- Don't zoom in, Andy,
I'm rocking a thick unibrow.
I think it's all the sun I've been getting.
Soundcore, they reached out to us to sponsor their new
Spirit X2
waterproof, truly wireless earbuds.
Great for the gym, tons of bass.
Let's check them out.
Sponsored, okay?
Spirit X2's rich bass-driven sound is fueled
by the addition of an acoustic tube
placed behind the driver.
So they claim that they get 100% more bass on these ones,
presumably that's in comparison
to the last Spirit X headphones,
those were like a pair of neck buds.
They've got this, it's a little hallway behind the driver,
and you can imagine like this,
when you have a floor standing speaker
in your home theater, for example,
and you set it up beside your TV,
probably right against the wall,
it's going to be bass-ier sounding
than if you move that speaker away from the wall,
because the bass is coming out of the back of the speaker
and hitting the wall and bouncing back to you.
So that's basically what they're doing here.
Spoiler alert, I tried these on already
and they're pretty bass-y.
Okay, this is a pretty big case,
but it'll fit in my gym bag.
So you can see that they're pretty similar
other than the fact that they're not neck buds,
they're pretty similar to the previous iteration.
Although on the first version of these, they had,
it was pretty much thin all the way through here,
now it looks like they integrated
a lot of that circuitry and business and battery
into this part of the ear bud.
They're surprisingly light for their size,
and if I follow the little instructions here
on how to put them on,
a little bit
in,
behind,
and some rotation,
actually pretty comfortable and pretty light.
These are pretty isolating,
I feel like I'm wearing earplugs right now,
my voice sounds all weird.
(screams)
Some manuals, nice selection of extra ear tips,
a couple of different styles here.
These ones are like kind of contoured,
almost like AirPods style.
These ones got their little,
little grips on them.
I like this, this is a lot of variety.
'Cause you know, not all ear holes are the same.
And there is a charging cable,
no wall wart, just a USB-C to USB-A cable.
Yep, there's a USB-C charging port right there,
on the back of the case, that's nice.
There's also a button that is for reset,
you put your headphones back in the case,
you leave the lid open,
and you hold that down
and you can like, factory reset them.
545 milliamp-hour battery.
So they are advertising nine hours of battery life
off the headphones,
that's nine hours of playback
and a total of 36 hours with the case,
so I guess you get three additional charges
from the charging case.
These are totally gym headphones, hey?
Not only are they like really on,
but they also have an IP68
Ingress Protection rating.
Their IP68 rating will defend against dust and water
with sweat guard technology
to resist the corrosive nature of sweat.
Last 100 times longer than ordinary true wireless earbuds,
thanks to a submarine structure
and hydrophobic nano coating.
Cool.
I've heard of such coatings being like on shoes
and stuff like that,
sometimes it wears off over time,
but nonetheless, happy to have it here,
and if it increases the longevity that headphone, cool.
Suffice it to say,
you can swim with these for at least a half an hour,
at least a meter deep,
but probably more like three meters or 10 feet deep.
For the controls, they are tactile buttons,
which I actually like in a gym setting,
particularly, you know, swimming pool or wet setting.
Ooh, I just,
hold on, I just pressed play by accident.
So you can turn up the volume with left and right,
down and up.
I can pause it by pressing the bottom button
on either the left or right, so, which is kind of weird,
the buttons are symmetrical in some ways
and asymmetrical in other ways.
Like I said, it's volume up and volume down,
that depends on which headphone you hit,
but pause, it doesn't matter which one you hit.
You can also hold down the play button
for the Google Assistant, again on either headphone.
And if you hold down the volume buttons for one second,
then that goes next song and previous song,
so again, asymmetrical.
If you hold down the button, it changes EQ settings.
It'll go from normal to extra bass.
So that's another component as to why these have
100% more bass.
It's not just because they have
that acoustic chamber behind the driver,
it's also that they have these new special bass algorithms,
which I guess is just an EQ
and you can toggle it on and off
by holding down that button. Pretty cool.
It's actually noticeable,
but not
like in your face obnoxious,
you kind of have to listen to it a bit.
You can compare like AB,
yeah, it's more bass-y now,
but it's not like get out of my face kind of bass.
It's good.
There's some other algorithms at work here,
it has cVc 8.0 noise reduction technology for the mics.
Hello and welcome to a demonstration
of the microphone quality of the Soundcore Spirit X2.
This is what you can expect to hear.
There's actually a settings button here
and you can see some options for the headphone.
These ones don't have a ton of options in here,
but they do have a toggle for Qualcomm's aptX audio.
aptX audio is basically a codec
that will take reduced bit rate audio streams,
like the type that have to fit onto Bluetooth
and then reconstitute them in a lossy matter
that actually sounds quite good.
(laid-back pop music)
(intense metal music)
You could head bang in the gym,
you can do aggressive deadlifts.
(grunts)
You can just smash your head on the wall,
'cause you're sick of living in a pandemic.
These are pretty on there,
they stay in your head and have good bass,
and I think having strong bass is really important
for a workout, you just need that drive.
You can turn them up to pretty damn loud volumes
and they don't sound too harsh.
You know what? And Soundcore thinks
that they're so good for the gym,
that they are going to give you 15% off
using the link below,
if you enter in the phrase GYMCOMPANION.
Thank you to Soundcore for sponsoring this video,
check them out with the discount at the link below.
And if you think these are too big,
you don't want to rock that,
I don't know much about these ones,
but this is the Spirit Dot 2,
and they have a lot of the same features on the box here,
thumping bass, they're comfy,
but they have touch controls and they're way smaller,
and look, according to this guy, you can sweat in these too.
So check it out everybody, you can get it on Amazon.