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Reddit Reviews
SirBadylzGrabuMan, check out edifier, the are always cooking with earbuds! I personally have used neobuds pro for 3 years but the battery went kaput, now I am using edifier neobuds plus and they are sick
No_Wonder_3838Yet the wf-1000xm5 sounds like shit plus the build quality sucks too for its price. I've bought one, sold it back within a week and settle for Technics AZ80. Even my backup Edifier Neobuds 3 sounds better and have better build quality at half the price. Seems to me Sony just give their half baked to attention to their earbuds/headphones section nowadays. Even previous models at least have better sound and build quality.
ObajanAnecdotal information but for earbuds. I bought a RM300+ Edifier Neobuds a few years ago which recently went bust. I bought a few replacements in the sub RM150 range and they all disappoint and I'm not willing to spend a few hundred more on brands I'm not sure I'll like. So I went and bought the Neobuds 2 and was happy with it.
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