(NEW) SAMSUNG Galaxy Buds 2 Pro True Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds

These are quite possibly the most expensive, worst earbuds I've ever purchased in my life. I own the original Galaxy buds, which are fantastic. They stay in my ears, they seal well and have great sound because of the fit and drivers. The originals pair easily with my Motorola phone and the app works fine. Regular updates kept them working and up-to-date. I even accidentally left the case with the earbuds inside of them outside on a summer night when it rained, the next day I thought I was sunk. I took them in, dried them off and they've been working fine 2 years later... The original Galaxy buds are that good. For me the originals were missing one or two things that I thought would make it worth the upgrade. Active noise cancellation was huge for me and the originals do not have this. I like to use my earbuds outside in the summer doing yard work like cutting the lawn weed whipping and things like that... I sweat profusely and need something that's resistant to water and sweat. They also have to stay in my ears as I'm actively moving around on a lawn, where if one were to fall out good luck to me finding it... I was also interested in the sound pass thru feature that lets you hear ambient sound, if you wish while wearing the buds, the originals have this but it is not in stereo, so it does not help you if you were walking on the street or riding a bike. You would hear a car coming but could not distinguish the direction. These 2 Pros have stereo pass thru. Anyway, on Amazon Prime, garage sale day I decided to go ahead and pick these up for almost $200 (I know what was I thinking?)... I was excited for the upgrades. The headphones came and I immediately noticed something that I had not researched before, these headphones are not actually made by Samsung engineering, they are made by AKG. AKG happenes to make headphones for studio applications and they usually have a very flat, tinny or shrill response that I've never liked. This was a bad sign... I paired the earbuds to the phone using the same app as the originals and all went well. After an update I was ready to give them a shot. The earbuds would not stay in my ears. Try as I might they slipped and slid and they kept falling out of my ears. This is frustrating because it's purely down to the design of the shallow ear canal, speaker. I have no idea why they would have gone with a different shape as the earbuds now only barely sit in the ear canal. The speakers do not seal no matter which ear tips I tried as the earbuds came with three different silicone sizes. The design of these headphones is baffling. A quick Google search will point out that this is a very common problem that I was not aware of before I purchased them, and people will recommending purchasing aftermarket tips to solve this problem. After spending this much on a pair of earbuds, no way am I going to start looking for fixed to their major design flaws, spending more money and time in the process. The Samsung Wear app even has a setting that helps you test, to see you when you have a good seal on the earbuds which I could not attain unless I violently jammed them in my ears, to which they only stayed sealed for maybe 30 seconds before they started coming out and just plopped out of my ears every single time. Wrestling the earbuds into your ears is an exercise and frustration as every time you touch the stupid things you activate some setting or pause a song or switch to the next song or mute them or try to make a call... It's infuriating! After 20 minutes of a balancing act and attempting to get the earphones to stay in my ears, with a good seal, I finally was able to get them to stay for just a few seconds while I not moving at all. This was not going to work outside, but I wanted to test some of the other features. This led me to testing the active noise canceling which although the app told me I had a good seal did absolutely nothing but to block out only the slightest breeze of the AC in the house. It failed to even block out the fault hum of the washing machine, running in my laundry room. What?! When using something like a lawn mower or a leaf blower these will do 100% absolutely nothing. I am positive the attempt to block out the sound of airplane engines would also be futile with this extremely wimpy "noise canceling"... This is a major disappointment and as far as I'm concerned false advertising. I decided to give the sound a shot just to hear how they reproduce music that I've listened to for years with no issues on my original Galaxy buds which I think sound great. Just as I feared, typical AKG, no matter which setting I chose the highs are so hyped they tickled my eardrums in the most unpleasant of ways, irritating me to the point where I had to literally turn the music down to the lowest volume to be able to bear the shrill, high-pitched highs. I tried every EQ setting they offer and not one of them took away this ridiculous high-pass. Complete and utter, $200 fail! I honestly can't express how disappointed I am in these things and would urge anyone to simply stay away. These are a huge disappointment and have soured me from Samsung audio products. How could they get it so right the first time around and totally doo-doo the bed, with these?! TLDR Terrible sound quality, horrible fit, ridiculously ineffective active noise canceling, huge unwarranted price tag. Total garbage.