CMF Buds Wireless Bluetooth Earbuds, 42dB Noise Cancelling Earbuds, Dirac HD Audio, 35.5H Playtime, BT5.3, IP54 Waterproof, 4HD Mics Wireless Headphones for iPhone & Android (Orange)

First of all, just a silly remark, the little spinner wheel on the case is an incredible fidget toy! I find myself playing with it all the time lol. But in terms of the actual earbuds, they're amazing. As a producer and mixing engineer as well as generally a musician for many years, I can say these sound very good. Not too bassy, but not tinny or empty by any means. They charge super fast, but also hold their charge for an unbelievable amount of time. I find they almost never fall out of my ears, and they feel super great. They pair with my phone (Pixel 7 Pro) super easily; they seem to be most compatible with Android. My only small complaint is that the "remove earbud to pause media" feature has a quite inconvienient delay between removing the bud and actually pausing the music. To be fair though, even the effort to put prox sensors and coding this feature into earbuds at this price point is amazing, so still 5 stars!

I ordered these on a complete whim when saw the price was under $30; I had wanted to try “Nothing” Brand for a while now and this seemed like a good entry point.I was excepting $30 earbuds, but if all Nothing Brand products operate like these do, I would easily had paid $100+ for these.Firstly, I have used them almost every day for a week, and have not had to charge the case yet. In fact, the buds themselves are still at full (I haven’t set up the app yet, so not sure about the case itself).The case isn’t just some cheaply made product and neither are the buds. I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard to break them, but again, shocked at the appeared quality for dollar here. With that, the sound quality is easily comparable to my $200 Sony Headphones, while the Bluetooth connection is easily the fastest and easiest I’ve ever experienced.It’s not heavy in your pocket, while being slightly larger than an AirPods case, it really doesn’t feel awkward or uncomfortable. I know there is an app for extra features and such, but I have not used it yet so I cannot speak to its functionality, but it’s really just a happy added bonus.I have used them every day of the work week for a few hours at a time, and a little less on the weekend. It charges via USB-C, but haven’t had to yet! The buds report as full on my phone. I’ve probably had the volume about half most of the time.AND THEY STAY IN MY EARS!!! NEVER BEFORE!!!!!!!!!TLDR;I am beyond impressed with the quality of these earbuds. They actually stay in my ears, have excellent sound quality, have their own app, and the fact that they are under $100 is beyond a steal!

TL;DR: Decent earphones for the price, but not good enough to be a versatile daily driver.I bought this as a spare throwaway set for the gym, because I’m scared of damaging my very expensive Airpods Pro 2 set. I’m using these with my iPhone, and I downloaded the Nothing X app to get full functionality of what is advertised, and I was a bit surprised.Out of the box, the audio curves are very bass heavy. I’m sure most people will love the sound on these, but audiophiles will not have as good of a time using these. I’m more in the middle, I enjoy music with bass but even I know what’s intended to be punchy by the music artist and what’s not. Even with bass turned all the way down in the app, it still feels a bit punchy, but I don’t mind too much. The clarity is good enough, but I wouldn’t use these if you plan on gaming (I’ll explain more in the issues with these earbuds). Noise cancellation is pretty good, almost as close as the Airpods, but for the price it’s really good.The battery life is pretty good, they last just about, if not longer, than my Airpods Pro 2.The case charges them pretty quickly, and the magnets that hold the earbuds are really strong, so there’s no way they can fall out of the case accidentally. However, and this is mainly a preference, while the case ergonomics are fine, I do wish they went with a design that was easily openable with one hand. The Airpods are easily accessible with one hand, but with the CMF Buds case, I have to use both hands to open it. Nothing completely debilitating, but I just happened to notice it a lot more when I go to reach for my earbuds and my other hand is occupied.The volume control can be configured in the app, you can actually ‘rebind’ each of the controls to different tap actions that you can set per earbud, which is a really nice feature, with some caveats.Ok so let’s get to the issues.You cannot bind some controls to other tap actions, like the play/pause control for example. These controls are sectioned off by the different tap actions (Tap & Hold, Double Tap, Triple Tap, etc) and you are limited to what controls are listed under each action. So if I wanted to bind Volume Control to Tap & Hold, I can’t because it’s reserved for Double Tap & Hold only. This makes the control configuration not as free-form as I would’ve liked, but this is an issue that I think is personal to me, so maybe you won’t mind.Now, the app. The app is good, and the first couple weeks into using these earbuds it was working perfectly fine. A weird issue I had with the app was that it wouldn’t detect the earbuds and in order to get the app working again I had to uninstall and reinstall it. It hasn’t happened again, so hopefully that’s just a fluke, but something to mention nonetheless.Okay now the sound clarity, these earbuds don’t get as loud as the airpods, probably for good reason, but I like having my music just a little bit louder than what is the max volume on the CMF Buds, which is around 80% of Airpods max volume. Also, when you pair the CMF Buds to a computer, the audio quality is good when you’re just watching videos or listening to music or in a Discord/Zoom call. However, if you try to play a game or something, the quality just dips significantly. I have no idea what causes it, but in Helldivers 2, it makes it sound like the audio is coming out of a gramaphone or something. So, I wouldn’t really recommend it for gaming. Probably wouldn’t recommend it for video editing either, because of how bass heavy it is even on the lowest level.So, in the end, I’ll keep these for the intended use-case I bought them for, which is as a pair of earbuds to take to the gym, but if you were expecting more out of these, you should look elsewhere.