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Blue Microphone Lola Headphone Review
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May 30, 2025
With an innovative design and funky folding mechanism, the Lola audiophile headphones from Blue Microphone offer some interesting features and very nice sound, in a really big box. Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ gives them a try and likes what he hears, though he does encounter a bit of a, um, technical difficulty along the way...
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hi Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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today about the blue microphone Lola
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headphones probably not named after the
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kinks song of the same name but maybe I
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don't know in any case they come in the
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largest box that I think I've ever
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gotten any headphones in and we'll do
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sort of a tiny unboxing because they're
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pretty interesting design headphones so
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here you go and as you can see the top
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has a sort of unusual hinge on it and
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then the sides swivel and go up and down
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so there's lots of adjustability you can
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get it to be just the way you like
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now one thing they've done here which
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I'm not a huge fan of is they've made it
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hard for you to figure out left and
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right but generally the way it should go
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is that the opening should be on the
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front of this of the headphones and then
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like many modern headphones the wire you
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plug in separately and it comes with
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this nice 3 meter long cable which is
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the standard one there's also a 1.2
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meter long one that's for iOS devices
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and Macintosh systems and such where it
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has volume up/down and pause and all
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that very good for your phone and really
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like any headphones the question really
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is the sound so let me put them on and
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pretend you can hear them so I now can't
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hear myself talking because they have a
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really nice sealed over ear design so
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actually it's a little disconcerting for
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me to talk with them on so I won't but
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they have this huge ear space if you can
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see here it's a really big headphone and
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it has 50 millimeter drivers in it and
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that's really big drivers umm some of
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the headphones up and looking at
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recently are boasting that they're up
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above 35 38 or 42 millimeter drivers so
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these are big and there's lots of air
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space over your ear and it has you know
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15 to 20,000 Hertz frequency response so
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you're getting all the lows and all the
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highs
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14 ounces so those are all the basic
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specs but it can't you know again of
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course it's really about the sound and I
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don't really need to actually put them
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on and play any music though I obviously
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could because you're not going to be
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able to hear it what I will tell you is
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that they're very nice sounding
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headphones
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I really like the Lola's and I've been a
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fan of blue microphone forever primarily
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as the name would make you think they
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make microphones and really nice stuff
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but this is a really interesting step
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for them and this comes from another
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headphones that they have called the mo
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fly and the mo fire essentially the same
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design with the interesting hinge on the
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top and everything but the mo fires have
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a built-in amplifier these don't so
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you're gonna need to plug it into
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something that has the ability to push
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out some sound honestly an iPhone a
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laptop they're all plenty good enough
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and the taking out the amp on the
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headphones drops the price down so these
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are 240 9.99 where's the mo fie with the
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built-in amp which of course gives you
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stronger richer sound that's another
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hundred bucks you might be surprised
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that you don't actually need it what
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else can I tell you about these is I
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like them I like the sound I like the
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design but here's something I did notice
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is that it caught on my hair more than
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once so you can see with the hinge where
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things open and close if your hair
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sticking up and you do it this way you
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could have just pulled some hair out of
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your head and that's exactly what
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happened to me so that was an unusual
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experience I haven't had that before
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with a pair of headphones but maybe
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that's my issue I don't know but be that
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as it may these are the Lola microphone
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the Lola headphones from blue microphone
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2 49.99 you can learn more at blue Mick
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comm and I like them I like the unusual
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design and I think that if you have a
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chance to hear them you will be very
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impressed so this is Dave Taylor and
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maybe I just need to brush my hair
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anyway catch you in my next video