Do You Hear That? - Soundcore Liberty 3 Pro
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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1,538 words · ~7 min read
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- Sponsored by Soundcore by Anker, we've got our unboxing of the Liberty 3 Pros.
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These have a host of improvements over the last generation,
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starting with la couleur.
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la couleur? Help me out David, how's my french? How's my-
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- [David] It's pretty good. - Okay, cool. There's white, purple, silver and black.
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And obviously I'm going straight for the purple ones.
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- [David] Good choice! - Everything from comfort to sound quality,
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to even the packaging. Nice.
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Seems to have been improved over the last gen.
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Let's start with what they figure are the top selling points.
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Their Astria Coaxial Acoustic Architecture 2.0,
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which doesn't have any more elaboration on the box.
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But basically there's a Knowles balanced armature driver as well as a 10.6 millimeter dynamic driver
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in each earphone. There's six microphones. So that's part of their HearID active noise-canceling,
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which can apparently be adjusted in terms of
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how much ambient noise it blocks. Personally, I think that's a really good thing
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because there are times when I want to block just a little bit of my kids being too loud.
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No, seriously. I use my ANC earphones all the time to not listen to music.
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You know, but I still want them to be able to talk to me if they're hurt.
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You know what I mean? Let's go ahead and put on the small ear tips.
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There are small, medium, large and Chungus, man.
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Yeah. My ear canals are nowhere near that wide.
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- [David] Not with that attitude. - I mean, they can be stretched. They can be stretched.
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We've also got three different si- oh, four difference included sizes of
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their kind of active wing tip things here.
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So let's go ahead and, Wow, this is pretty impressive.
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These were super easy to put on and are really freaking hard to take off.
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Wow, that's a really good design. I've never seen this before.
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I like it. They've got a little lock in there. Look at this. It's a little lockie boy in there.
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Neat right? - [David] Yeah! - Now that we're looking more closely at this,
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you can see the insertion detection mechanism right here.
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So that'll be able to tell if it's in your ear or not. There's your charging contact points.
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So a total of, I believe it's 30 hours,
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32 hours of battery life is held in the case.
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So that'll give you four charges. And then there's 8 hours of rated battery life
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for the earbuds themselves. I like the style of these.
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That is a really cool purple in my opinion.
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One big improvement over last gen is that they are quite a bit smaller and lighter.
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So they're still not going to be as small and light as something like an AirPods Pro,
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but the lighter you can make these things,
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the better pretty much, cause that's really going to help them stay in.
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Now I think I did get the size of my wings and my ear tips right
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so we can do a quick shake test. You ready for the shake test David? - [David] Yes.
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Okay, here we go. I've got to brace myself here.
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Not bad, not bad. I managed to loosen the right side.
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So I might actually, I might have asymmetrical ears,
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might need a slightly bigger earpiece for this one.
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It feels like it's not quite as snug of a fit, but the left one held really, really well.
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Good noise isolation. I haven't actually experienced the noise cancellation,
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so let's go ahead and get it paired to my phone. One cool thing is that they support multipoint connectivity.
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So you can have two devices connected to them at once. And the case charges either wirelessly or over USB Type-C.
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This is a pretty cool case, considerably larger still than the AirPods Pro case.
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But boy, are we ever getting closer. Like I think this looks like
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it might be earphones pocketable. Let's find out. We're ready?
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- [David] Oh yeah. Easy. - Yup. Well their previous ones have been quite a bit bigger.
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I think Soundcore is moving in a really good direction in terms of the size of the case.
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Alright, let's throw these in pairing mode. I'm assuming that it's pressing this button
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is what pairs them, but I don't actually know that for sure. I mean, I guess there's always instructions.
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Hey, look at that. There's my USB-C cable. No wall wart included.
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Although, I get that with earphones.
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Open the charging case and they will just automatically go into pairing mode.
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Oh, alright. Well that's the LED indicator flashlight. Okay, so you can just automatically put it in pairing mode
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or you can force it. Not bad, I think the active noise canceling is working now.
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Oh, hey! Is this our restock beanie tube things?
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- [Nick] Yeah you bet. - Yay! lttstore.com baby.
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Do we have new colors? - [Nick] You bet. - Nice.
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Wait. We're not actually doing a pink one are we? - [Nick] Uh, No.
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We've got replacements if people need them. - Sorry, sorry you guys.
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If you had your heart set on getting a pink one, that is not going to be a thing.
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Let's see if I can figure out how to turn the ANC off.
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Okay. Hi. - [David] Hello. - Yep. That pass-through is working confirmed.
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So I tried to install it and it basically just said, app not installed, which was self-evident.
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You won't have this problem because you'll be buying this product after it's available.
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We are back. And this time the app has been updated on the Play Store.
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Liberty series, boom. Liberty 3 pro.
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Here we go. Touch range is highlighted in the blue area.
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Four gestures. Press, double tap, triple press and long press.
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Okay. Here's one of the things I really wanted to try out.
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Oh. Vocal mode, fully transparent. So, If you want to hear like traffic or whatever.
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So cause you don't want to get hit by a car. I guess you want fully transparent. And then vocal mode is supposed to
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only let through voices I guess. How you doing David? - [David] I'm doing fantastic.
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Did you know the average Blue Whale is actually smaller than 16,000 elephants?
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- 16? How many elephants? - [David] 16,000 elephants. - 16,000 elephants?
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- [David] So the average Blue Whale is smaller than that. - Smaller than that. Yeah, that makes sense.
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Okay. Thank you, that's very helpful. They both sound about the same with voices,
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but we don't have a lot of ambient noise here to sort of compare their functionality with.
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Okay. One of the big functions in their software is the HearID test,
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which will actually test your hearing and then adjust the EQ of the headphones based on that.
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So, oh man, look at this. I got to click this third button here, 30-40.
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- [David] Should you try them before doing that and then do it, so you can hear the difference?
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Or does that not matter? - Oh, I guess that's not a terrible idea.
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The ear canal test needs to be taken in a noisy environment.
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Wow. That's really interesting. David, can you say something? - [David] I'm speaking,
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this is me speaking. - Oh, okay. Yeah. That's working then. They've done a really good job of
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dialing in the noise cancellation and transparency modes
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so that your music sounds basically the same.
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But the flip side of that is that while the AirPods Pro do a good job of
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sounding more like an open back headphone when you're in transparency mode, these don't.
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They sound like IEM. So if you like the IEM sound,
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these are always going to sound like IEMs. Even if pass-through is on.
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Impressions without LDAC, little hollow sounding, not super rich.
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It's nice to just have a super easy to use EQ built right into the software.
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That's more to my liking. Definitely find the highs a little bit,
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almost too crisp out of the box,
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but you can turn them down. It's kind of too bad you can't go in and just say,
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I mean, hey. Yeah, this may be true to what the artist intended.
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Like nice and flat. You know, once we've compensated for my hearing.
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But it'd be nice to be able to go in there and say, okay yeah, that's fine,
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but I'd like to boost this a little bit. Definitely addresses the lack of fullness
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that I was hearing with the default EQ curve though.
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Would strongly recommend running the wizard, if you get yourself a pair of these
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which of course you can do at the link in the video description. Thanks for watching.
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Thanks to Soundcore by Anker for sponsoring the video. And we'll see you guys in the next one.