galaxy buds plus galaxy buds live
which one's better i don't know how about the one that says
pro at the end galaxy buds pro
obviously the best pro is good unless you're apple and then you have
max i mean if there's anything better than max then you're in trouble
samsung's calling these the they're the best they're supposed to be the best they're 200
uh which right now the plots are like 110 now in the live or like 140 to 160.
um so these are going to be the most expensive right now and
they are supposed to sound the best and they're all premium
let's get into it ah they give you instructions how to put it in
we could all use that got the case itself this is a nice small case
i think this is stupid but two out of three people think this is a worthy test
yeah now these aren't costco jeans so it might be a little smaller and tighter
than linuses but if you're wearing nudies you can get it
in but barely and i wouldn't recommend it it feels like crap no wall wart hazard
tradition usb a2c oh and here we have the silicon
ear tips there are four in this box two more on
the earbuds for a small medium large they come in three colors this is phantom black
i assume there's also phantom silver and phantom violet
so samsung said that these had the shape
of the live which is venular but the inner ear
penetration factor of the plus uh
whereas the live were really kind of
superficial they didn't really go in and so it's supposed to be a hybrid of those
two and to me though honestly they really
just look like a plus like how is this the styling of the live this is not
beanie at all if i'm putting those
in and they're in my ear compared to
it's just like a rounded version of this okay they're not like the live at all
there's a few microphones on the outside of this there's
also i believe one of the microphones is behind this perforated part can you see
that there's a little perforated kind of window and that is supposed to help
as like a windscreen so that you can be in a windy environment and have
a clear voice during calls um just because
it's just less exposed to the elements and it they should be less exposed
uh protrude less from your ear than the plus did
so that also would aid in having a better wind
performance um before even looking at
anything i just want to comment on how they feel right now everyone's ears are
different and i know for me like my left one's different than the right and if a
headphone bothers me it's always in the left right now these don't feel that
comfortable this ear is kind of getting strange it's like my ear holes getting deformed or
something like that i feel like after 45 minutes or an hour it might hurt wow your voice sure sounds
different when i pull these out these are really in there i'm gonna put on the other ones
ah these are so weird where do they go
do they go in like a smiley face or like a rainbow
no go away no
okay these are very clear and conventional
uh yeah these slipped right in i consider these to be pretty comfortable and
pretty basic are they more comfortable than these ones for me
yeah i think the plus are more comfortable the live are just incomprehensible
and these are somewhere in the middle for me your mileage
may vary let's do sound after
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at the link in the video description i'm enjoying the base
it's not like over present but it's like kind of nice and low
there's a hi-hat in this song
and it's not too uh grating or fatiguing right now that's nice i'm not noticing
it let's switch to some songs that have lyrics and stuff
oh everybody wants to rule the world by tears for fears
classic i'm satisfied this isn't a review this is just like a first look
unboxing and what i'm gonna say about the sound is that they are in line with what i would
expect from like these kind of consumer 200 headphone
considering all the other features they have like noise canceling and everything these
like don't immediately suck um so i'm good there i want to mess
around with the transparency and stuff though because these are active noise cancelling headphones and unlike the
lives which were active noise cancelling
these are they're more similar to the pluses that are in your ear so the
problem with these ones was that because they don't really seal
in your ear canal the active noise cancer didn't really do
a whole lot it just took a little off but it wasn't the kind of thing that was
going to help you on a plane ride whereas these i think probably will so
let's do some more tests with that how do i get into i'm going to assume in the settings
menu hd audio aac is the codec we're using
there although there is a proprietary codec
from samsung called scalable which these support let's go into the
where the the where app the galaxy ware app which i already have because i have
a phone i don't see this
earphone on here
dang it bobby the too fresh i won't be able to interact with the
app but i can tell you that i know that in the app you can toggle
um do you want your active noise cancelling high or low
do you want the transparency to be at various levels
i can't to fiddle with that now but what i can't fill with is the actual
touch interface of the headphone itself so let's see how sensitive it is and how
they programmed it i'm not even listening to anything right now and i'm expecting a single tap to
start playing some 80s music there we are
okay the second one of those worked then that is just like a really cursory
rapid tap so i getting a 50
success rate on that i would suggest doing something more deliberate like
that there's about a second of delay press
just stop so you hear a ding and then it
stops uh so it takes a second let's try this hand same function pause
and double tap
next track shout by tears for fears let's do a triple tap
okay that went back uh hold hello
oh okay it went wow and then it turned on transparency so i can hear myself
more or maybe it hello i can't figure out if
it's transparency or just anc off i think that's anc on it made like a
positive like major chord
i can hear you now yeah how is it
i don't think it's transparency mode because the music is still like the loudest thing i think it's just a anc
off okay again this is something that we can't look at but you can
program some of these buttons so the touch and hold
you can activate a preset feature but by default it launches the noise control
feature so i was right unfortunately i'm not able to check out
the level of granularity they give you for
turning features on and off because we saw on some headphones was the razer
hammerheads that were just awesome you could just toggle every single thing to any one of the buttons
it was like completely decoupled that would be ideal but sometimes you
don't see that sometimes you see like with double tap you're allowed this or
this and i don't know why they put you in a cage like that but um
i can't evaluate whether or not this one does that because we're too s
we're too fast oh another thing i was new with these is unlike their previous
models and like i would say what the standard is for truly wireless earphones these do not
have an ipx4 rating these have an ipx7 rating so
is that these can go underwater up to a depth of one meter
for 30 minutes that does not mean that they recommend you swimming with them
but that's what they're rated for the case no
just the earbuds okay another thing that these things have
is if you have the samsung smartthings app there's a new thing called smart
things find i don't think that it's just um for
these earbuds only it applies to many samsung devices but
smartthings find will help you locate your earbuds potentially even if they're not on
battery life between 18 i believe 28 hours total
uh depending on whether or not you have anc on or bixby on because these do
support bixby as a virtual assistant and as you noticed i didn't hail any virtual assistant
while i was touching it it's by voice you say the hot word for bixby
and you can use bixby if you're not using all that stuff you're going to get more time so that's
28 hours total 8 and 20. if you are using that stuff
more like 5 and 13. so that is 61 milliamp hours on
the earbud and 472 milliamp hours in the case and of course as we are used to now
charging for five minutes gets you like what an hour of play time
by the way the reason that these would sound different or that samsung thinks they sound quite
a bit better than the live or even or these other ones is
that they have a different uh speaker design there's not just one driver in here
there are actually two drivers there is a five millimeter driver for the high
end and an 11 millimeter driver for the woofer and um
that's 1.5 times bigger than
what you found in the galaxy buds pluses
so there's just more speaker in there in a head earphone that sticks out from
your head less they also have a couple appley features like multi-device support
within the samsung ecosystem everyone's trying to do this user lock-in thing
so if you're on your samsung tablet you can
be watching the tablet and then your phone rings it'll switch right on to the
headphone without having to do anything um seamless switching they also have a competitor to
spatial audio that's the thing we saw on airpods pro and on
the pro max where it's supposed to be more
like you're watching a in a home theater where let's say you're the tv and i'm the audience my
speakers are here if someone talks to me over here the sound stays there
and i can i know that my speakers are kind of fixed in space whereas when
you're using headphones if i look over there the sound just comes with me right so they have something like this too
they use a dolby digital head tracking for that and they call the
feature 360 audio i'm guessing here i think this works on
more devices than just samsung but they're not ready to say it works on
all Android devices so your mileage may vary there okay so would i recommend these puppies
i don't have official pricing but the rumor is that they're 200
that puts them in the same price tier as the
razer hammerheads which i quite liked they're still cheaper than the airpods
pros this isn't a full-on review of course but from my like
cursory glass at them they seem feature-wise they have some extras
for samsung people interaction-wise they seem like fog
standard no like grievances for me
and sometimes i have them which is just like
it's such an easy thing to get right and they did it right i would be cool to
have more like google assistant stuff this is really for samsung people i think
they perform kind of just like standard as a headphone but for 200
you might need to be a samsung person to push you over the edge
but uh yeah this is a good uh good entry into the marketplace so thanks for
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