WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:06.960 bose quiet comfort earphones truly wireless 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:10.240 little dynamites from bose here's a product that should have come out 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:12.400 two years ago you would have thought that bose would have been first to 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:17.520 market with active noise cancelling truly wireless earbuds 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:20.560 but they weren't i think sony was and actually that's you would have expected 00:00:19.119 --> 00:00:25.760 them to do it too but this is a quite a long time coming you would have expected bose to have followed earlier 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:30.480 i haven't used these yet i know sometimes i sneak my unboxings with 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:33.520 earphones and headphones and actually listen to them before the episode but 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:37.920 with this i didn't this is a sealed box so let's make that not 00:00:36.559 --> 00:00:45.120 true yeah simple box 00:00:42.559 --> 00:00:49.360 oh okay i thought i had a hinge i like the presentation 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:51.280 simple not a tiny case oh my god do i 00:00:49.360 --> 00:00:56.559 have to actually press this button oh that's okay i mean it's gonna keep it 00:00:54.879 --> 00:01:00.960 closed in your bag better i guess this is kind of a chunk and i already 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:04.080 looked at the bad respects of this thing you get six hours of playback on the 00:01:02.879 --> 00:01:07.200 earbuds themselves and then an additional two charges or 12 hours from 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:11.280 the case and that's not a lot really for the size 00:01:10.240 --> 00:01:16.159 of this case this is not a case that i want to carry around in my pocket um but i can chuck 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:19.920 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 00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:24.320 indicator it looks like i got three out of five dots right now uh but 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:27.360 before i open that up and look at the bills themselves let's go through the rest of 00:01:26.320 --> 00:01:32.640 the box a little presentation stand uh looks 00:01:29.360 --> 00:01:34.960 like there's a quick start guide here 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:37.680 explains the fit explains the controls has a bunch of finished language stuff i 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:42.560 don't care about yeah that's about it safety instructions 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:46.720 really what a waste of paper thanks regulations no one's reading this 00:01:44.720 --> 00:01:53.040 crap ever ever reading that and then we've got 00:01:49.759 --> 00:01:53.360 charging cable usb type c to type a the 00:01:53.040 --> 00:02:00.159 c end goes into this port on your charge case 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:01.600 no wall wart pretty typical this is like 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:07.439 10 inches long or something and then we've got two different types of 00:02:05.520 --> 00:02:11.840 sleeves here these look like different sizes of the exterior sleeves 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:14.879 this is the part of the sleeve that actually is all integrated 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:17.200 this is the left part of it is the silicone ear tip that will go in your 00:02:16.480 --> 00:02:21.440 ear canal try to create a tight seal for base response and passive isolation and then 00:02:20.720 --> 00:02:25.920 you've got the kind of wing tip here that's going to go in this part of the ear 00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:31.280 just to keep it all in place so there's three points of contact on the 00:02:27.760 --> 00:02:35.120 on the sleeve and that appears to be 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:37.280 it hold on secret compartment oh 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:40.320 there's a treasure in there what does this say i can't read what that says 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:43.470 i'm breathing yeah 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:49.280 mind freak all right let's check out the initial setup 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:52.160 using my pixel 4. some earbuds have the pairing button on the charge case 00:02:50.720 --> 00:02:58.080 instead of the earbuds themselves and that's what i prefer and yes inside this glossy box there is 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:01.519 a button with a bluetooth logo beside it here's the buds themselves 00:02:59.920 --> 00:03:06.640 glossy just looks kind of cheap to me but whatever let's try to see 00:03:03.519 --> 00:03:09.200 how do these work downward and twist 00:03:06.640 --> 00:03:09.200 oh wow 00:03:12.800 --> 00:03:19.519 i enjoyed that they played like a welcome sound 00:03:16.239 --> 00:03:21.760 kind of like a thx like this big rising 00:03:19.519 --> 00:03:24.879 uh treble and then a big boom like drop the bass 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:28.239 and it sounded really lifelike and then it said connected 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:31.519 so that's pretty cool this has like a soft touch rubber lid which is nice i 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:36.000 guess that's just really gentle and maybe maybe it would stop a 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have 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:51.600 90 battery which is cool if i hit the settings these days they 00:04:50.320 --> 00:04:54.639 pack a lot of features just right into the Android 00:04:53.840 --> 00:05:00.479 settings menu these zebras in particular there's not a lot here you can turn on and off 00:04:58.400 --> 00:05:04.000 hd audio toggle whether or not phone calls are allowed on them 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:06.240 media audio and contact sharing which i will keep off 00:05:05.039 --> 00:05:10.400 even though this does support the google assistant so you can respond to your text messages by voice and it'll type it 00:05:09.199 --> 00:05:14.639 out and send messages for you without having to open your phone so if i did 00:05:12.479 --> 00:05:19.280 plan to keep these and i wasn't just at work right now working for the man 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:22.479 then yeah i probably would i would do that oh let's see if we can use google 00:05:21.039 --> 00:05:26.800 play music for another couple weeks before it's like officially dead 00:05:24.479 --> 00:05:30.080 not now youtube music oh i love this track 00:05:28.080 --> 00:05:32.800 totally underrated tool song reflection from lateralus 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:39.280 comes kind of near the end almost completely instrumental 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:41.120 now is ac is anc on right now 00:05:39.280 --> 00:05:46.080 these sound pretty good but i'm going to open up the 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:46.800 companion app and see uh how to use 00:05:46.080 --> 00:05:53.759 these things here because they're they're touch that didn't pause it swipe 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:55.840 okay i think i pause it with a swipe use the touch surface to control your 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:59.520 earbuds view product tips in the app to learn about 00:05:57.919 --> 00:06:03.520 touch control ah i gotta sign up i need an account 00:06:02.080 --> 00:06:08.080 continue with facebook what is this innocuous quest two 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:11.120 a allow notifications the only option is got 00:06:08.400 --> 00:06:15.199 it there's no yes or no no you don't need access to location 00:06:13.039 --> 00:06:19.520 what if not enabled the app cannot discover your bose product oh my god 00:06:17.440 --> 00:06:23.919 only this one time thank you Android for exposing detailed location controls 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:26.880 double tap the right earbud to play or pause audio 00:06:25.440 --> 00:06:29.440 so the swipe i did earlier must have just been like an incorrect alright 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:33.919 double tap double tap to pause and play that's kind 00:06:32.479 --> 00:06:37.280 of a waste of an interaction because usually it's just one but i guess it 00:06:35.520 --> 00:06:41.440 keeps false positives from happening so much maybe like maybe i can change that later 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:45.039 though use a shortcut touch and hold the left earbud 00:06:42.400 --> 00:06:48.000 to skip a track so it's a hold or check the battery level 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:50.960 you decide you can customize your shortcut and settings oh that's a bad 00:06:49.840 --> 00:06:55.199 sign to me like i can't just bind any action to any 00:06:53.919 --> 00:07:00.960 interaction i have to like with this interaction there's two options i don't like that 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:03.840 okay so noise cancellation is fully on right now okay and i have a bar here i 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:08.160 can turn it up and down that's cool and i haven't had that on 00:07:05.919 --> 00:07:11.520 like say like qc25s it's just a toggle it's either all on or all off 00:07:09.599 --> 00:07:14.880 but i feel like active noise cancelling and transparency is more important on 00:07:13.520 --> 00:07:19.599 a device like this where i'm gonna be walking around i might be at the office 00:07:16.960 --> 00:07:21.840 i might be in the elevator and like colleagues trying to talk to me and 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:26.800 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 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:31.039 sounds like to me like the mics are actually picking me up my voice 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:34.400 and reinforcing it into my hero so it's actually less isolation than just 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:37.919 the passive isolation and i believe i can do that on the headset itself so let's find out how 00:07:36.960 --> 00:07:44.960 that's done settings okay control in ear detection 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:48.160 autoplay and pause let's try see how quick the auto play and pause is 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:50.639 i've been generally disappointed with the latency on other headphones 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:55.919 particularly like the oneplus ones were pretty bad for that i think the sony ones those like uh 00:07:54.319 --> 00:08:00.960 working out sony ones i covered were pretty bad for that so let's see how good it is 00:07:59.680 --> 00:08:04.639 pretty much similar i think it's just a bluetooth limitation on the website it 00:08:02.960 --> 00:08:07.759 says like it's instantaneous it just pauses as soon as it's these 00:08:06.479 --> 00:08:14.800 advanced sensors detect that you moved it like micro sensors or some crap like that 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:18.479 i would expect that to pause like here 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:20.080 pause like yeah it's a little awkward 00:08:18.479 --> 00:08:23.840 not a deal breaker it seems like that's just the standard so okay 00:08:21.919 --> 00:08:26.240 auto answer call yeah don't leave that on that sounds annoying auto 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:32.080 transparency noise cancellation changes to level zero when you're only wearing one earbud 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:35.279 that's a nice option to have some people just rock one earbud all the time though 00:08:33.760 --> 00:08:38.959 so they would want that off but uh personally that annoys me i hate 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:44.080 thinking that one of my ears is gonna wear out sooner than my other one like you know how like 00:08:42.479 --> 00:08:47.440 your your ears are kind of like like an ocean crashing on a rock cliff 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:51.760 and over time your ability to hear just gets eroded i 00:08:50.160 --> 00:08:57.760 don't want that to happen more to one ear than the other so i i just can't have one in shortcuts touch 00:08:56.160 --> 00:09:01.920 and hold left earbud to use your shortcut oh so you can make your shortcut bound 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:09.120 to your battery level battery 80 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:11.279 or skip to the next track oh 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:13.839 that is not a good sign that's it for controls like what the hell is going on 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:23.200 in here double click is pause it just keeps going quiet for a second like 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:26.720 so okay double tap is pause on the right 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:26.720 double tap on the left 00:09:26.880 --> 00:09:32.560 i think double tap is toggling through the different levels 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:36.800 of noise cancellation yes you can see right here 00:09:33.760 --> 00:09:39.600 i'm full now i double tap boom at half 00:09:36.800 --> 00:09:43.120 i double tap it's gone okay so it's made three tiers by default 00:09:40.959 --> 00:09:46.240 you can access by double tapping okay what if i hold on the left 00:09:44.640 --> 00:09:50.480 oh i already did that that's my shortcut what if i hold on the right 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:54.959 hello google assistant what's up if these are touch then can't i swipe for 00:09:52.160 --> 00:09:54.959 next and previous 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:02.079 why i'm so so disappointed i'm like 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:09.120 kevin's sorbo levels of disappointed right now disappointed why 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:10.079 you gave us touch controls why can't i 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:14.560 like customize what the actions do why can't 00:10:13.040 --> 00:10:18.079 i swipe for next and back that's like so intuitive why can't i 00:10:16.640 --> 00:10:22.240 swipe for volume up and volume down i don't even have the option so 00:10:19.920 --> 00:10:26.079 underutilized i could throw this right now before i get like really rage quit on 00:10:24.800 --> 00:10:28.399 these let me just listen to them a little more 00:10:29.680 --> 00:10:36.399 i'm critically listening don't look at me don't 00:10:32.800 --> 00:10:36.399 uh how loud are these 00:10:36.560 --> 00:10:40.640 so noise canceling off they're still pretty isolating with the noise count 00:10:40.079 --> 00:10:44.720 thing off these go loud oh 00:10:44.839 --> 00:10:50.720 oh it's hurting me now jeez yeah okay they go they go plenty 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:56.079 loud and they don't sound great when you're maxed that's for sure that was like harsh but the base is nice 00:10:54.240 --> 00:11:00.320 and low i know a lot of people don't listen to metal but i always like 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:03.600 to test headphones with it because it is a good test of the highs because 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:10.320 guitars that are loud just sound like crap on crappy headphones so 00:11:06.880 --> 00:11:12.160 let's use uh byob is a is a good one 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:18.720 i like boio because it gets to the point like pretty quick in the intro here 00:11:15.680 --> 00:11:18.720 gotta do the fit test 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:27.120 lies from the tablecloth 00:11:25.920 --> 00:11:32.480 all right the fact that i started having a lot of fun there uh they're good 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:33.839 they're pretty damn good uh but i still 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:40.560 can't really recommend them because they cost 280 dollars 00:11:37.120 --> 00:11:42.560 these are 280 us dollars 00:11:40.560 --> 00:11:46.000 and they're not perfect which is why that's too much 00:11:43.839 --> 00:11:52.160 especially in light of the competition which is like the sony wf-1000xm3s 00:11:49.760 --> 00:11:55.519 are now only 170 bucks and they're not alone at that at that price level that's 00:11:53.920 --> 00:11:59.360 where you find the pixel buds the new ones they're 180 bucks 00:11:57.040 --> 00:12:03.200 that's where you find the galaxy buds live they're also like 170. 00:12:00.959 --> 00:12:07.120 airpods pros are like 330 so so they're 50 bucks cheaper than airpods pro so i 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:10.639 guess bose feels pretty happy about that but honestly these are pretty comparable 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:15.600 to those xm3s from sony which have a smaller and 00:12:13.920 --> 00:12:18.880 more premium looking case like they're way more bougie and i would 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:22.639 feel like way more like when i pull them out like check out my 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:27.200 xm3s like they're sweet they have like two-tone black and copper 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:29.760 these don't look that cool like no one who like wants 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:31.920 air pods is gonna see you with these and be like whoa i screwed up by getting air 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:37.600 pods even though these sound way better they like they don't look that cool 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:40.160 they're kind of like big beans kind of disappointed with that 00:12:38.800 --> 00:12:44.079 i was hoping they'd be a little smaller than the xm3s they're not they do 00:12:42.079 --> 00:12:49.200 sound awesome but the fact that they screwed up the interface 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:52.240 so royally i'll give them this they can probably adjust it in software they 00:12:50.560 --> 00:12:57.680 could probably do an update and give me more controls and they should 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:58.959 boze you should oh you 00:12:57.680 --> 00:13:02.800 take made such a good product you're just devaluing it anyway 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:06.320 if they fix that and if the price comes down by a hundred and 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:10.240 hundred bucks like so they're competitive with that other 00:13:07.680 --> 00:13:12.000 price tier then these will probably fly off the shelves 00:13:10.880 --> 00:13:16.800 and then i'll recommend them because they sound awesome and they're going to have like market leading noise 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:20.240 cancellation as well but until then i just think they kind of botched it a 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:25.600 little bit and this case is just kind of big and clunky they need to get a lot cheaper 00:13:24.160 --> 00:13:29.440 that's all there is to it okay a couple things uh before we go that i didn't mention 00:13:27.760 --> 00:13:31.760 you can charge this wirelessly it's a wireless charging case 00:13:30.800 --> 00:13:36.160 if you have the correct phone like a pixel 5 you could even just put it on there 00:13:34.079 --> 00:13:39.519 get power that way that's kind of cool um they also apply active noise 00:13:37.760 --> 00:13:43.120 canceling to the microphone from the right earbud so i think you'll 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:46.639 have to take calls from the right earbud but uh your voice should sound more clear 00:13:45.040 --> 00:13:51.279 because they'll take out some noise around you as long as it's like predictable noise 00:13:48.800 --> 00:13:55.040 and finally they have volume optimized active eq so what this does is it makes 00:13:54.240 --> 00:14:02.399 the bass still sound present when you're at low volumes and the reason this is a thing 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:04.880 uh is because our ears don't hear all 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:08.000 frequencies equally we are more attuned to the mid and mid high range like where 00:14:06.800 --> 00:14:14.320 human voices live and we don't hear the high frequencies or the very low frequencies 00:14:11.199 --> 00:14:16.000 linearly so when they master a track at 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:20.560 like what's reference volume which is about 85 decibels and it's pretty loud 00:14:18.959 --> 00:14:24.480 the bass compared to the voice is going to be at a nice proportion 00:14:22.320 --> 00:14:27.199 but when you turn down from reference volume 00:14:25.440 --> 00:14:30.560 you're going down the frequency response of the human ear to places where we 00:14:28.800 --> 00:14:34.399 don't hear bass as clearly as we hear a voice and suddenly you're listening to music 00:14:32.800 --> 00:14:37.279 and all you hear is the mids and highs and you don't hear the bass anymore so 00:14:35.920 --> 00:14:40.560 at low volumes you're going to feel like you're there's no bass to your music so what 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:45.600 they do is they have algorithms where they account for that roll off so they boost the base up as 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:49.199 you turn the volume down kind of keeping it consistent across 00:14:47.920 --> 00:14:53.680 volume so that's what that is and that's appreciated it's a feature that you'll find on lots of avrs like 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:58.000 from rants and denon and stuff like that as well it's usually called dynamic eq 00:14:55.519 --> 00:15:01.040 but yeah appreciate it here so yeah i don't hate the product i just kind of 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:04.959 hate the implementation and the price right now but if you don't care about that and 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:08.480 you're a bose fan great christmas great gift why not hey 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:11.519 ipx4 production pretty typical you can sweat on them they'll be fine 00:15:10.079 --> 00:15:14.959 so thanks for watching ShortCircuit today if you like this video 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:20.079 like and subscribe and come back for more and uh 00:15:17.680 --> 00:15:23.440 and i just hope you have a great weekend really 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:27.839 i don't even know you but i i wish every human on earth would have a great 00:15:24.839 --> 00:15:27.839 weekend