Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “I promise this isn’t stupid! – Poly Voyager Free 60+”.
You think you’ve seen it all with wireless earbuds, but you know what you haven’t, because these puppies right here have something special that I’ve never seen before. Paulie sponsored this video we’re gon na check them out. These are the poly Voyager free 60, plus the plus being key here. They’Ve got a screen on the case, simple packaging, mostly cardboard a bunch of paper at the bottom. Don’T need that, though more screens, you never know with these guys.
Okay, we’ve got some tips, so these are the silicone in your ear type. Those largest I got ta say, are among the largest I’ve seen kind of intimidating. You know it bends though it’ll fit in there and then there’s small, so azure’s tradition the mediums are equipped. Then there’s a cable or two one’s a USB, a to c a little kind of charging cable and it comes with one of these special guys, which is USBC to three and a half millimeter Jack, useful on planes.
You basically plug this into the in-flight system like in the chair. Then you plug the US, you see into the case and then now, your Bluetooth, transmitting from that audio Source, the plane or other audio sources handy to have and look at that, it’s alive. So what it’s showing right now is battery indication for the case, which is that green circle around it and then each Bud right on there. But that’s not all because I can hit the X then.
What’S it do okay, there’s a music icon more different. What is that, like an equalizer, those are grayed out because, presumably because nothing’s playing – but I can also swipe Bluetooth – is that turning Bluetooth on that’s great on. So I guess that that’ll illuminate when it’s connected volume, even handy uh, whatever that means a QR code hold on I’m tempted.
Okay, there it is poly.com safe for work. We don’t know hey. I’M on the website tells me to download the poly lens app see the world through the lens of poly. Let’S take a look at the inside. Actually, no, the outside there’s a port, a USBC port for charging, there’s the hinge, and that is presumably a pairing button.
Now, let’s go inside, you got your stem type. Earbuds then also a little hidey hole for a USB, that’s cool. You can dongle it if you want. I always appreciate this because I honestly I hate pairing Bluetooth. It’S always finicky. It seems to be even more finicky on windows so nice to be able to just plug that in kind of shows that they maybe are focused on office, use or work use.
And then you got these puppies here. They are big grill on the side there and also on the bottom and the logo right there, and they do have that little mesh to keep your earwax out in the hole on the inside and the contact points for the charging are on the stem all right. Let’S get these puppies turned on and paired they are making contact. With my face a little bit there, your miles just gon na marry you married your mileage may vary on whether or not they actually touch you there. I don’t know if I like, or just like, that this is what it’d be tap to unlock. Oh, you got ta tap it three times pair device there. They are poly V, free, very successful. That was actually one of the more painless pairing processes. I’Ve had in a long time, especially on camera poly lens. The app would like to communicate with the Plantronics Voyager 360 Series, so many names this is a nice app.
They got little animations here. All the language seems super clear and written properly. So here we are in the app settings. What is that a little book icon? Oh it’s, the manual all right, that’s cool! So there are different three different eqs. I actually have measurements from labs for all of them, we’ll look at those in a bit after I listen to them myself, mute alert types. Oh that’s cool! You know, like you, do an action like like muting and you’ll. Hear someone. Usually you don’t have a choice.
There’S just a voice in your head that goes mute on or something like that, but it looks like you can actually make it go from voice to single tone boom to double tone notification tones hear notification tones from other connected devices while streaming audio. That’S a choice. Second, incoming call: oh, you can choose the ring behavior when you’ve got another line coming in to call you when you’re already on a call you can ignore, ring once or ring continuously God who would do that mute reminder receive a helpful reminder that your headset is Muted, during a call huh, it says the on-screen reminder will display it on your PC, only not mobile devices. It’S too bad.
It doesn’t come up on the screen on the case. You can get alerts for if your volume is too loud. Oh, it actually just tells you when your volume is maxed and not. I think I can control the volume on here.
So let’s try that. Can I swear? Oh, I got ta press the button volume maximum. She was very, oh God. Why is it? Oh God, that really is a lot. I want to show you guys that, oh God, it’s still beeping, I think the the dings are unnecessary man there’s a lot of options here, adjust the volume of your voice that you hear when you’re speaking volume level tones when adjusting the volume.
Do you hear like a beep, beep, beep, beep beep, every step or just at the minimum maximum, I’m gon na say right now, it’s like boop boop, that’s annoying Minimax. Only these have ANC, there’s actually three modes for it. You can just turn it off.
It can be standard or adaptive, which is going to use a microphone to tell how loud the environment is and then adjust the strength of the active noise canceling. Accordingly and again, we do have measurements for the ANC I’ll show you, those in a little bit. Wow select the transparency mode level and sound signature, environment or speech. At this point, I think there’s too many settings for me to go through all of them, which is a good thing like that’s cool it just makes for a boring video. Rest assured. You got options in here, holy cow custom, swipe sensor.
What’S nice is on the stems, you can actually do swipe gesture, so you can increase the volume or you can actually customize it like. You can here to make it mute during calls and then you’ve also got the the tap function as well and hold first, Google assistant, oh yeah, it’s actually super tactile. Yeah. It literally is just a little button.
There now there’s also an advanced menu like holy. Where were we before anti-startle eliminate acoustic shock from loud sounds? Oh I’ve heard of this before. That might be something that’s when you’ve got transparency on and you’re hearing the world around you. If something happens, that’s loud like someone drops a hammer on the concrete floor or something like that, the ANC will kick back on for a second just to like remove that noise, and then the NC will turn back off onto transparency again. Let’S just use them and see what it’s like, especially this thing.
Oh yeah, here we go turning it down. Turning it up. I think that both earbuds are equal.
Oh it’s on this side. Here, don’t don’t use the front, no double top or triple tap just the button, so you actually do have to use this to switch tracks or your phone. I would like it if they just add a double tap to the button. Oh, no, they do have double top and redialing. The last outgoing call. Now here’s the ANC button it’s on adaptive.
Can I change that from here transparency on environment, the sound didn’t change too much. It’S pretty natural sounding, and now it’s on speech, yeah! It’S gon na talk to me. Please yeah, I’m just switching between environment and speech and environment. You sounded kind of more ambient where speech. Definitely it made it sound like it was more directional. I don’t know if that’s what’s actually changing, but that’s my perception of it and then here’s the ANC.
Oh, that’s how I can actually change devices. Can I just pair to a second phone right here? Okay, now I’m paired to this phone connected switch device. Wait, I’m actually am I actually connected to both what that music is playing from the iPhone hold on a second here. What does it mean to be connected to two things? Oh hold on a second I’m gon na do not disturb on here. Oh, the music is playing okay. What happens if I go like that? It’S refreshing over there you’ve got to pause the existing device and then play on the next device.
So many earphones advertised being able to do this kind of thing they never work. This is so sick, it works and it’s it’s just all the more clear the fact that they have the screen. You just get more communication, because it’s telling you I I am in fact connected to these two things, so you’re not guessing as much. Finally, it’s a sec color theme: damn they have a dark mode: sick, hey! This is what the mic sounds like I’m actually sitting in an office environment right now, and there has to be someone sitting next to me, clocking my other keyboard.
Can you hear it? Oh? Well, let’s get to the graphs okay check it out. This is what I what I believe to be the default EQ setting, which is the base one. So here you can see it’s a v-shaped curve. You got a boost in the bass.
You got a boost in the treble and then you’ve got a little bit of a dip in the mid, so that could make voices sound a little bit thin, but these again are designed to be used in office and Enterprise environments. So that’s why they’ve they’ve overcooked? It over here, because this is the part of the human voice that is about intelligibility. Human voice is really across this whole range. But if you blocked out, this range you’d still be able to hear what people are saying and understand them.
But if you blocked out this range and only had this range, it would sound like, like peanuts, adults now, a lot of people do enjoy listening to music. With this shape uh, you might say that you prefer flat headphones because you want what the artist intended and you want something closer to the our Target curve here. But a lot of people actually don’t want that they want beefed up bass uh and they want a brighter trouble now, if we, if this base was not beefed up over here – and you just had this without this extra boost, it would sound bad, it would sound. Maybe shouty and too bright, but when both ends are boosted up uh, it sounds better and people like it and they sound excited it’s kind of like looking at an image. That’S oversaturated, like really overcooked greens and reds, when you’re at the Best Buy, and you see the the demo tapes playing wow that looks awesome. It doesn’t look real, but it looks awesome.
It’S kind of analogous to this. Now, let’s look at the other presets. This is the preset they call Flat. You can see, the bass has been brought down a bit, but actually it’s a little bit less flat in the mids and the low mids the high base. You know around 100 so that actually might sound worse to some people depending on your preferences, but again speech intelligibility is up there, so that’ll be fine and then the bright EQ is kind of just even more of that. That’S going to be in terms of audio Fidelity and trueness, like maybe the worst one.
Now all those graphs were with ANC on, we do also have them with no ANC, not gon na comment on them, they’re actually pretty close, but here they are just for your reference and here’s, the actual ANC measurement. So what you’re seeing here is the dotted line as if you weren’t wearing headphones at all. The red line is, if you put them in, you, have the passive isolation and then green is when the ANC is on. So that’s why the green line is lower. You’Re hearing less when the ANC is on with the exception of this dip over here – and this is something you see commonly uh on – almost all ANC headphones. You actually have in this frequency range, Better, Sound isolation with the ANC off. This isn’t bad, though I’ve actually seen the gaps here be even greater than this, and then once you pass that little dip these track really tightly ANC on and off, doesn’t matter at all in this region of the spectrum. So this is about 20 yeah, 20 DB.
Sound isolation on this end, which is okay, there are other earphones that maybe go to like 40. um, but these will be fine, especially if you’re in a office environment. That’S going to be okay and here’s the mic quality. You can see it tracks pretty close to the Target for a lot of the parts that matter these bumps over here might even be intentional again you’re getting into the range where speech intelligent and ironic speech.
Intelligibility becomes a factor, so it’s possible that they intended for these to be bumped up over here and then with these huge drop-offs. This is the range of hearing. That’S just not really going to be relevant to human voice, so you’re kind of just filtering out other sounds that you don’t want to get passed through at that point now.
I haven’t worn these for very long, but I don’t think they’re uncomfortable. They seem like they could reasonably deliver on their claim of all-day wear, they’re pretty light as well um. I think that like having the screen on here is kind of cool.
I I don’t like when I’m doing a thing on my computer and I have to leave the work thing, I’m doing to go to like tab with the music and mess with that. It might be nice just to know regardless of what device I’m using. I control it from here and I don’t have to leave my spreadsheet or my actual task and get distracted by all the stuff flashing around on my music app. I can just use this now how about battery life, though, with this bright screen? Actually, it’s pretty normal.
You get five and a half hours on the buds, we’ve seen more, we’ve seen less and then the case will charge them twice, pretty typical stuff plug that puppy in for 15 minutes to get over an hour of talk time – and also I never mentioned wireless charging – Is supported? It’S the wireless chargers are sold separately, but this case supports wireless charging. That is another premium kind of bonus, feature very cool, so there are actually multiple models of this thing. They start at 2, 30, but you’re not going to get the touch screen.
You’Re not going to get the dongle the one I’ve been showing you today is 330.. Now, if that sounds good to you or your business, you can actually deploy these. It sounds weird to say, but your IT personnel can deploy these easily with the app that actually are meant to be remotely monitored through the app so to make it easy for it teams.
I never really thought it was someone deploying earphones, but I guess in the in this world we live in. It’S part of your workstation and a lot of people are working from home as well. So why not? That’S actually a nice to have, and I did notice in the app that there was uh. The software version was like right on the front page, so I guess that tracks check them out at the link below thanks for probably for sponsoring this video really interesting product.
I’M looking forward to seeing more from them. .