So you want to buy AirPods Pro's 3's but you also want to be able to tell yourself that you're
someone who does their own research. So you're watching this video to see if there's another
thing you could buy that's cheaper and could potentially sound better whilst having you know
some trade-offs but maybe they're good trade-offs for you. These are the nothing ear 3's. If you
haven't been following along they had the nothing ear then that ear 2 then the nothing ear again then
the nothing ear a's and now we're at nothing ear 3. Okay we're back on track. Inside the box
looks like there's a little bundle of literature. Do they have ear tips? Hey AirPods Pro 3 come with
your tips. Ah but they don't come with this tiny little maybe use it in your car cable or use it
never because they do have wireless charging. Even says nothing on it. Cool. It's not even a foot
long. This is like 10 inches long. You get three sizes of silicone ear tips that are not installed.
Extra small small and large meaning mediums gotta be on these. Before I pull these out let's just
take a moment to look at the case which they redesigned. It actually kind of looks iPhone-y
with this aluminum band on the side here. It has that same kind of dimple in the middle that they've
had for a bit. The closing noise honestly not very good kind of harsh. Cool transparent industrial
design you can actually see the device from the back both of them. On the most familiar looking
side there's a USB-C port, a LED light for indications, no breathing and a microphone. I
actually think it's dual microphones that go along with this cool new button called the talk
button so that you can make YouTube videos and talk into it like this and stuff. I actually think
it's kind of cool. We'll talk about that a little later and they still have their physical pairing
button on the inside which is nice to have. I don't really like cases that only allow you to pair by
opening it. I find it annoying because I find that Bluetooth is kind of flaky. The buds themselves
have a stem design. They look so cool. They're see-through. They're transparent. Partially they
got this like hal 9000 red dot indicates that this is the right year bud. You can see some of the
electronics on the inside but otherwise the bud itself is very you know AirPods pro-y. I just
think they have a little more personality than your kind of plain white bud. All right chucking
them in. We're going to get into the app and everything later first. I just want to listen to
them real quick. This probably isn't the best test track but there's this live version of
Nine Nails covering David Bowie's I'm Afraid of Americans that I've just been obsessed with lately.
Holy. Holy cow. The kick drum is just like so reverberant. I've never heard of that pronounce.
Oh that's not a good uh. That's hilarious. Like it's I mean it's hard to make this song sound
back because it's such a awesome song but there's just all these extra sounds that I don't normally
hear. These like really low bass sounds that are like just floating around in the background.
It's like comical. Let me show you what this looks like visually. All right so checking out DMS's
results from the lab here. You can see down here is the band of bass that most people on the planet
earth like and if you're at the top end of that you're like a bass head and then here's the nothing
is way way way way out here. Like that's just nuts. That's unacceptable and the funniest thing is I
was watching back some videos that we made on the previous Nothing Ear products and if you
look at the Nothing Ear 2 they had like almost a flat tuning out of the box so I thought that that
would can continue on but it actually was specific only to the Ear 2 and didn't come on any products
after that. I was telling DMS that and he said yeah because that's the time that they flew me
out to London and I tuned it for them. Is bittersweet. That's finding that out is bittersweet.
Looking at other parts of the range you can see the mids are a little bit
depressed and then going into the treble. They're kind of going the wrong way. Trouble generally
the target is trending downward but these are kind of trending upward. Not a huge deal though. Yeah
they're a little bit bright and yeah there's this big trough here but you're probably not going to
hear that so don't worry about it too much. This is the least problematic part of this EQ but we
have another graph with the AirPods Pro 3 that we'll show you. Actually kind of funny you can see
in this graph that the AirPods Pro 3s and the Nothing 3s are kind of twinsies but also frenemies.
They're similarly B shaped meaning that they're kind of overcooked in the base and they're overcooked
in the highs but in the middle they're kind of the inverse of each other. They both have mids that
are out of band relative to the target but you can see that the AirPods have the lower end of the
mids elevated whereas the ears have that depressed and then when you get to the upper mids low treble
that is flipped. So how is that going to manifest? They're both going to sound B shaped and you know
fun I guess but the AirPods are going to sound warmer and the Nothing Ear 3s are probably going
to sound a little colder if that makes sense you know using language to describe sound it's crazy
but unlike the AirPods 3 we can use the app with the EQ to tune these to actually sound quite good
so let's see about doing that now. This is the app oh I'm getting a tutorial now which is good
because I don't know how to use this super mic thing and I do want to know okay here we are
noise canceling what I love these sound effects they have when you toggle this when you turn on
transparency you hear like this feminine exhale it's like and when you turn on the noise cancellation
it's like kind of cool now I will say this is going to be an area where the AirPods Pro 3s are
probably going to blow these out of the water I really think that though I haven't used them myself
yet from what I've heard and what I've read it seems like they are on the next level of noise
cancellation everyone's just gonna have to spend the next two years catching up to whereas these
they're normal they're normal noise canceling headphones now we don't have visualizations
or testing to show you we used to do that on this channel we're pausing that right now because
we want to get better at it but what I can say is I don't know you guys talk. How do I sound?
Is my voice cancelled? Your voice is not cancelled it's passively cancelled. Does it sound any
better in the transparency mode? Let me hear you in transparency mode. How's the timbre of my voice?
You sound more natural in transparency mode that's for sure what if I just go to off? Is my noise
more cancelled and off than it wasn't cancelled? Noise canceling definitely cancelled out more
I could still hear him talking but I can only hear parts of his range of course so the lower
probably the lower end of it is getting removed. Is it better than nothing? Is nothing better than
nothing? Never gets old and I'll just note that they do have an adaptive noise canceling mode which
is nice because sometimes when you're out in the out in the world you do want it to ramp up and down
you'll get better battery life when it's not being used as fully and maybe you'll feel a little less
pressure in your head too so if it ramps down when you're in a quiet area and then only ramps back
up when there's a jackhammer nearby that's great. Spatial audio supermine bass enhancement oh
bass enhancement wow how do they even have that button all right equalizer let's go they do have
some canned equalization profiles in here but you can also go to custom where in the simple tab
of the app you just have three knobs that you can go up and down plus or minus six db but if you go
to advanced you get way more tuning options now I have eight different levers to touch again at
plus or minus six and this is just all we ask for please this is the minimum apple perfect product
if you just gave us this so how would you use this if there's something obvious to you when
you're listening to the sound profile that you don't like go to the part of the spectrum that you
think it applies to and just nudge it around right so if you think it's too basic just take some of
the bass down if you think there's like cowbells and cymbals that are too harsh for you take down
the top end or what you can do I'm going to give you two options number one there's a part of this
app that allows you to make a personal sound profile just by similar to what air pods have
they shoot sounds around in your canal and they make a profile based on that or you can use this
qr code which represents a tuning that dms made over at Labs so I'm going to put that on now and
listen to these puppies again you hit the three dots up here you go to import scan qr code
new profile added Labs tune wow that was easy so what I can do now is actually a b test the out of
the box sound with the Labs tune just by switching between these two tabs which is very cool let's
do it okay yeah as soon as I hit simple that bass guitar just comes way forward in the mix it
doesn't sound like comical like my earlier test because we it's a bass riff that's like really high
that's like really high oh oh I see now this is so interesting to have this ab test ability I can
hear the elements of how the v-shape is more exciting it's like it's more forward it's kind
of like closer to my ears and I can hear that there are more high notes and then we switch it's
kind of like turning on HDR or filmmaker mode we're like oh the colors are a little more muted
than like best buy mode but they're it's more realistic and it's fuller and it's just like
more balanced it actually does sound quieter as well which is weird but you have your global volume
toggle so you just turn that up and it's super useful having that ab capability right there in
the app like instantaneously because I know that your memory for hearing one sounding compared to
another is like three seconds or something like that and usually you can't compare that quickly
the voice is that the mid-range depression that the out of the box profile has manifests is it just
sounding like just worse like it's like the difference between just listening to a song
playing on the radio versus listening in hi-fi speakers the voice sounds fuller it's more like
he's in the room yeah it's just night and day between these two eqs which is just it's amazing
how much eq makes a difference apple dms just told me that the reason that the out of the box
profile sounds louder is actually because when you're using the advanced eq they do turn it down so
it wasn't just a difference in frequencies that are hitting my ears differently they give you
more headroom on your advanced custom eq so that you can tweak things around but in order to give
you that headroom they got to turn it all down makes it a little harder to ab test too because
generally people think that loud sounding things sound better enough listening now i want to check
out the interface these do have a little kind of buttons that you you click the whole stem to press
the button it's not a tap which i prefer because i find that the tap is so finicky on other earphones
that i use they have the standard single click is play and pause or answer and hang up the phone
then they've got actions that you can actually customize so the double press the triple the hold
and the double pinch and hold i don't know why they're saying double press and then triple pinch
is there a difference in pressing pinch or is this just a typo out of the box it's really basic
and kind of conventional double tap is forward triple is back hold is your noise control sometimes
that'll launch like a virtual assistant i'm sure you can yeah voice assistant right there you can
make it volume up and down crucial for me i just hate it when you are unable to put volume adjustment
on the earbuds themselves you have to actually get your phone out or reach into your pocket that
stinks you don't have to do that here lots of options and a very intuitive interface a lot of
this stuff we've seen before though so let's go to the new thing which is the talk button it's a
dual microphone array built into the case designed to cut through background noise basically all you
do is hold it down to talk walkie talkie style and then release it and when you've released it
you'll be muted if you don't want to hold it down that for the duration of your entire conversation
you can double click and hold it and it'll lock it on okay so we're taking a video on the phone
and hopefully right now we're just using the onboard mics and we're gonna see what happens
all right bell took the phone away so this is what these microphones sound like
yes um yes the channeling my inner jack gold bloom there but i said we would talk about the
super mic feature which we'll learn about now crystal clear voice calls at the push of a button
do i just press this and it just changes it imagine you're in an airport and everything
is noisy around you you just want to be a professional i'll talk to your boss cool so that did just
work uh that's very cool i think it's a handy feature to have it might tip me over to buying
these if i was really neck and neck between two products sometimes you can feel powerless
when you get on a call you put your earbuds in and people go oh you sound bad and you go well
there's nothing i can do i have the i can't move the mic closer to my face there it's in
my ear all i can do is maybe to stop wind this gives you another thing you can try that alone
might give some peace of mind Labs also said that apparently these were really consistent sounding
between tests like putting them in as long as you got a good seal they sound really consistent
which is good and fit and feel wise they found they feel very light and they feel pretty in there
that's just let's just get crazy here
i actually had my birthday yesterday and i can just hear my neck when i do that now
but uh they're still in it's good they claim to have increased the battery life on these
puppies each one of these buds has 55 milliamp hour battery inside it which gives you now five
and a half hours of listening with a and c on from the buds themselves 38 hours of total playback
time from here 22 hours if you have a and c on and if you're running short on time 10 minutes
of charging gets you 10 hours of no a and c playback note though that last generation you
actually got a couple more hours out of the case so this gen they they prioritized more
playback from the buds and less like overall from the case so i guess i would make that trade
i mean i guess it all just nets out the same the total charge you get ah whatever but we got
to talk price when this product line first launched it was 100 bucks then they upped it to 150 although
you can get the last gen for 130 now these though are launching for 180 so they're getting up there
they're still cheaper than AirPods for example but AirPods pros but you know that's quite a change
that's quite an increase it's almost like a whole different product line so should you get these and
especially if you're doing a shootout between these and the AirPods pro 3 i think it really comes down
to a and c is gonna be way better on those AirPods pro 3's than here not to say that this bad here
sound can be better here it might turn out that you like the sound of their AirPods but
i would compare it to a good eq if you care mostly about that these are the better buy these are
cheaper and then they have the mic thing if you do a lot of calls and you want it to sound better
i think that's a cool feature i would probably use it sometimes i'm actually curious to know
though what people prioritize the most from their earbuds so let us know in a comment down below
thanks for watching and if you haven't seen our AirPods pro 3's unboxing what do you live under
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