[00:00] I used to think all headphones sounded the same, until I heard these. My longtime channel sponsor, Soundcore, just released a new series of headphones that, and I quote, have the best call quality in the world, which is a very bold claim that we're going to put to the test.
[00:16] Soundcore says all of these headphones have a little secret inside, which lets them make crystal clear calls anywhere. So buckle up, literally, and don't try this at home. This is what the audio quality sounds like as I ride in the bucket of a 41 excavator.
[00:34] But this, this is what the audio quality sounds like from inside the Aerocliff 2. It's insane. The earbuds aren't actually in my ear, so I can hear all this ambient noise around me,
[00:47] but you, you on the other end of this phone call right now, have no idea where I'm at or what I'm doing. Thanks to the super special computer chip inside. It's not just the little guys either.
[01:00] These are the over ear space tube throws. And they have the exact same recreational ability to be silent on phone calls. We'll take these apart in just a second, but it's super nice that the person at the other end of the call
[01:13] doesn't have to hear all of this noise, unless of course, you like the noise. Right off the bat, you wouldn't know that my wife is making pastel. This blender right now is so loud everyone in the house can hear except for the people at the other end of this call.
[01:30] They have no idea how loud it is right now. The coolest thing, though, is that we have another baby on the way, and these headphones, these are the Liberty Buds 2. They allow me to take important phone calls or be in important video chats while physically being in the most important location.
[01:47] I like these new headphones so much I'll be giving away 20 pairs of them in the comments. just let me know your favorite song, and I'll pick 20 random winners. The secret to Soundcore's remarkable ability to be quiet on phone calls
[01:59] is in something called the Anchor Thus AI chip which if true should be hidden inside each of these headphones no matter how small they are The AnchorBus AI chip is the world first neural net compute in-memory AI audio chip that actively cleans and clears the audio
[02:15] instantly right inside of the earbud itself, without having to offload the work onto your phone hardware or up into the cloud. Let's start with the biggest headphones and work our way down to the smallest. These studio-style big boys are the Space 2 Pros. From the outside,
[02:30] they look like your standard over-the-ear studio-style headphones, but inside, the hardware is able to process 384,000 noise signals per second, thanks to the active noise-canceling 3.0
[02:43] and the anchor dust chip. With the memory foam ear cushions removed, I can see six visible Phillips head screws. Once those are gone, I can pop open the Space 2 Pros and see our first circuit board.
[02:55] and our first battery inside, but I don't see any special chips. These all look pretty normal and regular to me. The 35mm speaker driver is enclosed in its own sealed-up waterside housing,
[03:07] but since I don't immediately see the left chip on the left side, I guess we have to choose the right. Popping off the foam cushion again and removing the right side speaker, we see another 350mAh battery in this year,
[03:19] making the weight perfectly balanced, as all things should be. name that movie, but we still don't see the thus chip, which means we must go deeper. I'll take out three more screws holding in the motherboard on the left side ear cup and pop out the battery.
[03:33] The dual internal batteries can power the headphones for 30 hours with the active noise cancelling on and 60 hours with the active noise cancelling off. And charging through the USB-C port for just five minutes gives you eight hours worth of use.
[03:47] There's a headphone jack down here as well, so it can be corded or wireless. And there it is. the ultra-tiny Anchor Thus AI chip that makes all the magic happen, literally the size of an ant covered in a sparkly purple encapsulating resin.
[04:02] This chip manages all eight external microphones to isolate your voice and cancel out background noises for those crystal clear phone calls Eliminating keyboard taps voices and airplane engine noise
[04:14] And since the processing chip is inside the earbuds, it all happens instantly, 384,000 times per second. This is the chip that lets the studio headphones make phone calls that sound like you're in a studio sound booth, even if you're riding in the bucker of an excavator.
[04:31] The purple resin helps protect the chip as well as distribute heat away. And you might be like, hey Jerry, why in the world does it have to be so small? And that's because even though there's a lot of real estate inside of these big headphones,
[04:43] the smaller headphones, like these Liberty Buds 2, have the same noise-canceling power. And the Thus chip needs to fit inside somewhere in here as well. Or so they say. It's amazing how much power Anker can pack into such a small package.
[04:57] These Liberty Buds 2 are the more premium comfort certified in ear style headphones and they have all the same call clarity features as the big boys. The wirelessly chargeable carrying case gives the headphones a total of 46 hours worth of playtime.
[05:11] And I'll be opening up the purple colored Liberty Buds 2, which kind of have a mother of pearl accent to the bean shaped bud. Splitting the bean in half with my jerry rig knife, things start to get interesting. Right off the bat we see two of our noise cancelling microphones.
[05:25] each individual tiny earbud has a total of four one of which is a bone conduction microphone which can isolate and clarify your voice through the vibrations in your skull thumbs up for that
[05:37] we have the 9.2 millimeter driver on the earbud side with its internal magnet but no dust chip yet busting open the other half we see more microphones and a super small motherboard which if we flip it over
[05:50] we finally see the dust chip inside And now we know why it has to be so small. These headphone circuit boards have phenomenal power, but itty-bitty living space. Name that movie. Finally, we have our most viral looking of the three headphones, the Aerio Clip 2.
[06:06] Small enough to fit with their carrying case in the palm of my hand And yes all of these headphones work on both Androids and iPhones I keeping the black ones to use myself but these wine colored clips match the new burgundy iPhone suspiciously well
[06:21] Soundcore 3D scanned more than 2,000 different ears to make the thick and seal of these Aerial Clip 2s feel invisible sitting on 99% of human ears, while still sounding like in-ear headphones
[06:34] without needing the speakers to actually sit inside of your ear. This leaves your ears open to hearing traffic or ambient noise, making them safer in certain environments, and just being more comfortable, being able to make those crystal clear phone calls that Soundcore is famous for.
[06:50] Bust and open the side that clamps inside of your ear, we start finding all of those same noise-canceling microphones, as well as the 12mm driver. This is slightly larger than the Liberty Buds do. And on the other end, the part that clamps on the outside of your ear, this is where the battery and motherboard sit.
[07:07] These are IP57 watertight, so opening them up is rather difficult, but that's never stopped us before. The internal battery gives the Aeroclip 2s 8 hours per charge, or a total of 32 hours with that carrying case.
[07:20] And look at that. There she is, the internal thus chip. Capable of 4 million parameters, or synapses, all firing together to make that world record-breaking clearest audio for phone calls.
[07:32] We've now successfully found the internal AnchorBus AI chip inside of every single pair of headphones. The Viro Aeroclip 2 started $169, which is nice. The in-ear active noise-canceling LibertyBuds 2 are a very reasonable $129,
[07:49] and the over-the-ear SpaceTube Pro started $199. The headphones that started it all, the Liberty 5 Pros we saw in a video earlier, are still $169 with limited free gifts and cases for the first people who order.
[08:02] You don't have to take my word for it though, Soundcore is so confident in their product that if you don't like the headphones, there's a 30-day money-back guarantee. I'm gonna go ride in that excavator some more, so thanks a ton for watching.
[08:14] I'll see you around.