Hey, I'm JR, and I'm Jeff, and today we're gonna talk to you about our six favorite
pairs of true wireless earbuds that we carry here at Crutchfield. First let's go
over the six pairs of headphones we've chosen from right to left. The Apple
AirPods second-generation, the Klipsch T5 wireless and the Bose SoundSport Free.
Those are the three that I took home and spent some quality time with over these
last few days. You did these three here. This is the Sony? Sony WF-1000XM3
The Sennheiser Momentum True
Wireless, and the Jaybird Vista True Wireless. Let me talk about the Apple
AirPods second generation here for a moment.
For me, they kind of seemed like a really good all-around headphone. They sounded
great for music, would sound perfect for podcasts, and the call quality is
excellent on those. So of course they're made by Apple, I don't think there is a
easier pair in the bunch to pair to an Apple iPhone, which is what I have. So as
soon as I open the case, my phone said hey I see those earbuds, you want to
pair them with this phone? And I said yes. It couldn't be easier than that, and the
sound quality on them was great, I would say they don't really block
out external noise very well, which depending on your listening situation is
a good or bad thing. I was mowing grass so I could hear my lawnmower, but if I
was walking downtown in a city when I wanted to be able to be aware of my
surroundings, that would be a strength for those headphones and you can still
hear your music, still have good call quality, I really like those as an
overall good choice. Yeah you actually see them in most big cities...like I don't
say everybody, but everybody, then they have that H1 chip that was
sort of purpose-built for the iPhone, so if you have an iPhone they just work
seamlessly. And I tried them of course with music, with podcasts, as well as
watching videos. One of the issues with some Bluetooth headphones is that
there's a little bit of latency between the video you're watching on your phone
and the audio you're hearing on the headphones, not the case with those. That
H1 chip and because they're made by Apple for an iPhone, they there's no
latency at all, everything is timed perfectly. But maybe not the perfect
headphones for working out, I think you've got a pair that you might
call perfect for working out? Yeah, my choice for best true wireless headphones
for workouts are the Jaybird Vistas. Put them to the test, actually got them in the
hands of our head of Internet marketing Jay, and he's, oh yeah, he's a avid runner.
Runs marathons, does the treadmill about 30 miles a week, he says he's tried
several other sports headphones and no other sports headphones fit in or
stay in as well as the Jaybirds. And that's good not only because it's
annoying to have, you know, your headphones bounce around while you're in
the middle of running, but also it kind of gives you that tight seal that gives you
the better sound, and specifically the tighter bass.
I actually think these have the best bass of any of these headphones up here,
and any true wireless headphone I've heard yet. So part of what gives a
headphone like these where they've got to fit in your ear, good bass, is when
they make a good seal, and stay put. Yeah, and those were designed to do that.
Like that is their main purpose of in existence, those Jaybirds. Yeah. So yeah,
fantastic workout headphones. The next pair I had home, this is actually my
personal pair of headphones, I bought these, the Klipsch T5 Wireless, which I
think wins the award for best design, right? Check out that case. You actually
went to Klipsch, so got to talk to the folks that design these? Yeah, I
talked to the head of their headphone division Vlad Grodzinskiy, and also their
industrial designer, the guy that comes up with these and all those very cool
speaker designs that they have. What I think was really cool is not that they
didn't start with the style they started with the substance, they wanted something
that somebody could open with one hand and wouldn't fall out, and that's where
they started with, they along the way they said, oh this looks
like a ZIppo, let's really turn into... let's double down, yeah, so I can attest
to the sound quality on these. I've been wearing them now for the last couple
weeks. When they are all the way in, there was no better sound quality for me.
Strongest bass, and of course with the Klipsch that you know, they're known for
their horn tweeters, they're really sort of in-your-face loud, live rock-and-roll
sort of feel, and you absolutely get that with these
headphones when they're all the way in. Plenty of bass. I did find that if I'm
moving around a bunch they don't always stay all the way in my ear. I never feel
like they're gonna fall out, but they don't quite stay put enough where I have
all the bass, so if I'm moving around a lot I'm probably not choosing those. If
I'm sitting there listening to music, I'm commuting to work, just sitting at home
doing whatever, maybe I'm at my desk at work and I want to jam out, these are
perfect because they will stay put and they will give you that full bass. It
does come with three pairs of silicon tips. It's important to get the right
size for your ear, and once you got the fit figured out the sound quality is
amazing. Battery life on these is fantastic,
so I think you get like eight hours on a charge plus the case has several more
charges to back you up so you can go for a long time with these just sitting in
your backpack with plenty of battery. Most battery you'll find out
of all of these, and it actually kind of underscores again Klipsch's attention to
detail. They they could have rushed out a pair of true wireless headphones years
ago, but this is their very first one, they waited because they wanted the
performance of those chips and of all the technology to catch up with their
standards. Yeah, speaking of performance Bluetooth 5.0, and so when I tried
watching videos on my phone with these, no latency whatsoever, they were right
there, the audio in the video was synced up nice. So really high-performance
headphones, make sure they fit good in your ear and you won't be
disappointed. Probably the point we should make is that the gap is closing a
little bit with the AirPods, we talked about how seamlessly they work with the
iPhone and how reliable they are, a lot of these newer models have gotten more
refined and they don't have the dropout issues that you had, you know, in the
earlier generations true wireless headphones. Yeah, that Bluetooth has
gotten better it makes a stronger connection, so less likely to get
dropouts. Now yeah, you had the Sennheisers, I hear they sound pretty
good, huh? Yeah, these are the best sounding true wireless headphones I've
heard, like you said with the Klipsch it is important to get a good seal. When I
first put them in I didn't quite get a good seal, but they have enough tips in
there that I could move them around and got the outside the head sound, which
you may not expect when you're shoving earphones into your ears you
might expect it to be kind of between the ears, but this was a like a large
soundstage, precise imaging, detailed highs, good bass, everything that
you want out of a pair of headphones, you know. It's no surprise. I mean,
Sennheiser's been making microphones that have gone into the most professional
studios across the world for many many years, they've been making
headphones for almost as long, and they're some of the best headphones you
can get anywhere, so it's no surprise that they would make an in-ear truly
wireless headphone that sounds fantastic. Yeah, one complaint would maybe be the
controls, the touch controls, there's a little bit of a learning curve.
Once you master it it's not too bad, but there are times even today after you
know, once I'm using them where I'll hit the button the wrong way and it'll skip
a track or that kind of thing. When the track is playing, there's no better.
Alright, next for me was the Bose SoundSport Free. Now I have an advantage
with these, I actually own a pair of wired Bose SoundSport headphones, as
well as a pair of the Bose SoundSport with the wire that connects your left
and your right here, so this would be my third pair, and these are the only ones
with zero wires whatsoever. And so I kind of had a feeling that they were gonna
fit really good into my ears, and right out of the box they did. It was just a
familiar fit, so if you've used Bose SoundSport headphones in the past
these are gonna feel exactly the same except better, because there's no wires
hanging off, and I think they're perfect for workouts because they do stay put,
they resist water, which is the same water from rain, from sweat, all of that,
so whatever whatever adverse conditions they have to deal with because you're
wearing them in a workout situation, they'll deal with just fine. So they feel
good, they fit good, they sound good all around. I played music, I played podcasts,
they sound great for all of that, and they do a fairly good job of
blocking out a lot of the external noise. Now they're not noise cancelling, and
they don't claim to be, but just because of the way they fit in your ear, pretty
good at blocking out the loudest of annoying sounds around you. Yeah, it's
sort of that happy medium between the AirPods and the ones that go further
into your ear canal. They rest on kind of inside of the ear, had that
super soft fit, but they do create a better seal than you get from the AirPods.
Oh yeah, and they got that little wing that sort of sits right up here in
that little part of your ear that that holds them in
place. I will say I tried watching videos with everything, and with some videos I
did notice a little bit of latency on them so if that was your primary goal
was to watch videos with Bluetooth headphones in, I probably would choose
many of the others that don't have really any latency issues whatsoever, but
if working out and overall performance is important, those Bose SoundSport
Frees are a great choice. Yeah, we've kind of beat around the bush
a bit a little bit about noise isolation versus noise cancellation, this is the
only one here, the Sony WF-1000XM3 that has active noise cancellation. They're
actually one of the few out there in the market that has them. So noise isolation
is when the earphone, the way it fits in your ear, it just physically blocks noise
from getting into your ear. Noise cancellation is when it's actively
trying to cancel out the noise of the outside world and prevent it from
getting in there at all. Yep, using actual like processing. Yeah,
and it's not that it's one of the only games in town, also that's really good
processing. This is the same noise canceling technology that you'll find in
the over-ear WH-1000XM3 which are some of the best noise cancelling
headphones we've heard that yeah, they're right up there with the Bose
QuietComfort. Right, they've really performed well, but of course they do
because they're able to cover your entire ear, make a good seal around your
head. They're a little bigger, they have bigger microphones on them, pretty
hard to do noise cancelling in such a small thing that fits in your ear.
Yeah, and if you try the over-ears it's not going to be the same level of
noise cancellation, but it does a really good job and actually can can knock out
not only some of those constant low rumbles of the HVAC and airplane drone
and that kind of thing, but also every once a while, you know, can keep the the
conversations in the background in the background. They sound really good,
they're sophisticated, I actually had to bump the bass up a little bit for my
taste, but that's kind of one of the cool things is that you can use that app to
adjust, it's a downloadable app for iPhone or Android that you can
use to adjust the sound and even some of the noise cancellation and an even
quarter you're talking about when you're out and about there's an awareness mode
that you can use those internal microphones that they use for
the noise canceling to kind of hear what's going on on
outside. So that's our favorite six pairs of truly wireless in earbud headphones.
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