SPRNG Clip "Unboxing" & Torture Test
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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So, Lionus is away for a while and while he was gone, he wanted us to do a video
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about the spring clip. He wanted to do an unboxing. And while this won't be a
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traditional unboxing because to be honest, I've lost the box. Um, and in
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addition to not having the box, we decided to test them as well. So,
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essentially the spring clip is an add-on to your Apple ear pod, which helps it
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sit inside your ear without moving. So, it just goes in your ear right like
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that. And then, basically, while you're out and about, it won't really jostle
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around in your ear at all, and it'll keep its position much better. So, what
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we decided to do with them to see if their claims were true was actually
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benchmark them in a sense. So, what we're going to do is I'm going to go for a run. Then, I'm going to roll down a
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hill. And then I'm going to get tackled really, really hard by my roommate. In
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this benchmark of sorts, we're going to have three different contestants. The
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first is going to be a random generic pair of earbuds. The second will be
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Apple's EarPod by themsself, and the third will be Apple's EarPod with the
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spring clip. For the running test, the results were a little bit expected. So,
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the black ones jostled a little bit, and if I ran for much longer, would have
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came completely out. I have this problem fairly regularly. It's one of the reasons why I don't like earbuds. Uh,
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the Apple EarPods stayed in fairly well, but did move a little bit. And the
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EarPods with spring didn't really seem to move at all. Now, the rolling test,
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while maybe not realistic, some people might be rolling down hills all the
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time. The random generic black inears completely failed and were both out of
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my ear by the end of the test. The Apple ear pods had moved a lot, but were both
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still in my ears for sure. And the Apple ear pods with spring moved a very small
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amount and were still definitely in my ears. The tackle test surprised me a
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little bit. I expected pretty much everything to fail this. And I expected
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the spring to maybe make it and but probably still fail. And that wasn't the
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result at all. They actually all stayed in my ear, including the generic ones.
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They just moved quite a bit. The generic ones were barely still in my ear and
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would have fallen out. They actually one of them fell out as I stood up. Um the
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ear pods moved a lot but stayed in my ear and the spring moved a little bit
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but still did stay in my ear. Now, our testing wasn't exactly scientific, but I
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wanted to show you guys some sort of tangible result, and I hope my comments after each test helped you have an
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informed decision on buying these products. Now, it's it's not necessarily
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for me. I'm not going to use ear. I don't have earpods, but if I did have
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earpods, I wouldn't be using them that much, so it wouldn't be something I'd
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necessarily be that interested in. But, if you're going to use them all the time and it's something you're interested in,
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that's great. If you like the video, like it. If you dislike the video, dislike it. That's no problem. And
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please comment on the video what other products you'd like us to do these kind
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