bose quiet comfort earphones truly wireless
little dynamites from bose here's a product that should have come out
two years ago you would have thought that bose would have been first to
market with active noise cancelling truly wireless earbuds
but they weren't i think sony was and actually that's you would have expected
them to do it too but this is a quite a long time coming you would have expected bose to have followed earlier
i haven't used these yet i know sometimes i sneak my unboxings with
earphones and headphones and actually listen to them before the episode but
with this i didn't this is a sealed box so let's make that not
true yeah simple box
oh okay i thought i had a hinge i like the presentation
simple not a tiny case oh my god do i
have to actually press this button oh that's okay i mean it's gonna keep it
closed in your bag better i guess this is kind of a chunk and i already
looked at the bad respects of this thing you get six hours of playback on the
earbuds themselves and then an additional two charges or 12 hours from
the case and that's not a lot really for the size
of this case this is not a case that i want to carry around in my pocket um but i can chuck
it in my bag and i'll be able to do that safely because it has this little button uh you can see there's a battery life
indicator it looks like i got three out of five dots right now uh but
before i open that up and look at the bills themselves let's go through the rest of
the box a little presentation stand uh looks
like there's a quick start guide here
explains the fit explains the controls has a bunch of finished language stuff i
don't care about yeah that's about it safety instructions
really what a waste of paper thanks regulations no one's reading this
crap ever ever reading that and then we've got
charging cable usb type c to type a the
c end goes into this port on your charge case
no wall wart pretty typical this is like
10 inches long or something and then we've got two different types of
sleeves here these look like different sizes of the exterior sleeves
this is the part of the sleeve that actually is all integrated
this is the left part of it is the silicone ear tip that will go in your
ear canal try to create a tight seal for base response and passive isolation and then
you've got the kind of wing tip here that's going to go in this part of the ear
just to keep it all in place so there's three points of contact on the
on the sleeve and that appears to be
it hold on secret compartment oh
there's a treasure in there what does this say i can't read what that says
i'm breathing yeah
mind freak all right let's check out the initial setup
using my pixel 4. some earbuds have the pairing button on the charge case
instead of the earbuds themselves and that's what i prefer and yes inside this glossy box there is
a button with a bluetooth logo beside it here's the buds themselves
glossy just looks kind of cheap to me but whatever let's try to see
how do these work downward and twist
oh wow
i enjoyed that they played like a welcome sound
kind of like a thx like this big rising
uh treble and then a big boom like drop the bass
and it sounded really lifelike and then it said connected
so that's pretty cool this has like a soft touch rubber lid which is nice i
guess that's just really gentle and maybe maybe it would stop a vibrating
noise if these are rattling around just go to my bluetooth settings here
and before i they're right there wow as easy as it's
supposed to be that's great i'll press this power button right after
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blinkist right now okay so they're paired it's telling me right in my settings screen that i have
90 battery which is cool if i hit the settings these days they
pack a lot of features just right into the Android
settings menu these zebras in particular there's not a lot here you can turn on and off
hd audio toggle whether or not phone calls are allowed on them
media audio and contact sharing which i will keep off
even though this does support the google assistant so you can respond to your text messages by voice and it'll type it
out and send messages for you without having to open your phone so if i did
plan to keep these and i wasn't just at work right now working for the man
then yeah i probably would i would do that oh let's see if we can use google
play music for another couple weeks before it's like officially dead
not now youtube music oh i love this track
totally underrated tool song reflection from lateralus
comes kind of near the end almost completely instrumental
now is ac is anc on right now
these sound pretty good but i'm going to open up the
companion app and see uh how to use
these things here because they're they're touch that didn't pause it swipe
okay i think i pause it with a swipe use the touch surface to control your
earbuds view product tips in the app to learn about
touch control ah i gotta sign up i need an account
continue with facebook what is this innocuous quest two
a allow notifications the only option is got
it there's no yes or no no you don't need access to location
what if not enabled the app cannot discover your bose product oh my god
only this one time thank you Android for exposing detailed location controls
double tap the right earbud to play or pause audio
so the swipe i did earlier must have just been like an incorrect alright
double tap double tap to pause and play that's kind
of a waste of an interaction because usually it's just one but i guess it
keeps false positives from happening so much maybe like maybe i can change that later
though use a shortcut touch and hold the left earbud
to skip a track so it's a hold or check the battery level
you decide you can customize your shortcut and settings oh that's a bad
sign to me like i can't just bind any action to any
interaction i have to like with this interaction there's two options i don't like that
okay so noise cancellation is fully on right now okay and i have a bar here i
can turn it up and down that's cool and i haven't had that on
like say like qc25s it's just a toggle it's either all on or all off
but i feel like active noise cancelling and transparency is more important on
a device like this where i'm gonna be walking around i might be at the office
i might be in the elevator and like colleagues trying to talk to me and
they're not going to do that if you have a big headphones on but this is nice and if you put all the way down now it
sounds like to me like the mics are actually picking me up my voice
and reinforcing it into my hero so it's actually less isolation than just
the passive isolation and i believe i can do that on the headset itself so let's find out how
that's done settings okay control in ear detection
autoplay and pause let's try see how quick the auto play and pause is
i've been generally disappointed with the latency on other headphones
particularly like the oneplus ones were pretty bad for that i think the sony ones those like uh
working out sony ones i covered were pretty bad for that so let's see how good it is
pretty much similar i think it's just a bluetooth limitation on the website it
says like it's instantaneous it just pauses as soon as it's these
advanced sensors detect that you moved it like micro sensors or some crap like that
i would expect that to pause like here
pause like yeah it's a little awkward
not a deal breaker it seems like that's just the standard so okay
auto answer call yeah don't leave that on that sounds annoying auto
transparency noise cancellation changes to level zero when you're only wearing one earbud
that's a nice option to have some people just rock one earbud all the time though
so they would want that off but uh personally that annoys me i hate
thinking that one of my ears is gonna wear out sooner than my other one like you know how like
your your ears are kind of like like an ocean crashing on a rock cliff
and over time your ability to hear just gets eroded i
don't want that to happen more to one ear than the other so i i just can't have one in shortcuts touch
and hold left earbud to use your shortcut oh so you can make your shortcut bound
to your battery level battery 80
or skip to the next track oh
that is not a good sign that's it for controls like what the hell is going on
in here double click is pause it just keeps going quiet for a second like
so okay double tap is pause on the right
double tap on the left
i think double tap is toggling through the different levels
of noise cancellation yes you can see right here
i'm full now i double tap boom at half
i double tap it's gone okay so it's made three tiers by default
you can access by double tapping okay what if i hold on the left
oh i already did that that's my shortcut what if i hold on the right
hello google assistant what's up if these are touch then can't i swipe for
next and previous
why i'm so so disappointed i'm like
kevin's sorbo levels of disappointed right now disappointed why
you gave us touch controls why can't i
like customize what the actions do why can't
i swipe for next and back that's like so intuitive why can't i
swipe for volume up and volume down i don't even have the option so
underutilized i could throw this right now before i get like really rage quit on
these let me just listen to them a little more
i'm critically listening don't look at me don't
uh how loud are these
so noise canceling off they're still pretty isolating with the noise count
thing off these go loud oh
oh it's hurting me now jeez yeah okay they go they go plenty
loud and they don't sound great when you're maxed that's for sure that was like harsh but the base is nice
and low i know a lot of people don't listen to metal but i always like
to test headphones with it because it is a good test of the highs because
guitars that are loud just sound like crap on crappy headphones so
let's use uh byob is a is a good one
i like boio because it gets to the point like pretty quick in the intro here
gotta do the fit test
lies from the tablecloth
all right the fact that i started having a lot of fun there uh they're good
they're pretty damn good uh but i still
can't really recommend them because they cost 280 dollars
these are 280 us dollars
and they're not perfect which is why that's too much
especially in light of the competition which is like the sony wf-1000xm3s
are now only 170 bucks and they're not alone at that at that price level that's
where you find the pixel buds the new ones they're 180 bucks
that's where you find the galaxy buds live they're also like 170.
airpods pros are like 330 so so they're 50 bucks cheaper than airpods pro so i
guess bose feels pretty happy about that but honestly these are pretty comparable
to those xm3s from sony which have a smaller and
more premium looking case like they're way more bougie and i would
feel like way more like when i pull them out like check out my
xm3s like they're sweet they have like two-tone black and copper
these don't look that cool like no one who like wants
air pods is gonna see you with these and be like whoa i screwed up by getting air
pods even though these sound way better they like they don't look that cool
they're kind of like big beans kind of disappointed with that
i was hoping they'd be a little smaller than the xm3s they're not they do
sound awesome but the fact that they screwed up the interface
so royally i'll give them this they can probably adjust it in software they
could probably do an update and give me more controls and they should
boze you should oh you
take made such a good product you're just devaluing it anyway
if they fix that and if the price comes down by a hundred and
hundred bucks like so they're competitive with that other
price tier then these will probably fly off the shelves
and then i'll recommend them because they sound awesome and they're going to have like market leading noise
cancellation as well but until then i just think they kind of botched it a
little bit and this case is just kind of big and clunky they need to get a lot cheaper
that's all there is to it okay a couple things uh before we go that i didn't mention
you can charge this wirelessly it's a wireless charging case
if you have the correct phone like a pixel 5 you could even just put it on there
get power that way that's kind of cool um they also apply active noise
canceling to the microphone from the right earbud so i think you'll
have to take calls from the right earbud but uh your voice should sound more clear
because they'll take out some noise around you as long as it's like predictable noise
and finally they have volume optimized active eq so what this does is it makes
the bass still sound present when you're at low volumes and the reason this is a thing
uh is because our ears don't hear all
frequencies equally we are more attuned to the mid and mid high range like where
human voices live and we don't hear the high frequencies or the very low frequencies
linearly so when they master a track at
like what's reference volume which is about 85 decibels and it's pretty loud
the bass compared to the voice is going to be at a nice proportion
but when you turn down from reference volume
you're going down the frequency response of the human ear to places where we
don't hear bass as clearly as we hear a voice and suddenly you're listening to music
and all you hear is the mids and highs and you don't hear the bass anymore so
at low volumes you're going to feel like you're there's no bass to your music so what
they do is they have algorithms where they account for that roll off so they boost the base up as
you turn the volume down kind of keeping it consistent across
volume so that's what that is and that's appreciated it's a feature that you'll find on lots of avrs like
from rants and denon and stuff like that as well it's usually called dynamic eq
but yeah appreciate it here so yeah i don't hate the product i just kind of
hate the implementation and the price right now but if you don't care about that and
you're a bose fan great christmas great gift why not hey
ipx4 production pretty typical you can sweat on them they'll be fine
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