we're back in the saddle baby that's right James is back with another earbuds
review been a while Adam took my spot bastard today it's the pixel buds Pro
I'm a longtime pixel user I reviewed the pixel buds back in the first one
remember the neck buds that were connected by a stupid string everyone
hated them oh yeah the to get them in your ear you had that stupid adjustment
too yeah they weren't that great they sounded better than the airpods though
now we've got the new buds Pros with active noise cancelling so this is a
competitor to the Apple airpods Pros
Galaxy buds Pros all the other pros and
of course the Sony wfx m4s okay here we go it's a little egg shaped kind of
aperture lab style case the Box by the
way is it's all paper even this is a is papery now with these kind of things
used to be plastic so that's great less plastic oh cool I really like this kind
of Elemental design language they just have pictures of stuff like you could
find this 10,000 years in the future in like a post language world oh God it's
weird that it opens on both sides and then they spill out uh two sizes on each
side it's very cool though thank you wow these are small the original pixel buds
they were big they were almost twice the size of this these are like the size of
maybe an M&M they're bigger than M&M's but I'm impressed that's a holifa sensor
magnetic lid by the way that's a pretty satisfying good fidget toy when you're
on the bus you're on the sky Train just annoying everyone around you but you can
can't even hear it cuz you got your your buds in that's living okay you got a
small again paper pull tab here for the
L cha so oh it doesn't unfold it's just a literally a little book they want you
to have Android 6 or greater uh especially for the Google Assistant
stuff the the real- time translation stuff open the earbuds case and keep the
earbuds inside tap oh there it is tap
the Google pixelbuds pro pairing notification and follow the onscreen
instructions speaking of the color by the way this is lemongrass there are
four colors also charcoal which is basically black fog which is basically
blue and coral which is coral the device
is ready to be set up let's set it up what's going on it's gone Google pixel
buds Pro connected it's 100% battery and that's right on my home screen is that a
pixel only thing and what happens if I click
it uh if I go back to the home screen it's gone now so it was kind of like a
toast it was just there so I could easily access the menu and shows uh
battery for right and left and usually with this kind of product if you hit
settings rather than having a dedicated app oh pixel puds keep
stopping usually for this kind of product instead of having a dedicated
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
we can see which codex this thing supports right now it's AAC you're not going to get ldac that's a Sony
proprietary one AAC is fine pretty much all truly wireless headphones these days
have Google Assistant usually you hold the button and it goes this though
will let you hail the assistant just with your voice completely handsfree
that's useful if you're riding your bike or something I'll agree a voice match
it's useful my kids can't hail it find
the best fit okay we're going through this is a whole new rabbit hole oh damn
it's playing some cool music it's telling you to stay still yes they
confirm that the seal is good excellent oh cool if you actually enable location
services you can use that to find the earbuds not only can you switch the hold
action from Google Assistant to active noise cancelling but you can specify
which ear that happens on so that's good I'm going to put assistant on the right
and noise cancelling on the left hey
Google what's the weather like outside 26 that's nice all right let's go full
circle and go back to those ear tips it's always medium that's equ they're
smaller than this but these don't look that large for the large ones man these
are small that's crazy small I'm going to keep the mediums on um and they're
probably going to give me a good enough seal cuz my ears aren't huge you imagine
having a normal proportioned face but gaping ear holes they have three
microphones you can also see that there are wind filters over top of these mics
these three mics are beam forming they also have voice acceleration I'm not
sure exactly what that feature means but I do know that they use bone conduction
to help know what noise is your voice and what noise is noise cut through the
signal and noise I believe they have like 11 mm Dynamic drivers there you go
there they are and then you can actually see if I tilt it this way I believe that
is the IR sensor for proximity so that
they pause when you take them out all right I'm going to do my classic insert
and twist and they really just sit right
in the Pina they feel pretty flush to my
head not completely I can still feel them there but not bad I think the
transparency Mode's on right now hello
yeah it was they have a feature where if you pull one out it automatically puts
the other in transparency mode which is pretty cool uh it's a it's a signal to
the people around you that you're listen listening to them and it's probably faster than being like hold on hold it
down transparency mode the transparency mode on these is super subtle though
it's not over amplifying my voice and it's it's not making the HVB super
noticeable now that I put it back in I think thec is completely on I can't hear
the HB at all isolation and seal is I
think it's pretty good what did you say is my phone making noise it
is for the controls the interface which
is something that I'm very particular about I like what they've done they've
done what I would call the standard you've got one tap for play one for
pause double for next Triple for back hold for Google Assistant unless you're
using handsfree and that leaves volume control because they're fully capacitive
you just swipe to step up the volume I'm going to try the interface out once I
get some music playing but I'm going to do that after this message from our sponsor thanks to secret lab for
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I'm not going to evaluate this music right now I'm just going to try this
out okay one shot sh shot it it actually
paused here's what the delay is like
bunk bunk so small delay but that's
basically what you get with these devices now I'm going to try next it
looked like a triple tap but that was actually uh the first one was a Miss 1
two three the Little Tone that it plays when you do a double tap it goes d and a
triple D so that's nice I got transparency mode on right now so I'm
holding down the right yeah I'm just toggling
transparency and a andc I think yeah
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
swiping cuz sometimes with a swipe it'll register as a
tap that worked that worked and both
those swipes I just did they connected with different parts of the earbud first one hit the back the next one just kind
of barely hit the front yeah this is working really well actually in fact I
might go as far as to say this is the the best capacitive kind of swiping
action I've seen on a on a earphone cuz usually it's you really got to make sure
you hit the right spot and everything okay that one paused it I'm getting a
little getting a little Cavalier with the Taps though got got to be a little
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
Basse is pretty low I listen to this song on a lot of different systems and
the base is definitely very like like nice and low on this on this
track that's awesome now one thing they adverti is that they've got this this
kind of dynamic EQ where basically because your ear is more sensitive to
mids and highs Basse doesn't sound loud unless you turn it up pretty loud and so
what can happen is you lose the bass you lose the perception of the Bas as you
turn it down so what these do is boost the base as you turn the volume down so
that your perception of the base is steady I'd say it works I'm at like 90%
this is probably as loud as I would put it at a gym or something if I'm competing with the radio
ah sorry I just had to take one for the team and withstand that noisy volume
just to see how harsh it gets when it's really loud that sounded pretty okay
let's test it with some electric guitar one of my favorite albums ever and this
is the type music that is kind of supposed to be grading so so it'll sound
really grading and bad if you don't have a good system I do find myself turning
up the volume a little higher than I might on another set of earphones like
this is pretty close to Max like a lot of other earphones you only I only ever
have to go like halfway where right now I'm at 75 or 80% so if you're one of
those deaf people who blast it maybe these aren't for you I put some
slash these are awesome I think they sound great for the $200 price point I
have seen some reports online that the Sony XM 4S sound a bit better but those
also cost more these are 200 bucks the Sony's are 280 the airpods pros are 250
thing that they're really compet against is the Galaxy buds Pros which are also
MSRP at $200 but can be got for 180 or
even around 150 on Amazon right now so they're sitting pretty this is a pretty
compelling product I would think I want to test the calls though so can we set
up the fan please is this meant to look like a giant knock to aend did we did we
paint this yeah for that's awesome this is going to test
both noise and wind this has got to be ANC I actually do hear a bit of a hiss
over here but let's give a Jake smell
evance a call and see if he has any comments about this you sound a little
congested yeah how's the sound I'm calling you with the Google pixelbuds
Pros he says it sounds like I'm I'm calling from a phone phone okay how's it
sound now do I still sound clear yeah I'm poined my ear right at the span
right now it's blowing right at me nothing at all
thanks buddy he said that once I turned the fan on it sounded like I was outside
that there was some kind of ambient noise but he couldn't really put his finger on that it was wind he said I
sounded totally clear except for when I stop talking there might be a little
artifact there I guess the noise suppression algorithms are they're
tweaking right like they're cutting out everything when you're not talking then
when you are talking they're letting that in and so it has to just kind of switch between those two states and I
guess there's a little artifact in the on the transition but yeah he said he
thought I was just on an actual phone not using headphones that's great battery life you get 7 hours on the buds
themselves with a ANC on or 11 hours with off and including the case it
is and including the case it's 31 hours
with ANC off and 20 with it on you can
charge by USBC or wireless charging and
a 5-minute charge into the case will give you an hour of playback and then
for the waterproof rating the earbuds themselves are ipx4 which is pretty
standard in this category of product that'll keep you protected from splashes
from any direction sweat if you're using up the gym you will be fine the case
though is ipx2 rated so that test is
actually just 10 minutes of dripping water coming at an angle uh that is at
15 or less degrees I I think they do like four different orientations so it's
not nothing but it they're they're not waterproof don't wear these in the don't
bring your case in the shower don't open it up don't fall in the lake one other
thing I'm not totally clear on how this works but they advertise their of noise
cancelling is being called with silent seal a lot of people get fixated on the
frequency response curves but having a good seal is going to do a lot more to
having good base than the curve being uh
plus or minus 5 DB or something like that now they have this silent seal
thing I don't exactly know what that means but I do know that they have another feature that they advertise as
sensing the pressure that's in your ears and relieving that based on how it all
the environment changes so I'm not sure if that is a subset of Silent seel if
that's what makes silent seel work and I can't really tell the differ differ when I'm switching between a andc and
transparency modes I I don't have like a popping or pressure in the ears so I
think as advertised as far as that goes so pixelbuds Pro then I think I would
recommend them although caveat I didn't show you any EQ tuning in the app or on
the phone and that's because it doesn't exist yet they say it's coming this fall
it'll be a five band tuner don't buy stuff hoping for features to come down
the line wait until the features you want are actually supported and then buy
stuff otherwise you'll be buying a TV and waiting for the VR are for a year
and a half cuz that seems to be how it goes ah before we close this out there's
one other main feature that I want to test which is the multi-point connectivity I'm supposed to be able to
be using these on my phone and then when I switch to my laptop for a call it'll
automatically switch over as long as I previously connected the Bluetooth on that so I wanted know how that works
because it sounds like it could be annoying so let's check it out so now
that I'm pairing with not a pixel I actually have to use this pairing button
on the case hold that for 3 seconds to let it be seen and you can see now the
button has the light has started blinking all right so I got crab Rave going I'm
going I can hear it I'm going to pause it I'm going to close my laptop I'm
going to grab my phone and start playing some music from here it's coming out of the phone
obviously okay it's on my phone that's cool the music is playing on my phone
right now go back to the laptop I couldn't hear this playing
which is good but this I don't see how this multipoint was supposed to work cuz
it just didn't at all tap to open Pixel buds app nothing opens
ah okay I'm going to try one last thing with this uh multipoint thing I'm going
to open my computer I'm going to start a call on it and we'll see if it switches
I'm assuming this is ringing right now but I still am only hearing music so
hello uh yeah it says the Google pixel buds are connected to this laptop I can
still only hear the music what if I pause the music hello Jake hello these
things suck all right oh
no wow the isolation like surprisingly get in this earbuds
updated your case will update when you store your earbuds in the charging case
for about 10 minutes that's kind of cool the earbuds like pass the update onto
the case but that's the Google pixel buds
Pro I think they're pretty cool I think they're worth the money but they obviously have some bugs to work out or
maybe I'm just dumb I don't really care about this multipoint fature anyway but
it'd be nice if it did all the things that claims to do thanks for watching
ShortCircuit guys if you like this video watch some of our other earphone
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