These are surprising!
I have just got these over the last 24 hours, but I am a bit of an audio junkie, so I feel like my opinion may help others. I own about 20-25 low-high end headsets/headphones/earbuds/wireless earbuds. I will compare these to my airpod pros 1st gen as I feel they are the closest in performance. My favorite that I own is a Hifiman Sundara, and is my daily driver for open ears. I use a DT770 when I want a closed earphone just to give you an idea of my audio preferences. Audio: Highly customizable via the Middle Rabbit app available on your mobile app store of your choice. Setting it with a flat response in my personal opinion is the way things should be tested. I am not going to go over it with science, but I will say that there are clear lows, mids, and highs. There is a slight excitement added to the lower end that I feel compliments the sound profile well. There is no noise cancelling, but they seal so well in my ears I am deaf to the world 90% of the time. I would say I prefer the sound profile of these over the airpod pros, and even place them within the same bracket performance wise. You lose little outside of noise cancellation by saving a couple hundred bucks and buying these. The dongle provides direct enough audio I played a couple matches of Tarkov, and Arena Breakout with them. I don't think you are hindering yourself using these in competitive environments. Comfort: Wore them for 4 hours today and have no residual soreness. Using the default tips without issue. I will update once I have had time to wear them over a few days. Case: It's all plastic, but it feels sturdy enough. It can hold the dongle, which is hugely convenient. Charge seems to hold pretty close to advertised on the case. Battery: I listened for 4 hours out the box with 80% charge and it got down to 47% at mid volume. That seems like it should hit pretty close to the advertised playing time, but will update further. Design: Pretty standard, but they have a futuristic blocky look that I tend to like. The case is a bit big, but it still fits inside my little pocket in my jeans, but may bulge more than some prefer. Features: Direct firmware upgrades from app are easy and convenient. There are several presets within the app that can be played around with such as gaming. They have a footstep boost option that I think helps pretty good in rainbow six siege. The voice prompts are useful when making changes to the device. I think the functionality exceeds the current asking price of these earbuds. Connectivity: Seems to be pretty quick when pairing to my devices. Easy to switch between dongle/bluetooth with a two second press on either bud. Range seems to be pretty good walking around my apartment. Never had any static or disconnects, and there is a TON of interference capable devices around. Overall, it's an easy recommendation, and if I encounter any major issues from now, I will come back and let you all know. Thank you for taking the time to read my review. Read more
