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are these the best Bluetooth headphones
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you can buy let's find
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out oh hi Dave Taylor here let me take
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these off Dave Taylor here and this time
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I'm looking at headphones these
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specifically are the Audio Technica at
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dsr7bt not going to win any awards for
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nice naming but who cares because these
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are really great headphones these are
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high-res Bluetooth headphones that
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feature let's get this right aptx aptx
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HD which you probably didn't even know
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exists and AAC why are those important
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because aptx is a system from Qualcomm
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it's a chip and circuitry that gives you
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extra dynamic range let's just turn that
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off for a second and so it means that if
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you're on a device that supports aptx
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you get even more range and it just
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sounds really really good problem is is
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that these particular devices Apple
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iPhones don't have apx for some reason a
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lot of companies do it but Apple doesn't
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so what audio teica has done is what a
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very small number of companies have done
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which is said we're going to do apx and
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we're going to do AAC and AAC also gives
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you that you know decompressed higher
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range greater um audio quality and it
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just means that if you're listening
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through an iPhone as I am then it just
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sounds even better more dynamic range
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now these actually are using what Audio
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Technica calls their pure digital drive
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system which are having uh 45mm Dynamic
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drivers inside the earpieces and it's
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just really a rich Lush sound there's a
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lot going on solid base nice detail on
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the high end there's a lot of clarity
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there's no muddiness it's not too bright
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you know all those sort of audio terms
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but this really Nails the majority of
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them it's really nice and they say that
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the frequency response is 5 to 40,000
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htz that's a lot of range that's way
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more range than I can hear so I'll have
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to trust them on that now they are
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battery powered Bluetooth headphones so
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that means that they actually run 15
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hours on a charge a crazy, hours on
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standby haven't tried that yet cuz I
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keep listening with them and it takes
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about 4 hours to go from zero to a full
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charge which means in typical use if
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like you know maybe after a day or two
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of pretty serious listening you plug it
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in for an hour or so even just at
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lunchtime that's more than enough to
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cover most of every day even with an
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intense listening uh Bluetooth 4.0 it
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also comes with a cable um it's 10 oz so
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they're not the lightest headphones in
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the world they're pretty comfortable
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they fit my less than petite head let's
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just leave the phrase there and speaking
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of less than petite go ahead and click
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that subscribe button please awesome
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thank you now it also has a built-in
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microphone though who knows where the
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heck it is it's just magic and you
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basically you know you do this and if a
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phone call comes in you can take the
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call now I have to say I'm really I've
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found having to experimented with a lot
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of different devices I really don't like
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taking phone calls and having something
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like this for a call because it sort of
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cuts off a lot of your used to or
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familiar feedback from your speaking
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through your Jawbone into your ears and
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stuff so even just talking with these on
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versus these off it's a very different
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sound I hear of my own voice so I kind
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of prefer more old school earbud type of
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things for phone calls that's just me
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you might find these fantastic for that
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but they do work you can use them for
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phone calls and let's see so what I will
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say though is let's talk about some of
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the downsides because there's a lot of
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upsides to these Audio Technica devices
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and I love the high-res Audio I love the
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apx I love AAC there's so much they've
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done right but the problem is number one
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it's a style issue is that these really
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cover your ears there's a you know I
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mean it's like you don't even get
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airflow so if you're not used to that
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kind of headphones these can be a little
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bit fatiguing after a fairly short
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amount of time now the good newss is
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they're not too tight so they're not
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fatiguing from that perspective which
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we've encountered with a lot of
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headphones uh the other thing is I'm not
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a huge fan of the way they've done the
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controls on the sides here and you can
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see the onoff one is nice and easy but
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the volume is a little tricky I find
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that one a little harder to manage I
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wish on that control they would have had
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a little piece sticking out so you could
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sort of flip it up and down but probably
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not a big deal and frankly of course you
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can also adjust volume directly on your
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device if you want to um has about a 30t
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range on Bluetooth so that's very nice
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controls not great the style the um
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comfort experience not great but I have
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to say I've been taking them with me and
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traveling with them and listening and
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you know they obviously don't fold up or
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anything but they still fit in my
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computer bag and they're very nice even
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in loud environments they're very nice
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now there's no active noise cancellation
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going on but you don't really need it
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because you have that really good seal
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around your ears so tradeoffs pluses and
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minuses now these actual Audio Technica
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headphones run 299 bucks and you can get
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them on a variety of different places
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you can also learn more about them or
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pick up a pair at audio- tech.com
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so I'm going to give these an maybe an A
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A minus because there's a lot I really
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like and the sounds fantastic it's
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really really nice headphones but you
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have to be able to figure out the
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controls which are not optimal and you
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have to be comfortable with the really
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solid enclosing earpieces so this is
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Dave Taylor and I will catch you in my
