Everyone's talking about Apple stuff these days, but what about their ugly cousin, Beats? This is the actual retail
packaging. Just joking. It's going to be good. We got three different colors. Oh,
this one's going to be their stone purple. I've seen stones like that. This
one is uh sage gray. Sage gray makes it
seem like this is a green type of gray, but I would argue that this is a gray
type of green. What the hell is this? Another green one. Oh, really? I can't
abide. This dude cannot abide. Oh, wait a second. Oh, they just didn't want to
give me a boring black box. Here's the real retail packaging. There they are.
Well, first of all, purple's my favorite color. I own it now. And I'm starting to
dig getting tech products and other things that are just not black anymore.
I used to do black for everything, all black all the time. But now it's just
kind of boring. And as Jonathan Horse said minutes ago, I think aluminum is
our generation's beige. Yeah. And it's
like, yeah. Now, these side by side, if
I was on the store shelf, it almost just looks like a difference in printing quality of the ink. Very subtle, but
we'll open them up and check it out. What does this little paper say? It's pretty damn satisfying when you find the
perfect fit. Whether you're jeans or your person, the search can be
exhausting. The search for your perfect fitting person. Is that what that's
saying? Yeah. Okay, let's check it out. Oh, that is so glued. Look at that. Oh,
look. It's straight across the whole thing. That can't be right. No, no, no.
It's It's not right. Look at these little arrows. They're They're screaming
at you. Don't be dumb. It's just that
easy. All right, which one's which, guys? Shell game. Place your bets,
David. Purple where? Uh, middle. Dang,
Jonno. Purple where you're right. Hey,
that's not fair. Beat by Jonno. Okay, this gray and black are obviously
different. First impression from here, they kind of don't look expensive.
They're $200. But I don't know, something about the look of this plastic, especially the gray one doesn't
look great. I wouldn't get the gray one. The inside's cool. It's got that more
green on the inside. Boring black with the red. Yeah,
gray. No, it's in like it's the worst of
all worlds. It's not like subtle like the black and it's not outrageous like
the purple. So, yeah, I would pass on that
personally. This lid kind of rattly.
Look how you can see it bounce on the open. It's like hold on like it goes
back and forth a bit. Um, not a small case, but I think it's smaller than the
Power Beats Pro case. It's USBC charging. Uh, and looks like it's the
type where you pair it by hitting the button on the inside of the case, which
I prefer. It's a lot easier than holding down a button on the earbud and not
knowing what's going on. And if you have an iPhone, it's supposed to have that magic pairing process, which you can get
in Android if you configure in the app. And I do have a companion app. We'll
check that out in a bit. But let's do the unboxing inside.
is just a little USB-C to C cable. Very
little. It's a Wii C to C. Great sound starts with proper fit. Different ear
tips. I guess the medium ones are on there. They got small and large. And
then there's some lucha. I guess they're advertising for Apple Music. Got your
instructions. You got a sticker.
Cool. Wait a second. What box that stuff come out of? The gray one. What if Do
you get different ear tips for the different colors? Yes. purple ear tips
in the purple box. These were for the gray box and it stands to reason. Oh,
black. Do you think if you mix and match it's cooler if I put a black one on
there? I mean, they're in your ear. Yeah, they should be completely oluded
by your ear, but I don't know. Well, we won't see. I'm not going to bother
trying it. You're not going to buy two or like share or something. It's
unlikely. Uh, let's see how they click back into the case.
Not bad. Not bad. Will I ever get confused? Probably not. It's pretty
obvious that because they have this big wing tip that that's going to go up into
the area where there's space for it. So, I think it'd be pretty clear which one
goes where. The earbud itself, it's a pretty clean look. They've got this
flexible wing tip here, which they they're saying that they surveyed all
these different ears and it's supposed to fit with everybody. Uh there's a
button on here. It has a nice feeling.
It's tactile, but it's not clicky. You can hear it when it's in your
ear. Can you hear that? Cool. Um, but
it's it's imperceptible from even here. You could sit by someone on an airplane
and not even hear that. It's got um the detectors for skin, so we it should
pause when you take it out. I think the build quality of the earbud is better
than the case. All right, I'm going to pair these to my app now. All right, cool. Screen recording is going. App's
going. Let's get started. Ah, send data. Don't send. needs location access only
this one time. Beats Fit Pro detected. I
guess I could have clicked that. Oh, it's What is going on? Is it because you
have all three open? Oh my
god. Now I got to hold the button down.
Light blinking. Yeah, there's a light on the front of this blinking now. You see this? There we go. There we go. Now it's
telling me how to do it. For a comfortable and secure fit, rotate the wing tip into the upper part of your
ear. But I already knew that cuz I've worn headphones. How does it look? Looks
actually pretty good. Oh, there's like some kind of transparency mode on right
now. You got kind of amplified. Nice. Twist the butt. Okay, I got that. Wa.
Cool. It's like it knows that they're purple and it gives me like a purple UI.
That's pretty That's a nice touch. It does protrude out of the ears though.
These protrude a bit. They look a little dumb straight on. Yeah. I would say it
looks dumb, but it looks like they could fall out. They look insecure. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, we're going to test that in a bit because they say that these are
going to be secure enough because of this wing tip for the most vigorous workouts.
Burpees, other stuff. A&C off. Can you
speak to me again? Intimate Encounters. Intimate Encounters. Transparency. Oh,
now transparency is on. Before it was just A&C. Yeah, that sounds kind of
wacky. I saw Dune again last night. I've
seen Dune twice also. Yeah, nice work. And now noise cancelling is on. Okay,
cool. I'm gonna just turn it off. You can rename your beats. That's good. Um,
beats fit pro. Beats fit bro. How about
that? Oh, generate a name.
Mars. Poop on. I'm keeping these as poop
on. This is a pretty nice app. Product
features. Automatic ear detection is on, so it'll pause. Adjust the controls as
you prefer. Uh, so right now, press and hold is doing what?
Press and hold on both left and right beats to adjust volume up and down. What
the heck? I've never seen that interaction on earphones before. Press
and hold on both to adjust volume up and
down. What does that mean? You press and hold on both and then and then what?
This isn't going to tell me anything. Okay, I think what this means is press
and hold on either the left or right. Like I think it means on the left you
hold that and it goes volume down. Yeah, look at it. There's my phone adjusting.
on the right. You hold that and it's volume up. It actually does not mean
press and hold on both. That's Oh, look at the
volume. That's amazing. That Okay, it's a gesture I've
never seen before and it still doesn't exist. Microphone. The Active Beats Fits
Pro microphone can automatically change from left to right. That's sick. So,
it's saying that the mic the mic it's using during a call could either be on
this bud or on this bud because there's lots of mics on each bud because the
mics are used for active noise cancelling. But I suppose it's saying
that there is a preferred microphone to use in any given situation depending on
the noise around you. So, it'll actually switch during a call which mic it's
using. I don't know how it's determining which earphone mic it should use, but I
would leave it on automatic. Try it at least. Noise cancelling with one earbud.
Allow earbuds to be put in noise cancellation mode when only one is in
your ear. That is an interesting option.
I'm not inclined to put that on, but it's interesting that they give you the choice. I think that's cool. I'm going
to just play some music. Dune soundtrack. Subscribe to their Just Movies. That's like a 2-hour podcast.
Okay, so I'm not even going to assess the sound right now. I just want to know. One press for pause. Double tap
for next. Triple tap restarts. And long
press is going to be give me the volume. Now I'm going to go back to the app and
see if I turn off the volume control if I get transparency modes through that.
Oh, Pon, welcome back. Okay, press and hold. Let's try
turning off volume control. Now what happens when I hold? I heard badang. And
now I'm in transparency mode. Oh, okay. Now if I go again, now I'm in nothing
mode. Now I'm in I'm I'm trying to figure out if holding one or the other
matters. What is this? What is this? Hello. I don't feel like I'm
transitioning or cycling between three different modes. I feel like I'm going
between like&c on and transparency.
Also, I don't know about the comfort of these, man. I'm not loving it. I feel
like it's kind of hurting my upper ear, the the conch part where that thing fits
in. Actually, I want to see if they really do fit in really well. They
they're pretty secure. Can I do burpees, though?
They're in there. They're IPX4 rated, which they thought was cool enough to
put on their marketing, but honestly, that's like pretty bog standard,
especially for $200. Let's play some songs that I'm familiar with. Bass is
pretty low. Oh, I love this. The snare sound in this song is such a good snare
sound. Yeah, they have their Beats
signature tuning, which is pretty much V-shaped. I think that they also say in
their marketing that it's like a it's a balanced listening experience, but I think that the the bass is a bit
overcooked, but most people are going to like that honestly. Uh the metal test,
if there's ever like double kicks and all you hear is like because the bass
isn't fast enough to differentiate the two strikes. The test I like to do with
metal though is I turn it up loud and I see how harsh the guitars sound. These
are plenty loud enough. I don't want to go higher than this even. It doesn't
sound great loud. Not because of harshness, but just because of like it's
just really everything's kind of blurred together. We're getting I'm getting less differentiation between the instruments.
Now, if I'm on to hip-hop, then these are way better suited for that.
California Love sounds great. Yeah, I think that the uh performance of them is
commensurate with other products in this category. $200 is pretty much the sound
you get. I think everybody knows at this point what the signature beats sound is,
and that's what you're getting here. No surprises. Now, let's talk about the
competitive landscape. These are 200 bucks. The Power Beats Pro, which these
product, this product is supposed to be positioned between the Power Beats Pro, which $250 MSRP, and the Where are they?
I got the little ones here. The earlier Studio Beats, these guys, Beats Studio
Buds, which were 150. Slightly smaller
case. These are obviously not as targeted toward fitness people. Although
I will say that this doesn't feel like it's as in my ear either. Does that look
like it juts out of my ear? No. No. Actually looks good. You like that one
more? Yeah. You can get Power Beats Pro for 200 bucks right now. People like
those earphones a lot. Uh so they're the same price as these new ones, so I don't
know how to what extent these are going to like be, you know, filling out their
their line with like options at every price point. Now, I haven't used the
Power Beats Pro myself. I know that Riley and Lance really like them. Uh, I
so I don't know if the extra 50 bucks gets you better sound quality or or
better battery life or what, or if it's just like time has passed, so you might as well just buy these cuz they're like
new and improved. What about the AirPods Pro? The AirPods Pro are 250 bucks also,
right? Yeah, the same chip. Yeah, this also
does have the H1 chip in it. Um, that gives you all like the Apple Magic. $30
more than the AirPods Gen 3, which don't have A&C. Oh, these also have spatial
audio because they have that H1 chip. Spatial audio I think is dumb. First
personally, I would never use it. If you don't know what it is, it basically instead of surround sound, it makes it
so like your source device is a fixed
location. So like when we watch TV and we don't have earphones in, when we turn
our heads, the sound of the TV is over there. And then when I turn my head this way, I can hear it differently. That's
what it does. I don't really know why you want that. I've tried it. It's like,
okay. It's not on all content, and I think it might be iOS. It's definitely
iOS only, so not a selling feature for me. Would I get these above AirPods for
$30 cheaper? If I want A&C, yeah. Would
I get them instead of AirPods Pro and
save 50 bucks? I don't know. You'd have to wait for a review for that
personally. Um, but I I probably would lean towards spending the 50 bucks.
Battery life on these things, if you have A&C or transparency mode on, you
get 6 hours per listen and then an additional uh 21 out of the charge case.
So, three more charges for a total of 27. If you don't have ANC on, you get 7
hours plus an additional like 30. So, you get 37 in total. And in 5 minutes of
USBC fast charging, you get an hour of playback. One thing I will say is that
other earphones in this uh price tier do give you more options in terms of EQs.
Some of them have apps where you can just adjust the frequency response as
you want. And I prefer that over an earphone that has a signature sound that
tells you what you want. I mean, I think you can get apps for that, but I'd like
to have it out of the box, you know? Look at that. Isn't that cute? I think
it actually would look better like this, though. Maybe. Whatever. Thanks for watching ShortCircuit, guys. If you
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