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Ladies and gentlemen, we are back with the Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pros. And this

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is a good timing because I'm kind of in the market. My Sony XM4s have been kind

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of failing me on the plane. But one little spoiler for the audio testing

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that we did on these puppies is that I took a little sneak peek at the graphs

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and I had to raise an eyebrow or two because they measure it a little

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differently than last year. But we'll get to that later. Right now, let's look

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at what's in the box or maybe we should say what's not in the

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box. Like look at this. You get the buds, you get some paper,

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you get some ear tips. That's it. They're boiling the frog all the time

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with not only is there not a charging brick, there's not even a USB-C cable

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anymore. And there used to be. Now, these do have wireless charging. So I

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guess technically, you do have everything you need to at least make

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them function. But if they didn't have that, this would be an absolute travesty. And even still, it's pretty

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egregious cuz I don't charge with wireless charging. And I don't have a

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wireless charging dock. This is getting crazy. It's not cheaper than last year, either. They didn't shave $3 off. Looks

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like it comes with three sizes of ear tips. You got your small, you got your large, and then I'm assuming that

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there's mediums on buds themselves here. Woo! The case is a little different than

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last time. Now it's opening hamburger style instead of like AirPods style.

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Last time it was all AirPods kind of industrial design rip-off. This time,

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they flattened it out so it's no longer this like pyramid-shaped blade. Should make it

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more usable cuz that was kind of hard to grab, that triangular thing. I'm really

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liking the look of this, but let's just slow down for a second here. Back to the

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tips. They're silicone, they're not foam. They again seem kind of

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proprietary. Like they have this rigid form here that is going to click onto

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the driver. Then there's a little kind of perforated speaker grill looking

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thing there. That's about it. They're white. I assume they match the colorway

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that we got, which is white, whereas black is available. And there's even an

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online exclusive pink gold color. Checking out this case, it does look

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pretty nice and sharp right now, but I I anticipate this getting scuffed up and

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scratched up pretty quick. If you care about that, don't put these in your pocket with your keys.

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Oh, wow. I like the sound of that. And it has a really satisfying, like, snap

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open. You can actually see it. It catches at a certain point and opens

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itself. Boom. Attention. That's cool. So, USB

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charging port on the back as well as a physical pairing button, which I always

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love to see cuz I just I hate when there's ambiguity about, like, you put

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them in the case and then it automatically isn't pairing mode. Just give me

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some positive feedback. Now, let's look at the buds. I think the look of the

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buds is really nice and premium. It's got some really nice lines. They

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advertise this like craftsman-grade milled aluminum or metal body, but it is

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just the blade, I believe, that is metal. I don't It's It can be hard to

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tell, but I don't think that this is metal. I think this is just plastic.

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It's really great plastic. But, the fact that they say metal blade on the website

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makes me think it's just this band they're talking about. Now, you used to

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be able to like swipe down the stem and then squeeze and click the bottom of it.

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Without turning these on, I don't discern any clickiness here. It may be a

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thing you can squeeze, but it does What I'm saying is it doesn't deform or click

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at all that I can tell. Now, these have six microphones, but they are all behind

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little grills like this one. Sometimes earbuds have little holes where you can

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count the mics, but not here. So, there's a grill there. There's a wider

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grill here. And then there's ones on the outside here. And there could be some

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more microphones in here.

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But, I can't confirm that. Then you've got the pogo pins and legend kind of

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indicator that this is the right one and this is

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Yeah, that's the left one and that looks like that's just kind of printed on

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there. I don't feel any texture to it. And it's nice that they label left and

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right cuz sometimes they only label one of them and then when you're looking at the other and just it says nothing, you

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never really know until you pull out the other one. Cool. And the IP rating is

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IP57. Now, normally IP54 is what you get

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on just about every earbud, and that's enough for splashes or sweat. But, 5/7,

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man, like you could you could work at a car wash and your buddy is spraying you all day. You can be a lifeguard and and

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fall in the water to go and save somebody and you're you're going to be fine. You could drop these in the toilet

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when you're drunk. You will be all right. Let's get them in the old head

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holes here. Oh, yeah, that was so easy. It's nice having the stem, too. You kind

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of just put her in and twist, point the stem forward, and I feel like I have a

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good seal. The ANC kicked on right away. My voice totally sounds different to me.

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So, they are sealed pretty nicely with the mediums for me. Cool, they're they

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seem pretty comfy. Oh, I would like to headbang, but you

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know, this old jujitsu neck is less and less mobile all the time. Oh my god, if

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you guys could hear the sounds this is making. Anyway,

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they're really they're really in there.

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I'm just having fun now. Yeah. All right. Yeah, good fit.

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Lightweight, too. How much do these weigh? Let me see here.

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11 g single bud. Probably 5 and 1/2,

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right? And case,

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here a Samsung phone, which is noteworthy because there are a couple

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Samsung only features and the magic

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pairing is probably going to be one of them. So, let's see how it looks if I

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just open the case. I got a red dot on the front. What if I press this button?

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What if I hold this button? I probably could read this start quick start guide.

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Oh, now we're flashing red, green, blue. All right. Uh this is just the normal

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Bluetooth menu, but it's available here. Okay, I was expecting like, you know,

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the card to come up from the bottom and look all sexy. And I'm pretty sure I saw

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a picture of that on their website, but it didn't happen here. Whatever. You're

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looking at the experience uh you non-Samsung people will get. I'm a

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non-Samsung person. Bring me to life by Evanescence. That's

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going to be our first test track. Why not? 2.6 billion plays can't be wrong.

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Such an iconic like piano intro.

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Uh this is awesome. Where are you now, Amy? What is Amy doing now?

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Oh, wow. I didn't even know there was like a boo

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kind of thing at the beginning of this. I never noticed that before. It might be overcooked in the on these Oh my god,

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yeah, there's this low rumble coming through.

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I should have a rule where I only listen to like 2000s new metal on ShortCircuit

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for now. This is so fun. Wake me up.

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I can't wake up. Save me. How loud do these go?

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That's too loud. Oh. See, the rule with headphones is the

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good ones, the louder you turn them up, the better they sound.

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they're distorted. That high hat shh shh shh shh shh

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That feels a little little sharp. Okay, okay, gets That's

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enough. I want something smooth and warm now. I'm going Dreams, Fleetwood Mac,

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you know, go longboarding with hair down to your ass. Oh,

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the do this bass is just so so fat. And

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you might like that, but it's sounding weird to me cuz I've listened to this song a million times on a million

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setups. I've never noticed this big fat bass guitar. And again, the high hat is

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just like right in my ear. Yeah. Okay, yeah. And Stevie Nicks is sounding, you

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know, she always kind of sounds like a goat, but she's like even more nasally

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than normal here. So, let's go to the graph and see if there's any explanations for what I'm experiencing.

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Yes, so here we have the measurements. You can see this gray clouded kind of

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area is the range that most people like

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to be in. That's our target kind of range. And the bass in particular, look

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how cooked that is. It's way out there, and I can hear that. Then you go into

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the mids and there's this dip followed by a peak. Now, those are generally in

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bounds. Then you get another dip followed these big big peaks, and that's

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what I'm hearing in the treble there when it's getting then the when the symbols and the brass are just too kind

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of crispy. The interesting thing here that DMS called out is that when you

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have these kind of peaks and valleys and peaks and valleys, they kind of

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emphasize each other. So, let's say you have this dip that's only 5 dB or

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something like that. That will sound more accentuated if it is preceded by a

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peak cuz you're really hearing the difference the contrasting difference

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between those peaks and valleys impacts how you perceive it. So, that's kind of

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on full display here. And it's funny cuz the main thing they show front and

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center on the website is like true high-fi listening experience, new bigger

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diaphragm, super woofer. So, I guess

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they delivered on that part. So, the drivers on these compared to last year

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are almost 20% bigger. That's cool. 19.8%. The if the non-pros, you get the

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non-pros, they only have one driver, but these have two. Dual driver, dual amp,

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baby. One other thing that is nice to see that we confirmed on this set

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compared to last year is a like a Fletcher-Munson curve volume dependent

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EQ, which basically equates to the sound of some frequencies, particularly bass,

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changing depending on how loud you play it because we can't hear bass as we're

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not as sensitive to bass as other frequencies. So, if you turn them way

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down, you actually want the bass to go up so that you can still hear it. And

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then when you crank them way up, you want the bass to go down. And these do that. They didn't before. They didn't

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last year. So, that's an improvement. Needless to say, I don't love the sound of these out of the box, but I should be

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able to EQ it to something I do like. So, let's open up the app and see what

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options they give for that. And there's there's everything in here. Got your battery level reading up here. Couple

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different modes for the active noise canceling. Off, ambient sound, adaptive,

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and just on. I like on. But, let's try

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out the ambient sound cuz I've learned that some people really care about this

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feature. I'm not the kind of person who does, but I've saw people in the comments saying, "I use ambient all the

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time because I have my kids. I want to listen to music and be able to hear my

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kids, make sure they're safe." And And you know what? As a dad,

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valid. Maybe I should use this more often. As I speak right now, my voice

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sounds natural to me. It actually sounds more natural than when I had the ANC on.

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Can you speak to me? Hey, how's it going? You sound like normal. Awesome.

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All right, that's pretty good. Let's go back to having that on though cuz I like to be alone. Then you get this active

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noise canceling level. So, that's just how intense is it? That's cool. There's

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five levels there. Auto switch to ambient sound. I believe that means when

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you take it out. Turn on ambient sound do do do do do. Oh, no. No, it's not

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when you take it out. It's when you start speaking, which is crazy. What if

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I start yelling at a podcast or singing along? I don't want the ambient sound to

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turn on. And there's options. It can be based on when you start speaking or when

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it hears sirens, which is kind of cool. Wow, this is interesting. It says that

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if you can't hear your own voice, that can be kind of less comfortable and it

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can lead to you yelling while talking, which I'm probably doing right now. You

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know what would be a great first step though is if people just used headphones

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at all while talking in public. I don't know where you live, but it seems like

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it's it's a spreading around the world where people are just You know what? Why don't I have a call on speakerphone

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while I'm on the bus? We should be allowed to volleyball slap phones out of

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people's hands if they do that Grow up. Your ear butt controls is something I always look for. You can

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pinch to play and pause and you get a really satisfying tick tick kind of

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sound in there when you do that. I like that a lot. Pinch to play and pause,

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that's intuitive. Double for next, triple for previous. Swipe up and down

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for volume control. That's actually exactly how I would set it. But you can

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just turn all of that off if you don't want media controls, which is kind of

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interesting. Then you get your left and right. Oh, so this is just for pinch and

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hold. So you can choose between, you know, Bixby for some reason they haven't

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canceled it yet. Switching between your ANC, digital assistant, which says

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Google, that's a that's a good one. Okay, and then you can just turn on and

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off whether pinching answers or ends a call or declines a call if you pinch and

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hold. So it's just there's some options. I've seen better,

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but at the same time at least they happen to pick the default config that I

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would run anyway, so I'm okay with it.

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Wow, that's just not even in English. That's weird. Whoa, this whole menu is

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just not in the language that we have selected. That's bizarre. What if we go

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to English Australia? English India? What is that? How is that different from

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English UK? I'm ignorant on this topic, guys. Hit me up in the comments. What is

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English India? English Can- Where's English Canada? What the hell? This is

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Uh I want to get to the EQ. Wait, why is it so buried? Oh,

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equalizer, there it is. All right, equalizer, we found it. Wow. Nine band

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equalizer, that's nice. And plus or

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minus 10 different gradations, too. So this is a really nice kind of gradual

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equalizer. It has some presets. I guess balance is what we started with. Smooth

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gives you even more bass. Clear might be the one. Bass boost. Just get ready to

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Yeah, I would probably would do something like, I don't know, bring those down, maybe bring those down. Yes,

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this is something like this. I wonder if you can upload one. That would be cool.

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I've seen that before. I don't see an option to do that now. Shall we? I will

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just check out advanced features real quick. They got the neck stretch

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reminders, you know. Oh, you got to calibrate though. Look forward with your

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head level for 10 seconds until you hear a chime. Tilt your head down until you

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hear a chime. Oh, can imagine I'm on my phone like this far. Couldn't do it.

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It's telling me to make sure I'm following instructions carefully. I

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Sorry, those were simple, but I I'm not smart enough. Find my earbuds,

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that's always nice. I thought that the last year's model also lit up cuz it had

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an LED bar down the stand. And that would have been cool like in a in a dark

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room or in the couch cushion. These ones are just making sound. Pretty basic

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these days. Now, one of the new features this year on these anyway is the ability

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to respond to notifications with a head gesture. You can nod or shake your head

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no to answer a phone or to like read a text, that kind of stuff. And the button

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for that would be right here. But on this S23 Ultra, which is running One UI

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8 instead of 8.5, we don't have it yet cuz that update isn't coming until it

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says April or May. So, unfortunately, we can't try that out. But I don't know, I

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have mixed minds about it. To me like when I when I see that feature get

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announced, I think who the heck is going to use that? It looks so lame. However,

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you know, Brad's telling me that he uses it all the time on his AirPods and it's

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really useful. Let's say your hands are wet or you're they're not. Maybe they're

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just in your pockets and you're walking outside. It's just really intuitive and fits into your life apparently to just

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be able to deny things or accept things just by moving your head. So,

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your mileage may vary. Mic test. Okay. Recording with Galaxy Buds 4 Pro. This

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is what they sound like. Now, that last nodding and whatever gesture feature is

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a Samsung only feature as well as a couple other features I'll

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tell you about now including one of the codecs. So, the codec this comes with

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are SBC, which is the just normal Bluetooth codec, and AAC, which is a

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pretty good one. But if you have a Samsung phone, you also get their

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Samsung seamless codec, which gives you 24-bit audio at 96 kHz wirelessly. And

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this is over Bluetooth 6.1, the latest and greatest. And another exclusive

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feature is Samsung's super clear call, even in noise. And one problem I have

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with these is that they advertise them on the front of their page, but they

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only tell you that it's Samsung only in a little footnote. It's kind of scummy.

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For battery life, Samsung is saying 7 hours with ANC off, which I would never

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do, and 6 hours with ANC on. So, that's the claim that matters to me. You get 25

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to 30 hours in total with the case charging your buds a bunch of times. So,

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how do we like it? Well, it's going to come down to the price. Same price as last year, even though there's no cable

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in the box, $250, which makes them more expensive than Bose Quiet Comfort

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non-Ultras, which are 180, more expensive than AirPods 4s, which are 130

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or 180 depending on whether you got ANC, and more expensive than the Samsung Buds

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non-Pro 4s, which are 180. Makes them

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the same price as AirPods Pro 3s, and

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cheaper than Sony XM6, which are 300 bucks, and the Bose Quiet Comfort

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Ultras, which are also 300 bucks. However, we should know Samsung does put

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their buds on sale quite often. So, if you see them on sale, why not give them

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a try? They're really slick. If you can EQ the

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sound to something you like, I think that there's really no reason to not at

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least consider them. Earbuds, you know, you can't really go wrong with some of

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the big ones. They're They're all pretty dang good these days. So, maybe it just

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comes down to the look. Maybe you want that pink. But if you're on the fence about getting something that goes in

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your ear at all, maybe check out these over-ear headphones from Nothing that we

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recently covered, the Nothing headphone A. Or is that what they're called? Yep.

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Yeah. Their names You always got to check what their names are.

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They're all over the place. Okay, bye.