Hi everyone. So today we're taking a look
at a set of Bluetooth headphones by Ausdom. Now a
big thank you to Ausdom for sending these out to me. This is the model M06
and it retails for around £35. Now
as I have mentioned many times here on this channel I am really
fussy about headphones. In fact I spent three months
testing every available set of headphones I could find trying to find
some that really sat well with me.
And over the years I found very few Bluetooth headphones that
I would give a buy rating to for a number of different reasons.
So I was very interested to take a look at these Ausdom ones because
the quality looked good, the price looked good and
the specs also looked very, very good. Now let's have a look and see what we get in
the box.
Now,
obviously we've got those all-important headphones themselves.
We also have a micro USB charging cable a 3.5ml jack-to-jack in case
you want to plug directly
into an audio source and obviously
the manual. Now just a quick mention the manual doesn't tell you how to re-pair
the Bluetooth device if you already have it paired to another device for instance.
Quite a simple process, I will quickly show you. Press and hold the power button.
After two seconds you'll hear a powering on audio and after a further couple of
seconds you'll hear a pairing audio
and you will then see this LED light here
flashing red to blue. That means it's now available to pair.
To pair it, as always, a very simple process,
we go into Bluetooth and we run the pairing utility.
Now in this case we are actually already paired so we'll just connect that together
and it's done. Simple as that.
So that's the pairing process, really, really straightforward and
at that point any audio you play on your device that's paired to this will just play
through the headphones.
Now let's actually talk about the hardware itself
because they've done quite a nice job here. For starters, the band
along the top here is really nicely padded. There's lots and lots of
squishiness here. Normally with these over-ear headphones
like these what you tend to find is you get pinching
occurring around these parts of the bands here and here,
here and here. I didn't find any of that. There is just enough curve
and separation on the plastic with these cups
that you don't get any of that annoying rubbing and chafing effect going on.
Likewise the cups themselves are incredibly well padded.
They feel so good and snug on your head
no pinching again and more importantly they don't feel like they're kind of
pulling away
from your ears at any point.
The sound quality is exceptional although when we first got the device and
we paired it up we actually found that the audio quality was really, really poor and
I mean really poor. This is not an unusual
effect. Let me show you why this happens though
because this is actually something that a lot of people don't realise.
Now smartphones and many devices these days have built-in EQ's.
Now those EQ's can be built into the
software app you're using like Spotify, or Google Music, or they can actually
be at the hardware level,
we call it the DSP effect. Now essentially what we have on say the Galaxy S6
is kind of two aspects here. Let me show you the first one.
The first one is the actual audio tuning tool
directly built in to the Galaxy S6.
Now it's really, really important whoops. It's really important that you make sure
you actually do the adapt sound tuning when you get a new set of headphones
especially if you're on a Samsung device because it's an option that's there.
Now what this actually does is it plays a range
of audio tones through the headset, that you will then say yes I could hear it
no I couldn't. And what it will do is it will then work out what the response rate
effectively of these headphones are and it will make sure
it plays the audio using the full spectrum available. That's
a kind of very loose interpretation of what's actually happening here but it gives
you an idea.
Essentially what would happen if you used your old set of headphones with this device
you might only be using say that much of the
available audio spectrum as it were, the frequencies.
However, having then used the adapt sound to set these up
you're then using all of the available. By doing that you make sure that the headphones
and the device
are able to work together properly using the full range of audio available.
Now another aspect to consider is whether you have things like sound alive and
tube band
or similar. A lot of the manufacturers are doing these now and it is basically
a way of warming up the audio but bear in mind
that it may not actually sound particularly good with your headphones.
It's very much a trial-and-error. Sometimes some headphones will sound great with this
particular technique
others will sound a bit muddled. What we found here is the Ausdom's were a little
bit muddled,
that the bass on these headphones
is exceptional and because of that there is this chance that it will bleed over the
mid tones
a little bit. Well, quite a bit in fact. But again
let's also consider the EQ aspect here because it makes a big difference.
Now we've actually set the smartphone up so it knows what the
headphones are actually capable of, how much frequency they can deal with,
we then need to consider whether the music we're actually playing back
is being compromised at all because we've set the wrong EQ up.
Now this is something that gets mentioned to me an awful lot on my channel.
People say I'm whispering. I'm not whispering you've got 4k
on your EQ turned down - usually.
So to actually do this all we need to do for instance is come into settings here
come in to the equaliser and we've got the custom equaliser or
normal, pop, classic or custom. Make sure you select the correct
EQ for your actual music being played back.
If you get this wrong what you'll find is your bass may be too loud
for the vocal. The vocal may be too loud for the bass, the mid tones, the highs,
everything just becomes a muddled, muddled mess. This is not the fault of
your headphones, it's the fault of the way you've
not been keeping one eye on your EQ in setting up the device's audio properly.
But anyway, I
just want to get that out of the way because I know it's going to get mentioned to me
when people go and buy these headphones then come back to me and say
you are wrong these headphones suck. These headphones don't suck,
these headphones are some of the best I've ever used but
only if you keep one eye on making sure your set-up is correct.
So, let's get on to that audio quality. The all important aspect here.
The audio quality is fantastic,
the bass is so deep and rich it is just
lovely to the point where you can actually feel your jaw vibrating.
That is gorgeous in my opinion. It does though mean
that these headphones are very, very loud to people who are stood
around you. There is very little shielding here. Effectively a lot of sound is
leaking out
whilst you're using these headphones. I probably wouldn't find myself wanting to use them
out and about in a public place, certainly not at high volumes
anyway. Unfortunately it's just a little bit antisocial.
However, sat in your own personal environment
they are just gorgeous to listen to music on, they really are.
For a set of Bluetooth headphones
these are stunning. We also have built-in a hands free kit as well, you can
see that down here
on the microphone which is just this little microphone grille here.
Essentially allowing you to talk to your friends using
either the phone or Skype or anything else really for that matter.
You can also pair these up with a PC if you have
a Bluetooth adapter in your PC so there's lots of flexibility here on where you can
use these headphones.
I was really impressed overall,
there's a lot that they've got right with these Ausdoms. I would have liked
a little bit more shielding
just to stop some of that sound leaking out a little bit more, especially from
the back here which is resonating quite a bit, but there's so much
comfort here in how these headphones sit on your head and the audio quality is
just dreamy, it's really warm
and that's something that personally I appreciate no end. Now like I say,
EQ does make a difference. If you're willing to just fiddle around there
if you know the kind of audio you like listening to, you will find you can get some
really really beautifully rich warm tones out of these headphones.
Likewise, as I say, if you don't set things up properly
you will probably find these headphones and many others simply don't deliver the
kind of
punch you're looking for. For the price, the performance,
the quality is really excellent here. I would personally,
have, if I didn't know what price of these were, mark these at around an £80 set
of Bluetooth headphones
so at £35 they really are exceptional. Battery life
has been very, very good so far. I've only had to charge it once
and I reckon I'm getting around six to eight hours worth of battery life out of
each headset charge. That's not bad in my opinion and that's certainly enough to
get me through
an average day as it were.