the launch of the airpods Apple's Bluetooth headphones created a hole that
most consumers didn't know they needed filled and as always spawned a plethora
of imitators who promised to do the same thing without being
overpriced but are the airpods
overpriced or compared to the other products in the market are they better
enough to justify the Apple tax well
folks I've got eight pairs of bluetooth headphones with me to help us get to the
bottom of
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are going to be our Baseline so we'll start with them they've got a striking
look that For Better or For Worse lets everybody know just how much you love
Apple they come in a lightweight charging case that feels fantastic in
the hand and they pair effortlessly with your iPhone or even other devices with a
couple more steps I would put their sound on the tiny side and the Sound
Stage is a bit Nar narrow but the articulation is good and there's enough
base present that most people honestly
will be happy with them battery life comes in at 5 hours of continuous
listening plus four to five quick charges from the included dock compare
all of that to the dash from braggy the
only earphones in our lineup that are actually more expensive than Apples but
should they be they're comfortable they're reasonably light and
subjectively they look a little cooler than the airpods 2o and the sound is
better as well with big bass and a full sound and they even pack some cool extra
Tech in like the airpods they can pause when you pull them out but wait there's
more they have onboard storage and are
waterproof so you can swim with them while listening to music they have a
touch interface for taking calls and controlling media playback and they even
function as a fitness tracker though especially those last two don't work
particularly well leading us into the cons the big two are range James didn't
experience it but I've had issues with signal drops while holding my phone in
my pocket and the high noise floor it
sounds like a in the background and it's a big issue
if you listen at relatively low volumes battery life is also kind of me three to
four hours plus four to five charges from the case sounds okay on paper but
in practice the bulky and heavy charging case is much less convenient to carry
around than Apples J Bird's Freedom
sound quality beats most of the competitors in this review pretty
soundly bass is strong and you'll hear things you wouldn't if you were
listening to the same song with the airpods they're lightweight and while
you might think that having your phones connected bya wire is maybe less premium
I don't personally mind it with the wire behind your neck it's very unlikely to
get in the way and you'll get to keep inline controls which can plug into a
little charging clip to extend Freedom's battery life from an advertised 4 hours
to 8 it's easy to pop in ear out and there's no way to lose one of the
earphones the only real drawback is that they're pretty pricey as well the axo
atom gets some style marks for the ability to offer your friends an
earphone like it's the 1930s and smoking
is still cool but while it's fully Wireless which is neat it gets some
significant points against it two and a
half hours is too often to be recharging
in my opinion even if you can do it up to 18 times in a row and the case also
functions as a battery bank which is cool the pairing process is relatively
complicated and the multi-purpose button
doesn't work for track skipping play pause and phone calls only with that
said they are reasonably comfortable as long as the ear tips don't stay stuck in
your canals and actually sound pretty decent I'm tempted to say they sound
better than the airpods because of their deeper Bas expanded Sound Stage and
reduced tinniness but your mileage may vary because the high hats in one of our
metal test songs sounded absolutely
abominable I was actually embarrassed to wear the boots by smartomi or as I'll be
calling them the Shrek ears in public
they are lightweight and reasonably comfortable but never felt quite right
due to their size I would rate their sound is maybe comparable to the airpods
but a little distant sounding and turning the volume loud can actually
make you winse the Hallmark of bad
earphones so what do they have going for them then well you can access Siri by
double tapping the onboard buttons and the battery life is solid there's no
charging case but they lasted a full 5 and 1/2 hours in my test not too shabby
but I can't say the same about these they're the worst ones of the bunch the
Apple Air Twinkies also known as the daycom from
twws again I did not leave my house with these ondoing testing because they
actually look like an intentionally comical parody of the real thing and not
only do they look like Hot Dogs coming out of your ears they pretty much sound
and feel like it too they have no no punch no bass over pronounced ties they
have a horrible pairing process the positions in the charge case are
reversed from when you take them out of your ears and they never really felt
like they were in your ears so I didn't
wear them long enough to find out how long the battery lasts because I don't
care they're awful fortunately the downward price quality spiral ends here
the $50 axio Dash earphones are my
favorite budget pair of the bunch I even like them more than the $99 axio atams
they pair more easily have physical buttons for pausing track skipping and
even volume control and even have longer battery life at 3 hours meanwhile the
sound quality is just as good as the atoms but with arguably more Bas and I
would rather listen to these than the airpods and although I thought they
would be heavy and look stupid they're not and I don't think they do if you're
on a tight budget and don't need a charging case the axio dash are worth a
look and would be my Undisputed budget
pick if it weren't for the AI EP
b4s so cheap they don't even seem to appear on ai's website they're light
they're comfortable and believe it or not they sound comparable to the airpods
but with strikingly bigger base the poor build quality can make the volume rocker
and other buttons a little difficult to use but hey the functionality is there
my only gripe is the elante
pasta noodle connecting the two phones that makes you look and feel a bit like
a dad on a safari but Aesthetics aside
these things punch way above their weight class their low price and 5-hour
battery life makes them a perfect pick to throw in the gym bag or ski jacket so
trophy time if you want great sounding wireless earphones that you can listen
to all day it's hard to go wrong with something from jbird the freedoms we
covered here or their blue buds line which we've covered in more detail
before if you want a ball on a budget then go for the axio dash or the AI EPB
Force but if you want a polished
experience and Imo fantastic industrial
design with seamless switching between your Apple devices the airpods are there
for you considering what else is out there they're not that bad Just For the
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