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One minute review  The Beoplay EQ are Bang & Olufsen’s first true wireless earbuds with adaptive active noise cancellation (ANC) and despite their eye-popping price tag, they deliver on most critical fronts. Everything about them screams premium. From their sleek looks to gorgeously detailed audio and compact carrying case. The buds themselves are a bit on the chunky side, but once settled in they sit comfy and snug without cramping your ears. Touch controls on the outside of the buds let you toggle through ANC modes, playback, volume and call answer/reject. Like most touch controls on earbuds, they can be a little clumsy and it’s faster to control stuff on the device the buds are connected to.  Audio is crisp and gorgeously detailed. The Beoplay EQ are able to pick up on subtle nuances in dense tracks, delivering an expressive sound scape. Their default tone is fairly neutral as is the case with most B&O headphones. If that’s not your jam, you can play around with...

Two-minute review Huawei’s latest FreeBuds 4 look similar to their predecessor and bring a host of improvements across the board including multi-device connectivity, volume touch controls on the stem, and upgraded drivers for enhanced sound quality as well as support for high resolution audio. They sport a familiar open-fit design that’s lightweight and spacious, appealing to those who don’t want to jam silicone tips in their ears. And though open-fit buds don’t offer a solid seal around your ear like their in-ear counterparts, Huawei’s banking on its dual-microphone ANC technology to compensate for that by using the extra mics to pick up outside noise and block it out.  To aid passive noise reduction ANC, Huawei’s tacked on Adaptive Ear Matching tech to detect a user’s ear shape and optimize noise cancellation accordingly. It sounds impressive on paper but doesn’t work like you’d want it to. Not everyone will get similar results, which largely depend on how well the FreeBuds ...