 What's up guys? This is the Ring MU6. It's an open-air wireless headset. I've reviewed a lot of headphones and they consist of in-air, on-air or over-air. This is the first time I'm reviewing something called open-air which uses air conduction. This is slightly different to bone conduction headphones which kind of uses vibrations through the skull to allow you to listen to your music. So let's go ahead and take a look at these headphones. Right, so these are the headphones. They are IP55 waterproof so it's perfect for extreme weather or sweating but obviously I wouldn't recommend submerging them in water and they are very light. It's only 35 grams so they can easily be kept on for long periods of time but since it is made of plastic and doesn't have any form of soft rubber or memory foam padding it can probably start hurting after having it on for a few hours consistently but I do like the design. As you can see you can pretty much twist it and it is very durable, it's flexible, it doesn't feel like it's going to snap. On the right hand side you can see there's only a single button. Now this button controls everything from powering this on and off to your music playback to volume controls, skipping tracks, answering and ending phone calls etc. You have this tiny little flap here if you just open this up. Now this is where you'll have the micro USB charging port. The playtime is around nine hours and it can charge fully in about one and a half hours but on standby mode you can probably have up to 200 hours which I think is great. It's a shame it's not USB-C but it does give you a long enough battery life to be able to enjoy these fully. Now just looking at the side pieces this is the speaker this rotates up to 120 degrees so the speaker there will actually face towards your ear and this is actually a one-size-fits-all design so you can't actually adjust the length of the headband. This is all fixed but it's tight enough to basically fit any size head. Again you just twist the other one and this is actually how it will look when you put it on. So it's very straightforward and it's very easy to do. The first time you turn this on it will go into pairing mode and of course you just find it in your Bluetooth settings, hit pair on the Ring MU6 and then you're ready to go. If you are going to use this to take phone calls or even connect this to your laptop to take online meetings the microphones are pointed at the bottom of these side pieces so that's really good because it's the direction of your mouth whereas the side speakers are for the direction of your ears. So it's a very well thought out design. Let me go ahead and just put this on. I'll put it fully like this so you connect it place it just on top of your ears and then you twist it downwards and this kind of locks it into place so it's ideal if you want to go running but this is perfect for those people that want the full flexibility of having the environment and ambient sounds around them if that's a really key thing for you and sometimes a lot of people when they use headphones all day long it does start hurting your ears regardless of whether it's in ear, on ear or over ear. This one you can pretty much eliminate that worry because it's not going to be sitting anywhere on top of your ears or really touching them to the point where it's going to start hurting so I think that's a really convenient thing. Design wise you know I think it looks quite good and I really like the fact that I can just have my ears open it's quick and easy to put on and I don't need to fiddle about getting the tightest fit within ear headphones or anything like that. So that's really great. Now the one thing I want to do is now test obviously the audio quality so I'm going to connect this to my phone and then play some sample music but when I do that I'm going to let you know how the quality of the audio is and also how much noise leak it is and because it is open ear conduction people will be able to hear if you have it on loud volumes so that's one key thing to be aware of so if you're going to use this in an office environment where there is people around you or maybe you're in a place maybe on a public transport then other people might be able to hear this and this might not be the best headphones to have in that scenario but if you're on your own you're training in the gym you're going for a run you're just in your own home office this is perfect for that so let's go ahead and pair this and I'll give you a review on the audio. Okay it's just connected now my shotgun microphone is just above my head here so try to hear if you can hear a lot of noise leak and how clear it is I will have it around 70% volume but then I'll pause it and then go up to 100% volume to see how clearly you guys can hear it as well let's go ahead and play this song 70% okay now I'll go to 100% okay so that wasn't too bad it's actually quite loud and it is quite clear now obviously there's no bass so you're not going to get really punchy music because it is using open air and the audio is basically dispersing into the air while it's trying to go into your ears as well but if you are going to use this maybe for your meetings I think it's more than capable to give you really good audio now one other audio test I like to do is to hear what the person on the other end of a phone call were here to see how clear the microphone is so let me go ahead and play some sample audio using this okay so this is an audio coming directly from the Ring MU6 I've connected it to my MacBook Pro and I'm just recording this into a voice recorder so can you guys tell the difference is it quite clear I've had a playback and I think it's quite impressive to be honest so I have a lot of meetings all day remotely I can see myself using this and rather than using maybe some poor internal microphones on laptops or maybe you have some cheap headphones this does an excellent job and the flexibility of having it as a wireless one I think it's so convenient now as a lot of people are working from home these days they will also have the headphones in for quite a long time as well and that could start hurting your ears I can see myself using this because one it wouldn't start hurting my ears that much and two the flexibility of having a wireless headphone like this to just slip on quickly connected straight away and having a long battery life is just convenient for my work day before we wrap up I just want to show you the different controls with the buttons in the user guide and then what else comes in the box as well so let's go ahead and take a quick look at that inside the box you get the micro USB cable you have this nice carry pouch as well so you don't need to worry about folding this in any way you can just stick it in there and take it with you in your backpack you have yourself the quick start guide then you got a set of three reflective shield stickers so if you do go out at night time you can actually stick this to the back of the headphones so there's a slot just there you can put one of these reflective strips just on that as well just to get a bit more visibility let's take a quick look at the user guide to show you different controls for the buttons there you go you guys can go ahead and pause the video if you'd like to see all of the different functionalities that you can use with the button and sometimes simplicity is actually quite good where you can just have a single button to do multiple things you don't need to feel about buttons on both sides or anything like that and finally I just want to talk about a little bit of the downsides for me it's a shame that it's not usb c and it is micro usb but nonetheless it does give you really good battery life so I'm not too fast about that secondly if you do maybe want to use this if you ride a motorbike and you want to put a helmet on it would be quite a bit of a struggle to make this comfortably fit inside your helmets it might start knocking it even if you'd like to wear a cap for example it might get in the way a little bit and you can see you can't push the hat all the way down you'll have to put it outside of the headphones and it's a little bit fiddly and also for those people that wear glasses it might also be a little bit fiddly as well because this sits in the same position as your glasses do so you need to get your frame of your glasses and slot them underneath the ring headphones so it's a little bit of a struggle I would put my glasses on first and then try to just position this on top of it so now the headphones are actually just sitting on top of my frames of the glasses and they're not basically touching any part of my head you'll still be able to hear it but it's not secure anymore and I feel like it might slip especially if I do any workouts or any running with this setup so overall I think it's worth the price because this comes in at around 40 pounds I'll leave a link in the description below if you guys want to check it out it is quite convenient if you really struggle with having in-ear on-ear or over-ear headphones for long periods of time this might be the solution I'm not a big fan of the bone conduction headphones that really send the vibration through your skull you know I think the concept is works for a lot of people but I just feel like I don't want to sit there for long periods of time sending vibrations through my skull but open-ear seems a little bit more reasonable so I think this is a really good stop especially for a future generation of headphones that might use this technology so definitely check it out any questions as usual drop a comment down below if you did like this review and you like other headphone reviews or just generally all things tech I have a couple of new episodes out every week so make sure you subscribe so you don't miss those ones make sure you like this video and I'll catch you guys next time take care