- Sponsored by Soundcore by Anker, we've got our unboxing of the Liberty 3 Pros.
These have a host of improvements over the last generation,
starting with la couleur.
la couleur? Help me out David, how's my french? How's my-
- [David] It's pretty good. - Okay, cool. There's white, purple, silver and black.
And obviously I'm going straight for the purple ones.
- [David] Good choice! - Everything from comfort to sound quality,
to even the packaging. Nice.
Seems to have been improved over the last gen.
Let's start with what they figure are the top selling points.
Their Astria Coaxial Acoustic Architecture 2.0,
which doesn't have any more elaboration on the box.
But basically there's a Knowles balanced armature driver as well as a 10.6 millimeter dynamic driver
in each earphone. There's six microphones. So that's part of their HearID active noise-canceling,
which can apparently be adjusted in terms of
how much ambient noise it blocks. Personally, I think that's a really good thing
because there are times when I want to block just a little bit of my kids being too loud.
No, seriously. I use my ANC earphones all the time to not listen to music.
You know, but I still want them to be able to talk to me if they're hurt.
You know what I mean? Let's go ahead and put on the small ear tips.
There are small, medium, large and Chungus, man.
Yeah. My ear canals are nowhere near that wide.
- [David] Not with that attitude. - I mean, they can be stretched. They can be stretched.
We've also got three different si- oh, four difference included sizes of
their kind of active wing tip things here.
So let's go ahead and, Wow, this is pretty impressive.
These were super easy to put on and are really freaking hard to take off.
Wow, that's a really good design. I've never seen this before.
I like it. They've got a little lock in there. Look at this. It's a little lockie boy in there.
Neat right? - [David] Yeah! - Now that we're looking more closely at this,
you can see the insertion detection mechanism right here.
So that'll be able to tell if it's in your ear or not. There's your charging contact points.
So a total of, I believe it's 30 hours,
32 hours of battery life is held in the case.
So that'll give you four charges. And then there's 8 hours of rated battery life
for the earbuds themselves. I like the style of these.
That is a really cool purple in my opinion.
One big improvement over last gen is that they are quite a bit smaller and lighter.
So they're still not going to be as small and light as something like an AirPods Pro,
but the lighter you can make these things,
the better pretty much, cause that's really going to help them stay in.
Now I think I did get the size of my wings and my ear tips right
so we can do a quick shake test. You ready for the shake test David? - [David] Yes.
Okay, here we go. I've got to brace myself here.
Not bad, not bad. I managed to loosen the right side.
So I might actually, I might have asymmetrical ears,
might need a slightly bigger earpiece for this one.
It feels like it's not quite as snug of a fit, but the left one held really, really well.
Good noise isolation. I haven't actually experienced the noise cancellation,
so let's go ahead and get it paired to my phone. One cool thing is that they support multipoint connectivity.
So you can have two devices connected to them at once. And the case charges either wirelessly or over USB Type-C.
This is a pretty cool case, considerably larger still than the AirPods Pro case.
But boy, are we ever getting closer. Like I think this looks like
it might be earphones pocketable. Let's find out. We're ready?
- [David] Oh yeah. Easy. - Yup. Well their previous ones have been quite a bit bigger.
I think Soundcore is moving in a really good direction in terms of the size of the case.
Alright, let's throw these in pairing mode. I'm assuming that it's pressing this button
is what pairs them, but I don't actually know that for sure. I mean, I guess there's always instructions.
Hey, look at that. There's my USB-C cable. No wall wart included.
Although, I get that with earphones.
Open the charging case and they will just automatically go into pairing mode.
Oh, alright. Well that's the LED indicator flashlight. Okay, so you can just automatically put it in pairing mode
or you can force it. Not bad, I think the active noise canceling is working now.
Oh, hey! Is this our restock beanie tube things?
- [Nick] Yeah you bet. - Yay! lttstore.com baby.
Do we have new colors? - [Nick] You bet. - Nice.
Wait. We're not actually doing a pink one are we? - [Nick] Uh, No.
We've got replacements if people need them. - Sorry, sorry you guys.
If you had your heart set on getting a pink one, that is not going to be a thing.
Let's see if I can figure out how to turn the ANC off.
Okay. Hi. - [David] Hello. - Yep. That pass-through is working confirmed.
So I tried to install it and it basically just said, app not installed, which was self-evident.
You won't have this problem because you'll be buying this product after it's available.
We are back. And this time the app has been updated on the Play Store.
Liberty series, boom. Liberty 3 pro.
Here we go. Touch range is highlighted in the blue area.
Four gestures. Press, double tap, triple press and long press.
Okay. Here's one of the things I really wanted to try out.
Oh. Vocal mode, fully transparent. So, If you want to hear like traffic or whatever.
So cause you don't want to get hit by a car. I guess you want fully transparent. And then vocal mode is supposed to
only let through voices I guess. How you doing David? - [David] I'm doing fantastic.
Did you know the average Blue Whale is actually smaller than 16,000 elephants?
- 16? How many elephants? - [David] 16,000 elephants. - 16,000 elephants?
- [David] So the average Blue Whale is smaller than that. - Smaller than that. Yeah, that makes sense.
Okay. Thank you, that's very helpful. They both sound about the same with voices,
but we don't have a lot of ambient noise here to sort of compare their functionality with.
Okay. One of the big functions in their software is the HearID test,
which will actually test your hearing and then adjust the EQ of the headphones based on that.
So, oh man, look at this. I got to click this third button here, 30-40.
- [David] Should you try them before doing that and then do it, so you can hear the difference?
Or does that not matter? - Oh, I guess that's not a terrible idea.
The ear canal test needs to be taken in a noisy environment.
Wow. That's really interesting. David, can you say something? - [David] I'm speaking,
this is me speaking. - Oh, okay. Yeah. That's working then. They've done a really good job of
dialing in the noise cancellation and transparency modes
so that your music sounds basically the same.
But the flip side of that is that while the AirPods Pro do a good job of
sounding more like an open back headphone when you're in transparency mode, these don't.
They sound like IEM. So if you like the IEM sound,
these are always going to sound like IEMs. Even if pass-through is on.
Impressions without LDAC, little hollow sounding, not super rich.
It's nice to just have a super easy to use EQ built right into the software.
That's more to my liking. Definitely find the highs a little bit,
almost too crisp out of the box,
but you can turn them down. It's kind of too bad you can't go in and just say,
I mean, hey. Yeah, this may be true to what the artist intended.
Like nice and flat. You know, once we've compensated for my hearing.
But it'd be nice to be able to go in there and say, okay yeah, that's fine,
but I'd like to boost this a little bit. Definitely addresses the lack of fullness
that I was hearing with the default EQ curve though.
Would strongly recommend running the wizard, if you get yourself a pair of these
which of course you can do at the link in the video description. Thanks for watching.
Thanks to Soundcore by Anker for sponsoring the video. And we'll see you guys in the next one.