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I recently received the Soundcore Liberty 5. They are around 160 AUD and have transparency mode and active noise cancellation.
Don't know about other buds you mention. But definitely avoid 4nc. It's pretty decent sounding, but forget comfort. After 1-2 hours, your ear will sore badly. The chassis is bulky and protruding inside your ears. I'm using liberty 5 currently and am pretty satisfied with it. Still comfortable to use after a few hours. But it's quite more expensive.
I just had them on for 15 hours straight (Tokyo >> Germany flight). No issues with my small ears. I highly recommend to change the ear tips to Comply foam ones. Super comfy and felt even asleep in between while wearing them. Highly recommended.
I have both the Earfun Pro 4 and Soundcore Liberty 5, both are good. The Soundcore I think is slightly better.
Soundcore. I have Earfun Pro 4 and Liberty 5, but I liked the liberty 5 more. Though the Earfun aren't bad.
Every earbuds from Your list Has good anc. But 7i Huawei better than 6i. I would buy 3fe or Liberty 5 for anc
I wouldn't trust soundguys in this case. Anc Soundcore is better than cmf. Buy oneplus Buds 4, liberty 5 or soundpeats air pro5
I wouldn't trust soundguys in this case. Anc Soundcore is better than cmf. Buy oneplus Buds 4, liberty 5 or soundpeats air pro5
I think most of the difference from what I could tell was in the noise cancelling. The liberty 5 don't have noise cancelling.
I have 3 but are all different. Currently use the Soundcore Liberty 5 as my main earbuds or all rounders. Also have the Soundcore Space One Pro for my overhead headphones. Lastly are the Shokz Opendots One for jogging and bike riding.
Have you tried the new Liberty 5 buds yet? I LOVE Soundcore, you truly can't get a better pair of earbuds for the money in my opinion. I really like their app too. They added some new features in there for the Liberty 5. For example there's a new feature that enables Dolby surround sound and it sounds super cool. For talk by itself it can sound kind of like an echo. But for music and especially movies it is amazing. December is when I usually get the latest Soundcore earbuds and for the past 5 years or so they've never let me down. I'm SURE there are other good brands out there. The Nothing Ear Buds look intresting and I've seen ya'll talk about them a bunch. I'm sure even a good but expensive pair of some buds from Sony for example probably sound pretty good. But between 100-150 is sort of my cutoff. I want them to sound amazing, but I dont want to freak out if I lose an earbud because my earbuds 500 bucks! 😂
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