I want spent some time with these the wf1000 xm3s which are a premium truly
Wireless active noise cancelling in your
monitor from Sony but today's video is not about these it's about these the WF
XB 700s XB stands for extra base and
they're $100 cheaper what do you think about
that let's see if the expensive ones suck $100 less than these come on
baby I feel like already the packaging is more auser than this one and here it
is who very lightweight plastic AF not completely
opaque and here they are these are bigger these are definitely bigger than
the xm3s but they're not huge holy these are
isolating my voice sounds weird even they're like earplug almost these do not
have active noise cancelling the isolation that you get when you put them in is all you're getting but that might
be enough the other thing is that these don't have any capacitive touch they
don't swipe they don't have gestures they're not capacitive each has a button
on the right button you can play and pause that's a single tap you can double
tap for next you can triple tap for previous you can hold for the virtual
assistant in my case that's going to be Google Assistant cuz I'm a Android boy
baby and then on the left side that's your volume you click it to increment in
steps going up louder and louder and you hold it for continuous volume going down
so one stepped while one's continued which is a bit weird but it's easy to
get used to you just hold it until it's as quiet as you want and then you let it
go so let's see how it actually works with music when I pair it to my phone
100% battery rock and roll uh one of the differences between these puppies and
the more expensive premium counterpart is battery life these ones a advertise
18 hours of battery life whereas the more expensive ones advertise 24 hours
now that's not just on one go from the earbuds that's including the charge case
interestingly these ones advertise a longer play time from the earbud itself
they say 9 hours from the earbuds themselves whereas the xm3s advertise 6
hours might as well just open these up you already see the packaging is quite a
bit more involved but here we go the charge case is quite a bit bigger
between these too um it's obviously Slicker looking it's got this nice click
this one you're not really going to be able to fidget with but you can see the size difference this has a way bigger
battery I think because it provides three full charges to the headphones so
that's three 6-h hour charges plus whatever you can hold on the headphones or a total of 24 whereas this one I
think is only 100 milliamp hours so you just get one additional charge so 9
hours per charge total 18 okay let's play some music I've been obsessed with
this song by Annie Lennox called walking on broken glass I'm pretty pretty sure
it's an ' 80s songs ever since I listened to the strong songs podcast
from uh Kirk Hamilton I both he did an episode on this song and I've just been
blasting it sorry wife holy cow with
these things they live up to the name the extra Bas this song sounds almost
like a dance remix when the bass kicked in it was just pulsing driving if you're
a bass head I think you're going to like these but more and more I'm thinking
these are probably great for the gym they're IP X4 rated and that means that
they have no rating for dust that's the X but they do have a rating for water in
this case it's a four I believe that's out of nine and the four means that they
can wasand splashes from any direction and that's basically just sweat so it
looks like they are geared towards jimm goers that that actually makes sense it
kind of looks like it get splashed and survive it almost has like a boat finish
they look like they could plop out of my ear and land on a dumbbell and like
they're going to be okay someone else could maybe step on them they might
survive and this case is just going to easily slip into a bag I think these are
going to be great for the gym especially since they're so isolating you can drown
out the music that the gym is playing above your music pretty easily with
these let's see how loud they go yeah they go loud enough louder than I would
go for a healthy listening you're going to have no problem hearing your music
over top of ambient noises at the gym and stuff like that they don't have uh
fins let's look what else is in the Box there's only this instructions an
adapter for us USB C2 a and then more
ear tips a lot of athletic centered inur will give you optional silicone fins
that you can put on and they kind of Nest into this part of your ear these
didn't come with that but I think it's okay like they feel pretty sturdy and
it's because they use the same um design
mentality as these ones which is the three-point contact kind of system in
your ear and they're really
stable you could do box jumps you could
headbang you could fall off your skateboard and
uh you know hit something cuz you weren't listening properly with these and they're probably going to stay in
your shoes might fly off though similar to the higher priced premium version the
case it does have these little indicators which I really like red and
white as is also indicated on the headphone so it's just a no-brainer when
you want to put them back in the case and they snap in really nicely too uhoh
my tip fell off just the tip though let's listen to some more tracks They
are Punchy on the base you're going to love these if you like EDM and stuff but
when I'm listening to non dance content they're still good headphones they're
really articulate I'm noticing things that I might not notice when I'm
listening to my car for example now as for the high frequencies which can be
harsh on crappier headphones if I listen to some rock and roll a lot of the times
those guitars can sound harsh on crappier headphones on on these they
still sound nice and clear not bad at all they don't hurt and these I would
say are competent on the higher frequencies but are they the best I mean
do you think that these have the same sound quality as these ones for $100
more let's find out okay yeah you can see there's a lower profile the rounder
kind of sweet Sleek looking yeah these sound different they
do sound better they sound different it's not just an EQ thing the more
expensive ones have an app a companion app and there's various eqs presets and
you have the ability to make your own and then you can kind of you know adjust
the music as you like it these ones don't have a companion app they have no ability to change the EQ so I thought
maybe they just had a baseer EQ applied to them and locked in that doesn't seem
to be the case they sound quite a bit
different than the more expensive ones but they do sound good still these are
pretty comfortable they come with several different ear tips and you
should change them out because if you don't get a good seal in your ear canal
you're not going to feel that really good base you need that three different
sizes on here in addition to what they came with so you'll probably be pretty
covered and they're the standard ones that you can you can buy Replacements on Amazon and stuff like that uh one note
that I found about the Google Assistant functionality is that you cannot hail
the assistant using just your voice you have to hold and press the button down
for the assistant to get hailed um that doesn't mean that it blocks The Voice
like if I just say blank blal my phone
will still hear it and pick it up but I'm talking to this microphone other
differences include the Bluetooth actually these have Bluetooth 4.2 rather
than Bluetooth 5 um I mean I mean functionally it's probably going to be
okay but theoretically Bluetooth 5 has double the bandwidth and four times the
range so depending on your use case you
might have some kind of deficiency there but you're probably going to be okay the
advertised Quick Charge speeds are different so if you charge the premium
ones for 10 minutes you get 90 minutes of playback if you charge these ones for
10 minutes you only get 60 Minutes of playback I mean that's still a pretty
sweet stat I like that spec it's good it's just not as good as these though
all in all though I think for $130 right now these are really good if
they had been included in my Roundup of like 50 wireless headphones that I did a
few months back um they would have been the best in the bunch I think of course
they're more expensive what was the limit on that one 50 bucks 50 bucks well
these are a lot more they're almost triple that they're 130 bucks I think
they're awesome I think if if you're new to audio these might be the best
headphones you've ever had if you have the extra 100 bucks these are fantastic
and they have active noise cancelling they're sick on a plane like if you have expensive headphones if you have planer
magnetics that you wear in your bed at night and then you want to go to the gym
and have something that like doesn't kill you like I have this pair of truly
Wireless that are garbage and I don't even want to wear them when I go to the
gym these aren't going to do that to you if you're used to good headphones and
you just want something not that expensive to wear to the gym these are going to be great I think these are
really good all-rounders and I recommend them thanks for watching ShortCircuit
today you guys should subscribe because I'm going to be reviewing some other
really expensive headphones from Odyssey planer magnetics in a coming episode or
maybe two episodes we do have two pairs