Samsung Earbuds... Perfected - Galaxy Buds2
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·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,257 words · ~11 min read
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- When in Samsung (chuckles) do as the buds do.
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Do as the buds to. Galaxy Buds 2, that's what we're looking at today.
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Ever heard of that saying, Jono. Everyone says it.
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I think it had something to do with Greece. Zeus. Zeus stop turning into a bird (beep) of people.
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Zeus, seriously, man. Hermes is like trying to stop him,
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but he just can't, it's too small. That's right. It's the Samsung Galaxy Buds 2.
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It's been a while since I've gotten a chance to look at some buds.
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So thanks Gianno. He's the guy.
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You probably wouldn't have known that I reviewed it, but I reviewed the first Galaxy Buds on LTT.
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I liked them a lot. I think they launched for 150. They might've been 120 and you know,
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you can buy one of those cheap other ones if you really want to. But the alternative options have gotten a lot better.
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So this one it has ANC, just like the galaxy buds pro and the galaxy beans buds live
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They're called the Galaxy buds live, but they look like beans.
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Beans! All right enough rambling though. Let's open these up and take a look.
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I got the, what color is that? Lavender? I feel like I might need a knife for these.
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- You guys need to use a knife? - Wait, no. I do not need a knife.
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I peel off the tape and the paper box sticks to it.
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This is going to weigh heavily in my evaluation of this thing.
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That's disgusting. Okay. What are we got in the box? We got the buds.
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We got a little box with what?
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A charging cord that is USBC.
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Of course. Anything else is unacceptable these days. Apple,
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we got extra ear bud tips.
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We have some papers. Get connected. Okay, so I downloaded the galaxy wearable app,
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so that'll be ready to go. And I'm ready.
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After I read all the terms and conditions in today's society, you can't take a chance.
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Wait, okay I'm seeing the buds before I see them.
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That's cheating. Okay, here we go. Here's the buds. So the case themselves are not lavender.
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That's too bad. Oh no.
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It looks tasty. I want to eat it. Then it's got a red light on there.
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Is that a warning? I don't care. Okay, so I haven't really had a intimate experience
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with Samsung Galaxy, but since I reviewed the first galaxy buds,
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Jimmy let's show a clip of that, okay?
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From the first bud's review. Now, overall, our experience with the galaxy buds
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has been pretty freaking sweet. But the one thing that was kind of irritating
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about their design, was the fact that they kind of stuck out from your ear a little bit.
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I took them out of the case before I even paired them to a phone.
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What am I doing? How easy is it to?
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Oh my god. So like I'm trying to put it in there, and the ear tip is like bumping into stuff
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and then there's too much friction. It's not sliding in. Once I lubricate it with my ear wax,
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then it'll probably be better. And then you can try.
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Let's pair first with my Pixel 3.
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And then I also have a Samsung Galaxy S 21 to see how it works with the Samsung device.
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Pairing begin. I need to install a plugin?
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That's dumb. A few legal items to review.
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Report and diagnostic data. No, thank you.
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This is so funny. Remember when connecting a Bluetooth device just meant like
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connected and now it's like getting married. It's like making a commitment to your Bluetooth earbuds.
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Never leave me. You chose me.
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You're all set. Okay. We're finally here.
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Now, Samsung teach me your ways.
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Okay, active noise canceling is on. Like, if I'm speaking, I can't hear you.
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I have to stop speaking. And then it will kind of like come through as if through a barrier.
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I only wish I could touch you. So, my gold standard for active noise canceling with,
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Whoa. Now I can hear. I turned it to ambient sound, I guess.
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Whoa. So yeah, as I was saying, my gold standard for a active noise cancellation
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with wireless earbuds is the AirPods pro cause I reviewed those as well. Or I wrote the script anyways.
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Once you put them in and an active noise canceling is on, you just feel like you're sitting in this void,
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which I think is active noise cancellation is supposed to do, like, if you're supposed to,
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once you turn it on, you're supposed to just kind of feel isolated. And you're just like, oh man,
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as long as nothing distracts me. A social media notification.
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No! So this is just no active noise cancellation, just passive.
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But it's a seal in my ear. Speak, Gianno speak. - [Gianno] Hey, how you doing?
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- Continue. - [Gianno] I sure like movies. - Okay, yeah.
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So you are like a little quieter with the active noise cancellation. One of the things about these, I guess,
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is that they have two beam forming mics and then one microphone facing in
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as most of these active noise cancellation earbuds have,
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because they need to hear what's going on outside and then cancel it out with the microphone facing inwards.
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I'm on ambient noise right now though. And it sounds pretty natural.
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Like as I'm talking, my voice playing back to me sounds a bit,
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a little bit like it's coming through a radio, but when you speak, it doesn't sound radio like at all.
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It just sounds like, like I'm just hearing you, you know? The real, who you really are.
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Deep down. Music. Let's play some music. I'll put it back to,
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I'm just going to turn it off and see to start. I downloaded some flac files.
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What's flac? I wouldn't trust myself to give a good explanation of what flac files are.
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But I believe that the gist is that there are uncompressed audio files.
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So you're getting lossless. Fleetwood Mac.
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Tell me which way I should go.
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Skip to the chorus. That's verse two.
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Pretty good. Seems pretty balanced. I know that the app has an equalizer though.
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So I want to play around with that because I don't even know what profile I'm on.
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They did it again. They did it again! Why can't we have a real equalizer in these apps?
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This is always a problem. Every single time, this is better than nothing. This is better than nothing.
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But I would really like to see that fricking, the real equalizer.
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Another day in paradise, Phil Collins. Bass boost.
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I'm not really noticing like a ton of difference between each of the things,
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but maybe that's because different ones would sound a lot better for different genres of music.
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Tell me what's up Beyonce. Okay. Oh yeah.
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She's the queen, queen bae. So here's the problem
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with not having some sort of visualization. I'm clicking the thing and I'm like,
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I think that sounds better, but I'm not sure. I don't actually know what it's doing.
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Like I know bass boost is boosting the bass and I know soft is probably like
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lowering the mids and highs. I don't even know.
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I don't know what they're doing, I can guess. But if they're just named certain things,
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I don't actually know how much they're changing. Samsung, you're a big company.
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You're the apple of Android. Just put in a real equalizer, okay?
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Love you. So I don't think I said the battery life. These are supposed to have five hours of battery life
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listening time, and then 15 more in the case. So that's 20 hours total.
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If my maths are correct. It's charging, it's a wireless charging case.
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Nice Samsung. One thing that I didn't notice earlier,
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but I didn't really say is that they're really, really light. I feel like a lot of ear buds,
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you find these days, you know, they're putting more and more stuff into them. They're putting chips into them.
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And so when I put them in my ears, they're quite lightweight.
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Do they look like mini eggs? I mean, they're lavender, that also is probably contributing.
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For me, I would definitely get either the white or the graphite. Also the controls, which I accidentally triggered earlier.
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I didn't talk about. So there's obviously the play, pause. Does it skip tracks with the double?
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The app should tell me, Hey. Oh, I have them disabled.
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Okay. So double tap and triple tap will do. Next and previous.
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Touch and hold. We'll switch noise controls. Or you can customize it.
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That's good. I'll give them big points for that because oftentimes,
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these air buds have controls on them, which are great, but you can't customize them.
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You know, that's good to see. But pertaining to the lightness, this actually has a dedicated,
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a new chip called the voice pickup unit.
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That's supposed to help with picking up like voices, and helping the machine learning model to like block out
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things that you don't want to keep the things that you do want. So even with an extra chip, they're still quite light.
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That's nice. David yell something.
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Apparently this app has an earbud fit test. Check your earbud fit
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to make sure you're getting the best sound in active noise canceling. Put your earbuds in to start.
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Oh, it's making noises. You got a good fit. All right, well, I'm going to try it.
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I'm going to try the big one. Cause like maybe it just tells you, you have a good fit every time.
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Is this like complete vaporware? It's snake oil.
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Poor fit. This is kind of cool. Cause I feel like a lot of people try new earbuds
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and they're just kind of like, oh, I didn't like them. And it didn't like, feel good in my ear or whatever.
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But now this is like, Hey, you spent the money. You got the thing in your hand.
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Might as well do a little bit of work to make sure that you're happy with it. That's nice, Samsung.
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You must have goodness in your heart as a collective corporation.
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These ones have the auto switch. So like with similar galaxy devices,
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your galaxy phone, your galaxy watch, your galaxy book,
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you can like switch between them easily. Sort of like the AirPods do with Apple.
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You can just like select the thing and you can also control stuff on your galaxy watch,
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which I can see being very useful if you're like going for a run. If you're using these things for fitness,
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working on your fitness. Oh, I haven't tested it on the Galaxy yet.
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So real quick, apparently I've heard people say that it sounds like music in general sounds better on the Galaxy.
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Beyonce. YouTube Music is the default player. Kill me.
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This might sound better. I think there's more definition. This is not a huge difference.
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I feel like they do sound a little better on the Samsung. Dang it, man.
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I wish they would stop doing that. I mean, it's not like they sound bad on the Pixel,
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but like I saw the same thing with Google where like their Pixel buds sound a little better
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on the Pixel than they do on other things. AirPods sound a little better on iPhones
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than they do on other things. So, just be aware of that. But despite these companies trying to lock people
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into their platforms. The Galaxy Buds 2 still represent
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a pretty good value proposition for me. They're light.
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I loved the whole Galaxy Buds line, particularly the first ones and these seem to be the true
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Galaxy Buds to the sequel, to the original. Hopefully they continue doing stuff like this
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and hopefully the price goes down even more and maybe you can deal with it sounding not so great
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on your non Samsung device. Well, that's it for a ShortCircuit guys.
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