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  • There are some pretty eye-catching interesting hardware designs on the box of these Liberty

  • 2 Pro headphones from Soundcore. These drawings show an internal speaker construction that

  • I've never seen before. This video is sponsored by Soundcore, and today I'll be taking apart

  • their new in-ear studio performance headphones and see if the insides look as cool as the

  • box says they are. I decided to compare the Soundcore hardware side-by-side with Apple's

  • newest Airpod Pros, with that white q-tip stem design. The Airpod Pros probably have

  • that traditional speaker inside so it should be an interesting video.

  • Let's get started.

  • [Intro]

  • Let's start by taking apart the Liberty Pro 2's. Now it's not very often that headphone

  • technology is shaken up by something new. But Soundcore's tech is definitely different.

  • They call it the Astria coaxial acoustic architecturewhich sounds like a bit of marketing jargon.

  • But I'll break down the naming while I break open the headphones.

  • Astria is the Greek goddess of purity, which Soundcore believes is a reflection of the

  • sound produced by the Liberty 2 Pro. Pure meaning it's true to life. So that's the first

  • word. The coaxial acoustic architecture means that instead of one traditional speaker inside

  • these wireless earbuds, we should find two. Coaxial means they are lined up on top of

  • each other and pump out sound at the same time so that the sound isn't disrupting or

  • competing with itself. The Liberty Pro 2's are ipx4 – meaning they're sweat resistant,

  • sealed shut, and very hard to get inside. That ipx4 rating is the same water resistance

  • rating that the Airpod Pro's have. So both of these are going to be difficult to open

  • and will also both probably be destroyed when I'm done. “F” in chat for the earbuds.

  • After slicing through the glued shut plastic housing and prying out the speaker unit, we

  • get our first loo at the coaxial drivers. It's definitely unique. That pointy niblet

  • in the center is the knowles balanced armature. And hidden in that bottom circular coin looking

  • thing is the normal speaker that's tuned specifically for bass. This is the world's first pair of

  • symmetrically aligned coaxial drivers in wireless headphones, which means that all the sound

  • is directly aligned with the listener's ears. The terminology of course isn't as important

  • as seeing the hardware itself though. Since the rectangular pointy niblet armature thing

  • in the center handles those mids and highs, that circular driver below it can focus on

  • just handling the lows, sharing the workload. Which makes the sound cleaner and clearer

  • than a normal headphone could with a single speaker trying to make all the noise by its

  • lonesome.

  • I'll pull apart that bass driver in just a second.10 Grammy Award-winning audio producers

  • worked on these Soundcore headphones to create that in-ear studio performance. You know how

  • movie theater sound systems and even home stereo systems come with different sized speakers

  • to handle the different sounds. Now these Anker Soundcore Liberty 2 Pro's can do it

  • all in a very tiny space. It's a little sound accurate theater for your ear.

  • It has a super small 65 milliamp hour lithium battery in each bud which has 8 hours of play

  • time. I'll come back to these in a second. Now let's talk about the Airpod Pro's. These

  • guys cost $250 – twice as expensive as the Liberty 2 Pros we just took apart. The Airpod

  • Pro's have a pretty seamless water-resistant design. So getting inside will once again

  • destroy the headphones, but it's the only way to see the hardware. Squeezing the headphones

  • pops open the seam between the head and the shaft and then I can slice my way around the

  • opening. Another difference between these and the Liberty 2's is that the Apple Airpod

  • Pro's do have a noise canceling feature which is also pretty unique. But you'll have to

  • decide for yourself whether it's worth that extra hundred dollars.

  • Prying out the speaker inside the headphone once again is very difficult. Both companies

  • are serious about their water resistance. Finally after physically slicing off the front

  • grill we get our first glimpse inside. Apple has positioned a large rectangular microphone

  • right inside the earpiece grill. The microphone blocks the speaker. The microphone is part

  • of the noise cancellation. It listens to the inside of your ear for unwanted sounds and

  • then cancels it out. The speaker is what we're here for thoughand that's this guy. Which

  • I've kind of destroyed. It's got a large white diaphragm in the center with a clear rubber

  • surround. It's a singular speaker meaning that it has to produce all of the mids, lows,

  • and highs by itself. Don't get me wrongboth of these headphones sound great. I've paired

  • both of them up with my Android phone. This video is just comparing the internal hardware.

  • The Airpod Pros have one single driver and the Liberty Pro 2's have that new-age dual

  • symmetrical coaxial driver. And there are major physical differences between those two

  • methods of delivering sound.

  • I'll pop off the bottom of the stack drivers inside these Liberty Pro 2's so we can see

  • that lower dynamic speaker. And there it is, with it's own copper coil and clear diaphragm.

  • If you haven't been satisfied with the sound quality of wireless headphones in the past,

  • maybe it's time to try something different. Normally these Liberty 2 Pros are about half

  • the cost of the Airpod Pros, but with the link in the description of this video, you

  • can get an extra $40 off the retail price.

  • The Liberty Pro 2's are currently the only wireless headphones that exist with this astria

  • coaxial acoustic architecture set up. Taking apart the Airpod Pro 2 charging case. This

  • guy can hold 24 hours worth of charge and the buds themselves can last for 4 1/2 hours.

  • The case is once again obviously not designed to come apart, but that's never stopped us

  • before. The internals were actually pretty cool. Pulling off the top reveals the underside

  • of the plastic molded earpiece slots and then a few long ribbon cables headed down to the

  • dual internal batteries. It's a dual-cell 519 milliamp hour capacity, and all of it

  • charges up with Apple's proprietary lightning port.

  • The Soundcore case is also equally difficult to get inside. Pretty much no wireless headphones

  • can ever be repaired easilywhich is a bummer. One good thing about the Liberty 2

  • Pro's though is that Soundcore has something called hearing ID which tests your hearing

  • and adjusts each earbud so that they are acoustically matched to how your individual ear hears sounds.

  • Every ear is different and these earbuds can adapt the audio accordingly. The Liberty 2

  • case does have USB-C charging and a pretty glamours charging pad on the bottom. Why manufacturers

  • don't make transparent tech anymore is beyond me. This thing looks pretty awesome. The Airpod

  • case also has wireless charging glued into the side panel. It's a bit smaller of a coil,

  • but still, both would look amazing with a transparent case.

  • Now that we are inside, there are 4 screws holding the wireless charging pad to the motherboard.

  • I can unscrew that and then we can see the undersides where the case can transfer it's

  • 24 hours of battery life into the 8 hour battery of the earbuds for a total of 32 hours. The

  • internal case battery is 500 milliamp hours. I'm glad Soundcore sponsored this video. They're

  • some pretty cool technology to be seen inside of the Liberty 2 Pro's. I have my own pair

  • that I've been using for about a month now and both the lyrics and audio are super crisp

  • with some solid base. They are a bit larger than the average pair of earbuds so be ready

  • for that, especially if you run a lot. Personally, I'd be okay with them sacrificing a bit of

  • that 8 hour battery life for a smaller and lighter casing. Turns out the box is advertising

  • the exact hardware inside of their earbuds and that's pretty cool.

  • Since you made it this far in the video, Soundcore has made 10 awesome looking JerryRigEverything

  • Edition Liberty 2 Pro's and they're doing a world-wide giveaway. So if you want one

  • of these, I'll put the details of the giveaway down in the video description alongside that

  • limited time discount code for $40 off. Once again, huge thanks to Soundcore for sponsoring

  • this video. Come hang out with me on Instagram and Twitter. Thanks a ton for watching. I'll

  • see you around.

There are some pretty eye-catching interesting hardware designs on the box of these Liberty

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