I have thought of that but then I'd be paying for all the features I wouldn't be using, so in theory the bang for the buck purely for sound quality is going to be lower.

Now my Sony WF100XM4s are starting to die I'm starting the search for a replacement that I'll be using for music alone, so I don't really need ANC or microphones or any of the other gubbins that often comes with true wireless earphones these days -- I never used any of that on my XM4s because I...

Any idea what DAC the 3rd gen uses? The gen 2 Fireflies has an ES9018K2M DAC but I have yet to find the detailed gen 3 specs. I would hope Woo has upped it to a 9028-level chip at least, but I've no idea.

Curious if anyone's compared the sound profile of the 3rd gen and 2nd gen (which also uses an ESS Sabre DAC... OP needs correcting) with stock tubes. Probably a very subtle difference, but I'm interested in any and all impressions nonetheless. Power-wise, my 2nd gen Fireflies seem to drive my...

Is it a fit issue with the spinfits? I have the EP01 and they're decent -- bring out the mids and treble a bit more, but seem to introduce a bit of grain in the process. I wish they went slightly deeper, but the XM4s sit almost flush with my ears. Sadly there's too much difference between the...

Have you tried different settings -- ANC on/off, switch codec, switch bitrate, DSEE on/off etc?

Which Sednas did you try? Xelastec or regular black ones? And what about the ePros didn't you like? I'd love to try the Spiral Dots but they're hard to come by for a reasonable price ($30 on Amazon is not "reasonable"!)

Can confirm silicone tips change the sound, generally for the better, and improve the comfort (feels less like having your ears overstuffed). I'm trying the EP01 and the comparison that instantly came into my head was of my former Audioquest Nighthawks sounding like the XM4s with the stock foam...

I can see how multipoint is useful but I'm someone who is happy enough without it since I only really use earphones sporadically with a single device (ask me again in a few months when I have to take more regular Zoom meetings interrupted by phone calls!) I'm also someone who bought the XM4s...

Ah, that might have been my problem -- I tried them in my ears with nothing playing, and lying on the desk with nothing playing. Old habits (trying to prevent file corruption) die hard! I guess I should just use them and trust it'll do it's thing in the background

Any tricks to updating the firmware? Tried it multiple times on my Pixel 3 and progress never moved beyond 0% after about 10 minutes so I gave up. Tried it on my iPad and it progressed to about 8% before it aborted itself for no apparent reason. I give up!

Not sure if you've already covered this, but I'm curious how you'd rate the SQ of the Nobles against the XM4s. Obviously they're different signatures overall, but how does the bass quality and imaging compare in particular?

Not sure you'd have much luck with only a five-band EQ, but you should be able to find the frequency response curve of the XM4s somewhere online (try this review) to give it a go. It's not actually too far off the Harman Response Curve -- pull down the mid-bass a bit and boost the 4K+ and you'd...

I'm a bit stuck, too... it's hard to tell if the shallower TWS ones will be too shallow to seat properly in my ear canal before the body of the earphone hits my ear. Stock large tips are 8mm deep, vs 6.5mm for the ePro TWS and what looks like >8mm for the EP00. Depends on ear shape I guess. Some...

The control options are a bit limited to Sony's preset sets, but the Speak to Chat option is perhaps what you're looking for and it works very effectively -- detects when you are speaking, pauses music and turns on ambient mode