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These are the coolest looking earbuds.
But how do they sound? Let's find out Dave

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Taylor here and I'm checking out these, these are the
Vano Alpha X 200 tws or True wireless stereo earbuds and

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they are really attractive how they
sound. Well, we'll come back to that

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Let's start with some specs. First
off, they are a pretty typical size

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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

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you wanna jump or anything like that,
it's already paired with my phone

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I'm already listening to music. Let's
take that out. So that doesn't happen

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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

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c. That is very important. So you
get the best possible sound quality

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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

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And by the time you take them
out and put them in your ears

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they already are paired back to whatever the most
recent device was and probably playing music

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So that's really convenient. It,
these are also IP X eight waterproof

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which means you could ostensibly wear them swimming
or surfing. But while they might stay in your ears

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I'm not sure they're gonna stay in your
ears that well when there's water flowing

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So I like to think of that as more,
they're really super sweat proof

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Now where this gets interesting is with the
case, this is a big heavy substantial case

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If you're used to cases from
other devices of a similar nature

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you'll think that's a little bit big. It's a, it's
definitely heavy because it's a 3500 milliamp hour case

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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

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and you can do theoretically 17 more charges from this
case which gives you over 100 hours of listening time

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That's a lot of listening time. I guess this, the
goal is that like if you have these in your gym bag

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you can plug them in micro USB
on the end, you can plug them in

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charge them up all the way. And then
from that point on for the whole week

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you listen, you work out, you sweat, it doesn't
matter. You put them back in the case and

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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

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Now, having said all of that, it's an aluminum alloy case
with some plastic elements and it has a very nice appearance

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but I don't feel like they got the
hinge. Right. So, if you listen

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there's sort of this weird feel to it and because
of that and because of the way they did the open

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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

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designed it. But what I really like about these is what they
call their smart led charging and you see it on the front

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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

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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

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are. You have no idea how charged the case is
like for example, the Apple Airpods pro Yeah

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you can put them next to your phone and
you get lots of data. But unto themselves

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you look at it and there's a light and
the light is green or the light is amber

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That's all you get these. Give you
this great digital readout. Super nice

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Now in the box, it comes with the
ability for you to get a $25 Amazon gift

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Card by um posting a review on
Amazon. They say an honest review

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be honest, don't just post something
super nice because you wanna get like

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you know, the $25 gift card. I think it's
entirely reasonable. Probably Amazon doesn't

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but that's not as, you know, that's
not my issue, that's not your issue

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Um comes with lots of instructions because there's
lots of things you can do by tapping on the ear pieces

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And so you can have lots of different controls. Here's
a quick shortcut of just some of the things you can do

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And then also in the case, uh or in
the box, I should say it's pretty cool

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This is something I've never seen
before. So it comes with ear tips

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right? Comes with a micro USB, little mini cable, but
it also comes with this micro USB to USB three adapter

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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

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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

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but it can also be an emergency charger
for your phone. That's a pretty neat idea

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right? And this little adapter, like I said, I've never seen one
of these before micro USB to USB three interesting idea there

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Vano. But that leaves us with perhaps the most
important thing which is the sound quality

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And I gotta say as much as I like Vanko
and I've liked the other products they have

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I feel like they did so much engineering on the case and on the
battery and that whole front smart led charging display super

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cool, but the sound lets you down. It's just
not that great a sound even for the price

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you know, they're not incredibly expensive, but
there's just no richness, no fullness to the sound

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there was bass, there's not a lot of midrange.
And when I tried to make a phone call

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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

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to be able to be on a phone call. So, gosh, they
got so much right with the design and everything

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but I just can't recommend them
because of the sound quality. Now

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one more thing is that they have zero
latency. So if you wanna use these again

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these could be perfect for the gym because you can use these,
they'll last way longer than you will on the treadmill

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You can have your ipad, you can be
watching a movie. There's no latency

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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

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full sound, these are not your earbuds, you know, they just don't
deliver that level of audio quality and really kind of disappointing

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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

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a whole lot better. I don't know, I've
heard other earbuds in this price range

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That sounds substantially better than these, so real
disappointment there and definitely for phone calls

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these are barely usable at all. Even
in a quiet room, even in your car

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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

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say what, what, why are you
so far away from your phone

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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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two, let me just ask if you can subscribe to
my channel, really appreciate when you do that

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Great. Now, these are the Vano Alpha X 200
tws ear buds and they will cost you 4999

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at amazon.com. Are these your best choice for that
investment at Amazon or through any other audio source

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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

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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

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catch it for. So with that. I'm just
gonna say I'll catch you in my next video