i wouldn't really describe myself as a fan of anything but i love my airpods
pros they sound fine the active noise cancellation is
excellent without any kind of weird pressure on my ears and they are among
the most comfortable in-ear headphones that i have ever used so when i saw
apple's third-gen regular airpods which
bring that airpods pro shape to a lower price point albeit without active noise
cancellation i was pretty excited and
this is my first hands-on brand new there you go we're tearing off the seals
airpods with mag safe charging case okay
four headphones i actually see magsafe as having more value for me personally
than it does for a phone i don't have a ton of difficulty lining up my phone on
a regular qi charging pad but every once in a while i do miss with
these just because they're so small compared to the normal shape of a charging pad that i could see that being
extremely useful airpods thanks don't bother telling me what generation i
bought or anything like that who cares right
still resentful of their naming schemes now is this smaller it's smaller i've
sequestered myself actually Anthony did all our coverage of the event so all i
saw was that it's the airpods pro shape but
you don't have to pay quite so much for it they are a lot smaller wow they're basically the
size of the old airpods carrying case except it opens up horizontally now
instead of instead of vertically actually here i'm just going to pull this out that is like is that is it
exactly the same size boy is it ever close wow hold on
i think it might be a little thicker if
it's thicker it's marginal it's really close which means then that it's going
to fit perfectly in your headphone pocket boom
just like that oh man that goes in real easy that is one of the biggest
advantages that apple has over their competition because there's tons of
other earphones out there that have four ish hour battery life in the earphones
themselves and then offer another 20 something in the case but where apple
really stands out is that they do it in a case that is way smaller and now they
do it in an earphone that is really really aggressively sized to be
clear the new third gen airpods have six hours of battery life which is even more
impressive given the size of the case now one thing that i can tell you guys
that i'm going to miss immediately is you can see that the silicone tip from
the airpods pros is not present on the new airpods one nice thing about this is
it means that after six months you won't be being shamed actively into buying a new
pair because your ear tips which are white for some reason turn yellow there
that's a little less unpleasant looking right brandon now interestingly these
are not really quite the same shape but wouldn't you be more concerned with the
airpods stem 3 clogging up with wax
no that's a really big grill all you're going to need is a little bit of
moisture like an isopropyl alcohol get it kind of softened up a little bit you
should be able to pretty much wipe that out i mean the deeper it goes in your
ear the more wax buildup is going to be a problem i know that some people in
particular do have trouble with their pods clogging up with wax but i'd say
that they've actually done a better than usual job of making it
cleanable here obviously if it you know disassembled in
any way that was helpful for those kinds of things it would be better but never
change apple oh is there anything else included
yes you get a usbc to lightning cable so
wireless charging sold separately okay what i'm really interested in is
the ergonomics because that's my favorite thing about the airpods pros
lg's latest tone freeze the fp8s are
actually very very close in terms of comfort but these are really really good
i just want to put my regular pros in for a sec here my daily drivers okay
basically perfect they're impossible to remove from my ears without putting my
fingers in take them out i actually sleep with them in almost
every night i turn on the active noise cancellation just kind of helps me sleep
through random noises i absolutely love
these things let's see how much you're giving up for what is it 70 bucks
is the difference in price i think
they're not going to come out but you're also not going to have that snugness
that you get from a silicone ear tip my biggest takeaway just from putting them
in my ears i haven't even listened to anything yet my biggest takeaway from
them right out of the gate is apple
please don't discontinue the pro line
not everyone likes that in-ear canal sort of violated feeling though so your
mileage may vary but the other thing you're not getting compared to the pros
is you're not getting any kind of passive noise isolation which is not the
same as cancellation so the pros have
both they isolate well because they've got this nice seal with your ear but
they also actively noise cancel using the microphones that are on the outside
of the earphone these have neither there's no active noise cancellation and
because they don't form a seal with your ear i can hear every bit as well right
now maybe slightly less well but almost
as well as if i didn't have them in at all what no i don't want to find contacts just not now i'm trying to
listen to music you idiots why does every music app want to know everything
about you well i mean we all know the answer but stop oh my god i have to put
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dbrand if i end up with hiccups for the entire rest of this video i'm gonna be
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oh interesting okay i was not expecting them to make a noise when i put them in
my ears because um that's usually the indicator for
whether you're turning anc on and off okay holding just gives you siri oh siri
i do strongly prefer the squeeze style
stems compared to the tap on the old regular airpods this is
way better it's way harder to accidentally actuate and it's way easier
to hit on purpose got the same little
tick noise to confirm that it registered now how do i control whether spatial
audio is on i can tell that it's probably on right now that
seems like a weird thing for them to have on by default though
the fact that there's so many hits for this tells you everything you need to
know settings bluetooth thank you for not
bringing that up when i searched for it there we go you can turn it on
in control center so i can't turn it on
here it doesn't do anything see this is just
to hear the difference okay it was on so that explains why it had
that huge sound kind of sound to it let's turn it off and see how they sound
without any weird digital tricks i could see people liking it in the same
way that there's a lot of people that do like dsp effects you know like to give a
more auditorium-like sound to what they're listening to or whatever else
personally i strongly prefer to listen to music as the artist intended it
without any effects that's not my vibe here
i'd also probably never use that head tracked mode now that's interesting
apple is doing more than just adding a dsp effect here that gives it spatiality
they're also playing around with eq as
far as i can tell and in much the same way that modern laptops if you listen to
their speakers without the drivers installed they sound
horrible manufacturers are adding a lot of software compensation
for the drivers that make them sound better i think apple is actually
tuning the sound as well as adding that
openness to it
sorry adaptive eq where do you adjust that it appears to be just running all the
time that's a really interesting move because i think a lot of people are going to turn on the spatial audio and
they're gonna be like wow how did i ever listen to music before this but a big
part of the effect is coming from something that doesn't have to do with
that spatial effect i wonder why well i guess i don't really wonder why i guess
it's a way to have people hooked on the apple ecosystem because to my knowledge
these features won't be supported if you pair to an Android device like i do i
actually daily drive these with an Android device all right let's move on
though how do they sound compared to the airpods pro because i think that's the
decision a lot of people are going to be making especially with how much more
expensive the gen 3 airpods are compared to gen 2's
interesting so my option for
my option for spatial audio goes away when i'm sharing my audio
it's really hard to compare it's like comparing an open backed
headphone with a closed back headphone they have very different
flavors another thing that makes this challenging is these are my daily
drivers i listen to them every single day so inherently there's a bit of bias
towards them because your ears tend to like what they often listen to
i other than the lack of noise isolation
and noise cancellation i can't find a problem with them
compared to the airpods pros i'd say they are on par to be clear neither of
these are audiophile grade iems if you wanted those you could expect them to
have a wire on them but they both sound good enough and if your main concern is
not tuning out the world around you these are a huge step forward compared
to last gen in terms of comfort in terms of sound yeah what can i say good
product oh the mic is the mic supposed to be
worse oh i mean yeah we can do a quick uh we
do a quick call what's up mr tan how's my uh how's my audio quality doing over
there i would have you test my airpods pros as well but i have a slight problem
with the microphone on my airpods pros because i ran over this one in my car
the microphone is a little bit it used to be good it used
to be good well we can't really fault uh apple for that one
yeah just like my videos used to be good back
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