last week i headed over to london and it was the perfect trip to test out some active noise
cancelling earbuds these are the soundpeats air 3 pros now the new air 3 pros here they do have
active noise cancelling up to 35 decibels they support the aptx adaptive codec and they use
12 millimeter drivers you have a runtime of up to six hours from the earbuds and an additional
well in total 21 hours with these and i'll let you know exactly what they sound like the pros and the
cons now of my more than a week now testing out the air 3 pros now included with the air 3 pros we
have a type c to type a cable so just use a usb charger that you do have it only needs one amp
and the charge time is approximately two hours for the case and the earbuds within it they take
around about an hour now we do get two small sized and two large size silicon tips and then
our instruction leaflet right here now this is important to take a look at because it does go
over things like the touch controls which of course with every single brand is slightly
different now what is missing here with the touch controls is you'll see that there is no way to
go back to previous tracks so you can skip to the next track but you can't go back and that's
probably not an issue for most people but you can see the anc controls are there too so you just
need to simply tap and hold to cycle through the anc on the pass-through mode and then the normal
mode with it looking at the weights the earbuds are very light they're only four grams each and
your total travel carry weight is just 37 grams so very lightweight the case quality is not bad they
have gone with a matte style plastic finish with a little bit of shiny glossy plastics you can see
the inside and this is because there's a status led here so when you do open it it will come on
so green lets you know your battery life it goes down to yellow and then in red when you need to
charge it so they do fit in there nice and snug and you'll see that there really is no room around
where these tips are for users of say you're using your own foam tips then you're probably going to
be out of luck to actually get them to fit in so the magnets will hold them in place we've got
the pogo port connecting tips right down inside there clearly labeled left and right and when
they sit in there they don't rattle and that's one of the things i don't like about some of the
brands i review that they tend to rattle around they're a little bit noisy rattle in your pocket
doesn't happen here now that's of course got a magnets keeping that lid closed and it does
sit there nice and flush and again no rattling from it it does say sound piece at the top here
a little bit hard to see at the back we have our reset button for the pairing so very easy to reset
it which is good if you're going to swap over to another device and they are running off bluetooth
5.2 they have a run time of 21 hours with the case and six from the earbuds themselves but i do find
with the anc on that i'm looking at just under five hours it's more like four and a half hours
type c port here so it won't sit up like so with this case it's gonna always fall down but that
makes sense because where they've placed the types you put anyway you're gonna be lying down flat
the only thing about the case is it does tend to show a few smudges and fingerprints i've
been using these now for a week and it's a bit of a lint trap here this edge if you've got it
in your pocket it tends to fall full of dust so just minor little nitpicky things there with it
so we have these stem style with these and i do find it helps the fit and because they're so
lightweight only four grams each that when i put these in i've got a good seal with the medium tips
that i really don't feel like they're going to go anywhere and i kind of forget i'm wearing
them at times there is a filter just inside here so that should hopefully not get really blocked up
or anything like that with earwax later on which can of course happen so they got a bit of an oval
design to them the silicon tip so far now after me using is pretty much non-stop i've been traveling
with them too as well when i went to london just recently and i have not had any issues of the
silicon on these softening right up and losing its structure anything like that no that's good
so you can see the charging contact points right there from in the case that i just showed you
before there is a microphone here on this side we've got the other mic there because these do
have of course active noise cancellation with them and this area this part here is the capacitive
touch controls now i often repeat this and again it's kind of happening with these two
as well as the touch controls can be a little bit non-responsive a little bit hit and miss sometimes
they tap it and there is a noticeable delay like a bit of lag before it actually registers and then
it will drop the volume down so the left is to drop it down tap just once on the right drops it
down again and then you've got your triple taps your tap and hold to go through the anc modes
it's just sometimes i do find myself repeating it that's about the only annoying thing with them
now there aren't really any sharp edges it looks like they could be and if you use your fingernail
they can feel a little bit of an edge there to the plastics but no it's not scratchy and as mentioned
they're very comfortable very lightweight overall i do like the design of these so sound beats do
have an app and it looks like they are supported however i haven't actually been able to use it
properly it'll keep coming up with an error it'll time out the apple crash it does state this that i
don't have a firmware version well it's too low actually to use the app temporarily and when it
looks like it is going to work well there we go network unavailable even though i am connected up
and no i'm not able to get into that and i think it's probably just going to yeah it's locked up on
me other times i've gone into the app it'll look like it's going to work that i can go through
an equalizer i can adjust the anc on go into the gaming mode and even equalizer but nothing
actually pulls through and works on them so at the time of me posting this video it does look like
sound pete's need to fix the application or at least the support for the air 3 pros
the week that i have been listening to these i'm pleased with the sound signature i think the tune
that they do have out of the box sound pete's is good so of course using a flat equalizer here
just to get an idea of how they've tuned them it's clear to my ears that they have
increased and boosted up the lows a little bit but unlike some other brands and especially some
cheaper models they haven't gone overboard with the lows it still pumps out some very
crisp nice punchy bass the 12 millimeter drivers i do think are definitely helping with that
and the only area really that i could criticize these i think as the vocals the vocals could be
a little better on these but it's nothing that i couldn't really fix without going
in there and tweaking with my equalizer but my favorite sound app here power amp
i can get these to sound pretty good now the highs have some detail maybe not the most detailed and
crisp that i have heard and the volume very good you can push them loud they're not the loudest out
there but the good thing is the lows don't start to clip they're not going to distort or interfere
with the mid so all up i think a good tune here from sound pete's with the e3 pros and using these
earbuds for streaming services like netflix right now not a problem it's in time perfectly i can't
really see any issues here and i am using their gaming mode so the chipset which is the qcc 3046
does have that gaming mode you triple tap the left earbud to turn it on i think it's helping with
that but in games i've noticed a tiny fraction of a second of a delay it's not quite perfect for
games but for netflix amazon prime video it's not going to be an issue microphone example now sound
pete's air 3 pros so you will hear this static coming through and it should actually be removed
by the noise cancellation but some of it's coming through now it's a fan that i do have on here
i am able to be heard clearly when using these for handling voice calls but i wouldn't go as
far to say that the air 3 pros are the best i've heard i'd rate these as average i've heard better
i've certainly heard a lot worse these air 3 pros are very quick to connect so as soon as you lift
that lid up that's it they're already in the process and connected done and the fit of these
great because of the stem of them as i mentioned before their weight two being just four grams
they're really comfortable so very easy to fit in i can just place them into my ear straight away
and i don't really need to worry at all about this falling out they're not a set of earbuds
that i'm going to constantly have to do this all the time because they feel like they're going to
fall out on me no the stem design is really one of the strengths and why a lot of people still like
the sim stem design tedious earbuds with these now i was fortunate enough to be able to test these
on a flight and in busy bluetooth environments as well with a lot of other people with tos tech a
lot of people had noise cancelling uh headphones on too as well didn't run into any connection
issues only one that was my own fault and that's because i had another phone that i
had basically on top of my other phone both of them had the bluetooth on and that did cause a
material disconnection there where just cut out for a second once i separated my two devices
the two phones away from each other it was fine so the people around me with bluetooth all running on
the 2.4 gigahertz band on the flight it i didn't have any problems at all with these which was good
and then the a and c they work surprisingly well very good in fact i'd have to rate these
as some of the better ones i've heard certainly in the last year or so a lot of them can be quite
hit-and-miss that they're not that strong when it comes to the anc so sound pete's do claim
35 decibels reduction and i'm actually going to believe that too because it's been very good at
reducing down i noticed on my flight straight away turning on the anc that that constant whooshing
and the rumble noise of the entrance and just the aircraft in general that was completely cut right
down it doesn't block it out 100 but it did make a massive difference it can really zone out and
just focus on your tunes there and even being on a public train so on the tube in london i didn't
really find these um to be a problem to using with amc that was really good on dropping down those
kind of ambient noises too as well not perfect but very very good there and of course a pass-through
feature that does have that if you tap and hold on the left there you cycle through go into a and c
on a anc then pass through mode sorry and then off so pass route lets you hear all the announcements
for your platforms if you need to hear co-workers if you need to hear uh the gate announcements for
your aircraft that you're catching whatever it's quite good and handy for that so really i do think
they sound great the tune it's yes a little bit of more punchy bass they've boosted up the lows
clearly to my ears the mids vocals is the only area that i could really criticize with the
the tune on these is that they've heard slightly better vocals on other tears earbuds they haven't
completely overlooked either the highs so the highs do have some detail they're not
the best but trust me compared to others that i've heard that are completely just non-existent in
the highs with an equalizer i can get this to sound really quite good so i think that sound
pizza got a winner here the battery life it really depends on of course the john you're listening to
if you're using the active noise cancellation you won't get the six hours that they claim it's gonna
be a lot less than it's around about four or four and a half hours you're able to get but then you
get the additional charges to out of that case and nice small compact size great weight to them so
really the only thing that bothers me with these is the touch controls they are quite hit and miss
often i would want to go to the previous track and i'd have to repeat that even just adjusting the
volume which is a simple single tap on either side depending on which side so the left is volume down
right volume up sometimes i'll touch it hello it would take a second or two seconds so and then it
would go through you hear the volume go up okay it did work that time and other times it wouldn't and
i'll have to repeat that so it's very common with capacitive touch controls for this to happen but i
do hope with some firmware updates they are able to fix that that has really been the only thing
and i do hope the firmware 2 updates or should i say the application is going to be fixed to
support properly the air 3 pros here thanks a lot for watching hope to see the next one bye for now