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there's plenty of over the neck options out there most with a pretty large piece of plastic resting over your collarbone or at least on your lower neck with Sennheiser's newest HD one freeze all that bulk is removed and you're left with only wires I'm personally excited to give this one a try as these look to be the lightest pair of wireless earphones that I've tested on the channel as always remaining transparent with my fans Sennheiser did send these over for review for us to test our assessments was not altered in any way please watch the entire video for both pros and cons now they retail for $200 but as always I'll place my affiliate links in the video description below click on those links and they'll give you the most updated prices in real time you never know when these things might go on sale so without further adieu I'm Jimmy with jims review room and I'm here to help you make that purchase decision welcome everyone to another review first up there's no denying these are super lightweight I don't feel them tugging at my ears and I don't feel any nuance around my neck or shoulders now I've been using these second smallest ear tips and they do stay in the ear while walking around moving about the office and of course sitting stationary at my desk now although the hd1 fries are not classified as running earphones as they don't have any kind of sweat or water resistance but they surprisingly make up for that by having minimal wire chatter don't bounce around with more vigorous movements and I don't hear the wires whispering in the ear when there's a light breeze for a non sport use the HD one free feels great and from my testing performance while moving for your commute or daily activities I do highly recommend them taking a look at the earphone so the outer part is made of plastic to save on weight but the ends are metal making these feel a bit premium one feature Sennheiser offers our magnetic ends four times they're not in use you can snap them together to keep the earphones from falling off of your neck now I do wish the magnets were a bit stronger though as it like tug or sway of the court here does it disengage them going down the wires there lay flat tangle free cords and doing my cheap but effective rubbing tests here after releasing the earphones from a ball they do bounce back to its natural form moving on the inline controller offers three tactile buttons but I'm up and down with the ability to skip and go back in songs the multifunction button powers up your earphones with options to pause employee with a single press to accessing Siri and Google assistance with 3 presses instead now with the inline controller you can pull up better information but the HD one frees only discloses an estimated time or window basically of how much playback you have for example instead of saying 80% battery left the earphones would say a person like something a bit more precise now since we're touching based on battery these are charged with a micro USB port on the side audio manufacturers are moving towards USB type-c for some odd reason here but better life is claimed to be six hours with our test that 50% vibe from full to dead I was able to get 5 hours and 35 minutes now recharging wise this takes an hour and a half from 0 to 100 now one feature I did find oddly missing there's no NFC or near field communication for easy pairing not necessarily a deal-breaker but I did confirm Bluetooth 4.0 works flawlessly now we don't have Bluetooth 5.0 offered under HD one freeze for some reason here but for my in testing the range is still very reasonable for most average consumers not average I'm confirming 80 linear feet of signal strength last bit about that inline controller you can use this for phone calls I did test this with my reviewer Ian at the office and with my voice it did come across clear but with Ian outside I can hear a lot of his environments around him I can hear the leaves that he's stepping on also the cars that were driving by now quickly touching base on some random tests here the HD one free do provide very good passive noise isolation and bumping this up to medium and high volumes very minimal sound leakage was noticed the included case from Sennheiser is lovely a two-tone looked great and a soft and cool to the touch leather makes the carrying case feel ultra premium and quickly looking inside it's a faux suede or felt lining now all right touching based on audio performance from the factory the HD one freeze he gave me more of a u-shaped audio spectrum punchy bass very fast here opposite of deep long resonating bass the absence of the spectrum is surprisingly sharp at times and the audio was a bit jumbled and lacked detail again this was directly from the factory but after using Sennheiser's cap to nap these improved a bit this app is available for both Apple and Android featuring several sound profiles and he built-in equalizer now I turned down the highs a slight bit here will help bring up most of my mids in the end this helped create a bit more of a balance the mid-range sounded a bit more forward while the highs were tolerable but the details were still missing up top sound stage these were good by offering distinct left and right audio but the wideness or openness felt good but not strong as I was hoping for at the end of the day they're not bad but they could have been cleaner more balanced earphones from the factory here and then from there you can EQ them and see how they perform a slightly deeper bass level would have helped as well quite a bit here actually with the high frequencies focused on more detail and fidelity than simply just being loud so again folks that's it for this review be sure to like subscribe and comment down below to help support my work here you guys take care and I will see you on the next one bye