Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Hear me out — A Wearable Stereo – oladance OWS Pro”.
You’Ve heard of truly wireless earbuds, but how about an open, wearable stereo? This is some pretty cool, compostable packaging here ol and sponsored this video to check out these the ows Pros. Now, none of this goes in your ear. That would be out of a stretch if you know what I mean, but it goes around your ear. So you can hear other stuff, I’m very interested to see how they fit, how they feel if they stay on how they sound uh. But first got to look at: what’s in the box, people enjoying life little bit of info about the company plus apparently there’s a suede carrying casage, which looks kind of sick, also have a bit of a quick start guide here. Tells you about the touch controls yeah? This this thing just keeps going, but we’ll we’ll get to all this is easy stuff. I don’t need to look at this thing.
What about charger and stuff you get a cable, USB C to a that is a nice twist tie wrap. That is like a machine. A machine did that one, that’s all you need USBC in the back of this charging case all right. So let’s look at this charging case and what’s inside it the case is this big and this heavy wow 100 gram on the dot? What about the buds themselves? 27 G – and you know in case you don’t like to do math there you go. The case looks very clear, like there’s no way you’re going to be confused as to how these go in you can’t you can’t screw this up, which actually, I think it’s something that matters I don’t like fumbling with the case, it’s very lightweight. Well, you saw that contact points for charging at the top of it indicator for left and right very basic, simple.
This is what it sounds like and on the front, it’s got. Some indicator lights, four indicator lights for battery life. I’Ll give you guys a little pocket test in my Lulu here, drop it down all right. Let’S look at the things themselves. They come in lots of fun colors. This is the most subtle color, the kind of grayon black two-tone, but some of these other colors are like boom. Like look at that green, the reason it’s two-tone is cuz half of it. The part that is in contact with your head is this Soft Touch. Silicone feels very nice and there’s just a lot of doodads on the outside of this. That looks like the charging contacts for the case. There’S a little vented Grill here, I think sound is actually going to be coming out of there. Then there’s there’s more vents on this side and then some some holes, those are going to be your microphones.
There are six microphones in here they’re going to be collecting noise from the outside to block wind sound during calls and there’s actually some active noise. Cancelling with these guys believe it or not as well, even though they do go on the outside of your ear, I see a little power button icon there uh and then this is a a button like it doesn’t really. Click like a tactile button, except for the sound it looks like they have some some amount of play for all the different heads that they’re designed to go on. It’S funny you can.
You can tell looking at this thing like yep. That’S for your ear, all right. Let’S get these things on the the body. This has a little indicator that says it’s the right side, so I guess this goes behind the ear and that just sits like that. All right, sh man, that’s like crazy, fast to put on feels like I’m wearing nothing at all.
It feels kind of counterintuitive, cuz you’re, so used to like drilling these things in and like getting that seal um no seal here you could totally go skiing ride. A motorcycle, oh, would they fit in a hel. I think they might um and other activities where you want to listen to music, but you always feel a bit weird trepidacious having a seal in your ear.
These really just let you have the elements around. You have a conversation, go hiking, a big one for me is going to bed with music on and not wanting to be that kind of parent who’s like hey spouse. You listen for them crying in the night. With these I can I can have both.
I can have my cake and eat it too. You could definitely have your head down on a pill pillow this way. Can you do? Can you be a side sleeper? Can we get a pillow in here Sweet, let’s see what that’s like uh, probably wouldn’t recommend sleeping directly on them like that wow that camera angle from the top. I think you could easily work out in these like if you’re dropping down to lay on a bench. They feel pretty in there they do they put a little bit of pressure downward on the back of your ear.
You know so it’s like normal earphones in that they weigh something, but the place that they put. That weight is just a little bit of a different place. I want to see how they sound and how they interact.
So let’s get the phone going. This is the homepage of the app you got a visualization of the headphone. What do you call these earphones battery life indicator for left and right, and what is this? Okay? Here’S where you configure what the controls do and there’s a separate page for music and for calls that’s cool and, and I guess wow you can just turn it all. The touch controls off alt together, if you want so it’s not really a button. It is a pressure, sensitive touch, control with micro, sensing technology. So, let’s see what that does right now, a single squeeze is set to play and pause, but you can change it to do nothing, order to be next and previous and volume up and down cool.
I think it basically looks like oops, you tap each one of these to be adjusting it and they all have the same option inside, which is my preference. When I was looking at the manual earlier, I wondered if it mattered, which ear you did these commands on, but the volume up and down is actually just sliding forward and back on the one on either earbud. So that is cool. That said, I don’t know how double squeeze can be both next and previous, that might be left and right. So I’m going to set set it up, assuming that and I’ll put voice ass assistant on Triple squeeze. Let’S go.
Oh. I haven’t heard this one in a bit: that’s a good song. Okay, this is a weird sensation. I understand now why they call it a stereo, a wearable stereo.
It’S very ambient ethereal open, backed sounding cool uh. Now, let’s try the controls. Where do I press? I heard the click noise. It paused click noise play Same over here, cool all right. So how do I go back? Do I double tap on this? Yes, double tap here, next song that it that’s it we solved it. It is left and right and then for the swipes.
The part that you swipe is same as the button right there. Oh man, these go loud back to the app there, an equalizer looking buttons. You got default surging Basse, pure voice and customized by Personal Taste. Click on that it doesn’t really look like a button, but it is and then what do they give us low middle and high eight knobbies is actually pretty good. Sometimes you get only three knobs. Sometimes you get five eight, I’m pretty happy with this 125 htz is the lowest one, though highest 16 sound balance, oh crazy, just like any other stereo like in your car, you can do sound balance where it’s like heavier to left and right.
That’S actually pretty interesting because most people don’t have equal ability to hear in both ears, but I’ve never seen that in an app before that’s sweet. Other tabs of the app looks like there’s a login page. I haven’t logged in yet so evidently you don’t need to log in which is great. That was enjoyable.
Let’S check out the graphs. Our first chart is a frequency response graph using the default sound profile, and you can see it has really great adherence to our Target curve throughout the mid-range. It’S overemphasized in the highs which is going to make it sound, really exciting, and one thing I noticed when I was listening is I could hear a lot of like the hipop call backs, like the the other Snoop Dog voice tracks, going back and forth more than I’M used to hearing um, but it was cool and then on the low end in the in the Deep base in the subbase. It’S really underemphasized, but it’s actually overemphasized around the between 100 and 200 Hertz in the surging base profile.
You basically just get even more of that. The range is a little wider. It looks like maybe 90 to 250 Hertz. You get a bigger bump, that’s almost 10 DB, so this will be due to their new second generation base algorithm that increases the Dynam power to up the base.
You can see there’s a limit, though, with just physics like the driver is so far from your ear and there’s no seal in your air Canal, there’s only so much they can do. Sam said he was actually pretty impressed with the frequency response of these headphones. Given the constraints they’re up against with this, this design, which is definitely going to have its limitations, then you’ve got the pure voice presets, which is just really nice in the mid-range less of a base. Hump.
The next chart is volume dependent EQ, which is a feature of these headphones. What it does is, it makes the sound more consistent across volume levels, because our ears are more sensitive to travel and base. So, as you turn, the volume up, the travel and base actually get muffled down a little bit, and that gives it more consistency across the volume range. Next, we have a chart for their focus mode, which is kind of like active noise cancelling, but you can see that it only affects a pretty narrow band here in the mid-range unique New York.
This is that’s what I say when I answer the phone. If I ever call you you’re going to hear like red, leather, yellow other warm up tongue, twister things I like a cold open on a phone call yeah, it sounds like a Bluetooth mic, but you know it’s trade-offs. It looks like they have put a lot of attention and Care into trying to make these sound as good as possible, while still offering you this open design um. That gives you the safety benefits, and you know convenience benefits too, of being able to hear people talking to you, maybe you’re at work, and you want to get away with having headphones in.
You don’t want to look like one of those F off people with the headphones and the sunglasses and the hat don’t talk to me. That’S worth something. Now: let’s talk battery life, it’s actually pretty huge. I would say 16 hours on these and then 58 hours with the charging case.
As far as Ingress Protection, they are ipx4 rated, which is very typical, for I would say the vast majority of truly wireless earbuds um, and what that means is there’s no no measured protection for dust. The X means they didn’t measure that and then the four means it’ll do splashes. So you’re going to be good in the rain. I would not swim with them splashes. These are using Bluetooth. 5.3 they’ve got multipoint, so you can connect up to two devices and switch between them very easily, and all this can be yours for $ 230.
I wore this for quite a while and no discomfort, maybe a small amount of warmth, but nothing compared to actually on ear or over your headphones check them out at the link below guys and thanks Elance for sponsoring this video, and I want to hear from youall In the comments whether this is like – yes, like these speak to you like you’ve, been waiting for this design and why not watch another shortcircuit video? It’S really good for the algorithm .