last week I went on a very short flight one hour and 10 minutes just up to Barcelona but it was
the perfect place to test out these they are the capsule 3 pros from sound Pete's they have active
noise canceling up to 43 decibels reduction in your ambient noises using three microphones on
each of the earbuds which also does apply to your voice calls giving us clearer calls I'll give you
a sample of the core quality microphone sample later on in this video and let you know what the
ANC sounds like to me testing it out environments like of course on my flight and in the airport as
well as what they sound like in general they do offer the ldac codec support too as well so after
really high quality audio it's one of the best codecs that is out at the moment to use if your
phone does support it that is way better than SBC codec or AAC which is very common so they
have a 12 millimeter diameter driver within them applications support support and a runtime on a
single charge of up to eight hours that's with the normal codec but if you use ldac that then
brings it down to just four hours however you get an additional five and a half charges out of the
case with the sound Pete's capsule 3 Pros now included with the capsule 3 Pros you will find
this which is a user guide I do recommend that you take a look at it because it goes over those touch
controls and every brand it's slightly different with their capacitive touch controls and then how
to fit them correctly we get this type c to type a cable charge time is around about two hours and
then some spare tips so they give us two large and two smalls the mediums are already on the
capsule 3 Pros now looking at the weight of them each of the earbuds only weighs 5 grams that's
pretty standard kind of weight there and then your total carry weight here is just 50 grams
again that's kind of a standard weight here for some earbuds this case is made out of this matte
plastic it is a little easy to scratch and Mark so just be careful with that I ended up placing
it in my pocket was rubbing against my phone so it did leave a few little marks on it down the
bottom here we have our type c Port reset button and there is a status LED on the front so when you
open the lid here it will give you its color which is going to represent of course the status of the
battery charge for our case here closing that lid it does have a magnet that keeps it in place
there so giving this a bit of a shake it does not rattle which is great it doesn't sound like I've
got 10 keys in my pocket or 100 Keys rattling around just when you walk around with this case
with the capsule 3 Pros in there so they're very easy to place them in and out there you can see
the charging contact right in the bottom there and it's magnets again that just hold that into place
with the lid we have sound pits branding on the rear of it and overall pretty standard nice case
here the only thing is it is quite easy to scratch this up so you've got to be careful with it
so best case scenario they say 52 hours of playback time so that's using the case of course
which gives you 5.5 times charges for it you get eight hours worth the active noise canceling off
and not using our DAC but when you do use our Deck with this it really hits the battery life
as I've discovered since using a lot of these earbuds without that code it because of the
higher data rate the streaming it uses it's then four hours officially with ldac and active noise
canceling but in my findings it's around about three and a half just over three and a half hours
so they've got a nice plastic finish to them we have an inner middle mic right here Mike at the
bottom there and then one at the top so those are used in conjunction so six mics in total for the
active noise cancellation hybrid by the way up to 43 decibels reduction ambient noise and then
for our clearer voice calls too using some noise cancellation with those mics and this is the one
that will be picking up your voice though those two little points there those are of course the
charging contacts and the back area here we have our capacitive touch surface now it doesn't work
every single time I have touched it this is pretty common for capacitive touch occasionally like
maybe about two times out of ten or one time one time out of ten that it might not actually work
can you go to touch it but it's normally pretty good with that now this join here in the plastic
it looks like it could have a sharp edge to it it doesn't it's quite good so good materials used the
plastic here mat again they are clearly labeled lift and right and the silicone tips I find the
mediums give me a very good seal so you need that of course for the sound quality and active noise
cancellation and there is a little metal filter inside there too as you can see so these silicon
tips they have a more firmer harder inner layer to them the outer on them hasn't softened up like
some of the cheaper tedios earbuds do sometimes they get a little soft they lose their seal so
after two weeks of you with these ones yes I have cleaned them so that's why they look
so clean they're fine I can happily report that no they have not loosened up on me in the seals
just as good as day one now the key reason to go for these verses say the competitors out there
is this ldac support high-res audio wireless certified 2 the capsule 3 Pros have you covered
for that now the best way to describe aldak is this it's a super high quality High bit rate
codec that is way more advanced and more modern than your typical standard SBC codec AAC codecs
it removes that high-end compression you get with those older codecs often the highs they've got a
bit of they've got compression to them they've got noise and ldac it looks to my ears pretty
much sounds exactly like wired connections yes the codec is that good however there are a couple of
trade-offs so one of them is you need a modern phone like I've got a Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra
here it supports LDC you can see I've got it my bluetooth settings to enable that now I've seen it
on older phones with the Snapdragon 865 865 plus 870 and onwards they typically support it I don't
think I've ever seen it mediatek powered devices out there and of course the other trade-off is
battery life it will take a huge hit on your battery life streaming at a much higher bit rate
consumes a lot more energy but it's well worth the trade-off I feel and the other is okay the latency
is still going to be there so in that area it's not as good as wired nothing will be wide when it
comes to latency but it's not bad in the gaming mode these will go uh and lower the latency down
to 70 milliseconds which is not bad now they do have app support so just go to home here you can
see your battery life for each of the earbuds unfortunately it doesn't show the battery life
for the case with their app there was a firmware update I'm on we've got our equalizer right here
so I'm keeping it on classic you've got custom equalizer here too as well so you can go along
and adjust this to your own preference so you can up the lows lower down the highs whatever
mid-range tweak it and it's a global equalizer so it's saved onto these earbuds and you don't need
to keep running the app so even if you're watching Netflix or you're gaming you're going to have
that same equalizer you've got a noise reduction mode so normal transparent mode with your ambient
noises or coming through all the active noise canceling hybrid up to 43 decibel reduction is
their claim I've actually got no way to test that at all so it's a straightforward app pretty simple
there with your equalizers but it does the job and good to see firmware updates have been pushed out
now sound wise the sound signature from these they're default tune using the sound Pete's
default Sound Beats classic a good very good here so they haven't gone overboard overboard with the
bass they have not gone and boosted up the meds too much a little I'd say but vocals are excellent
and your best bet with these is of course to use the aldec code it once you do that they really
do have a sound that is so similar to wide I am really hard put to distinguish the difference
between wired and then using Al DAC I think most people won't be able to tell any difference at
all because gone is that high in compression those terrible cheaper codecs like SBC really
did in the beginning ruin Bluetooth audio for me and fine and I can happily say that hey you
know what these or any ldac earbuds normally sound just as good as a wide connection apart from the
latency that's the only thing that's missing there excellent now the top end volume very good it's
not eardrum shattering but I think most people will be very happy with the top in loudness the
vocals come through very crisp very detailed great and overall just in general a very good
tune excellent sounding but I highly recommend get these if you've got a phone that does support the
audit codec you want to be using it and I know the battery life isn't going to be as good but it's
well worth it if you're really into your audio just sounding like wide even though it is Wireless
now the audio sync the Lan C is not bad at all on the gaming mode you can happily watch
Netflix here this is Vikings Valhalla that I'm watching and it's all in time with their mouths
I wouldn't say absolutely spot on perfect but I really don't notice it at all the only time you
can see a little bit of a delay is when you're a gaming especially the games where you're like
shooting like Call of Duty Pub G or something like that you notice it a little bit but right
here watching this it's fine and it does not annoy me it is pretty much almost perfect the
timing the audio with the video here the latency is that good in the gaming mode
and here is a sample of the sound piece capsule 3 Pro I'm recording directly into the timeline of
my video editor which is Adobe Premiere Pro 2023 what do you think because the calls I've placed
using these when I was in Barcelona I don't think it was bad at all these microphones have certainly
improved remember about two years ago microphone quality was terrible on any tws earbuds they've
come a long way and these sound pretty good to my ears so when you take them out and you place them
in your ears they pair up pretty much straight away and you just put them in give them a bit of
a Twist I've got the medium-sized silicone tips on and I find them to be very comfortable I wore
them for three hours after my flight I continue to wear them when I was going through transit
or getting out of customs and I didn't really have any issues with them being uncomfortable I noticed
a minor bit of irritation any air bit of just pressure build up which is typical you'd probably
be taking them out at that point anyway putting them back in their case now the ANC of course I
was on a flight it was the perfect moment to test it out also in the airport and I did discover that
on my flight when I had them off the ANC you could hear the wine of the aircraft engines
the just whooshing noise that harming kind of noise you get inside the cabin and as soon as
I turn that on boy does it make a difference you just notice straight away that Ambient sound level
just drops right off completely especially all the aircraft noise I could still just hear people
behind me talking I I had some relatively loud people that were shouting away so I could still
hear them but it's enough to kind of drown out their conversation and you couldn't really focus
on anything there and that made the flight a lot more pleasant that I could just zone out listen
to my music and not have horrible background noise and chatter and all that that was all
gone now the touch controls as mentioned they're a little bit hit and miss and disconnections in
the airport very busy environment again there are about 50 Bluetooth devices around me one
at one point when I checked no disconnections at all with my Samsung Galaxy s23 old show was
absolutely Flawless with the ldx support the voice call Quality is great it's really only
one thing with these and that is the battery life I wish was a lot better than just around
about four hours with our deck on I wish it would go to five or six it's a very minor thing I know
but that's really the only thing I can find wrong with the capsule threes Pros here from soundpeats
they are an excellent set of ANC earbuds if you want that our DAC support for a great price point