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The Amazing High-Tech Aftershokz Trekz Air Headphones - REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
Imagine having really high quality headphones implanted into your head. You'd be able to hear everything around you, but you could also listen to music or chat with someone on the phone too. The Aftershokz Trekz Air aren't quite surgical, but are just as amazing, reproducing audio through bone conduction. That's right, you listen to the sound produced on your cheekbones. And they sound great! Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checked out the new Aftershokz Trekz Air and found them quite astonishing. Light as a feather, rugged, discrete and with really good audio. And phone calls? Watch and find out! Check them out at https://www.Aftershokz.com/
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earbuds that don't even go in your ears
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let's check these out Dave Taylor here
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and I'm looking at these these are the
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aftershocks tracks err headphones and
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they don't even go in your ears and they
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don't go on top of your ears they
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actually sit in front of your ear and
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they work with what they call bone
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conduction technology this is a pretty
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amazing stuff now let me start right out
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by showing you this close-up you can see
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that the actual headphone part sits just
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in front of your ears in front of what's
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called the tragus of your ear and the
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vibrations go through your cheek bone
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why on earth would you do this because
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then you are completely open to the
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environment around you which is really
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important particularly for athletes a
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lot of athletes like icy bikers all the
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time and they have earbuds in or
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headphones on they have no idea what's
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going on around them that's really
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dangerous because you want to be able to
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hear that car coming up or the siren of
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an emergency vehicle or the rumble of a
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truck or something so these are great
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athlete headphones and they're pretty
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easy to work with you just put them on
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and they just sit in front of your ears
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I've found that if you have a lot of
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hair like I do that you're gonna want to
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get the hair out of the way but now I'm
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ready to go and the controls are really
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quite quite straightforward on the back
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there is a volume up and volume down
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which doubles as power and then there's
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a multi-function button on the left ear
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that with a single tap is pause play
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where the double tap is go to the next
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track push and hold it down and you can
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actually be talking to Siri or Cortana
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or whatever other voice interaction
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system you have and it all works really
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well it's really quite interesting
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actually
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they're running let me take them off
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they're running bluetooth 4.2 and their
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IP 55 sweat and water resistant and dust
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resistant and stuff so if you're wearing
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these and you are on a long bike ride
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and it starts raining or snowing or I
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don't know lots of dust and mud get
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kicked up from some truck path
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you totally no problem this is going to
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be totally fine and they're really very
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interesting looking it looks futuristic
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these are the kind of things I expect to
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find in some sort of science fiction
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film or something now they run six hours
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on a charge you charge them there's this
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sort of piece here that sits behind your
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right ear and it has controls but it
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also has some wear I know I'm sorry it's
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the one on the yeah on the right ear
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it's this one so it has the controls and
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it also has the part you can open up
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that gives you a micro USB that gives
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you charging so once you've charged it
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it's six hours and you can take phone
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calls and not only that the phone calls
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sound great because they have a
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microphone on each one and they're doing
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noise cancellation so the people on the
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other end when I've tried it they were
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just like wow what are you using this
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sounds really good which is fantastic
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because you still have all of that
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acoustic and it's open and you can hear
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the environment around you one of the
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things I really like is that when I'm
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using these I can just pause the music
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or I can obviously pause it on the
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control on the headphone and I don't
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have to move them out of the way to be
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able to hear people so that's really
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nice if someone suddenly comes into your
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cubicle or you're in the library and
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someone wants to start talking with you
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you don't just start taking things out
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and messing around with them super nice
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now having said all of that what about
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the sound well it turns out they sound
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really good I was really quite shocked
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how good they sound actually and there's
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a nice soundstage there's a rich sound
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but you do have to fiddle with them a
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little bit so when I put these on
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there's an unfortunate tendency for the
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back part to go too far down which means
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that sort of an illogical way this fits
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is that the ear piece then ends up a
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little too far forward so I find myself
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putting them on and then raising the
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back just a little bit to get in just
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that perfect spot there but once I do
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it's remarkable how nice it sounds now
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you're not going to get a ton of volume
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out of
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these unless they position in exactly
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the right place you're gonna have to
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compensate with volume for the fact that
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they're not you know perfectly
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positioned but the sound is still really
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remarkably good however and here's
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something I've never experienced before
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is because of the technology they use
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it's it's there and if you have it on
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very loud and you have something where
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there's like a nice baseline or
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something
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it actually vibrates and that actually
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tickles so there were a couple of songs
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I was listening to or I'm like now my
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tears are itchy this is weird
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so I'd turn the volume down a little bit
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not something I've experienced with any
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other headphones now if I was out on a
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long bike ride or on a run or I was at
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the gym and I was sweating and really in
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the middle of a heavy-duty workout I
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probably wouldn't even notice any of
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that so might not be a big deal again
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like I said in terms of the positioning
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you know this might be something where
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it might not hit in exactly the right
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spot I wish this part was adjustable so
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that I could actually maybe change the
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angle slightly does not appear to be the
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case that that is the you know that you
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can do that and I don't want to break
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them because they're actually really
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nice so really that's all I have to say
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aftershocks
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treks air-bone conducting headphones
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super amazing but hey wait hold on
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before I tell you the price let me ask
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feedback give me a thumbs up if you
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comment telling me why
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totally fine I'm good with feedback but
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tell me what's going on and let me know
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if you've ever tried these in the
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comments and what you thought of them so
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okay now aftershocks treks air-bone
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conducting headphones super interesting
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you can pick them up and they are in
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grey green red or blue and you can pick
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them up for a hundred and forty nine
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ninety five at aftershocks calm I will
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say I like these a lot they're really
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fascinating they sound remarkably good
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and I really like that they are open so
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I can hear everything in the environment
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around me that's a really cool
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technology this is Dave Taylor
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I'm gonna go back to my music so I will
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catch you in my next
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