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Brainwavz B200 Balanced Armature Earphones - REVIEWED!
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May 30, 2025
There are two ways to design earphones, either with dynamic drivers or with balanced armatures. Each has its pros and cons, but with the B200, Brainwavz has managed to make audio earphones that sound good. Better yet, with their over-ear design, they're quite comfortable and with the included tons of different eartips, you'll sure to get the comfort that you seek. And yet, tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ explains in this review that there's still something lacking in the B200's sound, though you might not miss it depending on your musical or audio source tastes. Learn more about the B200 at http://www.brainwavzaudio.com/
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earphones from a company called brain
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waves let's find out what they're
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like Dave Taylor here again and this
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time I'm looking at earphones hang on
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let me actually get these out of my ears
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because it's hard to talk when you're
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listening to music but this is a pretty
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typical configuration of how I work is I
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have earphones or headphones plugged
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into my computer and I'm listening to
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music while I'm working that way I can
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really sort of focus and not worry about
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what's going on around me you probably
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do something similar or perhaps you
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actually have your device where it's
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actually your smartphone or some other
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device that actually gives you audio so
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what I'm looking at today is these are
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called the b200s from a company called
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brain waves great company name guys and
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the b200s are what are called balanced
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armature earphones and in the terms of
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earphones or earbuds whatever you want
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to call them there's two m primary
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categories there are what are called
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Dynamic drivers versus what they called
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balanced armatures and these are
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balanced armatures and these tend to be
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characterized by cleaner sound and a
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little less on the base but a nice crisp
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treble and in fact when I've listened to
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these extensively I've found that that's
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a pretty accurate description so you get
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a good musical response they actually
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sound pretty nice but at the very low
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end at the very bottom of the music
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music you don't really get much bass
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going on that's not even fair you get
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some bass but it's not as much as other
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earbuds and certainly not as much as
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headphones which is exactly what you'd
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expect from a balanced armature but
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overall it's a nice bright crisp sound
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and the music audio books phone calls
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everything it's all going to sound good
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well let me back up because phone calls
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aren't going to work because when you
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look at this what do you notice that's
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missing there's no mic microphone that's
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right these are just earbuds there's not
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actually multi-function like so many in
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the marketplace and I kind of like that
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because that means that the company's
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just focused on doing one thing and
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doing one thing well and that is to have
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really good audio reproduction now it's
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an overear design as you saw when I took
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them off and I like that too because
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that means if I'm using them when I'm
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running when I'm bicycling when I'm
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doing any activity the chances of them
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falling out goes way down versus when
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they just go straight from your ear and
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hang down so I like this design a lot
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and you know the company says the
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frequency response is from 12 Herz all
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the way up to 22,000 khz I can't really
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hear at either end of that you probably
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can't either that's a lot of range but
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you know they do have a nice sound to
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them so you know I'm going to believe
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their numbers because why wouldn't I now
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speaking of their numbers they have 110
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de I sensitivity so there's a lot of
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range and it's funny actually I looked
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at some reviews and people were saying
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be careful it gets really loud really
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fast and they do get loud but I think
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part of that actually is a reflection of
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the brightness of the sound so when you
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go from a certain volume and you keep
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going up they just get kind of it's an
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intense experience cuz it's so there's
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so much going on um it has a 1.3 M cable
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and it's a nice braided cable although
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the very last bit of it the part that
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connects it to the earbuds this is not
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braided this is just a sort of I guess
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vinyl covered cord and it feels possibly
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a little flimsy um 3.5 mm plug and it's
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goldplated how about that for sweet so
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why would you gold plate a plug cuz it
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gives you a slightly better electrical
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connection if you can tell the
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difference between goldplated and not
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however then you have amazing ears still
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for something at this price range you
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want to have these bells and whistles
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now speaking of bells and whistles this
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comes with all sorts of stuff I'm not
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going to dump everything out cuz it's a
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little overwhelming but has a shirt clip
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and more importantly it has six sets of
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ear tips and it has these foam comply
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tips so it's not a noise reduction
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system there's no microphone on board
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it's not cancelling out any audio or
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anything but the comply foam tips
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actually do a pretty sweet job of
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expanding in your ear to cut out all
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extraneous audio so if you like that
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some people don't find them very
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comfortable but if they work for you boy
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it's going to make these sound that much
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better comes with this nice hard case so
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you can carry the whole thing and
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transport it which is certainly
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appreciated and what else can I tell you
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I can tell you that you should subscribe
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to my channel so please go ahead and do
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that right now awesome thank you ah the
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other thing I should tell you is the
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price of course you want to know how
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much these cost these sweet little b200
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earphones from brain waves and the
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answer is they're 199 bucks and as far
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as I can tell the only place you can
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pick them up is at the brainwaves
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website which you can find at brainwaves
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audio.com so these are the b200s and I
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need to plug back in and get back to
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work so I'll catch you in my next video
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