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Beyerdynamic Byron BT Wireless Headphones for iPhone and Android - REVIEWED!
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May 30, 2025
If you're thinking about buying the Apple AirPods or any other audiophile bluetooth wireless earbud headphones, you should definitely check out the Beyerdynamic Byron BT wireless headphones first. Lightweight, smartly designed, quick to charge and without the need to buy a "leash" to keep 'em together, there's lots to like. Also compared: The Beyerdynamic Byron BTA, higher end audiophile wireless headphones with built-in DSP and AAC support. However, as tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ learned in his review, there's one thing you really must to do to get the very best audio experience. One simple thing that makes the difference between them being ho-hum and wow. As he explains... Learn more: http://amzn.to/2qCb5bZ
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wireless earbuds that sound great let's
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talk about
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them Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about wireless headphones now we're
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talking about like the Apple airpods but
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we're not going to look at Apple we're
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going to look at what other companies
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are doing specifically we're going to
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look at Bayer Dynamic a company with a
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super long history of doing really great
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audio file headphones and gear so they
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have a line called the Byron BT and the
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BTA and they have wireless versions and
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they have a wired version so what we're
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looking at are the Byron BT Wireless and
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it's important you differentiate because
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they have different features and
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characteristics and these run about 100
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bucks and they're really really nice now
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let me tell you a little bit about them
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first thing is you can see that they
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have a magnet it's actually pretty
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helpful but they're not wireless in the
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same way that Apple's airpods are
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because they're actually connected so
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you know it's one of these where you
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fling it around your neck and you put it
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in and you're good to go and in fact
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you're good to go for 7 and 1/2 hours so
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you can squeeze eight hours maybe it
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takes about 2 hours to do a full charge
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so it's not a huge amount of battery
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life but plenty enough for a nice walk
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around town or maybe uh Subway commute
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or something like that and let's see has
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a built-in microphone for phone calls
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and in fact
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as you can see on the line there's
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actually this sort of control box and it
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has three buttons here's a closeup and
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pretty typical so it's um pause play and
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hold it down for power when you're
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starting up if you keep it held down it
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goes into Bluetooth pairing the up and
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down or volume up and down and you can
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actually hold them and you get track up
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and down so you know there's a lot of
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multi-function going on but there's also
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a microphone in here so when you have
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this in your right here this is actually
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hanging pretty much in the perfect place
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and it actually sounds pretty darn good
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when I've talked to people on the phone
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um one of the best things about this is
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that it actually charges via micro USB
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now you're thinking um wouldn't that be
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the normal way everything charges but
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let me take this off and I'll show you
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here's the closeup um you just pull this
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little cord off or a little cover off
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and you got a micro USB plug so that's
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great you can charge it from anywhere
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you can plug it into your computer to
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wall outlet whatever why is that such a
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big deal because this one is the Byron
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BTA this is sort of its better more
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sophisticated cousin that's this guy and
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this one uses a charging cradle and it's
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kind of crazy because there's a lot to
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really like about the upgraded unit but
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I love the simple charging on the BT
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because I'm not going to lose a micro
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USB connection right I'm not going to to
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lose a micro USB cable but I can sure as
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heck lose that charging connector and if
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I lose the charging cradle on the BTA
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I'm kind of out of luck and have no way
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to charge it there's no fallback of a
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micro USB or anything so it's funny that
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the BT is actually the less expensive
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unit but in some ways it's actually more
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desirable design now having said that
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the Byron BT runs with Bluetooth 4.1 and
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ax X but it doesn't have
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AAC and it doesn't have you know
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obviously Bluetooth 4.2 so if you're
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using an iPhone Apple doesn't have aptx
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come on Apple get with the program they
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use AAC which this doesn't work with now
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that isn't to say that it's not going to
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sound good and here's a super important
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tip if you get one of these change your
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ear tips because the default ones you're
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going to get like here's all the TR and
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there's like no base at all but you go
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through and it's kind of a bit of a
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struggle but you put on the right size
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earbuds or ear tips and put them back in
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and listen to the exact same music and
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you'll be like holy cow these are
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different earphones entirely they sound
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that much better it's really remarkable
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in fact before I changed them I was like
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this you know whatever but then I
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changed them and I'm like wow this
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actually sounds pretty darn good so the
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super important when you get these is to
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Monkey around and try some different
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size ear tips it comes with six
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different or six different sizes um also
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has these little ear clip doohickeys
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which if you are so inclined you can put
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on and then it helps hold it onto the
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cartilage of your ear so it's not an
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over the- ear hook I don't particularly
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find these a big deal and these are
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super light so there's really not much
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weight dragging you down I really like
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them it comes with a little carrying bag
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and comes with a big honken cable kind
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of more cable than they need potenti
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eventually um but there's a lot to like
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about these now speaking of a lot to
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like can I ask that you click the
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Subscribe button so you can catch all my
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other reviews including when I reviewed
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the
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BTA now BTA I should say really quickly
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the biggest difference it's twice the
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price but that does give you AAC
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Bluetooth
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4.2 and it has its own digital signal
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processor built into the unit so it is
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definitely and you can hear the upgrade
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you can hear it sounds really nice but
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these are nothing to be complaining
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about these are nothing to be upset
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about in fact I really like this and
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honestly I like the design where they're
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wired together better than the Apple
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airpods where they're just individual
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units cuz I just feel like they're just
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so easy to lose I mean Apple obviously
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knows that cuz Apple actually has they
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added to find my iphone find my
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airpods if people weren't losing them
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Apple wouldn't be doing that right so
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that's something to think about so
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that's pretty much all I got for you
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this is the buyer dynamic Byron BT
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wireless headphones and they're 99 bucks
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at amazon.com if you want to read about
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the BTA the upgraded version they're
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$199 at amazon.com but these are a
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really great option and I think they're
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really nice at their price point so I
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would tell you to check him out and I'll
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catch you in my next
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