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The Amazingly Affordable Funcl Wireless Headphones - REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
[[ Secret Discount Link at End of Description! ]] There are a lot of budget wireless headphones on the market that offer okay sound and reasonable performance, but if you want really great sound and solid performance and battery life you need to spend lots of money. Right? Wrong. Funcl has managed to produce two different styles of wireless headphones - the W1 and the AI - that offer very good sound and terrific battery life at a price that you won't believe! Tech expert Dave Taylor from https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out both the Funcl W1 Wireless Headphones and the Funcl AI Wireless Headphones and is pretty darn impressed. But one of them stands out as the better unit. Watch and find out which! Find 'em on Indiegogo: https://igg.me/p/2430845/twtr Or go to the Funcl site: https://www.funcl.com/ And here's that secret link: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/2430845/x/19736874?secret_perk_token=45897de5
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super affordable earbuds but are they
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any good let's find out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at
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these these are the funcle' wireless
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headphones line and they are on
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IndieGoGo or depending on when you watch
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this the IndieGoGo campaign is over and
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you can check out their website either
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way what I have are late production
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prototype so what I have is not exactly
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what you would get the packaging might
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change the containers might change but
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all the basic functionality and
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circuitry is the same and that's a good
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thing because there are some very nice
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earbuds wireless headphones whatever you
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want to call them and they're at a
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ridiculously inexpensive price so let's
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start with the W one that's these and as
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you can see they come in a little
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battery charging case they are basically
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little earbuds you can see there and you
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can see in the close-up they are pretty
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tiny you just slip them in your ear and
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you are good to go that's all you got to
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do so I can pair them with iPhones I
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compare them with Android here's my
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iPhone 10s here's my Android pixel three
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XL so both of these they work everything
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works great now let's start with as I
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said the W one these are IP x five and
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bluetooth 5.0 so it's the latest and
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greatest and they also have a AC support
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now a AC is a higher fidelity audio
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system that Apple uses but it's not on
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the Android so we'll get to that in the
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next device so this is a AC these have a
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four and a half hour battery life in the
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earbud itself and then if you go ahead
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and put it back in the case for another
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charge in total you can get 18 hours of
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listening now if you listen to these for
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18 hours straight you probably should
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have taken a break just saying no huge
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judgment little bit judgment but not
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super great for your ears okay
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now you have these you put them in and
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there's not a lot of controls on them
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but there is a button on the outside
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that lets you do
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and play on the right and then if I put
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the left one in that gives me the
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ability to do like hanging up on phone
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calls and stuff because they work with
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both now because I have various
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Bluetooth on and off on the devices they
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actually are trying to pair which is a
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little annoying but it is nice that as
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soon as you take them out of the case
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this is true of both designs as soon as
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you take it out of the case they're on
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and a shootable
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as soon as you put them back in the case
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they turn off so that works out really
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well with your device now these W one
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bud style come in black or white and are
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you ready for this well you know what
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I'm not even tell you the price we'll
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hold off on that to later
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so w1 and I'm gonna come back to the
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sound once I've talked about both of
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these so hold on now
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the other style they have are what I
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call the air pod style so you'll see
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that and that's more with something
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sticking down and these are the a1 or a
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I actually can't tell what they're
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called let's we can maybe look on the
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package and let's see looks like a I
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will call them the a is right so these
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also feature bluetooth 5.0 they have six
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and a half hour battery life just on
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these which means if you put them in the
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case and charge them multiple times you
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will get a total running time of 24
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hours without ever having to plug this
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into the wall for a boost now these also
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support AAC which is the Apple iPhone
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audio system but they additionally add
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aptX which is what most Android phones
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are using so between those two you
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should get higher fidelity and better
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sound and it gives you a sort of a
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richer sound so it's a really beneficial
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thing if you compare with that higher
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quality audio stream they also are
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designed to have very low latency so
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these have a less than 80 millisecond
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latency which is really important if
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you're gaming on your phone and you're
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using these for the audio you don't want
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to hear about that person who's coming
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from behind and about to shoot you after
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they shot you so you really want to have
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minimally latency as possible now these
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have low latency but these are
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significantly lower less than 80
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milliseconds pretty darn good for
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wireless they also come in black and
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white and as you can see these are also
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really nice and again you know quite
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comfortable easy to work with they have
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the same button feature on the outside
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the easy touch buttons so these also
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have an app now let me clarify the app
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iPhone or Android the app lets you
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control the a1 or AI but not the w1
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these are not app friendly but it's okay
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so the app as far as I can tell doesn't
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yet do much of anything here's a screen
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capture and there's not much happening
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there it's not like you can adjust the
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EQ or anything but I suspect that that's
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all coming I suspect that in the very
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near future I'm gonna get an app update
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and I'm gonna be like wow look at all
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these features cool
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I don't know company hasn't shared that
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with me but there's definitely something
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on the way there and again that's really
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cool there's so much you can do when you
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have an app including doing things like
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hearing tests and then automatically
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balancing your headphones for your
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actual hearing I've seen some companies
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do that and it does make a difference
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it's very nice also helps you balance if
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your left ear is a little better than
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your right ear or something it can just
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automatically move that balance to where
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you need to be so let's talk about sound
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so I absolutely came into this thinking
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that the a ones or AIS are gonna sound
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better frankly they're more expensive
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they're better technology they support
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aptX I paired them with both the latest
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generation iPhone and the latest
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generation Android phone and they sound
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really good
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there's a nice clarity to their sound I
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did of course change ear tips which is
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always important when you get new
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wireless devices or anything that goes
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in your ears try different sized ear
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tips to make sure you get the right ones
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both of them come with additional ear
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tips so you can fine tune that and these
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sound really good that's nice clarity
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they have a good soundstage and
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everything and really for the price
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remarkably good but here's what blew me
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away is that these W ones sound better
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yes these that are a fraction of the
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price of these actually sound better on
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both sources so even with the Android
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and even with these not having aptX I
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was really surprised at how nice these
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sounded and with four and a half hour
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battery life without having to worry
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about anything in such a discreet little
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earbud it's kind of a win-win but let's
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talk about the price but hold on before
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I get to the price can I ask you go
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ahead and click on that subscribe button
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really appreciate when you subscribe to
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my channel and again remember I'm
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talking about production prototypes so I
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think these are gonna actually get a
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little better and in fact before we get
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to the price there's another thing I
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should mention is that I did notice
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there was some tiny connectivity issues
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when I adjusted the volume on the source
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unit on either phone then the earpieces
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had a tendency to drop out for a
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fraction of a second but as soon as I
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was done with the actual adjustment then
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they would come back and they were nice
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and reliable and with both of these I
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could walk 10 15 feet away from my audio
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source and the Bluetooth stayed nice and
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steady there was no breakup there was no
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issues with one ear dropping versus the
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other or anything except for with these
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with volume adjustments during the
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actual adjustment my guess is that's
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something that they will fix but it's
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something worth mentioning so what that
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leaves us with is the price and you are
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not going to believe the price let's
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start with these the W ones the ones I
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like better are $19 if you support their
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IndieGoGo campaign $19 and these are
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really nice sounding wireless earbuds
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they are definitely something I would be
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happy to use and to listen to music or
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lectures or audiobooks or something you
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will be happy these are very nice units
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the air pod style with the little stick
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that comes out these are a little bit
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more expensive they're 54 bucks on the
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IndieGoGo campaign but if you check out
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the dish
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scription on this video I have a link
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where at least a couple of you if you
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move quickly can get in at a forty nine
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dollar price but either way even for
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fifty four dollars these are pretty nice
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but honestly I think the real absolute
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winner here are these I am amazed at how
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good they sound and the fact that
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they're $19 if you were just to give
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these to me and let me audition them I
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would have sumed that there probably
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about a hundred bucks so really nice
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stuff again one more time I'm gonna warn
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you these I'm looking at our production
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prototypes so what you get might be
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slightly different and certainly I think
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they're packaging might be slightly
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different than this but whatever the
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point is is that for a very very
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affordable price these are like stocking
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stuffer level prices these are really
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nice so this is dave taylor i'm telling
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you you should check out the funcle'
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wireless headphones here's a link to get
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him on indiegogo once that's gone then
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hopefully you can just get funcle' and
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just do a google search and find him it
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is worth the effort because these are
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some really nice earbuds so with that
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I'm going back to my music so it's Dave
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Taylor and Zak I will catch you in my
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next video
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