Audio-Technica ATH-SQ1TWBK Wireless in-Ear Headphones, Black

I always hear the "battery level high" announcement as I put each piece in my ear, They are durable after months of my use and are easy to charge. I sometimes charge the holder shell when the pieces are in use, that can help maintain the battery levels when I redeposit them -- like tag team recharge for the batteries.The noise isolation is surprisingly superior, compared to my noise-reducing wired ear-buds. I walk the noisy NYC Manhattan streets with these, with pleasure! Watch out for that oncoming taxi with a horn that you'll barely hear! Also useful at home: I can listen to music without distraction in the same room as my TV watching companion.The small-rectangle design fits easy in my ear. Sometimes, as a pedestrian surrounded by heavy NYC street traffic, I get interference from other passing blue-tooth devices (especially at busy intersections). I think the device is detecting same-frequency interference and trying to switch to alternatives. The disruptions only last about two seconds. I don't know if that's because these don't have the long antennas that other models have, hanging from your ears.The square case is a bit awkward for my pants pocket, as I like to store them when I reach a meeting. Easier to put in a jacket pocket when cooler weather allows for a coat. In summer I'll just leave the case at home and risk touching the "resume play" feature when getting them in or out of my pants pockets.The ear-piece controls: the good, the bad. As the ear-piece buttons are sensitive to touch, it is rather easy to accidentally hit the right piece play/pause button, or the volume-up (single tap) button (sometimes several times by accident: ouch!). I wish there was a way to disable these, as my mobile device is easy enough for play/pause volume-up/down.The hear-through mode is modestly useful when at a check-out register.The blue-tooth pairing is easy. I switch between my mobile iPhone for music and pod-casts, and then pair again with my desktop to listen to video tutorials, and then to my Android tablet for bedtime videos.

Sound is exceptional for this price range. Bass is slightly lacking. Comfortable in ear but very small units so I do have a bit of trouble manipulating them.They arrived completely dead so had to wait an hour or so on a fast charger. Paired effortlessly to an iPhone.Overall, a great pair of earbuds at this price and I’ve used name brand earbuds like Klipsch, Bose, Beyerdynamic, AKG.

I'm a huge Audio-Technica fan so when buying myself a new set of truly wireless headphones I had to check out what they had for options. With very few reviews I gave this pair a try to see how it's do for my replacement Bluetooth headphones.The experience out of the box is great. Packaging was simplistic but instructions satisfying aside from having to charge them up because the batteries were dead out of the box (likely by design or expected as the instructions recommended full charge before use and my wife's white pair were dead out of the box as well). Once everything was charged removing both headphones went immediately into pairing mode and synced to my Google account including adding them to Find My Device tracking.Once I got everything paired and in use I was off to the races. Audio quality is great, though I found the bass tones to be a bit overly heavy. A lot of higher frequency audio are drowned out until you pump the volume up but are still quite clear and the bass at higher volumes doesn't seem overpowering like it does when under 40% volume. There isn't any active noise canceling but the design for the earbuds to seal with you ears makes them act like closed back headphones, most background noise is muted while in use and do I expect these to be great while working in my garage.By holding for two seconds on the right ear you can enable hear-through mode which will play ambient audio through as well. If you accidentally enable this mode it may make these earbuds sound like they introduce static when silent, but they produce no noise when this mode is off. I like this feature but I wish I could increase the passthrough levels to he higher. The default setting is fine when no audio is playing, but there's no way you could understand anyone speaking to you even at high volume if you had any content playing above 25% volume.My only major complaint so far is that these earbuds suffer from signal interference and connectivity when compared to standard Bluetooth units. While my phone is in my pocket or just 6 feet away I would have one or both earbuds disconnect for 2-3 seconds. This is an issue for me as I use these earbuds as Bluetooth replacements for my headset I use for meetings all day long. It's frustrating talking to a room full of participants only for my mic to stop working mid sentence while not moving my head.Overall these earbuds are excellent with great audio quality, but they're better for listening to music than for use with calls and microphone use. I think they sound excellent so if you just want wireless audio listening, these seem to do a great job with great battery life and comfortable fit.