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i wouldn't really describe myself as a fan of anything but i love my airpods

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pros they sound fine the active noise cancellation is

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excellent without any kind of weird pressure on my ears and they are among

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the most comfortable in-ear headphones that i have ever used so when i saw

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apple's third-gen regular airpods which

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bring that airpods pro shape to a lower price point albeit without active noise

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cancellation i was pretty excited and

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this is my first hands-on brand new there you go we're tearing off the seals

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airpods with mag safe charging case okay

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four headphones i actually see magsafe as having more value for me personally

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than it does for a phone i don't have a ton of difficulty lining up my phone on

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a regular qi charging pad but every once in a while i do miss with

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these just because they're so small compared to the normal shape of a charging pad that i could see that being

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extremely useful airpods thanks don't bother telling me what generation i

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bought or anything like that who cares right

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still resentful of their naming schemes now is this smaller it's smaller i've

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sequestered myself actually Anthony did all our coverage of the event so all i

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saw was that it's the airpods pro shape but

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you don't have to pay quite so much for it they are a lot smaller wow they're basically the

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size of the old airpods carrying case except it opens up horizontally now

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instead of instead of vertically actually here i'm just going to pull this out that is like is that is it

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exactly the same size boy is it ever close wow hold on

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i think it might be a little thicker if

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it's thicker it's marginal it's really close which means then that it's going

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to fit perfectly in your headphone pocket boom

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just like that oh man that goes in real easy that is one of the biggest

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advantages that apple has over their competition because there's tons of

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other earphones out there that have four ish hour battery life in the earphones

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themselves and then offer another 20 something in the case but where apple

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really stands out is that they do it in a case that is way smaller and now they

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do it in an earphone that is really really aggressively sized to be

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clear the new third gen airpods have six hours of battery life which is even more

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impressive given the size of the case now one thing that i can tell you guys

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that i'm going to miss immediately is you can see that the silicone tip from

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the airpods pros is not present on the new airpods one nice thing about this is

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it means that after six months you won't be being shamed actively into buying a new

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pair because your ear tips which are white for some reason turn yellow there

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that's a little less unpleasant looking right brandon now interestingly these

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are not really quite the same shape but wouldn't you be more concerned with the

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airpods stem 3 clogging up with wax

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no that's a really big grill all you're going to need is a little bit of

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moisture like an isopropyl alcohol get it kind of softened up a little bit you

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should be able to pretty much wipe that out i mean the deeper it goes in your

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ear the more wax buildup is going to be a problem i know that some people in

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particular do have trouble with their pods clogging up with wax but i'd say

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that they've actually done a better than usual job of making it

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cleanable here obviously if it you know disassembled in

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any way that was helpful for those kinds of things it would be better but never

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change apple oh is there anything else included

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yes you get a usbc to lightning cable so

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wireless charging sold separately okay what i'm really interested in is

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the ergonomics because that's my favorite thing about the airpods pros

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lg's latest tone freeze the fp8s are

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actually very very close in terms of comfort but these are really really good

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i just want to put my regular pros in for a sec here my daily drivers okay

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basically perfect they're impossible to remove from my ears without putting my

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fingers in take them out i actually sleep with them in almost

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every night i turn on the active noise cancellation just kind of helps me sleep

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through random noises i absolutely love

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these things let's see how much you're giving up for what is it 70 bucks

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is the difference in price i think

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they're not going to come out but you're also not going to have that snugness

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that you get from a silicone ear tip my biggest takeaway just from putting them

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in my ears i haven't even listened to anything yet my biggest takeaway from

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them right out of the gate is apple

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please don't discontinue the pro line

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not everyone likes that in-ear canal sort of violated feeling though so your

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mileage may vary but the other thing you're not getting compared to the pros

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is you're not getting any kind of passive noise isolation which is not the

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same as cancellation so the pros have

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both they isolate well because they've got this nice seal with your ear but

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they also actively noise cancel using the microphones that are on the outside

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of the earphone these have neither there's no active noise cancellation and

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because they don't form a seal with your ear i can hear every bit as well right

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now maybe slightly less well but almost

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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

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listen to music you idiots why does every music app want to know everything

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about you well i mean we all know the answer but stop oh my god i have to put

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devices with this is from a drop we did with them a while back they're sticker

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bomb skin uh messaged them and asked them for it i

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know they've got they've got lots of this still it wasn't limited edition at

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all and they also make a habit of trolling me in

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their sponsor spots that they must sell a lot of electronics tape

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in order to pay for because they're not cheap pepper palace the end i just want

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to know what's in it oh reapers okay all

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capsisum capsism i think i've heard of those before i think those are bad

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things all right well good luck everybody

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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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pretty pissed off that's it dbrand you don't get any more talking points than

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that don't like it complain to your reps boss

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oh wait you don't care

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the cold water is so soothing LTT Store.com baby update's done we're

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ready i'm expecting a super simple pairing process connect press once to

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play pause twice to move forward three times please get backwards here we go

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oh interesting okay i was not expecting them to make a noise when i put them in

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my ears because um that's usually the indicator for

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whether you're turning anc on and off okay holding just gives you siri oh siri

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i do strongly prefer the squeeze style

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stems compared to the tap on the old regular airpods this is

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way better it's way harder to accidentally actuate and it's way easier

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to hit on purpose got the same little

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tick noise to confirm that it registered now how do i control whether spatial

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audio is on i can tell that it's probably on right now that

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seems like a weird thing for them to have on by default though

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the fact that there's so many hits for this tells you everything you need to

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know settings bluetooth thank you for not

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bringing that up when i searched for it there we go you can turn it on

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in control center so i can't turn it on

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here it doesn't do anything see this is just

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to hear the difference okay it was on so that explains why it had

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that huge sound kind of sound to it let's turn it off and see how they sound

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without any weird digital tricks i could see people liking it in the same

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way that there's a lot of people that do like dsp effects you know like to give a

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more auditorium-like sound to what they're listening to or whatever else

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personally i strongly prefer to listen to music as the artist intended it

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without any effects that's not my vibe here

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i'd also probably never use that head tracked mode now that's interesting

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apple is doing more than just adding a dsp effect here that gives it spatiality

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they're also playing around with eq as

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far as i can tell and in much the same way that modern laptops if you listen to

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their speakers without the drivers installed they sound

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horrible manufacturers are adding a lot of software compensation

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for the drivers that make them sound better i think apple is actually

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tuning the sound as well as adding that

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openness to it

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sorry adaptive eq where do you adjust that it appears to be just running all the

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time that's a really interesting move because i think a lot of people are going to turn on the spatial audio and

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they're gonna be like wow how did i ever listen to music before this but a big

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part of the effect is coming from something that doesn't have to do with

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that spatial effect i wonder why well i guess i don't really wonder why i guess

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it's a way to have people hooked on the apple ecosystem because to my knowledge

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these features won't be supported if you pair to an Android device like i do i

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actually daily drive these with an Android device all right let's move on

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though how do they sound compared to the airpods pro because i think that's the

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decision a lot of people are going to be making especially with how much more

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expensive the gen 3 airpods are compared to gen 2's

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interesting so my option for

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my option for spatial audio goes away when i'm sharing my audio

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it's really hard to compare it's like comparing an open backed

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headphone with a closed back headphone they have very different

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flavors another thing that makes this challenging is these are my daily

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drivers i listen to them every single day so inherently there's a bit of bias

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towards them because your ears tend to like what they often listen to

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i other than the lack of noise isolation

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and noise cancellation i can't find a problem with them

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compared to the airpods pros i'd say they are on par to be clear neither of

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these are audiophile grade iems if you wanted those you could expect them to

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have a wire on them but they both sound good enough and if your main concern is

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not tuning out the world around you these are a huge step forward compared

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to last gen in terms of comfort in terms of sound yeah what can i say good

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product oh the mic is the mic supposed to be

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worse oh i mean yeah we can do a quick uh we

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do a quick call what's up mr tan how's my uh how's my audio quality doing over

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there i would have you test my airpods pros as well but i have a slight problem

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with the microphone on my airpods pros because i ran over this one in my car

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the microphone is a little bit it used to be good it used

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to be good well we can't really fault uh apple for that one

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yeah just like my videos used to be good back

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when i was in the kitchen that sucks now

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but if you disagree with that statement go ahead and subscribe