So, you want to buy AirPods Pro's 3's, but you also want to be able to tell
yourself that you're someone who does their own research. So, you're watching this video to see if there's another
thing you could buy that's cheaper and could potentially sound better whilst
having, you know, some trade-offs. But, maybe they're good trade-offs for you.
These are the Nothing Ear 3's. If you haven't been following along, they had
the Nothing Ear, then the Ear 2, then the Nothing Ear again, then the Nothing
Ear A's, and now we're at Nothing Ear 3. Okay, we're back on track. Inside the
box, looks like there's a little bundle of literature. Do they have
ear tips? Hey, AirPods Pro 3 come with ear tips.
Uh, but they don't come with this tiny little maybe use it in your car cable or
use it never because they do have wireless charging. Even says nothing on
it. Cool. It's not even a foot long. This is like 10 in long.
You get three sizes of silicone ear tips that are not installed, extra small,
small, and large, meaning medium's got to be on these. Before I pull these out,
let's just take a moment to look at the case, which they redesigned. It actually
kind of looks iPhone-y with this aluminum band on the side here. It has
that same kind of dimple in the middle that they've had for a bit.
The closing noise, honestly, not very good. Kind of harsh. Cool transparent
industrial design. You can actually see the device from the back, both of them.
On the most familiar-looking side, there is a USB-C port, a LED light for
indications. No breathing. And a microphone. Actually, I think it's dual
microphones that go along with this cool new button called the talk button so
that you can make YouTube videos and talk into it like this and stuff. I actually think it's kind of cool. We'll
talk about that a little later. And they still have their physical pairing button
on the inside, which is nice to have. I don't really like cases that only allow
you to pair by opening it. I find that annoying cuz I find that Bluetooth is
kind of flaky. The buds themselves have a stem design. They look so cool.
They're see-through. They're transparent partially. They got this like HAL 9000
red dot indicates that this is the right ear bud. You can see some of the
electronics on the inside, but otherwise the bud itself is very, you know,
AirPods Pro-y. I just think they have a little more personality than your kind
of plain white bud. All right, chucking them in. We're going to get into the app
and everything later. First, I just want to listen to them real quick. This
probably isn't the best test track, but there's this live version of Nine Inch
Nails covering David Bowie's I'm Afraid of Americans that I've just been obsessed with lately.
Holy. Holy cow. The kick drum is just like so
reverberant. I've never heard of that pronounced. Oh.
That's not a good uh This is hilarious.
Like it's I mean, it's it's hard to make the song
sound bad cuz it's such a awesome song, but there's just all these
extra sounds that I don't normally hear.
These like really low bass sounds that are like
just floating around in the background. They're It's like comical. Let me show
you what this looks like visually. All right, so checking out DMS's results
from the lab here. You can see down here is the band of bass that most people on
the planet Earth like. And if you're at the top end of that, you're like a bass
head. And then here is the Nothings way
way way way out here. Like that's just nuts. That's unacceptable. And the
funniest thing is I was watching back some videos that we made on the previous
Nothing Ear products, and if you look at the Nothing Ear 2, they had like almost
a flat tuning out of the box. So, I thought that that would continue on, but
it actually was specific only to the Ear 2 and and didn't come on any products
after that. I And I was telling DMS that, and he said, "Yeah, because that's
the time that they flew me out to London, and I tuned it for them."
Is Is bittersweet. That's Finding that out is bittersweet. Looking at other
parts of the range, you can see the mids are a little bit depressed. And then
going into the treble, they're kind of going the wrong way. Treble generally,
the target is trending downward, but these are kind of trending upward. Not a
huge deal, though. Yeah, they're a little bit bright, and yeah, there's
this big trough here, but you're probably not going to hear that, so don't worry about it too much. This is
the least problematic part of this EQ. But, we have another graph with the
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funny, you can see in this graph that the AirPods Pro 3s and the Nothing 3s
are kind of twinsies, but also frenemies.
They're similarly V-shaped, meaning that they're kind of overcooked in the bass
and they're overcooked in the highs, but in the middle, they're kind of the
inverse of each other. They both have mids that are out of band relative to
the target, but you can see that the AirPods have the lower end of the mids
elevated, whereas the Ears have that depressed. And then when you get to the
upper mids low treble, that is flipped. So, how's that going to manifest?
They're both going to sound V-shaped and you know, fun, I guess. But, the AirPods
are going to sound warmer and the Nothing Ear 3s are probably going to sound a little colder, if that makes
sense. You know, using language to describe sound is crazy. But, unlike the
AirPods 3, we can use the app with the EQ to tune these to actually sound quite
good. So, let's see about doing that now. This is the app.
Oh, I'm getting a tutorial now. Uh which is good, cuz I don't know how to use
this super mic thing, and I do want to know. Okay, here we are. Noise canceling.
What? I love these sound effects they have when you toggle this. When you turn
on transparency, you hear like this feminine exhale. It's like
And when you turn on the noise cancellation, it's like Kind of cool. Now, I will say this is
going to be an area where the AirPods Pro 3s are probably going to blow these
out of the water. I really think that, though I haven't used them myself yet,
from what I've heard and what I've read, it seems like they are on the next level
of noise cancellation and everyone's just going to have to spend the next 2 years catching up to. Whereas these,
they're normal. They're nor- normal noise canceling headphones. Now, we
don't have visualizations or testing to show you. We used to do that on this
channel. We're pausing that right now cuz we want to get better at it. But what I can say is
I don't know. You guys talk. How do I sound? Is my noise canceled? Your voice
is not canceled. It's passively canceled. Does it sound any better in
transparency mode? Let me hear you in transparency mode. >> How's the timbre of my voice? You sound
more natural in transparency mode, that's for sure. What if I just go to off?
>> Is my noise more canceled than off than it wasn't canceled? Noise canceling definitely canceled out more. I could
still hear him talking, but I can only hear parts of his range, of course. So
the lower Probably the lower end of it is getting removed. >> better than nothing?
>> Is nothing better than nothing? Never gets old. And I'll just note that they do have an adaptive noise canceling
mode, which is nice cuz sometimes when you're out in the out in the world, you
do want it to ramp up and down. You'll get better battery life when it's not
being used as fully. And maybe you'll feel a little less pressure in your head, too. So if it ramps down when
you're in a quiet area and then only ramps back up when there's a jackhammer
nearby, that's great. Special audio, super mic, bass enhancement. Oh, bass
enhancement. Wow. How do they even have that button? All right, equalizer. Let's
go. They do have some canned equalization profiles in here, but you
can also go to custom where in the simple tab of the app, you just have
three knobs that you can go up and down, plus or minus 6 dB. But if you go to
advanced, you get way more tuning options. Now I have eight different
levers to touch, again at plus or minus six. And this is just all we ask for.
Please. This is the minimum. Apple, perfect product if you just gave us
this. So how would you use this? If there's something obvious to you when you're listening to the sound profile
that you don't like, go to the part of the spectrum that you think it applies to and and just nudge it around, right?
So, if you think it's too bassy, just take some of the bass down. If you think there's like cowbells and cymbals that
are too harsh for you, take down the top end. Or, what you can do, I'm going to
give you two options. Number one, there's a part of this app that allows
you to make a personal sound profile just by, similar to what AirPods have,
they shoot sounds around in your canal and they make a profile based on that. Or, you can use this QR code, which
represents a tuning that DMS made over at Labs. So, I'm going to put that on
now and listen to these puppies again. You hit the three dots up here, you go
to import, scan QR code.
New profile added, Labs tune. Wow, that was easy. So, what I can do now is
actually AB test the out of the box sound with the Labs tune just by
switching between these two tabs, which is very cool. Let's do it. Okay.
Yeah. As soon as I hit simple, that bass
guitar just comes way forward in the mix. It doesn't sound like comical like
my earlier test because we it's a bass riff that's like really high. Oh.
Oh, I see now. This is so interesting to have this AB test ability. I can hear
the elements of how like the V-shape is more exciting. It's like it's more
forward. It's kind of like closer to my ears and I can hear that there are more
high notes. And then when you switch, it's kind of like turning on HDR or
filmmaker mode where you're like, "Oh, the colors are a little more muted than
like Best Buy mode." But, there is more realistic and it's fuller and it's just
like more balanced. Uh it actually does sound quieter as well, which is weird,
but you have your global volume toggle, so you just turn that up. And it's super
useful having that AB capability right there in the app like instantaneously
cuz I know that your memory for hearing one sound and comparing it to another is
like 3 seconds or something like that. And usually you can't compare that
quickly. The voices, the the midrange depression that the out of the box
profile has manifests as it just sounding like
just worse. Like it's like the difference between just listening to a
song playing on the radio versus listening in high-fi speakers. The voice
sounds fuller. It's more like he's in the room. Yeah, it's it's just night and
day between these two EQs, which is just It's amazing how much EQ makes a
difference. Apple DMS has told me that the reason that the out of the box
profile sounds louder is actually cuz when you're using the advanced EQ, they
do turn it down. So it wasn't just a difference in frequencies that were
hitting my ears differently. They give you more head room on your advanced
custom EQ so that you can tweak things around. And but in order to give you
that head room, they got to turn it all down. Makes it a little harder to AB test, too, cuz generally people think
that loud sounding things sound better. Uh, enough listening now. I want to
check out the interface. These do have a little kind of buttons that you you
click the whole stem to press the button. It's not a tap, which I prefer
cuz I find that the tap is so finicky on other earphones that I use. They have
the standard single click is play and pause or answer and hang up the phone.
Then they've got actions that you can actually customize. So the double press,
the triple, the hold, and the double pinch and hold. I don't know why they're
saying double press and then triple pinch. Is there a difference in pressing
pinch? Or is this just a typo? Out of the box, it's really basic and kind of
conventional. Double tap is forward, triple is back, hold is your noise
control. Sometimes that'll launch like a virtual assistant. I'm sure you can
Yeah, voice assistant right there. You can make it volume up and down, crucial
for me. I just hate it when you are unable to put volume adjustment on the
earbuds themselves. You have to actually get your phone out or reach into your pocket. That stinks. You don't have to
do that here. Lots of options and a very intuitive interface. A lot of this stuff
we've seen before, though. So let's go to the new thing, which is the talk button. It's a dual microphone array
built into the case designed to cut through background noise. Basically, all
you do is hold it down to talk walkie-talkie style and then release it.
And when you've released it, you'll be muted. If you don't want to hold it down
there for the duration of your entire conversation, you can double click and
hold it and it'll lock it on. Okay, so we're taking a video on the phone and
hopefully right now we're just using the onboard mics and we're going to see what
happens. All right, Bell took the phone away, so this is what these microphones
sound like. Yes. Mhm, yes.
I was channeling my inner Jeff Goldblum there. But I said we would talk about the super
mic feature, which we'll learn about now. Crystal clear voice calls at the
push of a button. Do I just press this and it just changes it? Imagine you're
in an airport and everything is noisy around you.
Just want to be a professional while talking to your boss. Cool, so that did
just work. Uh that's very cool. I think it's
a handy feature to have. It might tip me over to buying these if I was really
neck and neck between two products. Sometimes you can feel powerless when
you get on a call, you put your earbuds in and people go, "Oh, you sound bad."
And you go, "Well, there's nothing I can do."
I I have the I can't move the mic closer to my face. There it's in my ear. All I
can do is make we to stop wind. This gives you another thing you can try.
That alone might give some peace of mind. Labs also said that apparently
these were really consistent sounding between
tests. Like putting them in as long as you got a good seal, they sound really consistent, which is good. And fit and
feel-wise, they found they feel very light and they feel pretty in there.
Let's just Let's just get crazy here.
I actually had my birthday yesterday and I can just hear my neck when I do that
now. But uh they're still in.
It's good. They claim to have increased the battery life on these puppies. Each
one of these buds has 55 milliamp hour battery inside it, which gives you now 5
and 1/2 hours of listening with ANC on from the buds themselves. 38 hours of
total playback time from here, 22 hours if you have ANC on. And if you're
running short on time, 10 minutes of charging gets you 10 hours of no ANC
playback. Note though that last generation you actually got a couple
more hours out of the case. So, this gen they they prioritized more playback from
the buds and less like overall from the case. So, I guess I would make that
trade. I mean, I guess it all just nets out the
same. The total charge you you get. Ah,
whatever. But, we got to talk price. When this product line first launched,
it was 100 bucks. Then they upped it to 150. Although, you can get the last gen
for 130 now. These though are launching for 180. So, they're getting up there.
They're still cheaper than AirPods, for example, but AirPods Pros. But, you
know, that's quite a change. That's quite an increase. It's almost like a
whole different product line. So, should you get these and especially if you're
doing a shootout between these and AirPods Pro 3, I think it really comes
down to ANC is going to be way better on those AirPods Pro 3s than here. Not to
say that this is bad here. Sound can be better here. It might turn out that you
like the sound of the AirPods, but I would compare it to a good EQ. If you
care mostly about that, these are the better buy. These are cheaper and then
they have the mic thing. If you do a lot of calls and you want to sound better, I
think that's a cool feature. I would probably use it sometimes. I'm actually curious to know though what people
prioritize the most from their earbuds. So, let us know in a comment down below.
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