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can these headphones save your hearing
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it Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about something serious this time I want
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to talk about hearing loss particularly
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with adolescents if you're between the
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ages of 12 and 19 odds are good you're
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starting to lose your hearing in fact
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one in five 19-year-olds now apparently
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has some level of hearing loss why
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muchly because of all their audio
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players the phones the devices the
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headphones the earbuds everything super
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loud and there's so much data to show
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that if you're listening to really loud
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music it's going to mess up your hearing
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and it doesn't really come back this is
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a problem you then have to deal with for
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the rest of your life that's a pretty
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dire consequence which is why when Puro
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soundlabs wanted to send me their BT
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5200 headphones I was super interested
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because these aren't just wireless
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bluetooth headphones that happen to be
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made of aluminum and they're very nice
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and they have 24hour battery life and 40
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mm Dynamic drivers and everything
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there's a lot to like in these
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headphones but what's really nice is
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there's a little LED indicator that
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shows you how loud your music is so what
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they recommend is pick your music and
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I'll show you what this looks like and
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I'll give you a close-up of the LED too
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so pick your music start playing it and
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then increase the volume and if you get
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it super loud you'll see that the LED
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actually goes yellow if it's over 85 DB
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and will turn red if it's over 95 DB now
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to keep this in perspective over 85 DB
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you shouldn't listen to for more than
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maybe 2 hours maximum and over 95 DB
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will cause hearing loss so these are
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good headphones for your children for
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example for them to be able to get a
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sort of reality check of how loud their
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music is and like I said you really want
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to always have it in the green now the
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downside and there's so much I like
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about these the downside of the
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bt5200 is that I can get it super loud I
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can get it too darn loud and I'm
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actually hurting my hearing so they
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actually make a version called the B T
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2200 and those are a little better
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because those actually won't go above 85
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DB so those might actually be a better
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version for your children but these are
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pretty sweet and the sound is really
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quite good what they've done is they've
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re-engineered and tuned the audio so
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that actually you don't need to have it
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super loud and they're not active noise
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cancelling but they're really pretty
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tight on your head I'll come back to
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that in a second so they cut out a
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significant amount of back background
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noise so between those two you're
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probably going to be doing pretty good
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with a pretty low level of volume and
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let me just give you a quick look on the
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side there's tons of controls here you
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can see all easy to work with all nicely
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labeled there's no Mysteries here there
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is in the carrying case an optional
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cable if you'd prefer not to use
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Bluetooth or you just run out of battery
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I mean 24 hours of battery it's pretty
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good but eventually it's going to run
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out so you can use cable hasil
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microphone so you can use it for phone
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calls if you're making phone calls and
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you're in the red then the person on the
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other end needs to stop
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shouting but therein lies the
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fundamental problem with this so if I
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put these on how do I see how loud my
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music is that's a problem and so I don't
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know how they would get around that
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maybe having a cord and the cord has a
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sensor that shows you but you know as
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they're wireless headphones there's got
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to be some way to be able to see but
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unfortunately you have to take them off
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to see what color the LED is now my
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expectation is over a fairly short
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amount of time you'll get the hang of it
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and you'll be able to do that without
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much hassle so that's good but
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fundamentally I wish they would have a
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better way or even just like had a
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little warning beep that said your
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music's getting too loud or something
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like that but again that might be where
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the 2200 is a better option so what else
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can to tell you about them they have a
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very nice carrying case and it's slim so
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they don't bend or fold particularly but
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I like that the case is a pretty slim
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well-designed little unit does of course
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come with the USB charging cable that's
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nothing to write home about but the
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actual audio cable if you need to use it
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is a nice flat cable so that works out
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really well and really the you know key
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thing here is the whole Audio Level now
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the sound is actually surprisingly good
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first thing I did is I went into the EQ
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on my um iPhone and I actually turned
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off any base boost or anything like that
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I just went flat and then boy all of a
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sudden the mid-range just jumped out and
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it sounded so much better and they're
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really pretty impressive sound they're
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really nice sound for the price and
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speaking of the price these are
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$149 and you can pick up a pair at
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amazon.com these are the Puro sound
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laabs BT 5200 wireless headphones and
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before you leave go ahead do me a favor
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and click on the Subscribe button and
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then we can be friends forever so I'm
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going to go back to the music although I
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have to say as I mentioned earlier
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they're pretty snug so if you have a
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pretty big head you're going to find
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that they're really a pretty cozy fit I
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feel like they're almost four more
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teenage heads although frankly a lot of
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teenagers I know are taller and bigger
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than I am so um something to know about
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if you have an atypically large head
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otherwise the Puro sound laabs
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bt5200 with audio volume level checking
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and hearing stuff so you can figure out
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if you're listening to music too loud
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huge win Dave Taylor and I'll catch you
