WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.120 It's been six long years since we've seen a revision of the powerbeats pros 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:13.640 And in those six years a lot has happened and competition has gotten pretty fierce especially for workout focused buds 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:19.620 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 00:00:19.620 --> 00:00:26.240 It's just a lot of better headphones, right? You get stuff like find my integration and better noise canceling 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:30.320 All of these things can be found on buds that are cheaper than the powerbeats pros 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:37.920 Thankfully, they finally made an update to the pros in the form of the pros too, but they still come in an absolutely 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:44.360 Chonkin case like it's it's it's huge. Let's see what else you get in the box inside the box 00:00:44.360 --> 00:00:51.080 We get some documentation. I do like how they actually give you a little bit of a home for your ear tips here 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:57.200 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? 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:05.000 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? 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:11.520 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 00:01:11.600 --> 00:01:17.760 That's great to see Active noise canceling and transparency mode cool up to 45 hours of battery life 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:23.320 That's 10 on the earbuds and 35 in the case which for a case this size seems kind of low 00:01:23.320 --> 00:01:28.320 I feel like you can get a lot of battery life from far smaller cases like just to give you some perspective 00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:30.320 these are AirPods Pro 2's and 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:38.600 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 00:01:39.080 --> 00:01:46.800 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 00:01:46.800 --> 00:01:49.620 Like this the earhooks are like a silicone type 00:01:50.380 --> 00:01:56.660 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 00:01:56.660 --> 00:02:00.560 You can almost barely tell that there's actually like a slight 00:02:00.940 --> 00:02:06.340 Seam pretty slick and I got a B which stands for Dre before we take a tour of the earbuds themselves 00:02:06.340 --> 00:02:10.180 We're just gonna take another look at the case. There is a button for pairing other than that 00:02:10.180 --> 00:02:17.540 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 00:02:18.060 --> 00:02:23.180 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 00:02:23.180 --> 00:02:26.300 You have these in your ears. You go into a different room. You've lost your case 00:02:26.300 --> 00:02:34.240 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 00:02:34.940 --> 00:02:39.860 Level set of earbuds, you know on the earbuds themselves. These are nitinoyed hooks 00:02:39.860 --> 00:02:44.260 So they're a classic kind of spring type of hook. We also have a rocker here 00:02:44.380 --> 00:02:48.620 This is really cool having rockers on each side. I love it. I love it now 00:02:48.620 --> 00:02:53.140 You might be wondering what is this stuff that's going on down here. Well, these are 00:02:54.100 --> 00:02:58.900 Actually heart rate monitors. Yes, these have heart rate detection in them 00:02:58.900 --> 00:03:05.420 The nice thing about having heart rate tracking on your earbuds is that some health trackers like wristwatches or even smart rings 00:03:05.420 --> 00:03:11.020 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 00:03:11.340 --> 00:03:16.420 Wristwatches can just get in the way. These will provide you another option to get heart rate tracking. There's also the typical 00:03:16.860 --> 00:03:23.620 Presence detection. It's very much like the ones on the AirPods pros, which means that these actually have optical presence detection system 00:03:23.620 --> 00:03:27.620 So unlike say just an IR system where if you just cover it it goes 00:03:27.620 --> 00:03:32.500 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 00:03:32.540 --> 00:03:35.780 This will actually go to sleep unless it sees your skin 00:03:35.780 --> 00:03:42.740 You can see that it has these metal pogo pins as opposed to just doing a fully wireless charging system 00:03:42.740 --> 00:03:46.420 People have reported that that has caused failures whether that is 00:03:46.860 --> 00:03:50.020 Chargers short-circuiting or otherwise. Hey 00:03:50.860 --> 00:03:57.780 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 00:03:57.780 --> 00:04:00.500 But it's something to note. Let's put them in and see how they fit 00:04:01.380 --> 00:04:10.540 Okay, first off already One problem already identified this button is really easy to press this is button right here 00:04:10.540 --> 00:04:20.740 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 00:04:20.740 --> 00:04:27.860 They are able to take advantage of some of the improved noise cancelling on I guess it's there's not even new anymore 00:04:27.860 --> 00:04:34.660 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 00:04:34.660 --> 00:04:40.460 As you get the nice easy pairing and quick response with iOS devices with any sort of 00:04:40.860 --> 00:04:46.020 Hook-based earbud. I always recommend that you just kind of have to try them. Everyone's ears are different 00:04:46.020 --> 00:04:50.460 I find that they very rarely bother me. These are a pretty gentle 00:04:51.620 --> 00:04:57.220 Like squeeze there's not it doesn't really squeeze my ears at all if you had somebody who had like thicker ears 00:04:57.220 --> 00:05:00.740 It might be a little bit less comfortable. I find these to be quite nice and 00:05:01.940 --> 00:05:10.820 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 00:05:11.340 --> 00:05:14.940 Tensing because when you're lifting heavy you kind of do all sorts of weird stuff with your face like 00:05:20.620 --> 00:05:26.780 Yeah, that's good another thing to note is that these hooks can be really really annoying for glasses users 00:05:26.900 --> 00:05:34.660 So I'm gonna get our producer And good friend Jake Bellavance co-worker you exercise. I've been known to exercise 00:05:34.660 --> 00:05:41.140 I actually have AirPods pros twos and I had to buy third-party little hooks because they always fall into my ears 00:05:41.340 --> 00:05:47.060 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 00:05:47.340 --> 00:05:49.980 Just for when I work out. So I'm actually keep the box 00:05:50.660 --> 00:05:54.900 Well, they didn't come in a box. They came in a little bag. Oh, that's about what I'm a little compact 00:05:55.060 --> 00:06:00.900 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 00:06:01.700 --> 00:06:04.100 Like noise cancellation or pass through. Oh 00:06:04.780 --> 00:06:08.580 This sounds like a word from our sponsor 00:06:09.420 --> 00:06:13.980 Listening impressions they sound pretty good if you're somebody who wants bass 00:06:13.980 --> 00:06:18.820 Hey, look at that beats is a place to get it But it's not like kind of overbearing like it used to be 00:06:18.820 --> 00:06:25.620 I think the beats for the past few years have had quite a good sound profile on all of their lineup 00:06:25.660 --> 00:06:31.020 It's nothing like, you know, it's not refined or calculated or clinical or anything like that 00:06:31.020 --> 00:06:36.220 But it makes music sound good. There's a weird almost like tinniness or graininess or something 00:06:36.220 --> 00:06:41.940 There's like just some part of the treble is a kind of two spikes quite high for me and I find it 00:06:42.180 --> 00:06:47.300 Very cheap sounding and is not pleasurable and I think can really come up in some sorts of distortion 00:06:47.540 --> 00:06:51.100 It has a kind of a bad effect on like a lot of acoustic guitar. It's not 00:06:52.100 --> 00:06:55.460 Awful and it's probably something that if I spent a little bit more time, I would get used to 00:06:56.340 --> 00:06:59.820 But I wouldn't say that these are by any means bad sounding headphones 00:06:59.820 --> 00:07:06.580 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 00:07:06.580 --> 00:07:11.140 I just want to read part of this email that Andrew from headphones comm sent us about the testing 00:07:11.140 --> 00:07:16.540 Just like the AirPods Pro 2, the PowerBeats Pro have a wear sensor that needs to be engaged before being measured 00:07:16.540 --> 00:07:19.420 And when I say a wear sensor, I mean a meat sensor 00:07:19.980 --> 00:07:26.780 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 00:07:26.780 --> 00:07:32.300 I fully expect there to be data from other sources where the meat sensor is not properly engaged 00:07:32.500 --> 00:07:37.540 My meat sensor is always engaged. This is a frequency response chart for the PowerBeats Pro 2 00:07:37.540 --> 00:07:45.420 The dash line is our headphone target. This is what we think will be a good sounding headphone for most people 00:07:45.420 --> 00:07:49.740 So the closer it is to the target the more likely that you will enjoy the headphone 00:07:49.740 --> 00:07:53.380 That doesn't mean that it'll be perfect for everybody. We're all built very different 00:07:53.380 --> 00:08:00.580 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 00:08:00.580 --> 00:08:05.620 And I agree. It's a nice fun bassy sound that isn't super overpowering 00:08:05.620 --> 00:08:11.820 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 00:08:11.820 --> 00:08:15.140 20 Hertz end once we move to the mids and upper mids 00:08:15.140 --> 00:08:20.940 I think that's where I noticed the weirdness in the sound when I was just kind of talking about my impressions 00:08:20.940 --> 00:08:28.500 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 00:08:28.500 --> 00:08:33.420 You see there's a big kind of four or five decibel dip right around 650 Hertz 00:08:33.460 --> 00:08:37.260 I think that might be where you're getting a kind of that cheap sound because we're gonna have this like lull 00:08:37.420 --> 00:08:44.140 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 00:08:44.580 --> 00:08:48.060 Overall though, there's nothing remotely catastrophic about this 00:08:48.060 --> 00:08:52.540 This is a I think this is a pretty good sounding headphone and most people will be quite happy with them 00:08:52.940 --> 00:09:02.260 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 00:09:02.260 --> 00:09:06.580 Headphones where stuff in the higher ranges in the upper mids get blocked out pretty naturally 00:09:06.580 --> 00:09:13.100 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 00:09:13.100 --> 00:09:17.260 Works the best. That's why it's great for stuff like engine noise and when we turn on A and C 00:09:17.500 --> 00:09:21.140 It does it does a really good job improving the attenuation of lower noises 00:09:21.140 --> 00:09:24.940 So the A and C is mostly working on everything below one kilo Hertz 00:09:25.100 --> 00:09:30.380 Everything above one kilo Hertz is basically just gonna be from the natural seal of having those headphones in your ears 00:09:30.380 --> 00:09:37.180 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 00:09:37.300 --> 00:09:42.620 But it's it's really good and compared to my daily drivers at my desk the folk Alpates 00:09:42.620 --> 00:09:46.100 these sound this way better A and C with very little audible hiss and 00:09:46.980 --> 00:09:54.900 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 00:09:54.900 --> 00:09:58.860 I think these do a bang-up job. They're not incredible 00:09:59.300 --> 00:10:04.220 They're not terrible for the gym. I would actually think these would be pretty great, but of course 00:10:04.900 --> 00:10:12.540 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 00:10:12.860 --> 00:10:16.420 Producer of ShortCircuit Jake says I sounded like I lived in a can 00:10:17.580 --> 00:10:23.700 Would you say it was below average? No, just just fine. Yeah, if you are an Android user 00:10:23.700 --> 00:10:31.420 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 00:10:31.420 --> 00:10:37.580 I will say the apps a little disappointing. You can turn off automatic ear detection stuff like that. You can select 00:10:38.060 --> 00:10:44.580 Some controls you can decide the which side of these will be which operation or they can be the same operation 00:10:44.980 --> 00:10:49.700 But it's still a little limited in terms of what you're allowed to do 00:10:49.900 --> 00:10:56.700 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 00:10:56.700 --> 00:11:00.020 It's a big bummer that there's no EQ built into this 00:11:00.540 --> 00:11:05.340 Not even a simple one especially because you know, it would be nice to be able to fix the kind of 00:11:05.540 --> 00:11:09.100 One of the only problems I have with the sound by just a quick little EQ fix 00:11:09.100 --> 00:11:14.260 Where does that leave us with the powerbeats Pro 2? I think that if you were a powerbeats Pro fan 00:11:14.660 --> 00:11:20.100 This is gonna hit all of the marks for you. The case is smaller still huge 00:11:20.700 --> 00:11:24.700 But it's a similar form factor. I think it's improved decent battery life 00:11:24.820 --> 00:11:30.940 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 00:11:31.020 --> 00:11:35.420 They're tried and true. They're also a great set of truly wireless earbuds 00:11:35.420 --> 00:11:38.460 But you get better find my integration and you get the little like 00:11:38.940 --> 00:11:44.100 Speaker on it to help find stuff if you are somebody who needs that kind of tight seal that great fit 00:11:44.420 --> 00:11:51.140 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 00:11:51.140 --> 00:11:54.780 I'd say there's a lot of other places to look especially at the $250 price range 00:11:54.780 --> 00:11:57.940 That's over a lot of great wireless ear buds live. Thanks for watching if you like this video 00:11:57.940 --> 00:12:01.900 Why don't you check out the video where I checked out the Beats Studio Buds Plus? Oh, man 00:12:01.900 --> 00:12:06.020 They should have done the clear plastic. Oh, I would have loved if these had the transparent plastic 00:12:06.020 --> 00:12:10.380 That would have been so cool. That would have been so cool. Orange is good though. Ha. Oh, oh