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the airpods pros are in my opinion the gold standard for in-ear wireless

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earphones but that doesn't mean that you should buy them

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let's expand our horizons today and take a look at

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seven alternatives from the industry's top brands to find the best option for

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those of you who just can't bring yourself to join the apple zombie army

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but who also want something slightly better than 20 airpods knock-offs

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all of our options here share some common features so before we pit them

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against each other in a battle to the pain

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let's talk about their similarities every one of these buds has some sort of

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way to play and pause music skip and

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reverse tracks activate an ai assistant of some sort and some of them can even

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adjust their volume they also all support at least bluetooth 5.0 so you

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shouldn't have any concerns about either bandwidth or range when considering one

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over the other lastly they all go for at least four hours on a charge and feature

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some kind of quick charging where a few minutes docked in the case nets you an

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hour or so of listening time surprisingly the model with the worst

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battery life in the bunch was actually the airpods pros with four and a half

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hours of music listening time with anc enabled which wait

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are they not the gold standard

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our first challenger then is this one the pixel buds the true

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wireless version not that first gen thing with the cord yeah

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google's second attempt has got great sound isolation and a full sounding mix

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and their in-ear feel is almost as good as the airpods pros the one thing that

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sours the feel is the rubber support sometimes you can kind of feel it

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tickling your ear button it kind of seems like someone's trying to get your attention in a way that is quite frankly

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inappropriate unless it's my wife their on-device controls are awesome

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incorporating both taps and swipes for controlling volume but they can also be

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customized via the pixelbuds app or directly in bluetooth settings on pixel

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devices and there's also some google perks like okay you know you know

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support and instant translation that is

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definitely not quite as good as in a sci-fi movie but hey at 179 dollars

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they're cheaper than 2nd gen airpods non-pros with the wireless charging case

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on the subject of the case it's still mini pocketable but it is thicker longer

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and girthier than the airpods pro case and folks the cases only get worse from

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here so strap on samsung launched the galaxy buds lives earlier this year

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receiving much praise for their unique bean-like shape and

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that's mostly what they've got going for them i mean okay look it's not like

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they're horrible the sound quality is fine it's just that the main issue is

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how the sound quality fluctuates depending on how you position them in

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your ears so they sound more tinny when

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they're loosely placed you know kind of flat and then more bassy when you push them

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into the ear canal more but that's clearly not what you're supposed to do

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because they quickly get uncomfortable the beans do not use an in-ear canal

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design so they don't achieve the same noise isolation as our other options but

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and this is weird samsung went and built an active noise cancellation which sort

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of helps level the playing field except there's no physical seal so obviously a

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lot of outside sound still gets in

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time for our case pocket test and um i don't know it's okay a bit thicker than

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i'd like that's what she said fortunately the galaxy ware app is where

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the beans make up some lost ground there's a lot of great options here

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including customizable controls a few eq presets and a find my earbuds feature

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about 169 dollars nice an extra 10 for the pixel buds

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looks like a pretty good deal if the metallic bean eared look isn't your thing hey

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look you gotta grow up stop and then get the giant all right

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or you know what you could do is stick with

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samsung and just get there older cheaper

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and in my opinion universally better option the galaxy buds plus

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they've got an in-ear design and the highest single charge battery life out

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of our whole lineup at 11 hours of music

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playback wow the mix has a good amount of bass and

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mids and can also be tweaked in-app and while they don't feel as great in the

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years as the airpods pros and there's no active noise cancellation at 149 or even

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less depending on where you find them they range anywhere from solid value to

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that's a freaking good deal but challenging the buds plus that the

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same msrp is of course samsung's eternal

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korean rival lg

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lg's tone-free earbuds which they built in collaboration with uk hi-fi company

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meridian now normally i wouldn't mention that kind of cross branding marketing

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wank but in this case the combined effort really shows because i was

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impressed with these in my ShortCircuit unboxing the design is very similar to

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the airpods pros and sure enough they also feel great in the ear now there's

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no active noise cancellation and the mix can be a bit muddy but thankfully lg's

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accompanying app not only has eq presets but also an 8 point custom eq tool with

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the ability to save two custom profiles which should be absolutely standard in

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fact Android should just have this built in how's that not a thing at this point

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the kicker for the tone free buds is that the wireless charging case also

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disinfects the earbud tips with uv light

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when the case is plugged in now these came out during the pandemic

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but like right away so i'm not sure whether they were planning this feature

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already or whether they just like plonked it in there right before they launched it either way it's definitely a

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plus in these trying times and the case fits nicely in my special pocket so far

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all of these buds have been pretty fancy feast though costing over a hundred us

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dollars each maybe what you're after is a flagship bud killer well that

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is not what the one plus buds are but they do

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only cost 79 oneplus approach here was to apparently

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take the pixel buds case and then fill

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it with an airpods clone that frankly is

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much bigger than a regular airpods and

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doesn't sound that great noise isolation is about what you'd

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expect from a non-in-ear design and it also borrows the og airpods other

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weakness of not fitting great in everyone's ears on top of that they do

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have an app with some customization but right now it's only available on oneplus

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phones the hell were you guys thinking but on the other hand they're only 79

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which isn't really that cheap so okay

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then let's try going the other way in price all the way up to the sennheiser

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momentum true wireless twos at 299 us dollars these brought some big

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improvements over the first gen model including active noise cancellation and

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improved battery life unfortunately the case still doesn't support wireless

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charging and they didn't make it or the earbuds any smaller

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woof when i unboxed these what i had to say about the sound quality was yeah

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they're decent out of the box but they're held up by the eq customization

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in the app that was frankly unusable apparently though

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sennheiser listened because now there's a true slider style ui which really

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unleashes the quality of sennheiser hardware making this a great sounding

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but expensive option for the apple avoiding audiophile of course if

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avoiding apple based on some kind of weird reverse fanboyism isn't your thing

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hey apple is still an option and maybe still

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the gold standard the airpods pros have excellent noise isolation while still

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managing to feel super light in your ear and even if their design sensibilities

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really rub me the wrong way sometimes see exhibit a

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and b other times apple gets it just so right

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so many in-ears have thick tips that make you feel like you have to jam them

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into your ear canal but the pros are so

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light they just hang there naturally and there's almost nothing you could do to

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remove them if you don't want to beyond that they have a great neutral sound

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that isn't going to blow you out of the water with its awesomeness but it also

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won't draw your attention because there isn't say a gaping hole where the mids

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are supposed to be furthermore especially under noisy conditions the

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active noise cancellation which can be toggled by long pressing the stem helps

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that sound profile out a lot as for the controls on iOS customizability is great

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and on Android well it can be okay with

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the assistant trigger app and last but certainly not least in fact it's one of

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the most important features to me the case is a great size it's not as small

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as the regular non-pro air pods but it's still small enough to effortlessly slip

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in and out of my little baby pocket you're safe now just

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dream sweet dreams of lttstore.com

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if the pros price is a problem of course you can stay in apple land with the

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regular airpods and they're fine i guess

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but at 199 or 159 without the wireless

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charging feature in the case almost all of our alternatives except

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you one plus not you give us better bang for the buck so

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now the key neared among you probably noticed that we forgot to record part of

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each product segment with its integrated microphone so check out the link in the

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video description where we'll have little microphone samples that's so that

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you can be the judge of which version of your voice you wish to transmit to your

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friends and family it's possible you're not going to look at it because you just

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don't care about the audio quality on the other end of the line but hey at

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least it's there if you are one of those considerate people but wait a second the

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video is pretty much over and you didn't mention

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you're right there there are a ton of other fine options out there like soundcores

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liberty air 2s and sony's wf1000xm3s

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but we selected these models because we felt they were a good representation of

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what we consider to be a solid combination of price and performance

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reliability and extra features and then

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we also included the oneplus pods

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if you guys enjoyed this video maybe you'll enjoy a lower priced roundup

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where james actually checked out 50 that is 5-0

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wireless earbuds that we bought off amazon to see which ones cut the mustard

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and which ones fart the mustard