these are the soundpeats air4 lites they're like the air fours but they don't have the active noise
cancellation but we still have the 13 mm drivers and alac support yes they do support the AL codec
and they are high RAR wireless audio certified now on a single charge if you're just using the
SBC codec they'll go for up to 7 hours 30 hours in total with the case and on a single charge if
you use alac for the higher quality audio takes a bit of a hit on the battery like of course and
the runtime then is about 4 and2 hours now the microphones they do have six in total and we get
AI noise cancellation with those mics I'll be giving you a real world sample in this review
here of them and I'll give you my full pros and cons here of using the air4 lights and testing
them out in Berlin when I went over there for EPA 2023 and here's what you find in the box we have
of course the F4 lights there's a user guide in various different languages and this little card
here which is an introduction to the sound Pets app so these are very light really comfortable
with the half an a style and the weight of them is just 3 G the total travel weight with our
case is 38 G so the case is very similar to the air4 but it's a glossy black instead of a matte
black now I prefer the matte black because it doesn't show the fingerprints now we do have a
multi-point mode used with this button here that's also to reset them and they fit inside there're
really nice and there's magnets that hold them and keep them in place so if you close the lid
here that is close with the magnet it's not going to Rattle around if I give it a shake my little
rattle test you occasionally hear a little bit of noise but under normal circumstances having
this in my pocket I have not heard them rattling around like some keys in my pocket which would
be a little bit annoying so charge time is around about 2 hours for the case and the headphones and
you're looking at a up to 7 hours of run time on a single charge not using alac by the way
and then 30 hours in total with this case so the case quality is nice very good finish to it and
we have the sound pets branding on the back of it then now half in a style so they have three
microphones in total we have ai noise cancelling with the voice calls but there's no active noise
cancelling with these themselves capactive touch controls on the back surface here they do tend to
work quite well I haven't really had any issues with the controls they work about 9 out of 10
times which is pretty standard for the capacitive style charging contact points there right at the
bottom with the lower mic and the stem style makes the fit of these quite comfortable and
you can see they are labeled they either left or right and we have this little mesh that goes
over the front here now inside within this we have a 13 mm Dynamic Drive I'll get onto that
sound quality soon and they are high rares audio wireless certified we have the alac codec now the
alac codec it's pretty straightforward and I think most people know this but it depends on
the quality of the music you're going to listen to to get the benefits if you're just listening
to YouTube podcasts or lowquality MP3 files we're not going to hear the difference but if
you're listening to uh lossless Flack files High bit rate you will hear it with alac so by default
they'll be using a standard codec SBC and as I mentioned before I recommend this if you're just
listenting to lower quality there's no point using Al which it does support now to do this it's going
to power on and then back on again it's now in the high quality so with alac if you're listening to
lossless audio files super high quality Sy some fle files with a really good bit rate this is the
only reason to listen to that and you will hear it with the midst to highs certainly will not so
much the lows you're not going to really pick up on that but for me it's the details the christas
of the highs really opens up you don't hear that compression you normally get when you use alac but
there is a big trade-off battery life is severely hit and I'm talking about well 40% less or so I'd
be lucky to get 4 hours on a single charge out of these using the alac codec so for most users if
you're just watching something on Netflix then I would recommend turning it off and just keep with
the standard codec which is fine for those kind of needs for your podcasts streaming all that
kind of stuff and those old MP3s you have that are only 96 or 128 kilobits per second there's
no point using alac but using it now Al de with a 24bit file here a flack f with a real high bit
rate it does open up those highs as I was talking about and the mids things just seem to my ears to
be a little clearer a little less compression not everyone's going to be able to hear this
and it does depend a little bit on the genre of music I found that rock tracks especially
I would hear the highs and the mids coming through more just clearer and better using alac versus the
SBC codec now the tune out of the box with these they're not base heavy I always find this half in
air style to be a little lacking in Bas but with a 13 mm driver they're not bad with the base but
I feel that sound pets this time around has toned them down a little mids are good Highs are good
they're detailed and that alac support all for this price point including the top volume all
checks out very good for around the $40 40 Mark I think you can't go wrong with these if this is
the style you're after this is the application now from sound piz and it's straightforward I
like it I like its Simplicity I don't think it needs to be over the top so you can see right
here on first glance your battery life of each of the different earbuds there our iners or half
iners you can go over here into customization with our equalizer now I've just left it on the
sound Pet's classic that is what they always have by default so that's I'm reviewing it now we've
got game mode here you have the disabled all functions of the touch keys if you don't like
them you accidentally trigger them and you've got this option which is good a dual device connection
too as well you need to turn that on if you're going to be using it adaptive equalizer you can
go on that and you can adjust the volume from it now there is also custom equalizer that a lot of
people might like so if you just tap there you can go along and tweak that tweak up the bands
however you like you like a little bit more bass so hey let's just increase that a little bit I
think this sounds better to my ears like this increase up your treble your highs if you want
to so that's good and you can save that so it is an app that I think is good because it does
the job now there are firmware updates for them too as well so if they come through they'll push
them out you're able to reset them too using the app you see the option is right there so it's got
all that we kind of need I feel in an application why does it need to be over complicated no they've
kept things here quite simple and I like this I hope they stay this way and how about latency
with them is it an issue does the audio lag behind the visuals here the this is an episode of Vikings
Valhalla and everything is in time here I can happily say using the gaming mode now if I did
decide to game on it that is when I do notice a fraction of a delay that does happen with these
and it's pretty typical for Bluetooth audio it's just with gaming I really noticed the latency
otherwise with streaming video it's not a problem with these especially if you use that gaming mode
my example now and this is a real world test in Berlin I've got a lot of around me and I am
surprised at how well the ambient noise reduction with these mics is it blocks out all of the noise
you can barely hear any of it coming through but as a result I do sometimes feel that I sound a
bit tiny but without the noise cancellation removing the background noise you probably
couldn't even understand me at all because it's really loud all the background public noise
public places and I think it's doing a very good job here just a little tiny sounding that's all
the reason why you buy this St is for their comfort so very comfortable there's nothing
inside your air Canal you don't get that pressure buil up and I can wear these a lot longer than I
could in ears so I was in a Bluetooth noisy environment too as well on the plane in the
airport no disconnections with these no problems at all and from that mic sample I gave you when
you are somewhere that has a lot of people around a lot of ambient noise like train
stations airports on a flight or something like that not that you'd be placing voice calls on
a flight but perhaps when you're sitting in the plane before it takes off and you can still make
a call or something and handle it well it can do it there with those mics removing all that
background noise the only trade-off is as you heard my voice sounds a little artificial tiny
a tiny bit with the microphones now the sound quality from the 13 mm drivers out of them I
think is very good the base isn't straight out of the box with the sound piz classic uh really
super powerful but you can tweak it It Up With The Equalizer I feel the sound quality you get
out of these and the alac support is excellent considering the price tag these do sale for it's
around about $40 you're looking around the 40 EUR Mark and it's well worth it at this price
point to have all of these features and I feel these are certainly a lot better than the airpods
that you will get from Apple I think these are superior you're getting that Superior codec to
as well the trade-off is however the battery life will be almost half of what you get just
using SBC and for a lot of people SBC is fine of course if you're just watching uh Netflix or
YouTube or something like that or lower quality MP3s I would not bother but if you're someone
that has high quality Flack files 24bit then you will hear the difference using alac with
these so say thank you so much for watching my review here of the sound pet air4 lights