WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.960 So, you want to buy AirPods Pro's 3's, but you also want to be able to tell 00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:10.760 yourself that you're someone who does their own research. So, you're watching this video to see if there's another 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:15.680 thing you could buy that's cheaper and could potentially sound better whilst 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:18.960 having, you know, some trade-offs. But, maybe they're good trade-offs for you. 00:00:17.160 --> 00:00:22.000 These are the Nothing Ear 3's. If you haven't been following along, they had 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:27.520 the Nothing Ear, then the Ear 2, then the Nothing Ear again, then the Nothing 00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:31.760 Ear A's, and now we're at Nothing Ear 3. Okay, we're back on track. Inside the 00:00:29.240 --> 00:00:36.280 box, looks like there's a little bundle of literature. Do they have 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:39.480 ear tips? Hey, AirPods Pro 3 come with ear tips. 00:00:37.480 --> 00:00:43.280 Uh, but they don't come with this tiny little maybe use it in your car cable or 00:00:42.040 --> 00:00:47.680 use it never because they do have wireless charging. Even says nothing on 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:51.720 it. Cool. It's not even a foot long. This is like 10 in long. 00:00:50.080 --> 00:00:55.680 You get three sizes of silicone ear tips that are not installed, extra small, 00:00:53.400 --> 00:00:58.880 small, and large, meaning medium's got to be on these. Before I pull these out, 00:00:57.760 --> 00:01:03.120 let's just take a moment to look at the case, which they redesigned. It actually 00:01:00.800 --> 00:01:06.800 kind of looks iPhone-y with this aluminum band on the side here. It has 00:01:05.440 --> 00:01:11.640 that same kind of dimple in the middle that they've had for a bit. 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:15.880 The closing noise, honestly, not very good. Kind of harsh. Cool transparent 00:01:14.360 --> 00:01:19.200 industrial design. You can actually see the device from the back, both of them. 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:24.880 On the most familiar-looking side, there is a USB-C port, a LED light for 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:28.360 indications. No breathing. And a microphone. Actually, I think it's dual 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:31.360 microphones that go along with this cool new button called the talk button so 00:01:30.160 --> 00:01:35.160 that you can make YouTube videos and talk into it like this and stuff. I actually think it's kind of cool. We'll 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:38.520 talk about that a little later. And they still have their physical pairing button 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:42.360 on the inside, which is nice to have. I don't really like cases that only allow 00:01:40.600 --> 00:01:46.720 you to pair by opening it. I find that annoying cuz I find that Bluetooth is 00:01:44.320 --> 00:01:50.760 kind of flaky. The buds themselves have a stem design. They look so cool. 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:55.120 They're see-through. They're transparent partially. They got this like HAL 9000 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:58.920 red dot indicates that this is the right ear bud. You can see some of the 00:01:56.720 --> 00:02:02.720 electronics on the inside, but otherwise the bud itself is very, you know, 00:02:00.960 --> 00:02:07.040 AirPods Pro-y. I just think they have a little more personality than your kind 00:02:04.800 --> 00:02:10.200 of plain white bud. All right, chucking them in. We're going to get into the app 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:13.280 and everything later. First, I just want to listen to them real quick. This 00:02:11.720 --> 00:02:16.480 probably isn't the best test track, but there's this live version of Nine Inch 00:02:14.959 --> 00:02:20.440 Nails covering David Bowie's I'm Afraid of Americans that I've just been obsessed with lately. 00:02:18.760 --> 00:02:25.360 Holy. Holy cow. The kick drum is just like so 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:30.840 reverberant. I've never heard of that pronounced. Oh. 00:02:29.320 --> 00:02:34.720 That's not a good uh This is hilarious. 00:02:32.440 --> 00:02:37.880 Like it's I mean, it's it's hard to make the song 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:43.160 sound bad cuz it's such a awesome song, but there's just all these 00:02:40.160 --> 00:02:45.240 extra sounds that I don't normally hear. 00:02:43.160 --> 00:02:48.280 These like really low bass sounds that are like 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:51.320 just floating around in the background. They're It's like comical. Let me show 00:02:49.760 --> 00:02:55.360 you what this looks like visually. All right, so checking out DMS's results 00:02:53.400 --> 00:03:01.160 from the lab here. You can see down here is the band of bass that most people on 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:06.600 the planet Earth like. And if you're at the top end of that, you're like a bass 00:03:03.440 --> 00:03:08.800 head. And then here is the Nothings way 00:03:06.600 --> 00:03:12.080 way way way out here. Like that's just nuts. That's unacceptable. And the 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:16.840 funniest thing is I was watching back some videos that we made on the previous 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:20.840 Nothing Ear products, and if you look at the Nothing Ear 2, they had like almost 00:03:18.920 --> 00:03:25.400 a flat tuning out of the box. So, I thought that that would continue on, but 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:29.800 it actually was specific only to the Ear 2 and and didn't come on any products 00:03:27.720 --> 00:03:32.200 after that. I And I was telling DMS that, and he said, "Yeah, because that's 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:35.840 the time that they flew me out to London, and I tuned it for them." 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:41.760 Is Is bittersweet. That's Finding that out is bittersweet. Looking at other 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:45.480 parts of the range, you can see the mids are a little bit depressed. And then 00:03:43.760 --> 00:03:48.840 going into the treble, they're kind of going the wrong way. Treble generally, 00:03:47.160 --> 00:03:52.680 the target is trending downward, but these are kind of trending upward. Not a 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:55.880 huge deal, though. Yeah, they're a little bit bright, and yeah, there's 00:03:54.360 --> 00:04:01.120 this big trough here, but you're probably not going to hear that, so don't worry about it too much. This is 00:03:58.360 --> 00:04:05.480 the least problematic part of this EQ. But, we have another graph with the 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:08.680 AirPods Pro 3 that we'll show you right after this message from our sponsor. 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:13.160 Thanks to Vessi for sponsoring this video. Enter our exclusive Vessi/LMG 00:04:11.320 --> 00:04:17.239 giveaway today for your chance to win one of seven prize packs, each loaded 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:20.840 with gear to get you through the rainy season. 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Actually kind of 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:47.560 funny, you can see in this graph that the AirPods Pro 3s and the Nothing 3s 00:04:44.840 --> 00:04:51.280 are kind of twinsies, but also frenemies. 00:04:49.320 --> 00:04:54.360 They're similarly V-shaped, meaning that they're kind of overcooked in the bass 00:04:52.800 --> 00:04:58.440 and they're overcooked in the highs, but in the middle, they're kind of the 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:02.800 inverse of each other. They both have mids that are out of band relative to 00:05:00.919 --> 00:05:07.680 the target, but you can see that the AirPods have the lower end of the mids 00:05:05.200 --> 00:05:11.840 elevated, whereas the Ears have that depressed. And then when you get to the 00:05:09.520 --> 00:05:14.520 upper mids low treble, that is flipped. So, how's that going to manifest? 00:05:12.919 --> 00:05:18.840 They're both going to sound V-shaped and you know, fun, I guess. But, the AirPods 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:23.400 are going to sound warmer and the Nothing Ear 3s are probably going to sound a little colder, if that makes 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:28.280 sense. You know, using language to describe sound is crazy. But, unlike the 00:05:25.760 --> 00:05:32.760 AirPods 3, we can use the app with the EQ to tune these to actually sound quite 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:37.600 good. So, let's see about doing that now. This is the app. 00:05:35.280 --> 00:05:41.280 Oh, I'm getting a tutorial now. Uh which is good, cuz I don't know how to use 00:05:39.280 --> 00:05:45.640 this super mic thing, and I do want to know. Okay, here we are. Noise canceling. 00:05:44.200 --> 00:05:49.080 What? I love these sound effects they have when you toggle this. When you turn 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:52.720 on transparency, you hear like this feminine exhale. It's like 00:05:51.760 --> 00:05:58.880 And when you turn on the noise cancellation, it's like Kind of cool. Now, I will say this is 00:05:56.360 --> 00:06:03.000 going to be an area where the AirPods Pro 3s are probably going to blow these 00:06:01.200 --> 00:06:06.080 out of the water. I really think that, though I haven't used them myself yet, 00:06:04.760 --> 00:06:09.200 from what I've heard and what I've read, it seems like they are on the next level 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:13.480 of noise cancellation and everyone's just going to have to spend the next 2 years catching up to. Whereas these, 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:17.520 they're normal. They're nor- normal noise canceling headphones. Now, we 00:06:15.320 --> 00:06:20.600 don't have visualizations or testing to show you. We used to do that on this 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:24.840 channel. We're pausing that right now cuz we want to get better at it. But what I can say is 00:06:23.400 --> 00:06:28.560 I don't know. You guys talk. How do I sound? Is my noise canceled? Your voice 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:31.960 is not canceled. It's passively canceled. Does it sound any better in 00:06:30.440 --> 00:06:36.320 transparency mode? Let me hear you in transparency mode. >> How's the timbre of my voice? You sound 00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:39.640 more natural in transparency mode, that's for sure. What if I just go to off? 00:06:38.200 --> 00:06:44.720 >> Is my noise more canceled than off than it wasn't canceled? Noise canceling definitely canceled out more. I could 00:06:42.640 --> 00:06:48.560 still hear him talking, but I can only hear parts of his range, of course. So 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:51.960 the lower Probably the lower end of it is getting removed. >> better than nothing? 00:06:50.440 --> 00:06:56.720 >> Is nothing better than nothing? Never gets old. And I'll just note that they do have an adaptive noise canceling 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:59.960 mode, which is nice cuz sometimes when you're out in the out in the world, you 00:06:58.280 --> 00:07:02.880 do want it to ramp up and down. You'll get better battery life when it's not 00:07:01.320 --> 00:07:07.320 being used as fully. And maybe you'll feel a little less pressure in your head, too. So if it ramps down when 00:07:05.520 --> 00:07:10.919 you're in a quiet area and then only ramps back up when there's a jackhammer 00:07:08.840 --> 00:07:14.560 nearby, that's great. Special audio, super mic, bass enhancement. Oh, bass 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:17.960 enhancement. Wow. How do they even have that button? All right, equalizer. Let's 00:07:16.440 --> 00:07:21.760 go. They do have some canned equalization profiles in here, but you 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:26.000 can also go to custom where in the simple tab of the app, you just have 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:30.760 three knobs that you can go up and down, plus or minus 6 dB. But if you go to 00:07:28.400 --> 00:07:34.680 advanced, you get way more tuning options. Now I have eight different 00:07:32.440 --> 00:07:39.919 levers to touch, again at plus or minus six. And this is just all we ask for. 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:42.600 Please. This is the minimum. Apple, perfect product if you just gave us 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:46.640 this. So how would you use this? If there's something obvious to you when you're listening to the sound profile 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:50.760 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? 00:07:49.520 --> 00:07:55.840 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 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:59.000 are too harsh for you, take down the top end. Or, what you can do, I'm going to 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:02.560 give you two options. Number one, there's a part of this app that allows 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:06.840 you to make a personal sound profile just by, similar to what AirPods have, 00:08:05.400 --> 00:08:13.600 they shoot sounds around in your canal and they make a profile based on that. Or, you can use this QR code, which 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:16.960 represents a tuning that DMS made over at Labs. So, I'm going to put that on 00:08:15.200 --> 00:08:23.120 now and listen to these puppies again. You hit the three dots up here, you go 00:08:18.440 --> 00:08:25.480 to import, scan QR code. 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:28.960 New profile added, Labs tune. Wow, that was easy. So, what I can do now is 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:32.280 actually AB test the out of the box sound with the Labs tune just by 00:08:30.480 --> 00:08:37.200 switching between these two tabs, which is very cool. Let's do it. Okay. 00:08:35.680 --> 00:08:40.360 Yeah. As soon as I hit simple, that bass 00:08:38.760 --> 00:08:44.560 guitar just comes way forward in the mix. It doesn't sound like comical like 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:50.800 my earlier test because we it's a bass riff that's like really high. Oh. 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:54.760 Oh, I see now. This is so interesting to have this AB test ability. I can hear 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:57.960 the elements of how like the V-shape is more exciting. It's like it's more 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:01.240 forward. It's kind of like closer to my ears and I can hear that there are more 00:08:59.520 --> 00:09:04.160 high notes. And then when you switch, it's kind of like turning on HDR or 00:09:02.839 --> 00:09:08.720 filmmaker mode where you're like, "Oh, the colors are a little more muted than 00:09:06.440 --> 00:09:13.400 like Best Buy mode." But, there is more realistic and it's fuller and it's just 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:17.200 like more balanced. Uh it actually does sound quieter as well, which is weird, 00:09:15.040 --> 00:09:20.880 but you have your global volume toggle, so you just turn that up. And it's super 00:09:18.760 --> 00:09:24.440 useful having that AB capability right there in the app like instantaneously 00:09:22.400 --> 00:09:27.400 cuz I know that your memory for hearing one sound and comparing it to another is 00:09:25.839 --> 00:09:31.480 like 3 seconds or something like that. And usually you can't compare that 00:09:29.280 --> 00:09:35.800 quickly. The voices, the the midrange depression that the out of the box 00:09:33.640 --> 00:09:38.600 profile has manifests as it just sounding like 00:09:37.280 --> 00:09:42.120 just worse. Like it's like the difference between just listening to a 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:45.680 song playing on the radio versus listening in high-fi speakers. The voice 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:49.600 sounds fuller. It's more like he's in the room. Yeah, it's it's just night and 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:53.800 day between these two EQs, which is just It's amazing how much EQ makes a 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:57.040 difference. Apple DMS has told me that the reason that the out of the box 00:09:55.240 --> 00:10:00.320 profile sounds louder is actually cuz when you're using the advanced EQ, they 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:03.360 do turn it down. So it wasn't just a difference in frequencies that were 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:08.040 hitting my ears differently. They give you more head room on your advanced 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:10.880 custom EQ so that you can tweak things around. And but in order to give you 00:10:09.760 --> 00:10:16.240 that head room, they got to turn it all down. Makes it a little harder to AB test, too, cuz generally people think 00:10:13.800 --> 00:10:19.560 that loud sounding things sound better. Uh, enough listening now. I want to 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:22.840 check out the interface. These do have a little kind of buttons that you you 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:27.720 click the whole stem to press the button. It's not a tap, which I prefer 00:10:25.920 --> 00:10:31.280 cuz I find that the tap is so finicky on other earphones that I use. They have 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:34.280 the standard single click is play and pause or answer and hang up the phone. 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:38.480 Then they've got actions that you can actually customize. So the double press, 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:41.680 the triple, the hold, and the double pinch and hold. I don't know why they're 00:10:39.680 --> 00:10:44.520 saying double press and then triple pinch. Is there a difference in pressing 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:49.360 pinch? Or is this just a typo? Out of the box, it's really basic and kind of 00:10:47.520 --> 00:10:53.000 conventional. Double tap is forward, triple is back, hold is your noise 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:56.040 control. Sometimes that'll launch like a virtual assistant. I'm sure you can 00:10:54.680 --> 00:11:00.000 Yeah, voice assistant right there. You can make it volume up and down, crucial 00:10:57.839 --> 00:11:03.720 for me. I just hate it when you are unable to put volume adjustment on the 00:11:02.280 --> 00:11:08.760 earbuds themselves. You have to actually get your phone out or reach into your pocket. That stinks. You don't have to 00:11:06.920 --> 00:11:11.720 do that here. Lots of options and a very intuitive interface. A lot of this stuff 00:11:10.680 --> 00:11:17.200 we've seen before, though. So let's go to the new thing, which is the talk button. It's a dual microphone array 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:21.800 built into the case designed to cut through background noise. Basically, all 00:11:19.560 --> 00:11:25.520 you do is hold it down to talk walkie-talkie style and then release it. 00:11:23.560 --> 00:11:28.320 And when you've released it, you'll be muted. If you don't want to hold it down 00:11:26.920 --> 00:11:32.160 there for the duration of your entire conversation, you can double click and 00:11:29.920 --> 00:11:35.840 hold it and it'll lock it on. Okay, so we're taking a video on the phone and 00:11:33.760 --> 00:11:39.760 hopefully right now we're just using the onboard mics and we're going to see what 00:11:37.760 --> 00:11:43.200 happens. All right, Bell took the phone away, so this is what these microphones 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:48.720 sound like. Yes. Mhm, yes. 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:53.240 I was channeling my inner Jeff Goldblum there. But I said we would talk about the super 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:57.720 mic feature, which we'll learn about now. Crystal clear voice calls at the 00:11:55.280 --> 00:12:01.880 push of a button. Do I just press this and it just changes it? Imagine you're 00:11:59.800 --> 00:12:04.400 in an airport and everything is noisy around you. 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:09.400 Just want to be a professional while talking to your boss. Cool, so that did 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:12.280 just work. Uh that's very cool. I think it's 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:15.440 a handy feature to have. It might tip me over to buying these if I was really 00:12:13.920 --> 00:12:20.280 neck and neck between two products. Sometimes you can feel powerless when 00:12:17.640 --> 00:12:23.840 you get on a call, you put your earbuds in and people go, "Oh, you sound bad." 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:27.200 And you go, "Well, there's nothing I can do." 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:31.240 I I have the I can't move the mic closer to my face. There it's in my ear. All I 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:34.280 can do is make we to stop wind. This gives you another thing you can try. 00:12:32.520 --> 00:12:37.560 That alone might give some peace of mind. Labs also said that apparently 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:40.839 these were really consistent sounding between 00:12:39.280 --> 00:12:46.000 tests. Like putting them in as long as you got a good seal, they sound really consistent, which is good. And fit and 00:12:43.920 --> 00:12:52.480 feel-wise, they found they feel very light and they feel pretty in there. 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:52.480 Let's just Let's just get crazy here. 00:12:54.040 --> 00:12:59.600 I actually had my birthday yesterday and I can just hear my neck when I do that 00:12:57.760 --> 00:13:03.200 now. But uh they're still in. 00:13:01.040 --> 00:13:06.720 It's good. They claim to have increased the battery life on these puppies. Each 00:13:04.680 --> 00:13:11.360 one of these buds has 55 milliamp hour battery inside it, which gives you now 5 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:16.160 and 1/2 hours of listening with ANC on from the buds themselves. 38 hours of 00:13:13.680 --> 00:13:19.720 total playback time from here, 22 hours if you have ANC on. And if you're 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:25.000 running short on time, 10 minutes of charging gets you 10 hours of no ANC 00:13:23.040 --> 00:13:29.040 playback. Note though that last generation you actually got a couple 00:13:26.920 --> 00:13:33.240 more hours out of the case. So, this gen they they prioritized more playback from 00:13:31.040 --> 00:13:36.600 the buds and less like overall from the case. So, I guess I would make that 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:41.480 trade. I mean, I guess it all just nets out the 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:43.400 same. The total charge you you get. Ah, 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:47.200 whatever. But, we got to talk price. When this product line first launched, 00:13:45.400 --> 00:13:51.520 it was 100 bucks. Then they upped it to 150. Although, you can get the last gen 00:13:49.360 --> 00:13:55.920 for 130 now. These though are launching for 180. So, they're getting up there. 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:59.920 They're still cheaper than AirPods, for example, but AirPods Pros. But, you 00:13:58.160 --> 00:14:03.760 know, that's quite a change. That's quite an increase. It's almost like a 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:06.560 whole different product line. So, should you get these and especially if you're 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:10.280 doing a shootout between these and AirPods Pro 3, I think it really comes 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:14.080 down to ANC is going to be way better on those AirPods Pro 3s than here. Not to 00:14:12.280 --> 00:14:17.360 say that this is bad here. Sound can be better here. It might turn out that you 00:14:15.560 --> 00:14:21.080 like the sound of the AirPods, but I would compare it to a good EQ. If you 00:14:19.160 --> 00:14:23.840 care mostly about that, these are the better buy. These are cheaper and then 00:14:22.520 --> 00:14:27.160 they have the mic thing. If you do a lot of calls and you want to sound better, I 00:14:25.800 --> 00:14:32.440 think that's a cool feature. I would probably use it sometimes. I'm actually curious to know though what people 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:35.200 prioritize the most from their earbuds. So, let us know in a comment down below. 00:14:33.920 --> 00:14:41.880 Thanks for watching. And if you haven't seen our AirPods Pro 3s unboxing, 00:14:40.040 --> 00:14:46.360 what do you live under a rock? Go check it out. I think we're actually going to do an LTT as well. 00:14:44.760 --> 00:14:50.839 Just get subscribed to every channel that we have. All of them. They're just movies.