- The Soundcore Life A1 have just arrived
and they are bringing some solid features for the low price.
Excellent sound quality, big bass, long battery
and extremely comfortable.
If you're interested in checking these out
hit the links in the description box right down below.
And if you have any questions
or concerns about the way that I receive
or review any of these products on my channel
check out the full disclosure that I'm a leave
for you down there as well.
So let's get straight into it.
So first let's talk about their connection.
So these are running Bluetooth 5.0
along with SBC and AAC as their connection codecs.
As far as latency, when watching videos, YouTube, Netflix
things of that nature, there's going to be little
to no latency to be experienced both
on Android and iOS devices.
Now, when it comes to gaming
if you're just playing casual games, Asphalt 9
Clash of Clans, things of that nature,
not going to be a problem.
But where you will experience a little bit of latency
is if you're going to play
in any high-performance first person shooters
Call of Duty, Pub G, things like that.
You might want to look elsewhere
If latency is a problem for you.
Then as far as Bluetooth range
that's basically where you can leave your phone
and walk away while wearing the earbuds.
These ear buds are going to be bringing you 11 meters
or 36 feet worth of range.
And then last but not least
these also feature dual connect or independent usage mode.
And that's where you can use one individually
while the other one is charging.
And then when you want to switch
you can swap them out seamless connection.
The music just keeps playing and you're good to go.
Next, let's move over to the battery life.
So as far as battery is concerned
this is actually pretty impressive.
So these are bringing you 35 hours in the case
which is just around three to four recharges
on the earbuds themselves.
Now they were claiming nine hours worth
of battery life on a single charge.
In my own personal testing
I managed to pull eight hours and 24 minutes at 75% volume.
So overall that battery life is legit.
And on top of that, these do have that fast charge function.
So 10 minutes on a charger is going
to give you an additional one
and a half hours worth of playback time.
As far as recharging the case itself,
you have two options.
You've got USB-C
and you've got wireless charging on these earbuds.
That's something I didn't expect but here we are.
Overall the case
and the earbuds themselves feature the anchor standard
for build quality.
So nothing feels cheap
nothing feels like crappy materials or workmanship.
Everything is top-notch.
So now let's move over to the comfort and the controls.
So overall, as far as comfort is concerned
this is highly subjective.
Obviously everybody's ears are different.
So user experience may vary, but for me and my big ears
these are actually quite comfortable.
Now they have a tip and wing design.
So they do include a bunch of different ear tips
and they have three different sizes of wings.
So just based on your ear
you've got to choose the right one.
So if you do get these just like any other earbuds,
take five minutes
try the different ear tip sizes
to make sure you get a good seal
and try the different wing sizes
to make sure you get that proper grip
so these don't go anywhere.
When you get the proper sizing going,
these things fit perfectly.
And the really nice thing about that
is it actually improves performance
and sound quality
because when you have them seal in your ear correctly,
you get really good passive noise isolation
from these earbuds.
Overall, the comfort for me has been excellent.
There hasn't been any issues
with ear fatigue or anything like that.
So, so far very, very good.
On top of that, these are also feature
a full IPX7 water resistance rating.
So these can definitely take a splash.
You can walk around in the rain
not going to be any problems with water messing these up.
So if you want to use them for workouts,
they're going to have you covered for that as well.
And then as far as their control scheme,
so these do have full controls, but they are buttons.
Thankfully, the buttons aren't too difficult to press
but I do highly recommend you use the pinch
and hold technique.
Otherwise you're gonna be jamming them
straight into your ears.
So for some people, that can be a drawback
but overall it does work very well.
Like I said, you do get full controls,
play pause, volume up and down,
skip track forward and back
along with the three EQ modes, when you do a triple tap.
So pretty good and complete controls here.
So now let's move over to the performance of these earbuds.
So as far as volume is concerned,
I'm going to be giving these an eight and a half out of 10.
So these get more than loud enough for me,
comfortable listening coming in right
around 70 to 75%, sometimes 80%, depending on the track.
But for me as per usual, the better the seal that I get
the lower the volume that I listen at.
It's trying to protect my hearing here.
And then as far as sound quality is concerned.
Now these do have three EQ modes
and that's built straight into the earbuds.
Sadly, they don't get any access to the Soundcore app
but at least they did give you three options for EQ.
Now these options are as follows.
Firstly, you get the Soundcore signature sound,
bouncy bass boosted.
Very nice.
Then you get the bass boost mode.
And this is just like...
The best way I can describe this to you is just dummy bass.
Like it's so much bass these things straight rumble.
If you're a bass head, dude, they have got you covered.
It is ridiculous.
And then the last one,
they call it their podcast voice mode.
And this is where it gives you a mid range boost
to bring out more vocal clarity.
Now that third mode is probably my favorite
because to me it's the most versatile.
Sometimes there's a lot
of music where you don't want to have overly boosted bass.
You want to be able to hear the instrumentation
or if you listen to a lot of audio books, the way that I do,
then this is a really good mode to listen to.
Now, just to do a really quick segue.
If you listen to audio books the way that I do
I'm going to leave a link to Audible
right down in the description box down below.
And that's where you can get a free trial.
If you haven't tried it out
it's something I highly recommend.
I rarely have time to really sit down and open
and read a physical book,
but I'll tell you right now,
I listen to a ton of audio books,
especially zombie fiction things of that nature.
That's really what I'm into.
Now, mind you, this is not a sponsored video.
Audible is not sponsoring me.
What I'm leaving down there is just an affiliate link.
So if you're interested in checking that out for yourself,
I will get a kickback off that.
If you do decide you want to support the channel.
So just wanted to make that clear 100% transparency.
Those are the three different EQ modes.
They work very, very well, but like I said,
that podcast voice is my favorite.
But if you're a bass head,
that bass boost mode, man, let me tell you.
But overall, the sound quality
even in just the signature mode,
these things thump
like they straight up thump and good mids, neutral.
They're not reassessed.
And then you've got some nice clarity in the treble.
So overall,
this is exactly what I would have expected from Soundcore.
I always go into them
with good expectations and they don't let me down.
I'm not sure who sound core has tuning their stuff
but these, I mean, considering the price tag
these are easily going to rank in the top five under $60
for true wireless earbuds based on just sound quality alone.
But when you factor in the comfort
when you factor in the built-in EQ modes,
when you factor in the long battery life,
then these are really, really going to be tough to beat.
But now before we go, let me go ahead
and hit you with some call quality samples.
So you can see how
that microphone quality is going to work for you
both indoors and outside.
So let's jump over to that.
All right.
And here we have the call quality tests
for the Soundcore Life A1 indoors kinda quiet
not too quiet in here, but indoors,
this is what these are gonna sound like.
So testing, testing one, two, three.
All right.
So here we have the call quality tests
for the Soundcore life A1.
So testing, testing one, two, three outdoors
as you can tell
and it's actually a pretty breezy and windy days.
So this should make for a good test.
So testing, testing one, two, three.
Now with all of that out of the way, if you're interested
in checking out more videos on earbuds or headphones
check out the videos
I'm gonna leave right up here on the screen.
With all that said, I'm out.
Peace.