xSDMx
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Thank you for sharing your early impressions! Seems like the sound signature is W shaped? Did you own the Pixel Buds 2 or A? How do they compare? I think these have the same 11mm dynamic driver, so I wouldn't be surprised if the tuning is identical.Pixel buds pro.
Very comfortable and doesn't protrude much out of the ears. Treble and mids are present, could be a tad piercing at times. Heavy mid bass, the 11mm drivers you can hear as much as you can feel. Soundstage is pretty enclosed and not very spacious. Volume control can be done by swiping on the earbuds which works well (down to increase volume, up to decrease). There seems to be no way to turn off the adaptive ANC, long pressing on the earbuds just switches between adaptive ANC and transparency mode. Transparency mode sounds quite unnatural. Taking either bud out of the ears will stop playback, which is quite irritating for me. Putting any of the earbuds in the ear will resume playback. I hope the in ear detection function can be turned off. Unfortunately the pixel buds app keep crashing, so there's no way to find out what I can do with the app.
Did you confirm which audio codec they are using? AAC? How is the connection stability?
Re: in-ear detection and the app crashing. My guess is that there is a release day app update scheduled which fixes compatibility for the new model. I've owned all the other Pixel Buds and the app did have an option to disable the in-ear detection, enable bass boost, etc. There will also probably be some option to change ANC vs. transparency mode control.
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