Hi! I'm Ethan Green from nosleeplessnights.com, and in this video I'm going
to be doing an unboxing and review of the Lavince Bluetooth fabric headphones.
These are relatively inexpensive; I paid $20 for them, so even though I'm not
expecting them to have the most incredible speaker quality, I am hoping
that they're going to be comfortable to wear in bed - especially when you're
sleeping on your side. So in this review, I'm going to test them compared to over-ear
headphones and normal earbuds as well. They've also been designed with sport in
mind. But if I'm honest I'm not the kind of person that would wear fabric
headphones with buttons on my forehead in the gym because I just don't want to
look like the only Android in my gym basically. So I'm going to really focus on
the sleep aspect. So without further ado, let's go to the table, unbox them, charge
them up, and then I'm going to test them over a few days so I can give you a
really thorough opinion of how well they work or not.
Okay, so let's unbox the headphones. I'm not expecting to find too much in here
unless they managed to hide an entire Android outfit inside this tiny box, but
I somehow doubt that! So let's have a look. Turn it around and open the top here. Oops, I always manage
to break boxes when I undo them! Okay, there we have a charging cable,
the headphones, some instructions I guess. There's the hello bit. Okay so let's have
a look at this first. You've got a welcome message, some tips, connecting - how
to connect with the Bluetooth. Use iPhone for example - if that's an example, I assume
you can use it with Android, otherwise I'm going to struggle to do this review. And
the basic operations. Okay, I'll have a look at those a little bit later. So the
charging cable - it looks like we've got a micro USB to USB. So here we have the
buttons on the front I was talking about earlier. This is the reason that I
won't be wearing them in the gym. I'm sure not everybody would either. So what
have we got on the buttons here? We've got what looks like a play, a pause,
and a plus and a minus which I'm assuming is going to be for volume and
potentially changing track as well. They're quite thin, but I'm noticing immediately
on the other side there's not much padding. And inside it looks like there's a
plastic component. So I'm wondering automatically if I sleep with this all night, whether
it's going to leave a rectangular print on my forehead. So I'll definitely be
testing that over a couple of nights. And then looking around the actual mesh, what
else have we got? Okay, so here is the outlet to charge it. I'm going to have to do that
in a minute, otherwise I'm not going to be able to demonstrate it at all.
I'm just looking - that's another plastic component then that's going to be inside
there and without a lot of padding either. So that's going to be on the back
of your head, which if it does leave some imprint on the back of your head
or next to your hair, at least it isn't going to be as visible as on your forehead. But
it's definitely something I'm going to look out for. Now, the fabric itself - it
feels very soft. It's quite nice and smooth. I can't see any tag which tells you what
the actual material is, but this looks like a lightweight mesh. And I know from
looking on their website that that's what they say it is. Presumably to help
with breathability, especially if you're doing sports or even if you're sleeping
in a relatively hot country. let's have a look through the instructions and see if
it says anything about what the fabric is made from. The Welcome, tips,
connecting, Bluetooth, advice, basic operations, power on, connecting, releasing
a call. Oh yes, it has incoming calls, which is going to be interesting. You can
release or reject a call, and talk to people while you're lying in bed with
your eyes closed which might be nice. Volume up and down, previous song, next
song, music on, pause. Nothing about fabric. Charger and battery. I do believe that
you need to charge this for two hours. There we go - takes two hours to fully
charge the headband. So I'm going to have to do that now before I even try it and
test it out. That's interesting - provides about eight to ten hours of talk
or music time, or 100 hours of standby time. That's definitely going to be enough
for using it when you sleep. Troubleshooting, notes, notes about fabric - nope.
How to clean - that's good. Launder - that's good, you can put it in
the washing machine. Hang it up to drain, no bleach. After sales service. Okay, so nothing
about the material. So I'm going to guess that it's a relatively cheap polyester
kind of fabric, maybe with some elastane or viscose. I'm not quite sure.
But anyway, let's charge it up and then give it a go.
And I've now got them fully charged, so let's try and connect them to my phone
with Bluetooth. I believe the way to do that is to hold that button down for
three seconds and the flashing lights tell me that it's ready for pairing. And
then let's go into my phone, turn the Bluetooth on and see if I can find it.
Hmm none of those. That's the one - BT-FAAH.
Pairing - I don't know if you could hear that, but I just heard a little voice
coming out of the headphones saying connected. So that's that.
Now before I actually put them on, I'm gonna just turn some music on and see if
you can hear it through my microphone, which is always an interesting test. Well
I can hear them from here. Turn the volume up - okay, so it's pretty quiet.
I've got my phone on maximum volume. let me bring them a little bit closer
Incidentally, I didn't really look at the speakers earlier. I'd like to
say it's because I was waiting for this bit to turn them on and show you them, but
actually I just forgot which is kind of incredible when I played back through the
video!. So anyway, here's the speaker closer up.
And I would really need to bring that off the camera closer to my microphone
so that you can hear it. So I'm just going to do that for a second. To be
honest, you probably can't really tell very clearly, and you're going to have to
rely a little bit on me wearing them and then telling you about them. But in terms
of the actual speakers you've got one on each side. You can put them over your
ears roughly. It seems like there's a couple of little bags here they've been
sewn into. I played around with them earlier. You can kind of slide them up
and down, which means that potentially they'll slide out of place in the night. But
it means that you can put them right over your ear. And similarly to the Box
on the front and the charging clip on the back, it means that there's a little
plastic thing with not much protection that's going to be on the side of your
head. So now I'm going to have to wear them for a couple of nights and see what
happens when you wear them. Do you get Dents on the side of your head and
on your forehead or not? Okay let's put them on then and see what they feel like
to wear and listen to.
I thought I'd give them a good
test before I continue the video, so I've actually been lying here for half an
hour now, listening to different kinds of music and radio, and changing
positions. And so far, I've found that they're really comfortable, both on my
back and on my side. And even on my front which isn't my natural position, but you
can wear them comfortably in any position I found. And particularly on your side, which is
what I was most interested in. I mean, to be honest you can feel the speaker
underneath your ear. It is a plastic casing after all, and the mesh isn't too
padded. But you can lie on them quite comfortably on your side, which is
obviously great compared to normal speakers, which I'll show you in a minute.
Now, where the music quality is concerned I've been really quite impressed. I wasn't
expecting them to be very good for twenty dollars. Many speakers of that
price that I've tried, whether it's a pillow speaker or headphones or normal
speakers, really distort when you turn them up or when you've got bass music
playing. But these have been really quite clear. And I think if you're listening to
soft relaxing music, radio or a podcast in bed at night, they're going to be
absolutely fine. Perhaps if you like listening to rock or techno or heavy
metal in bed then you might be a bit disappointed. But for soft gentle music
they're just great I've found. Now compared to normal headphones, let me
show you the difference. If you've got normal in-ear headphones like these AKGs
- I won't plug them in to save some time - then you can feel them in your ear,
perhaps more than the headband, but not that much different. It's just kind of a
different sensation really. The problem with these though is if you change position in
the night, they tend to fall out. I know some people don't like having earbuds in
their ears all night long anyway, so I guess that's a personal choice where
comfort is concerned. I think the headbands are slightly more comfortable. Now, when it
comes to over-ear headphones, it's a completely different story. If I put
my giant Avantrees on, one thing is if you're on your back you can't move your
head much anyway because they're so big they kind of keep it in one position. If
you try to sleep on your side, or even just lie in bed listening to music,
it's just about impossible. You would need to cut a hole in your pillow or get
a doughnut shaped pillow I think to have any chance of lying on your side with
these things! So the the Lavince headband is definitely going to be preferable to
even the most expensive over-ear headphones. So I guess now I
need to test them out for a few nights and then I can get a full impression of
how they are and complete this video with my final verdict. So I've now tested
the Lavince headbands for a few nights and I'm happy to say that my first
impressions are pretty much spot on. I do think that they're really comfy
and the sound quality is really excellent for such a low price. I'm
really quite impressed by them. I didn't go to the gym wearing them, but I did
take them for a run and what was interesting was that they do stay in
place and they're really breathable, which is a good thing. However I also
don't want to run around looking like an Android and I also don't quite
understand why they've decided to sew the word 'enjoying' into the front, just
above the buttons. I find that really unusual. Now, in terms of pros and cons,
just to give you a really quick overview. For me, the pros are the fact that it's
comfortable to wear when you're lying in bed, especially on your side. It's
breathable. You can use it with Bluetooth, which means that you don't have a cable
in bed. They can be washed - I tested that and checked. It took me just over a
minute to remove the components and just under four minutes to put them back.
It is a little bit fiddly, but it can be done. And it's nice that you can clean
them safely without damaging any of the internal components obviously. Then the
fact that they're really cheap. Just twenty dollars I think is really good,
especially considering the music quality. In terms of the cons. As I've already
mentioned the fact that they've got the word 'enjoying' and buttons on your
forehead. That makes it for me, perhaps I'm too image-conscious even at my
ripe old age - I don't know - but I'm pretty sure the 20 year old me wouldn't
have wanted to wear these down the gym either, so I still stand by that one. And then
there's the fact that they do this strange thing when you reach the maximum or the
minimum volume where they emit a beeping noise, which when you're lying in bed is
kind of unnecessary I think. Almost as unnecessary as the word 'enjoying'! And
then my final criticism is actually about the controls. I personally don't like it
when any device has the same buttons for the track changing and also the volume.
Despite my criticisms, I still think that the Lavince headphones are actually
really worth it if you're going to be listening to music or radio podcast in
bed. I think that they do that job really well. And for such a low price, I think
that they are much better than I would have expected. When it comes to sports, as
I've said many times, I wouldn't recommend them. But perhaps you're not
as self conscious as me and you think that they're actually going to be
useful - especially if you run in the dark! But yeah, overall I think that these are
definitely worth trying - in the house. So thanks for watching. I hope that you
enjoyed this video. If you're interested in buying them, you can find a link in
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