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apple zombie army but who also want something slightly better than 20 airpods knock-offs today's video was brought to you by smart deploy are you supporting remote workers smart deploy can help deploy Windows apps patches and driver updates to remote pcs over the cloud get your exclusive free software worth over 800 at smartdeploy.com Linus all of our options here share some common features so before we pit them against each other in a battle to the pain let's talk about their similarities every one of these buds has some sort of way to play and pause music skip and reverse tracks activate an ai assistant of some sort and some of them can even adjust their volume they also all support at least bluetooth 5.0 so you shouldn't have any concerns about either bandwidth or range when considering one over the other lastly they all go for at least four hours on a charge and feature some kind of quick charging where a few minutes docked in the case nets you an hour or so of listening time surprisingly the model with the worst battery life in the bunch was actually the airpods pros with four and a half hours of music listening time with anc enabled which wait are they not the gold standard our first challenger then is this one the pixel buds the true wireless version not that first gen thing with the cord yeah google's second attempt has got great sound isolation and a full sounding mix and their in-ear feel is almost as good as the airpods pros the one thing that sours the feel is the rubber support sometimes you can kind of feel it tickling your ear button it kind of seems like someone's trying to get your attention in a way that is quite frankly inappropriate unless it's my wife their on-device controls are awesome incorporating both taps and swipes for controlling volume but they can also be customized via the pixelbuds app or directly in bluetooth settings on pixel devices and there's also some google perks like okay you know you know support and instant translation that is definitely not quite as good as in a sci-fi movie but hey at 179 dollars they're cheaper than 2nd gen airpods non-pros with the wireless charging case on the subject of the case it's still mini pocketable but it is thicker longer and girthier than the airpods pro case and folks the cases only get worse from here so strap on samsung launched the galaxy buds lives earlier this year receiving much praise for their unique bean-like shape and that's mostly what they've got going for them i mean okay look it's not like they're horrible the sound quality is fine it's just that the main issue is how the sound quality fluctuates depending on how you position them in your ears so they sound more tinny when they're loosely placed you know kind of flat and then more bassy when you push them into the ear canal more but that's clearly not what you're supposed to do because they quickly get uncomfortable the beans do not use an in-ear canal design so they don't achieve the same noise isolation as our other options but and this is weird samsung went and built an active noise cancellation which sort of helps level the playing field except there's no physical seal so obviously a lot of outside sound still gets in time for our case pocket test and um i don't know it's okay a bit thicker than i'd like that's what she said fortunately the galaxy ware app is where the beans make up some lost ground there's a lot of great options here including customizable controls a few eq presets and a find my earbuds feature about 169 dollars nice an extra 10 for the pixel buds looks like a pretty good deal if the metallic bean eared look isn't your thing hey look you gotta grow up stop and then get the giant all right or you know what you could do is stick with samsung and just get there older cheaper and in my opinion universally better option the galaxy buds plus they've got an in-ear design and the highest single charge battery life out of our whole lineup at 11 hours of music playback wow the mix has a good amount of bass and mids and can also be tweaked in-app and while they don't feel as great in the years as the airpods pros and there's no active noise cancellation at 149 or even less depending on where you find them they range anywhere from solid value to that's a freaking good deal but challenging the buds plus that the same msrp is of course samsung's eternal korean rival lg lg's tone-free earbuds which they built in collaboration with uk hi-fi company meridian now normally i wouldn't mention that kind of cross branding marketing wank but in this case the combined effort really shows because i was impressed with these in my ShortCircuit unboxing the design is very similar to the airpods pros and sure enough they also feel great in the ear now there's no active noise cancellation and the mix can be a bit muddy but thankfully lg's accompanying app not only has eq presets but also an 8 point custom eq tool with the ability to save two custom profiles which should be absolutely standard in fact Android should just have this built in how's that not a thing at this point the kicker for the tone free buds is that the wireless charging case also disinfects the earbud tips with uv light when the case is plugged in now these came out during the pandemic but like right away so i'm not sure whether they were planning this feature already or whether they just like plonked it in there right before they launched it either way it's definitely a plus in these trying times and the case fits nicely in my special pocket so far all of these buds have been pretty fancy feast though costing over a hundred us dollars each maybe what you're after is a flagship bud killer well that is not what the one plus buds are but they do only cost 79 oneplus approach here was to apparently take the pixel buds case and then fill it with an airpods clone that frankly is much bigger than a regular airpods and doesn't sound that great noise isolation is about what you'd expect from a non-in-ear design and it also borrows the og airpods other weakness of not fitting great in everyone's ears on top of that they do have an app with some customization but right now it's only available on oneplus phones the hell were you guys thinking but on the other hand they're only 79 which isn't really that cheap so okay then let's try going the other way in price all the way up to the sennheiser momentum true wireless twos at 299 us dollars these brought some big improvements over the first gen model including active noise cancellation and improved battery life unfortunately the case still doesn't support wireless charging and they didn't make it or the earbuds any smaller woof when i unboxed these what i had to say about the sound quality was yeah they're decent out of the box but they're held up by the eq customization in the app that was frankly unusable apparently though sennheiser listened because now there's a true slider style ui which really unleashes the quality of sennheiser hardware making this a great sounding but expensive option for the apple avoiding audiophile of course if avoiding apple based on some kind of weird reverse fanboyism isn't your thing hey apple is still an option and maybe still the gold standard the airpods pros have excellent noise isolation while still managing to feel super light in your ear and even if their design sensibilities really rub me the wrong way sometimes see exhibit a and b other times apple gets it just so right so many in-ears have thick tips that make you feel like you have to jam them into your ear canal but the pros are so light they just hang there naturally and there's almost nothing you could do to remove them if you don't want to beyond that they have a great neutral sound that isn't going to blow you out of the water with its awesomeness but it also won't draw your attention because there isn't say a gaping hole where the mids are supposed to be furthermore especially under noisy conditions the active noise cancellation which can be toggled by long pressing the stem helps that sound profile out a lot as for the controls on iOS customizability is great and on Android well it can be okay with the assistant trigger app and last but certainly not least in fact it's one of the most important features to me the case is a great size it's not as small as the regular non-pro air pods but it's still small enough to effortlessly slip in and out of my little baby pocket you're safe now just dream sweet dreams of lttstore.com if the pros price is a problem of course you can stay in apple land with the regular airpods and they're fine i guess but at 199 or 159 without the wireless charging feature in the case almost all of our alternatives except you one plus not you give us better bang for the buck so now the key neared among you probably noticed that we forgot to record part of each product segment with its integrated microphone so check out the link in the video description where we'll have little microphone samples that's so that you can be the judge of which version of your voice you wish to transmit to your friends and family it's possible you're not going to look at it because you just don't care about the audio quality on the other end of the line but hey at least it's there if you are one of those considerate people but wait a second the video is pretty much over and you didn't mention you're right there there are a ton of other fine options out there like soundcores liberty air 2s and sony's wf1000xm3s but we selected these models because we felt they were a good representation of what we consider to be a solid combination of price and performance reliability and extra features and then we also included the oneplus pods so which one should you get well if you've made it to the end of the video and you still don't know i'm sorry sorry that i haven't yet told you about our sponsor privacy is a free service that allows you to generate 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