It's been six long years since we've seen a revision of the powerbeats pros
And in those six years a lot has happened and competition has gotten pretty fierce especially for workout focused buds
You've seen like the rise of a lot of different companies making more hook-style earbuds that also offer like an open vibe as well
It's just a lot of better headphones, right? You get stuff like find my integration and better noise canceling
All of these things can be found on buds that are cheaper than the powerbeats pros
Thankfully, they finally made an update to the pros in the form of the pros too, but they still come in an absolutely
Chonkin case like it's it's it's huge. Let's see what else you get in the box inside the box
We get some documentation. I do like how they actually give you a little bit of a home for your ear tips here
However, it would be nice to just have like a little bag Why do I need to keep the box? What if I don't want to keep the box?
What do you think? Comment down below and tell us do you would do you keep the box so that you can sell your earbuds or would you like a tiny bag?
I'm a tiny bag man myself The main features that they're touting is that they are true wireless earbuds with a USB-C charging case
That's great to see Active noise canceling and transparency mode cool up to 45 hours of battery life
That's 10 on the earbuds and 35 in the case which for a case this size seems kind of low
I feel like you can get a lot of battery life from far smaller cases like just to give you some perspective
these are AirPods Pro 2's and
It's not even close. It's just a bit too shy of being pocketable, but a big reason why it's so big is because
They got a hook style Look at that and it's a pretty well matched orange like it's almost impossible to tell the difference between the different types of plastic on here
Like this the earhooks are like a silicone type
Material it's not quite as soft rubber as I felt on a lot of other brands like it's not as soft as say the ear tips
You can almost barely tell that there's actually like a slight
Seam pretty slick and I got a B which stands for Dre before we take a tour of the earbuds themselves
We're just gonna take another look at the case. There is a button for pairing other than that
The case doesn't feature anything like a speaker, which is kind of a bummer one of my favorite features of the AirPods case is that ability to
Use find my and have them like chirps You can find the case because it's really easy for these things to get separated you put your case down
You have these in your ears. You go into a different room. You've lost your case
So these could be easier to lose than you'd expect It's just a nice feature that I would have hoped for on a kind of premium focus a pro
Level set of earbuds, you know on the earbuds themselves. These are nitinoyed hooks
So they're a classic kind of spring type of hook. We also have a rocker here
This is really cool having rockers on each side. I love it. I love it now
You might be wondering what is this stuff that's going on down here. Well, these are
Actually heart rate monitors. Yes, these have heart rate detection in them
The nice thing about having heart rate tracking on your earbuds is that some health trackers like wristwatches or even smart rings
Can be a nuisance in certain forms of physical activity like weightlifting you can't have a ring on because you could injure your hand and
Wristwatches can just get in the way. These will provide you another option to get heart rate tracking. There's also the typical
Presence detection. It's very much like the ones on the AirPods pros, which means that these actually have optical presence detection system
So unlike say just an IR system where if you just cover it it goes
Oh, I'm in an ear It could start playing your music if you have it like in a bag or on a table and waste battery life
This will actually go to sleep unless it sees your skin
You can see that it has these metal pogo pins as opposed to just doing a fully wireless charging system
People have reported that that has caused failures whether that is
Chargers short-circuiting or otherwise. Hey
That should be a YouTube channel. I can't comment if they fixed that nor can I comment if that how widespread that problem was
But it's something to note. Let's put them in and see how they fit
Okay, first off already One problem already identified this button is really easy to press this is button right here
And if you're gonna be putting these into your ears You might accidentally start playing them and that's kind of a that's kind of annoying because of they have the Apple's H2 chip
They are able to take advantage of some of the improved noise cancelling on I guess it's there's not even new anymore
It's the same chips. It's found in the AirPods Pro 2 and so you get the benefits of the improved noise cancellation from that as well
As you get the nice easy pairing and quick response with iOS devices with any sort of
Hook-based earbud. I always recommend that you just kind of have to try them. Everyone's ears are different
I find that they very rarely bother me. These are a pretty gentle
Like squeeze there's not it doesn't really squeeze my ears at all if you had somebody who had like thicker ears
It might be a little bit less comfortable. I find these to be quite nice and
It seems like They stay in pretty well one thing I want to know is how well they kind of stay in if I'm moving my jar
Tensing because when you're lifting heavy you kind of do all sorts of weird stuff with your face like
Yeah, that's good another thing to note is that these hooks can be really really annoying for glasses users
So I'm gonna get our producer And good friend Jake Bellavance co-worker you exercise. I've been known to exercise
I actually have AirPods pros twos and I had to buy third-party little hooks because they always fall into my ears
Like when I'm on the treadmill or if I'm talking it's really annoying to carry around this like little baggy that has hooks
Just for when I work out. So I'm actually keep the box
Well, they didn't come in a box. They came in a little bag. Oh, that's about what I'm a little compact
Yeah, they go in my on my keychain Yeah, that fits and sounds pretty good and I feel like I'm getting some of the
Like noise cancellation or pass through. Oh
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Listening impressions they sound pretty good if you're somebody who wants bass
Hey, look at that beats is a place to get it But it's not like kind of overbearing like it used to be
I think the beats for the past few years have had quite a good sound profile on all of their lineup
It's nothing like, you know, it's not refined or calculated or clinical or anything like that
But it makes music sound good. There's a weird almost like tinniness or graininess or something
There's like just some part of the treble is a kind of two spikes quite high for me and I find it
Very cheap sounding and is not pleasurable and I think can really come up in some sorts of distortion
It has a kind of a bad effect on like a lot of acoustic guitar. It's not
Awful and it's probably something that if I spent a little bit more time, I would get used to
But I wouldn't say that these are by any means bad sounding headphones
But maybe my ears are just having an off day So let's take a look at the results that we got from headphones comm who did the testing for us for this video
I just want to read part of this email that Andrew from headphones comm sent us about the testing
Just like the AirPods Pro 2, the PowerBeats Pro have a wear sensor that needs to be engaged before being measured
And when I say a wear sensor, I mean a meat sensor
Unfortunately testing rings are not made of human flesh. So I had to spoof it by using a piece of ham, which did the trick
I fully expect there to be data from other sources where the meat sensor is not properly engaged
My meat sensor is always engaged. This is a frequency response chart for the PowerBeats Pro 2
The dash line is our headphone target. This is what we think will be a good sounding headphone for most people
So the closer it is to the target the more likely that you will enjoy the headphone
That doesn't mean that it'll be perfect for everybody. We're all built very different
It's more like a one-size-fits-most scenario and looking at a chart the bass and sub bass this matches our curve quite well
And I agree. It's a nice fun bassy sound that isn't super overpowering
One thing that is pretty impressive is that it doesn't really roll off at all even at the really really low end like the
20 Hertz end once we move to the mids and upper mids
I think that's where I noticed the weirdness in the sound when I was just kind of talking about my impressions
I kind of misplaced it. I think I said it was in the five kilo Hertz region But this graph is indicating to me that it's coming more from what's happening in the mids
You see there's a big kind of four or five decibel dip right around 650 Hertz
I think that might be where you're getting a kind of that cheap sound because we're gonna have this like lull
Where you've scooped out as a little section of the mids that kind of is where a lot of human voices and many instruments live
Overall though, there's nothing remotely catastrophic about this
This is a I think this is a pretty good sounding headphone and most people will be quite happy with them
Now we're gonna take a look at A and C results So with no noise canceling on we can see that these attenuate noise that is they make it quieter pretty similarly to other in-ear
Headphones where stuff in the higher ranges in the upper mids get blocked out pretty naturally
But as you go down to the lower end a lot of stuff still gets through this like kind of low mid area is exactly where A and C
Works the best. That's why it's great for stuff like engine noise and when we turn on A and C
It does it does a really good job improving the attenuation of lower noises
So the A and C is mostly working on everything below one kilo Hertz
Everything above one kilo Hertz is basically just gonna be from the natural seal of having those headphones in your ears
I think the A and C it's not the best It's not I don't think it's as good as AirPods Pro's to or even Sony's best A and C
But it's it's really good and compared to my daily drivers at my desk the folk Alpates
these sound this way better A and C with very little audible hiss and
Doesn't give that kind of pressure Feeling some types of A and C can give where it feels like your ears in like a vacuum in terms of audio quality and noise cancellation
I think these do a bang-up job. They're not incredible
They're not terrible for the gym. I would actually think these would be pretty great, but of course
These don't just listen. They also have microphones So we're gonna do a quick little call quality test where I'm gonna call the one and only Jake Belivance
Producer of ShortCircuit Jake says I sounded like I lived in a can
Would you say it was below average? No, just just fine. Yeah, if you are an Android user
You will need the app especially if you want to use the heart rate You need to download the app to connect with everything else if you're an Apple user. It just it just works
I will say the apps a little disappointing. You can turn off automatic ear detection stuff like that. You can select
Some controls you can decide the which side of these will be which operation or they can be the same operation
But it's still a little limited in terms of what you're allowed to do
So like these rockers are only ever for volume It's a bit of a bummer to not get that kind of customization and further more
It's a big bummer that there's no EQ built into this
Not even a simple one especially because you know, it would be nice to be able to fix the kind of
One of the only problems I have with the sound by just a quick little EQ fix
Where does that leave us with the powerbeats Pro 2? I think that if you were a powerbeats Pro fan
This is gonna hit all of the marks for you. The case is smaller still huge
But it's a similar form factor. I think it's improved decent battery life
There's nothing about these that make me go. No, but you might want to go with AirPods Pro 2. They're the same price
They're tried and true. They're also a great set of truly wireless earbuds
But you get better find my integration and you get the little like
Speaker on it to help find stuff if you are somebody who needs that kind of tight seal that great fit
For physical activity, I can see these being a great pick But if you're somebody who's not that into the exercise side of stuff
I'd say there's a lot of other places to look especially at the $250 price range
That's over a lot of great wireless ear buds live. Thanks for watching if you like this video
Why don't you check out the video where I checked out the Beats Studio Buds Plus? Oh, man
They should have done the clear plastic. Oh, I would have loved if these had the transparent plastic
That would have been so cool. That would have been so cool. Orange is good though. Ha. Oh, oh