Amazon Echo Buds with Active Noise Cancellation (newest model), Wired charging case, Black
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- Dynamic audio and active noise cancellation (ANC) - Premium speakers deliver crisp, balanced sound. Sealed in-ear design and ANC limit background noise.
- Customize your audio - Audio Personalization helps tune audio for your unique hearing preferences to enhance your enjoyment of music and more.
- Compact and comfortable - Echo Buds with Active Noise Cancellation are small, light, and IPX4 sweat-resistant, with a secure, customizable fit that's made to move with you.
- Hands-free entertainment - Works with the Alexa app to stream music, play podcasts, and read Audible audiobooksjust ask. Use your voice to make calls, set reminders, add items to your shopping list, and more.
- Seamless switching Connect to two devices at the same time and automatically move between devices with multipoint pairing. Move from a video call on your laptop to music on your phone without skipping a beat.
- Long-lasting battery - Get up to 5 hrs music playback per charge and up to 15 hrs with the charging case. A 15-min quick charge provides up to 2 hrs of music
- Works with other assistants - Compatible with iOS and Android, and supports access to Siri and Google Assistant
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I do not normally write reviews but the reviews here aggravate me as they have not done their due diligence, have flat out no idea, just regurgitated their first emotional impulse, or have absolutely nothing to do with the product. I also feel because they don’t carry a big name as Apple or Samsung does on the audio scene, they automatically get cut short because of branding. I experienced this firsthand when I told my brother I picked up a pair of these buds and he immediately responded with “don’t Amazon devices suck with their sound?” Listen, maybe at one point they did, but with every new product, improvements can be made. Just because you had a bad experience once doesn’t mean you always will. Just a few reviews on here that I want to clarify. Someone said you need to download the Alexa app to use the buds. No, you don’t. If you want an express setup, fine-tune it with the ANC, and the EQ to get the best experience, it would better serve you to download the app. I don’t see why that’s a problem considering every other bud out there asks the same thing. You can use the buds but in order to tune anything, you need to download their corresponding app. I had to do the very same thing with every other bud I tested. I hear people were baited with the free audible subscription. I didn’t buy these for free audible, if you did, you bought them for the wrong reason. If you already redeemed a free code, why that would be a shock that you can’t keep buying Alexa devices to redeem your months of free (insert subscription offer) only to be able to return the product and basically do that indefinitely baffles me. And why not receiving audible for free has actual anything to do with the product, I will never know. I understand that if you were promised a free gift and didn’t get it, that would be a bummer. But take that up with Amazon, not on the review of the buds that have no bearing on the status of your Audible subscription. These buds are great. I tested them side by side against the Airpods Pro, Samsung Buds Pro, and the Huawei Freebuds Pro. In sound fidelity, soundstage, and overall roundness of sound, the Echo buds win. For context, I have a studio for voice-over work. I use JBL reference monitors. For headphones, I use the Beyerdynamic DT 1990 PRO. I tested all buds against studio-quality reference speakers and sound engineering software. Of course, none of the buds stood a chance, however one was clearly better than the rest. The one that most clearly represented the music and sounded most closely to the reference monitors were the echo buds by a mile. Bass: 8.5/10 Echo buds: The bass was very thumpy and rumbly, hit nice and hard when it was supposed to, and did it with a high level of clarity. 9/10 Huawei: Just as good as the Echo Buds, maybe even touch better overall, slightly more precise. 4/10 Samsung: There was bass when there wasn’t supposed to be. Seemed like it was on all the time and was very muddy with no clarity at all. 5/10 Apple: Decently responsive but didn’t have the power to hit hard when the track called for it. Mids: 9/10 Echo buds: Captured every note of voice and captured the whole orchestral range without anyone instrument dominating due to a lack of quality equalization. The good thing with these I can easily change the equalization if need be. 7/10 Huawei: Good but very bland, clarity wasn’t all there. Still, not bad at all. 5/10 Samsung: That bass is muddying this up something terrible, I even had it on the “clear’ setting in the EQ. The lack of a proper EQ makes it impossible to make these buds work. The presets are garbage. 8/10 Apple: I cannot deny these are very good and capture everything well with a great soundstage for a bud. Treble: 9/10 Echo buds: Very round, not tinny. Clear and concise. 7/10 Huawei: Gets there but a few notes start to hurt your ears, too much. 4/10 Samsung: I’m starting to hate these now. Once again these are muddied by that awful bass that doesn’t even hit hard. The EQ makes it sound tinny and very high to break past the overblown bass. Didn’t realize they were Beats by Dre. But name sells so… 10/10 Apple: This is where these really shine, the higher notes are perfectly represented on their own. The lack of punchy bass leaves them feeling flat and not rounded out. The echo buds may not be the best in a particular area. But in my testing, they are without question the overall winner. And for the price, that’s just a bonus. ANC: Tested with vacuum, exhaust fan, central air AC unit, on a crowded street, and inside an airplane during flight. (ANC hiss and distortion is present on all buds but some more so than others, be objective, not dramatic) 4/10 Echo buds: Yikes, these did not do well. Some reviews say it doesn’t work, it does, stop being dramatic. However, they do not nearly stop incoming noise the way the others do. It stops a lot of the bass but high notes seem to come right through. When you turn the ANC on and off it's clearing stopping all the bass and some mids from coming in. Little bits of hiss and distortion. 8/10 Huawei: Very impressed. 7/10 Samsung: Good job 9/10 Apple: This one easily did the best with the smallest amount of hiss and music distortion. Passthrough: 7/10 Echo buds: Very present and loud hiss, but realistic, not electronic sounding. 6/10 Huawei: Not a lot of hiss but sounded electronic or robotic. 6/10 Samsung: Hiss is there but not robotic, rather a bit muffled if anything. 8/10 Apple: Does a very good job but a slight electronic sound can be heard. Some people said the Echo buds are always recording you. Ok, no it isn’t, but you can also turn the microphone off at any time. It even says it in the description. “including the ability to mute the mics with the Alexa app.” Everything else like customizability preferences, fit and feel, call quality, assistant responsiveness, etc., are all subjective due to the nature of different people and different circumstances and environments. Closing thoughts: I understand the music and sound people enjoy is subjective and that’s not how this is rated. This is rated objectively, using the onboard EQ of the buds to get them the closest to reference as possible. I prefer to listen to my music as the artist intended. The echo buds objectively got the closest to reference while maintaining their roundness and soundstage overall. However, if ANC is the biggest factor in your decision, might I suggest the Sony WH-1000XM4. I do not mean to sound dismissive but we are talking about buds and they have limitations. If you are looking for buds and the intended purpose of them therein, the Echo Buds deliver. They also include the most ear and wingtips to cater to almost every ear type. They are the best overall package and at half the price, win-win.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2021 by Michael S.
This is a long-winded review for an imperfect product with a single killer feature. Instead of breaking this down by pros and cons, I'm going to go by product features as many have both pros and cons. ** The Single Killer Feature ** Hands free Alexa is nothing short of incredible, an absolute game changer. Many other earbuds can integrate with Alexa (and other assistants), but to activate you need to tap the earbuds. Being able to just talk to Alexa anywhere and everywhere is magical. I've been an Apple iPhone user since the introduction of the iPhone and I love their hardware and iOS in general. However, Siri is just plain awful. It is slow, clumsy, often doesn't hear what you are saying and is so bad that I had given up on voice assistants completely. With these Echo Buds, I have now entered the world of Alexa and couldn't be more pleased. It is everything that Siri isn't -- quick, good solid responses, rarely misinterprets what I say, even understands whispers with incredible accuracy. As for Alexa and the Echo Buds, this is so much more than just saying "Alexa, what's the weather?". I mainly use it to control playback of Audible books and it is truly wonderful. I can say "Alexa play titleX on Audible" and it will do so. I can say "Alexa pause" and "Alexa resume" at any time and it reacts quickly. I can say, "Alexa go back" which defaults to 30 seconds, or "Alexa go back 5 minutes" if I've let my mind wander and missed a chunk of the story. The only negative of Audible and Alexa is that it streams it and won't play from the downloaded copy in my Audible iOS app. As long as I have a good cell signal, this isn't really an issue. One thing I did notice is that you have to be a little careful if you switch from using an Alexa device and the Audible app for playback. More than once I had a Whispersync failure and it lost my place. I found that force-quitting the Audible app after an Alexa session resolved this issue (in other words, listen to Audible on Alexa, force-quit Audible app, then launch Audible app and when you play a title it will auto-update to the current position). I also love being able to access the Amazon Music library. I do have Prime, but not the Premium subscription to Music. It is still a lot of music and I'm happy with what I can find to listen to. And live radio stations such as NPR work great. The first time you say, "Alexa play NPR" it will ask what station you want, so you can get your local / preferred station. Afterwards, just saying "Alexa play NPR" auto-selects that station. There is an annoyance with the way Alexa works with third-party, non-Alexa-integrated apps. For example, if I launch a random radio, music, whatever app, it will play fine, and if I say, "Alexa pause" it will pause, but if I then say "Alexa play" it will start playing the default music app assigned to Alexa. In this case, the only way to pause/play is to tap on the earbuds. ** Alexa app & privacy ** I've seen numerous reviews complaining that location access and/or contacts are required to use the earbuds. In my experience, this is NOT the case. I did not allow location access or contacts access (iOS Alexa app) and had zero problems with setting up and using the Echo Buds. ** The fit of the earbuds ** I find that the earbuds fit quite well and the built-in audio test always gives me good to excellent rating on fit. I am using the default medium (blue) ear tips and the small wings. I find I need the wings to give a more secure fit when I am out hiking. I have also found that to get a solid fit, there is a specific technique I need to use to get the earbud tip securely in my ear canal before twisting it into position. I can't describe this in words, but if you don't get this right, the fit will be sloppy. ** Touch Controls ** Two observations: 1) They don't work consistently well for me. I will tap once and often register no tap at all or it will register as a double-tap. This is annoying. 2) The only tap gesture you can customize is the long-press. I don't know why you can't customize all the tap gestures. Perhaps in a software update... ** Battery life ** This is a very mixed bag. Overall, I find that I usually get closer to 4 hours of battery life instead of the stated 5 hours. This may be due to volume (I have it about 2/3 of max volume and the Amazon battery testing was done at 50% volume). It also may be that I keep the passthrough mode enabled and am usually in a fairly noisy environment (hiking outdoors, wind noise, etc). I think, but am not 100% sure, that more noise means more processing is required and this eats into battery life. That being said, popping them into the case for 15 minutes quickly recharges them enough for another hour of two of use. The case only holds two full charges, which isn't a lot, so I always charge the case after an extended session of use. One important note is that Amazon shows the battery life of both the left and right earbuds. You'll notice that one bud will drain MUCH quicker than the other. This has to do with which bud is the primary vs secondary. The primary actually communicates with the phone's Bluetooth and then processes and sends a signal over to the secondary. I often find that the primary bud is 15% more drained than the secondary. You can control which bud is primary vs secondary by which one you put in first, but this can be tricky sometimes. I've done some testing and can reliably get the left or right bud to be the primary (and thus drain faster). ** The case ** I think the case is really nice. It is small and slim enough to fit into the coin pocket in my pants without bulging too much. One little annoyance is that the lid flips closed too easily, but that is a minor thing. Even with the small wings installed, I have absolutely no problem with getting a solid charge connection every time. I have experienced a glitch in how the charging seems to work. If I open the case when one bud is fully charged but the other is not, it seems to stop charging even when I close the case again. However, if I just put the buds in the case and leave it alone for a while, both buds are always charged to 100%. ** Sound quality ** I think it is quite good! Sure, there are much better sounding buds, for a lot more money. These have decent bass, midrange and treble and sound good with music as well as spoken word (Audible books, podcasts). ** Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) and Passthrough Mode ** I think the ANC is just "okay", nothing great. It does work to limit some noise, but I can still hear most everything, just at a lower volume. Part of this is due to the nature of an earbud not having a complete seal into the ear canal, but part of it is probably less processing power than some of the major players in this market. I use the Passthrough mode often. I do a lot of hiking in a desert environment and need to be aware of animals, particularly rattlesnakes. The Passthrough seems to accentuate treble sounds, which is perfect to hear a rattler. I have it set at level 4, and there is a little hiss, but nothing I find overly annoying. I do wish there was a way to quickly disable all noise processing (i.e., turn it off) without having to open the Alexa app on my phone. For example, a 3-way toggle with long-press would work -- ANC, Passthrough, Off. ** Conclusion ** There really are quite a few things to nitpick on these earbuds. They are far from perfect and some cheaper buds (half the price of even less) have overall better functionality. HOWEVER, as I mentioned at the beginning of this feature, Hands Free Alexa is a KILLER feature and, for me, so awesome that I am easily willing to overlook all the negatives. I do hope that Amazon keeps improving these and that the 3rd generation fixes a lot of the issues. Perhaps a software update in the meantime will help with some things.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2021 by Day Light