1/30/2024 0 Comments Soundcore life note c reviewYou can choose to use adaptive noise canceling - with or without an additional environment detection option - or use one of four transportation modes (planes, trains, buses, and cars), or you can go full manual by adjusting the amount of ANC with a slider. But unless you were to do a series of A/B comparisons between the two, I don’t think you’d notice.Īnker throws in a lot of bells and whistles for its ANC mode. In comparing them to the AirPods Pro 2, I found that the Soundcores let in a little more high-frequency sound. I still doubt that the Liberty 4 NC cancel almost all sounds, but I’ll tell you this: You probably won’t care. Given that Soundcore’s ANC has always been perfectly fine, but nowhere near as good as the best noise-canceling earbuds like the Apple AirPods Pro 2, I was skeptical. When Anker announced these earbuds, it made a pretty audacious claim for the active noise cancellation feature: They reduce ambient sound by up to 98.5%. Soundcore Liberty 4 NC: noise-canceling and transparency Simon Cohen / Digital Trends It’s kind of like when a car prevents you from shifting out of park unless your foot’s on the brake. Thanks to the new addition of wear sensors, not only can the Liberty 4 NC auto-pause and resume your tunes when you remove/replace an earbud, but you can also prevent the touch controls from responding when you’re not wearing the earbuds. As with previous Soundcore models, the app provides an impressive array of customizations, with four gestures per earbud and each can be assigned its own function. They’re more responsive and easier to use than the Life P3, and they have a reassuring feedback tone when you tap correctly. I still prefer the pinch controls, but the NC’s touch controls are excellent. Soundcore moved to a set of stem-based pinch controls for the Liberty 4 - which work very similarly to the controls on the Apple AirPods 3rd Gen/ AirPods Pro - but the NC model sticks with touch controls. Soundcore Liberty 4 NC: controls Simon Cohen / Digital TrendsĪnother improvement is the controls. Consider the Soundcore Space A40 if you need a sportier fit. I found them incredibly comfortable, but they did move around a little bit. If you want to use them for runs or workouts, they should be fine unless you need something super secure. Soundcore has kept the IPX4 water-resistance rating from its other wireless earbuds, so the same guidance applies here too: Don’t fear getting rain or sweat on them, but keep them from being submerged, and always wipe them clean and dry before putting them away. Soundcore Liberty 4 NC: comfort and fit Simon Cohen / Digital Trends If you like color choice, you’ll probably love that the NC come in white, light blue, navy blue (pictured here), pink, and black. That lid-release button does triple duty: it’s also an LED indicator to show the charging status of the case, and if you press it down further, it triggers the earbuds’ Bluetooth pairing mode. Extracting the earbuds is easy, but putting them back is almost easier - just get an earbud in the general vicinity of its charging socket and the magnets do the rest. There’s more space between the buds for your fingers, and there’s more of the upper portion of each earbud to grip. The Liberty 4 weren’t hard to get to either, but the NC are better. What I like most is that it flips open one-handed with a press of the front button. It charges wirelessly or via the included USB-C cable. It’s not quite as slender as Apple’s AirPods cases, but it’s still reasonably pocketable. The design improvements can also be seen in the Liberty 4 NC’s charging case. That’s a huge shift for a company that used to use oversized boxes, layers of plastic, embedded magnets, and glossy-coated surfaces, so I’m giving it big props. Anker also has given them a fully recyclable cardboard- and paper-based package. The strides in design I mentioned earlier aren’t limited to the Liberty 4 NC themselves. Soundcore Liberty 4 NC: design Simon Cohen / Digital Trends At the same time, if you like stem-based earbuds, I think the NC represent a very worthy step up from the $80 Soundcore Life P3 - I’ll explain why as we go. But if you just want to focus on getting the best earbuds for the lowest price, the Liberty 4 NC won’t leave you wishing you’d spent more. Soundcore gives plenty of reasons to spend the extra $50 on the Liberty 4, like better drivers, head-tracked spatial audio, and even built-in heart-rate sensors. JBL’s $200 Live 3 earbuds get the Tour Pro 2’s touchscreen charging caseĪpple lets AirPods Pro owners upgrade to USB-C Sennheiser’s new sports earbuds send heart rate, temperature to popular fitness apps
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