When it comes to wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation you have plenty of options to choose from.
And the latest is the Samsung Galaxy buds [UNKNOWN].
Hey everyone, my name is Lexy and I love wireless earbuds now.
I've been using.
The galaxy buds Pro for about a week and I thought it would be fun to compare them to Apple's air pods, which I have been using for a lot longer.
In this video I'm going to compare them on everything from design to fit to how they perform battery life and of course Sound quality.
So let's get started.
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The first thing you probably need to know about these two earbuds is the price now the airport's pro around 250 US dollars.
That's their full retail price, whereas the galaxy buds pro are around $50 cheaper around 200 US dollars.
So that's the first thing to bear in mind when comparing these two.
The second thing is ecosystem.
Now I've been testing Samsung Galaxy buds for a long time.
This is actually the first generation in which I believe that your ecosystem or the phone that you use actually plays a really big choice in which funds is the right one for you.
So the first time in a long time, if you own a galaxy device or an Android device, the buds pro are probably going to be your best bet for is if you're on an iPhone or iOS It's gonna be the airports probe.
So with that in mind, let's dive into design.
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These two earbuds couldn't be any more different in terms of design if they tried the airport's per seat in your ear.
Like the buds Pro, however, there is a space.
Stim that sticks down from your ear and you can use it to change between tracks.
turn on and off active noise cancellation and transparency merge and so on.
The buds pro are a complete bud design.
There's no pod that really sticks down from your ear.
Although it does protrude out a little bit more, and they are a little bit heavier in my ear than the airport's Pro, now it has a touch panel on the side that you can do pretty much the same things on the airport's Pro, except you're tapping instead of clicking the stem.
You can do things like skip back and forth between tracks.
Your voice assistant and noise cancellation and so on.
So pretty similar in that regard in terms of controls.
As you can probably see, on the airport's Pro, I have changed out the default silicon ear tips, of which there are three sizes to foam ear tips.
I actually find that these ones actually just give me a bit more of a secure feet in the air because I did find that they were always falling out when I was doing something active like running or moving around, they would just drop out of my ear.
So the foam chips actually provide a much more secure fit.
I definitely recommend looking into third party foam tips if you have similar issues with the applets for now the buds pro are different to any other Samsung buds that I've tested before in terms of The actual bud shape itself of that tip around it is an oval instead of a circle.
So this might make a difference in how it fits in your ear.
In my ear, they don't fit as securely as previous Sam Samsung Galaxy Buds such as the Buds plus, although I am looking forward to trying some different third party ships with these as well to see if I can improve the fit.
And like the AirPods pro there are three different tip sizes that come in the box so you can plug and play and choose the ones that fit to your liking.
There aren't any wingtips there.
How about which is kind of annoying because the galaxy buds plus really fit really, really well and snugly in my ears and these ones don't stay in as well for things like working out, however, your mileage will vary.
I just have really strange really small ears.
Now let's talk about water resistance.
This one is very different on the to the bugs pro rated IP x seven.
Now this means essentially they are water resistant or waterproof, I guess you could say up to 30 minutes in three feet of fresh water so you could theoretically use these to swim with and I know a lot of people do like to try and listen to music while they swim.
I haven't tried swimming with these kids.
It's really cold but I am going to try and do a bit of a water test with them, maybe put them through the washing machine for 30 minutes, see how they last.
That one is going to be fun to do.
Now the efforts pro by contrast are only rated IPX4, so this means they're able to withstand some splashes.
And sweat obviously but not as water resistant as the bugs per.
And lastly color options you get three on the Galaxy buds pros you either have black silver, or a purple called Phantom color.
I don't know why.
And the efforts pro are available only in white, kind of like putting the black chips on the white airports because it kind of makes it look a little cooler.
And you know, it's like panda versus Phantom sounds kind of neat.
OK, let's talk about sound quality because that, to me is the most important part in determining which wireless earbud is the right one for my application.
So, let's start With the AirPods pro Now, if you've watched any of my previous comparisons with the AirPods pro or any of my AirPods pro videos, you'll know that I think that they have a fairly balanced sound profile, but it's not that exciting.
Okay, so what I want to do is I'm going to listen to my, let's turn it into transparency mode, so I can actually hear myself Great.
So I'm going to actually listen to my Playlists that I usually use to test wireless earbuds.
Lena what they sound like?
Okay.
All right.
So the first one I always like to listen to is Childish Gambino is redbone like that pumping bass, the great bait.
Okay, AirPods Pro.
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It's really balanced, so what is happening is that the bass is not too prominent.
You know that kick at the start?
It's nice, but it's not like that big thump that you get on some other wireless earbuds.
It sounds good, it's very balanced.
The mids and trebles are also really well defined.
This sounds super exciting.
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Good.
I love this chain.
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Okay, so it sounds really nicely defined but not exciting and that adaptive equalizer that the inputs Pro comes with Is basically changing this sound profile based on a number of different variables like the shape of your ears.
Now there is an equalizer that you can change the settings with with the applets pro on Apple Music, or you can also change it in Spotify, but there isn't kind of like a universal equalizer for the airport's Pro, which is something that I really like Like buds pro do have that.
So let's switch over and listen to the buds Pro.
[SOUND] Alright listening to the galaxy buds pro Now, again with the ambient sound on so I'm not shouting at you [LAUGH] All right, let's listen to the playlist again Listen.
Okay, first thing I noticed is that bass right off the top, that drum hit.
It's so deep like it really really sounds much more prominent and in your face.
I really like a big heavy bass on my earbuds well not too heavy.
But, heavy so it actually makes an impact when I'm listening to the sound a lot more exciting and definitely much more warm and rich like those mids and trebles really do fill the space really well.
I do think that these are the best sounding Samsung earbuds.
That I've heard at least, I really do like the sound profile and that's just on the default settings on the equaliser.
You can also change it to a bass boost, which I really liked the most actually softer than that dynamic, clear and treble boost.
So you do have a couple of different options to choose from.
Yeah.
It's just really nice to listen to music on these, but that said, I think the most balanced for me is the airport's pro when it comes to doing things like jumping between Coles and listening to podcasts, just because it's much more neutral.
And even, whereas these ones probably a little bit too more booming on calls.
Not necessarily a bad thing, but I do prefer using the airport's Pro is a daily driver and these ones for music
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Just going to be here for a while jamming out.
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Active noise cancellation is a key reason why you would buy one of these two of us and it's very effective on both.
Now, obviously because I haven't been able to use the buds pro to do things like travel on an airplane or committing Like I have previously with the outputs Pro, I wasn't able to test them side by side in that environment but I was able to recreate noisy white noise with an overhead fan and also a heating system and listen to them both side by side.
Now I do have to save the airport's.
[INAUDIBLE] just edged out the Galaxy Buds Pro, but just by a small margin.
Still both of them are excellent and you shouldn't have any complaints when it comes to ANC at all, but I did find that I really like that kind of [SOUND] effect of the AirPods Pro when the ANC kicks in.
It just doesn't have that wow factor for me on the Buds Pro either.
And there also is To my very sensitive ears, a tiny little bit of a hiss when the ANC is active on the buds pro whereas I can't hear that on the airport's Pro.
Now transparency mode, or ambient sound mode now these types in external sound so you are more aware of your surroundings whether that's something like a crying baby or street traffic.
Now again, both of these are pretty effective.
I have to say Apple does probably the best job of any transparency or ambient sound mode on any of the wireless earbuds that I have tried.
It just sounds super natural and you don't have to tweak any settings to get it to sound.
Pretty much perfect.
Now the ambient noise on the Galaxy buds pro you can actually change the volume level of it so it can be either high, medium or low and that I actually found was super helpful.
But that being said, don't do what I did which was walk outside on a beautiful day just to go for a walk with the settings still on high because I was indoors.
I walked up to the traffic light, a stream of traffic.
And I almost deafened myself because it was so loud and I didn't realize that I still had it on high.
But the one trick that the Buds Pro does have up its sleeve that the AirPods doesn't, and I really think this is a fantastic feature, is voice detection.
So if you're listening to music and you wanna have a quick conversation with someone You don't want to either take the bug out of your ear fumble around for your phone, switch to transparency mode, tap the bug, whatever have you.
What you can do is just start talking and the buds will detect when you're actually speaking and moving your mouth.
And so then the music kind of ducks and it goes into that ambient sound mode.
The volume goes down.
It's Super effective and I absolutely love that feature.
It was so helpful for me when I just didn't wanna have to quickly like pull one out of my ear.
Again, don't do what I did and if you sing along to your music a lot at home This feature will turn on when you are singing along to your favorite song.
So, Yeah, I did it and then it was kind of like a very sad karaoke session when I realized what was happening because the music stopped and I was still singing.
Okay Mike sample time.
This is the galaxy buds Pro.
As you can see, I am recording audio from the microphone into preview mode on the notes 20 Ultra, PS 21 old trick yet that's coming soon.
But for the time being, it's exactly the same functionality.
So you can take a listen to what the microphones sound like.
As you can see, I'm in exactly the same position just without the latterly a mic.
This is a microphone from the buds.
When I was using these colas remarks that my voice kind of sounded a little bit more close.
A little bit louder than that on the airport's Pro.
And again on the airport's pro this time on the iPhone 12 Pro and recording through Filmic Pro, not the default camera app on the iPhone.
So take a listen again exactly the same situation.
You can hear which microphone you prefer the most.
I think for me in terms of cold, I really did think the experience was awesome.
Almost exactly the same in terms of listening with active noise cancellation on and taking calls, that's just super massive, and they both sounded great.
Now let's talk about features of both of these earbuds.
Now as I said at the start, this is the first time that Samsung has really made the buds Pro is specifically designed for galaxy all Android devices as opposed to having compatibility with the IOS version of the galaxy wearable app.
You can pair them to an iPhone if you do have the galaxy buds for, but you just don't get that compatibility with the app or at least not at the time of writing.
Just so you know.
Can't change the controls to your liking.
They're just like a regular pair of Bluetooth ear buds.
Now both of these ear buds do have spatial audio effects, which gives you a virtual surround sound experience.
It is called spatial audio on the airports pro or three 60 audio on the buds pro.
Now it's available on iOS 14 devices, and later if you're using the AirPods pro.
Currently only on Galaxy S 21 devices on the bugs per now I did test both of them.
And I use the same movie on HBO max.
I really thought the effect was great.
I did think that the earPods pro just sounded a little bit more natural for me, when I was moving my head around, to get that virtual surround experience.
Now both of these buds also have a quick switching feature, to quickly go between different devices.
If you are signed in to the Samsung account, Across a bunch of different Samsung Galaxy devices, and also your Apple ID on a bunch of different iOS devices.
They also have voice assistant and can read messages aloud in your ear if you like.
That is Siri on the airport's pro and Bixby on the Galaxy buds pro Unfortunately there isn't Google Assistant support yet at the time of recording this on the buds pro in terms of activating it with your voice through the earbuds.
If you do want to summon it, you can just do your long press and touch commands on the buds, but no voice activation like there is with Siri on the airports pro Now both of the bugs you can also find on a map if you do lose them the airport's pro it is in find my and the galaxy buds pro it is in the SmartThings app.
And you can also use both of these buds independently.
So for example, if you wanted to take a call on one of the earbuds and you could put one back in the case to keep charging, that is possible.
So that is a great feature that both of them share.
First of these bugs also automatically connect to the device that you have them paired with pretty seamlessly.
The interface does look very similar between the two.
But anyway, both of them have pretty solid connectivity.
I don't really have any major issues to report there on either of them.
I would say though, that the h1 chip on the airport's PR does seem to be just a little bit more stable overall.
And the range just anecdotally in my testing does seem to go a little bit further than the buds Pro.
And finally, battery life.
Now, the galaxy buds pro do not last as long as some of the previous Samsung Galaxy buds you might be familiar with like the buds plus, which was some sort of crazy number like 11 hours.
I remember testing them Honestly I just couldn't do enough in my day to wear them long enough to wear them out so, you're not gonna get anywhere near close to 11 hours with these.
It is gonna be five hours maximum with ANC turned on, that's the sense unquoted number and a little bit more without active noise cancellation.
Unfortunately I didn't quite ever managed to get to that five hours constant listening, with active noise cancellation.
It was more like four and a half at the most So I think I was a little bit disappointed overall with the overall AMC claims at least on the Buds Pro.
Now the AirPods Pro, these ones are rated around four and a half to five hours from Apple's official rating and Brand new straight out of the box.
The airpods pro definitely made that claim.
Even though I've had these now for about a year and that battery life overall in terms of the overall stretch I can wear them for has been reduced to around four hours, just a little bit under I would say.
Which is fairly standard in terms of normal battery degradation.
Now the cases themselves also holds some extra charge.
It's 24 hours total in the airports per case, and also 18 hours on the buds pro.
And both of the cases, wirelessly charge, as you would expect In terms of quarter charging, it is lightning on the AirPods pro and USB-C on the buds Pro.
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Okay, now it comes down to the time where I get to choose a winner and get to decide which one is.
The best overall ear buds, okay.
As I mentioned at the start, I kind of spoiled the video but hopefully if you've made it this far it is actually showed you how similar and how different they both are in terms of things that you might actually wanna use them for.
So if you're looking for something that's the most robust Overall ear bud for iPhone, just get the airport's Pro.
If you want something that has really good active noise cancellation and you have a Samsung Galaxy device to get the most out of all those features including that 360 audio and get, Buds Pro.
I think overall, the one that I would lean towards most is the airport's purchased because the fit is a little bit better for me with those third party ear tips.
And also the battery life is a bit more reliable than what I was getting out of the galaxy buds part.
But again, if I'm on a galaxy device or running Android, I'm going to choose these for my listening.
They follow on iPhone or IOS.
I'm going to choose the airport's Pro.
