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It's the best of both worlds, earbuds and headphones, with the around-the-neck Beyerdynamic Blue Byrd ANC (2nd Gen) In-Ear Headset. Tech expert and audio fan Dave Taylor checks them out and offers up a demo of both the MIY app and the voice pickup through the Blue Byrd ANC cVc 8.0 mic in this unboxing and review.
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Biodynamics Bluebird ANC. Let's unbox them and see what's inside
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this. This is the Biodynamic Bluebird ANC in-ear headset
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These are brand new and we're going to unbox them and we're going to check them out
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So to unbox them, I need my unboxing tool. Don't use these at home. Be careful. Now
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as I do this, I can tell you some specs too because these are pretty sweet. This is the
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second generation of the Bluebird from Biodynamic and these add ANC or active noise cancellation
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and they have 10 to 28,000 hertz frequency response which is honestly better than my hearing
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and their total harmonic distortion is less than 0.09 percent so they're really clean and crisp
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They also work with the latest and greatest aptx adaptive aptx aac and sbc so they have all
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these solid modern bluetooth protocols so that they'll be able to negotiate with your device
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to give you the best possible sound. Also important, they're multi-point so you can
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simultaneously pair them with multiple devices. Now let me show you in the box you open it up and
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you get this and then we lift this up and under here, let me take this off, are five sizes of
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ear tips. Now I've already put on the ear tip size that I like but I will tell you it is super
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important that you take the time to try different sizes to get the ones that are perfect for you
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and I also want to point out that there is an instruction guide underneath the case so that
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is pretty important you don't want to actually lose track of that but I'm going to put all this
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back because all the real action obviously is in its little hard travel case and this is a pretty
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nice little case it's super light very easy to work with and when I open it up there is a charging
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cable on this side so this is usb c to usb a and then on this side is actually the bluebird in-ear
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headset so I'm going to take this out and you can see it's what they call an around the neck device so
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I actually really like this design because it takes a lot of the weight and complexity out of
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the earbuds and lets them just sit around your neck where honestly it's so light that you don't
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even notice you have them in and you have the advantage of if you're running or bicycling or
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doing something else that's very active you can't really lose an earbud because if one falls out
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it has a wire so it's easy to stay connected and stuff that's very convenient now let's see it does
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have a typical multi-function control on the side here so that's the three buttons volume up volume
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down multi-function in the middle it has a built-in microphone we'll do a demo in a second
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and then this side has a little clip which is helpful obviously you're going to take this
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little orange tag off and then important to know is on this side the left side there's a button
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and that controls power and that anc and there are three modes to anc on off and transparent
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and you can also access that through the miy app which is pretty important so let's see we got five
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sizes of ear tips bluetooth 5.2 the microphone is a using the qualcomm cvc 8.0 protocol to try to
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remove and eliminate background noise and it does a pretty good job with that built-in alexa google
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fast pair if you have a pixel or something and that miy app also gives you sound personalization
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but i just let's see we'll finish the unboxing so we have the hard case we have the charging cable
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we have the unit itself which i guess i'll just put here for a moment and then the only other
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thing in the box is the instructions underneath and the different sizes of ear tip and they're
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pretty darn easy to put on or off which i like too because sometimes they're a little tricky but i
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think buyer dynamics got that all figured out so that's good so i'm going to put the case to the side
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and i'll put it here and so now let's go back to this and so it actually has on the labels left and
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right so it's easy to orient it i guess you'd also be able to tell because if you're feeling for the
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power button and it's just not there then you realize you have it the wrong way so what i'm
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going to do is i'm going to go ahead and put them in and that's easy enough and i'm going to turn it
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on by pushing the button on the neck piece for a couple of seconds and so now i have it working
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and it told me battery high which means i have up to 14 hours of playback time and 10 minute charge
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will give you two hours how do you charge it on the right hand side of the piece that goes around
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your neck there's a usb-c port so that's what you plug that cable into so you can charge it easy
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enough now since it's on it should have automatically paired with my phone since i have actually tried
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them before so what i'm going to do is i'm going to go ahead and turn on recording so you can see
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what i see and we're going to start with the miy app so now this lets me actually manage and control
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the headphones or the in-ear headset so one of the things i can do with it is i can adjust the
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anc you can see that's pretty straightforward and it's super snappy i can see the charge level it's
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at 90 you see that on the top right and then where it gets fun is you can go to different equalizing
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settings i actually really like the v-shape sound i'll come back to the sound in a second
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but you can also personalize this i'm not going to go through the process it takes a good few minutes
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but the idea is it's going to run essentially a hearing test for you and then it will adjust its
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eq to balance out what you can hear really well and the frequencies that you don't hear so well
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so it'll compensate for that and give you the best possible personalized sound that is definitely
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something worth doing and then once you have that as you can see in that slider you can go all the
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way personalized you can do it a little bit of your personalized eq you can just sort of mess
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around and play with this to figure out the best actual listening experience it keeps some
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statistics you can choose voice assistant you can change the language for voice prompts side tone
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and then probably the software revision and such that's probably one of the most important things
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is that it can actually make sure that you have the latest version of the firmware which is always
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important so that's the miy app and it's for android or iphone so now let's go to voice memos
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and what i want to do is i want to just let you hear the audio it picks up because it does a
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really good job so what we're going to do is you're now hearing my voice as picked up by the biodynamic bluebird anc in-ear headset
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and i think you'll agree with me it sounds really good considering there's no like boom
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mic in front of my mouth or something this is entirely functional in fact this design
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generally is really great for phone calls because they're going to sound really good
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and you're going to sound really good now let me turn this off and turn off my recording
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and so there's a lot to like here it's a very well designed very well engineered device
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and we should talk about the sound and i'll tell you the sound's really pretty darn good
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but especially when i went into the app and i went to that v-shape eq setting then all of a sudden
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the music just brought it just had more presence to it a bigger sound stage it's a very pleasant
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sound reproduction i was yes listening to steely dan i know it's a little cliche but it's a really
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bunch of well engineered music and it just sounded terrific with these it's not an enormous sound
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stage but it's really nice and they're very comfortable so this makes these a really good
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option for commuting a really good option for working at school or if you just want to be out
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gardening or on us doing sports or washing your car all of that these are perfect for because
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you can't lose an earbud they stay in it's very comfortable if you get a phone call you can
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literally just push a button on this multi-function controller and then you're talking to the person
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and they're going to hear you perfectly well so there's a lot to like here and it's at a pretty
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solid price point so not much else i can share with you here in terms of the device and its build
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and its sound reproduction and its microphone you've got to hear some of it they're definitely
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ones worth checking out and the anc is pretty solid too i tried it with some background noise
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in my own environment and it did a pretty good job of getting rid of all that noise but again
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if you have your music and you turn it up to not a crazy volume and these get pretty loud but even
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just to a you know medium volume and you have anc on then you really can tune out and just focus on
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the music and not be aware of anything around you which can be a little dangerous if you're outside
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doing exercise so be aware of your surroundings but otherwise lots to like here definitely ones
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to check out now let's talk about the price but before we get to the price i'm going to invite
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like if you found this helpful and interesting i do appreciate that and let's talk about the price
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so these are the buyer dynamic bluebird anc in-ear headset and they're 149 at buyer dynamic.com
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i expect they will come to amazon and other sites if you prefer to go through something like that
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but you can also just go to buyer dynamic and get them straight from the source and these are a
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really solid option and i really like this design with the around the neck and because it's so
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flexible it's easy to have it in a relatively small space which is important because like this
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it looks like that's a lot of you know wire and stuff to carry around but you can easily tuck it
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into this travel case and put it in your pocket or in your purse or your computer bag or whatever so
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lots to check out lots to like you know hmm i think i might go back to steely dan so
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you can make fun of me in the comments as necessary but i will hope to catch you in my next video
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