these are the hi-fi airs they're some anc earbuds from a company called fiitii they've got
10 millimeter drivers and a run time on a single charge of up to six hours a transparency mode and
with that anc you do have various different levels there's also microphone noise cancelling for
improved voice calls and you do get 30 additional hours from the case so in this video i'll go over
their design how they sound to me what the latency of them is like and a microphone sample along with
all the pros and cons i've encountered in my now over a week using the hi-fi ears from fiti
inside the box of the hi-fi ears you will find two extra large silicon tips two large and then
two small and some filters so what is missing is a type c cable we normally do see this included
but they haven't included it here there is an operation guide included which is very handy it
goes over the connection and then most importantly the touch controls how to reset them and then how
those status leds on the front of the case work okay size is good it will fit in some of those
smaller pockets that you get within the jeans the jeans pocket might just fit in that now what looks
like a button here on the front of it isn't you press this and it does nothing it's actually hard
solid plastic so we've got our status added leds and they will tell us the remaining battery life
so the official claim from fiti is that you'll get 30 hours from the case and then six hours from the
earbuds now that's the anc off times that they're quoting there so with ansi on it's more like just
under five hours from the earbuds so a little bit less there but it's not too bad so we have
a magnet that keeps that lid closed and if i give it a shake nothing's really rattling and it hasn't
scratched up yet now i've been all the way to france and back around about 3 000 kilometers with
this and no scratches nowhere nowhere or scuff marks or anything that i can see on these earbuds
so the earbuds aren't actually labeled left or right which is slightly annoying now a lot of
people probably say well you don't need that but it's handy when sometimes you've got them
mixed up and you go to put one in the incorrect side but they are easy very easy to fit in there
so there's the pogo port charging pins in there magnets that hold them into place they slot in
quite nicely and if you do happen to swap out the tips and use some foam tips they won't fit so
unfortunately like most brands that if you do use third party your own tips for them foam tips they
probably won't actually fit in the case there so nice feeling lid overall okay plastics and there
is our type c port charge time is around about an hour and a half at just one amp five volts
our weight of these earbuds is excellent they are the typical four grams that most earbuds are and
the total weight you're looking at around 50 to 51 grams that it sometimes displays on my scales
the hi-fi ears have the stem style to them now i do actually like this design with the stem here
that means we've got a point where the microphone can get a little bit closer to our mouse and then
you've got the charging points at the bottom but not really because of that because of the steam
here that fits into that part of your air and it means that they are very comfortable to fit
and they don't feel like they're going to fall out on me at all you can in fact jump around
you can run and jog with these and they should fit in your ears as long as you've got a good
seal with the silicon tips here now these silicone tips i've been using them now for a week uh with
my trip up to france and wearing them for a long period sometimes at night and then falling asleep
with them they haven't softened up which is good now they do have a slightly firmer inner to them
they're very easy to remove the tips but can be quite difficult to get them back on a little bit
fiddly but that's normal so they're a very tight fit they shouldn't fall off if you accidentally
hook them on something you don't get them pulled off now i like the fact that we've got the
the transparent part there so you can see of course that 10 millimeter driver that's in there
and we've got the capacitive touch controls on the surface here it tends to be sometimes a little hit
and miss but not as bad as other brands and we do have voice feedback so it's a ladies voice with
an american accent that sometimes isn't quite loud enough and there's a microphone there and
just touching these plastics there are no sharp edges so good quality plastics here that they have
used vt so the sound signature of these the default tune so out of the factory that's always
how i test with a flat equalizer to make sure that there's nothing going to interfere with them
they've definitely gone with a tune that is what i would call not balance but favoring more
rock they haven't gone over the top with the bass which for me is good so many brands will just
simply go in and just up the bass and it just sounds to me a little bit too powerful
so they've toned it back a little bit however there will be some people i'm sure out there
maybe a comment in this video that would say hang on i find the bass to be lacking in these
and well you're probably right if you're going off the default tune however graphic equalizer
go on just bump up those lows a little bit and then actually you can get some pretty powerful
well decent bass coming out of these vocals sound good mids are good no real problem with them issue
highs are good they're not exceptionally crisp or detailed or anything like that
overall people are going to be happy with the tune here of the hi-fi ears the only criticism for me
they could probably be a little bit louder but at the same time there's no clipping or distortion
when you do push that volume up nice and high now if you're wondering about the codec it's running
well if i go in here and take a look it's running on the aac codec with this there is no aptx
support because well it's not using a qualcomm chipset connection speed typical bluetooth 5.2
it is very quick so if you do also watch a little bit of streaming online video content for example
netflix amazon prime video disney plus then be prepared for possible latency issues depending
on the device now i've noticed here that with my huawei with its kirin 9005g chip here this is the
mate x2 that it can sometimes be a fraction of a second out but it's not at the point where it's
annoying or that bad that i just couldn't watch videos on it now with the xiaomi 12s ultra or the
xiaomi 12 pro that i have here it seems to be spot on perfect no issues at all with the latency and
then with an apple device which is just down here my iphone 13 pro max it's not so good i'm noticing
quite a bit of a delay when viewing online content microphone sample now so i am recording directly
into the timeline of my video editor and this microphone quality has surprised me i think
it's quite good it doesn't sound all muffled so they have a fan in the background and a towel pc
and you really can't hear it which is good now on to the fitting of these that it's a solid secure
fit that when you get them in give them a little bit of a twist put them in because they've got the
stem design they're not going anywhere i really do like the stem design for that very reason that
it's just a more secure fit it doesn't feel like it's going to drop out with some of the other
ones but you're more rounded you often feel like you need to keep pushing them in especially when
you start running or jogging but no these ones i think will be fine for jogs and running up the
stairs like things like that not full-on sports probably not but they are a really good secure fit
so there's a couple of surprises with these hi-fi ears and one is the microphone quality
that sampler they just gave you before very good the other is the anc on these is actually
way better than i thought they were going to be and that's been happening recently with a lot
of these brands that they seem to be improving on their tech or the techniques that they're using to
really block out those ambient noises so things like um fans just humming of engines and things
very good and definitely above average when it comes to the anc and that microphone quality which
is really good to see now the areas of criticism from me with these hi-fi ears is that the
pass-through mode the transparency mode is not very good okay so when you cycle it on
you hear the background noises marginally better but not like other brands other brands tend to
bring in that outside sound amplify it so they've got a bit of gain to it and you hear all those
train announcements co-workers and everything so much better almost like powerful hearing aids but
with this model i find it quite disappointing it seems to be weak they just haven't amplified it
enough so do hope with future revisions that they fix that the other fix which is just by
software they can easily do this is that the voice feedback when you cycle through those different
modes so the the transparency mode um or onto the anc mild or the strong mode is if you're playing
music really quiet then it seems a little too loud almost and then when you're playing your music
at higher volumes it's too quiet that feedback and you don't hear exactly what anc mode you're
in it's a very minor thing but that just means you need to go through and cycle
i do find that the touch controls which are capacitive just touching on the surface
tend to work quite good and we do get volume controls i've had zero problems with disconnects
overall the tune of these out of the box i think most people are going to be very happy with some
bass lovers out there may find them a little lacking but it's nothing a graphic equalizer
cannot fix the 10 millimeter drivers deliver good lows we're getting good meds vocals sound good
volume maybe could be yes a little bit louder but overall i think a good tune there
so thank you so much for watching my review here of the vt hi-fi ears anc earbuds with up to 36
hours in total run time which really is probably around about 28 hours if you're using the anc