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Waterproof Sports Headphones: The Brainwavz BLU-300 Reviewed!
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May 29, 2025
if you're in the market for budget headphones, it can be tricky to know which offer good features, good sound and are sufficiently well made that they'll survive months - or years - of use. Choose an unusual design around-the-neck sports earphones and it's even more complicated. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Brainwavz BLU-300 Wireless Sports Earphones and finds that they have some solid features and limitations. Are they worth their budget price? He covers that key question too... Check them out on Amazon at https://amzn.to/2SiMtnF
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Around the Neck Sports Headphones from Brainwaves. Let's check them out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out these. Well, let me take them off and show you
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These are the Brainwaves BLU 300 Wireless Sports Earphones. And as you can see
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they have a magnet. But more than that, they are actually pretty darn nice for budget earphones
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So 10 millimeter drivers. So it's 20 to 20,000 Hertz frequency response
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So there's nothing to really write home about the audio reproduction. We'll come back to that
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But let's keep talking about it because these feature IPX7 water and sweat resistance
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which means that you can run through an absolute torrential downpour, and these are going to be fine
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Whether you end up getting pneumonia later is up to you, but your headphones are going to be rocking it
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They also feature, as I have already shown you, a magnetic clasp, which makes it great because you can wear them like this and you will forget you have them on until you want to put them back in your ears and remember that you actually have them
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So I really like the kind of devices that aren't intrusive and they don't like sit there in your ears or on your head or something unless you want to actually use them and you want to interact with them
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So they ship with three different ear tip sizes and as always you want to take the time to try different sizes to make sure you get the ones that you need Makes a big difference in sound and battery is very impressive They have an eight hour playback
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time on a two hour charge. That's very nice and if you hunt for it you will find there is a little
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space on the side of one of the ears sort of side of neck portions and it gives you a micro USB
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comes with a micro USB cable. So you're good to go with that. Features Bluetooth 4.1 with a 10
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meter range. But since it's right around your neck, probably your device is in your pocket
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So you don't really need 10 meters. You probably need one meter. In any case, if you happen to walk
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away from your Bluetooth device, and of course, they'll work with anything Bluetooth. So computers
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tablets, not just smartphones. So 10 meters is 30 something feet. That's a long distance. That's a
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nice amount of distance. And, you know, there's a lot I like about these, but let's talk about the
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audio. So first off, I will say that when I made some phone calls with this, people were saying
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just how great the sound was, which really surprised me because I didn't expect it to be
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such a good audio quality on the phone calls. So they sounded good, but more importantly
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I sounded good because on a lot of these headphones and earbuds and all this sort of stuff
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It ends up where the people on the other end are saying, uh, what? Why are you so far away
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But with these, actually, people were commenting about how good they sounded. So that's really
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nice because these are super comfortable for a phone call And of course they private because no one hearing anything from the other end So that really nice But let talk about music
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reproduction because they are budget headphones. So I wasn't really impressed with the music
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There's sort of a lot of highs going on and it's a very bright sound and there's bass. In fact
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they say that there's lots of bass, but the bass ends up being kind of muddy. So I felt like there
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wasn't much soundstage. There really wasn't much clarity in the music. So if I was sitting at home
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and auditioning a new CD or some tracks that I just got off of iTunes or Spotify or something
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I would not use these. But that's not what they're for, right? So the whole point of these is that I
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would put these on and put on my favorite playlist and start running or jogging or bicycling or
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mountain climbing or rock climbing or being at the gym or whatever the heck I do. These are active
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sports headphones and so for that the sound is perfectly acceptable. Again these are not high-end
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audiophile but you know what they also don't have like a multi-hundred dollar price tag so I think
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go in knowing what you're getting and you might be pretty darn surprised by these brainwaves
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They are actually pretty nice for the budget and for the price. Now before I tell you the price let
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me ask you one big favor. Hold on there's one more thing I want to talk about and that's the
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cool multi control that ends up down on the lower right portion So yes you can charge the battery here but it also has volume up and volume down and a multi button So between them you get next track previous track
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volume up, volume down, pause play. And then when you're on a phone call, you can also take a call
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if one comes in and you can hang up on that person. Now, back to the regular video. There is a button
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know, let me know. Is this interesting? Is this good? What should I have talked about that I didn't
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What did I talk about that you didn't care about? So the more you tell me, the more my channel can
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meet your needs. Sweet. Now, Brainwaves BLU 300 wireless sports earphones, 3950 at brainwavesaudio.com
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It is pretty hard to go wrong with something like that. Nice packaging. They won't fit in a stocking
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but they'd like a very nice holiday gift. So this is Dave Taylor. I am getting back to my music
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So that means I will catch you in my next video