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Sol Republic Relays Sports Headphones Review
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May 30, 2025
Dave Taylor reviews the Sol Republic Relays, 3-button in-line sports headphones (earbuds) and finds that they're comfortable and have good sound. But people who've used them for long periods have some concerns about the units, as Dave shares...
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I want to talk about these these are the
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Soul Republic Relays these are sports
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earbuds they call them sports headphones
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but I think of them as earbuds and they
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have the nice iOS friendly um threeb
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button control volume up down pause play
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um there's various other things you can
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do if you do like super triple taps and
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all sorts of things they're really nice
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um they're interesting little headphones
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because they come with things like they
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have this sort of anti-tangle wire that
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they've done here does it work well
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let's see so we got this all wound
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up well I don't know are we going to
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call this officially anti-angle what do
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you think i mean
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honestly all of these have that same
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problem so um it actually they work
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pretty well and it's a a pretty
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interesting wire that they have here um
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like I said it has the inline controls
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um this is what they call the Free Flex
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and it is actually less tangler than
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like the regular Apple earbuds which is
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nice water and water and sweat resistant
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and they come with a bunch of different
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ear pieces so you can actually fine-tune
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exactly how it fits in your ear which is
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good because with these that are the
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largest of them it's kind of bizarre cuz
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when I have them in if I don't have any
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music on I can hear myself breathing
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how's that for weird so to me that means
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it's a really good seal and I actually
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kind of like a little bit less of a seal
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so I actually have been wearing these
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with smaller ones but these are the
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default so don't forget if you get
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something either these or something like
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these try the different size earbuds to
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see which ones work best for you um they
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come in a whole pile of colors this is
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the black and white and let me zoom in a
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little bit here or at least give you a
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closeup and they also come in red black
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green blue and as I said this is the
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black and white I don't know two-tone
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version kind of fun they're 59 bucks at
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soulrepublic.com but hold on so they
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sound pretty good and the microphone's
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pretty good no complaints when I've used
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it for phone calls but here's the thing
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is that when I looked online especially
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at amazon.com there are a lot of people
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that question the reliability of this
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and they say that these actually haven't
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worked over the long run for them now
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you need to compare that with other
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earbuds in the same price range so you
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get a full sense of in the $60 price
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range do earbuds work for 5 years or are
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they really only like 6 to 12 months so
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your usage pattern will be different but
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I did want to raise that as something
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that you know we getting our products
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for a very short amount of time before
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we review them we don't get that 6 to 12
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months of experience so something to be
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aware of however with that in mind I
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like Soul Republic i think that their
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Bluetooth speakers are excellent really
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really like them and these little
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earbuds they actually surprised me with
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how good their sound was even you know
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just straight off of a phone straight
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off a computer really pretty nice so I'm
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going to give this a sort of lukewarm
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thumbs up because I think you might want
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to be aware of reliability and again do
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your own research and your experience
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might be totally different this is Dave
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Taylor soulrepublic Relays 59 bucks at
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soulrepublic.com and I will see you in
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my next video
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