Louis Vuitton is getting in
on the wireless headphone game.
These Horizon earbuds will cost you $1,000.
You could get six sets of AirPods for that.
So, are they worth the price?
Louis Vuitton is a French fashion house known
for its high-end bags, luggage, clothes, and accessories.
And everything it makes
has the ubiquitous LV logo on it.
So when we found out it was making headphones,
we knew we had to try them out.
Inside this box is some Louis Vuitton headphones
and we're just gonna do a little unboxing right now.
I've never felt more unworthy in my life.
Here's what comes in the giant box:
Two Louis Vuitton pouches,
an instruction guide,
and an envelope with a wipe cloth that says Louis Vuitton.
Like seriously?
Inside one of the pouches,
you'll find different-sized ear attachments
to better fit your ear.
Inside the other pouch is a USB-C charging cable
and a USB adapter.
Both with LV's logo printed on it, of course.
And finally, a zip-up case.
Talk about extra.
In there, you'll find the earbuds with the charging case.
Look at that.
Dang!
Branding is pretty on point.
Even though these earphones
are branded with LV,
the model of them are the MW07 buds
from an audio company called Master & Dynamic.
The retail price of the MW07 buds are about $300.
So you're paying about $700 more for just the LV logo.
So I'm going to test these out for about a week
and I'll let you know what I think.
I'm going to be testing the earphones
for audio quality, design and features,
comfort and fit, battery life, and price.
So I've been testing the Louis Vuitton Horizon Earphones
for a few days now
and there are definitely some pros and cons to it.
Let's start with audio.
The audio is pretty crisp, there's a punchy bass,
great highs, mids, and lows,
and they're slightly better than the AirPods.
These earphones also don't have
a noise-canceling feature
but they do have a noise-isolating fit,
which means they can physically block out ambient noise.
When I had these in in the office
I couldn't hear my coworkers talking
unless they were talking really loudly.
When I was walking to work with them on,
I couldn't hear the street noise
but I was able to hear muffling sounds of cars honking
and also the traffic officer blowing his whistle.
The audio for phone calls isn't so great though.
I'm going to call Clancy and he'll tell you how I sound.
Clancy: Hello?
Michelle: Hey Clancy!
Clancy: Hey Michelle.
Michelle: How do I sound?
Clancy: Not great.
Definitely worse than when you're normally calling
on your iPhone.
It almost sounds like you have me on speaker phone
or like you're in a noisy area.
Dang, that's rough.
Overall rating for sound quality, 4 out of 5.
Moving on to design and features.
The overall packaging looks really nice
but the earphones do smudge and the case scratches easily.
I really enjoy the buttons on these earphones.
On the right side, you have one button
and basically you can click it once
to pause or play a song,
you can click it twice to skip a song,
and you can hold down to activate voice assistant.
And then on the left one,
there are two buttons to control your volume
which is really, really great.
And just like the AirPods,
if you take one out, the music will stop playing
and when you put it back in, it'll start playing again.
Pretty neat feature.
These earbuds connect pretty quickly
to your Bluetooth device
but I found that when I was connecting them
to my phone and my computer
and I was trying to switch off on them,
it was getting a little confused.
The other annoying thing is
putting the earbuds back into the case
is pretty counterintuitive.
You would assume that once you take it out
you could just plop them into the case and it'll fit.
You actually have to rotate the left earbud
and put it on the right side of the case
and then you put the right earbud
on the left side of the case.
I don't know why they did that.
I also wish the earbuds and the case were magnetic,
so that it wouldn't fall out of the case so easily.
But these earphones can go up
to about 18 meters of range
and it has an official IPX4 splash rating,
which means you can splash some water on it
and it'll still work.
Overall rating for design and features, 4 out of 5.
Next up, comfort and fit.
These earbuds felt pretty light at first
but they're actually nine grams each
and just to compare, AirPods weigh four grams each.
So these are like twice as heavy.
And I found that when I was wearing these
for about an hour and when I took it off,
my ears just started to hurt a lot,
and I think it's because it was just way too heavy.
I also noticed that the earbuds
get pretty warm after a while.
Having these ear adjustments were really helpful
because I was able to change the ear tip
to a smaller size to fit into my ear.
I thought these fit wings, as they call it,
were weird at first
but they actually help fit in my ear more securely
and more comfortably.
The silicone material makes it really soft
and squishy but it does catch a lotta ear wax.
I won't show you that.
Yeah, they don't fall out.
Overall rating for comfort and fit, 3 out of 5.
The battery life isn't the best.
The battery life on these is about three and a half hours
of constant listening.
Whereas AirPods last up to five hours
of constant listening.
The case is what keeps the earphones charged
and it takes about 40 minutes to charge up to 100%.
It's pretty heavy to lug around though.
The case weighs about 100 grams,
similar in weight to a bar of soap.
Overall rating for battery life, 3 out of 5.
For $1,000, it's really hard to justify these earphones.
You can get the same headphones
without the Louis Vuitton branding for $700 less.
Overall rating for price, 2 out of 5.
My final rating for these earbuds are 3 out of 5 stars.
If the price was $300
like the earbud model these are based on,
then I'd give it four stars
which is what they're rated on Amazon.
But if you can afford it
and you're a big fan of Louis Vuitton...
Then these may be for you.
Otherwise, you're better off with the originals
or a different headphone altogether.
Hey Jasmine, do you smell that?
It smells like broke in here.
I'm just kidding.
It's a meme.