- Here's the thing about me and headphones.
I generally, when I'm exercising, just use whatever I have
laying around, whatever is cheap and came with the phone.
That also means a lot of the time
I'm using headphones that are plugged in,
and it's 2017, I shouldn't be doing that anymore.
It's time for some good, proper Bluetooth,
and I wanted to try out the brand new X3s from
JayBird, 'cause everybody has said they're awesome.
Are they awesome?
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So here's the thing when it comes to my headphones.
I'm not the most particular person in the world.
I want these things to sound decent.
They don't have to sound perfect.
I'm gonna be exercising.
There's gonna be noise.
I will be breathing heavy.
But I still want 'em to sound good.
I also want 'em to be relatively comfortable.
So when you first open up the X3s in the package,
you're gonna find a little bit of literature that
tells you all the different ways you can wear these things,
so you can loop the cord back on itself,
you can have it right around your head,
you can leave it around your neck,
you can wear it in front,
you can wear it over the ear,
I've just gonna really, really simple,
and I just kinda shove the things in there,
and that's worked pretty well for me,
but you might wanna take your time
and at least look through the different options
and try a few of 'em out to see what works best for you.
So there's not active noise canceling in the X3s,
but it is pretty good passive noise canceling,
just from the tips themselves.
You have a couple different options you can swap out
if one doesn't work as well as the other for you.
Take the time and give 'em a shot
and see which one works best,
and now I can't really hear a thing except for
the sound of my own voice, a lot like you.
What?
The X3s couldn't have been simpler for me.
You pair 'em like you pair any other Bluetooth thing.
You just go in your settings and pair it.
And then whenever I wanna use 'em, I just turn 'em on,
and they sync automatically right back
to where I was before, so, super easy,
haven't had a single problem with that.
So, actual operation, you have three buttons:
volume up, volume down,
and the little center action button thing.
You hold that for four seconds to turn them on.
The funny thing is, when you turn 'em on,
the woman's voice, she's very excited,
and very happy to tell you that ...
- [Bluetooth] Power on!
Battery 20%.
- And you're ready to go exercising,
and she's just a little too excited about it,
and it makes me a little upset, and I don't know why.
That's not very rational.
Speaking of battery, on the back is where you have
the charging contact, so there's this little clip
that only fits on there one way, so you do have to pay
a little bit of attention to how you're doing it,
and then that connects with Micro USB,
so you can charge it with whatever Micro USB cable
you have laying around, which is kinda nice.
So if you've ever used any sort of headphones like this,
you'll be completely at home.
There's really nothing new there.
So JayBird does have its own app.
It works on Android, which I'm on here,
and is also works on iOS if you've got an iPhone.
Fire it up here, and really the big thing about this app is,
well, a couple things.
On Android, it shows you the battery life,
which is helpful, actually,
and then it gives you a whole bunch of EQ options,
and you can customize your own as well
if you wanna do it, so you've got bass on the left,
high end on the right.
So to answer my own question, are the X3s worth it?
For $130 for me, yeah.
They sound remarkably good for earbuds.
I've used so many earbuds that are just bad,
especially ones that fit as tightly as these,
but once you kinda get the fit dialed in just right,
surprising amount of bass in there,
and remember, you can customize the sound
through the JayBird app if you want as well.
So for me, the X3s have been really good.
I'm happy with them for $130,
and for as much as I've been using them,
that's about right.
I think I'm definitely getting my money's worth.
They last, you know, four or five days,
depending on how much I'm using 'em,
and I'm using 'em about an hour a day.
They don't take that long to charge, though,
so it's not that big a deal for me.
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