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The Budget Priced Smartomi Hoop Bluetooth Headphones - REVIEWED
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May 30, 2025
Think you have to spend $200 or more for good bluetooth headphones? You're wrong: turns out that there are some really good buys that are surprisingly affordable, including the Smartomi "Hoop" Bluetooth Headphones. Tech expert and audiophile Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks them out and finds that the Smartomi Hoop are quite good for their under-$50 price point, though there are a few things you should know before you make a purchase decision... SMARTOMI also has a 10% off promo code: FX28I7F9 Check 'em out at Amazon: http://amzn.to/2tkeGSe
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can $39 headphones actually sound good
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let's find
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out Dave Taylor here and this time I'm
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checking out headphones from smartomi
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and well smartomi smartomi not sure
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anyway these are the smartomi hoop these
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are Bluetooth headphones and they're
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pretty surprisingly nice now they don't
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look like much there's not a lot of
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bling going on I don't see any gold
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stuff or logos or anything but really
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headphones are all about sound and these
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actually sound surprisingly good so they
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are in running with the aptx which if
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you have an Android phone or a Windows
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phone basically anything other than an
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iPhone or Mac then you probably have apx
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circuitry and what it does is it gives
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you richer audio now if you're on the
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iPhone or iOS world then you're just out
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of luck still sounds good I've been
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listening to these with my iPhone so
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they sound good but you're not getting
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the full experience you would with apx
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well you can blame Apple for not
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implementing that perhaps um it also has
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a built-in microphone and it uses
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something called CVC 6 to be able to
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give you nice audio quality when you're
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talking to someone and I like that I
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like having headphones on now not a huge
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fan of long phone calls but if you're
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just listening to music and a call comes
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in it's nice to not have to then go and
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monkey around and take this off and pick
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up your phone or or anything it's nice
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to just be able to switch and actually
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make the call and so they also have a
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3.5 mm Jack and it's as you can see here
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there's this little rubber piece that
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comes out and on one side there's the
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Jack and on the other side there's the
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micro USB for charging it comes with a
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3.5 mm Au cable this is not a cable that
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feels like it's going to hold up for
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much but hopefully you won't need it cuz
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you'll be using charging and you'll have
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it be running off the B batteries which
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reminds me it actually runs for 16 hours
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of music or 200 hours of standby and it
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takes an hour to go from zero to full
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charge so if you listen to it every day
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and you know for a couple hours and then
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maybe every 3 or 4 days you plug it in
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for even 30 minutes while you're at
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lunch you should be good to go forever
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this thing will actually last quite a
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while um also runs Bluetooth 4.1 which
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is nice and it's ipx4 sweatproof I can't
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imagine wearing these when I go for a
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run or go work out but plenty of people
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do when I go to the gym plenty of people
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seem to be wearing actual headphones
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rather than just earbuds I don't get it
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whatever as long as they're happy it's
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all good so we've talked about
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everything except the quality of the
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sound so let me tell you about that but
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before I do can I ask that you quick
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click on the Subscribe button thank you
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awesome now they actually sound really
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good I was quite surprised when I put
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them on there's a nice sound to them but
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there's not a rich fullness to it so it
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has very competent base it actually made
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some of the pop music I was listening to
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sound pretty darn good um and there's a
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lot of clarity to it so it sounds nice
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and there's um what I guess they call
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passive noise cancellation there's no
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active noise cancellation on board but
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the little uh ear foam does actually do
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a pretty good job of covering over your
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ears and cutting out some noise so it
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does help with the audio but I would
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give these maybe like a B+ for audio but
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then you look at the price point and you
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say holy cow 39 bucks these might be an
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a quality in the $39 price range cuz I
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have so many headphones I can compare
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these easily to $500 ones and that's not
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really fair you're really not looking at
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the same level of quality or the same
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type of experience when you're looking
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at something that's under $50 now they
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have a really in Finish to them and I'll
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come back and talk more about sound in
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just a second but they have a nice
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finish to them and there's uh volume up
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and down and power is on your right ear
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and on your left ear is pause play and
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next in previous tracks now not a huge
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fan of the buttons I find that when it's
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actually on my ears I have to really
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sort of feel around and you know go and
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double check am I at the right place is
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that volume up or volume down I don't
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like that I really have to say that sein
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heiser's little lever that you move up
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and down for volume is so much more
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intuitive um but again you know these
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are not high-end headphones so they are
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quite functional they will work great if
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you have a teen or you're looking for a
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present for someone maybe not the most
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exciting packaging in terms of you know
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compared to like beats or something like
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that but really these are quite good
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headphones and there's a lot to like
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about them and the sound quality is very
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good for the price range and I would
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tell you that that they are worth
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checking out now they originally were 65
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bucks but the company has dropped them
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down to $39.95 at amazon.com these are
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the smartomi hoop Bluetooth headphones
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this is Dave Taylor and I'll catch you
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in my next video
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