N5 Hybrid

For under $150, without hesitation, the AKG N5 hybrid (currently €137 in France) with native dongle or the HEAVYS Wireless EarBuds (maybe a little above your budget)

My favorite higher end for sound quality, build quality, ANC/transparency, features, and mic quality? AKG N5 Hybrid. My favorite mid-range all around? Probably Steelseries Gamer Buds Artic X. Another good all-around are the Jlab Epic Lab. Let me know if you want them, I'm trying to sell them and I can post them on hardware swap. Best deal? Sony Inzone buds. I think you can still find these used for under $60, sometimes under $50. I wouldn't spend a full $200 price for brand new though. Best budget? Anker P10. New they are around $60, used they are around $30.

You are right about everything. I have a pair of AKG N5 hybrid. I'm ready to sell them, probably going on hardwareswap later this week. Great for my Rog Ally X. But I feel like the Gamerbuds are better at being "all in one" when also connecting them to my phone. Easy to switch between devices, fully customizable buttons, longer battery life when connected to dongle. They got some advantages. But these two are my two favorite. Can't wait to try the Rog open Cetra later this month.

I can't figure out out how to customize the AKG touch controls. It's either pause, next, forward, or it has to be sound mode, mic toggle, voice mode; there's no in-between. That part is frustrating because I like to use one bud at a time sometimes, and I can't use the controls I want to on them.

AKG n5 Hybrid are in sale and are very good earbuds. I got one for 130 Euro and for this Price unbeatable. Top for Music and good ANC plus 2.4 usbc dongle in the Box. I User them for Steam Deck and Switch. They are Overall the best for my usecase.

Tried many wireless buds. Sony Inzone, Gamebuds, Sennheiser Momentum 4 paired with the sennheiser aptx dongle, vr p10s. The AKG’s are the best. They are the only pair that executes all of the features I wanted well. Great ANC, great sound, low Latency, earbuds not headphones, serviceable built in mic, small case, no connectivity issues. None of the others achieved this. The only things these don’t have on the others is battery life. About 6 hours connected to dongle with ANC on for the AKGs, which is plenty for me anyways. The closest runner up was the gamebuds, but the AKG’s beat them in ANC and sound quality.

I guess it depends on what you prioritize. Would rather have the better ANC and sound quality of the AKG’s over the gamebuds’ other features. I would add that it is easy to toggle the AKG’s between your phone and dongle via the app and you can map a gesture to them for that I am pretty sure I an extremely impressed with the AKG’s and I’m surprised they’re not more popular. Brands like AKG, Audio Technica etc. don’t really do a ton of marketing is the only explanation

AKG N5 Hybrid - needed noise cancelling ear buds that wouldn’t fall out while working out, they were about 60% off on sale and easily my best value option. Shokz OpenRun - I use these to listen to podcasts at work, and sometimes at home, so I can still hear my surroundings.