Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Haters be quiet – Beats Studio Buds Plus”.
It’S been a little while since beats was on top of the world. I remember back in high school when it was the coolest thing to have Beats, and then everyone found out that they were actually just nice looking garbage, but since they’ve been acquired by Apple. I think that beets have come quite a long way and are now producing several pretty high quality products, if not a little overpriced, which is why I’m kind of angry, because in a previous unboxing I mentioned that I had a pair of Beats Solo 3 wireless and People just kept dunking on me. I think that people still think that the Beats of the early 2010s are the same as they are now, but being acquired by Apple has changed them in a big way. You get things like Apple’s noise, canceling and all that sort of stuff.
So I’m hoping to see all of those improvements on their new Beats Studio, buds, Plus, let’s take a look inside it’s another box, oh sweet! These are the transparent ones. Look at look at that! You can see right through them. That’S sick, I’m so glad that they’re releasing this, and this isn’t like a special edition. This is like an a mass-produced version of them.
I love the clear plastic. It was always the best Nintendo, 64 Controller. It’S the best Game Boy Advance and I these are probably gon na, be the best needs headphones. I’M just saying: let’s take a look around the Box, see what we see what we can learn. They claim powerful, balanced, sound with spatial audio again, taking advantage of that Apple tech, enhanced Apple and Android compatibility. Oh, I guess maybe Apple’s kind of coming around to working with Google on some things at Google.
I O they announced that they would share like airpod location data, so that people could know if they were being like tracked or anything like that, and it seems like they’re gon na actually be putting a lot of extra Android features in here too, which is really Cool to see active noise canceling with transparency mode up to 36 hours of battery life, with ANC off nine hours in the earbuds and 27 hours. In the case, I love how they break that down um. Usually this go like 40 hours and inside you get a tiny, USBC, cable, a very tiny, USBC cable. You get three extra sizes of ear tips, awesome so from extra small to to large, then oh there there.
I can’t look at that. Yet we got ta. Look at the documentation is that a sticker, it is a sticker. I’M gon na put it on here and you get some documentation, but that’s just about it. That’S all we get in there and then here they are. The Beats themselves.
Interesting thing to note is that this mentions not quick pairing with an iPhone or quick pairing with an Android phone, because it actually supports both. So you can do fast pairing on both your Android and your iPhone. I guess before we open them up. Look at the case look at that. Oh, it’s so cool! So you can see like the magnets for the hinge right up. There can see the bracing for this hinge mechanism going along the top.
You can see the battery going along the bottom there right there. I have a USBC as your charging port, which does not allow for the fastest charging it’s about two hours to charge the case and the earbuds fully, but the case itself does allow for quick charging a five minute charge of the headphones. Will. Give you one hour of listening time, not too shabby, oh, so cool and on the top here we have a button.
Probably it’s pairing, I’m going to hold it down and let’s find out there. It is let’s look at these again like just an insane amount of stuff is crammed into there. I find that smaller tips tend to fit my ears best, but this doesn’t have the same kind of ear. Tip connector like you’d, see on the airpods Bros. It’S just your average uh normal ear tip the ear tips that are included are silicone, so there’s no foam or anything like that. It would have been nice to see some phone, a foam option or maybe a double flange, but these are kind of mainstream headphones and you know what getting five pairs of ear tips is still pretty cool.
Even the like filters for the grills are kind of see-through total or on each one, because I see two holes at the top right here: two holes right there, oh and there’s probably the microphone that goes in your ear. That’S probably the third microphone. So, there’s a microphone that goes in your ear, because these are gon na have hybrid noise canceling systems, so they take the noise from outside, as well as the noise inside your ear and use that to factor into a calculation that will cancel out the noise that You’Re hearing speaking of noise canceling try to cancel out this sick deal from my sponsor Vesti thanks for bestie for sponsoring today’s video Messi claims. Their shoes are 100 waterproof. Their new storm burst.
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So apparently we should be able to just do this. Look at that. It even knows we need a software update, but here on Android it already identifies them.
We can link it it’ll now be linked across all of your Google account devices. So if you have like a tablet or maybe a Chromebook, this will automatically pair in the future. With them, we can connect it right now.
Download the app yeah sure give me that Beats app there. We go and we’re paired, it’s so nice that that’s how easy it is Bluetooth can be so nebulous while they quote themselves as having enhanced Android support. They don’t actually support anything other than AAC as a audio codec, which is a real bummer. I get that app decks would be a little bit weird because they would have to have a Qualcomm chipset, but you know it would have been nice to maybe get ldac, but also then again, that’s another company that they don’t want to work with Sony. So these are Bluetooth 5.3, which means that in theory they could support the Bluetooth low energy codec.
We haven’t seen a significant amount of adoption across devices for that yet, but I’m really hoping that we do because it’s supposed to make a pretty huge difference in how much data isn’t required to send a high quality audio signal. It’S gon na be a big step up from AAC. One thing that’s interesting about these is that they don’t take advantage of Apple’s H series of chips.
The Apple H2 can be found in the airpods Pro gen 2s and the H1 and the airpods and the airpods pros gen 1, but also can be found in the Beats Powerbeats Pros, as well as one of their other pro series of headphones. I guess because this isn’t a pro series of a headphone: they decided to go with their own proprietary chip, all right. Let’S take a listen, I’m putting them in they’re nice and light they’re, actually pretty comfortable. They are very small, like they’re, not big headphones, which I appreciate, because sometimes big headphones can be really bulky. They stick out a lot. These don’t seem to stick out too far, thoughts, Sammy anyways Sammy. Thank you. Despite the fact that I own a pair of Beats headphones, I’ve never bothered using their apps.
I don’t actually know what kind of capabilities they have but currently looks like a really good way of being advertised to. If you want to see other beats products or if you want to receive pairing and Battery notifications, and you want to send Apple data, so if you’re really into those things, it looks like the Beats app has got you covered among those extra features you can see. Like the Beats battery life for each headphone and the case in the notification shade really really convenient. Now these are pre-release like.
Obviously you can see that it doesn’t ID the headphones. It’S funny that Google’s pairing algorithm saw it though Google showed the right thing, but in the app they haven’t released it as an actual update. Yet so maybe there’s more features to come. These support Google’s find my devices features if you lose them.
They’Ll remember the last kind of Wi-Fi network you were attached to and like kind of give you a general idea of a location as well as you can like ring them and stuff, which is great. But I don’t know if you don’t be able to do the like crazy, find my things that the H2 chipset allows you to do where you can like hold your phone and it’ll guide you through your house to the location of the headphones. Let’S listen to some of my test tracks. You know they sound pretty good, pretty they sound pretty dang good yeah, there’s a little bit of added bass a little bit of extra oof, but it’s not like tasteless bloated bass. It’S actually like relatively Punchy and Jesse wears new track pearls. I just heard like another instrument that I had not really noticed.
Um there’s like this really cool funky low base kind of synth, that’s uh playing underneath the main Melodies, this kind of highlighted it for me. In a way that really made it like pop – and it was really really cool um – that’s kind of the joy of listening to multiple different types of headphones is that you will hear things in songs that you didn’t notice, because one headphone just happens to represent that Sound in that way – and now I love that song even more because I didn’t know how sick that bass riff was they’re not trying to bring up the highs to the point where things become shrill or anything like that. They’Re they’re, pretty pretty good. The ANC seems pretty solid for the room that we’re in hey Sam. You want to talk to me or Jake. You want to talk to me.
Just like say, hello, hi, hi and I’m saying words out loud. Transparency mode is like it’s the same kind of Apple Magic, where it just sounds really really natural, like it really doesn’t feel like. I have anything in my ears. I do wish that, instead of just doing random, beeps and boops that they gave me actual words.
That said, like a and C on one press two play pause, two presses to skip triple press to go back. It doesn’t seem to get any volume. That’S a major bummer! I really don’t like having to pull up my phone to adjust the volume of my headphones. Okay, now I want to listen to the spatial audio. I am yet to really hear a convincing spatial audio effect on earbuds. I now have a Dolby Atmos sound bar at home, and it really is a whole different experience having access to actual surround sound speakers. Headphones have never really been able to uh pull it off, but I I wan na you know I want to give it a shot. Whoa. No one can hear what I’m hearing my issue with spatial audio is that like Dolby Atmos tracks tend to just make things sound, boomier and distant and not cohesive, like it would in an actual space, and I think, that’s because surround mixing is still not very commonplace. In the music industry, so they’re still learning the tricks of it, despite the fact that surround mixing has been around for like forever, but there was a big quadrophonic push, which is like a four speaker surround system. Two sets of stereos um back in the day like there’s quadrophonic releases of like pink flow. It’S cool it’s different, but it doesn’t sound that great I mean.
But that’s again, that’s my thought. If you love spatial audio tracks, that’s great! Don’T let the people tell you what you can and can’t listen to that’s why I listen to beats okay, because I see only you in the comments. Tell me beats they’re bad shut up.
Labs has the truth. Here’S our frequency response graph, the dotted line is our Target and the green line is the Beats Studio, buds plus and, as you can see, there’s a lift in the bass, especially in the sub bass. That adds that kind of punch that I was talking about, that fun factor that I like beats for. The only thing that I’d be a little concerned about is the lift up at the one to three kilohertz region. Basically, what that means is that things can come off as what is called shouty, where instruments like things like horns or even human voices kind of seem like they’re, like yelling at you, as opposed to like being smooth and like natural.
I didn’t really notice that in my listening tests, but if you’re sensitive to that your mileage may vary in the top, we see pretty good response with a pretty sharp Peak at the 13 kilohertz region, but that’s kind of in the area where measurements really start to Be inaccurate and loose and stuff – and I wouldn’t be terribly concerned about it – I didn’t notice any Brilliance. I mean that’s a pretty that’s a pretty good response curve and I think that reflects the quality of the sound that I perceived and let’s take a look at our ANC graph. The red line is ANC off so passive isolation, and the green line is ANC on active noise canceling and the amount of noise that it’s canceling out is how far below the dotted line it is, and the ANC overall does a decent job.
Cutting out sounds that are below 1000 kilohertz, though it would have been nice to see a little bit of higher performance in the 600 to 1000 kilohertz range. That’S where things like a lot of voices kind of exist, so this won’t do the best job of silencing. Your co-workers, but it will still do a good job, attenuating low rumbles from like vehicles or airplanes.
You’Re, currently listening to me through the mics on the Beats Studio, buds, plus just going to go through a few stats that we didn’t quite cover: ipx4 water resistance. So Splash sweat, pretty cool, they have adaptive to fit ANC. They got beam forming, microphones, okay, the earbuds themselves weigh 5 grams. The case weighs 50 grams. The drivers are made of 100 recyclable, Rare Earth and 100 recycled tin, there’s a 100 recycled tin on the main logic board. Six microphones are used for the ANC with, but with both buds, three microphones are used for dual Bud ANC with transparency off.
They use the multiple microphones to make sure that you have clear speaking voices they’ll adjust the amount of microphones depending on the earbuds. Also they come in black and gold and ivory and both of those also look pretty sick but transparent, look the best. So what are the price of these 170, which is a lot it ain’t? Cheap? That’S for sure. In fact, it falls right in line with the price of airpods third gen, and if you spend 80 more dollars, you get the airpods pros.
If you want to go with smaller companies, especially Chinese companies like sound core or sound Pete or one more, you might be able to get a better value, but these are really really solid. I think it’s a good price. I think the case is really cool and honestly I’d pay. I’D, put I’d pay a premium for this specific case, but that’s just me I think, beats actually knocked out of the park.
I guess these buds have transparency mode, all the time, [ Laughter, ] Sammy, that was perfect. That was incredible thanks for watching short circuit. If you like this video, why don’t you check out the video about another transparent company in a different way, verifo they’re, all about making repairable headphones and being a good company? .