I decided to throw together a big comparison of the popular $100 ANC buds - if you're in the market and you wanna hear binaural ANC and sound samples and real life call tests, hopefully this will help with your decision

I reviewed this one a while ago too, and included measurements as well as some binaural ANC and sound samples. They sound good, but ANC is really weak and app support very flakey.

The Edifier Neobuds Pro 2 finally support multipoint. Firmware upgrade took around 30 minutes to complete. Use an iPhone, because it crashes on Android!

Slightly disappointed by Creative's response to the multitude of bugs I encountered with the Aurvana Ace 2. Sent them a carefully-crafted video with narrative over exactly what was going on...low microphone volume on LC3, issues with aptX-adaptive where the codec constantly refreshes and drops...

Baseus have ripped off the Bose/Huawei Freeclip....actually, it looks more like the Ambie version that Bose and Huawei 'homaged'. Most of the Baseus stuff I've tried has been crap, but I bought it anyway as reviewing stuff like this tends to make for popular content. Will be interested to see...

It's in the Ikko Music app. - check out from around 05:28 to 06:01

This is the measurement of the IKKO Activebuds btw. Reminded me a bit of the Soundcore Space A40 with their slightly muted vocals and weird midrange bump, only with much more emphasis on the bass. Couldn't really work out how to use the custom EQ without wrecking it but one of the presets did...

Pretty much matches my experience. Sound is alright, certainly nothing to write home about, and was dreadful previously. Much better since the update. Using the little box is great for translation, not so good for chatgpt where, for my use case at least, mobile use is rather limiting let alone...

I finally got round to uploading my Aurvana Ace 2 review last night. Some ANC and call samples here if anyone is on the fence about them. At the same time, I didn't hold back on the issues I've had connecting with the app, trying to connect to the BT-L4, etc

New Firmware alerts: Creative Aurvana Ace 2 - 3.1.240116.1020 Ikko Activebuds - DW_8541E_E20E_V30 SoundPEATS Clear - v1.07 SoundPEATS Air4 - v0.3.1 SoundPEATS GoFree 2 - v1.2

Yeah they sounded trash on my phone, came to life on my DAC 😍

I like the Star & One. Its niche will probably go unappreciated given it has landed at the same time as the LM. Wish I'd got the white though, such a looker

All aboard the hype train :D