soundcore by Anker Liberty 4 NC Wireless Noise Cancelling Earbuds, 98.5% Noise Reduction, Adaptive Noise Cancelling to Ears and Environment, Hi-Res Sound, 50H Battery, Wireless Charging, Bluetooth 5.3

Excellent earbuds for the price
I’ve been using my Soundcore Liberty 4 NC earbuds for a couple of months now. I bought this particular item for 2 reasons. Firstly, I like and trust the Anker brand, and second, I wanted some wireless earbuds for the times when my Sony headphones wouldn’t be practical to take out with me.To start, I think the build quality is excellent. The box they come in is small, light and very sturdy, nicely made – easy to put the earbuds in and out. Setting up and pairing to devices is very easy. Once paired, connecting to my iPhone could not be easier: Take out of the box, put them in your ear and off you go! The earbuds themselves are very well made, they feel very comfortable to wear and they fit very well inside my ear (I used the large tips – 1 pair of 3 different size tips provided) – no problems wearing them all day and my ear doesn’t ache after a few hours. Charging is easy and quick and lasts for a long time – I’m always good about putting them straight back in the case when finished. The app tells you how much charge there is left in the earbuds and case.Sound quality is excellent for the price paid. I play a wide range of orchestral, rock, acoustic and the sound is solid, enjoyable, not tinny or cheap sounding. I’ve no need to even look at Apple Earbuds and shelling out 3-4 times more for them. More than happy with these for sound quality.Functionality on the earbuds is really good. Take an earbud out and music is paused automatically, put them in again and it starts – you can pause, rewind, FF, command Siri, volume up/down all from the earbuds. So easy to use. You also have the Soundcore app for more controls and features – well worth looking at. Noise cancellation isn’t perfect but it does have Normal, Noise Cancellation and Transparency mode via the app. Also has wind noise reduction which I’ve found useful.I’d say that for £50 or thereabouts, they are well worth the money.

Good quality – but be careful (maybe mine are defective?) ❗
**UPDATE** – Anker CS got back to me and offered me different options to address the issue. I opted for a replacement pair as I quite like them despite the issues so hopefully the new ones will improve. Can totally recommend them just based on the great CS alone.____I’m torn about this product. 😑Context – I own multiple in-ear and over-ear sets. My usual go-to are sony xm4, wanted a cheaper and more portable set to complement.👍🏽 It’s clearly good quality & value for the money, nice charging box, and works well with two devices. The app allows button customization, great! Very handy for podcasts on the go, you can set it to tap once to forward 30 sec to skip commercials e.g. Also think mic is ok, have done calls on it without issues. Finally, the fit once I’m seated is good – I can wear for long periods of time and forget they are there.👎🏽 However, sometimes a loud sound burst is emitted, like when doing daily Duolingo exercises, causing pain and discomfort. There’s max volume control in the app, but it still hasn’t stopped them at the max 75 dB setting. I suspect to have mild case of tinnitus after using them for 2 weeks, keeping me up at night. Fit isn’t great for my left ear either when walking, and even my cheaper in-ers fits better. I think its due to the oval shape of them, not round as you find on most cheap sets!The ANC is as expected – not close to being a rival to XM4’s – but ok for the price i guess.🟰 Overall I’d say be careful if you get them, especially for apps that give small bursts of volume at a time as Duolingo or Drops. If you do continuous listening, they should be fine though.I will likely keep them – can’t be bothered with returns and avoid environmental waste – who’d get a second hand pair of potentially defective buds?

I decided to buy these True Wireless earbuds as a replacement to my Airpods Pro that I accidentally left my in my home country before flying back to North America.I absolutely love ANKER products, but coming from an Airpods Pro, I didn’t expect much from this product when I first bought it. so my review here will mostly be related to quality of life usage and not so much on the audio aspectBattery Life: Absolutely fantastic, over 4-5 hours of straight use before you get that beeping low battery that indicates you only have 15-20 minutes left. Then you would only have to recharge them in a case for 15-20 minutes before you can use them again for another 1-2 hours. so the claim they’re making on this product is very legitCharging case: I’ve never fully drained the battery of the charging case as I consistently charge them every night but it doesn’t take that long to fully charge the case either. maybe 1-2 hours max?Case durability: i’ve dropped these bad boys a couple times before on multiple hard surfaces over the last 7 months and they seem to be holding up really well with no scratches or permanent damageCase size: coming from an airpods pro, these look significantly bulkier (1.5 times bigger) but rest assured they are still very pocketable.Touch control: the touch control on this thing is easy to use, very easy to get used to and very reliable even when you have wet hands. the tap and/or hold function on these earbuds can be tweaked on the app settings.Eartips/Earbuds: the one thing i dont like about this product is the provided eartips adhesiveness to the earbuds. for reference, i use the smallest eartip in the box. they are standard eartips but they do get easily detached from the earbuds and sometimes they stick in your ears when you try to remove your earbuds. please keep in mind that i come from airpods pro where the eartips suction to the earbuds are very top notch when installed and is almost impossible to be accidentally detached from the earbud.Noise canceling: let’s just say that if an Airpods Pro cancel out 99% of the noise from a very chatty and loud environment (like a gym during peak hours), then this product cancels out maybe 94-95%. it works really well to block out most of the noise in a loud environment, but you can still hear minor inaudible noise in the background whereas the sony WF1000XM5 or Airpods Pro completely shuts out the noise.Ambient sound: this works pretty well most of the time for a $129 headphones for you to activate to speak to someone without taking off your earbuds.Media/Audio pause when removing earbuds: this earbud has the same feature as most high end earbuds where if you remove one earbuds while watching or listening to something, it will automatically pause the media currently being playing before hit play again on the other earbuds. however, they are not as efficient as high end Sony or Apple NC earbuds.what I mean by this is that an Airpods Pro would immediately detect that you’ve removed one earbud and would automatically pause the media, where as the Anker Liberty 4 NC would have a 3-4 second latency delay before it notices that you’ve removed one earbud.still an amazing feature for the price tag.waterproof: I tried once or twice to shower with these on just to see if they would hold up and they did really well with no issue whatsoever. but i don’t recommend not to shower with these on all the time. your disgusting ears also needs to be cleaned on a daily basisAudio Quality: I am just a regular peasant who enjoys listening to audiobook and music while working out, I am not going to pretend here to tell you the mids are good, the low and highs are good when i dont even know what that all really means in the first place. all i know is that the bass is decent and i’ve never had to complain about song i’ve listened to not being punchy enough because of these earbuds. you will never have that problem as long as you’re not audiophile (most of us aren’t)Sound Core app: i dont know how to use an equalizer but the presets they have is good enough for me to tune up my earbuds based on what i’m currently listening toOverall: giving this product an absolute 5 stars for the Price/Value for money. definitely get it if you’re looking a for an affordable noise canceling earbuds. if anything, ANKER also has 18 months of warranty

So before I always used JBL wireless earbuds until I ran into the issue of them no longer recharging due to stupid design choices. The contact points of the charging connections are easily accessible on this model both on the case and the earbuds – so that’s looking real promising. Let me list the following positive things about this model:- Audio quality easily matches those of JBL- NC is pretty good, adaptive mode as well- Wireless charging of the case- Very long use time- Multi-point bluetooth- Good extensive app- Nice LED lights when you open the caseVery happy with my purchase decision, I use them roughly for 3-4 hours every day