soundcore Anker Liberty Air 2 Pro True Wireless Earbuds, Targeted Active Noise Cancelling, PureNote Technology, LDAC, 6 Mics for Calls, 26H Playtime, HearID Personalized EQ, Wireless Charging

Firstly, let's address the elephant in the room - active noise cancellation. If ANC is your main reason for buying a pair wireless buds, go grab a pair of Sony WF-1000xm3's. IMHO they are the gold standard in this area. Still nowhere near as good as full size headphones, but the best you'll get in small form factor buds.The ANC on the Soundcores is best described as 'decent' or 'adequate'. Whilst out walking, they did a decent job of reducing traffic noise and I imagine would cope pretty well with planes, trains, etc. Indoors didn't fare as well. Background noises such as TVs and voices, whilst dulled slightly, were still very noticeable. Like I said, decent, but nowhere near as capable as the Sony's.As for transparency mode, where the object is to bring outside noise into your ears, I found that although it worked, it sounded unnatural and a bit weird.What I do have to say though, is that the Soundcores do a lot of things really well. Basically a lot of bang for your buck. I'll try to summarise this below:SOUNDThe sound is surprisingly good for a set of sub £100 buds. They use the SBC and AAC codecs, so no aptX here. That's mean no support for high res music files or low latency functionality. Watching stuff from Netflix and YouTube, I didn't see any noticeable lag but I doubt they could be used for serious gaming without the aptX support.Listening to local Flac files on my phone and streaming from Tidal, the sound was clear and refined, with good separation. Lows and mids were well defined, but highs tended to sound a bit restrained and I occasionally encountered some sibilance - that's not unsurprising at this price point. I did enjoy the overall presentation, which I would describe as 'lively'. If bass is your thing, these earphones aren't for you. The sound can be tailored to your liking using the supporting Soundcore app - I'll cover that in the next paragraph as it really deserves it's own section.SOUNDCORE APPThe supporting app is simply outstanding. It allows you to configure the controls on the touch sensors, features a whole range of preset sound settings, and the star of the show for me - HearID. It's basically a test that plays back different frequencies into each ear and, based on your responses, creates a sound signature tailored to your hearing. I've played around with the various presets and the fully customisable EQ settings and I always go back to my own HearID settings, which absolutely nailed it as far as I'm concerned. These sound as good as more expensive earbuds I have such as the Samsung Galaxy Buds + and RHA TrueConnect.DESIGN AND BUILDTop quality. The case is small enough to fit in your pocket and the matte finish doesn't attract fingerprints. I love how the lid of the case slides open and closed. You get a really satisfying click and it feels very robust. If I dropped the case, I would have no worries about anything breaking. The buds are light, but still feel well made and just look amazing.COMFORT AND FITAs I said the buds themselves are very light. There is a total of NINE different pairs of silicon tips - 8 in the box and the pair that come attached to the buds. This should allow you to get a decent seal, which does help with the ANC. The stems on the buds are longer than most but didn't cause any issues. For a while I actually forgot I was wearing them, and didn't notice any fatigue until around 3 hours in - very impressive.CONNECTIVITY AND CALLSVery easy to pair using the supporting app. It's Bluetooth 5.0 here, so connectivity is strong and I haven't noticed any dropouts as yet. Took a couple of calls and the sound was clear and the callers had no trouble hearing me ok.I have found that over the last week, these have become my go-to earphones. They don't particularly excel at any one thing, they just do a very good all round job. They are fun and easy to use and look amazing. And the supporting app is the icing on the cake - easy to use and so many features.£99 feels like a bit of a steal if I'm perfectly honest.

The first experiences with the product are very good. The fit well and comfortably. The noise cancelling works well, although not quite as well as a Bose on ear headset that is even quieter. I've mostly used the liberty air pros with podcasts. On one there was a sharp "s" problem with a speaker (think sound check before a gig when the guy at the mixer tests if "s" doesn't hiss). This might have been due to the recording, not the headset. The good thing is with the app, you can adjust the equalizer to attenuate something like that. I can't talk about battery life yet.The one thing I find unacceptable is the amount of packaging. It is a waste of at least 10 times more material than needed. Because it costs Anker too little in material to feed the idiocy of making ever more luxurious throw away packaging, I'm docking a star. Less waste would have given it a 5 star rating.

When I ordered these earbuds I was not expecting them to be as good as they are, given the price. [I bought them when they were discounted].They come well packaged in an attractive box, and the instructions are easy to follow. On downloading the app on my iPhone I was surprised how user friendly it is and the number of features, including a 'fit test' that checks your buds provide a properly sealed fit in your ears, based on the large number of different sized buds included (8 pairs). There's also an automatic customized set up which tailors the sound to your own hearing, and customizable noise cancelling (ANC) that allows you to choose what sort of noise it filters out. When I first used the ANC I thought it was not very effective, being used to Bose ANC. But I had not realised I was in a quiet room. When I tested it a second time in heavy traffic it worked very well. The sound quality is top notch if the buds are sealed and fit well, and according to other reviews I've read, as good as or even slightly better than Apple Earpod Pros [Cnet].Battery life seems reasonable with the option to charge the charging case wirelessly. The Soundcore Liberty Air 2 Pros don't have multipoint Bluetooth pairing that allows you to more easily switch between devices, but apart from that they are feature rich.Making and receiving calls works effortlessly, and the sound quality, according to those on the other end of the call, was far superior to other (cheaper) wireless earbuds I had been using previously. There are 6 microphones, 3 in each bud, in different locations. I also noticed that Siri was able to better understand me, especially in more challenging locations with background noise.Overall, highly recommended.

Coming from wired Bose earphones these are a surprisingly good replacement. They can't quote match the Bose noise cancelling but compared to other wireless earphones the noise cancelling is excellent. The sound quality is great, with good bass. I had a pair of sony wf-1000xm3 and these are so much better in just about every way. They have better NC, easier to fit (which made the Sonys sound tinny), they have a good app, they look better, and they're cheaper.Would highly recommend.

Benn using these soundcore headphones for a few weeks now and so far there great the noise cancelling is brilliant and the transparency mode is also really good great sound and good call features also the soundcore app is a must for the full experience of these earbuds, I love the case how it slides up and open its very smooth and pretty cool if you ask me and the earbud compartments are magnetic so as you put them in they are slightly pulled in which is very cool