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welcome to an unboxing and first look that I'm extremely excited about this is the parrot Zeek and while I've unboxed a couple of parrot things on this channel before I have never looked at anything even remotely like this so it's got a couple seals one on the top one on the bottom we're gonna break those and we're gonna have a quick look at the overall packaging so you can see they're going with kind of a you know eco-friendly recyclable cardboard packaging going on here there's the story of Zeek which is about when philippe starck and henry say du decided to work together they made a vision so apparently these were about four years in development just to give you guys some idea how long it takes to bring a vision like that to life alright the world's most advanced wireless headphones I think this is pretty much not open for debate at this point touch control panel active noise cancellation automatic activation by motion detector their concert hall effect which allows you to change a bunch of settings on your phone look more on that later Wireless audio streaming hands-free calls simpler connection via NFC and includes a USB charging cable lithium-ion battery three-and-a-half millimeter line in user guide and protective pouch alright so let's go ahead and see if it lives up to the hype now I should tell you guys right off the bat they are not cheap these are not inexpensive headphones these are meant to go up against the likes of headphones like you know Beats or those kinds of premium headphones although it almost pains me to even utter Beats in the same sentence as these because based on everything I know about these so far and based on my personal experience with Beats they are not in the same league at all I mean night I love you guys all I really do like all of you who have Beats but it really wasn't the best choice for the money and as long as you know that and you're comfortable with that then it's okay alright so it comes just kind of packed in here with some twist ties and we're gonna go ahead that I'm done I'm gonna start with the accessories and then we'll get into the headphones themselves which actually are lighter than they look I've heard a few complaints about them being kind of heavy but I mean in spite of the metal the metal construction here they actually don't have too too much weight so let's go ahead okay there's not much else in here there's just this box right here so we're gonna get everything else aside now there's the Zeek themselves and the accessory box so here's the USB charging cable depending on where you look the user reports are such that you'll get anywhere from about you know five to six hours of full functionality playback time so that's when you're using the concert hall effects that's when you're using the active noise-cancelling or whatever else you you want to use so you do want to charge this probably almost daily or every other day it also includes a three-and-a-half millimeter headphone jack cable so this one goes into the bottom of this earphone there we go and the other one goes that's a nice look at that beefy cable and it's got a nice braided sleeve on it so it's not gonna snag on anything shouldn't tangle up and this is extremely strong you'd have a really hard time putting any and undue strain on the connector of your phone for example see if you were to put it in there like that when it's in a pocket it's a lot less likely to get damaged than a straight connector so I do like to see that the battery itself is right here you can buy extra batteries I think they're about thirty bucks I'd love to see your higher capacity battery at this time parent says they have no plans to release an external battery charger though so you do have to charge the battery inside your headphones so there's a manual available in a variety of languages but I think we're good without that and it includes a soft carry case so sure that people wouldn't have minded seeing a hard carry case but at least it's a nice soft material so you won't you know have any scratches or damage or anything like that now getting into the headphones themselves so let's get all these accessories out of the way the construction feels extremely sturdy so there's a couple things that stand out so first is the synthetic leather band on the top this is padded on the bottom so you can see there's padding here I've already had them on the hair grease on there pretty hard on the top it's quite flexible so this allows it to sort of form to your head whatever shape your head might happen to be and I actually find them quite comfortable already but I'm sure with with a break-in period I would either discover that that's not the case or I discover they're even more comfortable than I suspected they are they do fold flat for storage so you can see these rotate 90 degrees just like that and they actually go a little bit out past 90 degrees so a few ears are it kind of you know wherever whatever shape wherever they are on your head they happen to be should line up with them just fine that again I can't I can't emphasize enough the construction feels very solid so it's nice to have metal implemented without it contributing too much to the weight of the headphones so you can see here that even though there's a lot of Technology and a lot of stuff going on in the ear cups themselves they have a plastic exterior well mostly there's metal here as well and down here for the bass ports so that's where your bass ports are it doesn't end up too too heavy now the ear cups themselves see they're not huge by any stretch of the imagination however my ears in particular do fit inside quite comfortably so they're soft cushioning here on the inside between your ear and the driver soft cushioning here in here there's also extremely soft cushioning here all the way around so they end up very very comfortable if anything I'd suggest maybe sort of for Zeke v2 maybe a little bit more cushioning on the bottom might not have been a bad idea but I don't think it's the end of the world either here so check this out so they actually had to hollow out so you can see there's a wire in there so they had to hollow out the solid metal in order to run the wires that are needed between the left and the right ear cup and yes so the difference is between the left and the right ear cut so they're meant to be worn like this oh right adjustments check this out extremely solid snapping adjustment so what I found is that it really contributes in a big way to having them fit more comfortably and more securely because when you have headphones that are just kind of willy-nilly adjusting them all the time you're not gonna be able to oh I did get them to move that time you're not gonna be able to like really shake your head and move them around without having them kind of come off or get weak over time it feels like an incredibly strong mechanism and that's one of the things that personally really bothers me about cheaper earphones they are earphones headphones they're also extremely adjustable so I only had to move them out a couple notches I don't have a huge head by any stretch of the imagination but you can see that I'd be able to wear the Vivaan if I did have quite a quite a large noggin there so let's go ahead and get those back sort of in place all right let's get into some of the technology here so at the bottom you can see on the left ear cup there is a double microphone so the huh the heads headset headphones depends what you want to call them cuz it can be used as a headset it has between four and five microphones depending on who you ask cuz there's a double microphone and then there's some internal microphones some of which are dedicated to noise cancellation some of which are dedicated to picking up on your voice and these right here are jawbone sensors so what they do is they detect movement in your jaw it doesn't work the same way as the the jawbone okay so it does work differently from that but what they do is they sit right here and they detect when your jaws moving and using software they allow the hardware inside the headphones to detect vocals more clearly than when you're than when your jaw is not moving so connectors on the bottom are pretty straightforward there's your USB connector for charging that is a micro USB again sort of not really my favorite there's that three-and-a-half millimeter jack and there is your simple power button now before we can power them on we will have to of course oh yeah should give you guys so here's you know there's your little Philip Starck philippe starck sorry my bad my bad accents you got your little bit of orange there a little bit of orange on the inside of the connectors as well as the the three and a half mil there you go so powering it on is pretty straightforward all you got to do is pick up this look this your cup there we go it's magnetic so it snaps into place there you go easy to get out once you figure out which one you're supposed to be trying to get out go ahead and throw the battery in here thought we don't throw anything on tech tips and once I figure out how to get the battery in AHA there you go works better when you do it the right way now we can start getting into some of the more advanced functionality let me just get the app installed we're back in just a moment powering on the headphones is really simple the power button it has a little raised notch on it so it's really easy to find then all you got to do my iPhone 4 doesn't support NFC but check it out shows up almost instantly I mean parrots experience is with Bluetooth I mean that's where they were at before they did the whole ar.drone things so I would fully expect there to be no glitchyness involved in any kind of pairing I mean yeah NFC is cool but as long as it's as simple as just finding the device and just clicking on it then I don't expect you know anyone wouldn't be able to do that most of the advanced functionality of the Zeek is controlled through software so you actually can't change anything you know what I should increase my brain is here you can't in change really change anything just on the headphones themselves you have to use an app so in this case we're using the iOS version where we can monitor all kinds of cool stuff so let's just go through all of this in order oh there's another thing okay and this this again is nothing to do with my experience with the Zeek I just want to disclaim that right now but I've been using airdrome v1 since it launched an AR Drone v2 since it launched parrot understands software they understand the complexity of providing proper software updates to things and how that builds a customer experience so that is why I would go for something like this where really these headphones are all about support and software if they don't do it properly then a lot of these cool effects we're just going to do this later don't necessarily even work now active noise cancellation this does drain the battery so it can be the difference between you know five to six hours and you know a lot more hours of battery life but but they do sound better by all accounts with active noise cancellation whether you're using them in Wireless mode or in Wired mode so just bear that in and we can go into the system here where we can oh okay active noise cancellation during calls on and off Bluetooth Auto connection enable or disable current firmware available updates check that out awesome okay a Persian parrot concert hall this this is cool so you can change two different settings concert hall silent room living room depending on how big of an area you want to listen in you can also change your speaker angle by just sliding them around so you know the interwebs seems to be an agreement that's something around 120 degrees and the living room in the silent room sound really freaking sweet battery level is well battery level there you go batteries in use equalizer this is another good one so again the interwebs by and large seem to agree that Club is a very good preset for it but unlike some equalizers that I've seen you are not stuck with whatever the manufacturer decides you should be allowed to have you can change it and use the user the user configurable one as well and finally help desks that doesn't really seem to be much of anything so there you go guys that's the app and one of the most important things to note about it is the fact that once you change any of these settings that's done it's changed it will be stored on the headphones themselves so even if you carry them over to some other phone that you happen to use you dip D pair and repair to something else no big deal it's all good so now let's get into some of the cool techy things that make people like me go kind of crazy now the first time I tried these headphones this is why I'm so excited about this unboxing was at CES last year yes this was like a year ago at this point and I put them on in the middle of a crowded CES Hall okay if you guys have ever into CES you know it is loud and I was like whoa 25 decibels of noise cancellation that's what all those microphones are doing for you plus the fact that they are extremely well sealed and well built to the point where I'm having a hard time hearing my wife who's helping me film when she tells me things off camera because they are already canceling a lot of the noise on their own just completely passively and they have active noise canceling as well now other cool software features again I wouldn't buy anything this software reliant believe it was going to be supported in the long run tap here to play in paws swipe forward to change the track swipe back to change the track backwards and volume can be adjusted by swiping down or up which is really really cool and last but not least you can actually pause your music by going like this because presumably you don't necessarily want to listen to music while the headphones are not seated on your ears I've got to say I am really really impressed I mean I was preparing myself to be impressed I mean I was ready to be impressed they're like $400 headphones so they don't impress then come on so just to give you guys some idea I mean probably the best headphones I've ever listened to or the HD 800 s from Sennheiser I don't really like open headphones that much is what I discovered I spent a lot of time with my HD 5 v 5s and then I switched over to a closed set after discovering that doesn't really work that well for me these are outstanding with a person standing less than a meter away from me like I can see lips moving can't hear a thing when all the features are enabled it's running now one of the first things my wife asked me and she's incredibly fussy about headphones we found like one pair ever that she'll have on her head which is sennheiser pc 350s and she says they're quite comfortable the one thing for her was the bend at the top so for me it's less of an issue for her it's a problem and she said these are phenomenally clear for wireless headphones like just unbelievable with Beats and any other active noise-cancelling headphones I've encountered in the past there's a discernible hiss it's annoying I just pause my music now I know there's a discernible hiss there's no hiss if anything the active noise cancellation actually enhances the listening experience on these now I just tried it for four balls and yes in unpowered mode with the three and a half mil Jack it is not the same experience as when they're powered however what I discovered is that you can run them that like if you were to just use them like at your computer you can just plug them in for power you can get a nice loooong micro USB cable you could easily use them that way and then when you want to be unplugged you just walk away so you can charge them while you're using them and I'm gonna have a really hard time modulating the evolve you move my voice right now because I can't hear a word I'm saying so let's give it a sec turns off it's extremely intuitive to control them using the capacitive touch interface here and what I do like about the materials they're using is it's a soft touch finish so you can see some fingerprints and you can see that kind of stuff going on here but you can easily wipe them off and it doesn't stand out nearly as much as glossy surfaces which drive me personally absolutely crazy and the music's back on now so I'm a to note on you guys here thanks for checking out this unboxing and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos today we're gonna be unboxing the parent Zeke this is not the first product I've ever unboxed from parrot but he's really loud welcome to my unboxing and first look at the parent Zeke now this is not the first time I've looked at a parent product on my channel but I mean I guess the same could have been said of but welcome to 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