 AirPods Pro for 250 bucks? No way! Welcome to crazy Uncle Riley's Apple Emporium where I got prices on Apple products so low I'd have to be crazy to sell them! AirPods 2? Haha! Them newfangled AirPods 3? All genuine 100% real Guys just kidding it's me regular Riley these are all fake super fake But are they real enough that they could trick someone into thinking they're real? real? Like our sponsor this video sponsored by glasswire Instantly see who or what your PC is talking to you on glasswires network monitoring graph plus see what your PC may have connected to In the past use code Linus and get 25% off glasswire at the link below After covering knockoff AirPods max we received a package with the letter attached Dear LTT those old and outdated replicas you've tested are like buying a Dell pre-built when you want a gaming PC They sent us two clones that they claim are as good as the real things AirPods Pro at $55 and AirPods 2 at $35 and something they didn't even mention in the letter AirPods 3 clones at $42 To see if these can pass as genuine we took these boxes to our resident Apple expert Jonathan Horst I'm opening the box. These look legit to you You know what I have to say no because I reviewed these and I remembered how fake the real box looked oh Yeah, this is totally real Yeah, yeah, that's a dead giveaway Probably the CSA logo Because that's Canadian and we're in Canada and they have to put that on there Oh Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like this is like inkjet. This is like laser, so I'm opening these up you can tell the difference Already, but just with the way the the light the indicator light is inset on the device Well, I guess it really depends on Whether or not you've seen a real pair if you've seen a real pair. Yeah, you'd be able to tell immediately Particularly with the way the mesh is if it was just based off product shots, then yeah, you probably you might be like oh, yeah Pretty convincing, but that's a thing with these knockoffs is you start questioning yourself and you start questioning reality Yeah, if you wanted if you wanted to just look like you're wearing air pods out on the street No one no one would be the wiser, but how do they sound to test? We got a few people from around the office and ran an experiment. My name is Ethan. I'm Lloyd Chase I'm Sarah. I write for channel super fun. I've been working on like a lot of like really cool t-shirts I'm supposed to be an event coordinator I am a graphic designer go to LTT store if you're interested in seeing some of the projects that I get to work on Our subjects will now listen to each pair of headphones while blindfolded and will choose which pair of air pods They think sounded better They'll also tell us how confident they are in their decision with a value from one to five with one being a wild guess And five being complete certainty My instant reaction is just I can't hear the outside world more and I do like that for if I'm trying to enjoy music Oh, it feels it feels like in my ears are plugged It's like just richer and fuller. Definitely the noise cancelling is something you notice as soon as you put them in Which is cool I don't know about these with my pros that I have usually When I hear the white noise and put them back in it goes away But for some reason I can still like partially hear the white noise If I can't tell the difference between any of these then I spent way too much money on my headphones I could have just bought the old ones Here's your right, here's your left It's kind of quieter, but I don't know if it's just actually quieter I would say the bass is definitely much more over prominent I couldn't really tell a difference at the moment other than they were just a little bit quieter I can definitely tell you that these ones I don't know if they I would say they don't go in your ears easily These sound terrible They have like almost a static coming from them I'll pick the first one Bass solely on the sound I like the first pair I thought it sounded just like a touch better The first one and I'm five I'm like on a scale of one to five I'm five I'm five I would say like a one on that one Two I am yeah one out of five confidence not very confident but there's something there Wow unsurprisingly everyone chose the real AirPods as the better pair But none of our subjects were confident in their answers with two of them saying it was a coin toss The sole outlier was Sarah who was very certain the real ones were better But her confidence rating may have been skewed by some errors encountered during testing Apparently it's disconnected Uh oh, do you need them back? Hmm you don't usually have to do this with Apple AirPods Ooh yeah They sound the same I don't know if I'm crazy They sound maybe a bit less bassy but oh my god they're the same I couldn't couldn't tell you They're very light there I would say they're comfortable I definitely can hear a lot of sound from outside There is a little bit less bass on them at the moment I would say that I don't really notice much of a difference at this time This is the right earbud this is the left earbud Alright I don't know if it's just a problem with my ears but so far the fit is like a better on the right ear I would enjoy this I would there's a lot of bass The sound from this is much fuller I think I feel like this one is not as well made as the first one So far the only difference I really noticed was just like a ton of bass I don't mind a ton of bass but I don't usually have it cranked So for me when there's a lot more bass on new headphones it's a little jarring sometimes They sound good like yeah I feel like I'm at a concert but I can't see anything It's actually better than my AirPods I feel like my AirPod Pro's I would say I'm very certain that I like the second one better The confidence levels are terrible I'd say 2 out of 5 in confidence I'd be like a 2 maybe 5 out of 5 I'd say my confidence is like a 4.5 out of 5 Wow a clear winner the $35 knockoffs actually beat the real things That's pretty crazy to my ears they have a bit more oomph to the bass That the real AirPods lack but it comes at the cost of precision With kick drums sounding more full but less punchy Other than that the tuning is virtually identical to the real thing Now we have one more device to test but in the sellers defense They didn't intend for these to be sent along with the others And well the results speak for themselves They sound pretty average Do you want to turn it up like all the way? It's way too loud These ones don't fit as nicely in my ears I'm running out of things to say these are just the normal headphones I still enjoy them and still don't care Oh god Alright I would say I notice a difference on these even right away Part of it is probably the way that it doesn't fit in the ear quite as well as the other ones And it sounded a little bit off or different than the other four pairs I don't know if you're pausing it but it keeps connecting in and out I heard a little static like beeping Like brrrr I don't know how to describe it but it sounds like these got like sat on Personally I like the first one better I would say 5 3.5 I'd be like that's like a 4 out of 5 for sure 100% I would pick the other ones that I like them better because they don't have a weird static sound Also the left ear played music in the other ones I am 5 out of 5 confident that I like the other headphones better These suck Big Oof The FakePods 3 did terribly Every single test subject agreed with relatively high confidence that the replicas were much worse They had some electrical noise We couldn't get them to connect to our iPhones only to Android devices Also we couldn't get our case to charge via cable or MagSafe So these are already dead Thanks for producing actual junk, Jenny I hope no one actually wastes 42 bucks on these things And don't waste money buying a new controller just because the joysticks are drifting We're gonna be fixing a bunch of broken controllers for an upcoming video So get subscribed so you don't miss it Now those first two pairs, those are nothing to sneeze at If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Apple should be very very flattered They sound good, they look good, but do they work good? First let's look at the feature parity Magic pairing worked for all the clones Battery life was acceptable but worse than the real things Recharge time was fine, wireless charging worked on all of the cases Except for the AirPods 3 which wouldn't charge at all But battery reporting was wonky with the replicas They would like just die suddenly while reporting 18% battery life The case battery life on the FakePros seemed good But on the Fake2s the case seemed to constantly be draining And we weren't sure why Maybe a reporting error due to the knockoff chip set? The active noise cancelling on the FakePods Pro when listening to music was pretty good But without music there was a slight hiss And a not so slight bass rumbling that was literally headache inducing As for the FindMy network, while all the devices can be located using GPS You can't make the headphones chirp or use any of the other FindMy features Spatial audio and MagSafe? Nope Touch controls on the FakePods 2? Terrible They basically don't work The FakePods Pro? You need to squeeze the stem so firmly You will almost certainly pull them out of your ear Plus all the fakes tended to suddenly stop connecting to iPhones and require a soft reset And here's the real fun part If you want to update the firmware on either of these You need to have an Android device Download an app from the Play Store Use that to sideload an APK Download the firmware Open it in the app And then slowly update over Bluetooth That's if these companies even bothered to release updated firmware for these chips It's not fun But on the plus side, the app has an EQ Unless you turn on ANC on the ANC-LESS FakePods 2 So you can make this happen Oh, it's beautiful Even though these products may have competitive audio quality and crazy low price tags FakePods 2 are a full Benjamin cheaper and the FakePods Pro save you nearly twice that We still aren't going to recommend them or even tell you where to get them I mean, you can probably figure it out using the info in this video and novice Googling skills But we don't feel comfortable supporting the Reptronics industry With its consumer hostility and regulation dodging If large companies like Apple and Samsung struggle to suss out human rights violations in their supply chains Huh, imagine what these nameless faceless companies could be doing And look at the FakePods 3 You could just end up with garbage Literal garbage Instead, we'd recommend spending that cash on some high quality budget true wireless headphones That we will have listed for you down below But people don't want that They want AirPods The question is, why do people want AirPods so bad that entire communities have emerged specifically to procure knockoffs? Well, even though audiophiles may not care what their headphones look like Tech is fashion now And like luxury clothing brands, Apple has gone to great lengths to make their products feel like an exclusive club Green bubbles versus blue bubbles Lock in features like AirDrop and FaceTime The entire Apple ecosystem serves as a purposeful class divide If you aren't wealthy enough to pay the entry price to join that club Well, you're stuck with the Android plebs and their weak ass open standards and basic text messaging But a pair of knockoffs could be the fake idea that tricks others into thinking you are part of those chosen elite So, don't be tricked And don't buy these But do check out our sponsor Thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring this video Is making a website a monumentally hard task in your mind? 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