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The Sweet JBL E55BT "Quincy Jones" Audiophile Headphones - REVIEWED!
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May 30, 2025
Looking for some great sounding headphones that don't have thumping nightclub / dub step bass or bright, painful highs, headphones that really give you the nuances of your musical source and are comfortable too? If you know who Quincy Jones is, you'll know he's a man who has a superb ear for music -- 28 Grammy awards aren't wrong! -- and when Q got involved with these JBL headphones, he helped tune them to sound, well, great. Tech expert and audio expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the headphones and finds them to be a solid option for most every genre of music. With some cool secrets hidden within too, and a couple of issues that any potential buyer should know about before clicking the purchase button. Learn more: http://amzn.to/2umhzBF
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headphones by Quincy Jones these are
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worth listening
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to oh Dave Taylor here again and I am
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again listening to headphones let we
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take these off these are some pretty
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sweet headphones these are the JBL E55
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BT Quincy Jones Edition Now Quincy Jones
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if you have not heard of this guy then
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you're just not paying attention to the
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music industry he's been involved since
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the ' 50s starting out with big bands he
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was actually in ly Hampton and Dizzy
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Gillespie's big band way back in the day
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more recently the guy actually produced
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three of Michael Jackson's best albums
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that had a great collaboration Thriller
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um and off-the-wall and bad Quincy Jones
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produced and did all the sound mixing
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for all of that man has won 28 gramys
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including winning a Grammy Legends award
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so when you talk about someone who knows
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sound there's probably very few people
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on Earth that's better at it than Quincy
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Jones now one more thing I'll tell you
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he's done film scores worked with Frank
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Sinatra it's kind of insane how much
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this guy has done and more importantly
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Quincy Jones also has understood the
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business of music not just the sound of
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music no musical
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intended um and so when JBL paired up
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with him for these headphones they
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really came up with something really
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pretty cool and these have 50 mm Dynamic
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drivers 20 to 20,000 Herz frequency
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response thank you JBL for not saying
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that it goes up to like 75,000 Hertz or
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something cuz ain't no one's going to be
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able to hear that period and certainly
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not Mr Jones who probably doesn't have
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the hearing of a 17-year-old sorry Quin
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or Q I guess people call you Q um it is
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kind of fun though because it does
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actually have Quincy Jones's voice
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prompt so you turn it on and says power
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on I mean get he a nice deep voice very
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nice uh 20 hours Play Time 2 hours for
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zero to full charge that's pretty decent
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and you can have two devices connected
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simultaneously so you can have it where
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you're maybe listening on your stereo or
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listening off your computer and then
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your phone calls and you already got
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them both paired so it's ready to switch
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over so that's nice and it is Bluetooth
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so that works pretty well and I've found
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that it has a good range but it also
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comes with a cord and this is one of
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these sort of fabric cords and has an
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inline microphone if you want to make a
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call now as far as I can tell and JBL
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doesn't spec but as far as I can tell
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there's no microphone in this so when
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you're using it in Bluetooth mode it's
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just headphones but plug this guy in and
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uh there's the
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plug plug this in and now you're ready
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to take a phone call and um it does have
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one button control here in line which
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you know actually I got to say let's so
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I'm sort of talking about the good parts
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of this let's talk about some of the
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challenges so one of the challenges is I
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don't really like the controls very much
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so the inline just has an onoff switch
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so you can end your phone calls but
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there's no volume control and the
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controls on the headphones themselves
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are a little tricky to work with with
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just your fingers it has um the power on
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and off and then it has volume up volume
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down and pause play and I just found
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that there's sort of a weird DeLay So if
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I'm listening to music and then I turn
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the volume up it took a couple of
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seconds for the device to react so I
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found that I was actually adjusting
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things badly I put them too loud or so
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soft that there'd be no music so that
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might be something I'd get used to but
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wasn't super thrilled with the controls
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here but you know something for you to
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decide um it is a tangle-free cord they
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are pretty light they're pretty much
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like beets you know so they're like 1.6
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lb um similar feel maybe a little
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lighter they do fold which I always
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appreciate if you want to actually
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transport them um and this is the space
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gray color it also comes in a Dusty Rose
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which honestly cu the phrase dusty rose
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sounds a little more country than I
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expect from
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you that's what we'd have to figure out
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and I just want to say one more thing is
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the packaging is okay it's quite
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functional but if you do get one of
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these then please please please dig
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around because underneath everything is
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this nice carrying case but it's awful
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easy to not notice that and to never
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really know that it came with this nice
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case so I would definitely say that's
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something worth doing but of course
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headphones it's all about the sound
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before I tell you about the sound can I
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ask that you click the Subscribe button
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thanks that's awesome now the sound on
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these is really good it is way better
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than I expected and in fact I have to
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say I pulled these out of the package
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and I'm like uh I don't know not a huge
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fan of the design and the packaging was
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kind of a B+ sort of thing and
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everything but then I put these on and
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they're a little snug I expect they
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would loosen up a little bit over time
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but I put them on and put on some music
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and 30 minutes later I realized I was
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still just laying there with my eyes
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closes listening it's that good these
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have a really nice response it's not the
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like super uated Bas that you get with a
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lot of companies now so it does not
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sound like you're in the middle of a
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discotech or nightclub and it's not
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bright on the high end so it's just a
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nice rich sound and I was listening
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actually to SiriusXM and I was just
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surfing different channels and boy
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everything I played sounded really good
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from classical to big band Yes I got you
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covered there man and up to contemporary
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music and rock and roll I mean it all
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just sounded really good I'm really
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really quite impressed with the sound of
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these so these are the JBL E55 BT Quincy
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Jones Edition and if you're interested
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in these you can learn more at jbl.com
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but you can also pick up a pair for
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yourself if you want at JBL or
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amazon.com they run 199 bucks. 95 this
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is Dave Taylor and I'll catch you in my
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next video
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