Moondrop Space Travel TWS Earphone Bluetooth 5.3 Noise Canceling True Wireless Stereo IEMs

Well, these are better than expected!They're not as cheap feeling as I had been led to believe, if I hadn't bought them myself there's no way I would have known the cost from touch alone.There's no lid on the charge box, as has been mentioned maaaany times, but the optional extra of the leather case is a genuinely pleasing solution.Incidentally, there's been complaints that is difficult to get the buds out of the charger. Nope, there's a little lip on the buds that you can slip your nail under and out they pop with no problem.It's obviously super important to pick the right tip to make sure they fit properly in your ears. Without a good fit they sound extremely flat in a bad way and cheap.Get the right fit though and suddenly they start sounding pretty great. I thought still just a little poor in the mids personally.To my ear, they are pretty close to flat though, with a slight kick in bass.So crack up your favourite equaliser, because the app that goes with these earbuds is so basic it's an insult to basic.I used Flow, because it's easy to use, and all of a sudden these buds just improve massively. My hearing is old now, so I had to adjust the trebles and mid bass through mids, and I'm really happy with them.They take a virtualiser well, but adding gain for loudness is a terrible idea and leads to considerable distortion.I don't want a monitor sound when listening for fun, I want something a little lively. And these buds manage either quite well.I've used a wide range of high end to low end headphones and mid to low end buds. These buds punch well above their weight, not perfect, need fiddling to taste with in an EQ, but genuinely not bad at all.

These sound unreal, as a producer I use beyerdynamic DT 990 Pro Headphones, and these little things manage to produce similar levels of clarity and richness for £100 less. They are a just tad light on the bass, so I put phone eartips on and now they're literally perfect. Battery lasts long too and the fit is nice.There's only 2 drawbacks. First is that the case is open at the top, so if it's in your pocket/bag and there's crumbs or anything in there, they tend to get a bit dirty too, but they sell a case separately, or you can keep them somewhere clean.The other draw back is, i live in London and commute via underground often. The volume levels there go to 90-110dbs in some places, i found once the external volume reaches around 87dbs the noise cancelling microphones start clipping and you end up with a choppy kinda sound. So just be weary they're not gonna handle everything! But for environments like offices etc the noise cancelling is perfect.

This is definitely a strong contender for the budget TWS earphone market. The battery time is very long. And I suspect it has very good sweat resistance as well, as I have ran a few times with these in my ears and they still sound good. Tonally speaking the sound is quite flat. It doesn't do so well when you crank it up to higher volumes. But at medium to low volumes they are adequate. I really like the presentation as well, it's punching well above its price.Some of the downsides: the app quality really is not great. There really isn't too many ways to customise the gestures, so you end up just tapping endlessly on the earphones just to turn ANC on or off.The ANC itself is also not great. Compared to some of the £200 plus headphones that I have, the ANC hardware on this is audibly less capable at filtering even slight wind noises. But then again, these are around £20-30, so I can't complain.

I don't normally leave product reviews but these things are not just great for the price, they are just great in their own right. Sure, the design and materials are a bit cheap and marmite divisive but at least they look a bit different to the sea of apple-esque airpod wannabe's and I actually quite like them because they are a little different. Also the voice assistants are a bit annoying and noise cancellation is just decent, not great but still worth having. The accompanying app is naff and battery life is low by today's s standards but saying that 4 hours is plenty for me.I bought these as a replacnt for a set of Sony's that I lost after just a few weeks so didn't want to spend a lot. The Sony's had them beat in every category except one, sound quality. I put some foam tips on them from the get go and was instantly impressed. They are not audiophile earbuds but they are very well tuned across the frequencies. The aforementioned app has 3 preloaded equalisation settings, Reference, Basshead, Monitor, I can't really hear a huge difference between Reference and Monitor, Basshead is my favourite although actual Bassheads may be left wanting but personally I love it, taught without being bloated and muddy. The tuning mids and highs are also very well judged allowing room for a surprising amount of details to come through, again not audiophile but very, very enjoyable nonetheless. To my ears at least they left the Sony's standing when it comes to sound quality which is even more remarkable when you take into consideration that they cost roughly a quarter of what they I paid for the Sony's. It's not only the Sony's that they leave trailing with sound quality, for me they beat many earbuds from Master and Dynamic, RHA, Sennhiesser and apple airpods and apple airpod which sell for around 8 times a much as the Moondrop.Just buy a pair!