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hey what's up guys I'm Kip EHD here and this is a quick review of the j-bird x3 the super portable Bluetooth wireless earbuds connected by a wire unlike the more expensive and also delayed Apple earpods the X threes are definitely an incremental improvement to the X 2's which makes sense because it's not like there's smartphones where there's new features to add every year so these will be very familiar to those of you who have seen the X 2's or even the original jaybird bluebloods X which is fine because those are also both pretty good so first off 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 the X 2's and they're a bit shorter and also a bit lighter which helps with comfort and the most important part of this back is that they're now flat on the back so the X threes are now what I'll call hat proof so while the X 2's had a sort of a rounded bulbous back that would stick out of your ears more the X 3 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 earbuds that works better or if you ride like a motorcycle I 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 curved which helps with the fit and they were already pretty good at not falling out of my ear but this helps even more and the sort of passive seagull that it 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 the comply foam that molds to your ear and gives you an even better seal there also again this soft touch plastic finish instead of the glossy from the originals which again I'll take matte black wherever I can get it Plus now there's a little bit more metal to bolster the build quality the previous buds 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 can only hear a bit of a difference I say the biggest difference I heard and sound with the x3 s is this slightly wider soundstage like a little better instrument separation which is cool to hear but overall the sound profile from the X 3s lows mids and highs are very similar to the familiar X to s if not a little bit more detailed but obviously these can't be audiophile grade comments 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 use they sound great what you can now do though is use the 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 of 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 all these sound signatures to choose from so that's pretty dope so the one thing that can be considered either an upside or a downside or both is the new controller and battery instead of being built into the earbud itself now the battery is in the controller so you will still get roughly 8 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 it works fine you line up the pins and click it into place and start charging like that it's full size USB so it works pretty much anywhere the original did but now the downside here is you can't forget this little charger cable you got to 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 a 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 j-bert X 3s is the price so when the jaybird X 2's were first launched they were about 170 $9.99 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 liked them then the jaybird freedoms came out and they were $1.99 99 you know a little bit more expensive and they're starting to encroach 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 X 3s to follow suit well they don't these X threes are launching at 120 999 that's already a great price for an improvement over the headphones that launched for 180 bucks so that's dope Thank You j-bird for that and then again one of my favorite things about when they launch new headphones is the old ones go down in price so now you can get the X 2's for somewhere around 80 bucks so I'll leave a link to both of those pairs of headphones right below that like button if you want to check them out and maybe get yourself into some wireless audio for the holiday season the price I think is awesome I'll leave a link to the freedoms as well I did a full review on them I don't recommend them as much as I recommend these I definitely prefer these but if you're curious I'll leave that too and that's pretty much it thanks for watching this review and also for those who have been asking and curious yes the Google pixel review and the iphone 7 review are both upcoming give me a second that's been it 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