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An unboxing and review of the Urbanears (Urban Ears) Plattan headphones
Mar 13, 2025
I ran across UrbanEars at CES 2011 and really like what I saw at their booth. I love all the headhphone colors they offer and their minimalist design angle—they're like the American Apparel of the headphone world. Here's a quick unboxing and review of the (Green) Urbanears Plattan headphones with iPhone control and microphone.
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hey everyone Aon Elijah here cam.com
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welcome to another episode of comtv in
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this episode of comtv I'm going to be
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talking
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about Urban
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ears platan platins I knew I was going
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to get that name wrong the urban ears
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lines are unique in that they come in a
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variety of colors their attention to
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detail is really nice their packaging is
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nice the materials in the headphones are
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nice they're designed in a very
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understated way so I thought what I do
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here is a quick unboxing so you can see
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what's inside the box and then I'm going
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to put these things um through the test
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for about a week or so and report back
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on the things I like things that I don't
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like so you can decide if you would like
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to spend your hard earned money on a
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pair for yourself all right let's get
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this box open so we got the front
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here got the
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back oh that's kind of
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cool
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wow I like the way this box opens and it
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looks
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like this little piece comes out like
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this the uh stereo cable um and then um
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microphone adapter that you can put on
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there this one is for the neutral
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plug and
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uh noia compatible oh these are uh
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designed in
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Sweden this makes much the Nokia
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compatible cable makes much more sense
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now then
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a little catalog in here all right so
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I've been using these Urban ear platens
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for about 3 to 4 weeks now the Judgment
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these are really good allaround
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headphones yeah they look good they
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sound good too the highs and mids uh
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sound true they sound good the lows
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usually sound good it will depend on the
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type of music that you're listening to
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sometimes they kind of sounded a bit
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muddy that's a problem with a lot of
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different headphones didn't really irk
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me that bad a couple of cool features
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are built into these that are worth
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mentioning um you get a little iPod
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iPhone control right here with a button
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so you can control your uh your tracks
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and pausing and all that type of thing
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and it also has a microphone so
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hypothetically you could use these for a
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phone call um on your iPhone or your
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iPod or whatever that really sounds good
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in theory but it doesn't work so well
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because because none of your own voice
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is going to get piped into these so what
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ends up happening is because these are
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kind of sound isolating which is good
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when you're listening to music is you
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can't hear yourself so you end up
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talking really loud not so cool
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especially if you're in an office or
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something so I would probably use these
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uh for a phone call and a pinch but
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other than that that feature doesn't
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really do it for me oh one more cool
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feature little audio jack right there uh
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so if you're watching a movie on your
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iPad watching a movie on your iPhone and
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somebody wants to listen to it with you
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or watch it with you all they need to do
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is plug right in boom now you both have
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the same audio this could be really cool
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if you're listening to music with
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somebody you could chain these along and
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look ridiculous but it'll work great I'm
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sure I love the design of these things
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everything on here looks really good
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there's little details like this little
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uh this little Jack right here on the
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tip even the bands that that are on here
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match the color on this some of you are
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going to think that's ridiculous I
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really like it it shows attention to
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detail the Box is really nice you may
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not care about that I really like that
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too but the most important thing is they
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sound good they're great allaround
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headphones I would definitely recommend
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these I will put some information in the
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uh in the post on how you can get a pair
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of these yourself I'm Aon Elijah guys
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this has been a cult to mac review
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thanks for watching and I will see you
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guys next
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time
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