(NEW) Samsung Buds Pro ANC Bluetooth Earbuds
$84.99
$199.99
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Condition: New
Color: Phantom Black
Top positive review
28 people found this helpful
Mind = Blown
By Leonardo Storti on Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2021
What an amazing set of earbuds, these are definitely an upgrade to the original Galaxy Buds (1st Gen), and those were amazing sounding headphones on their own right too. But these pro versions, wow, they blow those out of the water.... Now at first I wasn't really able to notice the quality of the audio, I felt they were about the same as my original buds, boy was I wrong, not only these provide superior audio quality, these buds can literally pickup sounds that I wasn't able to hear before in my older Galaxy Buds, instruments that I didn't know that were there....a perfect example was Dream Theater - Octavarium....try listening to that song with these buds, the first 3 minutes will leave you in a trans-like state, orchestral basically, the sound is rich and just beautiful.... ANC works pretty well imo, it blocks out sound very effectively and you have the choice of two settings, low or high. I usually keep mine at high sense I work as a crossing guard, and I have to be outside several hours at a time listening to cars roaring past me, ANC takes care of that problem it makes a world of difference, I can barely hear any cars passing by me with ANC activated, all I hear is the music.... As for voice activated, its kind of a hit and miss for me, it activates when it detects or hears your voice and lowers down the volume of your music as well as automatically activating ambient sound so you can hear the other person you are speaking with, what I find odd though is it doesn't seem to activate when that person speaks to you first or asks you a question, literally you have to be the one to speak first in order for it to activate.....it can also be very interruptible at times, don't start singing along with any of your tunes because Voice Activated will kick in. EVERY. TIME. WITHOUT FAIL....if you are going to start a conversation you are still better off just removing your left or your right ear bud just to have a normal conversation with someone and just leave voice detect off.... Ambient sound works very well and you have the choice of 4 settings from low to very high, I would suggest you leave it at high max, trust me you don't need it any higher than that ambient sounds works very well and it will pick up everything around you, if you work at an office ambient sound would be a very important feature for you imo.... Very solid build quality, not too big of a fan of the Matt finish though (can be slippery, take caution), but if you hate fingerprints no worries you wont see any of them on these puppies, for such a small case and well thick enough buds, they are surprisingly heavy, it's understandable though, there is so much tech packed in such a small form factor it's no wonder they are slightly heavy, I think it has to do with the magnets, the magnets on these are a huge step up compared to the past buds, very strong your buds will not fall off the case that easy you have to deliberately shake them VERY HARD in order to send them flying.... As for the buds themselves well, they are pretty comfortable, somewhat, idk maybe I'm just going crazy but these are not exactly perfect fit I feel like the first gen buds had the right fit for me, these overtime start to hurt my ears a little bit, never had this problem with the older buds so idk guess it has to do with my ears, I think I just need bigger rubber tips and the largest ones that it came with are just not large enough to provide a better seal, why can't I use my older tips from my first gen buds? or even other tips that are out there? I just don't understand why Samsung didn't make the tips universal on these buds, these tips have a weird proprietary, idk, is connection the right word? anyways, the tips that it came with are solely and only for these buds so do not lose em, I cant find any replacements for these, eBay has some, but they are those foam ones and I don't like the foam ones...way to pull an Apple Samsung....why on earth was that a good idea? just make them universal so I can easily replace these things whenever I want...anyways moving along (sorry that was just a gripe I had) Controls seem pretty straight forward, if you are coming from the original buds like me you will become instantly familiar with them....tap once pause, tap twice skip track, tap three times previous track....you get the idea.... (I only had these buds for like two days so sadly I haven't been able to test call quality with these, mainly I have just been using them for music, as intended) In conclusion, there is alot more to these buds I can go on about but in all honesty this will turn into a very long review so I'm just gonna go straight to the point...ahem....BUY THESE....even if you have to use a credit card just, just buy them they are that good and worth every penny....not even the Air-pods Pro can step up with these buds not to mention 50 dollars cheaper and much more up to date technology that's being offered to you, in other words more bang for your buck, you can't go wrong with these and if you are an audiophile trust me, you will want these.....
Top critical review
3 people found this helpful
Great idea! Poor Execution, uncomfortable!
By Big Daddy on Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2021
First off, I was excited to get these buds. On paper they have everything I was looking for. In order of importance for me. 1) Sound Quality. 3/5 Though better than most buds, these fall very short in comparison to my Bose Soundsport Earbuds. The bass was better than the buds+ but not near the full sound that you would expect for $200. They were also very quiet if I paired them with anything but the Samsung phone. My Macbook pro wouldn't play loud enough to understand a movie. The sound was much more full, louder with more bass if the ANC was on compaired to off. Even if there was zero ambient noise. 2) Comfort/Fit. 1/5 This was by far my biggest complaint. I could not get these to fit correctly, they hurt the inner canal of my ear after about an hour of wearing I could feel my ears hurt a full 24 hrs later, so much that I dreaded putting them in my ears again. Also, I couldn't get them to stay in, they would fall out while chewing gum, talking or just walking around. I almost lost them on an airplane luckily the bud detector in the app helped me find them. 3) Ease of use/Features 2/5. Though the features in principle are very useful, it rarely worked like it should in practice. Buds would not detect that they were both in my ear, often wouldn't allow the ANC to turn on. Button was difficult to get to work like it should, tapping twice would often pause instead of skip, sometimes a tap would turn the bud off, it would think my ear was pushing the button. Frustrating while running. 4) Water resistance. 5/5, tried showering with these in twice, if water got inside the bass driver it would silence the bass until it was cleared out. Once dry, it worked just as good as new. 5) Long Battery life. 4/5 the battery life was very good, charged fast, I had a problem with the right bud dying about 20 minutes before the left bud but other than that, the life was long. 6) ANC, 2/5 the ANC is kindof a joke, first they don't fit well enough to block out much noise but there was very little difference in the amount of noise I heard while on the plane with the ANC on or off. Samsung has tuned these to bass boost and sound different when the ANC is turned on. I wonder if this is just a gimic to make everyone THINK there is ANC. 7) Voice detection to turn on ambient noise. 3/5, this is a feature I hadn't thought of until I got these, this is a cool idea that detects vibrations in your jaw to mute music and turn on ambient noise mice in case you're talking to someone. In practice it hardly EVER worked when I wanted it to, but always misfired. Talking to people would RARELY 1/10 times turn it on, 9/10 times it would be activated by clearing my throat, spitting while running, coughing, it got so annoying I turned it off. 8) Voice/call quality 5/5, call quality is the best I've ever experienced with buds or any other mic. Samsung got this right. People I speak to say they work better than my Bose and Jabra headphones
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