SOL REPUBLICTruly Wireless Amps Air, Gold/Black (SOL-EP1190BK)

Absolutely love these! Great quality, sound, and very easy to use. I have daith and tragus piercings and these buds don’t bother the piercings and are comfortable to wear. Most other headphones don’t fit and are uncomfortable due to this. Truly glad I purchased these, definitely worth the money!

Are these wireless earbuds perfect? No. Do they do a commendable job? Definitely.PROS:- IMPRESSIVE bass quality: Solid but not overpowering. I get low ranges that many of my other ear buds, especially wireless, don't pick up- Good call quality: For an earbud the performance here is good. No complaints from anyone on the other end so far- Build Quality: These feel super solid, the nice metal case for stoarge/charging shows how high grade it is. They went all out premium.CONS:- Pairing Difficulties: The only issue so far. Not taking them out of the case at the same time causes some issues, but putting them back in and taking them out again resolves this 100% of the time. If you're having issues pairing, make sure they're NOT connected to any other bluetooth device before trying to pair with a new one. Otherwise they'll keep trying to pair to the old device, which is annoying but intended as a feature not a bugBefore listening to the negative reviews around sound, I think it's important to note that the bottleneck here is usually the source. If you're playing off of a 240p Youtube Video, it's going to sound a lot more harsh than high fidelity audio. My observations were recorded on 'Extreme' quality for Spotify in order to not penalize them unfairly for bad audio levels on a ripped song.This technology is still fairly new so it's not without its problems. If you're taking a chance on truly wireless sound as an early adopter and are okay with some quirks in pairing, this is the best bet for you out there.

I have purchased a bunch of different headphones and earbuds from quite a few manufacturers. The fit and finish of the Amp Airs are very nicely don't and well thought out. They sit so snuggly in the ear. You really have to try to dislodge them while moving. Now on to the sound, I bought SOL Republic V10's when they first can out. These little wireless Amp Airs have just as good if not better sound range. The low are deep and thunderous. The high are nice, peaky, and crisp. The package was a nice unboxing experience. And, the box suggest that you will get 3 hours playback but I have achieved 5 straight hours of play (mileage may vary). Overall best pair of earbuds I own. I would absolutely buy them again.

Seriously, if you intend to listen to anything where the drummer considers hitting a cymbal, remove these from your cart, your wishlist, and your awareness, they are awful for music. But that's cutting to the chase, so let's talk about what trying to use these headphones is like:- Build:Not bad. They feel pretty good in the hand, they feel okay in the ear, and they are true to their athletic marketing, since they stay in your ears. The 4 different sizes of nubs is nice, and trading them out is pretty straightforwards. The buttons are responsive, but take a strange amount of pressure to actuate. If it was less, they would be too easy to hit accidentally, but you have to apply enough force to make them uncomfortable to work with while you're wearing them, hurting my ears in the process. Since they are wireless, it's easy enough to use your phone instead, but that kind of defeats the purpose of including the feature at all. I would have preferred a touch interface on a different surface instead, where you don't actually have to click something to provide an input, and it doesn't take the entirety of the space you'd normally use to adjust the sit in your ears.I have my gripes with how difficult they are to remove from the carrying case, but depending on how accident prone you think you'll be, that might be a selling point for you. The case is a pretty cheap feeling piece of hardware, and I wasn't willing to tolerate the abysmal sound long enough to exhaust a charge, let alone try recharging them the advertised number of times. The lid in particular has a real cheap clicking to it every time you open it up, detracting from the experience. Also, enough with the microUSB interface. Get us on USB-C already!- Usability:I already alluded to how well these things stay in your ears, and I do think there's something to the physical design. I got waaay more aggressive than usual with the headbanging, just to see if I could get them to come out, and low and behold, they stuck. Credit where it's due, I'd love to have something that was this good to go out on a run, or even go snowboarding. They ain't comin' out unless you take 'em out!The pairing experience was pretty painless. Long-press them together until they enter pairing mode, wait for them to be friends, then add them on my phone (iOS, FWIW). That's it. That's exactly how it should be.I'm not super stoked about the mono-mode, but I also wouldn't get something like this for business calls. To that end, I didn't test the mic, so I can't speak to the quality. If you're still making phone calls, I would imagine that you can either get by with the traditional experience, or you make a volume of calls that justifies a more robust solution.- Audio:Here we go. Here's the big one. The deal breaker. The cause for eternal damnation. The drivers in these things are hot garbage. I'd rather listen to the sound they make when they're on fire, than try to listen to music through them again. I like music that leans a bit more on the bass, with heavier, faster riffs, and a lot of double-bass drums. That's where these things shine. But even that kind of heavier music still passes into the top third of the register every now and then, and boy, these things just do their best to vomit static into your ears as soon as you do.Every. Single. Time. Someone hit a cymbal, they just played a little clip of TV static. And not even volume-modulated static, either. Louder than the music, louder than the rest of the song, louder than whatever I had the volume set to, they just spit out garbage to a split second before picking the song up again.Okay, but surely, I just had a bad pair, right? They were defective, so another pair shouldn't have that issue, right? That's what I thought, but here I am, with two identical pairs sitting on my desk, and both have the exact same problem. They're just bad.All told, these are a great product in everything but execution. The build quality is pretty good, they fit and feel acceptable, and they even look nice. But boy, as soon as you try to use them as anything other than a fashion accessory, get ready for the headache, since they are terrible.

It falls out of my ear , Other than that it was great.

The sound quality is pretty bad. Every time there are vocals in a song, the sound gets distorted. I returned them and bought them again, with the hope that the first ones were bad, but it turns out that's their quality. I tried different devices, music apps, and songs, but always got the same result. They are hard to pair. They feel really comfortable in the ear, and work really good with songs that don't have vocals (like electronic music). I really liked the improvement they made in their nozzle design, since now the strainer-like thing is embedded in the earphone, so it won't fall (as in the shadow model or the relay model). But since I like listening to music with vocals.....