I get it. You have some AirPods Pros you swear by. You're convinced they are the best sounding, most high quality, and coolest things you have. But let me tell you: there are better options out there. These will sound breathtaking to you compared to so many other buds on the market. The sound and the build quality are worthy of the $399. They're buds you can buy and not have to worry about upgrading later on. The sound is that good. They may not be the best at ANC. If you want the best ANC, get the Sony buds or the Seinhesser MW3. The black versions of these look outstanding. They also come in gold if that's your thing!

Bang and Olufsen (B&O) changed things up with the Beoplay EX over the Beoplay EQ. They added larger drivers, increased comfort, added stems for better call quality, and improved ANC all while keeping their stellar build quality, feature set, and audio quality. I've gone through so many earbuds that I've lost track. Every time I think I find a pair that works for me, they either experience glitching, won't stay in my ears, or hurt my ears. I've given up on trying to find the absolute best earbud that's the most comfortable with the highest level of ANC and audio quality that I like. Other brands have come close in terms of audio quality, but their earbuds hurt my ears. I'm not sure what B&O has done here, as stem-styled earbuds usually fall out of my ears, but the Beoplay EX are extremely comfortable and stay in my ears. I can walk, eat, jog, exercise, bend over, and lay down without the earbuds budging. That's all with the medium rubber ear tips. The Beoplay EX are easy to pop in and out of your ears with a slight twist. They feature a stem and have improved phone call quality compared to the Beoplay EQ. They still aren't the absolute best but are a viable solution. The EX feature stellar audio quality. B&O added a larger driver in the earbuds and sculpted their sound to be a bit more neutral out of the box. There's still some emphasis on bass, these fit within the standard V-shaped Harmon curve, but they're mostly neutral as-is. B&O offer an EQ in their companion app. I wish it were at least a 3-band EQ, it isn't. B&O went with a more consumer-friendly approach with a circle and a selector you drag around. It works, but I would have preferred a 3-band EQ for more advanced users. It took me about a minute to find the EQ I prefer and, with it enabled, the EX really shine. Bass is booming without being overbearing and bleeding into the mids. Highs are prominent yet not piercing, and vocals are clean. Everything about their audio quality is clean and defining. The EX use Bluetooth 5.2 and you can use each earbud independently. I haven't had any skipping issues with my notebook, desktop, smartphone, tablet, or handheld console. They have a wide sound stage for earbuds, wider than I would have thought. I can place instruments and vocals with audio reaching further away than other earbuds that tend to focus audio in the middle of your head. Still not as wide as open-backed headphones, but better than most. Battery life is acceptable. B&O rates the EX for 6 hours of use with ANC and that fits in my experience. Turning ANC or transparency off results in better battery life (7-8 hours), but I'm fine with 6 hours. That's the norm these days for true wireless earbud battery life. Their case is small and made of the same aluminum as the earbuds. It features both USB-C and Qi charging. B&O's companion app can tell you the battery percentage of the case and earbuds. It's not as small as other earbuds from a fruit-labeled company, but it is smaller than most. There are only two drawbacks with the EX that keep them from getting a perfect score from me: transparency and ANC. Transparency is just OK, not as good as earbuds from said fruit-labeled company. It's serviceable, I just wish it were more natural sounding. Second, the ANC is on par with $100-$150 earbuds. It's fine and, when music is playing, you won't hear outside noise (these do get extremely loud). But, for their price, the ANC should be better. Having said that, the Beoplay EX have become my daily drivers for a few reasons. First, their audio quality is better than every other pair of true wireless earbuds I've tried (over 15 different pairs at this point). Second, I can wear them for hours on end without comfort issues and they stay in. Third, their build quality is as good as their audio quality. I can deal with having subpar transparency and middling ANC if it means having a better fit and sound quality. I highly recommend these for anyone wanting better sound quality out of their earbuds and are willing to have OK ANC.

I don't normally leave reviews, but these ear buds deserve one. These are by far the best sounding ear buds I have used. Now when I say best sounding, I mean best quality over a wide range. They are very loud and the base is amazing. They also respond very well throughout a wide frequency range to deliver a really high quality immersive sound. Im definitely glad I purchased these.

I bought is based off of other peoples reviews. I am definitely not impressed like everyone else’s. The controls on these headphones are the worst. You have to be really precise with where you touch to be able to play the song skip this song. Especially when you want to skip a song and have to touch the outside of the headphone more than one time. If you miss any of the area of the headphones the song will pause, and will have you sitting there waiting for it to play not knowing that its paused . It took me while just walking three or four times just to get it to skip a song because it kept pausing . I’ve tried several different headphones, and these are bar far the worst controlling ones I’ve used. The Apple iPods touch is way easier and doesn’t require you to have to touch the whole entire area of the outside of the headphone to do anything on it. Sound quality is good but not as good as I thought it was gonna be these are very expensive I would save my money by buying something cheaper.

These headphones sound absolutely amazing. I test rode the sennheiser momentum true wireless 3 airpod pro 2 and these ex easily blows them out the water as far as sound quality. The base is very beefy which I love. My only gripe is the app needs some work. It is pretty basic. Also when you are going from ANC, ambient sound and neutral you can barely tell the difference when something is playing. Also the ambient sound on the airpod pros are way better than these literally sound like you have nothing in your ears. For the money i feel like that is not acceptable I guess the airpods spoiled me. Ill be keeping these for my work out headphones for best sound quality. My airpod pros 2 will be my out and about headphones. If you are all about music you wont be disappointed. Also to note when i was doing the firmware update was very buggy. I kept getting bluetooth connection errors. I literally had to put the case right on top of my iphone 14 max for the update to push. It literally took like 5 tries. Not a good out of box experience.