SoundPEATS Air4 Pro Wireless Active Noise Cancelling Earbuds, Qualcomm AptX Headphone Chip, Compatible with iOS/Android, 26 Hours Playtime, Built in 6 Mics, Sweat Resistant Earphones, Black

This is an amazing pair of earbuds. The price/quality is just amazing for all the features you are getting. I also have other Bluetooth earbuds like the Marshall Motif, Galaxy Live, Galaxy Buds2 Pro, Creative Aurvana Ace, and Sony WF-1000XM3.The SoundPeats Air4 Pro definitely competes with these at more than half the cost. I was looking for some cheaper earbuds I can use at work that had solid Transparency so I can hear my surroundings if coworkers want to get my attention and these do the job very very well. If I left the buds at work, it also wouldn't hurt my wallet and would easily buy another. I put the sound quality close to my Galaxy Buds Live (which I looooove).Has a good amount of bass (not too bloated and does overpower other frequencies). The highs are just right, no sibilance and easy on the ears. I would like the mids a bit more forward as I'm really use to the Sennheiser sound where the mids take center stage (i love vocals to be more forward). Overall the sound quality is pretty balanced.A bonus of these buds having multi-point connection so I can connect both my Phone and PC at the same time and automatically switch inputs. APTX is also a big plus for me as I now use these for gaming on PC connected to a Creative BT-W5 usb dongle. Hardly any audio lag and they sound fantastic! The other earbuds I mentioned in the review can't even game like these SoundPeats as they have some noticeable audio lag. Definitely BUY THESE NOW if you are looking for some buds to use for gaming.

I'd originally picked up my Air4 Pro pair as a recommended alternative to Raycons -- both on the price point, as well as the quality. I've been using these actively for a little over a month almost daily and I've been pretty pleased for the most part.The sound quality is surprisingly good for what you're paying for. I haven't had any problems with battery life, I usually get around 6 hours of use if I'm not using active noise cancellation or passthrough. Using ANC and passthrough brings it down to about 3-4 hours of use, which I think is a fair trade for the utility. The ANC is very effective, if you're looking for something that will keep your walks relatively quiet then this will do the trick. Passthrough works like a charm and delivers well. Overall it all does what it says on the tin and doesn't feel cheap about it.I think the trickiest part is the gesture controls. Sometimes they don't register my touch, or I'll go to adjust them and accidentally rewind or pause what I'm listening to. This is something I've gotten pretty used to, and I find myself using the gesture controls with decent success, now. Pausing when you remove your earbuds, or removal detection, can be a little finnicky. I find that my earbuds will pause when removed appropriately most of the time, but occasionally not. When they do pause on removal and when I reinsert them, they will usually resume just fine without issue.Sometimes, if I am eating, the earbuds will pause with the removal detection as well. This can be a bit annoying, but it's a very specific issue that doesn't really come up often.Overall, I would recommend the SoundPEATS Air4 Pro if you're looking for a lower-medium noncommittal price for a pair of earbuds that still deliver without losing too much in quality.If I find that something comes up with my future use I'll likely edit this review later.

UPDATE: after I had returned these the company reached out and asked if I would be willing to try another set, and gave me some directions on turning on "Advanced" mode in the Bluetooth settings in Windows. I had never heard of this before, but after the second set had the same problem as the first and wouldn't show up when discovering Bluetooth devices, I went digging. Turns out that Windows does in fact have a setting that was preventing the earbuds from showing up. In the Settings app under "Bluetooth & devices" and "Devices", there's a setting called "Bluetooth devices discovery" that is set to "Default". Once I changed this to "Advanced", the SoundPEATS earbuds showed right up and connected without any trouble.Once I got past this hurdle the earbuds were much easier to like - they sound pretty good and are pretty comfortable. I was even pleasantly surprised by the "Game Mode" feature, which reduced latency down to a level where it's much less noticeable in video games. I would say the biggest negative is the case - it's very cheap feeling and you have to rotate the earbuds 180 degrees before inserting them, which is different from every other set of earbuds I've used. But it's a minor complaint and overall the earbuds themselves are well designed and I'm happy with them.I'm still knocking a star off of the rating because 1) I don't understand why these earbuds need Bluetooth settings in Windows to be changed when every other set of Bluetooth earbuds and headphones don't, and 2) the included paperwork with the earbuds doesn't mention any of this. It's obvious that SoundPEATS support is aware of the issue since they pointed me in this direction, but I feel like they should have made this clearer. For the next version I would recommend two things to SoundPEATS - make these easier to connect to Windows, and spend some more time and money on improving the case, especially since this is their top of the line model.ORIGINAL REVIEW: My use case - I was looking for an affordable set of Bluetooth earbuds that work with Windows so I could use them for video/games/casual use. I own an older set of SoundPEATS earbuds that have worked great over the years and I wanted to try a higher quality set from the company. I got these on sale for a great price considering the feature set.I was able to successfully pair these with both my iPhone and a MacBook Pro (which use the AAC codec), but unfortunately I couldn't get these to work with two different computers running Windows - they wouldn't show up when I repeatedly searched for Bluetooth devices. Other earbuds/headphones I own work fine, so I'm sure this wasn't user error. I also made sure the earbuds were updated to the latest firmware using the SoundPEATS app for iOS, so I think there must be a bug in the current firmware. Besides the Bluetooth issues, I was also disappointed by the SoundPEATS app for iOS. The app is missing English translations in a few spots, and the English wording that is there is confusing. I was able to get it to work, but I wouldn't say it was a great user experience for a native English speaker.I didn't get a lot of time to test out the audio quality of these earbuds, but from what I heard when connected to my iPhone it sounded decent. The earbuds were also reasonably comfortable, which is important for me as I usually wear earbuds for extended periods of time. But overall I needed a set of earbuds that work with Windows and these let me down. If you're looking at these earbuds and you're only planning on using them with a phone they still may be worth a look, but if Bluetooth compatibility is important to you I would recommend looking elsewhere.