bluetooth easy enough now the neck part
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itself is kind of interesting too this
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is made out of what they call liquid
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silicone it is not at this point
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actually liquid so it has dried
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obviously but it's a really soft feeling
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and very flexible material so you really
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don't have any sense that there's any
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weight the whole thing's super light you
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know there's no way there's no feel of
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having a product around your neck which
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is super important now in addition to
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all the ear tips and ear hooks and the
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hanging hook mini carabiner it also
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comes with this little hard case which
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you know you might or might not use my
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guess is the majority of users probably
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won't they'll just have it thrown in
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their bag or around their neck and it
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also comes with the micro USB charging
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cable and I have to say when I got it it
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took me a while to figure out where
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exactly do you plug this in and it turns
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out that it's on the side of the inline
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controller and the inline controller is
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your classic 3 button controller where
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the two outer buttons are next and
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previous track or volume up and volume
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down depending on how long you hold them
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and in the middle the one is that what
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they always call their multifunction
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button so push and hold it you can turn
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it on or off short push actually gets
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you to the you know pause or play
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there's a variety of functions depending
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on what mode you're in so if you're on a
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phone call you can push and hold it and
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it'll actually drop the call sorry call
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or something went wrong so that all
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works fine and my experience is I want
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to have that under my right ear but you
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might if you're left-handed it might be
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easier for you to have it under your
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left ear I'm not sure that it matters
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and I'm not sure that there's actually
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an orientation for this either so I
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think you could wear it either way and
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it'll work just fine which is nice so
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only thing left to talk about is the
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price and before we get to the price let
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me ask if you can click on that
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a winner thank you for subscribing now
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let's just talk about the price because
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that's all that's left because these
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actually are pretty nicely priced so
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these are the sound Pete's force
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Bluetooth neck band headphones it's a
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mouthful and they will cost you a very
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modest $32.99 at amazon.com I would say
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that's a pretty darn good price and
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these are a really nice unit they have
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you know this really good sound they
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work well for phone calls which is rare
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with a lot of these budget units and
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with 16 hours of play time that is
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plenty for a full day easy to charge
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comfortable to wear
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you're not going to lose them because
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they're little tiny pieces that just fly
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away one day when you're running or
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biking or something so lots to check out
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Steve Taylor speaking of checking out I
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think I'm gonna go back and check out
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some of my music which means I will
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catch you hold on okay I will catch you
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in the next video
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