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Beyerdynamic T51i Review
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May 30, 2025
Dave Taylor -- of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ -- reviews the Beyerdynamic T51i closed-ear headphones with smartphone controls and inline microphone. And loves it. Find out what makes these wicked cool headphones and why...
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hi
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dave taylor here again and we're getting
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into the summer and it's the perfect
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time to get a great pair of headphones
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now i've been pretty clear in the past
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that i love bayer dynamics stuff
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i have the t51ps and for about 300 bucks
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they're amazing headphones
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so when they came out with a new version
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that included a microphone and all the
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smart controls for an iphone
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i was very interested luckily they sent
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us one to check out
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so here you go check it out first off it
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comes in a nice case
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and you open it up and it's just they
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have a beautiful design
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so you can see here that it's a really
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nice looking pair of headphones
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and the microphone everything is all
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nicely integrated
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i'll open it up i will put it on my ears
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so i now can't hear you so if you have
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something to say now is a good time to
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say it
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plug it into my phone and i'm good to go
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sorry it's a little weird actually
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talking when you have headphones on like
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that
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so these are what are called closed ear
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headphones so
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they really take out almost all of the
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environmental noise now they're not
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noise reducing headphones that's a
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different kind of circuitry
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but what these do is they do a really
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good job of isolating
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what you're hearing and they sound
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amazing i mean these are just great
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headphones
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and i'll tell you that when i put these
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on i can be in the noisiest cafe that
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has
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terrible music i have no idea anything's
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going on in fact people will come up to
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me and they'll do this
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and of course i can't hear them so i
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have no idea what's going on which
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actually is perfect
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because if i'm working i'm in the middle
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of working so these are what the bayer
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dynamic calls their tesla
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series it's a particular design they
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have for their
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pieces for their speaker parts i guess
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in the
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headset and as you can see there's a
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nice amount of
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swivel and they expand they come out of
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the factory a little bit tight for me
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but i know from the other ones that i
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have
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that they loosen up a little over time
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it is possible that i have a
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larger than normal head but that's
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something that we just have to deal with
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and let's see what else so the
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microphone has a full media control so
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it has volume up and down and mute and
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all that
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and worth noting is that it also works
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on non-ios devices this is an apple
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certified microphone and smart
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controller
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but if you have an android phone or a
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windows phone it'll work
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the volume up and down probably won't
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but the other features of
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it will and it certainly is going to be
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great for making phone calls
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and i tried this by making a phone call
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and i was a little disconcerted by
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having it be
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so isolating but in terms of being able
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to close my eyes and imagine i was
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talking to the other person
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it was terrific and the party on the
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other end said that it sounded
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way better than any other devices that i
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use now usually i have nice um
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hands-free on my car so it's not a great
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sound
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but this super good so now the price
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it's about 315 bucks off the bayer
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dynamics site which is at
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bayerdynamic.com
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or if you want to go to somewhere like
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amazon or maybe best buy or other common
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retailers
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it looks like the street price for it is
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about 299 dollars
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if you don't need the microphone and
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smart control feature
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well then you just got a pair of
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headphones and that drops the price
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about 25 or 30 bucks and that gets you
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into the t51p
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but to me adding that microphone and
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having this be a
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great headphone that also will then let
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me actually talk
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for example plugging into my computer
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skype calls right
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can't get better than that super
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worthwhile
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great sound i like the fact that it
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comes in this
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case that has all sorts of safety
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mechanisms and
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it's padded and thick and i know that my
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expensive headphones are going to
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survive
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yet another journey so this is dave
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taylor and
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i really want to get back to my tunes so
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i'll catch you in the next video please
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before you leave though check out
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beardynamic.com
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this is the t51i with smartphone
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controller so
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i'll catch you later