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Wireless earbuds with excellent connectivity and super long battery life, but is that enough? The Tribit Flybuds Wireless Earbuds mark an evolution in the Tribit product line, but, as tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ finds out, great engineering doesn't always lead to fantastic sound. Still, for the price, the Tribit Flybuds are a pretty solid option with a lot more pros than cons.
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Are these the perfect wireless earbuds? Let's find out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at this. Well, looking at what's inside the case
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These are the Tribit Flybuds and they're pretty nice wireless earbuds. Let's find
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out how they work and then I'll tell you how they sound. First off, they feature
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six millimeter drivers and Bluetooth 5.0 and they're using what they call an FPC
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antenna. So I looked up what is FPC and it just means that it's a flexible
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printed circuit board. So it's not anything super rocket science-y but here's the thing. They pair, they never disconnect from each other and they have
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an extraordinary range from my phone. So I'm using an iPhone 10s and I put this
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upstairs, the top of my staircase, and I just walked around. I went outside, I went
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like through multiple walls into small rooms to do the laundry, if you need to
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know, and it never had any problems with the connection. It just streamed, it
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sounded good and really I don't know whether it's the FPC antenna, whether
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it's Bluetooth 5.0 or what, but these Flybuds stay connected and that's really
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great. If you're used to ones where you need to be like within three feet of
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your phone, this totally isn't like that. Now it also has good battery life too
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Each of these has six hour battery and then this base gives you five additional
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charges which gives you a total, if you do the math, of 36 hours of battery life
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that will vary based on the volume of how loud you listen because the louder
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it is, the more energy you're using to drive that volume. So if you want it to
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last as long as possible, don't jam it as high as you can. The earbuds are IPX5
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water-resistant so that I would not wear them swimming. They're gonna float out
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anyway, let's be realistic, but they're gonna be perfectly fine if you're really
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sweaty and you're working out or you're on a run or bike ride and it starts to
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rain. If it starts to hail, find cover. Just a handy tip from me. But if it
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starts to rain or you're like really yucky sweaty or something, totally no problem. Now one of the things I really like about these Flybuds is they have
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very overt left and right indicators and those match how you put them into the
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case. Now you're thinking, well yeah, don't they all do that? And the answer is no
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they don't all do that because in fact there are some that I've seen where the
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right one goes into the left side and the left one goes into the right side
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which is a little confusing when you take them out and you're like well I got
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to get them in the right ear but I'm not sure which is which. So good to know
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They also have mono mode which means you can listen to one earbud if you want. You
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can have the other one charging while you're listening, that's fine. It's good for phone calls because I'm used to phone calls where I do this sort of
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thing. So you know when you have both earbuds in, you're gonna get your phone
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calls in stereo. But if you have one earbud in, it does sort of mimic more our
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usual experience with a phone or telephone call. Now speaking of which, they
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sound pretty decent. So when you're on a phone call, they don't do HD phone calls
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We just don't have that technology. Well we have the technology, we just don't
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have it implemented. But you know the person on the other end is gonna be able
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to hear you. You might have to talk a tiny bit louder than normal but not by
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much. You're fine if you're in a really loud ambient environment like at a night
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club. They're probably not gonna work very well but seriously you're in a nightclub. Get off the darn phone or text someone because they're not gonna be
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able to understand you anyway. Otherwise perfectly functional. And in terms of
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latency, well I was sort of interesting because I tried a bunch of different
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video sources and almost all of them were perfect. So Netflix and Sling TV and
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all of those were fine. But I did find that one of them, actually I think it
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was Sling TV, had a little bit of a latency issue. And that might be
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something on Sling's side as opposed to something with the earbuds. But if you're
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gonna use these and watch a lot of video then immediately test them as soon
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as you receive them to make sure they'll work for you. Again for most of my video
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sources like DirecTV streaming and Netflix and HBO on demand they work
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great. No latency issues at all. So let's see. They also have touch controls. Here's
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the handy cheat sheet for that. But basically you put them in your ears and
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then you sort of rotate them to get them to fit comfortably. And they go in, you
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know, kind of deep I guess. I don't know. But once they're in you're in good shape
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and they stay in. And I'm now listening to music. Sorry Sting, I turned you off
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And then you have the tap sequences for all the different features. It's a little
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confusing on the Amazon description of the product. It says you can adjust
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volume by tapping it but you can't. So in fact if you want them to be louder or
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softer then you're gonna be adjusting whatever your Bluetooth source is. They
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also aren't AAC or APTX if that's something that matters to you. It would
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be nice if they had that additional circuitry which would give them richer sound. Which gets us to the sound which is something really important for us to
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talk about. But before we get there let me just say very nice packaging. This is
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one of the nicest cases I've actually ever encountered. It has a really nice
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almost a leather feel to it and charges with USB-C. It has little tiny indicator
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lights on the front for the earbuds. So they're both flashing red or they're
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both solid red which means they're charging. And then if I plug this in
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there's a little tiny light next to the USB-C plug that shows me its charging
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status for the case itself. So really well designed. It's a nice size. Has a
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wonderful feel to it. Really like that. Also in the box you have instructions in
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a number of languages. Handy. You have a USB-C charging cable. A pretty short USB-C
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charging cable I should say but probably entirely adequate for your purposes. And
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you have three sizes of ear tips which again take the time figure out which
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ones are going to work best for you. And then an interesting choice. They have two
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cards one of which is an invitation to share your experiences. And it offers a
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30-day money-back guarantee, 18-month replacement warranty, and lifetime support guarantee. That's cool. But what I like better is if you leave a review on
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any channel at all then they'll donate a dollar to UNICEF which is a good cause
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So props to them for that. Leave an honest review though. If you're gonna do
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something like that don't think that they're only gonna you know do that donation if you you know give super positive results. So all of that all fits
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in the box. It's very nice. I'm gonna put it back here. Which gets us to the sound
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Now I tried different size ear tips. I put them in my ears. I experimented with
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different angles and different positions. You definitely want to get right and right, left and left obviously. And they sound good. They don't sound great. Here's
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the thing is they're not very bright which is good. And there is bass which is
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good. But there's a richness that I found was missing. I tried a variety of
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different music sources and types of music and I wanted to really be blown
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away. I wanted to have this be this big rich sound with a big spatial feel to it
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and everything. And they just don't have that for me. Now you know maybe I'm a
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little jaded because I've literally tried hundreds of headphones and earbuds. But you know they sound good. They're really good for the money. But
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they're not gonna blow you away. They're not amazing sound which is kind of
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surprising because the previous generation Tribit I thought sounded really good. But these you know they have very competent, very accurate and
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precise music reproduction. But there was just a richness that I really wanted
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that just wasn't there. Again maybe you can monkey with your EQ settings on your
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phone. Android and iPhones both offer EQ. And you may be able to like change the
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sound profile a little bit to give it a little bit more fullness. But I just
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didn't find that. So it goes. I would still say they're very good headphones
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or very good earbuds. And they have a very competent sound. I mean you're not
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gonna be unhappy with these. But if you're looking for something that's really gonna make you say these are earbuds? Holy cow these sound like big
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over-the-ear headphones. These are not those. So so it goes. So really all this
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let's talk about is the price. And even with my limitations I think that they're
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very well priced. And I think these are definitely worth checking out. Particularly the extraordinary connectivity and this great battery life
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And they're darn comfortable too. I will say that. I wore them for many hours
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walking around and doing all sorts of chores and other stuff. They're not very exciting. And really didn't even notice I had them in my ears. They're very
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comfortable. So with that let's talk about the price. But before we get to the
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price I'm gonna ask if you can subscribe to my channel. Great. Now leave a comment
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also. Tell me what kind of music you use to audition your own audio gear. I
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remember when I was in college I would go into stereo stores that had these
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like $10,000 speakers. And this was a while ago. So now they're probably like
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$50,000. And I would go in and I'd always have like some Kate Bush music. And that
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was just my reference source. That I knew what it should sound like. And I'd
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listened to it on all these beautiful speakers and headphones. And then I would
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have a good sense of what it should sound like. So what do you listen to when
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you want to really decide if you've got good audio gear? Let me know. Leave a
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comment. Great. So that means that we're down to the price. So these are the
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Tribit Flybuds wireless earbuds. And they are quite reasonably priced at $64.99
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at Amazon.com. I would say these are definitely worth checking out. And unless
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you really want to have this huge musical experience. And I don't know maybe
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you would with these. But generally speaking I found them to be very
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competent. But not something that's going to blow your socks off or wow you. So
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with that I will hope to catch you in my next video
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you
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