Hey y'all it's Annelies and welcome to part two of my massive review slash commentary of the raycon
everyday E25 wireless earbuds breaking this 45 minute long video into two smaller parts is what
I felt was best and so if you have not watched part one yet please make sure you go and watch
it because part two aside from this little intro here if you want to skip this by the way go to
this time stamp picks up exactly where I left off in part one so if you haven't seen part one
yet please go watch it because that is going to definitely make this video make way more sense
because I cut this video literally perfectly in half because it's kind of designed in this like
chapter style and part one is where I lay out how this review is going to go I talk about the claims
made in a raycon ad read and I go over the first four of the six total chapters of this review
which was style and design battery life sound quality and price and then in this video which
is part two of this review I'm going to be picking up exactly from where part one left off starting
off with like chapter or section whatever you want to call it number five which is quality and
comfort and then moving on to chapter six which is my personal favorite the I'm not like other girls
catch-all category and then of course wrapping up this massive review slash commentary with my final
thoughts giving you my score out of five as well as telling you if I think these headphones are
worth your money so if you haven't seen part one yet please go watch that first it will make this
one make a lot more sense and then when you're ready come back buckle up like this video and
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on the raycon everyday E25 wireless earbuds number five quality and comfort okay quality
and comfort I feel like comfort is a lot more subjective because everybody has different ear
sizes but to give you some context on me I love my AirPods second generation I run with them I work
with them don't have any issues with them they're comfortable I can wear them for hours I had the
AirPods pro when they first came out and something about the way that the plastic on the headphones
is shaped hurt my ears so tremendously and like when I say hurt it wasn't uncomfortable it was
pain that I had to return them and I couldn't even sleep on my side on my ears it was that
painful and tender now when it comes to the everyday E25s I find them generally pretty
comfortable I am also a fan of an in-ear headphone with the silicone tip so that is one thing that I
really like about these headphones along with a silicone tip that is something that I feel like
gives you that noise cancellation because it kind of gives you a little bit of a seal in your ear
and to me that is always a plus I have no issue with them when I'm walking talking listening to
music working whatever however my issue with the comfort level of these headphones did come when I
was running I took them on a run because I wanted to test out how they were with running and during
the run no complaints they weren't falling out of my ears they weren't uncomfortable everything
was going swimmingly and then my run ended and it was almost like instantaneously my ears were like
rejecting these headphones I don't know how else to explain it you know when you like get really
hot or you're running or whatever and then your fingers start to swell up and maybe you can't take
off your rings or something like that it felt very similar but like to my ears and I'm not saying my
ears were literally swelling but that's what it felt like and I had to rip these headphones
out of my ears it was almost instant and then I tried putting in my air pods for my walk home
and I couldn't even do that because my ears were so sore it felt very similar to the feeling I had
with the AirPods pro so I don't know if it has to do with the shape of these headphones I don't
know what it is but that was just my experience so take that as you will so running with them
totally happy good sound weren't falling out very comfortable second I stopped running oh good golly
get these things out of my ears okay now quality and I'm also referring to build quality here and I
have to go back to that review I mentioned earlier acceptable but not exemplary acceptable but not
remarkable they don't feel cheap they don't feel like something I could like squeeze and break in
my hands into a million pieces I'm also not that strong but they don't feel cheap in my hand the
case different story feels like crap but like this does not feel like the same quality as the case so
that's good right because the most important thing is the thing going in your ear giving you
the sound and you want that to have good quality in my ears they feel solid it's not like I feel
like I have a cheap piece of plastic sitting in my ear I think they're I think they're good
these headphones are not premium like I already explained but I think they're nice they're not
like random headphone on amazon quality but they're they're decent the case definitely
does not match the quality of the earbuds but those little beans they feel they feel solid so
for quality and comfort combined I will give the E25s a 3.5 out of 5. the feel is fine however I
would have to say that the general person would probably enjoy this headphone experience the
rating is mainly just on my personal experience as is this whole review it's all my personal thoughts
and opinions in case you didn't know number six the not like other girls claims now you might
be asking yourself what the heck does this mean but to me raycons give off very big I'm not like
other girls energy if you're not familiar with the phenomena I definitely recommend watching tiffany
ferg's video called I'm not like other girls or casey aonso's video on the same subject because
they explain it pretty well but pretty much to explain the like I'm not like other girls
vibe I am getting so strongly from raycons is that they are so desperate to be different raycon is
are raycons are raycon are try hards is try hards right raycons are try-hards? raycon is raycon is
so desperate to be different that they bring up things that don't make them unique or aren't real
selling points I mean the fact that they boast that their headphones come in different colors but
then also they're just straight up lying about the patterns thing raycons don't come in patterns what
help me understand that one threw me so hard it really did it I I'm not I'm not
proud of how confused I was by going what what pattern recons am I missing something am I
are they camouflage is the pattern camouflage and that's why I'm not seeing them because
make it make sense make it make sense raycon help me help me understand they have tremendous sound I
mean I don't even think I've heard apple claim that AirPods have tremendous sound and we know
they love trying to convince everybody that they invented the wheel so like wow they claim that
they are co-founded by musicians plural but the name raycon comes from ray j the co-founder of
raycon and the only musician that I have seen tie their name to this project or company that is not
being paid to speak about recon headphones the other co-founder slash partner of raycon was a
company called cowboy wholesale based out of new york that doesn't even work with raycon
anymore so there's that you know there is a surprising lack of information about raycon
online that doesn't come from ray j directly or from people who are being paid by raycon to speak
about recon so I don't know where this whole like musician's plural is coming from but I'lll move
on from that but there's a lot of other like weird things about raycon that's kind of divulging from
the I'm not like other girls thing but it it red flags there's a lot of red flags as there are with
the I'm not like other girls people so like maybe that's the connection I'm trying to draw
I don't know but this is just the catch-all category I think the other thing that is really
off-putting with the raycon ad reads is that they are so aggressively obviously an ad read you have
other companies that work with creators on youtube that of course have their phrases and their tag
lines and their little bullet points that they want the creators to hit pinpoint you need to
say it this way in the copy for the ad read but for the most part they feel very comfortable
and the creator or the person who's trying to sell this product to their audience is using
their own vernacular and they're speaking from personal experience but a raycon ad read feels
like they're reading from a teleprompter it's such a different experience because it's almost like
raycon is afraid to give the people who they sponsor free agency and how they speak about
the headphones because they might accidentally let it slip that they're not as amazing as they
are making them out to be once again tin foil hat theory over here I know but like it's just
there's something different between a function of beauty and a nordvpn ad read and a recon ad read
I really hope people understand what I'm trying to say with this whole like not like other girls
thing but it's off-putting and it's something that was off-putting to me when I first saw an ad read
for ray-cons and the reason why I wanted to get a pair was not because my favorite creators made
it seem really intriguing and it's not their fault it's the way that raycon goes about things because
yeah there's been other things like function of beauty or hellofresh that sound interesting and
sound worth my money but then when I saw Raycon I just kind of thought I need to try these out
to see if they're the trash that I think they are I wanted to see if they were actually as bad as
I thought versus trying something that I thought might be good that's the difference about raycon's
this point obviously doesn't get a rating this is more so me expressing all of the weird feelings I
have about raycon and just trying to share that with people and see if anybody feels the same
way because there's just something that is off but there's just a lot of unknown stuff here it
adds another layer of suspicion and weird vibes on top of it all now speaking of returning these
headphones that's the last thing that I need to do and as you can tell I still have them here
in front of me so I'm gonna go ahead and throw to future Annelies where she is going to explain how
this whole return process went and I do want to note right now when I was getting ready to film
this video I wanted to make sure I had enough time to film it before I had to return it because you
know 45 days wanted to be able to test them out properly yada yada whatever I went on the website
to kind of like start the return to see how much time I had left and it said that my return window
was good until 2022 so like 320 days more than the advertised return window so I don't know what that
was all about but hopefully future Annelies can give us some insight about that as well as telling
us you I'lll I'lll figure it out later too I'lll be future on at least one day about how easy and
seamless this return process was and if it was all that it's cracked up to be thanks past Annelies
now unfortunately I have some bad news for y'all I unfortunately got what we call in the industry
bamboozled because yes I still have my recons here in front of me why you may ask when I tried
to uh return them well let me explain to you how I got bamboozled by raycon so that way hopefully
it doesn't happen to you in the future and maybe this will kind of influence your decision on if
you actually want to try out recon headphones or not because this was kind of um kind of
frustrating so as past Annelies just mentioned in the video when I went to kind of look and see when
my return window went to it it said up to February 22 2022 was when my device was eligible for return
so I kind of took that as my device was eligible for return until 2022 and didn't understand that
there was a caveat attached to that now when you go through the return process it's kind of like
when you return anything online asks like why are you returning it is there anything wrong with it
the basics as I was even going through the return process raycon even said hey well maybe instead
of returning them you want to exchange them for another pair of headphones so as an added
incentive we'll give you that 11.99 you saved with your 15 discount like we'll give that to you as
store credit so that way you don't just return them and get your money back you put it towards
another pair of headphones and I said uh no thank you I don't want another pair of recon headphones
because I'm trying to get rid of these ones but like let's keep going so make it to the end of the
return pages and then you're met with two little rectangles of options one that says return for
store credit and just kind of I guess goes on your account or gift card or something another one at
the bottom that says return to your original form of payment except unfortunately for me
that option was completely grayed out so I was stuck with the only option of returning for
store credit and that is why I still have these headphones in front of me now the reason why I
would say I was bamboozled and I was bamboozled to fault of my own is that yes raycon does
advertise a free 45-day return policy money back guarantee type of nonsense however when I went to
the website to check when that 45 days was for me because I know some companies go it's based off of
the day you ordered the product some companies say it's based off of when it was delivered so
I i was trying to get some information on when my window ended and then I see something that
says I can return my headphones until February of 2022 and that's all that page said no caveats no
disclaimers no well if you return it up until 2022 you only get store credit like nothing like that
so I kind of took the website's word over the previous advertisements and that was my fault
however I feel like now this is for legal reasons just my conspiracy theory just my you know theory
in my head and how I feel not saying that they are intentionally doing this however I personally feel
that it is intentionally misleading because a simple clarification of saying well until April
20th 2021 you can return for full money back and then February 22 of 2022 you can return to
get store credit or exchange for another pair like that simple clarification could save people a lot
of time and a lot of frustration and heartache so considering how I already had a not so great taste
in my mouth about Raycon this little hiccup kind of didn't make it any better because like I said I
feel like it is a very simple fix this literally happened to me yesterday I was in a store
walking past the cashier to walk into the store and I overheard the cashier saying to a customer
yeah you can return it up to 30 days and get your money back or if you do after 30 days
you just get store credit but you can return it whenever and that simple clarification saved that
customer some heartache and customers could have realized that with their raycons like
me I could have realized that and then got on returning them a lot faster so now here I sit
with a pair of raycon headphones to kind of tell you this so that way maybe you might take that
into account when it comes to purchasing a pair of raycon headphones and deciding if you want
to try them or not because I personally found that experience to be really frustrating and all I'lll
say now is now I have a pair of 70 headphones that I uh can't get rid of so uh please watch all the
ads on this video to help me make the money back on these freaking headphones yeah so unfortunately
I still have them poor passed on elise she had no clue she had no clue that this was gonna happen
well anyway back to past Annelies, thanks future Annelies so I've gone through all of my points
and the average score comes out to a 3.6 out of 5. a 72 a c grade and I feel like that's pretty
appropriate now that's my score but the ultimate question is would I recommend these earbuds
I honestly can't say I would I would recommend you my beats flex before I recommend the raycon
everyday E25s I believe the beats flex are good quality they are consistent and they
are affordable when it comes to the E25s I don't think they're consistent I don't think that the
quality is there that aligns with the price and I personally feel that you can probably
find something that is closer to this truly wireless style for cheaper at a comparable
quality I've tried one of the anker soundcore earbuds before and from what I can recall the
sound was comparable to these headphones and those come in at anywhere from 20 to 30 dollars cheaper
than the E25s even though I don't really have much to speak on those headphones I would probably
recommend somebody trying those first then spending their 70ish bucks on these headphones I
would honestly say save up for the samsung galaxy buds or the AirPods or the pixel buds instead of
spending that money now on these if there was somebody out there who really wanted to know
how these headphones were and they were like dying to get their hands on them all I could
say is that they're acceptable but not exemplary thank you so much for sticking around for this
massive in-depth Raycon review and I don't think I've ever done a review on a tech product
this intensive because I felt like there was a lot more to the Raycons than just their sound quality
there's so many layers to this and especially with like I mentioned how well they're known in the
youtube community I wanted to uncover are people just being paid to say this or are they actually
good and I think my conclusion is that people need to pay their bills and if somebody comes along
and says hey I have a pair of mediocre headphones for you that I'm going to pay you a good chunk of
change to talk about to your millions of followers or even your thousands of followers will you do
it I understand why they say yes I guess to settle your hearts I would personally believe
especially from the creators that I watch that I think they believe that they're decent headphones
they don't think they're tremendous or amazing and this is just my assumptions and inferences
based on the ad reads and what I know about these creators through their videos but they're not
horrible but they're not tremendous like they're claimed so yeah I think there is a lot of fluff in
the script to just make them sound appealing but they're not trash and I guess that is
good they're not trash yay so folks that is it thank you so much for sticking around for this
massive crazy in-depth review on the raycon headphones of course I wanted to review them
because you know I make all this tech stuff on my channel but there are so many more layers to these
headphones besides just are they good headphones it was all the other stuff that comes wrapped in
that little ad read that you hear in your favorite creators videos but I really hope you enjoyed this
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worth the money which are they I guess that's for you to decide but um yeah I'm still really
indifferent about these but I am returning them I'm 100 returning them so I guess that
says everything right there otherwise that is it for me thanks for hanging out with me
stay beautiful have a marvelous day and I will see you all in the next one bye