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ow my little finger got caught in there what are the two best truly wireless

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earbuds on the market airpods Pro Gen 2

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probably and the second one the Bose quiet Comfort earbuds 2. we tested them

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we're going to show you some graphs about how they sound objectively and

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we're also going to open this box up and see how they work start here at this QR

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code not doing that case is kind of

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weird shaped it's like a badge like a sheriff's badge and here are the buds

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themselves a cable USB a to c and some

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extra tips and fins small and large mediums already equipped and then you've

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got large and large I guess they're not

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small medium large they're just different bigger bump on these ones a lot of time they're Fitness oriented to

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try to you know keep them in your ears better but these fins are really low

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profile especially the ones that are presently equipped so I probably would

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just keep these on and actually I wonder if yeah they kind of look incomplete

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without them I peel that back and there's just like a little missing

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empty track now so how do they look pretty normal oh

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it just made a noise and that noise is actually a sort of

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calibration for your ear canal it's

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called Bo's custom tune and when that noise is being played it's kind of like

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you can think of echolocation it's measuring how long it takes the source

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signals that it sends out there to bounce back and return and making like a

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map of your ear and then tuning the sound based on that I like that there's

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no user interaction it's not like a part of the app where you have to go to and say like test my hearing it's just part

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of using them and it sounds pretty cool not a great lid sound not a really

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satisfying hinge or snap open either for the fidgeters among you but it's a

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pocketable case I'd say not as Tiny or smooth as this apple just kills it but

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this isn't a Bose versus airpods video

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there's an app and I'm going to try to add these earphones to it

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little button there they are connect the magic experience okay battery levels on

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the left and right are exposed here but what about uh the case itself it doesn't

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tell me there's an EQ which is nice I don't believe the airpods have that at

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all but other than presets this gives you the actual control up to what do

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they call plus and minus 10. it's only three different levels so you get your

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mid lows mids and highs not as nice as having like a full Matrix where you can

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do it in different like discrete jumps

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of frequency range left shortcut touch and hold the left earbud to use your

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shortcut so that's the only button that you can

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adjust hey play and pause the thing with these is it's always either on or

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transparency is odd on you can't just turn it off which you can with the

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airpods you go ANC on ANC off transparency on I want to find out what

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it feels like to adjust the ANC and the transparency levels but before that I

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description alright the music's playing and I tap to pause I kind of missed it

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pause play doesn't matter which one you use

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next track oh that's registered volume volume is is

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swipe but that double top registered as volume

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next I just next it right into an ad

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oh now I'm in aware mode okay so this is transparency is on but I can obviously

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still hear the music I'm in relax mode it's like the closest thing to off maybe

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Focus that's uh

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really similar to relax I don't know it's very ambiguous that's the default

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interface you can change the press and hold to to not cycle through modes but

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instead hail the assistant and I believe that's just on the left but here's an

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explanation of what the modes are quiet has a little information guy beside it

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mutes the world around you so you can better hear and feel it okay so it's ANC

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on but aware it doesn't have that little info thing it has

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a settings button here are your surroundings and your music at the same

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time it has active sense if things get too loud Bose automatically adjust the

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amount of noise cancellation so that you can enjoy music comfortably that's the same thing that airpods have so

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basically there's like a decibel like limit I believe it's 85 decibels on the

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airpods and anything that's louder than that just gets brought down uh you can

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turn that on and off on here obviously you don't have a choice on airpods

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everything is just the way that Apple thinks you want it you can like set

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anything in relax there's no verbal explanation or written explanation of

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what it is but you can switch up the noise cancellation aggressiveness my

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voice is very isolated all the hissing that was around me went away now it's

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like there's like a a distant highway or like white noise generator somewhere as

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far as like whether or not turning this up and down makes it more like cabin

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pressure feeling e not really I kind of feel like it when it's Max but it might

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be just an illusion because of the other things that change now what happens when

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I look at Focus mode same deal different starting point maybe so for both Focus

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and relax where you have the ability to

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change this if you go below middle that's like amplifying the transparency

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mode and if you go above the middle that's like amplifying the active noise

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canceling if you're in the middle I guess you get a bit of both you can kind

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of hear the world around you but engine noise and air conditioning are kind of

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blocked out that's cool and you can save these presets too you can actually

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rename them oh they give you some things um to choose from like walk and work out

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I don't see how I can type my own that's why not you guys

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whatever but that's nice you know you could go from the preset I like when I'm

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in the office versus the preset I like to have when I'm walking to the office

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kind of annoying that there's four I wish I could disable some of them so that when I'm cycling through it's just

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two or three oh it's so annoying if I tap here it

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should turn it up to that point you shouldn't have to swipe what you can see here is how the headphones measured

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which is the green line versus the Harman Kardon Target line so why isn't

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it just zero zero being a flat frequency response where nothing is above or below

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the artist's intent basically well the reason is your ears are imperfect your

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ears are actually more sensitive to different frequency ranges than others

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so for example you can see that the Harman Kardon curve says that you should

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probably crank up the bass and the high because we're less good at hearing those

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sounds we're better at hearing mid-range because that's where human voices and lots of other sounds in nature that are

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relevant to us like those boxes falling

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ah I love you so much so as you can see this follows that Target curve really

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nicely almost the whole way except for around 2.5 k there's a little bump so to

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some people by default these might sound a little bright you can use the EQ that

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we saw on the app to turn that down a little bit so on this chart what you're

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looking at is what we call purse of equal loudness so because your ears are

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less sensitive to Bass when you turn your music to a low volume A lot of

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times we just can't hear the bass anymore so on your stereo AVR or on

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either of these pairs of earphones they'll actually compensate for that so

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you can see in this chart they base the Boost quite a bit and when you turn up

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the volume Green's a little louder and orange is louder than that this stuff

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mostly happens on the low end the base

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which is the left side now dynamic range compression is not something that's

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happening on purpose on on the earphones this is basically you turn up your music

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really loud and the load that you're putting on the headphones starts to

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exceed their capabilities like they just requires too much power or they're going

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to clip or something they will actually play certain frequencies more quietly

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because they just can't deliver so you can see on the right side of this graph

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if you turn them up really loud which is the red line under 2K it starts to drop

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off and then above 12 or 13k it like hits a cliff and so if you're listening

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to like a really high delicate violin

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it'll be quieter so like that as you turn up the music the the prominence of

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that violin may be sounding like it's in the foreground and nice and clear and Loud it'll just start to kind of back

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away and be and quieter and quieter and you can see the Orange is uh lower

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volume than red and green and blue are lower still so it's really only when you

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crank it pretty loud here if you're looking at the left side of the graph don't pay attention to that it's not

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that you're getting less bass as you crank these loud this is actually just a Vestige of the curves of equal loudness

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so it's just kind of like a measurement problem another interesting thing is if

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you turn it up really loud and the headphones can't deliver it you might actually hear this as like pumping like

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the music is kind of surging and getting quieter and the reason for that is that

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music isn't of equal loudness as a song plays like every bar there could be a

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kick drum and then that could be more load than the quieter parts of the bar

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in between kick drums so that means that the load imposed onto the headphones

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every bar varies and when it's a lot of

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load that's when the headphones kind of hack it anymore and that's where you're

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gonna see drops on the graph because when those impedances hit they just

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can't deliver all the power that they need to but then an instant later in the

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song There's not as much music happening and they can deliver and the volume kind

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of picks up again so you get this surging effect in in volume the next

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graph is a comparison between the bows and the airpods for noise cancellations

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so lower is better here you can see that in general the airpods have better

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cancellation especially in the mid-range but there is a one spot where the bows

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do a lot better it's around five kilohertz there's like a 10 DB

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difference all sounds that you hear have a mix of frequencies it's not just like

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engine noises all all low even engine noise is going to have some High bands

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in it as well so it's hard to say like that five kilohertz spot is where you're

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gonna hear this instrument or something like that it's all kind of like in

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general but you can see that both of these things don't really do much until

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you get around 60 hertz and that's kind of where you're going into the from sub

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bass to base because the sub bass stuff is stuff you're not going to hear it's

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stuff you're going to feel and obviously the noise cancellation isn't going to really affect that but in terms of uh

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noise you're going to hear on a plane it looks like the Bose does just as well

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but the airpods appear to do better with voice voices that's where you can see

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that mid-range people talking babies crying uh airpods might be a little bit

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better but these are both doing pretty well for battery life they're advertising six hours that's on the buds

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they actually don't tell you what they expect to get out of the case they do tell you that you can charge the case in

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three hours and you can charge the buds in one hour and 20 minutes after charge

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gets you two hours of playback so oh they're okay pretty standard the price

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though they are 300 which is fifty dollars more than the airpods so if

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you're an iPhone person I I Feel Like These are pretty neck and neck in a lot

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of ways but that price and that Apple

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Magic you're gonna get is you might want the airpods for everybody else you're

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not gonna get any Apple Magic on your Android device and these are very good

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so um maybe that extra 50 bucks would be worth it for you they definitely sound

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great and both of these are great earbuds Christmas is coming I don't

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think anyone can be really be mad if they get either of these so thanks for

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