hey guys it's max we just got in samsung's brand new galaxy buds pro and
today we're gonna check these out and compare them to the galaxy buds plus
and the galaxy buds live to see which one
you should spend your hard earned money on believe it or not
the new galaxy buds pro actually have the worst battery life it says 5 to 18
hours over here whereas the buds live if you're not
using a bixby function at six hours with active noise cancellation and the oldest
ones are actually the best with 11 hours just with the buds themselves now that's
just the earbuds themselves if we factor in the extra battery that's
built into the cases then the pros and the lives come out
ahead let's open these up and look at that the case looks pretty
much identical to the galaxy buds live case
but samsung is going with a matte look just like on their new
s21 phones let's pop this open oh wow that magnetic clasp that's nice
definitely a lot stronger and they look really nice sitting there
inside the case let's check out the strength of the magnets
all right so the beans fell out here's our more traditional case
all right these are staying out they're shaking a little bit but they didn't
fall but the magnets in here are nice and strong it's very interesting
that i'm not saying a label which bud goes into which side let's see
if it can close if you put it the wrong way and if the galaxy buds live
it will not close yep same thing here but it definitely is interesting that
they ended up switching that now another thing that i have to mention is
that i actually like the design of the galaxy buds plus case
it's a little bit more slender it is longer it's slightly thinner
but i feel like it fits into your pocket easier especially if you want to put it
into a jean pocket if you have a wallet in there as well
compared to this new square design as far as prices
there is a big difference now when these came out
the bus plus were 150 the buzz life stepped it up to 170
and the pro are now 200 dollars but of course there are some great sales going
on so you can get these two for much
cheaper we're going to go ahead and leave some links down in the video
description where you guys can get the best prices
as far as the design of these buds you guys could tell that there's a big
difference the galaxy buds live really stand out they look like
little beans and they are not an in-ear design
they just sit right in your ear canal and they are
very comfortable i can wear these for about twice as long as the original
galaxy buds plus let's go ahead and put these on and
i've had a lot of experience with these before so they feel pretty good like
standard in-ear
earbuds and what's very interesting is look at the difference
in the opening here and then we also have an
oval shape instead of a circular shape and this whole
ear the silicon tip here it is much thicker and has a lot more cushion
compared to this one which is super thin and as soon as i press down i feel the
stem whereas here i don't so let's put these
in of course i will be doing a long-term
review and i'll be talking about comfort and how long you can wear these
without my ears getting tired but wow they are definitely more
comfortable just for my first impressions
i don't feel the stem anywhere near as much
as with the galaxy butts plus now the galaxy bud pro earbud
does look larger and a lot more substantial they actually filled in the
area where these wing tips were and then on the bottom you also see
it's a little bit of like a bulb here so they're
definitely making the most use of that space that is available but it's
interesting that the pros don't stick out any more
than the pluses and the lives are actually the most
flush and as far as weight these actually weigh the same even though the
pros are larger and now let's go ahead and pair
these before we start testing out the sound quality
active noise cancellation and microphones and unfortunately
the galaxy buds wearable app for ios has not been updated
yet and i cannot pair these earbuds to my phone using that app i mean i can
still go into my bluetooth settings and then they should show up here bam
they are connected and they do show up as galaxy buds pro
but unfortunately i'm not going to be able to customize any of the settings i
do have an android phone for that which we'll take a look at in just a bit
but let's take a listen to how they sound
default i'm going to start out with the galaxy buds plus and then we'll listen
to the pro see if there's any difference and then do the lives we're going to
start out with this classic song we'll have a couple other genres
let's go ahead and hit play [Music]
sounds good [Music]
good seal here nice vocals i mean these sound good i love how the galaxy buds
flush out
good base there these have dual drivers and the new galaxy buds pro also have
dual drivers so you have a separate tweeter
and a woofer for the base let's see if we have any difference and once again
these are using the stock settings i have not changed anything i
did put in the larger ear tips to make sure i have a good fit
the highs are more crisp i think the
speakers are the same in here the drivers maybe it's just the tuning
the base sounds pretty much the same [Music]
the highs definitely stand out more they're a little bit sharper which does
sound good and now for the galaxy buds live
let's pop these in very easy to slip these in and they don't go out
at all wow these get loud definitely louder than
other ones [Music]
i gotta say these might sound better the bass
nice and rich [Music]
the vocals still sound good alright let's go ahead and pause that
in this song which is an edm song lots of bass
lots of vocals the vocals and how high and how crisp the highs are
it's right between the galaxy buds plus
and pro at least out of the box of course you can tune these
sound the vocals sound great these get louder and the bass sounds
really rich as well in this song i have to give it to the lives
closely followed by the pros and in third place the pluses but it's still
fairly close all right let's go ahead and switch to our second song
and for the next one we have this kind of a jazzy
classical mix it's called classic and i'm gonna listen to all three and
then i'll give you guys my thoughts [Music]
so i have to say wow the earbuds that i probably would
recommend to the least amount of people are the only ones that i
didn't want to stop listening to of course you can't eq all three of these
but out of the box the bass not only is it a little bit more present it's
richer and it's deeper sounding with these both the
galaxy buds plus and the pros the bass sounds pretty much
identical the difference here is the highs are
much more crisp on the pros and in fact in this song with
the hi-hats a little bit too crisp from my liking
lives though these are the only ones that gave me that kind of a sound stage
feel where the sound just isn't in my ear
ear canals but there it's kind of wider and you have this nice transition in the
part of the song where you have to sweep and it sounds
much closer to my airpods max which is what i want to be listening to
with this song now we're going to push these to the limits listening to a rock
track and the galaxy buzz lives are the only ones that don't have dual drivers
compared to these two so they should have an advantage but
let's take a listen [Music]
is [Music]
all right guys so i was not expecting that we have the galaxy buds live that
don't have dual drivers that samsung is advertising
and they definitely sound better i mean this is the toughest
test the galaxy buds plus they're not cutting it it's so
thin especially with rock music the highs aren't crisp enough
the mids are really lacking the pluses and i think it might just be tuning
they sound better the high stained out the vocals stand up better it's not all
muddy together and they're a little bit louder as well
which is interesting but then you throw in the galaxy buzz live
that rich bass the high still sound good and what
really stands out is the mids you actually get a nice
kick there in the mids i don't know it just sounds great it's definitely
a step above the other two which i was not expecting
and now let's go ahead and compare the noise cancellation
the galaxy buds plus have passive cancellation because they do seal
in whereas the other two have active so in this room we have a loud vent
up there and we have the furnace constantly running which is annoying but
let's take a listen
okay i can hear it but i would say probably about eighty percent of it is
blocked out and pretty much all the high
frequencies are blocked out actually let's let's try the galaxy buds
live first this time go and switch and i hear
almost as much as i would without them because they don't seal into your ear
all right and now let's turn it on all the low noise is gone completely
but i still hear some of the high frequency sounds now
whoa okay that kicked it right away and actually that was just
the off mode i thought the active noise cancellation was running but no it's not
and it's blocking out i would say more than the pluses
with off probably because the ear tips seal better and they're better designed
now let's go ahead and activate our active noise cancellation
i still hear it i don't think this is as good as the airpod pros but if you guys
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i would probably have to say cut out about 90 percent of that vet sound but i
could still hear it um angelica go ahead and say something
one two one two i still hear you pretty well let me go
to the off position all right talk now one two one two no
you sound the same to be completely honest i was expecting
more from the active noise cancellation um so let's go ahead and do something
else i have a video of people talking here i'm gonna play this
so of course low frequencies it works not as great how does it work with this
kind of sound my goodness there's almost no difference
so i gotta say that's a bit disappointing and i've used a lot of
great active noise cancellation headphones but let's go and give the
lives a try
the lives make there's no difference with that sound
with the kind of crowded people talking sound there's no difference here
which i would expect but there's also no difference or
very little difference on the pros so
that is very very interesting to me of course i am going to be doing a lot
more testing in different environments and i will get back to you guys in the
full review but so far i'm not that impressed
like i was expecting to be now all three of these earbuds do have an
ambient mode i'm going to start with the galaxy above this plus and we'll
compare that that sounds weird and still quiet let's go to medium
we'll keep the mic clear okay now i'm on high and i gotta say this sounds
terrible and extremely artificial and the worst i've said i've heard
in about six months but i have been testing very good headphones
let me hit play on the sound here that is really
really weird all right not good at all let's go ahead and step
up to the galaxy buds live all right these actually don't have
the ambient mode they just have an option here in the labs to relieve
pressure with ambient sound and that is kind of like an ambient mode but it just
adds a little bit of feedback in there so let's talk i sound fairly normal
and then let me hit this here i hear that
basically ignore a little bit of the hyzer cut down and let's enable this
okay and that seems to just bring back a little bit more of those highs
i can hear great as long as music's not playing all right
and for the pros i'm talking the highs are really cut down let's go to ambient
sound wow that is a good improvement over the
galaxy buds plus and i'm set to medium volume let's kick it up a notch here
let's go to extra height whoa okay that sounds horrible
high sounds not bad fairly natural medium is the most natural i guess but
it's not as loud and i have to say that is a massive
improvement i wonder if that's just because the microphones have been
improved the galaxy buds pro do have one extra feature that is pretty
cool and this is something i wish the airpod pros had
and that's the ability to detect your voice when you're talking
and then automatically go into that ambient mode
and then it'll go back if it doesn't detect your voice within 10 seconds so
let's go ahead and hit start here and now i'm talking let's see how long
alright basic yeah maybe about two seconds or so
and it goes into that ambient sound mode that actually works really well
you don't have to uh go and switch modes by yourself if you just have active
noise cancellation enabled you start talking and it switches
that is an awesome feature and now let's go ahead and test out and compare
the microphone quality and you guys take a listen you let me know which one
sounds best to you this is the microphone quality of the galaxy buds
plus and this is the
microphone quality of the galaxy buds
live and this is the microphone quality of the new
galaxy buds pro and now let's get to the verdict
which one of these buds should you buy before i give you guys my final opinion
i do have to mention that the galaxy buds pro
do have some additional features that we haven't covered
there is a 360 degree reality kind of sound which i haven't tested because i
don't have a samsung phone right now i'm letting a friend borrow my note 20. you
also have the auto voice detect which works great you have
that ambient mode that actually sounds good and is usable i'm
using it right now i would not be able to do this
with the pluses and the galaxy buds pro actually have ipx7 water resistance or
waterproofing that means that you can actually fully submerge these
up to one meter in depth for 30 minutes and they should be fine so do these
upgrades make the galaxy buds pro worth spending almost twice as much
as the galaxy buds plus if you guys are using those links in the video
description or should you maybe go for the galaxy
buds live now to be completely honest this
decision is much harder than i expected i expected the pros to sound great
i expected the active noise cancellation to smoke the galaxy buds
live but it really doesn't i didn't expect the galaxy buds
live to sound the best either if you aren't spoiled by high-end sound quality
you just have cheap earbuds that you've been using um
i probably would just save the money and go with the galaxy
bud supply now if you're somebody that wants the best
sound and you don't care about sound leakage and about having active noise
cancellation with the high frequencies the galaxy buds live are on sale now at
a great price and they sound fantastic they're very comfortable
and they just do a really good job as long as you don't need the active noise
cancellation many of you guys even those you guys that use android can
go for airpod pros and these are on sale right now basically the same price as
these so i'm going to do another video
comparing these head to head against each other and make sure you guys have
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