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What's up, fam.
This is your boy El Jefe and I'm back, as promised,
to talk to you guys about the Bluedio T7s.
Now a few days I posted an initial impressions video
and if you guys didn't catch that,
I'll leave a link to that in
the descriptions box down below.
Now, before we go any further and for full disclosure,
due to popular demand and people actually
asking Bluedio to send these to me,
Bluedio actually sent these out to me
free of charge and for an honest opinion
and review.
Now, if this is your first time here
and you're not familiar with my channel
and the way that I do things,
whether I go out and buy the product myself
or if the company sent it out to me,
I'm always gonna keep it 100% real with you guys
and let you know whether or not it's worth
your hard money.
So with that said, let's get right into this.
So here's how this video is gonna go.
First I'm gonna talk about some of the
good things about these headphones,
then I'm gonna talk about the bad things
about these headphones and then we're gonna
get into whether or not I recommend them
and if there are some better options available to you.
Now normally I like to do the cons
before I do the pros but on these headphones
the list of good things is shorter
than the list of bad things.
So let's start with the things that I do like about 'em.
So first up is the connectivity.
So these are using Bluetooth 5.0
so there isn't any video latency or lag
and there was no before with pairing them to my devices.
I tested them on a bunch of different phones
and tablets, iPhone 10S for iOS and for
Android Galaxy S4 running Android 4.4.
We've got the 1 plus 6 running Android 9,
my Galaxy S8 also running Android 9,
and Galaxy S8 app running Android 8
and then another LG phone that's running Android 7.
So multiple versions of Android plus iOS
just to make sure that everything is running correctly.
It wasn't having any connectivity issues.
It wasn't having any of those low volume issues as well.
Now unfortunately a whole lot of you out there
use Huawei and Xiamoi devices.
Unfortunately I don't have any of those here to test with
so I can't tell you whether or not it works well
with those or not.
Secondly, the battery life on these is still good.
Now Bluedio was known for having some decent battery life.
For the longest time, they've been able
to easily give you anywhere between 15 and 30 hours
worth of battery life.
Now for the T7 specifically with the
active noise cancellation turned off
I was able to get about 24 and a half hours.
With the noise cancellation turned on,
it dropped down to right around 21 hours.
So respectable for a headphone that runs you
right around 50ish dollars, that's respectable.
The next thing that I liked and
I didn't mention this in the initial impressions
is the fact that they went away from
that funky voice control stuff
that they were doing on the Bluedio v2s
and they bought the buttons back to the headphones
so you do get a dedicated rocker switch
for volume control and for track forward
and track back, so that's helpful.
You also get the play/pause multifunction buttons
so you can answer phone calls as well.
You get a dedicated active noise cancellation button
and there's also a dedicated power switch
and an ANC adjustment button.
But more on the ANC in a little bit.
I also like the fact that they did include
the Aux cable that has been left out
from the T6 and T6S and a bunch of their other headphones.
They did put the Aux cable back in the box
and I do appreciate having the ability to run
these wired straight from the box.
So kudos to them, I want to give credit
where credit is due.
Another thing that they fixed was
the auto play/pause feature.
Now I was having a lot of problems with that
on the Bluedio v2s where it was just malfunctioning,
it wasn't working correctly.
As far as the T7s go, the play/pause
when you put 'em on your head and take 'em off
when it automatically starts and stops,
on these headphones it's actually working quite well.
It's working exactly the way it's supposed to.
I wasn't having any problems with that whatsoever.
Now that is where the list of
the things that I like about 'em ends.
So first up is the sound leakage.
Normally I don't do sound leakage tests
but a lot of people who were requesting that
in the comments section of the previous video
so I figured I would include it.
There isn't much sound leakage to be heard
all the way up to around 60% volume.
Anything above 60%, you get into like 70, 80
you really want to start pumping up the music,
it's actually very noticeable.
But here, let me play you guys a sound clip.
You let me know what you think.
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As far as Codec support, there's still no
APTX, there's no AAC.
As far as my testing, all I've been able to get
out of these is SPC so there isn't any
of the higher res formats available
as far as these headphones go.
And also one of the things that came up,
a lot of people asked for it,
I was gonna include it anyway,
is going to be a microphone quality test.
Now all the Bluedio headphones that I've ever tested
have had subpar microphones.
You don't buy Bluedio headphones for
their microphone quality, you just get 'em
for some budget sound quality,
that's pretty much what you're getting.
But people wanted me to include 'em
so I'll include it here.
From what I can tell it's pretty subpar
but I'll let you be the judge.
Hello.
- [Woman] Hello?
- [El Jefe] Hey so I'm doing a quick
microphone sounds (audio cuts out).
So let me know, can you hear me clearly or no?
- [Woman] No, you sound muffled.
- [El Jefe] I sound muffled?
- [Woman] Yes.
- [El Jefe] Okay, well thank you.
- [Woman] You're welcome.
- So, what do you guys think?
You can make phone calls but still not the best.
There's obviously better out there.
And then they have a feature that they were
showing off in their commercials and
in their advertising about having this
adjustable active noise cancellation.
As far as I can tell, doing the active noise cancellation
selections on it, I can't tell the difference.
It's supposed to be a deep performing noise cancellation.
As far as I can tell, every time I push the button
to change the setting is that the hissing gets louder.
You push the button again and the hiss gets louder.
And then you push the button again
and the hiss gets quieter.
But as far as the noises being canceled out,
it sounds exactly the same.
So as far as that goes,
I don't think that's really working or doing very much.
And that brings me to one of the most
important questions about these headphones
is have they finally gotten the
active noise canceling working?
No, it's still the same situation.
The active noise cancellation just by itself
will cancel out some low frequency noise
but it does it at the expense of
the midrange and the bass on these headphones.
And it's noticeable.
It isn't something where like the Taotronics
BHO60s where you kind of notice it a little bit.
No, these you notice it.
It is immediate.
It just sucks the soul right out of the music.
So the active noise cancellation,
they stil haven't got that figured out yet.
And then as far as the sound quality goes,
so the volume, these still have some decent volume
but in my testing directly against the T6s
and the T5s and the T4S, these T7s
have slightly less volume than all the others
and that includes the TM.
I'm not sure what's going on.
I thought maybe that was an issue,
maybe I needed to run 'em wired or break 'em in more
but the volume has still remained the same.
So for whatever reason they don't get as loud as the T6.
And it seems like the overall sound quality is still
pretty much overall the same as your T6.
It's sort of that U or V-shaped sound.
You know you've got the punched bass and then
you've got some okay midrange, kind of muddy,
and then you've got some highs in there.
But overall it's just not that great.
Now mind you, I know exactly what I said
as far as the sound quality goes for the T6s
but in the time since I uploaded that video,
which was July of 2018, since then
I've listened to a lot of different headphones,
a lot of different higher quality models
and I've gained new perspective on what I feel sounds good.
And to me they just don't sound good.
The T7s just don't sound that great.
I mean for a budget set of headphones
I would normally be a bit more forgiving,
and they're okay.
But considering the competition that's in this
price range, whether it be anything from 50 to 100 bucks,
there are far better options available to you.
The only plus side that I can give 'em for sound quality
is when they're wired.
When you wire them in, whether it's to your phone
or to your PC or even through a small amp,
the sound quality drastically improves.
The bass gets deeper, everything overall sounds far better.
So that's the only plus can give them
in the sound quality department.
So at this point do I recommend you guys
upgrading your headphones to the Bluedio T7
or do I recommend you guys going out
and picking up the Bluedio T7s as your first set
of Bluetooth headphones?
No, straight up no.
Don't make any qualms or mistakes about it,
I don't recommend these headphones.
That's despite them even sending them
out to me for free.
I still don't recommend these headphones.
But let me tell you why.
In this price category, which is a little weird
because I know they're on sale for like 50 bucks
on AliExpress but some people bought 'em
for $100 when they first came out
so there's a wide gamut of price here.
But let's say even at $50 you have
far better options available to you.
But not only that, regardless of which ones
you pick up, you're still kind of gambling here
because the quality control problems of Bluedio
are still ongoing.
I'm still hearing, I'm still getting DMs from people,
I'm still getting comments on my videos
about people who are buying the TMs, the TMS,
the T6S, whatever it might be,
and they are still receiving faulty pairs.
Whether it's connection problems, sound problems,
them dying out in a couple of days,
whatever it might be.
So some people get really good ones
but a lot of people are still getting bad copies.
So that's one of the main reasons why
I have trouble recommending any of
their products at this point.
But let me make this clear, if you have other
headphone brands available to you in
whatever country you're watching this video from.
If you have Sony available to you,
if you have MPOW available to you,
Taotronics, JBL.
If you have any of these other brands
then go with those over the Bluedio.
Nine times out of 10 with those brands
you're gonna get a quality product
right out of the box and you're not gonna have
the same types of issues.
But if you're one of those people that insists
on buying these Bluedio T7s,
if you just have to have them or
whatever weird flex it is to have these
Bluedio headphones then at the very least,
do yourselves a favor and buy them from
a vendor who is gonna actually have
a decent return policy.
Somebody that if you have trouble with yours,
which some of you inevitably will,
make sure you have an out.
Make sure you have somebody that
you can either exchange them with or
return 'em and get your money back.
If you have Amazon available to you in your country,
buy them through Amazon.
As of the making of this video,
they're not available on Amazon US.
So either way I'm not gonna be leaving links
to these in this video.
I'm not gonna leave AliExpress links
or Lazada or GearBest or whoever you go through.
I'm not gonna be leaving links to these
because I don't recommend 'em.
So if you insist on buying them,
at the very least buy them from somewhere
that you're gonna be able to get your money back
if you want to do that.
So with that said, let me give you guys
some options here that'll be a little bit
better for you.
So first up let me give you some options here.
So if you're one of the people that
want an upgrade and let's say you have
the T4S, the T5s, or the T6s or the TMs.
The T7s are not an upgrade for you.
Matter of fact, the T4S to me personally
for what I like, sound far better.
The bass is way deeper, they've got far more volume.
The only thing that they don't have over the T7s
is a little bit of crispiness on the top end,
a little bit of that clarity on the top end.
But beyond that, the T4S, a far better option for you.
TMs far better option for you.
If you're a T4, T5, T6 owner
this is not an upgrade for you,
take that from your boy El Jefe.
Now if you have other options available like I mentioned,
MPOWs, Taotronics or Sonys,
in the $50 price range you've got the
Taotronics BH022s and you've got the Taotronics BH040
and the BH060.
All three of those are active noise canceling headphones,
all of them are under 60 bucks
and they're all a better option than the T7s.
From MPOW, you've got the MPOW H5s that are usually
under 50 bucks and you've got the H10s that
are right around the $60 to $65 mark.
So the H5s and the H10s both are better options.
So if you have a little bit more money to spend,
maybe you're closer to 80 or 100 bucks
you've got the Taotronics BH046 that
I recently did a review on.
Those are absolutely a great option for you.
The Soundcore Space and Seas
also another good option for you.
Those are two other options that are
super great options for you if you're in
that price range.
Now, if you're one of those people
that don't really care about active noise canceling,
which if you're gonna buy Bluedio headphones
you really shouldn't care about it because
it's gonna ruin your sound quality anyway,
you have other options available to you.
$60ish to $70 you've got my personal favorites,
the Edifier W830BT.
Those headphones I will continue
to recommend them to you guys.
80 plus hours of battery life,
APTX, you've got incredible sound quality on those,
and the bass blows all of these out of the water.
Anything in the turbine series these sound better.
The only thing that comes close are those T4Ses.
Overall it's just a far better headphone.
And if you're a super bass head,
you want something that's got some seriously kicking bass,
you can get yourself a set of refurbished
Sony XB950B1s.
I did a full review on those as well.
And you can get a refurbished set of those
for around 75 to 85 bucks on Amazon all day long,
on eBay all day long.
Do yourself a favor and pick up those.
The bass on those, unbelievable.
So there's your options.
You have a ton of different options available to you.
There is so much other stuff available on the market.
So do yourselves a favor,
if you want to upgrade, this isn't it.
If you want a good set of headphones
that's gonna have good noise canceling
and great sound quality, you have your options.
If you guys want to check any of those out
that I mentioned, I'm gonna link all of those
in the description box down below.
So if you guys have any more questions,
if I didn't get to some of the questions
you may have asked in the previous video,
feel free to leave those down in the comments section.
Let's have a conversation about this.
I do not mind answering your questions and
I love talking to you guys in
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