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this is a big box i'm gonna open to

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discover space you hear that eat your heart out james webb telescope i got it

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right in here so in today's video sponsored by

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soundcore we're going to be covering their brand new space q45 and space a40

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headphones earbuds respectively which should we start with choose your own

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adventure Jake chose for you and the answer was earbuds so we have the space

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a40 earbuds anchor's been pretty ambitious in uh the kind of press

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coverage they've been giving to us they've been comparing themselves to

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products that are of a much higher price point these

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are 100 us dollars that's a pretty dang

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competitive price point there's a lot going on in the hundred dollar range but

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what these offer that you don't typically see in the hundred dollar range is noise cancelling that's pretty

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sick inside the box you get a type 8 a usbc cable for charging some

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documentation a quick start guide as well as a bunch of ear tips this is

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something that i've always appreciated from soundcore every product that i've seen from them they're always offering

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like four or more extra e-tips i had their liberty 2 pros and those came with

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like 12 sets of ear tips you're almost always guaranteed to get a proper seal

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when you have the earbuds in your ears which is really important to making sure

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that you have good sound and even more

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important for good a and c

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i heard a movement over there this is the brand behind me okay

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the brand's right behind me aren't they we're not gonna spend too much time with

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the a40s because i think that the q45s are the more interesting product but

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still want to show off what soundcore has to offer so we have a nice little

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case uh these have really fast fast charging for 10 minutes in the case

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you'll get four hours of playback with these headphones you'll get 10 hours of

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listening on the buds themselves and 50 with the included case which is

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kind of crazy considering how small this case is

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um oh i have an idea

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look at jesus christ

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oh my god breathing this was longer god damn it

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just do it faster how long were you there alone oh a long time

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i think it says something about like how we operate here that there was a pile of

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leaves on the set i was just like yeah that's there did you get did you get

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scared yes i did that was i was scared and 50 hours of

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battery life is pretty impressive because this is a pretty small case how

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small is it draw

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it's about half a banana maybe a third of a banana a third of a banana should

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we do a quick listen to these these are very small looks like the drivers are

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kind of big but like these are not going to stick out of your ears very much like

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look at that that's how does can you see it from the sides very much like you

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know i could do a fit test you know people you guys you ask about fit tests

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and stuff like that like if they're gonna stay in my ears and i did it in my first video but it doesn't really make

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sense just because they stay in my ears doesn't mean they're gonna stay in your ears especially if they're not something

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that has a specific bracing ability this is just gonna stick into the pressure of

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your ear canal yeah they stay

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all right we got multipoint because it's got bluetooth 5.2 i believe so it's that

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classic v shape there's a lot of oomph down in the lower frequencies to give

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that bass that kind of base you can feel versus like something maybe detailed and

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pronounced and then there's a little bit of a raise on the highs to give that extra

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little bit of crispiness that kind of makes like you know high hats really

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stick out so that you really feel rhythms which is a good time oh no it's

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for fun i'm going to turn on the a and c now i mean i don't have any sound playing right now but the anc is doing a

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good job of cancelling out just the general hvac and room frequencies and it

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doesn't seem to have a profound effect on the sound which is really nice because sometimes that can be a big ish

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yeah so these sound pretty good for a hundred dollars uh soundcore is taking

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advantage of their self-developed double layer diaphragm

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drivers since it's a new piece of technology that they claimed that they

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are advertising for themselves there's not a whole lot out there about whether

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or not it actually makes a big difference it is pretty neat basically it's like you know how you usually have

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that little cup like when you know when you have a speaker it's a little cone

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what if you had another cone in the middle of that cone that's basically

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what they're doing is that so and they claim it provides a richer and more

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detailed sound throughout the entire audio spectrum supposing these have ldac

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support l deck is the highest quality bluetooth audio codec that's kind of

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available and found on a lot of devices that will change in the near future with

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bluetooth le audio which i'll talk about more in a second they seem to have

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pretty good noise cancellation i know we didn't do the test with the speaker we'll do that with the other set of

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headphones but they got these tested by a third party called sgs who does a lot

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of different product testing and apparently these block out 98 of sound

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and that noise canceling is adaptive if it detects that there's really loud noises around you it'll probably crank

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up the noise cancellation maybe at the cost of a little bit of audio quality so

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if you're sitting in like an office it'll only cancel out as much noise as

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needed to leave your audio as crisp and clear as possible and they come in a

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black white and navy blue uh we have the black ones here if you're shopping in

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the 100 price range these are definitely worth checking out but let's move on to

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the big boys the space q45 wireless

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noise canceling headphones this is very interesting to me because you know

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companies they'll send us press information they want to make sure that we're providing you guys with correct

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information but what they usually don't do is very boldly

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send us a list of specifications and quality claims that are targeting

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specific products especially ones that are more than double the price what

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sound core has promised us is that these are supposed to compete with like the

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bose quiet comforts of the world the sony xm3 and xm4 all of which are like

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350 these 150. it's really bold and i like bold

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those look pretty nice this is a nice carrying case it's a it's not super hard

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shell but uh it's got a nice interior nylon what else we got in the box

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quick start guide and nothing else really

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look at what they have on the back we have adaptive active noise cancelling 50 hours of play time that's nuts that they

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have the same amount of play time in those earbuds as they do in these things

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though these ones you don't have to charge you get 50 hours without charging in between so it's 50 with anc and 65

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without that's like all work week you subtract your lunches and meetings from

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that you don't have to charge these the entire week i think that's industry

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leading i don't know of any other headphones that have but also you can

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charge these and they do have quick charging so five minutes of charging

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gives you four hours of listening inside the carrying case we get some cables and

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it looks to be an audio jack cable thank you so

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much a lot of wireless headphones these days will let you plug into your computer but only for charging or you

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can use an adapter to get usbc audio but it

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still uses the battery on the headphones it's very frustrating very annoying

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these are in a great addition to versatility if it doesn't require power

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and i imagine it doesn't because every other headphone can just usually do this so they also give you a little charging

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cable which is nice look at your soundcore look at all

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this for 150 bucks so let's look at this

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these are pretty firm they kind of they got a hinge that's kind

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reminds me of the air pawns a little bit they don't have the same kind of

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articulation that happens up here you

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can hear the notches notches are pretty pronounced so it's

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not gonna be too hard to adjust it to the same head shape every time though

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usually i just put them on and then figure it out and then crunch them back

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the right ear cup we have controls we have our volume rocker our play pause

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button and our headphone jack on the left side more controls we have the

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power button to on off and probably pairing as well as the noise

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cancellation the ear cups they are

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again a fake leather i kind of wish the ear cups were

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replaceable because if you're gonna go with plastic

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leather it's not gonna last that long and these might be something that can last a lot longer if you don't have to

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worry about the battery life because of the audio cable so that would be nice to have but they do feel quite soft and on

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the head they're they're decent decently comfortable they're spacious enough

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they're not touching my ears there's not too much pressure they might get a

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little warm this might be like a memory foam i think the padding there leaves a little something to be desired but these

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are relatively light these are pretty light headphones despite the fact that

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they have a metal headband and just like the earbuds we have anc we have four

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different microphones it's hybrid anc so it listens to what's in your ear as well

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as what's outside of you to make sure that you have the best audio noise

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canceling experience and like the other headphones the noise canceling is adaptive based on where you are on the

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box they have high-res audio wireless and high-res audio markers that's great

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that indicates that these are supposed to be high-res i don't know how hard it

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is to get a high-res audio logo on your box but it is like a third-party

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verification so it means something oh another interesting thing

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is that these have bluetooth 5.3 i've never used an item with 5.3

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my cursory research on 5.3 indicates that it's not a big

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it does not do a lot on the audio front 5.2 contained a lot of the audio

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features so you get all everything from 5.2 you get the multi-point you get

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bluetooth le audio support what bluetooth le audio is is that it's a new

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technology from the bluetooth sig that's going to allow devices to send higher

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quality audio at a lower bit rate with a

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new codec called lc3 okay so i'm going to put them on and we're going to give

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them a listen right now the noise canceling is definitely on thank you for putting controls that just state what's

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happening it says transparency when it's transparency mode it is kind of a

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robotic voice though it's like it does sound very microsoft sam let's listen to

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some tunes some tunes

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okay so first impressions with the sound is

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they're they're okay tempering my expectations at 150 i'd go so far as to

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say is there they're fine they're pretty good to me these sound a little bit muddy

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in the mids it's kind of hard it's not very detailed

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the other one sounded better yeah they're just lacking clarity if i

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listen like hip-hop they're pretty fun but

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what we got to do is we gotta compare them so we don't have xm3s or the xm4s

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that soundcore bravely is comparing themselves to so the xm5s might be a

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little bit of a different experience than what we expect but uh

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we're gonna take a listen give a good comparison see if these really do punch

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above their price class

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now i want to come back to the other headphones

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so sound quality might not be there but think about this

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these are more of an entry-level pair of headphones but two they almost have

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feature parity with a 450 dollar headphone they have anc

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they have ldac they have incredible

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battery life they have multi-point connections they have fast charging they

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have so much stuff for just a hundred and

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fifty dollars and that's something that is really really tough to compete with

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so if you're all about the convenience this has you covered it has everything

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you want now we're gonna do our mic test and our noise canceling test

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Dan has done a video on this i don't know if it's out yet but we're gonna use

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this big speaker to basically simulate sound i get it it's not the same as just

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walking into traffic with a big heavy truck but that's not always the most

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doable thing in a studio this is a reasonable approximation we're gonna put

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on some a bunch of traffic noises and uh see how well these cancel that noise

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that was pretty good it really dulled it that's uncomfortably

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loud beside me those did a pretty dang good job of bringing down

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the uh of the loudness since these have good noise cancelling i want to try out

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the space a40s

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uh the active noise cancelling on these aren't as strong but there's just the

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natural benefit of having something that's literally plugging your ears so

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they end up doing a pretty good job of keeping the noise out just anyways so

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this is a soundcore space q45 microphone test this is an audio test of the space

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q45 headphones this is what they sound like when i'm talking into them and now

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i'm going to play some traffic noise

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so how loud is it how's the traffic can you understand me still

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pretty live but uh that's how fast it is

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that's the mic test for the space q45s okay this is a mic test of

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the soundcore space a40s and this is a recording of the microphones on the

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space a40 earbuds how do they sound now

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i'm gonna play some traffic audio

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this is doing a way better job the earbuds are doing a way better job of cutting out the audio

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the headphones were i am more impressed by the earbuds than the

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headphones these do a great job of blocking your voice from the traffic

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noises these not so much but think about the price less than half

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the price of airpods pros less than half the price of bose they offer very

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similar features and they do most of them pretty well these are the kind of

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things that you're going to be getting if you're like i don't know you're a student you want some air pods but you

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don't want to pay the apple tax or you want some noise-canceling headphones but

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you don't want to pay the sony tax or the bose tax like these

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are great entry points yeah they're just

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i especially these these i'm really impressed with good job soundcore just

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like the little guys the big guys are to come in three different colors you got

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your white your black and your navy blue what other colors do you need as a man

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that's the only thing in my wardrobe

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also ltteststore.com get this in your wardrobe if you need a little bit more

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color in your life but not too much because you're a little scared then get our RGB sweater it's got a little flecks

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of color so there's a green and there's an orange and that's yeah it's cool and

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it's also really comfy i think it's more comfy than any of our other sweaters thank you soundcore for sponsoring this

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