SAMSUNG Galaxy Buds2 True Wireless Earbuds, Graphite

I use these in an office to drown out chatter.

Sometimes I don’t even play music, I’ll just have them in if I need to concentrate. The ANC works well enough to block a good amount of sound.
You can still here surrounding noise, but it’s greatly reduced.

When I do play music, I can pretty much zone out to the point where I wont here people talking to me. And I don’t need to have them excessively loud. The lower volumes are loud enough with ANC.

The controls can be bit hit and miss sometimes, but it usually only ever takes one or two extra tries to find where to tap.

The pass through feature is actually quite nice. I use it when chatting to people to save taking them out all the time. It can sound a bit robotic/tinny when it’s active though, but it works well enough.

Overall, I’m really happy with them. They’ve been perfect for my office job, and I don’t go to work without them now.
I’ve even used them for travelling. Blocked out a good deal of plane noise on my last flight.

Would definitely recommend them.

The earbuds overall are wonderful. The sound is crisp and clear. I was hesitant after seeing some reviews mentioning discomfort and the earbuds easily falling out. I’ve used these all day every workday for seventeen days. I’ve fallen asleep with these things in my ears at night. I can say that I’ve had no issues with these things falling out. Quite the contrary. With the larger bud tips (don’t remember the exact name for ’em) these earbuds have stayed in my ears without issue. In fact, I’d say, when it comes to staying in, these earbuds are more reliable than any other earbuds I’ve had. They’ve stayed in through walking, running, exercise, tossing and turning in my sleep, you name it!

Now these earbuds do have a few bells and whistles that eat into the battery life. Of all the earbuds I’ve had, these ones definitely have the worst battery life. However, that’s not really saying much. The extensive battery lives of most wireless earbuds have set that bar very high. And while these particular earbuds didn’t quite clear that bar, the battery life is still more than adequate for me. I’ve never had issues with these things running out of juice on me. After four hours of near consistent use without recharging, the battery was still at 54 percent.

In any case, the tradeoff is worth it for me. I’m loving the active noise cancellation as well as the ambient sound mode. It’s so nice to be able to listen to someone without having to take out one earbud and hold it in your hand. Incidentally, I realized I could use ambient sound mode to filter out annoying sounds while listening to someone. For example, with ambient sound at medium volume, I could hear the voices of my peers just fine, but I didn’t hear the annoying hum of florescent lights.

The earbuds may not be the most user friendly. There aren’t really instructions that come with it. Just a QR code directing you to download the app. The app will then instruct you on how to use these. You do need to download the app to get these things working. It did trip me up at the beginning but once I figured it out, I actually grew to like the app. The app lets you control the ambient noise volume, locate your earbuds if you misplace them, and disable touch controls so you don’t accidentally pause or play whatever you’re listening to. There is an app available for windows computers (don’t know about macs). I use these on my pc as well as my android phone.

All in all, I’m happy with my purchase. If you don’t mind trading off some battery life for some nifty features, and don’t mind having to add an app to your phone to get your earbuds going, then I would highly recommend these

These are the best earbuds I’ve used so far. I used a set of akg n400’s before, but they were way too uncomfortable, fell out too easily, and battery life sucked. That could just be me and the fact I didn’t have the other silicone ear triangle things. Not sure these sound as good as the n400’s, but they sound very good.
Sound:
I like good audio, but I really don’t have a great ear for judging quality. That said, these sound great to me. They sound very similiar to the AKG N400’s perhaps with less bass.

Fit:
The buds2 fit in my ear very nicely with the included tips and I can wear them for around 9hrs without issues. They do fall out occasionall, but it’s usually easy to feel when they’re falling out and adjust them.

Battery:
The battery life on these is very impressive, as they often last 6-9hrs without charging in the case. For some reason the earbuds often drain their batteries unevenly, so you’ll end up with one dead and one with 20-30% charge still. The case battery is very good and I’ve never ran it empty before.

Case:
Honestly, the case is probably my biggest issue with these earbuds. Any light drop and the case will shoot out the tiny earbuds in a 360, and then the case will close itself. This makes it really easy to lose the earbuds and not notice because the case closed itself back up.

Buttons: It took me a few weeks of using the earbuds to appreciate the touch controls. Now it works fairly reliably. The app also gives you a lot of controls for the buttons.

Noise Cancellation/Ambient Sound: Noise cancelling is pretty good. Not amazing but good. Some static is audible when using it. Ambient sound is okayish. It picks up on a lot of unwanted background noises like fan noise and doesn’t pick up on people’s speech well. Both of these features are made worse by what I talk about below.

Other issues. Perhaps the most annoying issue is the earbuds have some sensor that detects if the earbud is in your ear. If it detects one earbud is not in your ear, it will disable noise cancelling or ambient sound until it detects them in your ear again. It’s a great idea but it malfunctions all the time if the earbuds aren’t perfectly seated in your ear. Meaning you’ll be adjusting them a lot if you use noise cancelling or ambient sound. The app seriously some spyware. I’ve never seen any app ask for more permissions and it won’t open if you deny most of them. I recommend you have some way to trick the app to deny permissions if you care about privacy. The main permissions you want to deny is location or it’s ability to connect to the internet if your phone can do that, unless you need its find my earbuds ability. Otherwise the app is pretty useful and leagues better than the AKG app.

Did not cheat 😁 performance and Quality is Perfect
Battery back is really very good
Sound Quality is fantastic
Really very easy to use
Value of our purchase is very useful
Battery life is long lasting