![]() The OnePlus Buds Pro 2 cost £179 ($179) shipping on 16 February.įor comparison, the Nothing Ear 1 cost £149, the Google Pixel Buds Pro cost £179, the Bose QuietComfort Earbuds 2 cost £279.95 and the Apple AirPods Pro 2 cost £249. The earbuds are not made from recycled materials and the company does not publish environmental impact reports or offer trade-in or recycling. OnePlus rates the batteries for at least 80% of their original capacity after 500 full-charge cycles but they are not replaceable nor are the earbuds repairable, ultimately making them disposable. The transparency mode sounds fairly natural and is good enough for listening out for traffic or announcements, but is a bit quiet in conversation with other people.Ĭall quality was pretty good, but while my voice remained clear for the caller the earbuds let a fair amount of background noise through in busier environments. The noise cancelling also changes the sound of the earbuds, making it a bit more forward and punchy, which isn’t necessarily bad. ![]() They will dampen the drone of engines or the roar of a plane, but can’t challenge the best for the ability to remove everyday distractions. Even then they struggle with higher notes, including a car tyre noise, the typing of keys in an office and wind noise. ![]() The earbuds have adaptive active noise cancelling that can ramp up or down depending on ambient noise, but it is fairly weak, meaning it was best left on its maximum setting. The earbuds can detect when they’re being worn to pause the music and change noise-cancelling mode when one is removed. Spatial audio requires games, music and video streaming apps to be updated, with the feature live for YouTube at the time of testing and other big firms expected to follow suit in the near future. The Buds Pro 2 also have sensors in them that can track the position of your head in relation to your phone so that the centre channel of a movie, typically the dialogue, always sounds like it’s coming from the screen. It works in a similar way to the popular feature used by Apple for AirPods with the iPhone, producing a more immersive, cinematic-like experience on the go, even if music is typically best left in stereo. The earbuds are among the first on the market to support Google’s new implementation of spatial audio virtual surround technology, which is baked in to Android 13. ![]() The companion app has a full equaliser as well as a sound customisation system that performs a five-minute hearing test and tweaks the audio to your personal hearing profile accordingly. Separation of tones and their handling of complex tracks is good, and while they suit most music genres, some such as Britpop can occasionally sound a little flat. They produce a nicely rounded sound with detailed highs, well-balanced mids and enough bass for most, even if they can’t quite reach the very deepest of notes. The Buds Pro 2 generally sound very good for the money, comfortably keeping up with similar easy-listening competition at this price. Three sizes of the oval-shaped silicone earbud tips are included in the box. Water resistance: earbuds IP55 (sweat resistant) case IPX4Ĭonnectivity: Bluetooth 5.3, SBC, AAC, LC3, LHDCīattery life: with ANC 6h earbud, 25h with case (9/39h ANC off)Ĭharging case dimensions: 61 x 50 x 25.4mmĬase charging: USB-C, Qi wireless charging The compact case is nice and pocketable, and charges in 100 minutes via USB-C but also has Qi wireless charging. The earbuds last up to six hours between charges with noise cancelling turned on, and charge just over three times from the little flip-top case for a total of 25 hours playback. There’s no option for adjusting the volume so you’ll have to reach for the buttons on your phone for that. Squeeze and hold to turn noise cancelling on and off, while taking out an earbud pauses the music. The stalks are squeeze-sensitive for playback controls. The earbuds have a metallic flourish on the stalks and traditional silicone tips that stay put well in my ears.
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