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pocket now's galaxy sa coverage is brought to you by deep brand one Carlos bag now here for pocket now we've already produced a real audio review on the galaxy si but there was one thing we neglected to talk about in that video and that was the performance on the included earbuds Samsung is really promoting their acquisition of harman the company that also owns the AKG brand and included in the box with every galaxy s8 is a pair of these AKG earbuds getting right down to brass tacks these don't give off the nicest first impression a majority of the material along the driver tasting is plastic kind of rubbery boots there's a little bit more of a sport focus in my opinion and when you compare them against some of the other premium offerings like the earbuds included with LG V series phones they just don't look that nice and that inexpensive or sporty feel continues down into the cabling itself just below the earbuds we've got kind of rubbery cabling and on the left ear channel we've got a lightweight plasticky microphone and control lobe but then where the two cable channels meet it then transfers over into a nylon woven it feels a bit more rugged a bit more durable and I kind of wish this woven casing this woven shielding extended all the way up to the boots of the earbuds but there is some interesting function to this form these are inner aural earbuds and Samsung includes different sized rubber tips we've seen that before for different sized ears to go inside your ear canal but this lump of plastic that runs just behind the ear tip actually does a really good job of resting inside this little scoop in my ear it's the exact same place you would fit a pair of ear pods from Apple but those are all the aesthetics how do these things sound and in a word good in two words very good in more words let's chat this is a very high quality offering to include in the purchase price of a phone you can expect very colorful playback very full bass very bright highs I am a little concerned that the mids can get stomped on depending on what kind of music you like to listen to you're listening to club tracks hip hop EDM these things are going to serve you very well listening to some classic rock or some jazz though you know music where you don't have that artificial creation of low frequency sound I feel we lose some of the distinctiveness of certain instruments especially when we're talking about car distortion or the vibrato from stringed instruments it's in those musical genres where the highs can feel a little artificially bright they never really became piercing or shrill at the volumes that I listen to but again your personal preferences and how you listen to music we might press over into unpleasant territory and just because I'm not prescient I can see some of the comments down below this video that maybe I'm being a little too hard on these earbuds or maybe I'm being too nitpicky this is actually a good thing for Samsung we have earbuds in the box with the Galaxy s8 that are deserving of that kind of scrutiny my personal preference I like the earbud that we got with the lgb 20 the B&O earbuds a little bit better than I like these AKG earbuds from Samsung but if we're talking overall quality these two compete really well and for people who are listening to music almost exclusively from mobile devices like smartphones this becomes a really interesting value add on proposition and most markets around the world the smaller Galaxy s8 not the si+ that I have here is going to be around 100 to 150 dollars more expensive than a phone like the LG G 6 but the LG G 6 does not include earbuds in the box the AKG earbuds that come with the galaxy s 8 get me really close to the bno earbuds I own and these retail for around 100 to 150 dollars buying a new smartphone and you want a high quality headset to go with it well that's 150 dollars you don't need to spend and without throwing too much shade it's just a nice step from Samsung to include accessories in the box which are monster ibly better than what their competitors might be including with their smartphones did you know that the average cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds we'd like to thank our sponsor D brand for reminding us that if all the fluffy looking clouds in the world fell on us at once we probably wouldn't have a society and we certainly wouldn't have the galaxy s 8 it's only rated for ip68 this bizarre ad in all of our Samsung Galaxy S a coverage is brought to you by B brand check them out in the link below got to give Samsung the thumbs up here this was a very happy surprise this was a great pair of earbuds to include in the box if you're shopping the Galaxy s8 I think you're going to be very happy with these things being included in the price of the phone as always folks thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for more Galla cs8 coverage we've got reviews in comparisons we're going to be digging deep into camera and audio tech we 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