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If you're of the belief that bigger headphones are always better, then Bowers & Wilkins has a surprise for you with the P5 Wireless Headphones. They're small - they don't even cover your ears - and they're not flashy but the P5 Wireless are great nonetheless, with astonishing rich sound in a compact package. Review by Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
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oh come on come on come on
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Oh oh hey Dave Taylor here hang on hang
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on hang on
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okay so Dave Taylor here and yeah Here I
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am I'm one of those guys that pulls out
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my little tablet and actually watch
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sporting events and I do this often
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while I'm actually working on another
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device now here's the thing is audio
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right so I've been using and this is
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vast
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overkill I've been using the Bowers and
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Wilkins p5 wireless for my audio side of
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things and let's just put aside the
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track event it's all leading up to the
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Olympics which is cool and let's talk
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about these headphones because these are
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deceptively small little headphones they
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fold up and they become very small right
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very small profile here and the fact is
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these are great headphones they sound
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really really good and in fact the first
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time I put them on I was really taken
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aback by just how rich the sound was and
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just how much bass there was because
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they're not those full you know cupping
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over your ears they don't close out all
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the environmental sound around you they
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just have a whole pile of OOP there's a
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lot going on on these little very modest
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headphones that make these a real
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superstar and if you look online people
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are nuts about these things the Bowers
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and Wilkins P fives now these are the
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wireless ones but they've done so much
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attention to detail and to me the real
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great trade-off is that it's just so
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small they're just really easy to travel
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they're easy to fit into my bag and you
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know I have other headphones I've been
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using for travel and they just they'll
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be like this wide and these flattened so
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much that they just fit very neatly into
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my bag and no hassle and obviously
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they're wireless and they're bluetooth
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aptX which means it's a higher audio
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quality and these actually run about 17
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hours on a charge which is super easy
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and they basically you just go ahead and
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put them
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head and all the controls are on the
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right-hand side so I guess if you're
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left-handed you have to sort of get used
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to doing that but I'll give you some
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close-ups on the side there are three
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buttons we got our volume up/down and
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then the middle button is a
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multi-function so you can do pause play
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and then with slightly different
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variations you can do things like answer
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an incoming phone call or skip tracks so
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very easy and then on the bottom of the
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right-hand one there's the microUSB port
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for charging which is obviously helpful
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and then there's this button that
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actually I've never really encountered a
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button like this because it slides to
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power on power off and then you can push
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it to actually go into bluetooth pairing
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mode so it's kind of interesting to have
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it be dual function but in practice you
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really don't have to pair it very often
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anyway so works out great and it's super
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responsive even the buttons are
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responsive so if I have it on and I
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slide it to turn it off I just get this
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nice little doo-doo-doo-doo and it off I
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mean it's like instantly the whole thing
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reacts really crisp and of course the
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most important thing about any
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headphones is the sound and I wish I
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could have you hear these because
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they're really pretty blow you away good
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sound here and again you look at this
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and you think these are pretty dinky
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little headphones I can go and buy like
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these fancy beats from Apple or
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something and they're much bigger much
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more cool-looking but these are really
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really good I really like these in fact
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these have become my headphones of
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choice on my mobile warrior computer kit
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and I was obviously listening to some
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sports here on television via my laptop
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etc but of course most of the time I'm
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actually listening to audio and
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listening to music and I just love these
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things these are just the greatest
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little headphones now to be fair they
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come with a price tag so how much would
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you pay for these Bowers and Wilkins b5
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Wireless what oh no no they're more than
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that so these are 399 bucks but good
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news is that if you go to Bowers &
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Wilkins com
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ours - Wilkins dot-com they're actually
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on sale right now for 349 and that's the
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same price you can find him at Amazon so
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I think 349 is actually just their sort
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of market price instead of their
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manufacturer's suggested retail 349
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bucks is a lot of money for a pair of
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headphones but these are beautiful pair
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headphones and I really really like them
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and I think you would too if you checked
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them out so this is Dave Taylor and I
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think I got to get back to the Olympic
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preliminaries going on here so I'm gonna
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have to catch you in my next video
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