airpods pro for 250 bucks no way
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them newfangled earpods three
all genuine 100 real
guys just kidding it's me regular riley these are all fake super fake but are
they real enough that they could trick someone into thinking they're real
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after covering knockoff airpods max we received a package with a letter
attached dear LTT those old and outdated replicas
you've tested are like buying a dell pre-built when you want a gaming pc they
sent us two clones that they claim are as good as the real things airpods pro
at 55 and airpods 2 at 35
and something they didn't even mention in the letter airpods 3 clones at 42
to see if these can pass as genuine we took these boxes to our resident apple
expert jonathan horst without opening the box
uh you know what i have to say no because
i reviewed these and i remembered how fake the real box looked
oh yeah this is totally real
yeah yeah that's a dead giveaway
what's the giveaway probably the csa logo
because that's canadian and we're in canada and they have to put that on
there there is a difference in the print quality
oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it's like this is like inkjet this is like a laser so i'm
i'm opening these up you can tell the difference uh
already but just with the way the the light the indicator light is inset
on the device well i guess it really depends on
whether or not you've seen a real pair
if you've seen a real pair yeah you'd be able to tell immediately
particularly with the way the mesh is if it was just based off product shots then
yeah you probably you might be like oh yeah that looks pretty convincing but
that's the thing with these knockoffs is you start questioning yourself and you
start questioning reality yeah if you wanted if you wanted to just look like
you're wearing airpods out on the street no one no one would be the wiser but how
do they sound to test we got a few people from around the office and ran an
experiment my name is ethan i'm lloyd chase i'm
sarah i write for Channel Super Fun i've been working on like a lot of like really
cool t-shirts um i'm supposed to be an event coordinator i am a graphic
designer go to LTT Store if you're interested in seeing some of the
projects that i get to work on our subjects will now listen to each pair of
headphones while blindfolded and we'll choose which pair of airpods they think
sounded better they'll also tell us how confident they are in their decision
with a value from one to five with one being a wild guess and five being
complete certainty
my instant reaction is just i can't hear the outside world more and
i do like that for if i'm trying to enjoy music oh i feel
it feels like my ears are plugged it's like just richer and fuller
definitely the noise canceling is something you notice as soon as you put them in yeah uh which is cool i don't
know about these with my pros that i
have usually when i hear the white noise and put them
back in it goes away but for some reason i can still like partially hear the
white noise if i can't tell the difference between any of these then i spent way too much
money on my headphones i could have just bought the old ones here's your right
here's your left it's kind of quieter but i don't know if it's just actually
quieter um i would say the base is definitely
much more over prominent i couldn't really tell a difference at the moment
other than they were just a little bit quieter i could even tell you that these ones i don't know if they i would say
they don't go in your ears easily these sound terrible
they have like almost a static coming from them
i'll pick the first one based solely on the sound i like the first pair i
thought it sounded uh just like a touch better the first one and i'm five i'm
like on a scale of one to five i'm five
okay i'm five i would say like a one on that one uh
two i am yeah one out of five confidence not very confident but there's something
there wow unsurprisingly everyone chose the real airpods as the better pair but
none of our subjects were confident in their answers with two of them saying it
was a coin toss the sole outlier was sarah who was very certain the real ones
were better but her confidence rating may have been skewed by some errors
encountered during testing apparently it's disconnected uh-oh do you need them
back hmm you don't usually have to do this with apple airpods
they sound the same i don't know if i'm crazy they sound maybe a bit less bassy
but um they know they're the same i couldn't couldn't tell you uh they're
very light they're i would say they're comfortable i
definitely can hear a lot of sound from outside there's a little bit less bass
on them at the moment i would say that i don't really notice much of a difference
at this time this is the right earbud this is the left ear bud all right
i don't know if it's just a problem with my ears but so far the fit is like
better on the right ear i would enjoy this i would there's a lot
of bass uh the sound from this is much fuller
yeah i think i feel like this one is not
as well made as the first one so far the only difference i really noticed was
just like a ton of bass i don't mind a ton of bass um but i don't usually have
it cranked so for me when there's a lot more bass on new headphones it's a
little jarring sometimes they sound good yeah like yeah i feel like i'm at a
concert but i can't see anything it's actually better than my airpods i feel
like my airpod pros i would say i'm very
certain that i like the second one better the confidence levels are
terrible i'd say two out of five in confidence i'd be like a two maybe
five out of five i'd say my confidence is like a 4.5 out of five wow a clear
winner the 35 knockoffs actually beat the real things
that's pretty crazy to my ears they have a bit more oomph to the base that the
real airpods lack but it comes at the cost of precision with kick drums
sounding more full but less punchy other than that the tuning is virtually
identical to the real thing now we have one more device to test but
in the seller's defense they didn't intend for these to be sent along with
the others and well the results speak for themselves
they sound pretty average do you want to turn it up like all the
way it's way too loud these ones
don't fit as nicely in my ears i'm running out of things to say these are
just the normal headphones i still enjoy them and
still don't care oh god
i would say i notice a difference on these even right away part of it is
probably the way that it doesn't fit in the ear quite as well as the other ones
and it sounded a little bit off or different than the other four pairs
i don't know if you're pausing it but it keeps connecting in and out in and out
in and out i heard a little static like
beeping like i don't know how to describe it but
sounds like these got like sat on personally i liked the first one better
i would say five 3.5 i'd be like that's
like a four out of five for sure i 100 i
would pick the other ones that i like them better because they don't have a weird
static sound also the left ear played music in the other ones i am five out of
five confident that i like the other headphones better these suck
big oof the fake pods three did terribly
every single test subject agreed with relatively high confidence that the
replicas were much worse they had some electrical noise
we couldn't get them to connect to our iphones only to Android devices also we
couldn't get our case to charge via cable or magsafe so these are already
dead thanks for producing actual junk
jenny i hope no one actually wastes 42 bucks
on these things and don't waste money buying a new controller just because the
joysticks are drifting we're gonna be fixing a bunch of broken controllers for
an upcoming video so get subscribed so you don't miss it now those first two
pairs those are nothing to sneeze at if imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery then apple should be very very flattered they sound good they look good
but do they work good first let's look at the feature parody
magic pairing worked for all the clones battery life was acceptable but worse
than the real things recharge time was fine wireless charging worked on all the
cases except for the airpods 3 which wouldn't charge at all but battery of
reporting was wonky with the replicas they would like just die suddenly while
reporting 18 battery life
the case battery life on the fake pros seemed good but on the fake twos the
case seemed to constantly be draining and we weren't sure why maybe a
reporting error due to the knockoff chipset the active noise cancelling on
the fake pods pro when listening to music was pretty good but without music
there was a slight hiss and a not so slight bass rumbling that was literally
headache inducing as for the find my network while all the devices can be
located using gps you can't make the headphones chirp or use any of the other
find my features spatial audio and magsafe
nope touch controls on the fake pods too terrible they basically don't work the
fake pods pro you need to squeeze the stem so firmly you will almost certainly
pull them out of your ear plus all the fakes tended to suddenly stop connecting
to iphones and require a soft reset and here's the real fun part if you want to
update the firmware on either of these you need to have an Android device
download an app from the play store use that to sideload an apk download the
firmware open it in the app and then slowly update over bluetooth that's if
these companies even bother to release updated firmware for these chips it's
not fun but on the plus side the app has
an eq and lets you turn on anc on the anc less fake pods too so you can make
this happen oh it's beautiful even though these
products may have competitive audio quality and crazy low price tags fake
pods 2 are a full benjamin cheaper and the fake pods pro save you nearly twice
that we still aren't going to recommend them or even tell you where to get them
i mean you can probably figure it out using the info in this video and novice
googling skills but we don't feel comfortable supporting the reptronix
industry with its consumer hostility and regulation dodging if large companies
like apple and samsung struggle to suss out human rights violations in their
supply chains huh imagine what these nameless faceless companies could be
doing and look at the fake pods 3 you could just end up with garbage
literal garbage instead we'd recommend spending that
cash on some high quality budget true wireless headphones that we will have
listed for you down below but people don't want that they want
airpods the question is why do people
want airpods so bad that entire communities have emerged specifically to
procure knockoffs well even though audiophiles may not care what their
headphones look like tech is fashion now
and like luxury clothing brands apple has gone to great lengths to make their
products feel like an exclusive club green bubbles versus blue bubbles lock
in features like airdrop and facetime the entire apple ecosystem serves as a
purposeful class divide if you aren't wealthy enough to pay the entry price to
join that club well you're stuck with the Android plebs and their weak ass
open standards and basic text messaging
but a pair of knockoffs could be the fake id that tricks others into thinking
you are part of those chosen elite so
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video we did on the fake airpods max headphones
what a saga this has been