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The Brainwavz S0 In-Ear Earphones -- REVIEWED
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May 29, 2025
You can't get good audio gear for under $100, right? Wrong. The Brainwavz S0 noise isolating earphones do a surprisingly good job at a pleasantly budget minded price. There are some gotchas to know about and some quirks in its design and functionality you need to know before you make a purchase decision, however. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ explains the good, the bad and the, well, ugly, of the Brainwavz S0 earphones in this review. Check 'em out at Amazon: https://amzn.to/2IDeFfp
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great earphones for under 50 bucks let's
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check them out Dave Taylor here and I'm
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looking at earphones again specifically
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I'm looking at these these are the
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brainwaves s0 noise-isolating in-ear
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earphones and they're pretty nice
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actually they have nine millimeter
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dynamic drivers and run at 16 ohms with
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a 3.5 millimeter plug and give you 18 to
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18,000 Hertz of response so they're nice
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they have a rich sound lots of bass
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actually really pretty clean sound they
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also feature the clear waves headset
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remote which is this inline controller
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somewhere here it is and this is
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something where you might have a little
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bit of practice before you really get
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used to it because turns out that it's
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three buttons so the top two are volume
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up and volume down and that's it
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everything else that you're gonna want
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to do is a feature of the middle button
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pause play next track all those
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different features everything that
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you're gonna want to actually do to
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control your music or your phone call
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from the line is gonna be double and
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triple taps and all this hold it down
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for a couple of seconds and you can talk
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to Siri and all this sort of stuff it's
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complicated and not only that these
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really are designed for iOS and iPhones
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and such because they say that for many
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Android phones the volume up and down
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won't actually work it to be fair it
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does say right on the box that is
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microphone and remote designed for Apple
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iOS devices so they're not hiding that
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anywhere so important to know if you're
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gonna buy these and hooking them up to
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like your new Galaxy S 9 or something
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they might or might not work the way you
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want now there is like I said a lot of
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functionality on the button but here's
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the other thing that's really
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interesting is that the designs really
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nice it's an all metal housing and they
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feel really good but they have this flat
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wire and what I found and I check
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reviews other people have the same issue
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is that when you have them
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because of the design of the wire it
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tends to pick up noise on your clothes
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and such as you move around so if you're
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gonna use these for very active sports
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or for your daily run or something then
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they might or might not work the way you
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want so that's something to know the
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cable itself though is actually the
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perfect length it's 1.2 meters so that
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is exactly the length that I like so I
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can put my phone in my pocket in my back
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pocket and it'll work fine I can leave
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it on a table it'll work fine now on my
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iPhone 10 I do need the little lightning
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adapter because the iPhone 10 is part of
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the modern generation of phones that
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doesn't have an audio jack but that's
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okay because when I use it which is you
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know something that came with the phone
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and I try listening to music it sounds
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great
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Siri works well phone calls work well
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everything works really well as long as
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I'm not moving around a lot now again
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that might be different for different
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people it might be a function of where
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you put your phone versus where the
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wires laying the clothes you're wearing
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so on and so forth now let me also tell
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you that it comes with a bunch of stuff
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so not only does it come with the
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earphones themselves but it comes with
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this very nice hard carrying case and a
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really ridiculous number of ear tips so
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it comes with comply ear tips which are
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kind of cool they're like memory foam
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you push them put them in your ear and
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then you wait and they expanded your ear
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perfectly and it has let's see standard
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single flange by flange and tri flange
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ear tips too and as with every single
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pair of earphones you ever get I will
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again remind you take the time to find
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the right size makes a massive
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difference in the sound so now no sorry
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also comes with a tie clip just in case
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you wear a tie and want to listen to
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your headphones you are set so let's
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talk about the sound sound is actually
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impressively good
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it gets really nice and loud and there's
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a richness to it that really surprised
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me I didn't expect them to sound as good
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as they do brain waves I've listened to
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other gear from them they make do a nice
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job
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these really do sound really nice in
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particular I think if you're just
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sitting at your desk or a coffee shop or
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something and you plug it into your
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laptop or a tablet or your phone it's
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gonna sound really good you'll be really
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impressed by it
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now that's pretty much all I got for you
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except for the price so before we get to
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the price do me a favor and click on
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that subscribe button yeah cool thank
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you and useful review give me a thumbs
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up so these are the brainwaves s0 noise
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islets ice hello noise isolating
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earphones you try saying that five times
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fast and they will actually cost you
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forty four fifty at amazon.com and I'd
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encourage you to go and read the reviews
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there too it's a little bit a bit of a
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mixed bag there's still mostly people
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love these but you just really want to
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know that there's a lot of functionality
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jammed into the middle button of the
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inline control and their choice of wire
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means that it is susceptible to noise as
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your headphone wire moves around against
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your body might not be an issue so you
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can make your own decision this is Dave
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Taylor and I'll catch you in my next
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video
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