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ANC & Hi-Res Audio? The Terrific 1More SonoFlow SE ANC Headphones (HQ31)
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May 29, 2025
If you're thinking it's going to cost over $100 to get comfortable headphones with both ANC and Hi-Res Audio, you're going to love the new 1More SonoFlow SE ANC Headphones (model HQ31). They feature 42dB of noise reduction, Hi-Res Audio and Hi-Res Wireless certification, and AI-powered DNN noise reduction on the built-in microphone too. Tech expert Dave Taylor checks out all the features of the new 1More SonoFlow SE Headphones and finds quite a lot to appreciate. Check it out at: https://amzn.to/43s7JhF Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ 0:00 Introduction 0:55 All The Specs 2:15 Bluetooth 5.4 (vs Bluetooth 6.0) 2:49 Close Up Pics 3:42 1More App Demo 5:12 Spatial Sound & Low Latency Features 7:15 Firmware Updates 7:55 Voice Recording Demo 9:20 Let's Talk about the Sound 11:20 Price and Discounts #1more #anc #hiresaudio #headphones #budgetanc #sonoflow #ldac #askdavetaylor
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A&C headphones with high res audio and
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you won't believe the price let's check
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these
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out Dave Taylor here and I'm checking
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out these These are the one more HQ 31
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sonof flow SE ANC headphones and as you
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can see this particular pair is in a
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lovely light blue they come in a bunch
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of different colors but what's most
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notable about these is that they have a
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lot of really expensive technology at a
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budget price and this is the history of
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all consumer electronics is that
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Technologies and features that start out
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very expensive and very expensive
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devices gradually become more and more
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affordable and these have a lot of Great
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Tech and they are eminently affordable
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so let's start with 40 mm composite
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drivers giving you 90 hours of playtime
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and if you give it a 5 minute charge you
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have five more hours of listening time
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so they have ridiculously efficient
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battery life and high-res audio with
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ldac so the audio reproduction is really
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quite good I'll come back to that in a
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little bit but it also has what they
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call their quiet Max Hybrid ANC that
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drops 42 DB of ambient noise out of your
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background so they're not the most um
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efficient and best bestc on the market
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but they are really great for a commute
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or if you're working at home and there's
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just a lot of background noise or
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anywhere else where there's just
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background chatter or the hum of
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Machinery or a jet cuz you're on a plane
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or the rumble of engines because you're
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on a train whatever it is turning on ANC
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with these headphones gives you a really
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nice listening experience and of course
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you can do pass through or trans parency
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they call it or turn it off as desired
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so that if you need to talk to someone
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you can do that very easily but me I
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like all thec because we live in a noisy
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world and it's nice to have a little
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peace and quiet so Bluetooth 5.4 which
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until very recently was the most recent
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version of Bluetooth but there's now
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Bluetooth 6 though there are no
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headphones yet shipping with that it's
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coming and it's going to give us new
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features and cooler reproduction and
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sound playback but for now Bluetooth 5.4
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is the state-of-the-art with headphones
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and it also includes what they call
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their DNN noise reduction microphones so
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these are not just headphones but
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there's a built-in microphone too and
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you can use it in wired mode in fact
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let's have a couple of close-ups so you
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can see all of the different buttons and
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ports here on the right hand side of the
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right ear cup is power and that USBC
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plug for charging or using in wired mode
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and then there's the volume control
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volume up and down which you can use to
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adjust volume or next in previous track
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and then there's a button that gives you
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access Toc features on the left earpiece
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nothing everything's on the right hand
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side and the earphones the sorry the
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headphones pair with the one more app so
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that gives you a lot more functionality
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to in fact let's get this paired I think
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they already are paired but let me show
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you the app so put these headphones on
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and let's go ahead and get this thing
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recording so I am using my iPhone 15 Pro
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so no not the very latest generation of
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iPhones but you know still works really
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well and so here you can see they
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already have seen the headphones I've
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already picked the color so the icon m
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matches and it's showing me that it's
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100% And my listening mode is in strong
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orc and I can change it to transparent
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or I can just turn it off entirely and
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each time you make a change you hear
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different audio feedback in the
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headphones so you don't hear a voice but
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what you do here I'm going to leave it I
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think on transparent but you hear this
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like
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or and you sort of spend a minute or two
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and you'll learn which one indicates
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which mode uh you can get into different
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EQ settings and there are preset eqs and
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there's quite a lot of them I tend to
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leave it on Studio or acoustic and if
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you look on the bottom you can see the
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different waveforms and if you really
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want to set your own you can go into
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custom EQ and then you can just adjust
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it as you prefer and then you can set
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that you can give it a name this is a
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really weird layout I'm not going to do
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that one and then you get into shortcuts
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and this is something really important
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so it has two additional features you
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can adjust here actually hang on let me
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take these off for just a moment but
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these two features are really important
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one of which is spatial sound and it is
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really cool because with a good music
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Source it's really like highres plus it
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gives you just you put turn this on and
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suddenly everything's just a little more
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expansive there's just a a little more
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Sound Stage it really does sound good
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and the music that I've auditioned these
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headphones with all of it sounds better
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with spatial sound but you can try on
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and off it takes about a second to
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switch on the headphones themselves so I
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would say be in a quiet room close your
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eyes tap on tap off for a couple of
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seconds each and see which one you
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prefer I would say with something like
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classical I probably wouldn't turn on
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spatial sound but but for pop or rock or
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country or anything like that I think
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it's going to make it way more fun the
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other thing to note here is this low
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latency now some people have said that
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the um sonof flow SE has a tendency to
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have latency that's an issue for
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watching videos or gaming I watched a
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bit of a movie on my phone and I didn't
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see any issues or feel there were any
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issues with latency but if I did then I
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can tap on low latency and now it
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actually will increase the speed that
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information is given to the headphones
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in other words the delay between the
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source giving music and the headphones
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playing that music back shrinks so I
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have taken the latency down as low as I
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possibly can by enabling this feature
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and I can just leave it on all the time
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there's no penalty to that so if that's
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something that you really are noticing
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but
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again I watched a video I watched a TV
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show I didn't see any latency issues
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without this feature so with this
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feature it didn't seem like there was
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much difference but I suppose it got
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even more in sync and then finally there
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are some additional settings the most
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important one is that firmware update
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and I'm glad to see that I actually have
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the current version of the firmware
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there's some experimental features if
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you want to experiment with dual device
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connection and and then finally one
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thing I really appreciate about one more
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is they also give you a full product
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guide and in this case it just gives you
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this quick tutorial of how to use the
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buttons and that can be very helpful if
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you haven't used the headphones for a
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while or something so that's everything
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there is in the app and now what I want
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to do while we're still recording is I'm
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going to go to voice
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memos and put the headphones back on
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and now what you're hearing is my voice
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as actually picked up by the one more
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hq3 ANC headphones and as you can hear
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it does an eminently good job this is
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certainly good enough for you to be able
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to take a zoom call or to be on the
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phone with someone while you're going on
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a walk or gardening or whatever it is
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you want to do so really they've done a
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lot right
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here okay so back to my regular audio
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and turn off that recording so I really
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am impressed with these I'm always I've
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been a fan of one more for a long time
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and I feel like these are just yet
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another example of how they're doing a
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great job of not just having great
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technology but of delivering them in a
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way that's affordable and that just
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works and I think the design wise you
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know it does say one more on that
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earpiece and there is a logo on the
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actual earpiece itself but they're very
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subtle it's a very nice design and style
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and honestly I can totally see these
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being for sale at the Apple store or
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something though with typical Apple
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pricing if this had an Apple logo on it
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and everything else was the same it
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would be three times as
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expensive that is another story entirely
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so let's talk about that sound I will
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tell you these are as they say punching
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above their weight they are delivering a
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really really nice audio reproduction
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and the playback is bright it's
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interesting it's Lively there's a big
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Sound Stage and when you turn on that
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spatial audio you get an even bigger
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Sound Stage very enjoyable these are
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very enjoyable they're very comfortable
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and I just love the colors I mean I
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think this light blue is very fun and it
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also comes in pink and black and white
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for those of you that aren't ready to go
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into the World of Color yet so all those
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four different sizes are colors and they
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are foldable so you can fold them up
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they do not come with any sort of
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carrying case or anything but I'm okay
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with that because I have a computer bag
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and I can just put them in the computer
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bag as I said they also work wired but
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you will have to BYO bring your own
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cable because the only wire that's
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included is this stubby little USBC to
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USB h charging cable honestly I think
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they could have spent another 85 cents
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on production and actually included like
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a 2T cable instead but this does mean
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you can charge it and use it wirelessly
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which is what its primary intention is
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and then there is an instruction guide
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in the usual 25 different languages um
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was not super helpful but it did get me
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started really all you need to do is get
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it to pair with your device download the
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one more app app and then everything you
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can control within the app so it's
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actually pretty darn easy to work with
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so that's everything I got I think that
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these are a really great deal I think
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that they're fun and they have a very
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nice feel to them and they do a
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wonderful job with music playback lots
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to like here really ones to check out I
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am going to ask you to subscribe to my
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channel I'm going to invite you to click
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Bell icon for notifications of my new
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who doesn't like positive feedback come
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on cool thank you now these let me hold
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them up for you these are the one more
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HQ 31 sonof flow SE ANC headphones and
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they are
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$49.99 currently minus 20% dropping them
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down to
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$39.99 at
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amazon.com and it amazes is me that you
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can for
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$39.99 buy highres audio ANC headphones
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with this Quality Music reproduction it
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is an amazing Testament to the entire
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consumer electronics Industry and how
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devices that used to be
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$299 are now under $40 it's crazy it's
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really these are a really good deal so
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that's all I got I'm going to go back to
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my music so I'll hope to catch you in my
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next video
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