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Hear Everything with the EKSA Telecom S30 AI-Powered Open Ear Headset
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May 29, 2025
Rather than isolate yourself from a noisy world, the EKSA Telecom S30 AI-Powered Open Ear Headset allows you to hear everything around you. Not only that, but the microphone pickup has a powerful AI environmental noise cancellation (ENC) capability that'll make you sound like you're in a quiet space, even in the middle of a crowd. Tech expert Dave Taylor puts the S30 to the test in this review and is impressed with the results, as you will be. Check it out at: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/6612236.p Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #eksa #eksatelecom #openear #enc #eksas30 #askdavetaylor
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an openar headset with boom mic that
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cuts out 99% of background noise Pretty
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cool Let's check it
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out Dave Taylor here And sometimes the
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world you inhabit is just a noisy place
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And that makes it really hard to be on
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phone calls Hang on
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I have the ability to turn off that
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background noise just like these do This
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is the Exa Telecom S30 AI powered
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openear headset And as you can see they
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are a really interesting design because
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they actually fit over your ear but they
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don't block your ear So that's it It's
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fully installed You can see here or how
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it fits on my ear but it doesn't block
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me hearing everything going on around me
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The one that's on the right ear is a
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little simpler because there's no boom
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mic on it And that's everything So now
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it's ready to go Bluetooth paired Let me
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tell you a little bit about and then
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I'll give you a couple of Well I'll give
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you a quick demo But it's has 16.2 mm
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drivers and tube base is what they call
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So it gives you actually surprisingly
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good audio reproduction It includes SBC
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and AAC so it's going to play really
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well with iPhones It doesn't have active
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noise cancellation which wouldn't make
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sense for an open ear device but they do
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have AI powered environmental noise
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cancelling that they say cuts out 99% of
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background noise In a minute or so we're
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going to test that out and find out if
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it really works There's privacy mode
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because sometimes with open ear if you
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crank it super loud and you're in a
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quiet environment the person next to you
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could kind of hear what you're listening
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to But when you get a phone call it
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actually drops that volume down to make
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sure you have privacy Great idea Phone
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calls done Goes back to whatever you set
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your music to And I found that my music
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in a quiet environment like my studio I
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can listen to it at about three quarter
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volume and it's nice and loud and a you
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know really good sort of filling
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environment So 9 hours of talk off the
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bass or 16 hours of music off the bass
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This bass gives you a bunch more charges
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So this in total will give you 48 hours
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of talk time until you have to charge
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this up or 70 hours of music listening
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but probably you're going to be using
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these more for talking than listening to
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music Though it works perfectly well for
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both When this is ready to charge and of
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course if you put these in they
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immediately start charging But when this
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does need a charge then there's USBC on
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the back and of course a USBC to USBA
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cable included or it can actually do
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wireless chi charging on the bottom So
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that's an easy way to make sure that it
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stays charged The whole thing does come
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with this if I may say so slightly
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chunky carrying case It is making sure
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there's space for everything including
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the cables which is a nice step on their
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part but it does make it a much bigger
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form factor but you can choose if that's
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something you want to use or not
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Supports multi-point connection
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Bluetooth 5.3 they're IPX5 water
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resistant So if you want to go for a jog
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and stay on the phone with this headset
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while it's raining out go wild Not sure
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what the other person's going to
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experience but hey that's you And range
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from your device for Bluetooth is 30 m
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or 99 100 ft somewhere around there
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Supports iOS iPhone Android Windows Mac
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Really anything that can support a
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Bluetooth microphone or headset these
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are going to work for Now with all of
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that said here's what I'm going to do is
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I'm going to actually give you a chance
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to hear it
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so you can catch how well the microphone
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picks up audio And then partway through
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that I'm going to push this button
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and I'm going to be in a louder
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environment And so the question is
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really can this cut out all that
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background noise so I'm going to go into
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voice recordings on my iPhone
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And now what you're hearing is my voice
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as picked up by the Exat Telecom S30 And
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as you can hear it's a really nice clean
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clear voice But let's turn on that
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background noise And you're not going to
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hear much of anything so don't be
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weirded out But I promise I'm now
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simulating being in a noisy bar
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And if I stay quiet it's quiet So you
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don't really know There's a tiny bit of
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bleed through while I'm actually talking
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but otherwise it's really remarkably
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quiet Let's go away from the
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bar So now I turned that off And you can
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hear there's no more tiny bleed through
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but considering how noisy it is for me
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sitting here with this playing that
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audio track it's pretty darn remarkable
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So let me switch back to my other
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microphone
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And one of the things I really like
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about these is that they're super
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comfortable You could wear these all day
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Honestly you'll forget you're wearing
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them after a few minutes because they're
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not covering your ear They're not over
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your ear They're not in your ear They're
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just sitting in front of your ear It's a
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very sort of polite way to design a
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headset And so from the perspective of
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being on a phone call they're wonderful
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on a Zoom call on a Teams or Meet call
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anything like that these are fantastic
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because you'll be able to hear the other
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people really clearly and they'll hear
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you really clearly unless you push push
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the mute button and otherwise you can
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still hear the environment around you So
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it's really pretty slick And if you're a
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work from home you'll hear if there's
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like a crash in the kitchen and you're
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like I need to go check what happened
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but no one else will hear because of
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that environmental noise cancelling on
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the microphone So it really is really
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nice The question that still remains is
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all right so what does music actually
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sound like with these and I'll tell you
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the first generation of openear headsets
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were completely missing bass and even
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mostly mid-range It was just focused
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much more on the highs but X has gone
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through a couple of generations of its
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design as has the industry overall and
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these have remarkably good sound I was
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listening to some Herby Hancock classic
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jazz beautifully engineered and mastered
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music and it sounded really good Was it
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as good as like $500 super high-end
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audio file headphones no Was it plenty
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good enough to listen to while you're
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working or studying or you know doing
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whatever it else is that you want to be
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able to do like exercise or something
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absolutely Music's going to sound good
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Things like podcasts and audiobooks will
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sound great because of course all of
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these tend to be tuned for the human
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voice frequencies but these with that
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tube bass feature TM then actually gives
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you a surprising amount of bass You know
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if you're an EDMmer and you're waiting
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for the drop well these aren't
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necessarily going to give you that
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earthshattering experience but seriously
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open ear headsets Come on So really very
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easy to work with They have one button
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that's bright orange and that is a
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multi-function button And what I like
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about it is once you have them turned on
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and paired you can just drop them in the
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case and now it's off And then when I
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pull it out it'll turn on and pair again
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automatically So I don't have to think
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about that And I will put the other one
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on too The other one because of the
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headset you do have or the boom mic you
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do have to sort of adjust that slightly
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so you can get it in the case But once
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it's in the case it's a magnet
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So super easy Again there's a lot to
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like here I think they're really
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welldesigned I think that the sound will
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surprise you and they are super
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comfortable If you're used to having
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stuff stuck in your ear or these big
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things clamped on your head these are a
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whole different experience And having
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that boom mic with the AI powered
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environmental noise cancelling as you
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heard gives you a lot of freedom to have
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conversations with people even in noisy
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environments So so much to like here I
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really have no negatives other than like
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I said maybe the carrying case could
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have been a little streamlined but hey
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you can put it back in the box and not
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worry about it So probably not a big
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deal That's everything I got I think
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these are ones definitely worth checking
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out And if you spend a lot of time on
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phone calls or on video chats then these
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are a gamecher versus you having to like
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get the mediocre audio pickup from your
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computer or on your phone I mean phones
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modern phones like an iPhone or an
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Android these are terrible for phone
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calls So there it's really like you must
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have some sort of a device to get better
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experience and these offer a really good
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solution I am going to invite you to
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value Of course I hope you did Excellent
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These Let me pull this out Spin that
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around These This is the Exat Telecom
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S30 AI powered openear headset and it is
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$149.99 at
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bestbby.com And honestly if like I said
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if you spend a lot of time on phone
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calls or on just chatting with people on
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different systems like FaceTime or
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something then these are fantastic But
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even if you just want to use them to
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listen to music while you're gardening
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and you want to be able to hear the
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environment around you or something then
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these are also really good for that They
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are a little bit chunky in terms of the
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size versus other openear headsets but
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there's a lot of circuitry in here that
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give you a really great experience And
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they are still so light that you will
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not even realize you have them on after
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like 5 or 10 minutes It's everything I
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got I think I'm going to go back to some
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Herby Hancock So I'll hope to catch you
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in my next video
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