Galaxy Buds Pro, Bluetooth Earbuds, True Wireless, Noise Cancelling, Charging Case, Quality Sound, Water Resistant, Phantom Black (US Version)

There is a TLDR at the end for those of you that got scared clicking read more and see a wall of text appear on your screen. Since there's a lot I have to say about these headphones, grab some popcorn, a soda, and strap in. As a forward, I have only tried these for a few hours, so I will update this post if my opinions change at all. Some initial things to get out of the way, I am by no means an experienced audiophile. I do enjoy the many different aspects of audio though. I love the character of vinyl and have tried many different headphones over the years. By many, I mean dozens, as I have a very weirdly shaped ear canal that has trouble getting in-ear headphones to fit correctly. My main daily pair of headphones is the second-gen Airpods since they are the only thing that fit my ear well. I also have a pair of Skullcandy Crushers for when I want a pair of car subs attached to my ears and Jaybird X3's with Comply tips for skating and exercising. My testing device is a Note 20 Ultra, using Spotify set to the extreme quality setting (320kbps to my knowledge). FIT AND COMFORT This category is incredibly subjective, as everyone's ears are different. I will say, however, that this is the first pair of in-ear headphones that fit my incredibly weird ears out of the box!!! I've done the shake test and they stay pretty well in there. Comfort is a 5/5 DESIGN AND BUILD QUALITY The design and build are top-notch on these buds. The case feels incredibly solid and is about the same size as the case on my Airpods (the buds case is slightly thicker). The buds themselves look great and the mirror finish is nice to look at. Overall, very well designed and built and thusly, gets a 5/5. SOUND QUALITY Another bit of forwarding before I jump in, this is another subjective category. I am sensitive to "bright" headphones (where the highs or treble are too high and sound painful to my ear) and steer away from them as soon as I notice them. I am only going to be commenting on certain tracks and genres that I enjoy and actively listen to. I am blown away from the raw quality of the sound coming out of these! I had the Airpods Pro for a bit, and these sound similar but tuned for a tad more bass. This is exactly what I was looking for. You also have a couple of preset EQ options to tune it more to your liking or listening habits for the day. I'm hoping adjustable EQ support comes in the future to help dial in the sound signature to your liking. I'll break down each track and categorize it by genre. -ELECTRONIC/HOUSE/OTHER SUB-GENRES Transformer by Moog: I chose this track to see if the backing cymbal can be heard amidst the rest of the song. It's very clear, along with the rest of the track. Bass also sounds very nice, not overdone, and very tight and punchy. Clarity and great bass quality will be a reoccurring character in this segment. -ROCK/METAL I Love You to Death by Family Force 5: (This is the song I used for the shake test.) This is a track that I like to crank and test the audio quality at high volume. I can confirm that these buds sound just as good at high volumes. The cymbals don't destroy my ears, the guitars are very clear, and SGA's screams are great. Suck My Kiss by Red Hot Chili Peppers: This is another track that regularly gets cranked. Flea's bass sounds perfect and once again, clear as day. The drums also sound killer. -RAP Jump by Mac Miller: I chose this track to hear how clear and tight the bass was. The bassline on this one can sound very different depending on what headphones you use. It's tight and punchy with these. Clarity was also strong on this one. Bless Yo Trap by Smokepurpp: This song is perfect for its incredibly heavy (but well-produced) bass. This track through the Crushers will literally shake my head, it's great. These buds handle the drum machine (cymbal perhaps?) in the background very, very well. Most headphones will usually force me to limit the volume because it sounds so shrill. Not on these. I can crank them up and not worry about it. The bass left a bit to be desired... Until I used the bass booster EQ, which as you can probably guess, upped the bass and still sounded punchy and tight. Well done. Big Fish by Vince Staples: I also tested the bass booster EQ on this one. I noticed when it was enabled, it started to eat into the clarity of the mids a bit. Without the EQ it sounds crystal clear. Where I'm From by Digable Planets: This song's nice short bassline can sound different depending on your headphones. Very accurate and well-controlled bass on this one. -CLASSICS Rocket 69 by Todd Rhodes: This is the "make it or break it" moment for figuring out if headphones are too "bright" for me. Todd's vocals, along with the amazing sax solo can destroy my ears on some headphones. These handle this track PERFECTLY. Everything seems very well controlled and balanced. These buds produce a fantastic sound, without over-emphasizing any one aspect of the sound profile. Bass is nice and subdued (you could be surprised with what the Crushers do to this track) and the highs are not shrill or painful to my ears. The mids sound crisp and clear. -POP/NOT SURE THE GENRE Sit Next to Me by Foster the People: I was surprised by this track. I never noticed the bass guitar before. This is when I realized how much I was missing using the Airpods. Everything is so well defined and the stereo separation is perfect. Not much else to say about this one, as everything about it sounds great. -COUNTRY What Was I Thinkin' by Dierks Bentley: This track was another case of pure clarity. I could easily hear and discern every instrument and they were separated perfectly. A joy to listen to on these. Nothing was overblown on this one either, the bass might be a bit too high, but it's so tight that it adds to the sound in my opinion. All of these tracks sound great to my ear and easily get a 5/5 MEDIA CONTROLS Finally, something I dislike about these headphones. The single tap to pause/play a track works just fine. If you try to double-tap to skip/replay it is incredibly hit or miss. I'm not sure if this can be solved through software, or if my finger just doesn't hit the touch surface as well as it would like. Usually what ends up happening is, I double-tap to skip a track and it registers it as one tap, thus pausing my music. I then double-tap again to try to get it to skip and it just starts playing where it left off. Finally, on the third time, it will skip the track. Adjusting the buds usually ends up registering as a tap and will also usually pause your music, just trying to get it pressed in your ear better. It also does this sometimes when you initially take out the buds from the case and put it in your ear. It's a big pain in the butt right now and gets a 2/5 NOISE CANCELING Don't buy these for some Bose or Airpod Pro level ANC. They're good at sound isolation when you're playing something, but pausing a track won't leave you saying "wow" like with the Airpod Pros. The only testing I've done so far with the noise canceling is cleaning around the house and listening to them while typing up this review. When a track is playing I can't hear my keyboard, but paused they're just about as clear as having the ambient sound mode on. I'll conduct further testing on these and report back with my findings. For now, it gets a 1/5. (UPDATE: I've done some testing outside with them now and they are pretty good at blocking the lower frequencies. It takes a little bit for the noise canceling algorithm to catch up with the noise around you, but I would say it blocks out somewhere in the neighborhood of 50-60% of the noise around you. It also is great at removing wind noise at moderate speeds. Based on these new findings, it gets a 3/5. Not great, but not terrible or useless either.) AMBIENT MODE I'm happy to see that someone has finally implemented a function that allows the ambient mode to auto switch to on when you're speaking to someone. It's worked perfectly from the testing I've done so far. The ambient mode also sounds almost as good as the Airpod Pros' function. It works well, thus netting a 5/5 CONCLUSION I am simply blown away by these headphones. So much so, that I spent nearly 2 hours writing this review. They do almost everything they set out to do exceedingly well. I am hoping that future software updates will fix the issues that I currently have with them. I will be replacing my Airpods with these and will be recommending them to my friends. Well done Samsung, you have a real winner on your hands. Well, that wraps it up. For the TLDR readers out there: they sound amazing, ANC and touch controls suck majorly right now, the build and comfort are perfect, and I would easily recommend them.

What an amazing set of earbuds, these are definitely an upgrade to the original Galaxy Buds (1st Gen), and those were amazing sounding headphones on their own right too. But these pro versions, wow, they blow those out of the water.... Now at first I wasn't really able to notice the quality of the audio, I felt they were about the same as my original buds, boy was I wrong, not only these provide superior audio quality, these buds can literally pickup sounds that I wasn't able to hear before in my older Galaxy Buds, instruments that I didn't know that were there....a perfect example was Dream Theater - Octavarium....try listening to that song with these buds, the first 3 minutes will leave you in a trans-like state, orchestral basically, the sound is rich and just beautiful.... ANC works pretty well imo, it blocks out sound very effectively and you have the choice of two settings, low or high. I usually keep mine at high sense I work as a crossing guard, and I have to be outside several hours at a time listening to cars roaring past me, ANC takes care of that problem it makes a world of difference, I can barely hear any cars passing by me with ANC activated, all I hear is the music.... As for voice activated, its kind of a hit and miss for me, it activates when it detects or hears your voice and lowers down the volume of your music as well as automatically activating ambient sound so you can hear the other person you are speaking with, what I find odd though is it doesn't seem to activate when that person speaks to you first or asks you a question, literally you have to be the one to speak first in order for it to activate.....it can also be very interruptible at times, don't start singing along with any of your tunes because Voice Activated will kick in. EVERY. TIME. WITHOUT FAIL....if you are going to start a conversation you are still better off just removing your left or your right ear bud just to have a normal conversation with someone and just leave voice detect off.... Ambient sound works very well and you have the choice of 4 settings from low to very high, I would suggest you leave it at high max, trust me you don't need it any higher than that ambient sounds works very well and it will pick up everything around you, if you work at an office ambient sound would be a very important feature for you imo.... Very solid build quality, not too big of a fan of the Matt finish though (can be slippery, take caution), but if you hate fingerprints no worries you wont see any of them on these puppies, for such a small case and well thick enough buds, they are surprisingly heavy, it's understandable though, there is so much tech packed in such a small form factor it's no wonder they are slightly heavy, I think it has to do with the magnets, the magnets on these are a huge step up compared to the past buds, very strong your buds will not fall off the case that easy you have to deliberately shake them VERY HARD in order to send them flying.... As for the buds themselves well, they are pretty comfortable, somewhat, idk maybe I'm just going crazy but these are not exactly perfect fit I feel like the first gen buds had the right fit for me, these overtime start to hurt my ears a little bit, never had this problem with the older buds so idk guess it has to do with my ears, I think I just need bigger rubber tips and the largest ones that it came with are just not large enough to provide a better seal, why can't I use my older tips from my first gen buds? or even other tips that are out there? I just don't understand why Samsung didn't make the tips universal on these buds, these tips have a weird proprietary, idk, is connection the right word? anyways, the tips that it came with are solely and only for these buds so do not lose em, I cant find any replacements for these, eBay has some, but they are those foam ones and I don't like the foam ones...way to pull an Apple Samsung....why on earth was that a good idea? just make them universal so I can easily replace these things whenever I want...anyways moving along (sorry that was just a gripe I had) Controls seem pretty straight forward, if you are coming from the original buds like me you will become instantly familiar with them....tap once pause, tap twice skip track, tap three times previous track....you get the idea.... (I only had these buds for like two days so sadly I haven't been able to test call quality with these, mainly I have just been using them for music, as intended) In conclusion, there is alot more to these buds I can go on about but in all honesty this will turn into a very long review so I'm just gonna go straight to the point...ahem....BUY THESE....even if you have to use a credit card just, just buy them they are that good and worth every penny....not even the Air-pods Pro can step up with these buds not to mention 50 dollars cheaper and much more up to date technology that's being offered to you, in other words more bang for your buck, you can't go wrong with these and if you are an audiophile trust me, you will want these.....

The case is very compact and convenient. The battery life is less than the Buds+ but usually doesn't run out, at least for me. The features like noise cancelling and ambient sound are nice, although I now find myself just using one earphone when I need to hear my environment. I personally avoid the EQ settings from the Wearable app, the default sound is the best IMO. Comfort and fit is not so great - they tend to hurt my ears after an hour or two and slip out of my ears regardless of what tips I use. I should also note that they (and the Buds+) are much more water sensitive than indicated by the IP rating - if you clean them try to use as little water as possible or else they will stop working. As for sound, they are a definite improvement over the Buds+ which had a weird treble timbre and was a bit anemic due to subbass focus over midbass. The signature is something like warm Harman and is not in need of EQ for me personally. I personally find them to be one of the best tuned IEMs out of the box regardless of being wireless or wired, and they are a lot more convenient to put on than higher-end IEMs with an over-the-ear cable so despite the fit issues I find myself reaching for them quite a bit.

Guter Klang

Primero, quieres comprarlos y están en tu presupuesto, adelante es una muy buena compra, los recomiendo? SI totalmente si Ahora para aquellos que quieren quedarse a saber más acá les explico porque es en mi opinion los mejores audífonos que hace samsung y sus pro y contras porque como todo no son perfectos, son audífonos muy bien construidos y resistentes, se me han caído incontables veces y los he usado en lluvia fuerte y se me han caído mientras me afeito al agua del lavabo y los audífonos funcionan como nuevos y no tienen ni un solo rayon ni marca, se ven nuevos, la calidad de construcción es muy muy buena, a la par que los AirPods pro, la carcasa no es tan buena como la de los AirPods pero tampoco esta nada mal, es bonita y parece la caja de un anillo es pequeña aunque en lo personal me gustaría que fuese más delgada( la de los AirPods es mas delgada y eso la hace más cómoda en el bolsillo) pero ese es un problema que se arregla con una funda para colgar en tu pantalón y listo, en cuanto a lo importante, comodidad, sonido, funciones y batería Comodidad: Son bastante cómodos, yo tengo unas orejas de un tamaño medio, y para mi quedan muy bien, digo esto porque los audífonos descansan dentro de la oreja y parecido a los buds + tienen una alita para agarrarse de la oreja pero a diferencia de los buds + esta es parte de la forma del audífono y no puedes cambiar su tamaño, resalto esto pues quizá alguien con orejas pequeñas les resulte incomodo, para mi son muy cómodos y como los AirPods pro estos tienen una ventosa que libera la presión del aire en el oído lo cual es genial pues detesto esa sensación de presión que a veces te generan algunos audífonos de este estilo, son pequeños y muy discretos y no se caen con facilidad lo cual los hace ideales para salir a correr o ir a gym Sonido: Este es un topico debatidle pues dependen mucho tus gustos, yo soy un músico y en lo personal se me hacen buenos, sobretodo por lo conveniente que es el formato de audífonos wireless, tiene famosa v shape ósea un boost en los grabes medios-altos y un boost al principio de las altas, esto sin embargo es muy común en este tipo de audífonos ya que todos en esta categoría lo hacen de una u otra forma pero como comparación los buds pro tienen más graves que los AirPods pro así que si eres un fan del bajo te recomiendo estos por encima de los de apple, aunque como ya te digo el sonido de todos estos audífonos wireless no es tan diferente y si quieres un sonido superior los audífonos de cable a mitad del precio de estos suenan mejor pero no son ni de cerca tan versátiles como lo son los true wireless. Funciones: Estos pequeños chicharitos están llenos de funciones, de hecho más de las que me agradan jaja ahora llegare a eso, tiene como funciones como cancelación de ruido con 2 configuraciones, baja y alta, realmente hay poca diferencia entre las 2 y te consumen la misma batería así que yo en lo personal siempre lo tengo en alta pues no le veo ningún uso a la de baja también la cancelación es bastante buena, tiene un énfasis en bloquear las frecuencias bajas por ejemplo el sonido del motor de un choche lo elimina casi por completo, luego está sonido ambiente el cual deja pasar el sonido del exterior, sirve bien aunque el modo transparencia de apple suena un poco menos artificial( aunque ambos suenan falsos pero apple lo maneja un poco mejor) aparte de esto tiene otras funciones como sonido 3d el cual no se me hace nada especial, solo es interesante la primera vez pero en general yo prefiero no activarlo( creo que solo funciona el sonido 3d con teléfonos samsung con la versión requerida del software) y también está la función de detección de habla que activa el sonido ambiente y le baja el volumen a la Musica, este modo es muy conveniente al estar afuera, lo ocupo siempre que salgo de compras pues al momento que yo empiezo a hablar(solo se activa cuando tus hablas) puedo escuchar el mundo y puedes configurar cuantos segundos dura después de que acabas de hablar 5, 10 o 15, yo encuentro que con 10 segundos es más que suficiente para escuchar la respuesta de la otra persona al hacer una compra o pedir algo en un restaurante, de ahí en fuera en mi casa lo tengo desactivado pues se activa si bostezas o tarareas la canción y ahí puede ser molesto, también algo que en lo personal se me hace molesto son los controles, son simples pero la implementación se me hace muy floja, son controles táctiles y a diferencia de los buds + que el area táctil es mucho más obvia acá básicamente toda la superficie de acabado brillante es el botón táctil pero se activa muy fácil ósea que cuando te los acomodas, te los pones o te los quitas, probablemente iniciaste una canción o pásate a la siguiente, eso es realmente molesto y aunque con el tiempo te vas acostumbrando, creo que deberían buscar la forma de hacer el botón más fácil e intuitivo de usar pues incluso después de meses de uso sigo teniendo toques accidentales al acomodaremos o quitarmelos, no es un gran problema y si puedes desactivar los controles y usar un smartwatch para controlarlos pero es un punto a mencionar. La batería: La bateria creo que es suficientemente buena, siendo superior a los AirPods pro, teniendo la batería de los buds pro una autonomía de 8 hr sin cancelación activa de ruido y 5 hr con cancelación, en mi experiencia esto es bastante acertado, dándome al volumen que yo escucho la musica al rededor de 5 hr y 5 o 10 min antes de que se agote por completo la batería, la caja los puede cargar hasta 2 veces más creo pero realmente no te vas a acabar la batería de la caja y los audífonos en un día ni 2, tanto la caja y los audífonos tienen carga rápida y con cargarlos unos 15 tienes un par de horas de escucha así que la batería se me hace buena y ni un solo día me he quedado sin batería.

En general son casi perfectos, el sonido es muy bueno, los controles son buenos, el diseño me gusta aunque personalmente después de un rato me lastiman un poco. La duración de la batería no es su fuerte pero considero que es suficiente. La cancelación de ruido definitivamente no es tan buena como había escuchado pero funciona. En general son muy buenos y valen la pena por su precio.

The box had been opened and there was evidence it was used, there was hair and the ear buds were dirty. This is disgraceful. If you're sending a used device state this clearly in the description. I require a refund immediately!

Excellent product