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Need a new pair of earbuds for your next run, bike ride or workout at the gym? A pair that are totally waterproof and last for hours and hours? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Vankyo Sports Wireless Earbuds model S05A and finds that they fit the bill well. Featuring an over-the-ear hook design, they run for 7H on a charge and can be recharged 4 more times with the battery case. Nice job, Vankyo. Watch the review video for the full lowdown.
Then check them on Amazon: https://amzn.to/32JXdTh
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Over-ear sports earbuds? Let's check these out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this. Well, let me open this up, but you see what's inside
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It's the Vanquo Sports Wireless earbuds model S-05A, and they're pretty cool
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Unlike a lot of modern sports earbuds, these actually feature that over-year hook
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That's just part of the design, so there's no way to pop them off, nor would you want to
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Super easy to work with. You just sort of put it and start feeding it behind your ear
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As you turn it into your ear, then you have that perfect fit, and you're ready to go
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It's already paired as soon as you've taken it out of the case. I can put the other one in, but let me just hold on to it and tell you a little bit about it
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So these feature Bluetooth 5.0. they have what's known as passive noise cancellation, which means you can create some level of acoustic barrier from your ambient noise
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But, you know, when you're doing sports, if you're doing a run or you're doing a bike ride or something
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you don't want to be completely isolated from the sound around you. So these are not full ANC, and that's not a bad thing
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Now, for phone calls, they feature CVC8.0, which is supposed to get rid of a lot of the background noise for the person you're talking to
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I found that for phone calls, they were okay, not great. I mean, you know, most of these devices
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the microphone is so far away from your mouth that there's just inherent limitations of how good
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they can sound, but they're entirely functional. If you're in the middle of a run and you need to take a quick call
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you can do that. In fact, there are a ton of tap sequences. Let's first look at
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here are the tap sequences for when you're listening to music, and then here's an entirely different
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fairly complicated set of things you can do when you're on a phone call
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That's a little more than my brain can handle, so I'm more likely to pull my phone out to manage some of that
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But you might memorize it all and that would be great. And in fact while we looking at close let me give you a nice close of the earbud And let me give you a close up of the case And this is a fairly sizable case
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It is big, but of course it's big because you have to have space not just for the earbuds
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but for the ear hooks that are attached to them. So it is big
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It's super light. It will, yes, it can fit in your gym shorts or I suppose in the back pocket of your yoga pants or something
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So not a big deal. Now, Vankio features that these have deep bass
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I didn't really find that. I find that they are more mid-range and high-oriented
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They're perfectly fine for music, but these are great for podcasts or audiobooks or anything like that
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So obviously they sound really good for phone calls because it's that same frequency range
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You can mess with your EQ on your source device if you really want to try to get some more bass
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It's all right. They are, and this is really nice. I need to take that one out
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They are IPX-7, so they're completely waterproof. So theoretically, you could wear these while you're swimming
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I don't know that I would. I think the idea of listening to music while I'm swimming is a little bit disconcerting
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But, you know, you can try that. Certainly if you're out for a run and it starts raining or something
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you're totally in good shape, nothing to worry about there. Now, where these really shine is they have really long battery life
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These earbuds by themselves have seven. hours of playback, depending on the volume of the music you listen to, and then you get four plus
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additional charges out of the case. So that's 35 hours. That's almost a full week of non-stop listening
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without having to go back to the wall charger, which you will need, and it's a USB connection
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and of course this comes with a USBC charging cable, but you will need to bring your own actual
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power charge device, box, plug, wall outlet, whatever you want to call
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it, you can of course also plug these into your car or into your computer, anything that has USB3 on the other end, and these will charge just fine
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So touch controls already talked about those We talked about the quality on a phone call They have zero latency So if you want to use these while you watching Netflix on your iPad and you doing a five run on the treadmill or something totally fine
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You're not going to have any issues at all with things getting out of sync. It's really nice
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They also feature Qualcomm's APTX, which is great for a lot of devices
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It's great for Android phones, sadly, for my iPhone. The iPhone does not support APTX
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It's AAC. These do not have AAC, but they still sound good
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So, you know, obviously having an APTX source device is going to give you better sound
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but it's not a huge difference. So it's worth if you have APTX, it's great to know this will actually connect and use it
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but if not, they're still entirely functional. So that's really pretty much everything I have to say other than the price
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I have to say that they're nice and comfortable. They come with three other sizes of ear tips
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And as with anything you're putting in your ear, try different size ear tips to get the best results
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It certainly makes a big difference with bass and with the acoustic insulation
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so that you have a little bit more of that ambient noise canceling
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I will note on the Amazon listing for this particular product, it does say active noise cancellation
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but I see no information on the product or it's manual that there is any actual ANC
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I think that might be an error. But I think it's important for you to know and not get confused
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So we obviously need to talk about the sound quality. And let me just talk a little more about that
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Because it actually, they sound nice. They have a nice sound stage. There's a nice clarity
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The highs aren't too bright. So you could turn it up pretty loud, which is good
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because I found on my iPhone, I had to turn it up pretty darn loud
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to be able to enjoy my memory. music or my podcast if I was in a noisy gym environment So that something to know So there not a lot of range there or headroom if you want it to be really like you know soul thumping heavy metal or something while you in a really noisy gym Then these might not have the volume capability that you seek but then again you could give them a try and see now otherwise price but before we
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get to price I'm gonna ask if you can subscribe to my channel really appreciate
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that and honestly the more people that subscribe the more leverage I get for
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companies and getting gear and I am really honest in my reviews so you can get
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the straight scoop from me let me put these back in case. They fit really well and the whole thing works great. And then on the front, there's
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two little edge LEDs that tell you that they're charging. And then there's three middle LEDs
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that show you the status of the battery in this little case. So I really like all that information
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and I like that even right here, I can see there's two tiny green lights. I'm sure you can't see it
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Tiny green lights that tell me that both earpieces are currently charging in the case
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And this whole thing is small, slim, ridiculously light, and easy to slip into your pocket
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So, honestly, what's not to like? So the price. This is the Vanquo Sports Wireless Earbuds S.05A, and they're 4999
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But when I checked Amazon just now, there's a 30% discount available, which makes them 3499
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which is a pretty darn good deal for these. These are really nice, and I like the over-the-ear earbuds for sports and physical activities
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because I really hate having to constantly stop and reposition the earbuds, which is doubly a problem
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when you have the touch pads because now you're actually triggering different events
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Probably not what you want. So definitely one worth checking out. And well, that I'm getting back to my workout, which means I'll catch you in my next video
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