- This video is brought to you by Soundcore
and we're going to be checking out their Q30
wireless headphones with active noise cancellation
and 40 hours of battery life with ANC-enabled
and up to 60 with ANC disabled.
Let's go ahead and crack these puppies open, oh, I remember.
Hey, look at this, look at this.
I remember planes.
Do you remember planes?
Yeah, they're great for on the plane
when that ever becomes a thing, but don't worry,
don't worry, you can also use them indoors and outdoors.
One of the key features of these is that you can get
up to four hours of listening time off of just
a five-minute charge.
Quick charging has been one of the biggest innovations
for me when it comes to portable devices like this,
because I'm the kind of person who's not real diligent
about charging, especially if it's something
that I don't use every single day,
like my phone, for example.
So being able to just pop it on the charger
for a couple of minutes and be ready to go is
a pretty big deal.
Not bad, actually for 80 bucks.
Like my expectations in terms of build quality
were not that high,
given the price and feature set, but okay.
That is some very, very pushy memory foam,
the real question though is is it thick enough?
They offer NFC pairing so you can see the
a couple of little sticker on that, oh,
oh, sound card, you got to get a sticker
that comes off clean,
oh, at least it doesn't leave any residue.
Okay, I've seen much worse.
So there's a metal band that goes along the top here
and then on the inside there's plastic pieces
and this piece is also plastic.
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Reasonable hold.
Still pretty easy to adjust,
a reasonable amount of padding on the headband.
You can see here instead of going
for a really memory foamy type of pad,
they went for one that has a little bit more rebound.
That makes sense because the ones on your ears
are just meant to shape to your head
and make sure you get a good seal.
The one on your head is meant to actually support
some of the weight of the headphones.
Clamping pressure, I would describe as moderate,
not super tight, but it's not loose either.
All right, I'm kinda gonna get what it feel like.
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All right, I tend to be a bit of a strong clamp guy.
Wow, really good noise isolation right out of the gate,
which is obviously a great place to start
when you want noise cancellation
to be a key feature of your product.
Seems to be like a very, very noise absorby foam here.
That's pretty cool.
Now I tend to be a bit of a tighter clampy kind of guy.
I like the clamps, you know,
so these are a little bit looser
than I would necessarily prefer,
but it's always a trade-off, right?
Because the tighter you clamp, the less comfortable
they're going to be over a very long period of time.
I just, I kind of like that secure, snug fit.
They do move around a little bit,
but they're also not just gonna like come right off
unless you're really headbanging.
Just get it adjusted just right to those,
make sure we give it as fair shake as possible.
Okay, okay at the right size, that's not bad.
So on the bottom of the right ear cup,
you've got your play pause button as well as volume up,
volume down and is that a headphone jack?
This is sort of like a sharing feature.
I think we see that on the thing.
- [Jono] No.
- Oh, no, that, no, I'm an idiot.
That's so you can use them in wired mode.
We've got that noise cancellation toggle as well as
power button and Type-C charging.
Type-C charging, always a plus.
That makes sense though given Soundcore's Anker lineage
that good charging technology would be a foundational aspect
of this product.
Included Type-C charging cable,
as well as an included 3 1/2 millimeter cable.
Man, I'm not even daily driving anything
with a headphone jack anymore so it's like up,
where's my iPhone?
There we go.
All right, let's pair this puppy.
I'll be honest with you,
I don't know if the iPhone supports NFC pairing, does it?
- [David] Isn't that how the AirPods pair?
- No, I think it's just a,
like Bluetooth proximity, nonsense.
Okay, Soundcore Life Q30 and connected.
I mean, NFC pairing is one of those, like,
yeah, it's nice to have things, but,
doesn't really save that much time,
that was pretty painless, we're already totally ready to go.
That is kind of trippy.
Can you say something again David?
- [David] YouTube music is great,
and. - Interesting.
Soundcore is taking a bit of a different approach
to canceling out sort of sudden noises
than I think I've heard before.
So it definitely takes some of the edge off of it,
but you sound kind of robotic to me,
I don't have anything playing right now,
so there's no distractions,
but you really do sound like a stormtrooper.
- [Jono] Huh?
Oh, that's my life goal.
- [David] Everything's okay, down here?
How are you?
- It's like ex--
it's like TK-421, do you copy like frickin'?
- [David] You're a little short for a stormtrooper.
- Hey, I get, all right enough of that.
All right, well, you know what?
Let's go with some, let's go with some lam, you know,
let's get some, some classics, classics up in here.
So where do I touch for transparency mode?
Oh, two seconds.
There we go.
Wow, okay, interesting,
so it not only sort of allows outside sound to come in,
it seems like it's actually amplifying it.
- [Jono] Oh, hi!
- Yeah, yeah, no, I can hear you fine,
I haven't adjusted the volume at all, interesting.
Okay, so hold on, let's change modes again.
- [Jono] Hey, how you doing today?
Looking pretty god. - Huh?
The tonality of the music really doesn't change much.
I'm surprised.
I'd like to see that two-second delay adjustable
within the app.
It does feel a little bit long.
Wow, I was like your footsteps, honestly,
it sounds like, like Seisco.
- Well, like. - Yeah, like,
kuh, kuh, kuh, kuh, kuh, kuh, like,
it's kind of trippy how much it passes through to me.
All right, so far I've been at a pretty
low listening volume here.
I would definitely describe them as pretty bass heavy.
Not too sloppy though,
like even "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun,"
it's like, boom, boom, you know like, it's pretty,
it's pretty thumpy.
Yeah, that's what, that's exactly why I wanted the app,
I wanted to play around the EQ a little bit,
like it's not unpleasant,
it's just a lot of bass for my tastes.
One of them marks of a good headphone for me though,
even if you have transparency mode,
is can it be worn comfortably like this?
Not bad.
They've got a lot of swivel in the cups
and enough flex in the headband that you can actually
tuck it away here.
No automatic turning off features or anything like that.
Remember guys, these are $80 with, well,
active noise cancellation and a big fat battery.
But of course they do have control buttons
on the left cup anyway, so, wait,
why did I just agree to get notifications
from my headphone app, oops.
All right, Life Series, here we go, Life Q30.
Yeah, sure.
Update firmware, fix bugs.
Fair enough.
Okay, better transparency performance apparently.
Don't disconnect or play music while installing updates.
That was a very quick,
like app recognition
and like firmware prompting process though,
that was like really fast.
It's the kind of thing most people would talk about,
but I tend to kind of gloss over it,
in terms of style, they look all right I guess,
nope got some, they're black with shiny accents.
They're headphones all right.
In Soundcore's product bullet points for this,
they mentioned 40 millimeter drivers
but my issue with that as a talking point is that
it's kind of meaningless because
a well-tuned 40 millimeter driver could be way better than
a poorly tuned 50 millimeter driver,
like the size of the driver, it tells you not much, really.
So well it's better for me to just say,
yeah, they sound pretty responsive
and the bass is tight than for me to say,
yeah, it's got a 40 millimeter driver,
just doesn't mean anything to me.
Okay, cool.
So there's noise cancellation, which works pretty darn well,
transparency mode, which is like amped up and normal.
No noise cancellation, no transparency,
just a noise isolated, close back your phone.
Okay, that I wanna hear.
Good Lord, that is a lot of bass though.
I would probably put these like somewhere
in this neighborhood.
Okay.
Easy to use the EQ?
Yeah, I mean, there's not really a whole lot
to adjust in here, but I guess there's not a whole lot
that I would want to.
Oops, oh, interesting.
This isn't something I'd be able to easily test right now,
but they've actually got different tuning profiles
for the active noise cancellation.
Interesting.
So indoor goes after voices,
that explains why I couldn't hear you guys freaking at all.
So then in transport mode where it's going after like
engine rumble, I know, can, you guys wanna say something?
- Braahhgnnnhhh... - Nrrrrgnnnhhh...
- I still can't hear you guys, right,
no, I don't mean like just to make noises.
All right, that's a cool feature.
So again, these are 80 bucks,
if you wanna check them out there at the link
in the video description.
I've highlighted features are of course,
40 to 60 hour battery life, depending on whether
you're running them passively
or with active noise cancellation,
five minutes to charging gives you four hours of playback
and of course, all the tuning that you can do in the app
for the active noise cancellation and EQ.
And for ShortCircuit viewers,
you guys can get 15% off if you check them out now,
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There we go.