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Over the past year or so, I've somehow turned my buying/returning attention to headphones. Without realizing it, I noticed 4 sets of wireless earbuds on my shelf and I thought to myself, "How did this happen?" I suppose it applies to nearly anything with me, but I'm always in search of that one thing that can do the best at being utilitarian: great at most things even if not the best at anything. Razer's new wireless earbuds have impressed me and if you are a fan of the AirPod style of earbud and don’t want to spend a fortune on a great wireless headphone experience, I think the Razer Hammerheads deserve a look.
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here's the thing I started chrome one
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box because I was kind of a tech head
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and my behavior went from buying phones
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all the time to buying lots of
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Chromebooks all the time and since we've
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started Chrome one box I didn't stop
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buying Chromebooks but I've now started
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buying another accessory and that
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happens to be wireless earbuds and until
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I happened upon actually buying and
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using the Apple earpods for the first
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time I wasn't even really bought and
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sold on earbuds I bought different
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headphones in general but I really liked
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the portability of these I like the ease
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of use and how quickly I could get them
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out and put them in and just have music
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playing quickly and so it began kind of
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this journey of trying all these
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different headphones to use with my
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phone and all these various ways and so
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I want to go through with you why I've
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kind of ditched my ear pods and moved on
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to these the Razer hammerhead truly
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wireless earbuds
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what ultimately led me to pick up the
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hammer heads from Razer was the promise
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of low latency but that's not the only
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thing they do well and that's not the
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only thing that's really important to me
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ultimately with wireless earbuds in
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general as I've tried quite a few of
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them honestly I embarrassed even say how
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many I've gone through and what I found
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that I really desire from a good
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Wireless earbud is a handful of things
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one it needs to be portable like the
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case and everything it goes in should be
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small enough to drop into my pocket
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that's super important in all this cuz I
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kind of this sound quality and that can
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be affected by a number of things the
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drivers in the earbuds the way that
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they're made the way that they're shaped
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whether they're kind of the open ear
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ones or the ones with the tips on them I
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kind of prefer the air pod method and
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that doesn't work for everybody because
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not everybody's ear shaped the same and
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so you'll know if ear pods work for you
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the the Razer earbuds would work for you
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too they're shaped very similarly the
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reason I like them is I can drop them in
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my ear and not be completely cut off
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from the outside world I like a little
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bit of ambient sound so I like the Razer
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earbuds more than the air pods because I
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feel like their sound quality is just
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better the bass is better the trebles
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better the soundstage sounds better and
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I really actually enjoy listening to
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music quite a bit more and obviously
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gaming and video and all that other kind
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of stuff on the Razer earbuds
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the final part that I figured out was
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important to me was latency and in
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general it seems like anything with
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Bluetooth 5.0 has no issue with this and
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quite a few that I tried with 4.0
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doesn't really have too many issues with
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latency when you're watching video so
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whether you're watching YouTube or some
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sort of video like on Amazon movies or
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something that's actually local on your
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device I just didn't have any issue that
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because there can be some buffering
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there between the Bluetooth and the
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video that can kind of get it synched up
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and you can watch it no big deal the
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problem comes when you're trying to do
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something like gaming so I'm playing
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pubs your Call of Duty mobile the minute
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I hit that fire button I want to hear
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the gun I want to see the thing happen
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on screen as soon as I hit it if I'm
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playing anything where there's jumping
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involved or something like that if you
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hear those sounds after the button is
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pressed and after you see the thing
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happened on the screen it's just kind of
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off-putting and it can kind of mess with
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your gaming experience and so I began
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the hunt for finding something that I
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could play wirelessly with earbuds and
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actually not have to do
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any latency in all fairness the earpods
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do that just fine with iOS so if you've
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paired this up with an iPad or an iPhone
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latency is pretty much gone I started
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getting used to that but I wanted a set
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of earbuds that I could use on an iPad
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or a Chromebook or an Android phone and
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get that same latency free experience
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and the air pods aren't edie I can't get
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latency free gaming on my Chromebook I
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can't get latency free gaming on my
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pixel device it was only with the iPad
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and so when the racers came along and
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said they could offer latency free
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gaming with these earbuds I had to try
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them out and I've gotten them in and
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that was the reason I bought them and
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they deliver when you put them in gaming
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mode they deliver that latency free
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experience whether I'm on my phone on my
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Chromebook playing stadia games or
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playing Amrit games it delivers on my
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iPad across the spectrum these earbuds
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deliver latency free gaming and they do
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it really well once I figured out all of
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those things are important to me I had
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these alongside have multiple other
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earbuds all at the same time and kept
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kind of going back and forth between
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them all and the racers kept being the
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ones I wanted to go back to mainly
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because again they sound really good no
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they're not sound isolating and so
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that's the one feature that they do miss
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but the latency free performance the
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sound quality that they have the
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smallness of the case and the ease that
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I can just drop in my ears and I have to
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worry about getting a proper seal and
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all that kind of stuff it just made
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going to them the the easy pick honestly
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and I've stopped carrying the ear pods
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around in my pocket they actually stay
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in my bag and I haven't really cracked
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them up and use them for anything since
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I've had these because they fit very
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similar and they fill the same kind of
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void that the ear pods left except I can
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just use them on any device that I want
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to connect to and get all the benefits
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that I see in any of the other devices
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we can't talk about wireless earbuds
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without talking about battery life and
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these are no standout really probably
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about three to four hours you're gonna
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get off of the charge so just continuous
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use for 3-4 hours and then they get in
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an additional 12 hours from the charging
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case but another benefit these have USB
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type-c charging I have USBC Chargers
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everywhere so it's very nice not to have
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to go dig up a lightning cable to charge
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your earbuds so that has been a benefit
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as well
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controlling media with your earbuds is
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also important and these thankfully have
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capacity
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on both sides where you can tap and do
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different things so you can play pause
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your music you can call up your
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assistant whichever assistant it is
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you're using on your phone you can skip
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forward you can skip back and then you
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can enter gaming mode with just a series
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of taps and so you can long press again
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for the your assistant you can long
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press a little shorter to play pause you
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can double tap to skip triple tap to go
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back and then you triple tap and hold
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which sounds complicated but once you
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get used to it really isn't to turn on
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gaming mode you'd have to do that every
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time you open them up because it's not
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gonna default to that because my guess
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is it heats up a little bit more battery
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when you're in that mode in general
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these earbuds just deliver everything I
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could want from an earbud and so as I
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went through all of these different ones
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we were even gonna do a video maybe
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comparing a bunch to the others but I
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like these so much more than all the
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other earbuds I honestly just returned
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them and I've kept these and they stay
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in my pocket they're part of the things
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that I carry around every single day I
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like having them on me anytime I need
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wireless audio I just pop these things
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out the case pop them in and they're
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hooked up to all my stuff and I can just
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jump in and listen to whatever audio or
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play a game and not have to worry about
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latency not have to worry about sound
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quality not have to worry about battery
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all that kind of stuff so highly
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recommend these things we're gonna link
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them obviously down in the description
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if you're interested in picking some of
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them up and I haven't talked about the
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price yet when I bought them I actually
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got a little 10% off coupon when they
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first came out I got these things for
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$90 and so I think they run $100
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normally and you can find them on sale
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all over the place that's another
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benefit here they're way cheaper than
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most of your wireless earbuds and they
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have all kinds of features built in so
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it's just to me it feels like an easy
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Buy and the only thing sway me from
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buying them immediately I had to think
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for just a minute is the upcoming pixel
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buds and the intrigue that they have
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over me because I think they're gonna do
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a lot of the same stuff and probably a
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little bit better sure they're gonna be
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a little bit more expensive but man
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those things look like really amazing
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ear buds too so I don't want to discount
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or say that I'm not going to pick those
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up when they come out because they look
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amazing for the time being it may be a
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few more months maybe three four months
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before we see those pixel buzz these are
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absolutely my go-to wireless earbuds for
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my Chromebook for my phone for my iPad
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for anything I need to
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do any kind of media on because frankly
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they just do everything the best but
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