The Soundbuds NB10s are still a unique pair of inexpensive Anker headphones, but don't expect them to lớn be the best headphones you've ever had. What you pay is what you get, solid 'buds khổng lồ sweat in.
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When people are working on a budget & ask what hàng hóa they should get, it’s not hard lớn recommend Anker. The company was started by a group of Googlers that knew the future was going khổng lồ need some chất lượng mobile accessories. Sure you can get charging cables & battery packs from them, but here we’re usually most impressed with their range of audio products. Their speakers are usually easy to lớn recommend, but what about their fitness headphones? In particular, the Soundbuds NB10?
What’s inside
There’s no surprises about the box. It’s the same classic minimal all-black box that most of their products come in. Once you open it up you’ll get the headphones, a nice breathable mesh carrying pouch, a micro USB charging cable, two extra pairs of ear tips and a rubber cable tie, và the instruction booklet & customer satisfaction pamphlet.
Build và Design
The Anker SoundBuds are IPX5-certified, meaning that they can withstand all of your heavy-duty workouts.
When companies want to cut costs, build quality is usually what takes the hit. Metal & leather tend khổng lồ be replaced by plastic và rubber. Normally that’s a bad thing, but when it comes to fitness headphones that actually helps the cause. First off, these are really light headphones. I was expecting the earbuds lớn weigh them down & though I’m sure they technically do, you can’t feel the difference between these và some other ‘buds when you’re actually wearing them. The plastic & rubber full bộ also gives these a clear to sweat-proofing. These have an IPX5 certification against sweat và water along with hydrophobic nano-coating on the inside.
The Soundbuds have an over-ear hook design & come with 3 pairs of ear tips so you can hopefully get a good fit. Pro tip: you’re definitely going to lớn have lớn use the included rubber cable tie for the extra slack in the headphones. Otherwise these just won’t stay in your ears. That said, even with the right ear tips và cable tie I was surprised that these actually stayed in. Even though they feel like they might fall out, they don’t. Once you get used khổng lồ that precarious feeling & trust that they’ll stay put they actually are pretty comfortable and easy to use while exercising. Along the vị trí cao nhất of the right ear bud you’ll find three buttons for playback controls, while the bottom has the small mic and a micro USB port that’s hidden under a plastic flap.
Connection
There’s only three buttons, but you vày get a fairly useful amount of controls out of them. The two outer buttons only control volume which is straightforward enough, but the middle button is a multifunction button. You can nguồn the Soundbuds on or off by holding this down for a second or two, & you can enter pairing mode if you hold it down for a few more seconds. Pairing was simple & I had no hiccups, though it take a few seconds longer than usual to show up in the công nghệ bluetooth không dây devices section of my settings. Once music is playing you can tap the middle button lớn pause or play music or tap it twice to lớn skip to the next song, but that’s it. No returning to lớn a previous song whether you’re on apk or ios which is always an annoyance for me.
Connection strength was solid enough & I was able to get khổng lồ around 30 feet with nothing in the way. With a wall or two I got to around 20 feet, but if my phone was in my pockets I had very few stutters which is always the most important connection feature of a pair of fitness headphones. That said there were a few stutters so it could definitely be better, but it wasn’t bad at all.
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Battery
Anker claims a battery life of 6 hours, và in our testing we got around 5.5 hours on max volume. That’s pretty good on Ankers part for having an accurate battery life, but considering how large the housing is on these headphones I’m surprised to lớn not have at least 8 hours of playback time. Six hours is on the low side of average nowadays. Still, this will obviously be fine for the average workout but if you’re like me & tend to throw your headphones in your bag after you’re done and forget lớn charge them, this could be a problem.
Sound Quality
I did all of the testing while using apps like Spotify và Google Play Music, since you’re probably not going to be streaming while you exercise. At least that’s what I do. Though these are earbuds, they don’t really provide a great seal which could be good & bad while exercising. It does inevitably thảm bại some chất lượng because of this, but at least on low khổng lồ moderate volume you’ll be able to somewhat hear what’s going on around you which is good if, for example, you run around your neighborhood.
Low over on the Soundbuds isn’t that strong, especially for a pair of workout ‘buds. I can appreciate a strong low end in workout headphones but I usually don’t lượt thích too much bass, that said even I was left wanting more in these. I’m used to lớn more of a thump in the bass kicks of “L.E.S” by Childish Gambino và though I found it fine for casual listening, I missed it when I was running and needed some extra motivation.
Overall mids weren’t as clear as I was expecting. They was enough detail khổng lồ get by, mainly in terms of vocals, but other elements of some songs didn’t get enough prominence. A good example of this was in “Sound & Color” by Alabama Shakes. At times it sounded like the track was just all vocals và you couldn’t really hear past them to lớn appreciate other instruments.
At times the highs became a little harsh, but it wasn’t to lớn the point of pain. It was definitely pulled back a bit where you will tend to thua kém some detail in cymbals and higher synth elements, with most of the prominence being given to the high mids.
Conclusion
Overall I was fairly impressed with the build quality of the headphones, but not so much with the sound quality which is a weird reversal for Anker. Maybe it’s just because fitness headphones are just more comfortable when they’re made of rubber, but I had no problems wearing these around the house or while running. They don’t have that great a seal so noise isolation isn’t amazing, but that’s also what makes them comfortable to lớn wear for a long time. I wouldn’t consider sound unique bad, more lượt thích just average for the price point. That said, it’s still a good price point at under $50. I still have no problem recommending these, I just don’t see too many people being surprised by them. What you get is what you pay for, a decent pair of headphones.
