the nothing year twos just released and I know what you are thinking why are you
the one that's looking at them Alex well that is because I bought two of the ear
ones and uh both of them don't really work right now so we'll talk about that
but first let's have a look at these first thing you notice about the ear
twos is that much like the ear ones they look sweet like you can even just tell
from this box but let's go in here yeah
oh look at those are there any better
looking headphones that are anywhere near this price yeah no everyone's
shaking their heads all the other ones look like beans and I don't know like
you have cotton in your ears weird anyway also in
the box there is one very unfortunate thing as you can tell I've been using
these because uh you have to tear the box to get into it also in here nothing
X app you can click this QR code if you want to go there we have our user guide
let's see here variety of tips you press
once to answer hang up a call Double press to reject it
triple press for wearing detection oh is wearing
detection like in-ear detection like when it's in your ear and you take it
out that pauses it well that's my first
complaint so the in-ear detection of the nothing ear ones was terrible absolutely
awful we'll have a look at it in these continuing down
we have here type c cable this must be a very small type vehicle it is
lengthy one what do you guys think is this worth
including it's the length of the cable the quality of the charge okay the
quality of the charge is zero because there's no charger in here
In fairness it is a pretty nice cable it's like plasticky I'm sure this would
be great to use in your car for a lot of people I would probably never use it for
this also in here
we have different sized tips so we have the small medium comes on it
and then the large so depending on how big your ear holes are you're probably
good and if you want to test for sure I believe now in the app they have a
fitment checker which we'll look at later as I alluded to earlier I have had
a lot of issues with my ear once let's have a little look here first of all the
most obvious one uh this right here
no longer has a shell
it's just gone completely gone David just asked if I was particularly rough
on these headphones and I don't think so I have a lot of wired sets of headphones
that I use as well because they just sound better than Bluetooth ones and all
of those have lasted like some of them are 15 years stuff like
that so here's my list of complaints about the nothing ear ones so first of
all in your detection completely unusable it always pauses when I'm like
doing the dishes or whatever also uh the case of these right here broke within a
couple of months so if you see there's a magnet right here if you look really
closely you can see that it's covered in glue because I had to glue it back in
there because it fell out also touch controls I think I used it once and was
like that was terrible and then never did it again and finally the latency is
terrible you cannot watch videos with these in so they do have a low latency
mode on them but the problem is that you use that and they they just don't work
they constantly disconnect so with all
that in mind let's look at the ear twos and how they have improved it in my
opinion nothing has done an incredible job of the design of this because I feel
like a lot of earbuds in this price price range come with like I don't know
something the size of my fist or something that's like round what you
want for an earbuds case is something that is Slim because if you're putting
it in your pocket like
it's totally fine if it's thin if it's thick it is a bad time now for the ear
twos they've actually simplified the design of the case and made it thinner
as a result it's pretty you can't really tell
but if you look at the way that's manufactured on this one right here
there are three pieces down here so there's a top acrylic bit then sort of a
middle piece with all the electronics and then a bottom acrylic piece
for the ear twos they were able to simplify it and there is a single inner
bit with the electronics and a single outer acrylic see-through piece so you
can see here that right there is the interlectronics part here it's like
acrylic it makes just a tiny bit thinner and probably a lot easier to manufacture
one thing that I was definitely scared about when I first got these is that
over time the case would start to look like trash like you guys have used
anything that's acrylic before it starts getting pretty banged up pretty fast and
these have held up pretty good overall I
think that mine survived a little bit better than my girlfriend she has the
black ones actually oh wait
we have appeal
oh my buds also have a peel
oh when you look at the earbuds themselves
they first of all again look super cool with this transparentness okay don't
quote me on this but I believe that this piece of metal right here
is the new antenna so in the old ones
you can't see it but the antenna was like right up into your ear hole I am
hoping that by moving the antenna outside of my ear hole and instead
transmitting you know like Wireless signals through the air instead
of my head this will be much better at staying
connected to my phone and just sort of challenging environments overall getting
them in and out of the case is extremely easy here you see like okay this one's
the red one there's the red thing there boom goes right in love it we have a
single USBC connector for charging and a
little button right there for pair the ear twos also support wireless charging
which is a cool new feature did these have that they do oh wow I didn't know
that turns out both of these support wireless charging I should get a
wireless charger so this right here is good for 36 hours of playback in like
four to six hour chunks but this case is
only 1.87 Watt hours such a small battery okay how much do
these weigh for the weight first we're going to do the ear ones so here we go
66 grams not too bad I think the ear
twos are a tiny bit lighter and they are 61 grams lost just a tiny bit I don't
think you're going to be able to notice that in your pocket but
it is nice to know enough screwing around though I want to actually listen
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here is already paired but I'll just click it and a thing comes up asking me
to connect I have connected setup
oh wow it did it okay we're in the app
set up this device now the way that you input on the ear twos is very different
to the ear ones so on the ear one you would tap on the outside so one tap did
nothing two Taps was paused three Taps was next song and then swiping up and
down in theory did volume but in practice did not now I have actually
been using these for about a week at this point and the noise canceling
is a little bit of a mixed bag in my experience so it does a really good job
at cutting out the lows but the highs
are kind of still present now you can
see this the Labs actually went and did testing all the noise cancellation and
you can see that it just curves out a whole bunch of the low frequencies and
then above 1K basically the noise cancellation in this is doing
nothing this is completely different to something like
the airpods where you can literally like play drums with them and don't they
aren't actually earplugs but you can so it makes stuff like the
carburetor instead of like normally a carburetor kind of sounds like
whereas when you have these and it's more like
you only get like the little treble notes of like the rice grains pinging
off the side or whatever you don't hear the like
anyway all of that is to say I am very curious if the personalized ANC will cut
out some of that treble for me or if that's just kind of a flaw with these
so start test oh we need to make noise
so it says to check the ambient noise level it needs to be above 50 can
someone like thank you Jake for that incredible sound
for our test here
thank you all right the personalized ANC was
not better just different so it just
sort of changed which frequencies I was able to hear coming from that Jackhammer
as opposed to eliminating that Jackhammer now in the
past for noise cancellation on the ear ones your options were noise
cancellation or no noise cancellation whereas here we have a lot more options
so you can go from high medium low and
adaptive so it is nice first of all to just have options of how much noise
cancellation you want you don't always need the full amount but adaptive is
particularly interesting because say you're going to work on the bus the
whole time that you're going there you aren't going to want to like fiddle
around in the app turning noise cancellation levels up and down and so
on and so forth but you don't necessarily need the full amount of
noise cancellation the whole time so this right here when it's like sitting
at the bus stop adapt is probably not doing a whole lot and it's going to
greatly improve your battery life on these hop on the bus and it's going
around there like making all those cool little diesel term
noises it's going to be taking that adaptive voice cancellation rate up
getting those out of there and hopefully you're just having a good time while
saving a little bit of battery life in here for noise control we also have
transparency mode which in my experience is terrible and off hearing use pretty
good very very much hearing like the HVAC
that's up there not so good they need to be a lot more
selective and what makes it through the transparency mode instead of just being
like I think you want to hear your fridge yeah let's see okay button
hold it noise cancellation good
transparency also good
please go to off it didn't
let's see controls can we change it
oh we can do it we can do it look at this look at this
transparency you go away off
thank you nothing I do really appreciate the amount of control they give you over
what your various stuff does in this double pinch oh they have a bunch of new
ones my memory of the ear ones I would very simply describe it as
base so the overall sound signature pretty
good but a lot a lot of extra bass that
is sometimes very fantastic if you're listening to like drum and bass or hip
hop sometimes not so good if you're listening to Jazz and all you hear is
for the ear twos there's three massive
improvements that they have done so first of all they have two separate
Chambers in here so for the first one they had a single chamber you know you
have a diaphragm there's going to be an amount of air behind that and how much
air there is kind of it acts as a spring for the speaker and that allows you to
get your lower notes and sort of how clean when you get below where that
resonates it's gonna get distortion on the ears too to help with that they now
have two cavities in there sort of opened it up you space that was already
there that can act as like the spring for the driver and apparently that helps
also completely new controller so this right here uses a much more high-end
controller for the ANC and Sound Processing and stuff and finally this
supports high-res audio for the most part hi-res audio doesn't really matter
but in certain situations if you're listening to I don't know Super
198 bit remastered version
you might hear a tiny bit more if you're in a completely silent room ear tubes
play
way better way better to ten times better
just totally different experience the
difference is absolute night and day and it's pretty easy to tell why from the
frequency response curve one disclaimer the ear ones that I have are used and
over time your ear junk gets crammed in
and that makes the trouble worse in your earbuds disgusting but just note that
these might have had a little bit more trouble from the factory that said
though way too much bass so we have our
Target curve here in white and then the base is eight nine decibels more at 20
Hertz it is pretty overbearing especially when you combine it with mids
and treble that just fall below the line
pretty much for the entire time this
leads to a sound signature that unless you're listening to Big Wubs is pretty
terrible so you kind of mostly hear the bass guitar and the whole thing feels
almost like claustrophobic because you're just getting the bass you're not
getting much trouble and so it has this sort of like clamping feeling on your
head if that makes sense at all the ears too are just so so much better
so here we have it
to base than you might want but just a tiny bit and the treble is pretty much
bang on for the entire time it took me
like two three notes to just be like oh that's
complete game changer for these guys now
the most annoying thing about the ear ones though is that like they have a
full-blown app it should be very easy to save these by just adding a tiny bit
more trouble and cutting a bunch of low end instead though you had the option of
standard and then more bass so it was either only
Wubs or only only Wubs
one thing that I was going to say is that while using the ear twos I have had
zero problems with the in-ear detection even though that was a massive problem
on the ear ones but uh looking at it here it's just off
by default and before if I did this it would without a doubt stop
foreign they're still going great
all right there's a couple other things in here that I can do to potentially
make these sound even better your tip fit test
start I just made a little sort of a noise and uh apparently I have
a good seal on both earbuds personalized sound profile
you're hearing your sound okay so what the personalized EQ test seems to be
doing is it's playing just like white or
pink noise and then slowly putting in a
beep of different frequencies so we started out at probably somewhere right
around 2000 Hertz with the beep and then brought it up to pretty ear splitting
Maybe
yeah up to somewhere around 12 000 Hertz which was yes rather ear splitting
and so it was trying to figure out how I am able to find like the trebley details
versus just like normal noise
I am a little bit surprised honestly but they were able to restore like a little
bit of the hi-hats by doing that that I wasn't really hearing before okay one
they said that they had an equalizer I was really hoping for something a little
bit better than this so you're able to just sort of move this blob around for
mids or trebles or whatever I guess you
would be able to do a little bit in this if you're thinking like with the ear
ones you could very easily be like bass let's just turn that down a bit and you
probably would be happy but realistically I'm just going to
leave it on balanced because it sounds pretty good there and with any luck low
latency mode actually works ShortCircuit there's a new video Let's
watch that three mechanical keyboards
okay there is definitely still a tiny bit of latency but it isn't too bad
let's turn off low lag mode go back
oh that's terrible that is like unwatchable
so yes low lag mode it seems to work I
didn't have any trouble there and even though I didn't really really test it
our building is about as terrible as you can get for Wi-Fi interference so the
nothing ear twos let's have a look at my problems with the ear ones and see what
they've fixed so can't use any ear detection that is fixed I have been
using them for a week haven't had that be a problem once and with the year ones
it was constant like actually unusable for me
uh the case broke on my girlfriends and
the earbud broke on mine but they have new glues and apparently that has been
fixed it was a known issue and it's all been solved
uh the case being flaky on my girlfriends
unsure we are going to have to just hope that when they went from a team of like
20 30 people when they made this to a
team of 400 people when they made this they uh solved the probably just poor QC
problems with this touch controls always sucked that is vastly improved having a
little pinch seems to be way more reliable than the touch that there was
before and also there's the problem of like when you touch it you are pushing
it into your ear so it's kind of
and now when you pinch it it doesn't do that great Mike no longer works on mine
uh we'll see hopefully their QC is better
massive latency on the old ones they have fixed that it seems my final
complaint is the price so the only reason that I bought the ear ones was
because they were cheap and they looked cool and now they are 50 more expensive
which is kind of a problem but in talking to nothing they've had at least
a good reason which was mostly uh they didn't have enough of them
so the ear ones they saw that they made
however many they made and they were like oh crap
are going to be releasing the ears 2 next year and we thought that we had
enough stock to get there but we don't so uh we're gonna increase the price
hopefully they last until then and then we won't just have things sold out for a
bunch of months instead
full out anyway but now the new ones
with the greatly improved sound the new
controller and hopefully better build quality
I I think it's pretty decent so I'm
gonna be giving these a go I'm gonna give nothing one more chance because
making products is very hard and it does
what I need to do and if you want something that sounds better uh get an
actual DAC and wired headphones I think it's really stupid to buy
expensive earbuds because all of them become trash in two years anyway
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