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SmartOmi MOTTO Headphones with Active Noise Cancellation - REVIEWED!
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May 30, 2025
Wireless bluetooth earbuds with active noise cancellation are one level of nirvana for audio folk, particularly if you travel at all: ANC (active noise cancellation) can turn a noisy plane or train into a quiet haven for your favorite music, show tunes or even an audio book. But does SmartOmi deliver with the new MOTTO headphones? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ gives the new MOTTO headphones a whirl and reports what he finds in this candid video review. Before you buy these, watch! Learn more: http://amzn.to/2iqCP4n
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active noise cancellation and Bluetooth
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for under 75 bucks let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and this time I'm
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looking at wireless bluetooth headphones
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with active noise cancellation that's
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these these are the smart Tomy moto or
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motto depending on how you pronounce it
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and they have really nice active noise
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cancellation what does that mean it
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means that the base unit of these
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headphones has a microphone and a
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processor in it and any sound it hears
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it produces the opposite waveform so
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what this means is in particular all the
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low-end tends to go away these are
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fantastic for on an airplane or train
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but anywhere you're in a noisy
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environment you turn on active noise
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cancellation and it will rock your world
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it's suddenly it's like oh my gosh it's
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like it's quiet again you don't even
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realize how much noise there is until
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you put in noise cancellation now these
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are pretty cool design because I have
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other ones like this that require you to
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be plugged into your device but these
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are bluetooth so easy enough you'll
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notice that on the right one there is a
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tiny little microphone because you can
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also use it for calls very handy you put
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it in you swing it to connect in your
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ear that's the right one and this is the
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left one and one thing I will say always
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they come with multiple ear tips
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experimentally different sizes to get
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the right size and then this is the base
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unit which is where the noise
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cancellation system is and you just clip
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it to somewhere on your person you've
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hopefully already paired it with your
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Bluetooth device and you can yep you can
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just listen to some music
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it sounds pretty darn nice Oh so you
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know here's the thing is that these
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active noise cancellation meets that all
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the rum the Rumble and the hums and
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McIver refrigerator just off-camera and
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with this on I can't really hear very
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much so so weird to talk with this on
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although you get used to it with phone
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calls so what else did I tell you about
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these they have a PTX
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which is great if you have an Android
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device because a lot of Android devices
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support aptX
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iPhones and iOS devices do not apt
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access from Qualcomm and it gives you
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better sound it just gives you sort of a
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richer bandwidth so that your sound is
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more full they have NFC so if you want
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to pair it and you have an NFC able
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Android device that's generally what
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they have nowadays you can literally
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just do it as easily as something like
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that it's pretty darn simple you have to
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get in the right mode though and here's
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something that they've done that's
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really slick is that if it's running low
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on battery or if you just want to have
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it plugged in directly you actually can
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plug in an aux cable and then you can
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plug that into your device so now is the
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plug so now it's as if I don't have any
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bluetooth at all and it'll work forever
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now if the battery runs out that my
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active noise cancellation will go away
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but this is really great because now you
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have an option on an airplane for
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example right so a takeoff and landing
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when they say nothing Wireless no
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Bluetooth nothing like that you can do
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wired and then when they say all right
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you're clear you can actually just put
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this in your pocket and you're running
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Wireless pretty sweet so all of it it's
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very seamless actually it's C and in
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here is where the battery is and it has
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seven hours of use which is of course
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depending on the volume you listen to
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but seven hours is a pretty long plane
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flight and it's a one and a half hour
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charge if you need to give it more juice
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that's from zero to full so a little
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less time will still give you a nice
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boost if you're running a little low the
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remote control has a switch on the side
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to go between Bluetooth and the aux wire
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and on the other side volume up and down
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and then there's this multifunction
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button that does pause play answer and
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hang up phone call all these different
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features and again if I have it clipped
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here it's awful easy to work with it
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without having any other hassle and
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without having to even look up or pull
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my device out it might just be sitting
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in the
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see front in front of me on the airplane
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or something so let's see not much else
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I can tell you about them other than the
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sound the sound is good it's not great
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but given the price point given all the
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features it's very listenable and of
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course active noise cancellation means
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that the low end of your music isn't
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competing with the low end of your
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environment and that's a plus but I have
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to be honest they're not great
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audiophile ear buds they don't sound
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fantastic so don't expect anything truly
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amazing but they are quite useful and
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they definitely have a good enough sound
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for a lot of applications for example
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these are just absolutely Rock an
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audiobook or something like that or of
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course a phone call because they do have
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the little built-in microphone so that's
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pretty cool now please go ahead and
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click on that subscribe button so we can
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stay in touch cool now the only thing
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left to talk about is the price and
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these smart homie
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moto wireless Bluetooth active noise
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cancellation earbuds headphones are
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59.99 at amazon.com and that's a pretty
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screamin deal that's a really nice deal
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for anything that has active noise
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cancellation and given all the other
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features and I really have to give them
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props where the Bluetooth versus the
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wired that it supports both what a great
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idea
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so smart Tony moto this is Dave Taylor
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and I'll catch you in the next video
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