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today I'm going to tear down two of the most popular exercising workout earbuds from the inside the j-bird X threes and the power beats three and I'll explain why one is miles ahead of the other let's get started now the power beats three are pretty famous if you haven't heard of Beats or seen the beats logo before you might be living under a rock beat spend some pretty major money on mainstream advertising but that doesn't always mean they have a good product the jaybird X 3s retail for half of what beats cost but aren't as heavily advertised these are more of an inside your ear design and I've been using my pair for the last six months or so and I'm happy with them I switched to the X threes after three different sets of Beats earbuds died on me over the course of one year so let's analyze the construction and build quality to find out why all of my Beats headphones couldn't last as long as one j-bird breaking into the jaybird x trees is rather difficult everything is very securely molded shut which is a good thing for workout headphones it will keep sweat rain and water from destroying the internal circuitry after shaving apart the headphones for a good while it was able to separate the speaker from the battery these have an advertised eight hour battery life and I would regularly get about six or so out of mine more than enough to be convenient I could charge them up every few workouts and be just fine the speaker itself is pretty small surprisingly small which might be why the battery is able to last so long the volume and power controls are usually where wireless headphones start failing these headphones were fully functional before I started taking them apart but the one thing I did hate on these X threes was the non-standard charging method now I have plenty of micro USB and USB C chargers lying around but if I forgot this proprietary dock thingy for my x3 earbuds I'm just out of luck it's kind of annoying to be honest we should USB see all the things once we are inside I'll pop the rest of the circuits out from the plastic housing and this is where things start to get really interesting and where we can start to tell a quality built product from an inferior product but to make the test fair let's find the circuits of the power beats first the beats were much easier to get inside a simple stab to the speaker housing and it would start to separate so we can already start to get an idea of how different the water resistance is between the two headphones and the speaker of the beats it's about twice the size of the one on the Jaybirds but it does also not go as deep into your ear as the Jaybirds do so it does need to be larger to match the same volume level because of that added distance from your ear drum beats advertises a 12 hour battery life on these things and I would regularly get about four or five hours out of it not good at all the speaker cones of both headphones are made from the plastic rubber combination so that's good it's the same style that we saw inside of the Apple earpods but we still need to find the circuitry inside the volume controls of the beats we find the first fatal flaw and one of the reasons why my first sets of Beats died this section isn't water-resistant Moisture can easily seep inside of these little holes in the housing and corrode the connections my volume up just stopped working on one of my sets entirely and that's kind of an important button the rest of the circuits are inside the earbud housing next to the microUSB charging port easy enough to open up there is no rubber ring around the charging port hole like we see on cellphones which means that moisture could very easily get inside from multiple locations I'll show you why that's a bad thing popping the circuit board completely out of the plastic housing I'll drip a few drops of water onto the board and you can see how the droplets cling to the surface water and electronics do not go well together this is how things short out and get corroded and then die water is clinging to all that important stuff I could feel the board heating up in my hands as the leftover juice from the battery was shorting out along those wires now the reason I bought my X threes in the first place was because on their website they say there is a double hydrophobic coating and you can see what that means when I apply some water droplets to the surface of the circuit board the board has a coating that repels moisture and won't let the droplets cling to the surface keeping the electronics from shorting out and it's just another added layer of protection if moisture does somehow manage to get inside of the sealed plastics the extra protection is a good thing beats on the other hand do not have that hydrophobic coating nor is the body well sealed it also has a terrible battery life and is twice the price so I would just stay away from beats altogether j-bert has built a quality water-resistant product and I would almost go as far to say it's waterproof instead of spending millions on advertising they just pass those savings on to their customers and shockingly enough even this pair is somehow still alive you can tell by the overexcited female voice announcing how much battery percentage is left I do still need to buy another pair for myself though these are currently my favorite headphones I'll link all the different color variants in the video description right below this video along with the current pricing let me know if you have any other headphones you want me to try out or tear apart and thanks a ton for watching I'll see you around