as much as i love the airpods pros i have to admit that daily driving them
with an Android phone is not the greatest experience not because
apple couldn't make it so but because they choose not to oh no you aren't
enough our customer you have to buy more of our products to deserve to be able to
update your firmware which is why i'm super
super excited about sony's wf-1000 xm4s
they need a better name for these things it's like do i want airpods pro
or do i want wf-1000xm4
i'm really hoping that i want the wf-1000xm4 these have sony's new
integrated v1 processor which is supposed to give them much better active
noise cancellation than their previous generation product they also have actually a
comparably sized battery case compared to the airpods pros
look at that it is a little bit thicker but the most important
thing is whether it passes the little pocket test for me okay dennis little
pocket test ah it's a little bulky it's a little
bulky here's the airpods pros for context okay
yes they do they use them for airpods i'm starting this trend
i'm a trendy kind of guy charging is handled with usb
type c and opening it up we can see a
little charge indicator right there and the earphones themselves
okay so much like most other wireless earphones they've got these little
pushpin connectors that charge the actual earphones themselves so
you're supposed to get eight hours with active noise cancellation enabled
and then another 16 hours from the battery charging case for a total of 24.
so why do i keep comparing them to the airpods pro because
the spec for spec they're pretty darn close
now we actually got two versions we got the white one and then we also got this
press kit that has the black one
and i wanted to see both because as much as i like the airpods pros i don't like
the color i don't think anything that you stick in your ear should be white
and i would really rather have black earphones so this is the one i'm
most excited about okay so here's the color
okay i can see how people could get into the kind of
earthy tone white ones i wouldn't even call it white it's more of like uh
like it reminds me of like stone like kind of a stone color
but the black ones look pretty sharp
oh look at that all recyclable packaging
paper uh what do we got in here okay so they come with the
medium tips pre-installed and then they also include small and large ones
color-coded and you get a type-c charging cable i
don't know if my high expectations are because i think they will be good or
because i'm just really really hoping that they're good let's start with just a fit test interesting they're
using a memory foam style ear tip the advantage of these is they
provide an excellent seal against the ear canal
with very little noise bleed but the disadvantage is that they are
not the best in terms of durability now apparently they've got four
microphones total now so two on each one one microphone on the
outside that's going to be for hearing ambient sound around you
that it needs to cancel oh wow this noise canceling kicked in i can
barely hear myself talk now i mean i can like inside my own head but that
just everything went away and then they have a second microphone on the inside
for checking that the noise canceling is working well so the four of them
all work together uh let's go ahead and get these paired though
and then we'll try to oh look at that just showed right up
connect the anc on these is
eerily good
like i hear what i'm saying i'm just i mean i can tell i can tell you're
talking brandon but i i can read your lips i can't really
understand
just barely wow it's pretty good in
terms of the pressure feeling on my ears as well
um i would say it is maybe not quite as
good as the airpods pros but it's also a
significantly stronger active noise cancelling effect that's
really really impressive i would say a lot of that probably comes down to
using the foam style ear tips rather than like a silicone style ear tips but
obviously the microphone tech plays into it very heavily as well
so when i'm running it's gonna let ambient sound through and then you can
decide exactly what level of ambient sound you
want to allow through so all the background noise of the warehouse just went away
but what if i talk to jono hey how you doing
yeah i can i could hear you but it's
it's quiet if i had music on i probably wouldn't be able to hear you sorry sorry
the noise cancelling sorry what send your ear picks that's creepy remove
the headphones from your ears okay next turn your face forwards and
fit it within the frame on the screen please move the camera away from your
head turn your head slowly to the right
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apparently hold on why don't we try that again okay got my ear that time please
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sound quality so it'll use the highest quality codec that it can
um it does support ldac so that's pretty sweet or you can prioritize a more
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so maybe i don't have to reactivate my apple music subscription
because supposedly it'll actually use the v1 processor to
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here we go this is great
all the eq presets you could want or
just off you can set a couple of custom ones that's awesome
wait manual how do i adjust it i can't
do it okay well whatever if that actually works then i guess it'll be pretty neat
these sound great like they sound
really good punchy not overdone
great clarity in the highs now i feel
like i gotta throw in the airpods pros just to kind of
side by side them the airpods pros to be
clear are not you know the benchmark against which all headphones are measured they're not
great sounding headphones but what they are is excellent active
noise cancellation earphones that are super convenient
oh wow by comparison these just seem like i don't even have
noise cancellation on the difference is
way more than i thought when i hadn't
side-by-sided them yet man i don't know if i can go back the
case is kind of thicker though which is a pain in the butt
and they're not cheap they're almost 300 us dollars
type c charging though means i no longer have to have lightning cables in my life
but then i rarely use lightning anyway do they have wireless charging
they do have wireless charging okay
they're just not really that comparable to be honest with you
but there's more to earphones than sound
quality and what apple does really well is
ergonomics these are so comfortable and something that i do
that probably most people don't is i sleep with earphones in
every night yeah they are they're not as
comfortable the tighter seal against the ear the
fact that they're so bulky so you can see like the size difference
is market all right let's try the other thing so
apparently they've really tuned it to deal with wind noise select this if
wind noise is bothersome using this function shortens continuous
playback time so i guess i'm not supposed to be able to hear that
fan oh yeah oh wow it works really well
so i'm getting that exact same effect like the it kind of kind of sounds like someone
flapping a flag in the wind or something as the as the wind passes over the mic
oh that's really cool so
the noise cancellation is what takes away the actual
like whirring but then the wind
noise reduction is what takes away the sound of the wind blowing over the mic
that's that works surprisingly well
i really like these i'm impressed i think i'm going to try and make the
switch because they really do sound a lot better subscribe to ShortCircuit
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this is like so satisfying as a fidget toy
this is like yeah it's all right
that's a very minor gripe obviously