WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.400 So you want to buy AirPods Pro's 3's but you also want to be able to tell yourself that you're 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:08.400 someone who does their own research. So you're watching this video to see if there's another 00:00:08.400 --> 00:00:14.480 thing you could buy that's cheaper and could potentially sound better whilst having you know 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:18.880 some trade-offs but maybe they're good trade-offs for you. These are the nothing ear 3's. If you 00:00:18.880 --> 00:00:23.600 haven't been following along they had the nothing ear then that ear 2 then the nothing ear again then 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:29.840 the nothing ear a's and now we're at nothing ear 3. Okay we're back on track. Inside the box 00:00:29.840 --> 00:00:36.320 looks like there's a little bundle of literature. Do they have ear tips? Hey AirPods Pro 3 come with 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:42.320 your tips. Ah but they don't come with this tiny little maybe use it in your car cable or use it 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:47.360 never because they do have wireless charging. Even says nothing on it. Cool. It's not even a foot 00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:52.800 long. This is like 10 inches long. You get three sizes of silicone ear tips that are not installed. 00:00:52.800 --> 00:00:58.000 Extra small small and large meaning mediums gotta be on these. Before I pull these out let's just 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:02.240 take a moment to look at the case which they redesigned. It actually kind of looks iPhone-y 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:07.040 with this aluminum band on the side here. It has that same kind of dimple in the middle that they've 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:14.800 had for a bit. The closing noise honestly not very good kind of harsh. Cool transparent industrial 00:01:14.800 --> 00:01:18.640 design you can actually see the device from the back both of them. On the most familiar looking 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:25.760 side there's a USB-C port, a LED light for indications, no breathing and a microphone. I 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:29.600 actually think it's dual microphones that go along with this cool new button called the talk 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:32.880 button so that you can make YouTube videos and talk into it like this and stuff. I actually think 00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:36.640 it's kind of cool. We'll talk about that a little later and they still have their physical pairing 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:41.280 button on the inside which is nice to have. I don't really like cases that only allow you to pair by 00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:46.560 opening it. I find it annoying because I find that Bluetooth is kind of flaky. The buds themselves 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:51.440 have a stem design. They look so cool. They're see-through. They're transparent. Partially they 00:01:51.440 --> 00:01:56.640 got this like hal 9000 red dot indicates that this is the right year bud. You can see some of the 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:02.240 electronics on the inside but otherwise the bud itself is very you know AirPods pro-y. I just 00:02:02.240 --> 00:02:07.040 think they have a little more personality than your kind of plain white bud. All right chucking 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:10.560 them in. We're going to get into the app and everything later first. I just want to listen to 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:14.560 them real quick. This probably isn't the best test track but there's this live version of 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:18.160 Nine Nails covering David Bowie's I'm Afraid of Americans that I've just been obsessed with lately. 00:02:18.720 --> 00:02:26.640 Holy. Holy cow. The kick drum is just like so reverberant. I've never heard of that pronounce. 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:36.480 Oh that's not a good uh. That's hilarious. Like it's I mean it's hard to make this song sound 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:42.160 back because it's such a awesome song but there's just all these extra sounds that I don't normally 00:02:42.160 --> 00:02:48.480 hear. These like really low bass sounds that are like just floating around in the background. 00:02:48.480 --> 00:02:52.880 It's like comical. Let me show you what this looks like visually. All right so checking out DMS's 00:02:52.880 --> 00:02:59.440 results from the lab here. You can see down here is the band of bass that most people on the planet 00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:05.280 earth like and if you're at the top end of that you're like a bass head and then here's the nothing 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:11.200 is way way way way out here. Like that's just nuts. That's unacceptable and the funniest thing is I 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:16.560 was watching back some videos that we made on the previous Nothing Ear products and if you 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:21.280 look at the Nothing Ear 2 they had like almost a flat tuning out of the box so I thought that that 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:27.760 would can continue on but it actually was specific only to the Ear 2 and didn't come on any products 00:03:27.760 --> 00:03:32.000 after that. I was telling DMS that and he said yeah because that's the time that they flew me 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:39.200 out to London and I tuned it for them. Is bittersweet. That's finding that out is bittersweet. 00:03:39.200 --> 00:03:42.960 Looking at other parts of the range you can see the mids are a little bit 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:47.200 depressed and then going into the treble. They're kind of going the wrong way. Trouble generally 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:52.400 the target is trending downward but these are kind of trending upward. Not a huge deal though. Yeah 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:56.400 they're a little bit bright and yeah there's this big trough here but you're probably not going to 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:02.160 hear that so don't worry about it too much. This is the least problematic part of this EQ but we 00:04:02.160 --> 00:04:06.560 have another graph with the AirPods Pro 3 that we'll show you. Actually kind of funny you can see 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:13.200 in this graph that the AirPods Pro 3s and the Nothing 3s are kind of twinsies but also frenemies. 00:04:14.160 --> 00:04:18.400 They're similarly B shaped meaning that they're kind of overcooked in the base and they're overcooked 00:04:18.400 --> 00:04:23.920 in the highs but in the middle they're kind of the inverse of each other. They both have mids that 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:29.600 are out of band relative to the target but you can see that the AirPods have the lower end of the 00:04:29.600 --> 00:04:36.000 mids elevated whereas the ears have that depressed and then when you get to the upper mids low treble 00:04:36.080 --> 00:04:40.000 that is flipped. So how is that going to manifest? They're both going to sound B shaped and you know 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:44.880 fun I guess but the AirPods are going to sound warmer and the Nothing Ear 3s are probably going 00:04:44.880 --> 00:04:49.920 to sound a little colder if that makes sense you know using language to describe sound it's crazy 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:56.240 but unlike the AirPods 3 we can use the app with the EQ to tune these to actually sound quite good 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:03.280 so let's see about doing that now. This is the app oh I'm getting a tutorial now which is good 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:08.000 because I don't know how to use this super mic thing and I do want to know okay here we are 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:12.320 noise canceling what I love these sound effects they have when you toggle this when you turn on 00:05:12.320 --> 00:05:18.240 transparency you hear like this feminine exhale it's like and when you turn on the noise cancellation 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:25.280 it's like kind of cool now I will say this is going to be an area where the AirPods Pro 3s are 00:05:25.280 --> 00:05:29.360 probably going to blow these out of the water I really think that though I haven't used them myself 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:33.280 yet from what I've heard and what I've read it seems like they are on the next level of noise 00:05:33.280 --> 00:05:36.880 cancellation everyone's just gonna have to spend the next two years catching up to whereas these 00:05:36.880 --> 00:05:41.920 they're normal they're normal noise canceling headphones now we don't have visualizations 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:45.680 or testing to show you we used to do that on this channel we're pausing that right now because 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:50.160 we want to get better at it but what I can say is I don't know you guys talk. How do I sound? 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:54.960 Is my voice cancelled? Your voice is not cancelled it's passively cancelled. Does it sound any 00:05:54.960 --> 00:05:59.440 better in the transparency mode? Let me hear you in transparency mode. How's the timbre of my voice? 00:05:59.440 --> 00:06:03.600 You sound more natural in transparency mode that's for sure what if I just go to off? Is my noise 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:07.360 more cancelled and off than it wasn't cancelled? Noise canceling definitely cancelled out more 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:12.560 I could still hear him talking but I can only hear parts of his range of course so the lower 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:16.080 probably the lower end of it is getting removed. Is it better than nothing? Is nothing better than 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:20.640 nothing? Never gets old and I'll just note that they do have an adaptive noise canceling mode which 00:06:20.640 --> 00:06:24.800 is nice because sometimes when you're out in the out in the world you do want it to ramp up and down 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:28.640 you'll get better battery life when it's not being used as fully and maybe you'll feel a little less 00:06:28.640 --> 00:06:32.800 pressure in your head too so if it ramps down when you're in a quiet area and then only ramps back 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:37.440 up when there's a jackhammer nearby that's great. Spatial audio supermine bass enhancement oh 00:06:37.440 --> 00:06:42.160 bass enhancement wow how do they even have that button all right equalizer let's go they do have 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:47.600 some canned equalization profiles in here but you can also go to custom where in the simple tab 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:53.280 of the app you just have three knobs that you can go up and down plus or minus six db but if you go 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:58.800 to advanced you get way more tuning options now I have eight different levers to touch again at 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:05.520 plus or minus six and this is just all we ask for please this is the minimum apple perfect product 00:07:05.520 --> 00:07:08.880 if you just gave us this so how would you use this if there's something obvious to you when 00:07:08.880 --> 00:07:12.320 you're listening to the sound profile that you don't like go to the part of the spectrum that you 00:07:12.320 --> 00:07:16.080 think it applies to and just nudge it around right so if you think it's too basic just take some of 00:07:16.080 --> 00:07:20.400 the bass down if you think there's like cowbells and cymbals that are too harsh for you take down 00:07:20.400 --> 00:07:24.640 the top end or what you can do I'm going to give you two options number one there's a part of this 00:07:24.640 --> 00:07:30.320 app that allows you to make a personal sound profile just by similar to what air pods have 00:07:30.320 --> 00:07:34.400 they shoot sounds around in your canal and they make a profile based on that or you can use this 00:07:34.400 --> 00:07:40.400 qr code which represents a tuning that dms made over at Labs so I'm going to put that on now and 00:07:40.400 --> 00:07:46.000 listen to these puppies again you hit the three dots up here you go to import scan qr code 00:07:46.960 --> 00:07:52.960 new profile added Labs tune wow that was easy so what I can do now is actually a b test the out of 00:07:52.960 --> 00:07:57.840 the box sound with the Labs tune just by switching between these two tabs which is very cool let's 00:07:57.840 --> 00:08:05.280 do it okay yeah as soon as I hit simple that bass guitar just comes way forward in the mix it 00:08:05.280 --> 00:08:09.760 doesn't sound like comical like my earlier test because we it's a bass riff that's like really high 00:08:09.760 --> 00:08:17.840 that's like really high oh oh I see now this is so interesting to have this ab test ability I can 00:08:17.840 --> 00:08:22.160 hear the elements of how the v-shape is more exciting it's like it's more forward it's kind 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:26.320 of like closer to my ears and I can hear that there are more high notes and then we switch it's 00:08:26.320 --> 00:08:31.120 kind of like turning on HDR or filmmaker mode we're like oh the colors are a little more muted 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:36.560 than like best buy mode but they're it's more realistic and it's fuller and it's just like 00:08:36.560 --> 00:08:41.920 more balanced it actually does sound quieter as well which is weird but you have your global volume 00:08:41.920 --> 00:08:46.080 toggle so you just turn that up and it's super useful having that ab capability right there in 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:50.320 the app like instantaneously because I know that your memory for hearing one sounding compared to 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.800 another is like three seconds or something like that and usually you can't compare that quickly 00:08:54.800 --> 00:09:00.800 the voice is that the mid-range depression that the out of the box profile has manifests is it just 00:09:00.800 --> 00:09:05.840 sounding like just worse like it's like the difference between just listening to a song 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:10.320 playing on the radio versus listening in hi-fi speakers the voice sounds fuller it's more like 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:15.040 he's in the room yeah it's just night and day between these two eqs which is just it's amazing 00:09:15.040 --> 00:09:20.160 how much eq makes a difference apple dms just told me that the reason that the out of the box 00:09:20.160 --> 00:09:24.640 profile sounds louder is actually because when you're using the advanced eq they do turn it down so 00:09:24.640 --> 00:09:28.480 it wasn't just a difference in frequencies that are hitting my ears differently they give you 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:34.640 more headroom on your advanced custom eq so that you can tweak things around but in order to give 00:09:34.640 --> 00:09:38.000 you that headroom they got to turn it all down makes it a little harder to ab test too because 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:42.800 generally people think that loud sounding things sound better enough listening now i want to check 00:09:42.800 --> 00:09:47.760 out the interface these do have a little kind of buttons that you you click the whole stem to press 00:09:47.760 --> 00:09:53.440 the button it's not a tap which i prefer because i find that the tap is so finicky on other earphones 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:57.920 that i use they have the standard single click is play and pause or answer and hang up the phone 00:09:57.920 --> 00:10:02.880 then they've got actions that you can actually customize so the double press the triple the hold 00:10:02.880 --> 00:10:07.360 and the double pinch and hold i don't know why they're saying double press and then triple pinch 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:12.000 is there a difference in pressing pinch or is this just a typo out of the box it's really basic 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:16.880 and kind of conventional double tap is forward triple is back hold is your noise control sometimes 00:10:16.880 --> 00:10:21.120 that'll launch like a virtual assistant i'm sure you can yeah voice assistant right there you can 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:26.960 make it volume up and down crucial for me i just hate it when you are unable to put volume adjustment 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:30.880 on the earbuds themselves you have to actually get your phone out or reach into your pocket that 00:10:30.880 --> 00:10:35.360 stinks you don't have to do that here lots of options and a very intuitive interface a lot of 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:39.200 this stuff we've seen before though so let's go to the new thing which is the talk button it's a 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:44.720 dual microphone array built into the case designed to cut through background noise basically all you 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:49.760 do is hold it down to talk walkie talkie style and then release it and when you've released it 00:10:49.760 --> 00:10:53.840 you'll be muted if you don't want to hold it down that for the duration of your entire conversation 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:58.480 you can double click and hold it and it'll lock it on okay so we're taking a video on the phone 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:03.520 and hopefully right now we're just using the onboard mics and we're gonna see what happens 00:11:03.520 --> 00:11:07.280 all right bell took the phone away so this is what these microphones sound like 00:11:08.160 --> 00:11:15.920 yes um yes the channeling my inner jack gold bloom there but i said we would talk about the 00:11:15.920 --> 00:11:21.360 super mic feature which we'll learn about now crystal clear voice calls at the push of a button 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:26.320 do i just press this and it just changes it imagine you're in an airport and everything 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:32.400 is noisy around you you just want to be a professional i'll talk to your boss cool so that did just 00:11:32.400 --> 00:11:37.840 work uh that's very cool i think it's a handy feature to have it might tip me over to buying 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:42.080 these if i was really neck and neck between two products sometimes you can feel powerless 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:47.920 when you get on a call you put your earbuds in and people go oh you sound bad and you go well 00:11:47.920 --> 00:11:53.600 there's nothing i can do i have the i can't move the mic closer to my face there it's in 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:58.560 my ear all i can do is maybe to stop wind this gives you another thing you can try that alone 00:11:58.560 --> 00:12:02.640 might give some peace of mind Labs also said that apparently these were really consistent sounding 00:12:02.640 --> 00:12:07.600 between tests like putting them in as long as you got a good seal they sound really consistent 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:13.280 which is good and fit and feel wise they found they feel very light and they feel pretty in there 00:12:13.280 --> 00:12:15.360 that's just let's just get crazy here 00:12:18.880 --> 00:12:23.040 i actually had my birthday yesterday and i can just hear my neck when i do that now 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.960 but uh they're still in it's good they claim to have increased the battery life on these 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:34.000 puppies each one of these buds has 55 milliamp hour battery inside it which gives you now five 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:39.600 and a half hours of listening with a and c on from the buds themselves 38 hours of total playback 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:44.560 time from here 22 hours if you have a and c on and if you're running short on time 10 minutes 00:12:44.560 --> 00:12:50.480 of charging gets you 10 hours of no a and c playback note though that last generation you 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:55.440 actually got a couple more hours out of the case so this gen they they prioritized more 00:12:55.440 --> 00:13:00.560 playback from the buds and less like overall from the case so i guess i would make that trade 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:07.360 i mean i guess it all just nets out the same the total charge you get ah whatever but we got 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:13.360 to talk price when this product line first launched it was 100 bucks then they upped it to 150 although 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:18.800 you can get the last gen for 130 now these though are launching for 180 so they're getting up there 00:13:18.800 --> 00:13:24.560 they're still cheaper than AirPods for example but AirPods pros but you know that's quite a change 00:13:24.560 --> 00:13:29.680 that's quite an increase it's almost like a whole different product line so should you get these and 00:13:29.680 --> 00:13:33.520 especially if you're doing a shootout between these and the AirPods pro 3 i think it really comes down 00:13:33.520 --> 00:13:38.320 to a and c is gonna be way better on those AirPods pro 3's than here not to say that this bad here 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:42.240 sound can be better here it might turn out that you like the sound of their AirPods but 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:46.880 i would compare it to a good eq if you care mostly about that these are the better buy these are 00:13:46.880 --> 00:13:50.720 cheaper and then they have the mic thing if you do a lot of calls and you want it to sound better 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:54.000 i think that's a cool feature i would probably use it sometimes i'm actually curious to know 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:58.960 though what people prioritize the most from their earbuds so let us know in a comment down below 00:13:58.960 --> 00:14:05.680 thanks for watching and if you haven't seen our AirPods pro 3's unboxing what do you live under 00:14:05.680 --> 00:14:10.960 rock go check it out i think we're actually gonna do an LTT as well just get subscribed to every 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:15.200 channel that we have all of them they're just movies