What is the best sounding TWS under $100 or so with physical buttons, none of this touch malarkey?
I’ve resolved my problem with the T1XS’ by de-syncing and re-syncing everything - that seems to have banished the internal mic rainstorms. Switching on the Easy Mode has restored the full touch controls (which is the opposite of what the app claims it does).
On the other hand I’ve realised that I hate this feeling of having two little computers hanging off my ears, just waiting for any stray touch to react unpredictably. I’m longing for the old simplicity of physical buttons I knew from the Tranyas.
Hiss kinda sounds like monitor mode was on TBH.
Which brings me to another wierd quirk with the T1XS: Monitor doesn't even work when you're listening to a non-music steam (like games or whatnot).
Or maybe it's "not working" coz I have "Game Mode" on (which literally knocks 100ms-ish off the already good base latency).
(Upon further testing nahhhh Monitor Mode is working fine, even with "Game Mode" on. It's just that MonMode doesn't actually stop or reduce the volume of the stream being played be it music or anything so the "passthrough" gets covered over with sound unless you pull volume down. So yeah false alarm for the most part)
It's kinda funny that the side switching and "True" wireless-ness of the non-Qualcomm T1XS is actually "BETTER" (as in, truly seamless) than how it works with a TWS+ set (my COAs - and yes I have a Snap 845 with TWS+ enabled). Whatever chipset they're using, it's pretty good at least in that department.
And of course in terms of latency, which it smokes the L2P and the COA at, even with base settings without "Game Mode" on.
Plus, they actually go pretty snug in, which might be both a pro and a con. For one thing passive NC is stellar but the "snug-thud" thing is pretty real lol (not to mention having to tweak it around to make sure my Sony hybrids are not actually blocking sound).
For pure listening joy the L2Ps still take the cake in my mind, even if the T1XSes are proving to be a pretty convenient pair to use day-to-day (small, monitor-mode, relatively good SQ, less finicky truly seamless side switching - with wear-detect off that is).
I do wish they would have stuck a spring into the lid of the T1XS case to make it pop up and stay open. Sometimes it's almost a chore to have to hold the lid open to extract the buds out (and sometimes you get unlucky, and one bud gets caught on the top of the lid as it drops down and is almost thrown out of your hands onto the ground
).
As a side note, I think you can tune down the touch sensitivity on the T1XS through the app if it's bothering you? Not sure how much that would help however.
