What the title says, looking for recommendations around €50. I own a pair of QCY HT05 ANC, and the right bud fell in the sink and got water damage yesterday.

I was happy with the QCY‘s ANC and wore them a ton over two years, but the sound quality is nothing to write home about. Maybe there’s something better on the market by now?

  • Dayroom7485@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Thanks y’all for your recommendations! I ended up following Elextra@literature.cafe’s advice and looked into Earfun. Their newer models had some really good reviews, and I ended up ordering them. I plan to write a little review on them once they arrived!

  • Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Anker liberty 4 NC are excellent. Here they’re often around 60€. Can be paired with 2 devices simultaneously or use ldac.

    I also have the Sony reference over ears headphones and can not notice enough difference for the huge price difference. Since the anker earbuds work so well for me I wanted to ‘upgrade’ to the Sony earbuds but I noticed no notable difference in audio quality nor anc capability but had regular issues where left and right earbuds behaved erratically (eg left anc on right not) which I seriously never had with the anker ones. So I sent the Sony ones back…

    • Dayroom7485@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Thanks for sharing your experience! My partner owns the liberty 4 NC’s and they’re super happy with them. I also quite like them, but ended up ordering EarFun Air Pro 4’s just because I thought it would be more fun if we had different ones 😅