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so much to unpack it's OnePlus Nord that's their value brand buds 3 Pro

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there's no non-pro so why are they called Pro is it because they have

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active noise cancelling in the truly Wireless earbud world does the word Pro

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simply mean active noise cancelling and if so do we have apple to blame for that

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I don't know if my hands are really greasy right now but I am streaking up everything this is kind of cool it's got

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a sparkly look to me that means recycled plastic I don't hate that at all more on

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that later what else is in here oh it's like a clam shell it's me is this their

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logo what is this guy who is he the Labs did open this package up before these

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silicone ear tips were in a little packet and a charging cable with OnePlus

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red it's a to c and it's really short

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this is as about as short as they come on the bottom of the case we have a

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pairing button and a USBC port and then

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you can see the lid is mat it's not speckled this is brand new plastic

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baby decent feel pretty small case and

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the buds themselves stem design oh but they're tapered they're kind of chungus

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on the ends that's different it's glossy near the ear and then the stem is more

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of a soft touch there are three microphones on each earbud there's also

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you can see the kind of pogo pins for the charging that's where they make

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contact with the case oh you can definitely screw up which one goes where

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and when I plugged them in I had charging light on the front oh it's

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yellow actually there are three microphones on

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each earbud there's one of the bottom here there's one at the top of the stem

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and then there's one right by the driver there and interestingly there's also an

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indicator for this being the right earbud and that is a hole probably a

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vent for the drivers they come in two colorways black or Jade it's kind of

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green I think the design language overall for some reason is giving Smurfs

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to me they're just kind of bulbous they don't go very deep in my ears

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which could be related to an issue that I'll tell you about a little bit later

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as far as the feeling of them being you know on my body and not going to fall

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out they feel secure they're IP 55 rated

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so that's pretty good on the dust support um lots of your phones just

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don't even certify the Engish protection for dust and debris five is the second

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highest you can get for that and then for the water protection a lot of

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earbuds just have four which is splashes these have a five which I believe is jet

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sprays from all angles um the next level

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up would be submersion they're not ready for that the buds

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themselves nine 38 for the case 50 for

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the total on the nose that's wow it's

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like they plan that trying the large tip it actually doesn't feel like it's

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sealed any better than the medium I think the problem here is how how far in

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they go not how girthy or narrow the tip I chose was the app does have a fit test

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that we will do later first I want to see how they sound and how they tested

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get $5 off all right we are paired up and ready to to groove baby

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ooh they get loud oh these are

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basy I usually don't turn your phones up to the max while I'm doing these videos

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cuz it's usually unbearable um this is not unbearable that doesn't mean that

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they don't go super loud it could just mean that they don't get super harsh and

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uncomfortable at loud volumes I mean they're definitely loud enough you're

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going to be able to drown out the crappy music at the gym with your own crappier

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music of course at the volumes they're going to leak sound a little bit too for

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the people around you now let's check out how they measured you can see that

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the frequency response is kind of v-shaped there's a big bump in the base

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and an even bigger bump in the Trello but one thing to note though is when we plugged these into the ears of our

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mannequin head that tests earphones and then we ran the app fit test we could

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only get a fit of average not a good fit we got good fits on our own years but

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not for the mannequin head and so that

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kind of shakes our confidence and our test results a little bit if if it had a

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better seal it may have had an even bigger bump in the base over here around

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60 HZ which would make it even more v-shaped and maybe even more base below

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40 HZ we don't know this for sure that's just a charal interpretation of what

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maybe could have happened the app does offer three different EQ presets the

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default is balanced but you also can increase the base that's the red line on

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the screen here or you can turn on serenade which is weird because it

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lowers the Bas but keeps the treble the same you might think that's getting it

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towards being more natural because on the balance profile the Bas is

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overcooked however since it just makes the graph more and more skewed it might

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actually sound less balanced to you so summing up the sound profile you're

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going to hear base kicks are going to be really prominent vocals are really

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forward the mids are kind of depressed a

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lot of people will like these but if you're after a neutral sound these are

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just not very neutral control out of the box let's take a look at the controls

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and the app you can adjust the controls independently on both left and right by

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default single tap does nothing which is actually not uncommon because it helps

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reduce in inverted Taps double tap is for the next song triple tap is for the

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previous song and long touch press and hold does nothing and by default they

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are completely symmetrical so I guess for plain pause they just want you to

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take it out of the ear that's kind of crazy I'm going to turn that on to oh

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play and pause it's the only option they give you for single tap when you hit it

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you do get a tone like me options for double tap way more okay you can also

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make that play and pause previous or next you can do the voice assistant or

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game mode interestingly you can't make

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triple tap play and pause they just think that's preposterous and here's the

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volume controls long touch can go volume up or volume down I would put down on

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the left and up on the right let's see how well that works oh wow that takes

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forever to engage and then the steps are pretty slow too when you hit it it

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actually gives you like a 32 one go kind of sound in your ear it goes beep beep

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boop now it is adjusting that is so weird it's like it has to unlock before

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it's going to start adjusting the volume it just takes so long I would I would

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never use that imagine someone comes up to talk to you and you're like hold on a

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second let me just turn this down hold

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on this s is still pretty loud okay now

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I'm ready like all noise canceling earbuds these days they have the

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transparency mode off and active noise cancelling but these ones actually have

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different levels of noise cancellation mild moderate and Max and we did some

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measurements but just with Max it's not the strongest active noise cancelling

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we've ever measured but again we had that seal issue and that could be at

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play in particular you can see around 40 60 htz range that it's really not doing

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very much compared to just having your earbud in with the active noise

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cancelling off just treating them kind of like earplugs that's what what the

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green line is you can see that the red active noise counceling line is actually

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higher than the passive green line from around 1,000 to 2500 htz meaning that

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the active noise cancelling actually blocks out less sound than just having

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them in your ears in this range and this is something we've seen before we're not

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sure what the mechanism is there but it's not unique to these buds OnePlus

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advertises up to 49 DB of active noise cancellation we don't know at what

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frequency that claim is from we only got you know not even 30 um again grain of

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salt because we didn't have a great seal in the mannequin I'm calling it that now

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let's do a mic test now the phone has been taken away so you know the sound's

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coming through the earbuds you can see rolloffs at the very high end and then

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also around 100 Hertz or 200 HZ and that

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that is actually normal you want the base to roll off a bit so that the

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people on your call don't hear all the Rumblings around you the reason that it

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rolls off at the high end is actually just because of the way the Bluetooth

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works but this is how the mic sounds I've just done a fit test and I found

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out using the medium siiz tips I only get an average seal on both years but if

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I wear the bigger ones I get an average

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seal in this year and a good seal in

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this year cuz my head ain't symmetrical

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in terms of battery life little bit crazy 5 and 1/2 hours on the buds and 20

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hours including the charging case if the ANC is on which normally I would would

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say I'm going to have that on all the time however since thec doesn't really

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do that much and in light of what I'm

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about to tell you I might just have it off when thec is off the battery life

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like more than doubles to 12 hours on the buds and 44 hours with with the

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charge case and the buds that is a crazy proportion usually it doesn't get that

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much better jeez and if you charge him for 10 minutes you get 11 hours of

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playback again with NOC that's a

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that's just silly let's talk price for $80

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us honestly I think I'd rather buy the cmf buds instead they're cheaper they

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come in more fun colors they got that cool dial on the case which I don't care

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about but just overall they sounded better uh there's I don't see a reason

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to buy these instead of those sorry OnePlus that might hurt a little but if

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you can't get the cmf buds these are

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okay I just I think you can do better they're okay I don't love the seal I

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don't love the look they're kind of just

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they're kind of meh but they're only 80 bucks they don't feel very Pro yes they

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have a ANC kind of I'm going to just

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call these the Nord buds 3 come at me OnePlus thanks for watching guys if you

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haven't seen our cmf buds video go check that out save your money