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we're back in the saddle baby that's right James is back with another earbuds

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review been a while Adam took my spot bastard today it's the pixel buds Pro

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I'm a longtime pixel user I reviewed the pixel buds back in the first one

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remember the neck buds that were connected by a stupid string everyone

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hated them oh yeah the to get them in your ear you had that stupid adjustment

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too yeah they weren't that great they sounded better than the airpods though

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now we've got the new buds Pros with active noise cancelling so this is a

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competitor to the Apple airpods Pros

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Galaxy buds Pros all the other pros and

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of course the Sony wfx m4s okay here we go it's a little egg shaped kind of

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aperture lab style case the Box by the

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way is it's all paper even this is a is papery now with these kind of things

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used to be plastic so that's great less plastic oh cool I really like this kind

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of Elemental design language they just have pictures of stuff like you could

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find this 10,000 years in the future in like a post language world oh God it's

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weird that it opens on both sides and then they spill out uh two sizes on each

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side it's very cool though thank you wow these are small the original pixel buds

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they were big they were almost twice the size of this these are like the size of

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maybe an M&M they're bigger than M&M's but I'm impressed that's a holifa sensor

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magnetic lid by the way that's a pretty satisfying good fidget toy when you're

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on the bus you're on the sky Train just annoying everyone around you but you can

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can't even hear it cuz you got your your buds in that's living okay you got a

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small again paper pull tab here for the

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L cha so oh it doesn't unfold it's just a literally a little book they want you

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to have Android 6 or greater uh especially for the Google Assistant

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stuff the the real- time translation stuff open the earbuds case and keep the

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earbuds inside tap oh there it is tap

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the Google pixelbuds pro pairing notification and follow the onscreen

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instructions speaking of the color by the way this is lemongrass there are

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four colors also charcoal which is basically black fog which is basically

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blue and coral which is coral the device

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is ready to be set up let's set it up what's going on it's gone Google pixel

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buds Pro connected it's 100% battery and that's right on my home screen is that a

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pixel only thing and what happens if I click

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it uh if I go back to the home screen it's gone now so it was kind of like a

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toast it was just there so I could easily access the menu and shows uh

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battery for right and left and usually with this kind of product if you hit

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settings rather than having a dedicated app oh pixel puds keep

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stopping usually for this kind of product instead of having a dedicated

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app they'll just have the settings right in the Bluetooth menu which is pretty cool but it's going to be a bit limiting

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we can see which codex this thing supports right now it's AAC you're not going to get ldac that's a Sony

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proprietary one AAC is fine pretty much all truly wireless headphones these days

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have Google Assistant usually you hold the button and it goes this though

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will let you hail the assistant just with your voice completely handsfree

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that's useful if you're riding your bike or something I'll agree a voice match

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it's useful my kids can't hail it find

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the best fit okay we're going through this is a whole new rabbit hole oh damn

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it's playing some cool music it's telling you to stay still yes they

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confirm that the seal is good excellent oh cool if you actually enable location

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services you can use that to find the earbuds not only can you switch the hold

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action from Google Assistant to active noise cancelling but you can specify

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which ear that happens on so that's good I'm going to put assistant on the right

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and noise cancelling on the left hey

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Google what's the weather like outside 26 that's nice all right let's go full

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circle and go back to those ear tips it's always medium that's equ they're

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smaller than this but these don't look that large for the large ones man these

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are small that's crazy small I'm going to keep the mediums on um and they're

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probably going to give me a good enough seal cuz my ears aren't huge you imagine

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having a normal proportioned face but gaping ear holes they have three

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microphones you can also see that there are wind filters over top of these mics

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these three mics are beam forming they also have voice acceleration I'm not

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sure exactly what that feature means but I do know that they use bone conduction

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to help know what noise is your voice and what noise is noise cut through the

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signal and noise I believe they have like 11 mm Dynamic drivers there you go

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there they are and then you can actually see if I tilt it this way I believe that

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is the IR sensor for proximity so that

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they pause when you take them out all right I'm going to do my classic insert

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and twist and they really just sit right

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in the Pina they feel pretty flush to my

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head not completely I can still feel them there but not bad I think the

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transparency Mode's on right now hello

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yeah it was they have a feature where if you pull one out it automatically puts

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the other in transparency mode which is pretty cool uh it's a it's a signal to

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the people around you that you're listen listening to them and it's probably faster than being like hold on hold it

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down transparency mode the transparency mode on these is super subtle though

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it's not over amplifying my voice and it's it's not making the HVB super

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noticeable now that I put it back in I think thec is completely on I can't hear

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the HB at all isolation and seal is I

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think it's pretty good what did you say is my phone making noise it

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is for the controls the interface which

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is something that I'm very particular about I like what they've done they've

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done what I would call the standard you've got one tap for play one for

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pause double for next Triple for back hold for Google Assistant unless you're

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using handsfree and that leaves volume control because they're fully capacitive

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you just swipe to step up the volume I'm going to try the interface out once I

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I'm not going to evaluate this music right now I'm just going to try this

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out okay one shot sh shot it it actually

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paused here's what the delay is like

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bunk bunk so small delay but that's

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basically what you get with these devices now I'm going to try next it

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looked like a triple tap but that was actually uh the first one was a Miss 1

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two three the Little Tone that it plays when you do a double tap it goes d and a

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triple D so that's nice I got transparency mode on right now so I'm

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holding down the right yeah I'm just toggling

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transparency and a andc I think yeah

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okay so both ears are doing the same thing this music's pretty damn good though I got to say that let's try the

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swiping cuz sometimes with a swipe it'll register as a

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tap that worked that worked and both

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those swipes I just did they connected with different parts of the earbud first one hit the back the next one just kind

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of barely hit the front yeah this is working really well actually in fact I

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might go as far as to say this is the the best capacitive kind of swiping

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action I've seen on a on a earphone cuz usually it's you really got to make sure

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you hit the right spot and everything okay that one paused it I'm getting a

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little getting a little Cavalier with the Taps though got got to be a little

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bit careful but it's pretty good let's react to the music I got to put on some tunes that I know yeah I'll say the

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Basse is pretty low I listen to this song on a lot of different systems and

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the base is definitely very like like nice and low on this on this

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track that's awesome now one thing they adverti is that they've got this this

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kind of dynamic EQ where basically because your ear is more sensitive to

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mids and highs Basse doesn't sound loud unless you turn it up pretty loud and so

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what can happen is you lose the bass you lose the perception of the Bas as you

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turn it down so what these do is boost the base as you turn the volume down so

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that your perception of the base is steady I'd say it works I'm at like 90%

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this is probably as loud as I would put it at a gym or something if I'm competing with the radio

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ah sorry I just had to take one for the team and withstand that noisy volume

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just to see how harsh it gets when it's really loud that sounded pretty okay

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let's test it with some electric guitar one of my favorite albums ever and this

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is the type music that is kind of supposed to be grading so so it'll sound

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really grading and bad if you don't have a good system I do find myself turning

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up the volume a little higher than I might on another set of earphones like

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this is pretty close to Max like a lot of other earphones you only I only ever

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have to go like halfway where right now I'm at 75 or 80% so if you're one of

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those deaf people who blast it maybe these aren't for you I put some

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slash these are awesome I think they sound great for the $200 price point I

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have seen some reports online that the Sony XM 4S sound a bit better but those

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also cost more these are 200 bucks the Sony's are 280 the airpods pros are 250

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thing that they're really compet against is the Galaxy buds Pros which are also

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MSRP at $200 but can be got for 180 or

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even around 150 on Amazon right now so they're sitting pretty this is a pretty

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compelling product I would think I want to test the calls though so can we set

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up the fan please is this meant to look like a giant knock to aend did we did we

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paint this yeah for that's awesome this is going to test

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both noise and wind this has got to be ANC I actually do hear a bit of a hiss

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over here but let's give a Jake smell

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evance a call and see if he has any comments about this you sound a little

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congested yeah how's the sound I'm calling you with the Google pixelbuds

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Pros he says it sounds like I'm I'm calling from a phone phone okay how's it

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sound now do I still sound clear yeah I'm poined my ear right at the span

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right now it's blowing right at me nothing at all

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thanks buddy he said that once I turned the fan on it sounded like I was outside

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that there was some kind of ambient noise but he couldn't really put his finger on that it was wind he said I

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sounded totally clear except for when I stop talking there might be a little

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artifact there I guess the noise suppression algorithms are they're

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tweaking right like they're cutting out everything when you're not talking then

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when you are talking they're letting that in and so it has to just kind of switch between those two states and I

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guess there's a little artifact in the on the transition but yeah he said he

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thought I was just on an actual phone not using headphones that's great battery life you get 7 hours on the buds

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themselves with a ANC on or 11 hours with off and including the case it

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is and including the case it's 31 hours

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with ANC off and 20 with it on you can

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charge by USBC or wireless charging and

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a 5-minute charge into the case will give you an hour of playback and then

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for the waterproof rating the earbuds themselves are ipx4 which is pretty

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standard in this category of product that'll keep you protected from splashes

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from any direction sweat if you're using up the gym you will be fine the case

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though is ipx2 rated so that test is

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actually just 10 minutes of dripping water coming at an angle uh that is at

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15 or less degrees I I think they do like four different orientations so it's

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not nothing but it they're they're not waterproof don't wear these in the don't

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bring your case in the shower don't open it up don't fall in the lake one other

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thing I'm not totally clear on how this works but they advertise their of noise

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cancelling is being called with silent seal a lot of people get fixated on the

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frequency response curves but having a good seal is going to do a lot more to

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having good base than the curve being uh

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plus or minus 5 DB or something like that now they have this silent seal

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thing I don't exactly know what that means but I do know that they have another feature that they advertise as

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sensing the pressure that's in your ears and relieving that based on how it all

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the environment changes so I'm not sure if that is a subset of Silent seel if

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that's what makes silent seel work and I can't really tell the differ differ when I'm switching between a andc and

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transparency modes I I don't have like a popping or pressure in the ears so I

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think as advertised as far as that goes so pixelbuds Pro then I think I would

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recommend them although caveat I didn't show you any EQ tuning in the app or on

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the phone and that's because it doesn't exist yet they say it's coming this fall

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it'll be a five band tuner don't buy stuff hoping for features to come down

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the line wait until the features you want are actually supported and then buy

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stuff otherwise you'll be buying a TV and waiting for the VR are for a year

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and a half cuz that seems to be how it goes ah before we close this out there's

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one other main feature that I want to test which is the multi-point connectivity I'm supposed to be able to

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be using these on my phone and then when I switch to my laptop for a call it'll

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automatically switch over as long as I previously connected the Bluetooth on that so I wanted know how that works

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because it sounds like it could be annoying so let's check it out so now

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that I'm pairing with not a pixel I actually have to use this pairing button

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on the case hold that for 3 seconds to let it be seen and you can see now the

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button has the light has started blinking all right so I got crab Rave going I'm

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going I can hear it I'm going to pause it I'm going to close my laptop I'm

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going to grab my phone and start playing some music from here it's coming out of the phone

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obviously okay it's on my phone that's cool the music is playing on my phone

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right now go back to the laptop I couldn't hear this playing

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which is good but this I don't see how this multipoint was supposed to work cuz

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it just didn't at all tap to open Pixel buds app nothing opens

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ah okay I'm going to try one last thing with this uh multipoint thing I'm going

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to open my computer I'm going to start a call on it and we'll see if it switches

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I'm assuming this is ringing right now but I still am only hearing music so

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hello uh yeah it says the Google pixel buds are connected to this laptop I can

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still only hear the music what if I pause the music hello Jake hello these

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things suck all right oh

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no wow the isolation like surprisingly get in this earbuds

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updated your case will update when you store your earbuds in the charging case

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for about 10 minutes that's kind of cool the earbuds like pass the update onto

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the case but that's the Google pixel buds

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Pro I think they're pretty cool I think they're worth the money but they obviously have some bugs to work out or

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maybe I'm just dumb I don't really care about this multipoint fature anyway but

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it'd be nice if it did all the things that claims to do thanks for watching

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ShortCircuit guys if you like this video watch some of our other earphone

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reviews sometimes with me sometimes with lonus sometimes with Adam bye