The black spinfits were too big for me (made the ear pieces stick out too far). Also, they have a very narrow bore (which can be fixed through EQ). Lastly, they didn't fit the case well.
Bose QuietComfort 20...wired iem (with fins), 14h battery life with anc on, and the anc is excellent for plane noises.
And no, not because of my ears, even before using them for the first time that case and those earbuds smell really damn bad, and it doesn't seem to want to go away anytime soon lol. Would you share your preferred EQ settings for 3ANC?Been busy with other things for awhile, but have been lurking a bit still.
I will say that my top 3 for sound right now is (somewhat) strangely: Status Audio Between 3ANC, Huawei Freebuds Pro 2 and Final Audio ZE8000, with the Fokus Mystiques trailing just behind those.
The thing I noticed with the Status Between is that they need some HEAVY EQ:ing to sound great because none of the stock EQ settings that you can select sound good in my opinion. So basically good earbuds technically speaking, but bad tuning (imo). Then we have the battery life that is just insane to me. Probably the first earbuds where I actually have a hard time running them down to 0%, don't think that's happened yet.
I had been EQ:ing them with Wavelet when I just incidentally also tried an EQ in Poweramp EQ as well that really just made them sound very hi-fi and extremely balanced. I had been unsure as to whether I would want to use them as my daily driver, but when I heard them with that EQ setting combined with the battery life and decent ANC, yeah i'm sold. I love the design of the buds as well, even though I can probably feel like other people would think they look goofy in my ears. But they feel very sci-fi yet clean which I like.
The ANC is surprisingly good as well, even if they can't play in the same division with the likes of the Bose QCII's etc.
The worst thing about them is the fact that... honestly, they smell really bad LMAO.
The Freebuds Pro 2 are also not the best when it comes to stock tuning either but they have the potential to sound so damn crisp and clear with proper EQ:ing, and I love the pocketability of the case, I love the color (i have that metallic blue color) and they're probably the most comfortable earbuds I've used, but the battery life is slightly disappointing to me. ANC is sort of the same story as with the Between 3ANC, surprisingly good but not mindblowing.
Final Audio ZE8000 I also love, but for some reason they've been shelved a bit since I got the Freebuds Pro 2, which I didn't expect at all. But I love how they sound so natural and relaxed and make the music come to life, you can really FEEL the music with those. But when I go from them to something like the Freebuds Pro 2, I feel like I was missing a little bit of clarity on the ZE8000's, not to mention the mediocre battery life, the huge case, and the wonky appearance and fit of the earbuds. I think if they make a refined iteration of these I think they could be bonkers' good, really.
I will say something, the Fokus Mystiques are... mysterious to me. I have a really hard time getting them to sound more than just "good", even on AptX Adaptive. I've used them on several different phones and I always get that weird cutout where the sound turns to mono for awhile, and it seems as though they have extremely poor connection quality because they start sounding choppy and turn to mono as soon as i'm a few feet away from my phone even in my apartment. I might have gotten a lemon though, I'm not sure. They don't sound bad however, which I would clearly expect if they were in fact "broken". But even when EQ:ing them like crazy I feel as though they sound unresolving, like there's a low bitrate "haze" around the upper mids that I would expect from something only using SBC. But even Between 3ANC's sound great with just AAC and SBC and I don't feel like they have the same unresolving sound despite that.
Combine that with no ANC, a charging case that instantly had some paint chipped away from it without me ever dropping it, and me paying like $500+ to import them here with the customs fees and so on, I just can't call them worth it to me at all.
They are good though, clearly. I just don't feel like I understand the hype from everyone else.
I'm looking forward to hopefully trying the Svanar as soon as it becomes widely available, not sure if you can order it yet though!
They were excellent at the time… even if I hated the box, the wires always got tangled and after a while it starting buzzing (some grounding issue). They were good on calls too.
B&W PI7 can do what you describe here i.e. connect to flight entertainment; I've never tried it thought
And it is a great idea… pity the PI7s have poor ANC and are quite expensive. Alternately you can get a cheap Bluetooth dongle that does this too…
The LG Tone DFP9 and DT90Q seem to offer the same feature as the Bowers PI7.
Wow, that doesn't make sense, unless Apples update broke their app.. Why would Anker isolate a billion potential customers?
These are older now, and I think LG has another model that does this that is newer, but these were surprisingly good at the time when I reviewed them, and they also have the case that can connect via usb to 3.5 MM and get audio from a non bt device.
Have the Huawei FB2P , I have it paired with a Huawei phone and get the full complement of the Devialet tuning which sounds good for me when compared with the Samsung B2P. The ANC sadly is impacted by the tips, I cannot get good seal. What tips are you using. Do love the volume slide motion. ZE8000 when I just at home listening to music, they are my go toBeen busy with other things for awhile, but have been lurking a bit still.
I will say that my top 3 for sound right now is (somewhat) strangely: Status Audio Between 3ANC, Huawei Freebuds Pro 2 and Final Audio ZE8000, with the Fokus Mystiques trailing just behind those.
The thing I noticed with the Status Between is that they need some HEAVY EQ:ing to sound great because none of the stock EQ settings that you can select sound good in my opinion. So basically good earbuds technically speaking, but bad tuning (imo). Then we have the battery life that is just insane to me. Probably the first earbuds where I actually have a hard time running them down to 0%, don't think that's happened yet.
I had been EQ:ing them with Wavelet when I just incidentally also tried an EQ in Poweramp EQ as well that really just made them sound very hi-fi and extremely balanced. I had been unsure as to whether I would want to use them as my daily driver, but when I heard them with that EQ setting combined with the battery life and decent ANC, yeah i'm sold. I love the design of the buds as well, even though I can probably feel like other people would think they look goofy in my ears. But they feel very sci-fi yet clean which I like.
The ANC is surprisingly good as well, even if they can't play in the same division with the likes of the Bose QCII's etc.
The worst thing about them is the fact that... honestly, they smell really bad LMAO.
The Freebuds Pro 2 are also not the best when it comes to stock tuning either but they have the potential to sound so damn crisp and clear with proper EQ:ing, and I love the pocketability of the case, I love the color (i have that metallic blue color) and they're probably the most comfortable earbuds I've used, but the battery life is slightly disappointing to me. ANC is sort of the same story as with the Between 3ANC, surprisingly good but not mindblowing.
Final Audio ZE8000 I also love, but for some reason they've been shelved a bit since I got the Freebuds Pro 2, which I didn't expect at all. But I love how they sound so natural and relaxed and make the music come to life, you can really FEEL the music with those. But when I go from them to something like the Freebuds Pro 2, I feel like I was missing a little bit of clarity on the ZE8000's, not to mention the mediocre battery life, the huge case, and the wonky appearance and fit of the earbuds. I think if they make a refined iteration of these I think they could be bonkers' good, really.
I will say something, the Fokus Mystiques are... mysterious to me. I have a really hard time getting them to sound more than just "good", even on AptX Adaptive. I've used them on several different phones and I always get that weird cutout where the sound turns to mono for awhile, and it seems as though they have extremely poor connection quality because they start sounding choppy and turn to mono as soon as i'm a few feet away from my phone even in my apartment. I might have gotten a lemon though, I'm not sure. They don't sound bad however, which I would clearly expect if they were in fact "broken". But even when EQ:ing them like crazy I feel as though they sound unresolving, like there's a low bitrate "haze" around the upper mids that I would expect from something only using SBC. But even Between 3ANC's sound great with just AAC and SBC and I don't feel like they have the same unresolving sound despite that.
Combine that with no ANC, a charging case that instantly had some paint chipped away from it without me ever dropping it, and me paying like $500+ to import them here with the customs fees and so on, I just can't call them worth it to me at all.
They are good though, clearly. I just don't feel like I understand the hype from everyone else.
I'm looking forward to hopefully trying the Svanar as soon as it becomes widely available, not sure if you can order it yet though!
Just landed and was able to test: MTW3, AZ80, PIS7-2 and Bose QC2. Was sitting aisle but ahead of turbine. After trying with music and podcasts , found the MTW3 to performed the best with ANC ON and Off. The passive seal was the best. The AZ and PI were tied for 2nd but the Bose could have improved with a different set of tips.
