Best Five Bluetooth Headphones Reviews and Which One is Worthy?
Nowadays, Bluetooth headphones have become an indispensable digital accessory in our daily lives. Today's young people are more likely to have several pairs of Bluetooth headsets per capita. Whether on the street or on the bustling subway, people wearing Bluetooth headphones listening to songs can be seen everywhere.
As a Bluetooth headphone enthusiast, I have a certain understanding of Bluetooth headphones. There has some main focus we need to pay attention to when purchasing Bluetooth headphones: budget, demand and headphone performance, these three points are the basis for the purchase of their own Bluetooth headphones. If you are an office worker, then buy noise-cancelling headphones which can reduce noise interference during daily commute and work in the office; If you like playing games, be sure to choose a headphone with reduced latency which very suitable for immersive gaming; If you love sports, then bone conduction headphones are very suitable for you which can bring you a pleasant exercise experience.
If you don’t know how to select your dream Bluetooth headphone, this article will give you the answer!
But before that, we must first understand a truth: there is no perfect thing in the world, and headphones are the same, no headphones are perfect! So in front of perfection and suitable, we can only try our best to find the Bluetooth headphone that suitable for us. How do we judge the quality of a true wireless headset from a broad and objective perspective?
I have listed the following 6 main criteria for your reference:
Appearance texture; Wearing comfort; Sound quality; Battery life;
Latency; Waterproof
So let's talk about each aspect in detail:
1: Appearance texture
For the appearance of a headphone, everyone's preferences and choices will be different, but there are two points need to be pay attention to.
(1) Wear resistance:
Everyone knows that metal is actually the best and most wear-resistant, but normally the use of metal Bluetooth headphone is particularly less, or no manufacturer will use metal as a cover, mainly because the Bluetooth antenna is built-in, if the metal is used as a cover plate, it is easy to cause the Bluetooth signal to receive a shorter distance and increase the phenomenon of stuttering, so almost all Bluetooth headphones are plastic texture. However, the plastic process will have various coatings to cover, so different layers will have different texture performance, and the wear resistance will still have certain differences.
Order of wear resistance of different material excluding metal materials: skin-friendly silicone layer> spray paint surface> piano paint glossy surface> without coating protection
(2) Weight:
Generally speaking, when selecting a Bluetooth headphone, try to select a headphone with a small size and small weight, which is easy to carry, and the pressure on the ears it is not so great when wearing.
2. Wearing comfort
In fact, from the perspective of wearing comfort, it is still necessary to choose according to the size of your ear hole, after all, the shape ear hole is different from person to person, and the same headphone will have different experiences for different people to wear. In the same headphone form, the smaller the headphone, the wider the number of people who are suitable. From the perspective of style, the common styles of headphones are semi-in-ear and in-ear. But there is another headphone that cannot be ignored, and that is bone conduction headphones with open-ear design.
(1) Semi-in-ear:
At present, the headphones that come with mobile phones are basically of this style. The contact area with the ear canal is small, so the corresponding pressure on the ear is small as well, which greatly improves the adaptability of people with small ear hole to the earphone, but the corresponding noise isolation ability is poor.
Advantages: suitable for most people, high wearing comfort.
Disadvantages: poor sound insulation.
(2) In-ear:
In-ear headphones are actually the form of the original earphones, because the in-ear sound quality effect is stronger than the semi-in-ear type, the airtightness is excellent which can enhance the absorption of sound in the ear canal and achieve the effect of resonance, so if the tuning and sound unit are same, the low-frequency amount of the in-ear headphones is sufficient, the mid-frequency is full, the high frequency is transparent, while the semi-in-ear type will have a feeling of air leakage.
Advantages: In-ear has a certain help for sound quality enhancement, and it is also good to isolate noise in noisy environments.
Disadvantages: Wearing in-ear headphones for a long time will cause a certain fatigue to the ear canal, and even make the ears itchy, which is not suitable for long-term wear, because it is not hygienic enough.
(3) Open ear Bluetooth headphones:
Only bone conduction headphones have open ear design. What exactly are bone conduction headphones?
As the name implies, it is a headphone with bone conduction technology, which vibrates the bones through a vibrator that is in contact with the perimeter of the ear, thereby sensing the vibration as sound in the ear. In other words, it can be said that the biggest feature is that it does not block the ear canal. This sound principle is different from the general headphones that are inserted into the ear canal, the traditional headphones transmit vibration through the air and cause the eardrum to vibrate, so that the ear can perceive the sound.
Advantages: You can hear the outside world while wearing headphones, higher safety and convenience, and can keep your ears healthy and more hygienic; The ears are not easily fatigued and can be used for a long time.
Disadvantages: Because of the working principle of bone conduction, it is easy to have sound leakage problems.
3. Sound quality
There are probably two factors that determine the sound quality of Bluetooth headphones: one is the sound unit, and the other is the way of encoding and decoding
From the perspective of sound unit of headphone: mainly depends on the material, the effect of good materials is relatively better such as titanium film, broken film and other precious metals, while ordinary plastic will be worse, of course, this is only a relative statement, not an absolute statement. In addition, for the size of the unit, the larger the better, of course, such a statement is also one-sided, it can only be said that the large-sized unit is relatively easy to debug to achieve a large sound field, good bass, and a smaller unit is relatively inferior.
From the perspective of Bluetooth encoding and decoding: everyone may not understand Bluetooth coding, in layman's terms, it is equivalent to the cable transmission of wired headphones, good cable loss is low, poor cable for sound quality loss is large, sound quality is not so good because it was transmitted to the headphone and then through the unit performance.
4. Battery life
Bluetooth headphones all have battery, generally are lithium-ion batteries or lithium-ion polymer batteries, and the batteries have life, similar to mobile phone batteries. For the choice of headphone life, it is necessary to pay attention to the initial battery life, the initial battery life cannot be too short, because the headphone is a consumable product, if it is too low, it may not be available after one year!
5. Latency
The current solution to the delay of the Bluetooth headphone is definitely not able to meet the needs of professional players, because the current minimum delay is about 80ms, most of which is in 200ms, and the worse ones are basically above 300ms, which is still enough for ordinary players and daily video watching.
In terms of the current technology on the market, the APTX format is relatively balanced, because the delay is basically about 200ms, the sound quality is also good, APTX is generally only equipped with Qualcomm chips, so signal stability and compatibility are still relatively good.
Therefore, everyone still has to choose Bluetooth headphones according to their own needs.
6. Waterproof
The waterproof performance of Bluetooth headphone is essential, whether in the hot summer or in sports, if the headphone waterproof performance is very poor when sweating a lot, it is easy to cause water damage, so we try to choose a high level of waterproof Bluetooth headphone, such as IPX4 waterproof above has been able to achieve real life waterproof. Level 4 and 5 are also applicable if there is occasional exercise.
If you have the habit of long-term exercise, it is better to choose a Bluetooth headphone above level 6, if you like underwater sports such as swimming, you need to choose IPX8 or above. In addition, when charging, you must pay attention to keeping the charging port or earphones dry, so as not to cause the phenomenon of burning the plate.
The recommendation of Bluetooth headphone:
1. Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Bluetooth headphone
It adopts dual dynamic drive, with excellent sound quality experience: the headphones have a built-in 11mm + 6mm dual dynamic unit, equipped with Bluetooth 5.1 chip and AKG tuning, the sound quality performance will be more prominent.
Its disadvantage is that Android users can only download Galaxy Wearable software settings on Android if they want to set the button function of the headphone. And the current IOS system does not support galaxy wearable software, but there is no problem with the connection. In addition, because it is an in-ear earbud, the sealing effect is remarkable, and the corresponding stethoscope effect is more obvious, and it can be felt even when walking.
Overall, the sound quality of the Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Bluetooth headphone is very good. Its market price is $149.99, which is moderately expensive. If the budget is enough, you can consider this Bluetooth headphone, which is more versatile. However, it is a pity that there is a slight stethoscope effect after wearing it.
2.Jabra Elite 85t true wireless active noise canceling Bluetooth headphone
The Jabra Elite 85t is a true wireless Bluetooth headphone with quartet noise reduction for a pure listening experience. High-end dual-core with independent noise reduction algorithm can effectively deal with various noises inside and outside the ear canal, and at the same time cooperate with self-developed noise-reducing earplugs and unique twist lock structure to effectively isolate noise in various frequency bands outside and bring a pure noise reduction experience.
5-level active noise cancellation, 5-level transparent mode, whether you are commuting or in the office, can meet your noise reduction needs in different scenes, bringing a comfortable noise reduction experience. Equipped with 12mm large speakers, it brings a stereoscopic sound field effect. The ultra-wideband frequency response custom diaphragm brings a wide sound range and truly restores the sound of the instrument. The fine tuning of the Great Nordic Acoustics Laboratory, the analysis is delicate, the music graininess is very clear, and the shocking music scene is interpreted in your ears.
31 hours of battery life, basically once a week charging is enough, very durable.
The market price is $167, the price is expensive, depending on the personal budget.
2. Anker Air2 Pro Bluetooth headphones
The Anker Air2 pro has five-in-one multi-scene doubly-fed noise reduction with ANC noise reduction technology, which can cancel out more noise in real scenes than single-feed noise reduction. It supports APP custom noise reduction adjustment, only need to touch the headphone to switch the noise reduction mode or transparency mode at will, and these modes are divided into three noise reduction modes + two transparency modes according to different scenes, which is very user-friendly.
Personalized voiceprint experience - Hear ID 2.0 technology: thousands of people have thousands of ears, everyone will hear more or less different sounds, and headphones through custom voiceprints, with 3 minutes of voiceprint test, will be personalized reinforcement of the sound at different frequencies, to achieve a personalized listening experience for thousands of people, which can experience a variety of music styles.
However, it needs to be placed in the charging compartment when switching devices, and the design is not flexible enough; And the codec channel for IOS users is only available for SBC, which is a slight pity.
The market price is $129.99.
3. OnePlus Buds Bluetooth headphone
The headphone supports Bluetooth 5.0 and is equipped with a 13.4mm large dynamic unit, which lays the foundation for good sound quality in hardware. Enabling the game mode can reduce the latency, and there is almost no noticeable delay within 100ms.
The waterproof grade of the headphone is IPX4, and there is no problem with daily sweat proof; With small functions such as automatic detection of ears, auto play/pause, etc. In addition, it supports fast charging.
Its control on the device is limited because there is no equalizer; The ear shank is too thick, the appearance is not very good which need to be further improved. Gesture control is limited, and its user experience is not very good.
5. Wissonly Hi Runner bone conduction Bluetooth headphone
The Hi Runner is perfect for using in sports because it is waterproof and endurable. Its open ear shape is also very suitable for your daily use. It can be worn directly on the temple, allowing your ear canal to open completely, even if you are running and walking outdoors and other sports scenes, you can easily hear the sound of cars and traffic lights, which is safer to use. It is also especially suitable for people who like to listen to music at work, but at the same time need to pay attention to the voices of colleagues and bosses.
When you sweat a lot while running or doing other sports, or suddenly rain when running or exercising outdoors, the waterproof performance of sports headphones is very important. As Wissonly's flagship model, the Wissonly Hi Runner sports bone conduction headphones have a waterproof rating higher than the industry standard IPX8. It allows the wearer to work properly while swimming or diving, not to mention sweat proof or normal waterproof.
The Wissonly Hi Runner uses the latest Bluetooth 5.0 chip, which makes the Bluetooth connection more stable and less prone to choppy sound. It is also equipped with 32G body memory, which can store 5000 songs, and supports Bluetooth and MP3 working modes. This means you can use it as a Bluetooth MP3 player for underwater sports or without a phone.
It is very excellent in terms of fit and comfort, because its overall frame uses adjustable aviation-grade titanium steel, which can adapt to different sizes of head circumference and ensure the fit of wear.
The surface of the headphones is made of high-tech, low-sensitivity silicone material and does not contain chemical components, which avoids allergies. The overall feel of the earbuds is as smooth as baby's skin, avoiding uncomfortable wearing for a long time. And its weight is very light, less than 30g, it will not feel heavy when worn, and it has good wearing comfort.
Its battery life is very strong, you can listen to music for 10 hours, which makes up for the disadvantage of wireless headphones. In addition, it also supports magnetic fast charging, which takes only two hours to fully charge.
If you have certain requirements for sound quality, this model can also meet your needs. Due to the particularity of the technical principle, bone conduction headphone is more difficult to improve the sound quality. Wissonly Hi Runner subverts the traditional sound quality scheme by using a large wireframe vibration unit, improving the effective vibration area through structural optimization, so that the sound has a good performance in both treble and bass.
It's on the market for $99.99, which is cost-effective.
Summary:
The 5 Bluetooth headphones recommended above have their own merits, and the final conclusion through comprehensive evaluation is:
The most suitable headphone for commuting scenarios: Anker Air2 Pro Bluetooth headphones
Best headphones for gaming: Jabra Elite 85t true wireless ANC Bluetooth headphones
Best headphones for sports use: Wissonly Hi Runner Bone conduction Bluetooth headphones
