Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro - Bora Purple

I have to start by stating how I'm slightly biased towards samsung products. But comparing these wireless buds to other competitors, Raycon, Apple, bose, Skullcandy etc. Of which I've owned or heard from a pair of each brand. I can comfortably say I'm amazed at the sizable amount of bass (which can be adjusted in the samsung wearable app) as someone who thoroughly enjoys getting their eardrums blown out by bass, I can hope for a little more bass in the future renditions of this product. I digress as I believe this to have an acceptable amount of bass for such compact earbuds. Despite how I make it seem, there are other features the GalaxyBuds2 pro offer, such as noise canceling, and an "ambient sound" feature. Active noise canceling is self explanatory. While not ... MoreI have to start by stating how I'm slightly biased towards samsung products. But comparing these wireless buds to other competitors, Raycon, Apple, bose, Skullcandy etc. Of which I've owned or heard from a pair of each brand. I can comfortably say I'm amazed at the sizable amount of bass (which can be adjusted in the samsung wearable app) as someone who thoroughly enjoys getting their eardrums blown out by bass, I can hope for a little more bass in the future renditions of this product. I digress as I believe this to have an acceptable amount of bass for such compact earbuds. Despite how I make it seem, there are other features the GalaxyBuds2 pro offer, such as noise canceling, and an "ambient sound" feature. Active noise canceling is self explanatory. While not often found in other earbud brands, Ambient Noise feature is amplifying sounds around you for when your music is too engulfing to notice your surroundings. I can safely say it works, but only sometimes do you actually hear someone calling your name, but let that not stop you from enjoying the many other outweighing factors that make these buds enjoyable, as I still give these buds a 4 out of 5 stars even as picky as I am about good audio. My only real complaint, is the fitting design. Due to possibly trying to remain original in design, samsung buds have had a hard time fitting for long periods of times in my ears without having to adjust them. Even with the multiple sized ear pieces. Other than that, solid earbuds.

Having bought the original Galaxy Buds, Galaxy Buds Pro and now this latest version of the Pro Samsung has come as close to audio perfection I have heard for any TWS. These best the Sony Linkbuds S, WF-1000XM3, Technics AZ60, Soundcore A40, Liberty 2 Pro, Sennheiser MTW, and Status In Between Pro among several other TWS, all purely from an audio (music) perspective.These offer a nice deep powerfully sub-bass, and from there excellent linear progression from the mid-bass to treble.They ahve great detail and offer a nice 3D (this is without using the 3D audio feature) presentation of your music with a good size sound stage.If you love sound tracks from Hans Zimmer these will be an absolute delight and they handle Jazz and classic rock with equal aplomb.Outside ... MoreHaving bought the original Galaxy Buds, Galaxy Buds Pro and now this latest version of the Pro Samsung has come as close to audio perfection I have heard for any TWS. These best the Sony Linkbuds S, WF-1000XM3, Technics AZ60, Soundcore A40, Liberty 2 Pro, Sennheiser MTW, and Status In Between Pro among several other TWS, all purely from an audio (music) perspective.These offer a nice deep powerfully sub-bass, and from there excellent linear progression from the mid-bass to treble.They ahve great detail and offer a nice 3D (this is without using the 3D audio feature) presentation of your music with a good size sound stage.If you love sound tracks from Hans Zimmer these will be an absolute delight and they handle Jazz and classic rock with equal aplomb.Outside of their audio prowess, they have ANC that is good but behind Sony. It is much better than the original GBPro model though! The ambient mode is quite a bit behind the Sony Linkbuds S though, its OK but not great.Comfort wise these are as good as the Linkbuds S which until these arrived were my most comfortable TWS. These also have much better tips than the original GBPro so are a huge step up over the original model.The app aside from a few new settings specific to this model has the same limitations and features as past models. I do wish Samsung would give users the ability to setthwir own EQ settings.The new experimental feature for volume work very well as I now can tap my ear to increase or decrease the volume which I find to be a good compromise on their default gesture configurations allow me to mange everything from the TWS which I think is a must in this day and age.If you have a newer Samsung phone the scalable codec is a true delight to use, so much easier and more reliable than products relying on LDAC. But you have to have a new enough Samsung phone to use this wonderful codec.For non Samsung users you will be limited to AAc or SBC which does lower the detail of the sound. But the over all sound signature remains intact so will give similar but slightly lower quality sound. Without having the ability to A/B extensively most would not really notice a difference.I am very happy with this new model, Samsung has exceeded my expectations for audio quality. Now if they can tackle the battery life and make it slightly more customizable for controls and EQ they will go from a 4 to an easy 5!

I was literally blown away the second I turned on the music. First of all, these are finally truly loud wireless earbuds, this is first time ever where I was dialling the volume down, because 80% is plenty! There is nothing more annoying when there is good song and you press the button to increase the volume and just hear "beep - maximum volume", but it is still quiet. Worry no more! I would not advise listening at 100% all the time, but if there is anyone who will have a say about damaging or preserving my hearing it will be me!Secondly, bass is so deep that I struggle to remember anything of this size to come close - perhaps original Beats by Dr. Dre 10 year ago (obviously they were wired). Still the sound is extremely detailed and very well separated i.e. bass, ... MoreI was literally blown away the second I turned on the music. First of all, these are finally truly loud wireless earbuds, this is first time ever where I was dialling the volume down, because 80% is plenty! There is nothing more annoying when there is good song and you press the button to increase the volume and just hear "beep - maximum volume", but it is still quiet. Worry no more! I would not advise listening at 100% all the time, but if there is anyone who will have a say about damaging or preserving my hearing it will be me!Secondly, bass is so deep that I struggle to remember anything of this size to come close - perhaps original Beats by Dr. Dre 10 year ago (obviously they were wired). Still the sound is extremely detailed and very well separated i.e. bass, treble, vocals and mids all sounds very distinct and clear. Which leads to next point...Third, the clarity is in the league of it's own , to the point where it almost becomes an issue. This is no fault of the earbuds, but if you music source is less then perfect then you will hear it, it reproduce sound so clearly that any noise will be heard, so... just make sure you listen to good quality source. So it is a good thing if you have good quality source, it will be great for watching movies etc. where it sometimes hard to tell voices apart from background effects etc.Fourth, ambient sounds something altogether, it literally enhances your hearing as with earbuds in and ambient sound on you will hear thing normal human can't hear. I don't want to exaggerate - you not snooping on conversation 200m away any time soon, but if people are whispering 5 metres away you will hear it like they whispering it to your ear. It is sometimes creepy, yet it does exactly what it says to do - you don't feel like your ears are plugged anymore and all surrounding sounds are clarified and amplified. You not going to need to take them out to have a conversation for sure.Perhaps only one caveat - £219 is quite a lot, I got them for free with Fold 4, if it would have been my own money I probably would not have considered spending that much, but that is on assumption that it will be diminishing returns. However, in this case I think they are really worth it and one is not overpaying considering how well they perform.Apart of that they have excellent connectivity and great battery life - I would go as far as saying they are perfect for the purpose they were designed. Can't find any fault and they exceeded expectation in all possible criteria.