SennheiserMOMENTUM True Wireless 2, Bluetooth Earbuds with Active Noise Cancellation, White

Ok, so with massive thanks to Amazon for allowing me to try these against the apple airpod pros, Galaxy Buds Live and Sony WMX ??3 (or whatever, you know the ones!)Tried them all for comfort, noise control, ANC, feel (build quality) and finally, most importantly, sound qualityI'll keep it short, but feel; all joint winners. They're all well made, nice cases and decent batteryFit, Galaxy buds are easily a winner, you hardly know you're wearing them. Airpods and Senhesisers in joint second, and a disappointing last is Sony. They're quite bulky in terms of in-ear cans. Noticeably heavier tooOnto ANC, clear losers are the Galaxy Buds Live. They're open backed so we kinda expected that, but the ANC was so subtle as to be unnoticeable in my testing.The airpods are superb, right accros the frequency range they were effective, slightly pipped by the Senhesiser, which in turn was slightly pipped by the Sony's. Blissful silence from the Japanese on this one. 10/10So, surely most importantly is the audio quality?Now, notwithstanding that sound 'quality' is quite subjective hear goes (see what I did there 😊)The Galaxy buds are bright and clear, a joy to listen to. The Airpods on their own sound ok, but as soon as you put them along side any meaningful competition it's almost embarrassing for them, they're muddy and really struggle. Alas they're a clear last, and I mean by a good distance!The Sony's are superb, no more no less.The Senhesisers are in a different league. They're easily as good as 90% of the top end over ear headphones out there, and unless you've owned any high end headphones these will likely be the best things you'll have heard. They're balanced, bright, bassy and have a huge soundstage. The app allows a meaningful amount of EQ'ing and you can assign any communication of taps to the sides to do pretty much any function, nice touch!I now pick these up over my Boss 700 or Sony WX4s (both superb over ears)If you bought any of these you'd be happy with them, they're all great packages, but if you can only buy one then trust me the Senhesiser is the one to go for. (I appreciate it's the dearest but that wasn't my concern on this test)And best of all my cat loves them tooWell recommended

I have never been able to use earbuds due to a number of reasons, the main one being they always fall out no matter what I tried. I ended up using a pair of Sennheiser Momentum 2 over-ear headphones when out and about but they are too bulky to put away when not in use. I had a go with the Momentum True Wireless buds a friend had because she never used the very small ear pieces and I found they would stay locked in tight!The sound from them is truly exceptional for earbuds, clear midrange and tight bass coupled with clear treble. Not the same weight of sound as my over-ear 'phones but that is to be expected given the difference in driver size. I find the sound really enjoyable and now I never leave the house without the buds either already in my ears, or in their case ready to go as soon as I want.The case is very sturdy with good magnetic seal and holders for the buds themselves. Battery lasts a good time, the longest I have had them in was 3 hours and there was still 80% battery left according to my phone's BT connection details.If you are in the market for a set of buds, these Sennheiser units are really good value for money, the sound quality is a quantum leap up from the £30-50 ones you can pick up in supermarkets.

I bought these back in May 2022. I had some initial trouble setting them up, but once I did I honestly thought they were great and the sound quality was superb. However, once I started taking them out of the house I discovered that they only seemed to have about half an hours charge in them at a time, even when left to charge over night. Only 4 months later and the earbuds became completely unusable. They cut out every few seconds, even when fully charged. I was able to send them back to Sennheiser as they were still under warranty, but they were deemed unfixable and I was then sent a pair of True Wireless 3 as a replacement. Only 7 months on and the right earbud is suddenly completely dead. I've now read that both of these issues are a common problem with both of these models. As these were purchased brand new at the time they cost me £200. Don't make my mistake and get scammed out of £200 for products that are known to have faults that render them unusable within a year of purchase.

Excellent sound quality, but it's subjective so I'm not going to talk much about this.Battery life is closer to 5hrs with mixed usage and in normal sound tuning mode (4hrs in high end tuning mode).Touch sensors work very well for me with the tones on each tap going up in frequency signalling your 1st, 2nd or 3rd tap. This makes it very obvious when I've tapped it once, double tapped or triple.I love is the transparency mode which when activated while listening to something will PAUSE the audio and let in the outside sound. Super useful for music, but especially for podcasts and audio books. When you're done and deactivate transparency it'll return to your previous mode and continue your audio.ANC is okay, passive noise isolation is good which helps with the overall noise attenuation. Definitely not a highlight of these earbuds.With either transparency or ANC active, high pitch crinkling or metal/shiny objects like plates/cutlery colliding will produce a sharp crinkling sound in the earbuds. Quite annoying and disconcerting when it happens.Case has a dampened closing sound, which I like. Prefer for it to be not as thick, but it's an okay size. The ear buds are quite slippery to hold if you don't grab them by the ridge of the buds.I have white noise in my pair which is louder in the left ear and almost unnoticeable in the right. I can deal with it for the most part considering the pros of the earbuds.