it's been a little while since beats was on top of the world I remember back in
high school when it was the coolest thing to have Beats and then everyone found out that they were actually just
nice looking garbage but since they've been acquired by Apple I think that
beets have come quite a long way and are now producing several pretty high
quality products if not a little overpriced which is why I'm kind of
angry because in a previous unboxing I mentioned that I had a pair of Beats Solo 3 wireless and people just kept
dunking on me I think that people still think that the Beats of the early 2010s
are the same as they are now but being
acquired by Apple has changed them in a big way you get things like Apple's noise canceling and all that sort of
stuff so I'm hoping to see all of those improvements on their new Beats Studio
buds Plus let's take a look inside
it's another box oh sweet these are the transparent ones look at look at that
you can see right through them that's sick I'm so glad that they're releasing
this and this isn't like a special edition this is like an a mass-produced
version of them I love the clear plastic it was always the best Nintendo 64
Controller it's the best Game Boy Advance and I these are probably gonna
be the best needs headphones I'm just saying let's take a look around the Box
see what we see what we can learn they claim powerful balanced sound with
spatial audio again taking advantage of that Apple tech enhanced Apple and
Android compatibility oh I guess maybe Apple's kind of coming around to working
with Google on some things at Google I O they announced that they would share like airpod location data so that people
could know if they were being like tracked or anything like that and it
seems like they're gonna actually be putting a lot of extra Android features in here too which is really cool to see
active noise canceling with transparency mode up to 36 hours of battery life with
ANC off nine hours in the earbuds and 27 hours in the case I love how they break
that down um usually this go like 40 hours and
inside you get a tiny USBC cable
a very tiny USBC cable you get three
extra sizes of ear tips awesome so from
extra small to to large then
oh there there I can't look at that yet we gotta look at the documentation is
that a sticker it is a sticker I'm gonna put it on here
and you get some documentation but that's just about it that's all we get
in there and then here they are the Beats themselves interesting thing to
note is that this mentions not quick pairing with an iPhone or quick pairing
with an Android phone because it actually supports both so you can do fast pairing on both your Android and
your iPhone I guess before we open them up look at the case look at that oh it's
so cool so you can see like the magnets for the hinge right up there
can see the bracing for this hinge mechanism going along the top you can
see the battery going along the bottom there right there I have a USBC as your
charging port which does not allow for the fastest charging it's about two
hours to charge the case and the earbuds fully but the case itself does allow for
quick charging a five minute charge of the headphones will give you one hour of
listening time not too shabby oh so cool
and on the top here we have a button probably it's pairing I'm going to hold
it down and let's find out there it is let's look at these again
like just an insane amount of stuff
is crammed into there I find that smaller tips tend to fit my
ears best but this doesn't have the same kind of ear tip connector like you'd see
on the airpods Bros it's just your average
uh normal ear tip the ear tips that are included are silicone so there's no foam
or anything like that it would have been nice to see some phone a foam option or
maybe a double flange but these are kind of mainstream headphones and you know
what getting five pairs of ear tips is still pretty cool even the like filters
for the grills are kind of see-through
total or on each one because I see two holes at the top right
here two holes right there oh and there's
probably the microphone that goes in your ear that's probably the third microphone so
there's a microphone that goes in your ear because these are gonna have hybrid noise canceling systems so they take the
noise from outside as well as the noise inside your ear and use that to factor
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oh I don't want to pick it up no no
we're picking all that up all right pair
iPhone needs a quick little update but we can check out how fast pairing works
on Android so apparently we should be able to just do this
look at that it even knows we need a
software update but here on Android it already identifies them we can link it
it'll now be linked across all of your Google account devices so if you have
like a tablet or maybe a Chromebook this will automatically pair in the future
with them we can connect it right now download the app yeah sure give me that
Beats app there we go and we're paired it's so nice that that's how easy it is
Bluetooth can be so nebulous while they quote themselves as having enhanced
Android support they don't actually support anything other than AAC as a
audio codec which is a real bummer I get that app decks would be a little bit
weird because they would have to have a Qualcomm chipset but you know it would
have been nice to maybe get ldac but also then again that's another company
that they don't want to work with Sony so these are Bluetooth 5.3 which means
that in theory they could support the Bluetooth low energy codec we haven't
seen a significant amount of adoption across devices for that yet but I'm
really hoping that we do because it's supposed to make a pretty huge
difference in how much data isn't required to send a high quality audio
signal it's gonna be a big step up from AAC one
thing that's interesting about these is that they don't take advantage of Apple's H series of chips the Apple H2
can be found in the airpods Pro gen 2s and the H1 and the airpods and the
airpods pros gen 1 but also can be found
in the Beats Powerbeats Pros as well as
one of their other pro series of headphones I guess because this isn't a
pro series of a headphone they decided to go with their own proprietary chip
all right let's take a listen I'm putting them in they're nice and
light they're actually pretty comfortable they are very small like they're not big headphones which I
appreciate because sometimes big headphones can be really bulky they stick out a lot these don't seem to
stick out too far thoughts Sammy
anyways Sammy thank you despite the fact that I own a
pair of Beats headphones I've never bothered using their apps I don't actually know what kind of capabilities
they have but currently looks like a really good way of being advertised to if you want to see other beats products
or if you want to receive pairing and Battery notifications and you want to
send Apple data so if you're really into those things
it looks like the Beats app has got you covered among those extra features you
can see like the Beats battery life for each headphone and the case in the
notification shade really really convenient now these are pre-release
like obviously you can see that it doesn't ID the headphones it's funny
that Google's pairing algorithm saw it though Google showed the right thing but
in the app they haven't released it as an actual update yet so maybe there's
more features to come these support Google's find my devices features if you
lose them they'll remember the last kind of Wi-Fi network you were attached to
and like kind of give you a general idea of a location as well as you can like ring them and stuff which is great but I
don't know if you don't be able to do the like crazy find my things that the
H2 chipset allows you to do where you can like hold your phone and it'll guide
you through your house to the location of the headphones let's listen to some
of my test tracks
you know they sound pretty good pretty they sound pretty dang good yeah
there's a little bit of added bass a little bit of extra oof but it's not like tasteless bloated bass it's
actually like relatively Punchy and Jesse wears new track pearls I just
heard like another instrument that I had not really noticed
um there's like this really cool funky low base kind of synth that's uh playing
underneath the main Melodies this kind of highlighted it for me in a way that
really made it like pop and it was really really cool
um that's kind of the joy of listening to multiple different types of headphones is that you will hear things
in songs that you didn't notice because one headphone just happens to represent
that sound in that way and now I love that song even more because I didn't know how sick that bass riff was they're
not trying to bring up the highs to the point where things become shrill or anything like that they're they're
pretty pretty good the ANC seems pretty
solid for the room that we're in hey Sam you want to talk to me or Jake you want
to talk to me just like say hello hi hi and I'm saying words out loud
transparency mode is like it's the same kind of Apple Magic where it just sounds
really really natural like it really doesn't feel like I have anything in my
ears I do wish that instead of just doing random beeps and boops that they
gave me actual words that said like a and C on one press two play pause two
presses to skip triple press to go back it doesn't seem to get any volume that's
a major bummer I really don't like having to pull up my phone to adjust the volume of my headphones okay now I want
to listen to the spatial audio I am yet to really hear a convincing spatial
audio effect on earbuds I now have a Dolby Atmos sound bar at home and it
really is a whole different experience having access to actual surround sound
speakers headphones have never really been able to uh pull it off but I I
wanna you know I want to give it a shot whoa
no one can hear what I'm hearing my issue with spatial audio
is that like Dolby Atmos tracks tend to just make things sound boomier
and distant and not cohesive like it
would in an actual space and I think that's because surround mixing is still
not very commonplace in the music industry so they're still learning the
tricks of it despite the fact that surround mixing has been around for like
forever but there was a big quadrophonic push which is like a four speaker
surround system two sets of stereos um back in the day like there's
quadrophonic releases of like pink flow it's cool it's different but it doesn't
sound that great I mean but that's again that's my thought if you love spatial
audio tracks that's great don't let the people tell
you what you can and can't listen to that's why I listen to beats okay
because I see only you in the comments tell me beats they're bad
shut up Labs has the truth here's our
frequency response graph the dotted line is our Target and the green line is the
Beats Studio buds plus and as you can see there's a lift in the bass
especially in the sub bass that adds that kind of punch that I was talking
about that fun factor that I like beats for the only thing that I'd be a little
concerned about is the lift up at the one to three kilohertz region basically
what that means is that things can come off as what is called shouty where
instruments like things like horns or even human voices kind of seem like
they're like yelling at you as opposed to like being smooth and like natural I
didn't really notice that in my listening tests but if you're sensitive to that your mileage may vary in the top
we see pretty good response with a pretty sharp Peak at the 13 kilohertz
region but that's kind of in the area where measurements really start to be
inaccurate and loose and stuff and I wouldn't be terribly concerned about it
I didn't notice any Brilliance I mean that's a pretty that's a pretty good
response curve and I think that reflects the quality of the sound that I perceived and let's take a look at our
ANC graph the red line is ANC off so passive isolation and the green line is
ANC on active noise canceling and the amount of noise that it's canceling out
is how far below the dotted line it is and the ANC overall does a decent job
cutting out sounds that are below 1000 kilohertz though it would have been nice
to see a little bit of higher performance in the 600 to 1000 kilohertz
range that's where things like a lot of voices kind of exist so this won't do
the best job of silencing your co-workers but it will still do a good job attenuating low rumbles from like
vehicles or airplanes you're currently listening to me through the mics on the
Beats Studio buds plus just going to go through a few stats that we didn't quite
cover ipx4 water resistance so Splash sweat pretty cool they have adaptive to
fit ANC they got beam forming microphones okay the earbuds themselves
weigh 5 grams the case weighs 50 grams the drivers are made of 100 recyclable
Rare Earth and 100 recycled tin there's a 100 recycled tin on the main logic
board six microphones are used for the ANC with but with both buds three
microphones are used for dual Bud ANC with transparency off they use the
multiple microphones to make sure that you have clear speaking voices they'll adjust the amount of microphones
depending on the earbuds also they come in black and gold and ivory and both of
those also look pretty sick but transparent look the best so what are
the price of these 170 which is a lot it ain't cheap that's
for sure in fact it falls right in line with the price of airpods third gen and
if you spend 80 more dollars you get the airpods pros if you want to go with
smaller companies especially Chinese companies like sound core or sound Pete
or one more you might be able to get a better value but these are really really
solid I think it's a good price I think the case is really cool and honestly I'd
pay I'd put I'd pay a premium for this specific case but that's just me I think
beats actually knocked out of the park I guess these buds have transparency mode
all the time
Sammy that was perfect that was incredible
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