- This is one of the most generic looking boxes
I've ever seen, look at it compared
to the Momentum True Wireless 2s.
It's almost the exact same.
If these were on the shelf beside each other,
you could easily grab the wrong one.
What we wanna talk about
is the Momentum True Wireless 3 from Sennheiser.
Are they even Sennheiser anymore?
Turn great sound into your sound.
We'll talk about why they wrote that later.
Oh, look at, they got the German right there,
(speaks foreign language)
Here's the actual charging case.
It has a fabric look,
kinda like the cases that Google was making
for their pixel phones for a while there.
And inside, ah, there it is.
There's the earphones.
Inside the box, looks like we were gonna get some ear tips.
And what is this?
Might just have to, ugh. (laughs).
This looks like they go around the earphone on the outside.
We'll try those in a bit.
They're like wing tips to go into your,
what is that called?
Pinna, concha.
I think that's a swear word in Spanish.
Okay, here we go, a USB A to C Cable for charging
that plugs into the front of the charge case.
This also can charge wirelessly.
They say seven hours on the earbuds themselves,
which can be extended to a total of 28,
so an extra 21 hours with the charging case.
French.
(paper thuds)
Plug this in for 30 seconds.
What is this trying to say?
I'm not doing it anyway.
I'm a hardheaded man-child.
Tips, none of these are foam, they're all silicone.
There's three sizes, extra small, small and large.
Screw you if you're medium.
- [Jono] No, I think there's medium installed.
(speaking foreign language)
- Let's get a look at them.
Maybe I'll open up the box from the 2s
so we can see how they're different.
But first I wanna try putting this little ring on this side.
Okay, it does come with one already.
And so you can see there's this little bulge in it.
Can you see that?
Right there, there's a little bulge.
And then this one's bulgeless.
This one's, little bulge here.
So that's just gonna extend further
and further into your concha.
I usually just keep the stock ones on.
You know what I should do though,
is I should probably put a different size on each one,
because I feel like I always have
a different fit on my left ear.
All right, let's see what the 2s look like.
Very similar case.
Although I would say this new case...
Ah, the new case is definitely smaller.
It's like a millimeter or less taller,
maybe a centimeter shorter,
and the width seems the same.
How many bananas diff...
Oh my goodness.
- [Jono] (laughs) Oh no, banana down!
- So yeah, the case is definitely way more compact now.
Just look at all the dead space
they had between earphones before.
So that's a nice improvement.
And then they, for some reason,
changed the position of the port.
On the earphones,
oh man, I don't wanna mix up who's who here.
(both laughing)
So they were a little shinier, brighter before.
Now, these do come in three colors,
there's basic black, white and graphite.
I'm assuming this is graphite, but they're less silvery.
They're still very shiny.
I can see that there are three mics on this thing.
There's one on the inside,
and then there's two external ones.
I'm gonna put on one of each
and you guys can tell me which ones better.
What do you think?
Huh or nah?
- [Jono] That one
- Looks better?
- [Jono] Yeah, definitely.
- Hell yeah, that's what you want.
The new one's the good one, cool.
Get this crap out of my face.
All right, let's practice with my phone
and check with the app.
I hate when apps have little flaws
like this at the beginning.
Just let me in.
I'll allow the permissions this one time.
No device found, so clearly I need to do something
to start pairing them.
There's no button in here, which is actually my preference.
I like when there's a pairing button in the case.
I find that's more intuitive than...
"Touch and hold both ear buds
"for three seconds and start Bluetooth pairing."
Put 'em both in, touch and hold both.
I hear nothing.
I think I need to wake 'em up.
I think I need to do this.
I need a power source.
Can I get a battery bank please?
Pairing, cool.
Let's get back in the action.
Pairing successful, with a slight British accent, nice.
It's weird that it has to look for the device
when it's already connected to my phone.
There we go.
Okay, cool little interface here.
Connections, just the Pixel 4.
"The Momentum True Wireless so you can connect to,
"can only connect to one device at once."
Okay, so this whole...
There's no reason for this page to exist.
Oh, firmware update.
"The update will take 21 minutes!"
All right, I'll do this damn firmware update,
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Wow, that update took a long time
but we're back and we're into the app.
Let's check out the equalizer options we start with here.
So it ships with it all flat, which is cool.
You can adjust the base mid and travel.
And what are the steps
kind of one DB steps up to plus or minus six DB.
I'm gonna leave it flat for now.
I doesn't look
like there's any presets you can just save and name.
Let's call this one too.
Your own.
Oh, there are pre other ones too.
There's rock, pop, dance, hip hop, classical movie.
And then my custom ones are down there.
All right.
All I'm gonna keep it like that.
'Cause that's the best way
to evaluate something like this right off the bat.
There's also base boost special EQ preset
for more intense base.
Podcast mode special EQ preset for enhanced speech clarity.
So that's just gonna boost
up the frequency range where the human voices.
What, this thing just spoke to me.
It said volume max.
And I don't know why.
I guess I tapped on it.
That's gonna bring us to what the interface
is like which I am excited to hear about.
Transparency mode is off,
adaptive noise cancellation off for now.
Let's play some tunes.
This is loud enough for me already at 60%.
So that's a good sign.
Yeah, max is pretty loud,
it's not super loud, but it's pretty loud. (fingers snaping)
I can't really hear my snapping right now.
Let's see what happens when I turn
on the active noise cancellation
(Jono lapping)
didn't really seem to change much.
All right.
Now I'm gonna turn that off.
Keep lapping.
Okay, no real change.
But what I don't understand
is am I turning off adaptive noise cancellation
or am I turning off all active noise canceling.
- [Jono] Oh right.
And I don't know.
They do sound a little bright
but not really that impressed, honestly.
I wanna do the hearing test now
and see if the EQ that this app shoots
out for me makes these songs that I love sound better.
Oh, I need an account.
I gotta play my own tracks.
Oh, weird.
Select the option that sounds best for you.
I honestly cannot tell like,
if you were pressing the button and I wasn't looking,
I wouldn't even know you pressed the button.
(Jono laughing)
This is not what I was expecting for this flow.
Oh wait, I can tell the difference on this.
A and B are similar, but C is like way different.
It's like this one guitar
is getting put under water when I hit C.
I think I like B.
All right.
It just boosted the crap out of the trouble.
But the trouble was the thing I thought
was too bright at the beginning, too harsh.
So now like, I'm gonna save this.
I'm on that preset now, I'm gonna go back to the song.
I was playing a few minutes ago
and see if I still think it's too harsh.
I don't know.
Am I just used to it now?
This isn't a review, whatever.
Let's see what the features are.
Tap on the right, pause.
Tap on the left did not unpause.
Oh, that's transparency mode.
Hey, what's up guys.
- [Jono] Hey.
- Hello.
Can you hear me now?
(Jono laughing)
- Good.
- [Jono] Banana phone.
And now do, do, do, do do
it's either A and C or not.
Also what the hell's going on.
Sometimes it's playing and changing transparency mode.
Why is the music playing and pausing?
Is there two functions bound to this one button?
What kind of...
I guess I'm just turning transparency on and off.
And when you're on transparency, mode pauses
'cause you're trying to listen to somebody
and then you put it back to A and C and it thinks,
well you probably wanna also play music.
Then I can pause it over here
and A and C is still on.
Okay, so it's making an assumption there.
They made a design decision there, I guess it's defensible.
Double tap.
Next song.
Triple tap.
I gotta say, oh, what the hell?
Google assistant on triple tap.
Get outta here.
I have to say the hapics are good
every time I tap it seems to register a tap.
There's also these little feedback sounds
when I triple tap it goes, it doesn't just go.
poo, poo, poo, it goes poo, poo, poo.
Like the second and third hits have different sounds.
Okay, so how do I go back a song?
Is it double tap on the left?
Yes, what if I triple tap this one?
It goes poodook, but I'm not talking.
I don't know what that is.
I'm gonna look in the app, it'll tell me.
Also, is there a long press volume max?
Okay, so you hold and it goes ramps down.
Can you see that on here?
That's really weird.
It's like the headphone
has its own volume range that's decoupled from the phone.
'Cause I'm not seeing the volume meter go up and down here.
And when I turn this up to follow your max, I'm still here.
So it's like you have two volume knobs to adjust.
It's like on your TV, you might have a stereo
and you set your knob and you just leave that knob,
and then you use your TV remote to like turn up and down.
Might get annoying in the headphones.
Kind of use case though.
Touch control.
Or you can just say able to touch controls completely too.
That's that's gonna be handy.
All right.
So you get left and right.
1, 2, 3 taps and a hold.
Sometimes what you see in these apps is
with a certain interaction, like say one tap
you only are allowed certain actions.
You can't just do all the actions coupled
with any of the interactions they limit you
for some like artificial reason
which is super annoying, here with one tap.
I get a lot of options.
It looks like I'm not limited in any way.
You can make anything go
from no function, plane, pause,
next track, previous track the voice assistant
and that's what this is bound to.
And that's why
it's highlighted volume up and down power on and off.
So the triple tap is noise installation
and the single tap is transparency mode.
So that's what it was when it was going do-do
but I couldn't tell I'm really impressed
with the interface here.
Can we get that fan going?
I'm gonna try some, A and C
on and off and I'm gonna try this wind anti-wind mode.
I can feel this.
I can barely hear it.
It doesn't seem to be affecting the sound
of the sound of music, but let's do a call.
Hey, what's up buddy?
I'm just doing a test call on short circuit.
Really, I sound terrible.
I have a fan pointed at me
and I have the anti-wind feature on.
I'm gonna turn it off
and you tell me if I sound even more terrible, right?
I'm gonna say one consistent note
and then you tell me if it's how it gets better.
- I'm gonna go. (hauling)
Did it get better
or worse throughout that, you couldn't tell.
Okay, all right, thanks.
I'm satisfied with that.
See you later.
Cold ended.
I really like the voice.
Oh, transparency mode with music.
So I think that's the toggle.
So what was the command before?
It was single tap.
Okay, so if I hit that off with music.
We got there guys, we figured it out.
Closed the loop on that one.
It's a setting.
Well, okay, it's cool.
You seem to get a lot of settings with this.
Oh man, I have such disgusting wet ear wax
especially on the left, like the right's okay.
But danm!
Sound zones allow you
to automatically apply your sound settings when entering
or leaving a sound zone.
That's dope actually,
'cause you could be like, all right, whenever I walk
into this part of the office, I want transparency on.
Like if I leave my desk, I want transparency on.
If I walk into the gym, I want A and C on.
Or if I walk into my home
I want the volume maxed.
(both laugh)
Get away from me.
Continue without our location permissions.
Oh, whoa, sweet, okay.
So I just zoom in.
You can only go down to a hundred meters.
Okay, you're definitely not doing rooms in your house
and maybe if you have a big office this'll work, but okay.
So the actions when entering
the noise zone, noise control is the term
for active noise canceling or transparency are off.
You can choose a different EQ.
That's kind of interesting.
It's like pretty basic, but it's pretty cool.
Great excuse to give away your location data.
There are pretty good headphone
the sound didn't blow me away.
But one thing that's really nice is
that somehow throwout a global pandemic,
a chip shortage inflation hitting record numbers.
These went down in price 50 bucks.
The first and second models
of this headphone were $300 Us dollars.
Now they're 250, that's crazy.
Were they making too much money
before they just had an acquisition or they got sold?
So maybe they got some synergies,
I don't know, but they cut the price.
They're competing in a different bracket now.
I guess they're the same price as their pros pros.
Now this case is definitely bigger
and lamer or I'd like the experience
of them a lot more than the sound necessarily
but the sound is definitely good enough.
This is my new rating system actually.
I'm not giving recommendations or don't buy
I'm not giving ratings outta 10,
like we do on they're just movies,
the movie podcast that you should subscribe.
Instead I'm giving facial expressions.
So this is good.
This is the cent.
And that's what these get.
(both laugh)
Right, thanks for watching "Short circuit"
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then you can make some bread with them.