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Everyone's talking about Apple stuff these days, but what about their ugly cousin, Beats? This is the actual retail

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packaging. Just joking. It's going to be good. We got three different colors. Oh,

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this one's going to be their stone purple. I've seen stones like that. This

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one is uh sage gray. Sage gray makes it

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seem like this is a green type of gray, but I would argue that this is a gray

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type of green. What the hell is this? Another green one. Oh, really? I can't

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abide. This dude cannot abide. Oh, wait a second. Oh, they just didn't want to

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give me a boring black box. Here's the real retail packaging. There they are.

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Well, first of all, purple's my favorite color. I own it now. And I'm starting to

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dig getting tech products and other things that are just not black anymore.

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I used to do black for everything, all black all the time. But now it's just

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kind of boring. And as Jonathan Horse said minutes ago, I think aluminum is

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our generation's beige. Yeah. And it's

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like, yeah. Now, these side by side, if

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I was on the store shelf, it almost just looks like a difference in printing quality of the ink. Very subtle, but

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we'll open them up and check it out. What does this little paper say? It's pretty damn satisfying when you find the

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perfect fit. Whether you're jeans or your person, the search can be

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exhausting. The search for your perfect fitting person. Is that what that's

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saying? Yeah. Okay, let's check it out. Oh, that is so glued. Look at that. Oh,

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look. It's straight across the whole thing. That can't be right. No, no, no.

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It's It's not right. Look at these little arrows. They're They're screaming

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at you. Don't be dumb. It's just that

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easy. All right, which one's which, guys? Shell game. Place your bets,

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David. Purple where? Uh, middle. Dang,

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Jonno. Purple where you're right. Hey,

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that's not fair. Beat by Jonno. Okay, this gray and black are obviously

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different. First impression from here, they kind of don't look expensive.

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They're $200. But I don't know, something about the look of this plastic, especially the gray one doesn't

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look great. I wouldn't get the gray one. The inside's cool. It's got that more

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green on the inside. Boring black with the red. Yeah,

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gray. No, it's in like it's the worst of

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all worlds. It's not like subtle like the black and it's not outrageous like

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the purple. So, yeah, I would pass on that

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personally. This lid kind of rattly.

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Look how you can see it bounce on the open. It's like hold on like it goes

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back and forth a bit. Um, not a small case, but I think it's smaller than the

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Power Beats Pro case. It's USBC charging. Uh, and looks like it's the

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type where you pair it by hitting the button on the inside of the case, which

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I prefer. It's a lot easier than holding down a button on the earbud and not

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knowing what's going on. And if you have an iPhone, it's supposed to have that magic pairing process, which you can get

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in Android if you configure in the app. And I do have a companion app. We'll

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check that out in a bit. But let's do the unboxing inside.

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is just a little USB-C to C cable. Very

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little. It's a Wii C to C. Great sound starts with proper fit. Different ear

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tips. I guess the medium ones are on there. They got small and large. And

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then there's some lucha. I guess they're advertising for Apple Music. Got your

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instructions. You got a sticker.

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Cool. Wait a second. What box that stuff come out of? The gray one. What if Do

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you get different ear tips for the different colors? Yes. purple ear tips

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in the purple box. These were for the gray box and it stands to reason. Oh,

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black. Do you think if you mix and match it's cooler if I put a black one on

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there? I mean, they're in your ear. Yeah, they should be completely oluded

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by your ear, but I don't know. Well, we won't see. I'm not going to bother

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trying it. You're not going to buy two or like share or something. It's

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unlikely. Uh, let's see how they click back into the case.

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Not bad. Not bad. Will I ever get confused? Probably not. It's pretty

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obvious that because they have this big wing tip that that's going to go up into

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the area where there's space for it. So, I think it'd be pretty clear which one

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goes where. The earbud itself, it's a pretty clean look. They've got this

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flexible wing tip here, which they they're saying that they surveyed all

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these different ears and it's supposed to fit with everybody. Uh there's a

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button on here. It has a nice feeling.

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It's tactile, but it's not clicky. You can hear it when it's in your

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ear. Can you hear that? Cool. Um, but

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it's it's imperceptible from even here. You could sit by someone on an airplane

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and not even hear that. It's got um the detectors for skin, so we it should

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pause when you take it out. I think the build quality of the earbud is better

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than the case. All right, I'm going to pair these to my app now. All right, cool. Screen recording is going. App's

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going. Let's get started. Ah, send data. Don't send. needs location access only

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this one time. Beats Fit Pro detected. I

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guess I could have clicked that. Oh, it's What is going on? Is it because you

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have all three open? Oh my

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god. Now I got to hold the button down.

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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

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telling me how to do it. For a comfortable and secure fit, rotate the wing tip into the upper part of your

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ear. But I already knew that cuz I've worn headphones. How does it look? Looks

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actually pretty good. Oh, there's like some kind of transparency mode on right

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now. You got kind of amplified. Nice. Twist the butt. Okay, I got that. Wa.

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Cool. It's like it knows that they're purple and it gives me like a purple UI.

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That's pretty That's a nice touch. It does protrude out of the ears though.

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These protrude a bit. They look a little dumb straight on. Yeah. I would say it

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looks dumb, but it looks like they could fall out. They look insecure. Yeah.

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Yeah. Well, we're going to test that in a bit because they say that these are

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going to be secure enough because of this wing tip for the most vigorous workouts.

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Burpees, other stuff. A&C off. Can you

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speak to me again? Intimate Encounters. Intimate Encounters. Transparency. Oh,

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now transparency is on. Before it was just A&C. Yeah, that sounds kind of

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wacky. I saw Dune again last night. I've

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seen Dune twice also. Yeah, nice work. And now noise cancelling is on. Okay,

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cool. I'm gonna just turn it off. You can rename your beats. That's good. Um,

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beats fit pro. Beats fit bro. How about

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that? Oh, generate a name.

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Mars. Poop on. I'm keeping these as poop

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on. This is a pretty nice app. Product

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features. Automatic ear detection is on, so it'll pause. Adjust the controls as

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you prefer. Uh, so right now, press and hold is doing what?

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Press and hold on both left and right beats to adjust volume up and down. What

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the heck? I've never seen that interaction on earphones before. Press

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and hold on both to adjust volume up and

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down. What does that mean? You press and hold on both and then and then what?

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This isn't going to tell me anything. Okay, I think what this means is press

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and hold on either the left or right. Like I think it means on the left you

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hold that and it goes volume down. Yeah, look at it. There's my phone adjusting.

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on the right. You hold that and it's volume up. It actually does not mean

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press and hold on both. That's Oh, look at the

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volume. That's amazing. That Okay, it's a gesture I've

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never seen before and it still doesn't exist. Microphone. The Active Beats Fits

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Pro microphone can automatically change from left to right. That's sick. So,

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it's saying that the mic the mic it's using during a call could either be on

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this bud or on this bud because there's lots of mics on each bud because the

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mics are used for active noise cancelling. But I suppose it's saying

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that there is a preferred microphone to use in any given situation depending on

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the noise around you. So, it'll actually switch during a call which mic it's

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using. I don't know how it's determining which earphone mic it should use, but I

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would leave it on automatic. Try it at least. Noise cancelling with one earbud.

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Allow earbuds to be put in noise cancellation mode when only one is in

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your ear. That is an interesting option.

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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

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to just play some music. Dune soundtrack. Subscribe to their Just Movies. That's like a 2-hour podcast.

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Okay, so I'm not even going to assess the sound right now. I just want to know. One press for pause. Double tap

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for next. Triple tap restarts. And long

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press is going to be give me the volume. Now I'm going to go back to the app and

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see if I turn off the volume control if I get transparency modes through that.

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Oh, Pon, welcome back. Okay, press and hold. Let's try

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turning off volume control. Now what happens when I hold? I heard badang. And

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now I'm in transparency mode. Oh, okay. Now if I go again, now I'm in nothing

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mode. Now I'm in I'm I'm trying to figure out if holding one or the other

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matters. What is this? What is this? Hello. I don't feel like I'm

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transitioning or cycling between three different modes. I feel like I'm going

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between like&c on and transparency.

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Also, I don't know about the comfort of these, man. I'm not loving it. I feel

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like it's kind of hurting my upper ear, the the conch part where that thing fits

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in. Actually, I want to see if they really do fit in really well. They

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they're pretty secure. Can I do burpees, though?

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They're in there. They're IPX4 rated, which they thought was cool enough to

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put on their marketing, but honestly, that's like pretty bog standard,

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especially for $200. Let's play some songs that I'm familiar with. Bass is

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pretty low. Oh, I love this. The snare sound in this song is such a good snare

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sound. Yeah, they have their Beats

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signature tuning, which is pretty much V-shaped. I think that they also say in

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their marketing that it's like a it's a balanced listening experience, but I think that the the bass is a bit

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overcooked, but most people are going to like that honestly. Uh the metal test,

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if there's ever like double kicks and all you hear is like because the bass

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isn't fast enough to differentiate the two strikes. The test I like to do with

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metal though is I turn it up loud and I see how harsh the guitars sound. These

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are plenty loud enough. I don't want to go higher than this even. It doesn't

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sound great loud. Not because of harshness, but just because of like it's

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just really everything's kind of blurred together. We're getting I'm getting less differentiation between the instruments.

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Now, if I'm on to hip-hop, then these are way better suited for that.

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California Love sounds great. Yeah, I think that the uh performance of them is

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commensurate with other products in this category. $200 is pretty much the sound

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you get. I think everybody knows at this point what the signature beats sound is,

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and that's what you're getting here. No surprises. Now, let's talk about the

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competitive landscape. These are 200 bucks. The Power Beats Pro, which these

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product, this product is supposed to be positioned between the Power Beats Pro, which $250 MSRP, and the Where are they?

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I got the little ones here. The earlier Studio Beats, these guys, Beats Studio

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Buds, which were 150. Slightly smaller

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case. These are obviously not as targeted toward fitness people. Although

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I will say that this doesn't feel like it's as in my ear either. Does that look

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like it juts out of my ear? No. No. Actually looks good. You like that one

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more? Yeah. You can get Power Beats Pro for 200 bucks right now. People like

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those earphones a lot. Uh so they're the same price as these new ones, so I don't

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know how to what extent these are going to like be, you know, filling out their

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their line with like options at every price point. Now, I haven't used the

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Power Beats Pro myself. I know that Riley and Lance really like them. Uh, I

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so I don't know if the extra 50 bucks gets you better sound quality or or

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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

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new and improved. What about the AirPods Pro? The AirPods Pro are 250 bucks also,

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right? Yeah, the same chip. Yeah, this also

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does have the H1 chip in it. Um, that gives you all like the Apple Magic. $30

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more than the AirPods Gen 3, which don't have A&C. Oh, these also have spatial

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audio because they have that H1 chip. Spatial audio I think is dumb. First

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personally, I would never use it. If you don't know what it is, it basically instead of surround sound, it makes it

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so like your source device is a fixed

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location. So like when we watch TV and we don't have earphones in, when we turn

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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

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what it does. I don't really know why you want that. I've tried it. It's like,

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okay. It's not on all content, and I think it might be iOS. It's definitely

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iOS only, so not a selling feature for me. Would I get these above AirPods for

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$30 cheaper? If I want A&C, yeah. Would

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I get them instead of AirPods Pro and

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save 50 bucks? I don't know. You'd have to wait for a review for that

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personally. Um, but I I probably would lean towards spending the 50 bucks.

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Battery life on these things, if you have A&C or transparency mode on, you

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get 6 hours per listen and then an additional uh 21 out of the charge case.

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So, three more charges for a total of 27. If you don't have ANC on, you get 7

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hours plus an additional like 30. So, you get 37 in total. And in 5 minutes of

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USBC fast charging, you get an hour of playback. One thing I will say is that

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other earphones in this uh price tier do give you more options in terms of EQs.

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Some of them have apps where you can just adjust the frequency response as

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you want. And I prefer that over an earphone that has a signature sound that

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tells you what you want. I mean, I think you can get apps for that, but I'd like

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to have it out of the box, you know? Look at that. Isn't that cute? I think

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it actually would look better like this, though. Maybe. Whatever. Thanks for watching ShortCircuit, guys. If you

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