sure we all want airpods but can you afford them these are just sixty dollars
and if you're gonna spend just sixty dollars on some earbuds it's nice to get
them from a brand you recognize these are from OnePlus they are the Nord buds
too nor does their kind of more budget entry level uh product line they got
Nord phones and Nord buds let's see what they're all about boxables from the
bottom that's a mistake
ah there they are what else is in the box so I'll open
those in a bit crazy you do still get
the red cord even if you don't get the red box uh these must be extra ear tips
no one opened it though I get the pleasure
hey what's this a crazy eyes emoji I will say they
picked a good one for me because I'm crazy simple stuff now let's get to the
case oh God it's not easy to just swipe these away it's kind of like a paper
peel on here it's not a terribly premium feeling case
I would say it's the the lid particularly has a bit of a cheapness to
it but I do like this speckled kind of birthday cake looking bottom
um which is reminiscent of other products that are made partially with
recycled materials like if you've seen shoes like that which I think looks cool
USBC port on the back for charging as well as a button that's gonna be your
pairing button and I press it there's a light on the front that's
probably gonna light up no okay maybe I need to open it there it is the hinge
feels decent I've smacked worse
really flat kind of design on the inside the earbuds themselves also appear to
have that the speckled recycled materials look it almost just looks like
you got a dirty earbud and then is there
is are there speckles in the actual glossy part of the bud here it looks
like not that kind of looks like your bog standard almost like has a ceramic
look and if I pull one of these puppies off
a little grid there your little got your little lattice typical speaker Grille
trying to keep the earwax out no indicators for left and right I just
Chuck them in there however they fit I guess you get get used to it as far as
the industrial design I'm of two minds about it on the one hand you have this
like mixed media with the Recycled part
and the non-recycle part which makes it look kind of tacked together and I don't
know it kind of diminishes the cohesion of the piece
but on the other hand it does look quite
minimal I like the flatness of it when it's in your ear and you can't see the
glossy part you know you can only see one half of it and that one half has a
cohesive design so I think it probably looks pretty good like that pretty small
now that I figured out which way they go I will say that this it feels like it
has a pretty good seal and I'm getting a lot of passive isolation
or without the ANC being on at all and they feel pretty comfortable for the
first five seconds you know I haven't worn these for an hour and my odd shaped
ears particularly the left ones start hurting me well they feel like they're
in there pretty good let's check out how they sound subjectively and objectively
I have a bunch of data from the lab about how these things measured they
think it'd be weird to look at that without listening to them myself a
little bit first so I'm gonna do that now let's get these paired I have a OnePlus phone with like one percent
battery thanks Linus just joking it's 35 because
the Charger's so fast I'm in a Destiny's Child kind of way
right now holy cow of the bass
that's overcooked for sure this song is all just acapella a nice
women's voices and then it's like boom
and that's fine for r b but what happens
when I go to like a metal song Master of Puppets is good and fast
so the bass is kind of manifesting more as like a really thumpy Kick Drum and
less of a big Bassy boom kind of thing although
that makes me want to listen to some chili peppers you know fleas slapping
the base yeah in this track the base is really
just like shooting shooting at your eardrums
all right I can predict what the graphs are gonna
look like here they are so first up we
have a basic frequency response graph and you can see that the bass is
definitely pumped up it's gonna be great for bass heads EDM fans maybe I want a
flat frequency response curve um this is pretty much there when it comes to the
mids in trouble it's pretty nice this next bit of data I have applies to the
different presets that come loaded into the app which we'll look at in a second
the first one is a bass boost which is as you can see just more of the same
then there's bold which cranks up the treble just a little bit and serenade
which does that even harder then there's active noise canceling which these
earphones do have you can see the green line is with ANC on red is with it off
and then the white is just if you didn't have the earphones at all that's the
noise you'll be hearing and so the lower the line the quieter it is you can see
though that the ANC actually does produce a noise floor there's a little
bit of a hiss whether or not it bothers you is up to you let's see if it bothers
me oh the chili peppers are still going
they're like 55. so the anc's on now and
the music's playing and it doesn't really sound worse but I bet I can
notice the hiss if I pause the music
I can't really notice it I'm not like lying in bed right now but oh wait
I can notice it now I thought that was just my own head and blood uh but no
there it is with music playing didn't notice that so decent performance 460
bucks especially in the mid and treble and if you're into a lot of bass then
that could be great value for you now let's get into the other aspects I can
make or break an earphone the interface the app the buttons the battery life
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all right I've got the hey Melody app loaded up on my pixel phone because the
iPhone and the OnePlus were giving me problems but it's here now the scanning
worked and I can see the buds got your
battery indicators your toggles for the noise canceling and transparency mode
Sound Master EQ which is going to have our yep bold serenade and base EQ
presets is there a custom yes there is let's check that out one two three four
five six different knobs to mess with
plus or minus 6 DB can we have multiple
like can I name it custom one
confirm call that custom two confirm there they are
excellent bass wave dynamically boosts the bass to deliver deep bass with
Clarity and Fidelity I believe this is a more algorithmic type thing strong and
weak let's try that out all right I'll put this on super weak
super strong oh yeah it's there's a little bit of
latency before it pops in but
holy it's like bad levels of thumpy now
this must have fly to a kind of a wide swath of bass frequencies because
you can hear like not only like the kick drum for example or the bass guitar
getting jacked up but also just a general feeling of fullness or emptiness
when you put it down to weak so I think it applies to at least 100 Hertz a base
probably maybe even up to like 250. this bass wave thing is kind of weird let me
read you what they say it compensates for weak base pitches and only slightly
for strong bass that makes me think that it almost brings bass to like a certain
level or within a song it's just bringing the bass up
to like a ceiling so it's more consistently high that would be weird
which lets you enjoy top quality of voice calls your favorite playlist or it
can be the volume adjuster for your go-to game why would they say that it's
bizarre another thing uh just while we're on it is I took these out of my
ears the music continued to play they don't have the auto pause
all right let's get out of here let's check out the Interfaith I think there's a little feedback noise
when you hit it yeah there's a little tick
and there's a tick when you pause it too you can't hear that second one very well because you know music's playing when
you press it oh it just goes between transparency and noise cancellation interesting
oh here it is earbud controls its own tab
left and right I can make dang it
they're not going to give me as much customization as I want on the single tap I can make it do nothing or I can
make it play and pause on the double tap I can make it do nothing or play pause
previous next Voice Assistant game mode so I'm
guessing that right now double tap is next on this earbud
there's no option to make it do volume which is annoying
interestingly there's actually two types of touch and hold there's your regular
touch and hold which takes like three seconds and switches between the ANC and transparency
oh this is weird oh sweet they do it like a checkbox thing yes you can make
it so it's just through all three of the ANC transparency and nothing uh but the
other interesting thing is there's a longer touch and hold which is by
default set to nothing but you can set it to switch devices that could be
pretty cool in my experience those um those features where it's like you can
pair your earphones to your laptop and your phone it'll intelligently switch
between them has never literally never ever worked for me so it's cool that you
can actually bind that to a button I still wouldn't expect it to work I give
it a B plus you you can customize some things but they don't give you total
control and there's no Auto pause as far
as fit they feel very in there you can definitely work out with these things
you can headband with these things they are ip55 rated which is better than normal
your typical Cheapo earphone is going to
give you ipx4 the X meaning that they didn't even rate the dust protection and
the four meaning it's good for like splashes and sweat but five five is
better God these just keep turning back on put them away go we'll put him away
in this case which can give you 27 hours of battery life purportedly the buds
themselves five hours now these figures are with ANC on and using the Kodak AAC
it also supports you know the regular codec what's that called like SBC or
something like that that every Bluetooth literally everything ever has there's
another figure they give you which is a little more nebulous to me it is in 10
minutes of charging you can get five hours but they don't really specify what
the five hours is I think it means five hours of calls the other thing is that
they kind of imply that the fast charging not only applies to just fast
charging the case and then the case having to slowly charge the buds but
actually applies to both the case and the buds which is super cool if I'm
reading that right that's a cool feature next I want to check out the mic quality
during calls because they say they use two microphones and some AI algorithms
to remove a bunch of noise so I'm gonna go outside where it's windy and there's
trains and crap and let Jake belly
balance sit in this chair and show you the quality coming through
what's up gamers the seat's hot
his butt should not be that warm hello you're on speakerphone
yeah why don't you tell us a story well I'm just standing out here in the
parking lot it's pretty windy and uh there's various LMG employees walk
around including one Nick light walking towards how he's waving with both hands
what a good looking guy he's trying to talk to me I really hope you can't grow
up I'm running away now I'm I'm running okay I'm gonna hang up bye
that sounded okay so how was it guys it sounds okay
as far as the quality of the ANC I think it's okay I did not find that there was
a lot of pressure on my ears with the ANC now there's no tuning ability with
it like you can find some other apps and I'm sure it's not as good as what the
airpods have these days which is crazy like these probably aren't going to help you very much with babies crying
so final thoughts I think you could do worse than this for the price I think
you could do worse than this and pay more there's a couple features that are
missing but overall you're getting so much in these things these days that I
think five years ago wasn't possible like the quality
all the features the A and C all that for 60 bucks man pretty good I don't
hate these thanks for watching guys if you like
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