These are the coolest looking earbuds. But how do they sound? Let's find out Dave
Taylor here and I'm checking out these, these are the Vano Alpha X 200 tws or True wireless stereo earbuds and
they are really attractive how they sound. Well, we'll come back to that
Let's start with some specs. First off, they are a pretty typical size
They have a decent size battery, they fit comfortably in your ear and they're not going anywhere if you wanna shake your head around or
you wanna jump or anything like that, it's already paired with my phone
I'm already listening to music. Let's take that out. So that doesn't happen
So very nice, straightforward. They come with three different size of ear tips so you can get the right size ear tip for your ear
c. That is very important. So you get the best possible sound quality
They are eight millimeter drivers running Bluetooth 5.0 which means that they pair to each other easily and then they pair to your device easily
And by the time you take them out and put them in your ears
they already are paired back to whatever the most recent device was and probably playing music
So that's really convenient. It, these are also IP X eight waterproof
which means you could ostensibly wear them swimming or surfing. But while they might stay in your ears
I'm not sure they're gonna stay in your ears that well when there's water flowing
So I like to think of that as more, they're really super sweat proof
Now where this gets interesting is with the case, this is a big heavy substantial case
If you're used to cases from other devices of a similar nature
you'll think that's a little bit big. It's a, it's definitely heavy because it's a 3500 milliamp hour case
I don't know why they put such a big case in, but these earbuds will give you around six or seven hours of listening time
and you can do theoretically 17 more charges from this case which gives you over 100 hours of listening time
That's a lot of listening time. I guess this, the goal is that like if you have these in your gym bag
you can plug them in micro USB on the end, you can plug them in
charge them up all the way. And then from that point on for the whole week
you listen, you work out, you sweat, it doesn't matter. You put them back in the case and
and it just charges them up again and you got at least a week if not two weeks depending on how long you work out
Now, having said all of that, it's an aluminum alloy case with some plastic elements and it has a very nice appearance
but I don't feel like they got the hinge. Right. So, if you listen
there's sort of this weird feel to it and because of that and because of the way they did the open
it actually ends up being a little sharp on your fingers. So I'm not exactly sure that this is the optimal way they could have
designed it. But what I really like about these is what they call their smart led charging and you see it on the front
right? It's an actual display and it's showing me the charge level of the case and the charge level of each of the two earbuds
when I put them in. This is crazy cool. I there are so many devices like this where you have no idea how charged they
are. You have no idea how charged the case is like for example, the Apple Airpods pro Yeah
you can put them next to your phone and you get lots of data. But unto themselves
you look at it and there's a light and the light is green or the light is amber
That's all you get these. Give you this great digital readout. Super nice
Now in the box, it comes with the ability for you to get a $25 Amazon gift
Card by um posting a review on Amazon. They say an honest review
be honest, don't just post something super nice because you wanna get like
you know, the $25 gift card. I think it's entirely reasonable. Probably Amazon doesn't
but that's not as, you know, that's not my issue, that's not your issue
Um comes with lots of instructions because there's lots of things you can do by tapping on the ear pieces
And so you can have lots of different controls. Here's a quick shortcut of just some of the things you can do
And then also in the case, uh or in the box, I should say it's pretty cool
This is something I've never seen before. So it comes with ear tips
right? Comes with a micro USB, little mini cable, but it also comes with this micro USB to USB three adapter
because one of the sort of interesting features of this and this might be why they have such a big battery is you can plug
a device in and charge the device off of this. So this also ends up being not just a charging base for the ear buds
but it can also be an emergency charger for your phone. That's a pretty neat idea
right? And this little adapter, like I said, I've never seen one of these before micro USB to USB three interesting idea there
Vano. But that leaves us with perhaps the most important thing which is the sound quality
And I gotta say as much as I like Vanko and I've liked the other products they have
I feel like they did so much engineering on the case and on the battery and that whole front smart led charging display super
cool, but the sound lets you down. It's just not that great a sound even for the price
you know, they're not incredibly expensive, but there's just no richness, no fullness to the sound
there was bass, there's not a lot of midrange. And when I tried to make a phone call
the person at the other end could barely hear me unless I was talking really loud and I don't wanna have to talk really loud
to be able to be on a phone call. So, gosh, they got so much right with the design and everything
but I just can't recommend them because of the sound quality. Now
one more thing is that they have zero latency. So if you wanna use these again
these could be perfect for the gym because you can use these, they'll last way longer than you will on the treadmill
You can have your ipad, you can be watching a movie. There's no latency
they're gonna sound good. But if you want to sit and really hear a full rich sound stage and a really like a beautiful
full sound, these are not your earbuds, you know, they just don't deliver that level of audio quality and really kind of disappointing
Maybe they can switch to a different vendor for the drivers, keep everything else the same and suddenly have the Alpha X three 100 sound
a whole lot better. I don't know, I've heard other earbuds in this price range
That sounds substantially better than these, so real disappointment there and definitely for phone calls
these are barely usable at all. Even in a quiet room, even in your car
it's gonna be a whole lot easier and more pleasant to just pick up your phone and talk to the person rather than have them
say what, what, why are you so far away from your phone
So kind of a disappointment there to put it mildly. So before I tell you the price and give you just a closing thought or
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Great. Now, these are the Vano Alpha X 200 tws ear buds and they will cost you 4999
at amazon.com. Are these your best choice for that investment at Amazon or through any other audio source
Probably not. Unfortunately, but I know thank you and I know they're gonna come out with another version of these that are gonna sound way
better and I will look forward to reviewing them for you and I will hope that you will be right here on this channel to
catch it for. So with that. I'm just gonna say I'll catch you in my next video