WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.299 Around the neck gamer headphones. Let's check these out 00:11.000 --> 00:15.439 Dave Taylor here and you know, whether you're a gamer or you're doing a lot of video conferencing 00:16.200 --> 00:22.760 Having headphones and a microphone work out pretty well and you're gonna sound better and you're gonna hear better 00:22.920 --> 00:26.920 Than if you're just using what's on your laptop, right? So for gamers 00:26.920 --> 00:32.299 It's especially important because you have a spatial sense and orientation in the good games 00:32.299 --> 00:38.279 You can hear behind you and then say oh someone's coming up behind me and turn around and not get killed 00:38.400 --> 00:46.340 That's a good thing But gamer headphones tend to be flashy kind of dorky looking and sort of aimed at that teen set 00:46.599 --> 00:52.000 Now there are some really amazing ones and they do lighting up and there's all sorts of features and stuff 00:52.000 --> 00:59.400 But fundamentally it's pretty hard to avoid that you're wearing big clunky headphones with a big boom mic sticking in front of your mouth 00:59.400 --> 01:07.480 So that might be fine if you're gaming at 2 in the morning But if you're on the phone on a video chat with the boss, that's not gonna be a great look 01:07.680 --> 01:14.000 So enter one more now one more makes great audio gear and this is a really interesting entry 01:14.080 --> 01:27.839 This is their spearhead VR in ear headphones and They actually offer some of the features of gaming headphones amazingly enough in this simple design and 01:28.080 --> 01:33.239 Obviously you just wear it around your neck and you put these in your ears and you're good to go 01:33.480 --> 01:39.839 Now the controls are all on the left side. So there's three buttons 01:39.839 --> 01:44.760 So this is sort of a classic three button design where you have pause play power 01:45.400 --> 01:51.800 On and off and you know various other answer phone call hang up phone call various features all loaded into one button and 01:52.000 --> 01:57.199 Then you have plus and minus which is volume up and down or if you push and hold 01:57.480 --> 02:04.760 Then it's next track previous track. So all pretty cool pretty straightforward and you can see the designs pretty nice 02:04.760 --> 02:09.679 There's this little bar on the outside on each side. That is where the cable connects to I 02:09.960 --> 02:16.660 Kind of thought that it was gonna be like some touch sensitive thing and I could drag my finger up and down it's not so 02:17.320 --> 02:21.880 Maybe the next generation But that would probably increment the price a little bit having to put those sensors in 02:22.119 --> 02:27.440 Be that as it may these are pretty sweet and one of the fun things about these is they do light up 02:27.440 --> 02:33.600 They do actually have customizable LED lighting now. Don't get too excited because there's four modes 02:33.839 --> 02:41.039 There's often on that's two modes is pretty easy, right and then there's heartbeat and breathe and what I'm talking about is 02:41.039 --> 02:44.679 I'm talking about this part on the earbud and here's a little close-up 02:44.679 --> 02:49.039 This is breathe mode and you can see it's just this very slow 02:49.119 --> 02:55.800 The light comes on the light goes off the light comes on and you can turn that on or off 02:56.080 --> 03:01.240 You can have it on all the time. It can't actually activate to your music 03:01.240 --> 03:08.479 It doesn't have any audio feedback that it's listening to what you're listening to. It's a pretty simple mechanism, but still it's fun 03:08.479 --> 03:14.679 Right, so it's cool to have that as an option and I like when companies are creative about these things now 03:14.960 --> 03:23.020 The actual earbuds are pretty sophisticated. They're using dual drivers with a titanium diaphragm and graphene drivers 03:23.020 --> 03:32.520 They sound really good. We'll come back to the sound in a little bit One of the other interesting things they do is that when you're using these and you're using your voice and you're 03:32.820 --> 03:36.779 Speaking because they do have a built-in microphone. I think the microphone is like right here 03:37.419 --> 03:43.339 What it's doing is it's also listening to the environmental sound around you and doing what they call 03:44.100 --> 03:50.419 Environmental noise cancelling so for phone calls that gets rid of a lot of the background noise now 03:50.419 --> 03:55.500 Don't be confused because this is not active noise cancelling for the earbuds themselves 03:55.500 --> 03:59.740 This is not ANC. This is just for phone calls But hey 03:59.740 --> 04:05.300 that's probably when you most want to actually be able to have all of the kids screaming or 04:05.419 --> 04:10.779 You know mom yelling down the stairs stop gaming already. It's 3 in the morning, right 04:10.779 --> 04:22.339 You want all that gone, right? You don't want your friends saying dude your mom So all of that is gonna be managed by this environmental noise cancelling and in fact using this for phone calls 04:22.339 --> 04:27.420 It sounds really good. Now you will as we you would with sound also 04:27.420 --> 04:32.339 You'll want to tweak and pick different ear tips and it comes with six different sets of ear tips 04:32.420 --> 04:40.859 We'll look in the box in just a second But pick the right ones and you want to have the right size to get the music sound really good and it makes a world 04:40.859 --> 04:49.019 of difference particularly on bass But you also want to have it where it sounds good for phone calls and you know, it's always stereo obviously 04:49.019 --> 04:56.660 So if you really don't like that you can just have one in and you can still use it just as normal for a phone call or a video chat or 04:56.660 --> 05:02.540 Skype or zoom call whatever so easy enough now a couple of limitations number one 05:02.540 --> 05:12.260 It's Bluetooth 4.2 and the latest standard is Bluetooth 5.0 Probably not a huge issue, but it does limit the range a little bit 05:12.260 --> 05:22.239 So it's 10 meters range and I had it work fine I had my phone sitting in the garage and I was walking around my house and up and down my street and it worked 05:22.239 --> 05:31.059 You know well until I got pretty far away Still Bluetooth 5 would have been nice and it has no AAC or no APTX 05:32.059 --> 05:38.739 Those are giving you even more dynamic range on iPhones or Android phones or other devices 05:39.459 --> 05:51.459 Confusingly pretty much everything uses APTX except for the iPhone line Which uses AAC which means the Mac if you have an iMac or a MacBook that uses APTX 05:51.859 --> 05:57.859 Even though the iPhone uses AAC not sure why Apple can't just pick one standard and work with it 05:58.179 --> 06:05.940 Why can't they have the standard that everyone else uses? It's another story, right? So these let's just talk about low latency 06:05.940 --> 06:12.260 so if you want to watch movies if you want to like pair this with an iPad or an Android tablet or even your 06:12.579 --> 06:16.579 TV if you have a TV with a Bluetooth transmitter, and if you don't you can get one 06:16.579 --> 06:22.260 I've reviewed many of them here on my channel definitely worth checking out but lots of options and 06:22.540 --> 06:29.500 You can watch TV and you're not gonna get any weird confusing sync issues where it's like the person's lips are moving 06:29.500 --> 06:35.619 But the sound is coming a half a second later. So low latency 10 meter range good phone calls 06:36.179 --> 06:41.339 And from a charging perspective you charge these up and you know again, here's another thing 06:41.339 --> 06:50.619 I'm not a huge fan of is it uses micro USB I am NOT a fan of micro USB because it's an oriented connector 06:50.619 --> 06:56.100 And if you put the plug-in upside down you can actually mess up the the connector 06:56.100 --> 07:02.140 That's just bad design USB C would be much better, but they chose micro USB 07:02.140 --> 07:07.059 It's on the side with the controls you plug it in and it takes 07:07.660 --> 07:14.899 approximately an hour for a full charge and that gets you six hours of listening or talk or play time if you are going to 07:14.899 --> 07:18.899 use these as a gamer and They have a fast charge mode, too 07:18.899 --> 07:22.779 so if you're using these and it says running out of battery or low battery a 07:23.059 --> 07:27.220 10 minute charge will give you three hours of listening. So that's really nice 07:27.220 --> 07:34.779 So you can use that as a bio break in your game Or between meetings right and then that gets you three more hours 07:34.779 --> 07:42.420 So all very nice You are gonna have to fiddle with the little cover to get the micro USB and then make sure you orient it correctly 07:42.579 --> 07:47.100 You can manage it now before we talk about the sound. Let's look in the box 07:47.260 --> 07:50.899 So I love one more packaging that always do such a good job 07:50.899 --> 07:57.500 And as is their trademark the inside shows you sort of like engineering sketches of the product 07:57.500 --> 08:01.619 I really like that. Maybe it's a little nerdy on my part, but hey, I own it 08:02.700 --> 08:09.660 So we'll pull this out and I've sort of already unpacked it so I can see what's what but comes with instructions 08:10.220 --> 08:16.019 comes with a Sort of vinyl carrying bag that you might or might not use 08:16.579 --> 08:22.619 Comes with micro USB charging cable comes with a catalog of all their other products 08:23.579 --> 08:33.219 Comes with their little bear sticker I kind of like that and the most important thing close it back up is it comes with a set of 08:33.739 --> 08:42.179 six different Eartips so they're different sizes and different styles the ones that are on by default are actually large 08:42.179 --> 08:49.059 I think but there are different sizes You can crack this open try different ones find the ones that work best for you 08:49.219 --> 08:55.580 That's super important which leads us to the sound these sound really good 08:55.739 --> 09:03.820 So as I've said before I'm really impressed by one more they do really good audio gear and this is just another in their lineup and 09:04.340 --> 09:10.500 You know whether you're listening for the rumble of tanks or jet fighters overhead because you're in a game 09:10.500 --> 09:15.140 That's a first-person shooter or whether you just want to hear the nuance of your secretary 09:15.140 --> 09:18.940 Telling you what you need to be working on tomorrow all of that 09:18.940 --> 09:24.780 It's all gonna sound really good If you want to listen to music then obviously these sound great with music for this 09:24.780 --> 09:34.780 I was auditioning it with some great classic electronica Katara Vangelis And you know music like that and some thievery 09:35.299 --> 09:42.940 Corporation and all of it just sounded rich and lush and there was a great soundstage and a lot of presence and they're super 09:42.940 --> 09:47.580 Comfortable so I wore these over the last few days probably for like 15 or 20 hours 09:48.140 --> 09:52.700 Obviously I had to pause occasionally and charge them, but they are so comfortable 09:52.700 --> 09:57.020 They're really really light and you will actually forget that you have them on 09:57.500 --> 10:02.500 Because they're so easy to work with unlike heavy headphones, especially for you gamers 10:02.619 --> 10:06.659 You know, this is not something where you have this big heavy thing 10:07.140 --> 10:10.820 Jam it into your skull and covering up your ears or anything 10:10.900 --> 10:17.739 This is all you got and it's super comfortable. Very easy to use. All the controls are right here and 10:18.539 --> 10:26.580 Yeah, actually It's a little weird to talk with earbuds in but it's really easy to work with and really easy to listen to 10:26.979 --> 10:34.780 Really nice. They're really a good option And you know Like I said whether you're a gamer or whether you just want to do video 10:34.780 --> 10:43.539 Videoconferencing or whether you just want to listen to music while you're gardening All of these are great cases for this or great use cases. These would be good for sports though 10:43.539 --> 10:52.340 They don't have any IPX rating So if you're out running and it starts to rain or you're super sweaty, I don't know what's gonna happen. They might not know either 10:53.380 --> 10:56.979 If that's you then these might not be exactly what you want 10:56.979 --> 11:07.340 You want to look for some sports in-ear headphones or earbuds? But generally speaking, these are really nice really comfortable really good sound lots to like about them 11:07.659 --> 11:15.900 So let's talk about the price But before we get to the price, I'm gonna ask if you can subscribe to my channel. I get lots of gear 11:15.900 --> 11:25.460 I'm super honest and candid. I'll tell you what's good I'll tell you what's not so good and I will always be straight and not only that but I answer comments 11:25.460 --> 11:29.020 I think I'm probably one of the seven people on YouTube that answer comments 11:29.140 --> 11:35.020 so if you have questions about a product or if you just want to give me some feedback leave a comment and I will 11:35.020 --> 11:40.919 See it and I will respond. So unless you're talking about my hair and then I won't respond and you're like what 11:41.299 --> 11:45.299 People leave comments about my hair. Is there something is there something wrong with my hair 11:46.419 --> 11:50.979 Just kidding. Anyway, subscribe click it tap it. There's a little button right there on the corner 11:50.979 --> 11:55.359 So really appreciate when you do that now, let's wrap this up 11:56.299 --> 12:06.619 these are And I'm a big fan. These are the one more spearhead VR Bluetooth in-ear headphones and they are 12:07.780 --> 12:14.619 $49.99 at amazon.com They are definitely worth checking out if you're a gamer and you want to try something different 12:14.619 --> 12:19.979 These will rock your world because they sound really good and they're way less invasive 12:20.059 --> 12:26.520 But if you just want to have better sound and something a little more subtle when you're on your video chats or whatever 12:26.640 --> 12:31.400 These also are a really great option. So with that I'm actually going back 12:31.400 --> 12:39.239 I've been listening to some Spotify off my pixel So I'm gonna go back to that because it sounds really good. Give me a second. I got that 12:39.520 --> 12:47.159 let me unlock my phone here we go and All right, I will catch you in my next video