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?
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…
Anker often has the entry-point item - the lowest price where things actually work too.
Yes, but I am not exaggerating that I couldn’t hear any difference between those and +200-300 more expensive earbuds and with less technical issues.
I don’t doubt you - I’m a big fan of Anker stuff. There’s is the stuff you know it will do what it says on the tin.
No worries, I was just stressing the price difference because I’d expect even I could hear a difference, which I could not.
Also, having anc on on one ear and off on another is a very unwelcome experience. And it happened several times with the 400€ Sony earbuds.
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 😅