Google Pixel Buds 2 A-Series | The Good & The Bad By Andy Paulos

Guys, this is incredible. These are the best earbuds I have ever reviewed. Oh my gosh, just from an initial impression standpoint that 12 millimeter dual base driver is incredible. Let's talk about the case itself after a week of use, this case is flimsy. It is just. It doesn't make for a good product.

Furthermore, it's just it should hold tight, but it doesn't a little of pressure. Just pushes it off. What's up my ponytail sandy, Andy vlogs excited to share with you guys this content here, as the title suggests we'll be going over. The Google Pixel earbuds the series that just came out this week, and I'm actually really, really excited. These are arguably the best earbuds out there under a hundred dollars with that said guys, I'm going to unbox it here, for you give you my first impressions go over some specifications, and then I will give you know, obviously the listening first impression after which we're going to go ahead and jump cut to the future.

Where I provide you honestly, if this is the contender for 2021, let's jump right into it all right. So unboxing experience is super straightforward, very, very easy. You lift it up from the bottom, it's made with uh, obviously recyclable, cardboard and there it is. There's your egg pill right. There um both of the colors, do come in this uh color of egg pill, but the inside of it is different.

I chose to go with more of the space gray or like the charcoal. There is white that you can get before we go into the device here. Let's go and open it up and show you what's inside here, uh looks like we've got the charging cable, it's an USB to USB type c, which is typical. I like how this uh, how google has used these uh they're kind of rubberized um shock resistant cords that make for such a great feel here all of their nest home products utilize. This coating around it- and I think it's fantastic inside here as well- are some ear tips as well as some documentation.

I think it presets with the medium. So if you have bigger ears, you can get them. You know the larger, or it's got a small uh tip there, um that you know I could show you later. Let's go ahead and go into the device itself. Uh pretty straightforward here.

You've got this really cool, um stripe that goes across. It's probably the plastic or the color of the earbuds top bottom. It fits nice and ergonomic in your hand. Furthermore, it's very soft to the touch. The hinge looks pretty robust.

You've got this sync button here on the bottom micro, USB charger and there's got to be a light somewhere. Um we'll have to figure that out there it is and there's a light, that'll pulse in order for you to connect it here now, um there is the first. I guess impression here of the product they're much smaller than I thought it looks like the plastic inside is very, very shiny. However, the device itself is uh, more matte, but now that I pull it out and look at the bottom side, it does look like it's a little more shiny there. It's got the matte and the shine the sheen of the product built into it.

Is that wingtip ergonomic that I told you the ear tip um, you know looks pretty standard as well, but they definitely match. Let's go ahead and show you know more of a close-up here of these. Of these earbuds, like I mentioned earlier here, is the ergonomics of the pressure, reducing valves. I guess, and the microphone you've got three here. I also imagine for those 12 millimeter drivers that it's going to need an air pocket to pull that sound and push the sound out here is another um hole that I presume is ergonomic um.

Furthermore, I was a little surprised that they just have these little stubs here for the wing tips. They don't have any other tips to change to. If you look inside um there's the channel for the audio, and it looks pretty straightforward, I imagine that the capacitive touch sensor here is right here on this matte side of the logo, and they look pretty straight forward. Looking inside the device there, you can see the contact points as well, as you know where it fits in. The way that you want to put this back together is to have the wingtips kind of poking up parallel in the middle, just like that, and you've got yourself a nice little device there all right now.

As far as the connectivity goes, it's a pretty straightforward process. You can see here that I've got my phone out, and I'm going to be connecting it. You open up the device. Furthermore, you can see that it starts pulsing there on the light you go into your Bluetooth, and you know once you just go all the way down to the bottom there: it's it shows up there. It is Google Pixel, a series tap on it.

Once it's connected now, you've got complete control of the audio and uh the interface there. You can take calls and whatnot as far as some tech specifications here that I wanted to, let you guys know this is very, very light. I do feel like it's a little heavier than the air pods from the website. It says that they're 0.18 grams, which is great, they're, sweat resistant. They use Bluetooth 5.0. These do connect to android and iOS um.

More specifically, on the audio here, like I said it uses this custom designed 12-millimeter dynamic speaker driver with passive noise reduction. So that's going to make um. You know the listening experience, much more clear, because all the ambient noise around you is going to be somewhat passively reduced. It does have these spatial vents for ear and pressure reduction like I mentioned it, uses dual-band forming microphones, I'm not sure what that means. Maybe there are two microphones per device: uh the battery is pretty impressive.

It uses five hours of listening time or up to 2.5 hours of talk time uh. The charging case provides 24 hours of listening and 12 hours of talk time, and then it's got the speed 15 minute charge of the earbuds will give you three hours. So that's like over sixty percent of a battery charge which, in the ways of the world, is kind of meh, there's no wireless charging. You have to plug it in via USB type c, and then lastly, here it does have that capacitive touch sensor for music calls and the assistant. It's got a single IR proximity sensor motion, detecting accelerometer, meaning when you put it in your ear, and you take it out when music is going, it'll start and stop the music, which is great capacitive touch.

It's got a couple of taps to be able to move forward in your track. One tap is to pause. I'm going to go ahead now and try these out and provide you guys. My initial reaction to the sound profile, uh I've been listening to a band called Ben rector, and he's got a song called brand new, which are fantastic. The moment I put him into my ear.

It's got a little noise, that's very soft! That just sounds like a little Bing or a zing, just like the air pods, but just from the get-go here it almost feels like it's uh. It's been suspended in my ear. I feel, like I've got a couple of points where the pixel bud touches my ear, but then the actual heart of the device is very firm. I'm not getting that weird like ocean feeling or the ears plugged feeling when I put it in my ears, but you can rotate it. You know slightly to make it fit.

You know wherever you'd like and also if you feel like the ear tip is too much you can go ahead then, and swap it out, I'm going to go ahead and tap once because I have a song cued up uh, and we're just gonna, listen to it Ben rector, the brand new by Ben rector, oh wow, is that all the way up? Oh, that's, not all the way up. I was at about 80 85 percent. This sounded so good trouble. Clarity is incredibly clear. His voice is just so clear, and then the piano chords are just like verbatim my ear and that drum kick.

The kick drum is just like it's its like a nice package around. It's giving me chills. Oh my gosh, and I can hardly hear my own voice, I feel like I'm yelling. I probably am that's the act of noise cancellation, but it's not like again, I'm not feeling like I'm in an ocean when we were kids guys. This is incredible.

These are the best earbuds I have ever reviewed. Oh my gosh, just from an initial impression standpoint that 12 millimeter dual base driver is incredible, but it's not overwhelming, because the ergonomics of the ear pressure is so much that it's not like completely noise-canceling. I can still hear a little around me, so the bass isn't just like punching in my ear, but it gives you that foundation of music that carries the treble, carries the melody and just makes for those higher frequencies, so, so clear and so nice. Oh, I got chills up and down my legs right now. I've got goose bumps.

This is incredible with that said folks, I'm going to go ahead now, and I'm going to give it a couple of days. Listen to my podcast watch Netflix with them. Do all my regular stuff that I do go. Hiking go working out and seeing how these do, and I'll come back and report to you. It's not been about a week, and I've had a chance to thoroughly review this device, and I want to give you my conclusion: I'm a little disappointed I'll explain for me to wind down I like to play games.

I like to listen music. I like to work out. You know: do those typical things that you do after work after you put the kids down, and I have these in my ear all day long when you put them in your ear all day long while you're listening at work, it actually starts to take a toll on you, after my full day of work, putting in my ear recharging them putting them back in my ear again working out doing all that good stuff, I developed some sores in my ears. The ergonomics of these buds are not good. In other words, I feel like it's too big.

The butt itself is too long from where the ear wing tip touches the inner part of your ear to the actual butt itself. It is too long and there's no good position. I can put it in without it rubbing and irritating my ear. Obviously, when you're sweating or when you're you know putting stuff in your ear, your ear is going to get moist and that's what that's what's happened. It's giving me an earache to be honest, and I don't even have it on loud.

Let's talk about the sound cancellation, while it's not an active, you know built into it the way that the ergonomic is it kind of plugs your ear. Now I told you that it had those grooves within the device to relieve pressure but, like I said earlier, with the ergonomics of it being too long and discomforting in your ear, the added sound cancellation creates the ocean effect and I hate it. It's almost like, if you plug your ears, and you start talking, you can kind of barely hear your voice when, in reality, you should be able to have some pass through. If they're going to have sound cancellation, you need to have a built-in microphone pass-through. So I can hear my surroundings.

There are many times when I just wasn't paying attention to the Wi-Fi didn't like it. That might be your thing. That might be something that you're interested in, where you don't have an active cancellation, but something that's built in. I don't like it. It's not for me.

Let's talk about sound, it's phenomenal of all the earbuds that I have listened to and used, and there are a numerous amount. These are the best that 12 millimeter driver is fantastic. It gives you such a punchy base without, like shaking your core. Usually when you add sound cancellation, it like reverberates in your brain, and it hurts this. No, I didn't get any fatigue when listening.

It was fantastic. It gets really, really soft. So when I'm in bed, and I'm trying to watch stuff while the wife is sleeping uh, it doesn't disturb her. When I'm you know mowing the lawn and trying to listen to my podcast. I can turn it up, and it still sounds perfect.

Despite you know the the surrounding sounds. Let's talk about the case itself after a week of use. This case is flimsy. It is flicks off see how that flicks off. That's not supposed to happen when I have it in my pocket, the case many times will fall out, and I just I don't like how it puts me at risk of these things falling out granted they are magnetized inside.

But when you have a really, really flimsy joint right here it just it doesn't make for a good product. It's just it should hold tight, but it doesn't a little of pressure. Just pushes it off, and it's no good with that being said folks, this device. I think I would give it an 8 out of 10. My biggest hiccup is the ergonomics, and it is the sound cancellation.

The price is perfect. The sound quality is fantastic pairing and connectivity is so seamless, and with that said, I can sit here, and I can recommend it with all that said folks thanks so much for uh checking this video out thanks so much for your support and making it all the way to the end of the video here. My name is Andy with Andy vlogs. This is not a sponsored video. As you know, I paid money for this, but I'm going to return it hit that like button subscribe, if you want to see more Andy with any vlogs I'll see you in the next one.

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