Looking for budget bluetooth earbuds with ANC
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?
I bought my Earfun Air S in 2022. I like and enjoy them. They probably have newer ones now.
You can probably also check out Rtings.com as well
Earfün stunned me with how good they are for the money.
The ANC is impressive for such little things.
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...
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 😅
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 y'all for your recommendations! I ended up following [email protected]'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!