it's been six long years since we've seen a revision of the Power Beats
pros and in those six years A lot has happened and competition has gotten
pretty fierce especially for workout focused buds you've seen like the rise
of a lot of different companies making more hook style earbuds that also offer
like an open Vibe as well as just a lot of better headphones right you get stuff
like find my integration and uh better noise cancelling all of these things can
be found on buds that are cheaper than the Power Beats Pros thankfully they
finally made an update to the pros in
the form of the pros too but they still come in an absolutely chunking case like
it's it's it's huge let's see what else you get in the Box Inside the Box we get
uh some documentation I do like how they actually give you a little bit of a home
for your ear tips here however it would
be nice to just have like a little bag no why do I need to keep the Box what if
I don't want to keep the box you can sell it later what do you think comment
down below and tell us do you do you keep the box so that you can sell your
earbuds or would you like a tiny bag I'm a tiny Bag Man myself the main features
that they're touting is that they are true wireless earbuds with a USBC
charging case that's great to see um active noise cancelling and transparency
mode cool up to 45 hours of battery life that's 10 on the earbuds and 35 in the
case which for a case this size seems kind of low I feel like you can get a
lot of battery life from Far smaller cases like just to give you some
perspective these are airpods Pro 2 and it's not even close it's just a bit
too shy of being pocketable but a big
reason why it's so big is because they got a hook style look at that and it's a
pretty well-matched orange like uh it's almost impossible to tell the difference
between the different types of plastic on here like this the ear hooks are like
a silicone type uh material it's not
quite as soft rubber as I felt on a lot of other brands like it's not as soft as
say the ear tips you can almost barely tell that there's actually like a slight
seam pretty slick and I got a B which stands for Dre before we take a tour of
the earbuds themselves we're just going to take another look at the case there is a button for pairing other than that
the case doesn't feature anything like a speaker which is kind of a bummer one of
my favorite features of the airpods case is that ability to uh use find my and
have them like chirp so you can find the case cuz it's really easy for these things to get separated you put your
case down you have these in your ears you go into a different room you've lost
your case so these could be easier to lose than you'd expect it's just a nice
feature that I would have hoped for on a kind of Premium focus a pro level set of
uh earbuds you know on the earbuds themselves these are nanoid hooks so
they're a classic kind of spring type of hook we also have a rocker here this is
really cool having rockers on each side I love it I love it now you might be
wondering what is this stuff that's going on down here well these are
actually heart rate monitors yes these have heart rate detection in them the
nice thing about having heart rate tracking on your earbuds is that some health trackers like wrist watches or
even smart rings can be a nuisance in certain forms of physical activity like weightlifting you can't have a ring on
because you could injure your hand and wrist watches can just get in the way
these will provide you another option to get heart rate tracking there's also the typical uh presence detection it's very
much like the ones on the airpods pros which means that these actually have
Optical presence detection system so unlike say just an IR system where if
you just cover it it goes oh I'm in an ear it could start playing your music if
you have it like in a bag or on a table and waste battery life this will
actually go to sleep unless it sees your skin you can see that it has these U
metal Pogo pins as opposed to just doing a fully wireless charging system people
have reported that that has caused failures whether that is Chargers short
circuiting or otherwise hey that should
be a YouTube channel I can't comment if they fixed that nor can I comment if
that how widespread that problem was but it's something to note let's put them in
in see how they fit okay first off
already uh one problem already identified this button is really easy to
press this is button right here and if you're going to be putting these into
your ears you might accidentally start playing them and that's kind of a that's
kind of annoying because of they have the Apple's H2 chip they are able to
take advantage of some of the improved
noise cancelling on I guess it's it's not even new anymore it's the same chip
that's found in the airpods Pro too and so you get the benefits of the improved
noise cancellation from that as well as you get the nice easy pairing and quick
response with iOS devices with any sort of um hook based earbud I always
recommend that you just kind of have to try them everyone's ears are different I
find that they very rarely bother me these are a pretty gentle um like
squeeze there's not it doesn't really squeeze my ears at all if you had
somebody who had like thicker ears it might be a little bit less comfortable I
find these to be quite nice and it seems
like they stay in pretty well one thing
I want to know is how well they kind of stay in if I'm moving my jar tensing
because when you're lifting heavy you kind of do all sorts of weird stuff with your face
like yeah they that's good another thing to note is that these hooks can be
really really annoying for glasses users so I'm going to get our producer uh and
good friend Jake bellance coworker you exercise I've been known to exercise I
actually have airpod Pros twos and I had to buy third party little hooks because
they always fall out my ears like when I'm on the treadmill or if I'm talking
and it's really annoying to carry around this like little baggie that has hooks
just for when I work out so I'm actually keep the Box well they didn't come in a
box they came in a little bag oh that's that came a little comp yeah they go on
my uh on my keychain yeah that fits and sounds
pretty good and I feel like I'm getting some of the um like noise cancellation
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off today listening Impressions they sound pretty good if you're somebody who
wants bass hey look at that beats is a place to get it but it's not like kind
of overbearing like it used to be I think that beats for the past few years
have had quite a good sound profile on all of their uh lineup it's nothing like
you know it's not refined or calculated or clinical or anything like that but it
makes music sound good there's a weird almost like tinniness or graininess or
something there's like just some part of the treble is a kind of too spikes quite
high for me and I find it very cheap sounding and is not pleasurable and I
think can really come up in some sorts of distortion has a kind of a bad effect
on like a lot of acoustic guitar it's not awful and it's probably something
that if I spent a little bit more time I would get used to um but I wouldn't say
that these are by any means bad sounding headphones but maybe my ears are just
having an off day so let's take a look at the results that we got from
headphones.com who did the testing for us for this video I just want to read
part of this email that Andrew from headphones.com sent us about the testing
just like the airpods Pro 2 the Powerbeats Pro have a wear sensor that
needs to be engaged before being measured and when I say A wear sensor I mean a meat sensor unfortunately testing
rings are not made of human flesh so I had to spoof it by using a piece of ham
which did the trick I fully expect there to be data from other sources where the
meat sensor is not properly engaged engaged my meat sensor is always engaged
this is a frequency response chart for the Power Beats Pro 2 the dash line is
our headphone Target this is what we think will be a good sounding headphone
for most people so the closer it is to the Target the more likely that you will
enjoy the headphone that doesn't mean that it'll be perfect for everybody
we're all built very different it's more like a a one- siiz fits most scenario
and looking at a chart in the base and subbase this matches our curve quite
well and I agree it's a a nice fun Bassy
sound that isn't super overpowering one thing that is pretty impressive is that
it doesn't really roll off at all even at the really really low end like the 20
HZ end once we move to the mids and upper mids I think that's where I
noticed the weirdness in the sound when I was just kind of talking about my
Impressions I kind of misplaced it I think I said it was in the 5 khz region
but this graph is indicating to me that it's coming more from what's happening
in the mids you see there's a big kind of four or 5 D dip right around 650 HZ I
think that might be where you're getting kind of that cheap sound because we're going to have this like lull where
you've scooped out as a little section of the mids that kind of is where a lot
of human voices and many instruments live overall though there's nothing
remotely catastrophic about this this is a I think this is a pretty good sounding
headphone and most people will be quite happy with them now we're going to take
a look at a and C results so with no noise cancelling on we can see that
these attenuate noise that is they make it quieter pretty similarly to other in
your headphones where stuff in the higher ranges and the upper mids get
blocked out pretty naturally but as you go down to the lower end a lot of stuff
still gets through this like kind of low mid area is exactly where ANC works the
best that's why it's great for stuff like engine noise and when we turn on
ANC does it does a really good job improving the attenuation of lower
noises so the ANC is mostly working on everything below 1 khz everything above
1 khz is basically just going to be from the natural seal of having those
headphones in your ears I think the ANC it's not the best it's I don't think
it's as good as airpods Pros 2 or even Sony's best ANC but it's it's really
good and compared to my daily drivers at my desk the falp these sound this way
better ANC with very little audible hiss and uh it doesn't give that kind of
pressure feeling some types ofc can give where it feels like your your ears in
like a vacuum terms of audio quality and noise cancellation I think these do a
bang up job they're not incredible they're not terrible for the gym I would
actually think these would be pretty great but of course these don't just
listen they also have microphones so we're going to do a quick little call
Quality test where I'm going to call the one and only Jake bellance producer of
ShortCircuit Jake says I sounded like I lived in a can I would you say it was
below average no no just just fine yeah
if you are an Android User you will need the app especially if you want to use
the heart rate you need to download the app to connect with everything else if you're an Apple user it just uh it just
works I will say the app's a little disappointing you can turn off automatic
ear detection stuff like that you can select some controls you can decide
which side of these will be which operation or they can be the same
operation but it's still a little Limited in terms of what you're allowed
to do so like these Rockers are only ever for volume it's a bit of a bummer
to not get that kind of customization and further more it's a big bummer that
there's no EQ built into this um not even a simple one especially cuz you
know it would be nice to be able to fix the kind of one of the only problems I
have with the Sound by just a quick little EQ fix where does that leave us
with the Power Beats Pro too I think that if you were a Power Beats Pro fan
this is going to hit all of the marks for you the case is smaller still huge
uh but it's a similar form factor I think it's improved decent battery life
there's nothing about these that make me go no but you might want to go with
airpods Pros 2 they're the same price they're tried in true they're also a
great set of truly wireless earbuds but you get better find my integration and
you get the little like speaker on it to help find stuff if you are somebody who
needs that kind of tight seal that great fit for physical activity I can see
these being a great pick but if you're somebody who's not that into the
exercise side of stuff I'd say there's a lot of other places to look especially
at the $250 price range that's where a lot of great wireless earbuds live
thanks for watching if you like this video I why don't you check out the video where I checked out the Beats
Studio buds plus oh man they should have done the clear plastic oh I would have
loved if these had the transparent plastic that would have been so cool that would have been so cool orange is
good though oh oh