Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Bottom (or top) line: Definitely worth ~$30, some minor annoyances, but more comfortable and usable than a few similar versions. These are replacing my previous true-wireless buds, and I'll go back and forth between these and more serious noise cancelling headphones depending on the situation. Likes: - Lighter than other products I've tried in the same market - Less contact with ears than those products, so more comfortable - Buttonless, sealed design suggests decent water resistance in rain and sweat during exercise (though I haven't had product failures at the gym with other, perhaps less-sealed competitors) - Noise cancellation isn't a feature, but ISOLATION is definitely as good as I'd expect for similar products. Hard to mess that up with a sealed design. - Wireless performance and battery life seem to be totally up to par. In a week of testing at the office, I haven't had to recharge the case, and never got a "low battery" on the buds themselves. Not exactly a stress test, but if it didn't get in my way at all, that's a good sign. - There's a control button on both earbuds, which makes for better ease-of-use than other products I've tried. - Touch buttons aren't over-sensitive, and you can adjust the buds without constantly triggering commands as I'd worried might be an issue. Dislikes: - Sound quality is acceptable, but like other similar products, bass and fullness is not really there. Probably my biggest gripe - I just wish there was a LITTLE more punch. - The touch buttons aren't SUPER reliable. I find the easiest way to 'hit' them is to touch my entire ear with the heel of my hand, which is an awkward and less-convenient gesture. I think this is better than over-sensitivity, but it does make reliable control tricky. Play/pause (one tap) is the only really useful command. - Touch commands on the left bud seem to trigger a bluetooth mode-switch or something, and the sound drops out for a surprisingly long time - about 5s on the "previous" command (two taps). It's surprisingly uncomfortable and makes you worry the connection died. - The left bud is MUCH less sensitive to touch than the right, or perhaps just unreliable, so left-bud commands are a big pain. For instance, I can very reliably play/pause on the right bud, and skip forward, but I can only skip backward maybe 1 time out of 10, and if the left bud registers a command at all, it's usually pause. Which is especially off-putting because of the inherent delay in skipping and the tendency for the sound to go out for a few seconds. If a "back" command registers as "pause" like it often does, you won't realize it for an annoying amount of time.