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CMF is back with a couple of new earphones. And if you didn't hear the

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buzz around these, that's probably because it got cancelled

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out. Nothing. No acknowledgement. That's

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fine. That's right, friends. Both of these earphones feature active noise

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cancellation, which is a pretty attractive feature at this price point,

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assuming that it works well. But the price point really is a major

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conversation around these earphones because it's only about $10 different

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between the two of them. So, on the Buds 2, you get an 11 mm driver versus 12 mm.

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On the Buds 2 Plus, you get slightly better battery life and slightly better

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A&C, but both of them have pretty much the same laundry list of features,

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including things like AI assisted environmental noise reduction, what

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they're calling their clear voice technology 3.0 and wind noise reduction

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3.0. They even look almost the same. So,

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here's the Buds 2. Here's the Buds 2 Plus. Now, I'm going to do a little

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trick. Okay, keep your eye on the Buds 2

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Plus. Okay, they're a different color. It's pretty easy to tell which one's

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which, but let's take a closer look. Both feature a little plastic dial in

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the corner that exposes the holes for your wrist strap or doesn't, and it

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doesn't do much other than that. Both feature USBC charging. No wireless

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charging though, unfortunately, for the battery case. And both contain their

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various buds. Uh, there are a couple features that are beneath the surface,

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though. The Plus features LDAC and high-res audio certification, as well as

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the ability to personalize the sound profile based on your hearing. So, we'll

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have to give that a shot. At least theoretically, it should sound better to

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you. Though, it is worth noting that even without that, the Pluses did track

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a little bit better across our audio testing. All right, why don't we just

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give these a quick, you know, test fit, shall we? I couldn't help noticing. I

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don't see any other ear tips in the package. Did I miss? Ah, yes, I

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did. There we go. Ear tips, small and

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large. Wow, the mediums actually seem

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like a pretty decent seal for me, which I did not expect. Usually, I like a

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small ear tip, but I also usually kind

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of jam earphones as far into my ear as I can get them cuz I like a really nice

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deep seal. And these just don't go in that far. They pretty much straight up

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ripped off the shape of your typical Apple AirPods. Like, dude, that is that

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looks just like an AirPod, doesn't it? We've got a microphone here. Another

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microphone here. What appears to be a third microphone port here. That's for a

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total of six. That's going to help with active noise cancellation as well as

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ambient noise rejection when you're using the mic. In our testing, we found

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that other than typical Bluetooth compression artifacts, the mic quality

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on these was actually quite strong. All right, what's my what's my pairing

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process look like? I'm going to stick with the medium tips. Medium tips.

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Decent isolation, though, considering they don't go that deep. And when I say

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isolation, I don't mean like active noise cancellation, which I don't think

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is enabled right now. Nice magnets on the charging case. Nothing claims. 13

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1/2 or 14 hours for the 2 and the 2 Plus, respectively. if you have active

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noise cancelling disabled and then obviously quite a lot more once you

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factor in the battery in here. Uh let's go ahead and put these in pairing mode.

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Nice little LED here. Okay, buds too.

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the checkout. I was right. Noise cancellation was off. The isolation on

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these is pretty decent. The question is, can I

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tell? Oh, yes, I can tell the difference. And very little

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perceptible pressure effect. How much are these? These are 60 bucks. I was not

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expecting them to be this good. I don't love the form factor, but

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now we're getting into the kinds of complaints that I have if I'm like seriously thinking of switching to

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something like they're Yeah, they're a little on the

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bulkier side compared to my AirPods Pros. I really like the way these, you

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know, slide in and out of the pocket. Okay, so here's a here's a quick size

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comparison. Man, they really did just

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straight up rip off this shape. I'm sorry, but there is no other word for

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that. It really does look like they just 3D scanned it. Typically, I like maximum

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noise cancellation cuz I'm a pretty distractable fella. As for our spatial

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audio, we've got a couple of different options here. Oh, no. The options

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are spatial audio or off. Generally, I'm

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not that into it. I keep it off on my AirPods, but I think a lot of that is

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just the fact that I am very used to the

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IM sounds like it's coming from inside your skull experience, and I'm a

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creature of habit. So, we'll give it a shot, but not yet. Ultra bass. Okay,

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this is interesting. It's got five different levels, and from what we

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found, you don't really need any of them, particularly with the buds. If you

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have a look at the frequency response curves here, the Buds 2 and the Buds 2

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Plus both are already heavy on the bass, but from what I understand, though I'm

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about to test them, it's a quality bass, not a muddy

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boommy rattling around inside the casing bass. So, let's leave this as is. And

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let's fire let's fire something up here. That is a lot of bass. I'm I'm pretty

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sure he's rapping in the background. I can't say for certain, but I'm pretty

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sure he is. It's not that they're lacking in the mids. It's just that that

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is a hell of a lot of bass. Now, it's worth noting that ultrabass is not

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really an EQ. It's more that it takes music that is doesn't have enough bass

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and adds it. So, Sam from the lab

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recommended that I try like some 70s rock or something to see if I like the

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feature better. I definitely don't need it on this. It is reasonably tight

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though. I got to give it bad. I mean, this is no original Beats by Dre just

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like disgusting muddy mess. If you just really like bass, it's

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like sitting right next to your subwoever. And these are the worst

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sounding of the two supposedly. Both of them have an ear tip fit test. So, let's

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go ahead and try that one for the Buds 2 Plus here, cuz I think this is going to

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be I think this is going to be the more compelling option for just another 10

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bucks. If it's that but $10 more worth,

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I'm ready to be pretty impressed right now. Hey, set up our gesture control.

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This is present on both of them, by the way. Ooh, ear tip fit test. Here we go.

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Okay, please put in both earbuds and try

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again. Yes, sir. That was it. Even with the slightly

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brighter highs, I still like this one better. But

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I don't even know if I like it $10 better. They're pretty darn close. And I

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would say of both of them that this is an outstanding value little package

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here, these sound better. Definitely $10

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better. But dude, they sound 20% better.

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I hate that they're white, though. Are these available in another color? There's a blue one. Okay, good. Because

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white things that you stick in your ear pet peeve. I'm sure that Apple does it

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on purpose so that you're going to feel like you have to replace them even though they still work perfectly good

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because they look so disgusting. But we're not quite done with the value

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these have to offer because while we're actually missing the EQ setting that I

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don't like best on the two uh the opi

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what what was it? Durac opio. There we go. What we have is the ability to set a

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personal sound profile. So this should compensate for any personal hearing

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loss. It's crazy cuz you start hearing like phantom beeps. I know it's not even

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testing this here, but I like hear a little bit of a thing. It's adjusted the

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audio for more depth, clarity, and richness. I should check my wallet. Do I

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have more richness? No. No, I don't. You definitely still got to be a bit of a

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bass head. If you don't like bass, then toggle it. See if you actually you like

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the change. Sure. I'm going to toggle it. I'm pretty sure I like the change, but side by side is the only way you can

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tell. It's amazing what you can get used to, and then everything else will sound

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trash to you. Immediate. Immediate. Yeah. No, I want the personal. Okay, you

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know what? No, no, I'll let I'll let it go for longer. I'll go I'll let it go for longer. I like them. I like them. I

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take the pluses. And I didn't even talk about quick charge yet. A 10-minute

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charge on each of these. Gives you 7 and 1/2 and 8 and 1/2 hours respectively on

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the non plus and on the plus. Of course, that's out of the box. And if they're

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anything like my AirPods Pro 2os, then that'll be less in time. But you know

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what's not less in time is your subscription to ShortCircuit. You want that to be more over time. Just keep

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subscribing. If you want to really get into the testing details on these, by the way, check out ltlabs.com.