This is
a genuine review of Jaybird X3, the super
portable bluetooth wireless earbuds
connected by a wire
unlike the more expensive and also
delayed Apple earbud. The extras are
definitely an incremental improvement to
the Jaybird X2's which makes sense because it's
not like their smartphones where's new
features to add every year. So these will
be very familiar to those of you who
have seen the X2's were in the original
jaybird bluebuds X, which is fine because
those are also both pretty good.
So the
first off all, the new shape is different.
It's a bit of a new design, if you look
at these earbuds, they're a bit smaller
in volume than last year with X2's and a
bit shorter and also a bit lighter which
helps with comfort and the most
important part of this back is that
there are now flat on the back. So the X3
are now what I'll call sweat proof so
while the excuse had sort of a rounded
bulbous back that would stick out of
ears more. The X3 buds stick out a bit
less and they don't get caught as easily.
So if you have like a winter hat to put
on over the top of your buds that works
better if you had like a motorcycle
needed to go under a helmet this new
design helps a lot with that too and
then the shape of the fins as well which I do use are also slightly more curves
which helps with the fit and they're
already pretty good and not falling out
of my ear but this helps even more and
the sort of passive seal that forms over
your ear is extremely good even with the
rubber tips
that I use but as you can
see they do come with both the rubber
tips in different sizes and comply foam
that molds to your ear and gives you an
even better seal.
They're also again this
soft touch plastic finish instead of the
glossy from the originals which again
I'll take matt black wherever I can get
it. Plus now there's a little bit more
metal to bolster the build quality of
the previous ones were actually pretty
durable already as I've mentioned and as
an athlete,
I'll take any enhancements to the build
I can get there fully sweat and
water-resistant again. You can beat them
up take them out on the sand, take them
to the track wherever they can
definitely hang now they technically
have new drivers inside a new
six-millimeter driver with a more of a
cone-shaped cylinder housing.
Listening
to the X2 and X3 back-to-back, I could
only hear a bit of a difference. I say
the biggest difference I heard and sound
with the X3 is this slightly wider
soundstage like a
a bit better instrument separation which
is cool to hear but overall the sound
profile from the X3's lows mids and
highs are very similar to the familiar
X2's. If not a little bit more detailed
but obviously these can't be audiophile
recommends I mean I'm not an
audiophile I'm streaming you know
Spotify music or bluetooth audio from my
phone to wireless earbuds. So it's
everyday you sound great when you can
now do though is using my sound app to
change the sound signature with these. So
I already think they happen to have one
of the best flat sound signatures have
any wireless pair of headphones but now
just like you could with the freedoms
you can adjust the firmware of the
earbud to follow it around from device
to device. So you can build your own
shape of a sound profile you can name it
and save it or you can pick from a ton
of free pre-built ones or
community-based ones always sound
signatures to choose from so that's
pretty dope.
So the one thing that can be
considered either an upside or downside
or both is the new controller and
battery. Instead of being built into the
ear but itself now the battery is in the
controller so you will still get roughly
eight hours of streaming battery life
which is on the high end of what you can
get out of any wireless earbud, but now
the charging method is this little
cradle thing here with the pins. Works
fine you line up the pins and click into
place and start charging like that its
full-size USB so it works pretty much
anywhere the original did come but now
the downside. Here is you can't forget
this little charger cable. You gotta
remember to bring this thing on trips if
you lose it you're kind of stranded
because you can't just plug the
headphones right into a cable like you
could before so yeah bit of a mixed bag
here that you now require this little
cradle to charge I guess I consider that
the biggest downside and then for what I
would consider to be the biggest upside
in my opinion of the new Jaybird X3 is
the price. So when the Jaybird X2's were
first launched they were about $179.99
for most places. They're pretty premium
but for what you're getting for the
price a plus you've seen a review I
really like them then the Jaybird Freedom came out and they were $199.99.
You know a little bit more expensive and
they're starting to a crush on some
other high-end headphones so I'm not as
likely to recommend that to everyone but
you kind of might have expected the
Jaybird X3 is to follow suit while they
don't these X3 are launching at
$129.99 so that's already a great price
for an improvement over the headphones
that launched for hundred eighty bucks.
So that scope thank you Jaybird for
that and then again when my favorite
things about when they launched new
headphones is the old ones go down in
price. So now you can get the X2's for
somewhere around 80 bucks. [Article Credit: Marques Brownlee]
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