SoundPEATS - Air4 Lite

I am a sales rep and on my phone a LOT. Best bang for the buck I have found is the “soundpeats air4 lite”. Sound better than my apple airpods, and don’t junk up over time. These are my go to for everyday phone call use.

I tried my SoundPeats Air4 but for some odd reason there’s a major delay and I haven’t been able to fix it.

If you don’t want to have ear pain wearing it for more than 30 minutes than go for Soundpeats Air5. I am using air4 and you don’t even feel you have it simply plugged into your ears. It’s light and doesn’t have rubber tips that makes your ears itchy.

Instead of looking for the best "open earphones" that usually have at best iffy sound quality you'd be better off looking at modern earbuds that are typically called flatheads nowadays to distinguish themselves from IEM and TWS options. Sound quality has come a long way from the cheap junk that used to come with MP3 players and there are a lot of affordable options to choose from with a wide array of sound signatures. Your best bet to narrow down your options would be to post on the [Earbuds Round-up thread](https://www.head-fi.org/threads/earbuds-round-up.441400/) with your preferred sound signature and music tastes as it's one of the best sources for flathead reviews and impressions that I've found. A good budget set that's well-rounded is [OpenHeart's Nightingale](https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804183827824.html) which is one of the cheapest flatheads with a removable cable and punches way above its weight in terms of bang for buck. You likely won't find a lot of TWS flatheads as I can only think of two: Moondrop's Block which has a warm sound signature but poor sound quality and Smabat's S2 Pro which has a very bright and harsh signature. Your best bet would be to find a flathead with a removable cable that has your preferred sound signature and use adapters such as TRN's BT30 Pro or Fiio's UTWS5 2025 to turn them into TWS flatheads. There are some semi in-ear TWS earbuds from SoundPeats that sound good but they will block your ear canal so they'll likely have the same problem that IEMs do but if you want to give them a try then SoundPeats' Air4 (not the Lite) is a good option for the money. Just make sure to turn on ANC and go through the custom sound profile setup as by default they don't have a lot of bass.

I still use the Comfobuds as my keep in the pocket pair, for the comfort, unobtrusiveness, and speed of connection after removing them from the case. They have developed an issue where sometimes they'll wake up inside their case and connect to my phone when I don't want them to. For my home listening I use a pair of Soundpeats Air buds. The music quality is better and being open air I still feel "present" in the room and can sing along without sounding weird. My work pair is now some Linkbuds S. They have good call and music quality and really excellent active and more importantly passive noise isolation, along with low latency mode I can game with. Their downside is they stick out a bit far from my ears. I tried Bose QC 2s and hated them. 

Just tried my linkbud s ones again,anc is rubbish,my old jabra elite 4 active are better,now prefer half ear ones like soundpeats air, everyone is different that's why we have so many to choose from 😀

Just got them yesterday. Much better than my Samsung Buds+. I listen to audiobooks and music from my phone. Today I was at Dunkin and it's a noisy place with their music and A/C. The ANC did a nice job of blocking it all out. 10% coupon at Amazon make these hard to pass up.

been using these for a bit too. anc’s honestly better than i expected, blocks out the usual office noise and people talking around me pretty well.

I like these but prefer the Capsule3 Pro+. The xMEMS high frequency drivers give my ears the shimmering crispy highs I need. More comfortable for me too. Either one is a great value. Our ears are all different.

They suck. Only the sound quality is a bit decent.

Honestly, not as good as I was expecting.

Been using sound peats. I recommend their anc