So you went ahead and made the investment in the Braun Series 9 Foil Shaver.
And now you're seeing the new Braun Series 9 Pro Foil Shaver.
And you're dying to know, should I make that
investment again?
So full disclosure before we start, we have paid for both of these.
We have paid for the Series 9 and the Series 9 Pro.
So it just goes to show you,
even with your barber channel, you don't always get everything for free.
Companies just sending stuff out to you.
Sometimes you're going to have to actually spend your own money
and make the investment in your own channel.
Now, when we saw that the Series 9 Pro was coming out
because of the word pro in the title, we thought right away,
Oh, OK, they're going
after the professional market Jumping in to where the barbers are.
But with the existence of that naff little trimmer on the back of it,
much like it was on the series 9 Pro sorry, turned that on there by accident.
You can tell right away this is still going to be
a domestic appliance and cosmetically a part
from the lock switches which on the original series 9 was here,
which is pretty problematic
for where you're using it because your thumb is sitting right there.
And it was very easy to knock the lock button out there.
They've changed it to this little switch on the series
9 pro and that is just a stable
What's that?
Static? That's the word static there.
So that can't be moved around.
So that's an upgrade. Cosmetically.
But apart from that, they both look exactly the same.
So with no real changes cosmetically, you must be thinking, well,
all the changes will be internal and to an extent you'd be right.
They claim now that the Series 9 Pro is strong enough
to deal with up to seven days worth of beard growth.
And I can't say I've done that because I have mostly been using it out
to bald out my my skin fades
and I know that there is a bit of a time difference
here in terms of we've had the Series 9 Pro for not very long.
We've had the Series 9 original for a few years now.
But to try and make the comparison
we got a brand new foil head for it to try and make it as new as possible.
And certainly there hasn't been any fall in performance from the Series 9
And this is where it gets
the this is where the big difference is right because
we did this a lot we tried it on our clients
and we used the Series 9 on one side of their head
and then the Series 9 Pro on the other side of their head when balding out
and every single client.
And we did on a lot of them.
Every single client said that the Series 9 Pro
was more gentle on their head and felt better on their head
when using it rather than the Series 9 itself.
They never said the Series 9 was bad, but they said
it wasn't as smooth as the Series 9 Pro.
Now, we had to do that with all of our clients
or certainly with a lot of the clients that we were using them on because
I couldn't tell the difference using either these.
I really, really couldn't from a professional point of view,
using it on loads of different people.
I honestly couldn't feel any difference,
and neither could anyone else in the shop when using them.
It was really, really down to what your clients thought
and that would be the only real reason I can think to upgrade.
If your client experience is
of utmost importance to you and you want your clients to feel like
they're the most important person in here and it's all about their time
and their comfort, their experience in here,
then I would say maybe upgrade.
But if you're talking about from a purely you using it professional barber
standpoint
I can't say I noticed any difference at all.
And one little thing to add about it, when we got the Series 9 originally,
we just got it with the little charging dock that it comes with,
which we were quite happy with because most things don't have a charging dock
And everybody said, Oh, you're really got to get the cleaning dock But
it didn't seem like it was that big a deal and it seemed like an optional thing.
So we just left it.
But when we got the Series 9 Pro, it came with the cleaning dock.
I don't know
if that is what it necessarily comes with, but certainly the one that we got,
the cleaning dock came with it.
And I got to say, it is a really nice extra option.
So if you are going
to think about getting the Series 9 Pro and it is not necessarily
something that comes with it, it is an option definitely go for it
because I think it's a really nice touch and has been really useful
for having this machine and I think that's about it.
To be honest.
There wasn't much really between them, but I know not
everyone always agrees with us or we might have missed something out
about the differences between the Series 9 and the Series 9 Pro
if you're out there using the Series 9 Pro and you think there's something we've
left out of this,
this discussion here, get in the comments section, let us know what you think.
Because as always, the Rum Barber network isn't just us, it's you guys as well.
So thank you so, so much for watching and we'll see you next time.