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So you want to buy AirPods Pro's 3's but you also want to be able to tell yourself that you're

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someone who does their own research. So you're watching this video to see if there's another

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thing you could buy that's cheaper and could potentially sound better whilst having you know

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some trade-offs but maybe they're good trade-offs for you. These are the nothing ear 3's. If you

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haven't been following along they had the nothing ear then that ear 2 then the nothing ear again then

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the nothing ear a's and now we're at nothing ear 3. Okay we're back on track. Inside the box

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looks like there's a little bundle of literature. Do they have ear tips? Hey AirPods Pro 3 come with

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your tips. Ah but they don't come with this tiny little maybe use it in your car cable or use it

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never because they do have wireless charging. Even says nothing on it. Cool. It's not even a foot

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long. This is like 10 inches long. You get three sizes of silicone ear tips that are not installed.

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Extra small small and large meaning mediums gotta be on these. Before I pull these out let's just

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take a moment to look at the case which they redesigned. It actually kind of looks iPhone-y

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with this aluminum band on the side here. It has that same kind of dimple in the middle that they've

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had for a bit. The closing noise honestly not very good kind of harsh. Cool transparent industrial

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design you can actually see the device from the back both of them. On the most familiar looking

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side there's a USB-C port, a LED light for indications, no breathing and a microphone. I

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actually think it's dual microphones that go along with this cool new button called the talk

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button so that you can make YouTube videos and talk into it like this and stuff. I actually think

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it's kind of cool. We'll talk about that a little later and they still have their physical pairing

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button on the inside which is nice to have. I don't really like cases that only allow you to pair by

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opening it. I find it annoying because I find that Bluetooth is kind of flaky. The buds themselves

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have a stem design. They look so cool. They're see-through. They're transparent. Partially they

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got this like hal 9000 red dot indicates that this is the right year bud. You can see some of the

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electronics on the inside but otherwise the bud itself is very you know AirPods pro-y. I just

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think they have a little more personality than your kind of plain white bud. All right chucking

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them in. We're going to get into the app and everything later first. I just want to listen to

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them real quick. This probably isn't the best test track but there's this live version of

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Nine Nails covering David Bowie's I'm Afraid of Americans that I've just been obsessed with lately.

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Holy. Holy cow. The kick drum is just like so reverberant. I've never heard of that pronounce.

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Oh that's not a good uh. That's hilarious. Like it's I mean it's hard to make this song sound

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back because it's such a awesome song but there's just all these extra sounds that I don't normally

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hear. These like really low bass sounds that are like just floating around in the background.

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It's like comical. Let me show you what this looks like visually. All right so checking out DMS's

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results from the lab here. You can see down here is the band of bass that most people on the planet

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earth like and if you're at the top end of that you're like a bass head and then here's the nothing

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is way way way way out here. Like that's just nuts. That's unacceptable and the funniest thing is I

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was watching back some videos that we made on the previous Nothing Ear products and if you

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look at the Nothing Ear 2 they had like almost a flat tuning out of the box so I thought that that

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would can continue on but it actually was specific only to the Ear 2 and didn't come on any products

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after that. I was telling DMS that and he said yeah because that's the time that they flew me

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out to London and I tuned it for them. Is bittersweet. That's finding that out is bittersweet.

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Looking at other parts of the range you can see the mids are a little bit

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depressed and then going into the treble. They're kind of going the wrong way. Trouble generally

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the target is trending downward but these are kind of trending upward. Not a huge deal though. Yeah

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they're a little bit bright and yeah there's this big trough here but you're probably not going to

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hear that so don't worry about it too much. This is the least problematic part of this EQ but we

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have another graph with the AirPods Pro 3 that we'll show you. Actually kind of funny you can see

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in this graph that the AirPods Pro 3s and the Nothing 3s are kind of twinsies but also frenemies.

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They're similarly B shaped meaning that they're kind of overcooked in the base and they're overcooked

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in the highs but in the middle they're kind of the inverse of each other. They both have mids that

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are out of band relative to the target but you can see that the AirPods have the lower end of the

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mids elevated whereas the ears have that depressed and then when you get to the upper mids low treble

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that is flipped. So how is that going to manifest? They're both going to sound B shaped and you know

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fun I guess but the AirPods are going to sound warmer and the Nothing Ear 3s are probably going

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to sound a little colder if that makes sense you know using language to describe sound it's crazy

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but unlike the AirPods 3 we can use the app with the EQ to tune these to actually sound quite good

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so let's see about doing that now. This is the app oh I'm getting a tutorial now which is good

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because I don't know how to use this super mic thing and I do want to know okay here we are

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noise canceling what I love these sound effects they have when you toggle this when you turn on

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transparency you hear like this feminine exhale it's like and when you turn on the noise cancellation

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it's like kind of cool now I will say this is going to be an area where the AirPods Pro 3s are

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probably going to blow these out of the water I really think that though I haven't used them myself

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yet from what I've heard and what I've read it seems like they are on the next level of noise

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cancellation everyone's just gonna have to spend the next two years catching up to whereas these

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they're normal they're normal noise canceling headphones now we don't have visualizations

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or testing to show you we used to do that on this channel we're pausing that right now because

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we want to get better at it but what I can say is I don't know you guys talk. How do I sound?

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Is my voice cancelled? Your voice is not cancelled it's passively cancelled. Does it sound any

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better in the transparency mode? Let me hear you in transparency mode. How's the timbre of my voice?

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You sound more natural in transparency mode that's for sure what if I just go to off? Is my noise

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more cancelled and off than it wasn't cancelled? Noise canceling definitely cancelled out more

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I could still hear him talking but I can only hear parts of his range of course so the lower

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probably the lower end of it is getting removed. Is it better than nothing? Is nothing better than

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nothing? Never gets old and I'll just note that they do have an adaptive noise canceling mode which

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is nice because sometimes when you're out in the out in the world you do want it to ramp up and down

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you'll get better battery life when it's not being used as fully and maybe you'll feel a little less

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pressure in your head too so if it ramps down when you're in a quiet area and then only ramps back

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up when there's a jackhammer nearby that's great. Spatial audio supermine bass enhancement oh

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bass enhancement wow how do they even have that button all right equalizer let's go they do have

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some canned equalization profiles in here but you can also go to custom where in the simple tab

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of the app you just have three knobs that you can go up and down plus or minus six db but if you go

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to advanced you get way more tuning options now I have eight different levers to touch again at

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plus or minus six and this is just all we ask for please this is the minimum apple perfect product

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if you just gave us this so how would you use this if there's something obvious to you when

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you're listening to the sound profile that you don't like go to the part of the spectrum that you

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think it applies to and just nudge it around right so if you think it's too basic just take some of

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the bass down if you think there's like cowbells and cymbals that are too harsh for you take down

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the top end or what you can do I'm going to give you two options number one there's a part of this

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app that allows you to make a personal sound profile just by similar to what air pods have

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they shoot sounds around in your canal and they make a profile based on that or you can use this

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qr code which represents a tuning that dms made over at Labs so I'm going to put that on now and

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listen to these puppies again you hit the three dots up here you go to import scan qr code

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new profile added Labs tune wow that was easy so what I can do now is actually a b test the out of

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the box sound with the Labs tune just by switching between these two tabs which is very cool let's

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do it okay yeah as soon as I hit simple that bass guitar just comes way forward in the mix it

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doesn't sound like comical like my earlier test because we it's a bass riff that's like really high

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that's like really high oh oh I see now this is so interesting to have this ab test ability I can

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hear the elements of how the v-shape is more exciting it's like it's more forward it's kind

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of like closer to my ears and I can hear that there are more high notes and then we switch it's

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kind of like turning on HDR or filmmaker mode we're like oh the colors are a little more muted

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than like best buy mode but they're it's more realistic and it's fuller and it's just like

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more balanced it actually does sound quieter as well which is weird but you have your global volume

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toggle so you just turn that up and it's super useful having that ab capability right there in

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the app like instantaneously because I know that your memory for hearing one sounding compared to

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another is like three seconds or something like that and usually you can't compare that quickly

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the voice is that the mid-range depression that the out of the box profile has manifests is it just

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sounding like just worse like it's like the difference between just listening to a song

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playing on the radio versus listening in hi-fi speakers the voice sounds fuller it's more like

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he's in the room yeah it's just night and day between these two eqs which is just it's amazing

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how much eq makes a difference apple dms just told me that the reason that the out of the box

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profile sounds louder is actually because when you're using the advanced eq they do turn it down so

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it wasn't just a difference in frequencies that are hitting my ears differently they give you

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more headroom on your advanced custom eq so that you can tweak things around but in order to give

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you that headroom they got to turn it all down makes it a little harder to ab test too because

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generally people think that loud sounding things sound better enough listening now i want to check

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out the interface these do have a little kind of buttons that you you click the whole stem to press

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the button it's not a tap which i prefer because i find that the tap is so finicky on other earphones

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that i use they have the standard single click is play and pause or answer and hang up the phone

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then they've got actions that you can actually customize so the double press the triple the hold

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and the double pinch and hold i don't know why they're saying double press and then triple pinch

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is there a difference in pressing pinch or is this just a typo out of the box it's really basic

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and kind of conventional double tap is forward triple is back hold is your noise control sometimes

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that'll launch like a virtual assistant i'm sure you can yeah voice assistant right there you can

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make it volume up and down crucial for me i just hate it when you are unable to put volume adjustment

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on the earbuds themselves you have to actually get your phone out or reach into your pocket that

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stinks you don't have to do that here lots of options and a very intuitive interface a lot of

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this stuff we've seen before though so let's go to the new thing which is the talk button it's a

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dual microphone array built into the case designed to cut through background noise basically all you

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do is hold it down to talk walkie talkie style and then release it and when you've released it

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you'll be muted if you don't want to hold it down that for the duration of your entire conversation

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you can double click and hold it and it'll lock it on okay so we're taking a video on the phone

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and hopefully right now we're just using the onboard mics and we're gonna see what happens

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all right bell took the phone away so this is what these microphones sound like

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yes um yes the channeling my inner jack gold bloom there but i said we would talk about the

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super mic feature which we'll learn about now crystal clear voice calls at the push of a button

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do i just press this and it just changes it imagine you're in an airport and everything

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is noisy around you you just want to be a professional i'll talk to your boss cool so that did just

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work uh that's very cool i think it's a handy feature to have it might tip me over to buying

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these if i was really neck and neck between two products sometimes you can feel powerless

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when you get on a call you put your earbuds in and people go oh you sound bad and you go well

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there's nothing i can do i have the i can't move the mic closer to my face there it's in

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my ear all i can do is maybe to stop wind this gives you another thing you can try that alone

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might give some peace of mind Labs also said that apparently these were really consistent sounding

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between tests like putting them in as long as you got a good seal they sound really consistent

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which is good and fit and feel wise they found they feel very light and they feel pretty in there

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that's just let's just get crazy here

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i actually had my birthday yesterday and i can just hear my neck when i do that now

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but uh they're still in it's good they claim to have increased the battery life on these

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puppies each one of these buds has 55 milliamp hour battery inside it which gives you now five

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and a half hours of listening with a and c on from the buds themselves 38 hours of total playback

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time from here 22 hours if you have a and c on and if you're running short on time 10 minutes

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of charging gets you 10 hours of no a and c playback note though that last generation you

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actually got a couple more hours out of the case so this gen they they prioritized more

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playback from the buds and less like overall from the case so i guess i would make that trade

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i mean i guess it all just nets out the same the total charge you get ah whatever but we got

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to talk price when this product line first launched it was 100 bucks then they upped it to 150 although

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you can get the last gen for 130 now these though are launching for 180 so they're getting up there

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they're still cheaper than AirPods for example but AirPods pros but you know that's quite a change

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that's quite an increase it's almost like a whole different product line so should you get these and

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especially if you're doing a shootout between these and the AirPods pro 3 i think it really comes down

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to a and c is gonna be way better on those AirPods pro 3's than here not to say that this bad here

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sound can be better here it might turn out that you like the sound of their AirPods but

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i would compare it to a good eq if you care mostly about that these are the better buy these are

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cheaper and then they have the mic thing if you do a lot of calls and you want it to sound better

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i think that's a cool feature i would probably use it sometimes i'm actually curious to know

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though what people prioritize the most from their earbuds so let us know in a comment down below

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thanks for watching and if you haven't seen our AirPods pro 3's unboxing what do you live under

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rock go check it out i think we're actually gonna do an LTT as well just get subscribed to every

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channel that we have all of them they're just movies