this video is brought to you by soundcore and we're going to be checking
out their q30 wireless headphones with
active noise cancellation and 40 hours of battery life with amc
enabled and up to 60 with anc disabled
let's go ahead and crack these puppies open oh i remember hey look at this look
at this i remember planes
do you remember planes yeah they're great for on the plane when
that ever becomes a thing but don't worry don't worry you can also use them indoors and outdoors one of the key
features of these is that you can get up to four hours of listening time off of
just a five minute charge quick charging
has been one of the biggest innovations for me when it comes to portable devices
like this because i'm the kind of person who's not real diligent about charging
especially if it's something that i don't use every single day like my phone
for example so being able to just pop it on the charger for a couple minutes and
be ready to go is a pretty big deal
not bad actually for 80 bucks
like my uh my expectations in terms of
build quality were were not that high given the price and feature set but
okay that is some very
very cushy memory foam the real question though is is it thick enough they offer
nfc pairing so you can see they got the little sticker on there oh
oh sound car you gotta get a sticker that
comes off clean oh at least it doesn't leave any residue
okay i've seen i've seen much worse so there's a metal band that goes along the
top here and then on the inside there's plastic pieces and this piece is also
plastic
reasonable hold still pretty easy to adjust
reasonable amount of padding on the headband you can see here instead of
going for a really memory foamy type of pad they went for one that has a little
bit more rebound that makes sense because the ones on your ears are just
meant to shape to your head and make sure you get a good seal the one on your
head is meant to actually support some of the weight of the headphones clamping
pressure i would describe as moderate not super tight but it's not loose
either all right i don't know i feel like
all right i tend to be a bit of a strong clamp guy
wow really good noise isolation right out of
the gate which is obviously a great place to start when you want noise
cancellation to be a key feature of your product
this seems to be like a very very noise absorbing foam here
that's pretty cool now i tend to be a bit of a tighter
clampy kind of guy i like the clamps you know
so these are a little bit looser than i would necessarily prefer
but it's always a trade-off right because the tighter you clamp the less
comfortable they're going to be over a very long period of time i just i kind
of like that secure snug fit they do move around a little bit but they're
also not just going to like come right off unless you're really head-banging
let's get it adjusted just right too though just make sure we give it as fair
shake as possible
okay okay at the right size that's not bad so on the bottom of the right ear cup
you've got your play pause button as well as volume up volume down and is
that a headphone jack does this have like a sharing feature
i don't even see that on the thing
oh no that no i'm an idiot that's so you can use them in wired mode uh we've got a noise
cancellation toggle as well as power button and type c charging type c
charging always a plus that makes sense though given soundcore's anchor lineage
that good charging technology would be a foundational aspect of this product
included type c charging cable as well as an included three and a half
millimeter cable and i'm not even daily driving anything with a headphone jack
anymore so it's like oh where's my iphone there we go all right let's pair
this puppy i'll be honest with you i don't know if the iphone supports nfc pairing does it
no i think it's just um like bluetooth proximity nonsense okay
soundcore live q30 and connected
i mean nfc pairing is one of those like yeah it's nice to have things but
it doesn't really save that much time that was pretty painless we're already
totally ready to go that is kind of trippy
can you can you say something again david uh youtube music is great
interesting soundcore is taking a bit of a different
approach to canceling out uh sort of sudden noises
than i think i've heard before
so it definitely takes some of the edge off of it but you sound kind of robotic
to me i don't have anything playing right now so there's no distractions but you really do sound like a stormtrooper
oh that's my life goal everything's okay down here
how are you it's like ex it's like tk421
do you copy like freaking you're a little sharper
hey yeah all right enough of that all right well you know what let's go
with some let's go with some wham you know let's get some
some classics classics up in here
so where do i touch for transparency mode
oh two seconds there we go
wow okay interesting so
it not only sort of allows outside sound
to come in it seems like it's actually amplifying it oh hi
yeah yeah no i can i can hear you fine i haven't adjusted the volume at all
interesting okay so hold on let's change modes again
hey how you doing today looking pretty good huh the tonality of
the music really doesn't change much
i'm surprised i'd like to see that two second delay adjustable within the app
it does feel a little bit long wow like your footsteps honestly it sounds like
csgo yeah like
like it's kind of trippy how much it passes
through to me all right so far i've been at a pretty low listening volume here
i would definitely describe them as pretty bass heavy
not too sloppy though like even girls just want to have fun is like boom
boom you're like it's pretty
it's pretty thumpy yeah that's what that's exactly why i
wanted the app i wanted to play around the eq a little bit like it's not unpleasant it's just a lot of bass for
my tastes one of the marks of a good headphone for me though even if you have
transparency mode is can it be worn comfortably like this
not bad they've got a lot of swivel in the cups and enough flex in the headband
that you can actually tuck it away here no automatic turning off features or
anything like that remember guys these are eighty dollars with well active
noise cancellation and a big fat battery but of course they do have control
buttons on the left cup anyway so wait why did i just agree to get
notifications from my uh headphone app whoops
all right life series here we go life cue 30. uh yeah sure
update firmware fix bugs uh fair enough
oh okay better transparency performance apparently don't disconnect or play
music while installing updates uh that was a very quick
like app recognition and like firmware prompting process though that was like
really fast it's the kind of thing most people would talk about but i
tend to kind of gloss over it in terms of style they look alright i guess
got some they're black with shiny accents
their headphones all right in soundcores product bullet points for this they
mention 40 millimeter drivers but my issue with that as a talking point is
that it's kind of meaningless because a
a well-tuned 40 millimeter driver could be way better than a poorly tuned 50
millimeter driver like the size of the driver it tells you
not much really um so well it's better for me to
just say yeah they they sound pretty responsive and the base is tight then
for me to say yeah it's got a 40 millimeter driver just doesn't mean anything to me okay cool
so there's noise cancellation which works pretty darn well transparency mode
which is like amped up and normal no noise cancellation no
transparency just a noise isolated closed back earphone okay that i want to
hear good lord that is a lot of bass though i would probably put these like
somewhere in this neighborhood okay
easy to use eq yeah i mean there's not really a whole lot to adjust in here but
i guess there's not a whole lot that i would want to whoops oh interesting
this isn't something i'd be able to easily test right now but they've
actually got different tuning profiles for the active noise cancellation
interesting so indoor goes after voices that
explains why i couldn't hear you guys freaking at all so then in transport
mode where it's going after like engine rumble i don't guys want to say
something i still can't hear you guys no i don't
mean like just make noises
all right that's a cool feature so again these are 80 bucks if you want to check
them out they're at the link in the video description of highlighted
features are of course 40 to 60 hour battery life depending on whether you're
running them passively or with active noise cancellation five minutes of
charging gives you four hours of playback and of course all the tuning
that you can do in the app for the active noise cancellation and eq
and for ShortCircuit viewers you guys can get 15 off if you check them out now
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