WEBVTT 00:00:01.140 --> 00:00:08.880 ow my little finger got caught in there what are the two best truly wireless 00:00:05.339 --> 00:00:10.920 earbuds on the market airpods Pro Gen 2 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:14.639 probably and the second one the Bose quiet Comfort earbuds 2. we tested them 00:00:13.500 --> 00:00:18.900 we're going to show you some graphs about how they sound objectively and 00:00:16.740 --> 00:00:24.420 we're also going to open this box up and see how they work start here at this QR 00:00:21.420 --> 00:00:26.699 code not doing that case is kind of 00:00:24.420 --> 00:00:33.300 weird shaped it's like a badge like a sheriff's badge and here are the buds 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:35.820 themselves a cable USB a to c and some 00:00:33.300 --> 00:00:41.640 extra tips and fins small and large mediums already equipped and then you've 00:00:37.800 --> 00:00:42.780 got large and large I guess they're not 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:48.660 small medium large they're just different bigger bump on these ones a lot of time they're Fitness oriented to 00:00:46.680 --> 00:00:52.440 try to you know keep them in your ears better but these fins are really low 00:00:50.700 --> 00:00:56.340 profile especially the ones that are presently equipped so I probably would 00:00:54.300 --> 00:00:59.760 just keep these on and actually I wonder if yeah they kind of look incomplete 00:00:58.140 --> 00:01:03.899 without them I peel that back and there's just like a little missing 00:01:01.620 --> 00:01:07.340 empty track now so how do they look pretty normal oh 00:01:05.880 --> 00:01:12.540 it just made a noise and that noise is actually a sort of 00:01:09.479 --> 00:01:15.000 calibration for your ear canal it's 00:01:12.540 --> 00:01:18.420 called Bo's custom tune and when that noise is being played it's kind of like 00:01:16.500 --> 00:01:22.439 you can think of echolocation it's measuring how long it takes the source 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:26.580 signals that it sends out there to bounce back and return and making like a 00:01:24.479 --> 00:01:29.759 map of your ear and then tuning the sound based on that I like that there's 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:35.460 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 00:01:33.659 --> 00:01:40.140 of using them and it sounds pretty cool not a great lid sound not a really 00:01:37.619 --> 00:01:44.939 satisfying hinge or snap open either for the fidgeters among you but it's a 00:01:42.540 --> 00:01:50.340 pocketable case I'd say not as Tiny or smooth as this apple just kills it but 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:52.680 this isn't a Bose versus airpods video 00:01:50.340 --> 00:01:58.560 there's an app and I'm going to try to add these earphones to it 00:01:55.619 --> 00:02:03.299 little button there they are connect the magic experience okay battery levels on 00:02:01.020 --> 00:02:07.680 the left and right are exposed here but what about uh the case itself it doesn't 00:02:05.700 --> 00:02:11.760 tell me there's an EQ which is nice I don't believe the airpods have that at 00:02:09.060 --> 00:02:16.379 all but other than presets this gives you the actual control up to what do 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:20.280 they call plus and minus 10. it's only three different levels so you get your 00:02:18.180 --> 00:02:24.959 mid lows mids and highs not as nice as having like a full Matrix where you can 00:02:21.900 --> 00:02:27.239 do it in different like discrete jumps 00:02:24.959 --> 00:02:30.959 of frequency range left shortcut touch and hold the left earbud to use your 00:02:28.860 --> 00:02:34.860 shortcut so that's the only button that you can 00:02:32.040 --> 00:02:39.599 adjust hey play and pause the thing with these is it's always either on or 00:02:37.379 --> 00:02:44.760 transparency is odd on you can't just turn it off which you can with the 00:02:41.879 --> 00:02:48.239 airpods you go ANC on ANC off transparency on I want to find out what 00:02:46.440 --> 00:02:51.180 it feels like to adjust the ANC and the transparency levels but before that I 00:02:49.620 --> 00:02:54.599 gotta just listen to these things thanks to pataka for sponsoring today's video 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:58.140 if you talk it makes magsafe compatible armored fiber phone cases and 00:02:56.340 --> 00:03:02.400 accessories their light and thin design comes in black gray or a fusion weave 00:03:00.660 --> 00:03:06.300 design for those that want a little more personality 00:03:04.019 --> 00:03:10.920 they offer a whole ecosystem of magsafe products from their four in one mag easy 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:15.239 slider the mag easy car mount Pro use their slider to charge your iPhone Apple 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:18.599 watch and airpods all at the same time and with the strength of pitaka's 00:03:16.980 --> 00:03:22.739 magnets there's no need to worry about your phone slipping from the car mount 00:03:20.099 --> 00:03:26.640 even if you're driving over 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press and hold to to not cycle through modes but 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:20.280 instead hail the assistant and I believe that's just on the left but here's an 00:04:18.900 --> 00:04:24.780 explanation of what the modes are quiet has a little information guy beside it 00:04:22.680 --> 00:04:29.280 mutes the world around you so you can better hear and feel it okay so it's ANC 00:04:27.300 --> 00:04:33.900 on but aware it doesn't have that little info thing it has 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:38.220 a settings button here are your surroundings and your music at the same 00:04:35.400 --> 00:04:41.639 time it has active sense if things get too loud Bose automatically adjust the 00:04:40.139 --> 00:04:46.860 amount of noise cancellation so that you can enjoy music comfortably that's the same thing that airpods have so 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:52.080 basically there's like a decibel like limit I believe it's 85 decibels on the 00:04:49.919 --> 00:04:56.460 airpods and anything that's louder than that just gets brought down uh you can 00:04:54.300 --> 00:05:00.540 turn that on and off on here obviously you don't have a choice on airpods 00:04:58.500 --> 00:05:06.660 everything is just the way that Apple thinks you want it you can like set 00:05:04.020 --> 00:05:10.919 anything in relax there's no verbal explanation or written explanation of 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:15.120 what it is but you can switch up the noise cancellation aggressiveness my 00:05:12.780 --> 00:05:18.840 voice is very isolated all the hissing that was around me went away now it's 00:05:16.860 --> 00:05:22.680 like there's like a a distant highway or like white noise generator somewhere as 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:27.600 far as like whether or not turning this up and down makes it more like cabin 00:05:24.660 --> 00:05:31.080 pressure feeling e not really I kind of feel like it when it's Max but it might 00:05:29.340 --> 00:05:35.820 be just an illusion because of the other things that change now what happens when 00:05:33.300 --> 00:05:42.360 I look at Focus mode same deal different starting point maybe so for both Focus 00:05:39.300 --> 00:05:44.340 and relax where you have the ability to 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:48.360 change this if you go below middle that's like amplifying the transparency 00:05:46.620 --> 00:05:53.460 mode and if you go above the middle that's like amplifying the active noise 00:05:51.419 --> 00:05:57.479 canceling if you're in the middle I guess you get a bit of both you can kind 00:05:54.960 --> 00:06:00.600 of hear the world around you but engine noise and air conditioning are kind of 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:04.979 blocked out that's cool and you can save these presets too you can actually 00:06:02.280 --> 00:06:09.539 rename them oh they give you some things um to choose from like walk and work out 00:06:07.020 --> 00:06:14.039 I don't see how I can type my own that's why not you guys 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:17.940 whatever but that's nice you know you could go from the preset I like when I'm 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:21.539 in the office versus the preset I like to have when I'm walking to the office 00:06:20.039 --> 00:06:25.740 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 00:06:24.419 --> 00:06:29.699 two or three oh it's so annoying if I tap here it 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:34.979 should turn it up to that point you shouldn't have to swipe what you can see here is how the headphones measured 00:06:32.819 --> 00:06:40.319 which is the green line versus the Harman Kardon Target line so why isn't 00:06:37.380 --> 00:06:45.419 it just zero zero being a flat frequency response where nothing is above or below 00:06:43.259 --> 00:06:49.680 the artist's intent basically well the reason is your ears are imperfect your 00:06:47.819 --> 00:06:53.520 ears are actually more sensitive to different frequency ranges than others 00:06:51.840 --> 00:06:57.060 so for example you can see that the Harman Kardon curve says that you should 00:06:55.319 --> 00:07:00.240 probably crank up the bass and the high because we're less good at hearing those 00:06:58.860 --> 00:07:06.440 sounds we're better at hearing mid-range because that's where human voices and lots of other sounds in nature that are 00:07:03.180 --> 00:07:09.120 relevant to us like those boxes falling 00:07:06.440 --> 00:07:13.800 ah I love you so much so as you can see this follows that Target curve really 00:07:11.520 --> 00:07:18.660 nicely almost the whole way except for around 2.5 k there's a little bump so to 00:07:16.500 --> 00:07:22.560 some people by default these might sound a little bright you can use the EQ that 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:25.740 we saw on the app to turn that down a little bit so on this chart what you're 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:29.520 looking at is what we call purse of equal loudness so because your ears are 00:07:27.300 --> 00:07:32.460 less sensitive to Bass when you turn your music to a low volume A lot of 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:37.560 times we just can't hear the bass anymore so on your stereo AVR or on 00:07:35.699 --> 00:07:41.400 either of these pairs of earphones they'll actually compensate for that so 00:07:39.180 --> 00:07:45.120 you can see in this chart they base the Boost quite a bit and when you turn up 00:07:43.080 --> 00:07:50.280 the volume Green's a little louder and orange is louder than that this stuff 00:07:46.979 --> 00:07:52.319 mostly happens on the low end the base 00:07:50.280 --> 00:07:56.819 which is the left side now dynamic range compression is not something that's 00:07:54.419 --> 00:08:02.039 happening on purpose on on the earphones this is basically you turn up your music 00:07:59.520 --> 00:08:05.940 really loud and the load that you're putting on the headphones starts to 00:08:04.139 --> 00:08:09.360 exceed their capabilities like they just requires too much power or they're going 00:08:07.979 --> 00:08:13.919 to clip or something they will actually play certain frequencies more quietly 00:08:12.300 --> 00:08:17.340 because they just can't deliver so you can see on the right side of this graph 00:08:15.599 --> 00:08:22.800 if you turn them up really loud which is the red line under 2K it starts to drop 00:08:20.280 --> 00:08:28.139 off and then above 12 or 13k it like hits a cliff and so if you're listening 00:08:24.300 --> 00:08:30.300 to like a really high delicate violin 00:08:28.139 --> 00:08:34.200 it'll be quieter so like that as you turn up the music the the prominence of 00:08:32.459 --> 00:08:39.659 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 00:08:37.020 --> 00:08:43.380 away and be and quieter and quieter and you can see the Orange is uh lower 00:08:41.640 --> 00:08:47.220 volume than red and green and blue are lower still so it's really only when you 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:51.540 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 00:08:50.339 --> 00:08:57.300 that you're getting less bass as you crank these loud this is actually just a Vestige of the curves of equal loudness 00:08:55.080 --> 00:09:00.839 so it's just kind of like a measurement problem another interesting thing is if 00:08:59.700 --> 00:09:05.760 you turn it up really loud and the headphones can't deliver it you might actually hear this as like pumping like 00:09:04.140 --> 00:09:09.959 the music is kind of surging and getting quieter and the reason for that is that 00:09:07.860 --> 00:09:14.339 music isn't of equal loudness as a song plays like every bar there could be a 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:18.660 kick drum and then that could be more load than the quieter parts of the bar 00:09:16.380 --> 00:09:23.880 in between kick drums so that means that the load imposed onto the headphones 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:25.920 every bar varies and when it's a lot of 00:09:23.880 --> 00:09:28.560 load that's when the headphones kind of hack it anymore and that's where you're 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:31.920 gonna see drops on the graph because when those impedances hit they just 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:36.240 can't deliver all the power that they need to but then an instant later in the 00:09:34.380 --> 00:09:40.320 song There's not as much music happening and they can deliver and the volume kind 00:09:38.940 --> 00:09:44.339 of picks up again so you get this surging effect in in volume the next 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:49.320 graph is a comparison between the bows and the airpods for noise cancellations 00:09:46.380 --> 00:09:53.700 so lower is better here you can see that in general the airpods have better 00:09:51.060 --> 00:09:58.320 cancellation especially in the mid-range but there is a one spot where the bows 00:09:56.160 --> 00:10:03.180 do a lot better it's around five kilohertz there's like a 10 DB 00:10:00.420 --> 00:10:07.740 difference all sounds that you hear have a mix of frequencies it's not just like 00:10:05.339 --> 00:10:12.120 engine noises all all low even engine noise is going to have some High bands 00:10:09.839 --> 00:10:16.740 in it as well so it's hard to say like that five kilohertz spot is where you're 00:10:14.940 --> 00:10:20.220 gonna hear this instrument or something like that it's all kind of like in 00:10:17.940 --> 00:10:24.000 general but you can see that both of these things don't really do much until 00:10:21.959 --> 00:10:27.899 you get around 60 hertz and that's kind of where you're going into the from sub 00:10:25.560 --> 00:10:30.660 bass to base because the sub bass stuff is stuff you're not going to hear it's 00:10:29.040 --> 00:10:35.880 stuff you're going to feel and obviously the noise cancellation isn't going to really affect that but in terms of uh 00:10:33.959 --> 00:10:38.700 noise you're going to hear on a plane it looks like the Bose does just as well 00:10:37.140 --> 00:10:41.760 but the airpods appear to do better with voice voices that's where you can see 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:45.600 that mid-range people talking babies crying uh airpods might be a little bit 00:10:43.980 --> 00:10:50.399 better but these are both doing pretty well for battery life they're advertising six hours that's on the buds 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:54.899 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 00:10:53.459 --> 00:10:59.459 three hours and you can charge the buds in one hour and 20 minutes after charge 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:03.959 gets you two hours of playback so oh they're okay pretty standard the price 00:11:01.200 --> 00:11:08.459 though they are 300 which is fifty dollars more than the airpods so if 00:11:05.579 --> 00:11:13.920 you're an iPhone person I I Feel Like These are pretty neck and neck in a lot 00:11:10.380 --> 00:11:15.839 of ways but that price and that Apple 00:11:13.920 --> 00:11:19.680 Magic you're gonna get is you might want the airpods for everybody else you're 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:23.940 not gonna get any Apple Magic on your Android device and these are very good 00:11:21.660 --> 00:11:27.480 so um maybe that extra 50 bucks would be worth it for you they definitely sound 00:11:25.800 --> 00:11:31.860 great and both of these are great earbuds Christmas is coming I don't 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:34.140 think anyone can be really be mad if they get either of these so thanks for 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:37.980 watching ShortCircuit if you like this video hit like and hit subscribe and hit 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:42.540 up our back catalog where we review other earbuds or not review We unbox 00:11:40.740 --> 00:11:46.380 other earbuds this now that we have these graphs and stuff is a review is it 00:11:44.640 --> 00:11:49.040 still just an unboxing let us know in the comments what you think