SkullcandyIndy ANC In-Ear Noise Canceling True Wireless Earbuds, 32 Hour Battery, Microphone, Works with iPhone Android and Bluetooth Devices - Black

Not a fan of ear buds in both hearing loss (turn it up to 11) and miss having an audio jack in Android 😭 Originally, I was using my wife's as she was looking for her best fit.These fit great, comes with 3? sizes rubber bits. The sound is great to my ears; the bass is dynamic (like headphones), and with its noise canceling you don't need to BLAST them to enjoy Bass. It has a few modes that would influence the EQ and you can download an app to adjust but not really needed.I lost my wife's, so I rebought them! Great value at the time, had them for a few years now. Easy to use, easy connectivity set up and range is about 30ft, nice design for my ear canals - I'm a rather short male. The charging speed in a few minutes is awesome when you just need a quick recharge to finish a video.The cool part too is the not really bulky charging dock. It's a small square smooth, rounded edges with 4 recharges. It can slip out of your coat pockets so be careful

This is my second set of Indy ANC earbuds. The first set didn't break, just got misplaced somewhere, so take that as you will.The biggest thing about these buds is they're absolutely packed with features. The touch controls, while never great to work with, work great once you get use to them. I can't say much about the Bluetooth standard use, other that it works? They don't have great range compared to full-sized headsets, but you really wouldn't want to use these too far away from your phone/PC/whatever anyway. The mic is still kinda meh on them, but that's more a Bluetooth problem in general.Battery life really is fantastic, even with the 5 hours of ANC this supports. Need more? Turn of ANC and the earplug design of buds does a good job of keeping noise out. Ambient mode on touch controls really making these shine, and it's nice and clear piped through the buds, almost like natural sound.Sound quality is good for buds. Only a little V shaped, very bassy, a little toppy, but the mids are still clear. Really could be a lot worse, and still very pleasant to listen to. Soundstage is average, but that's pretty typical of earbuds.Wireless charging on the case is pretty great, and allows me to have a junk charging pad for these to land on and always be ready to go. Also, a USB-C port on the case is just the smart way to go.I wouldn't say these are good for planes or overly loud environments, but they work to quiet a roof full of fans and clattery keyboards. For the price, it's well worth it.

TL;DR: These are good, Skullcandy-quality earbuds with impeccable battery life and fancy features - but there's a reason for the price point and a big opportunity cost at MSRP. At current 64% discount, buy these without a second thought.Skullcandy is known for making decent-to-good headsets and earbuds at a reasonable price. The Indy ANC holds up to that well, being packed with features usually reserved for pricier earbuds and coming in at 129.99 MSRP. However, you should ask yourself this: "Do I really need this?" If you're looking for a hassle-free, good set of earbuds that won't break the bank, you'll be *far* better served by a set of Sesh or Jib True/Jib True XT 2 earbuds. They're both completely serviceable, but much cheaper - and also lack a few features and bugs of the Indy.Now, if you're still hooked on the idea of active noise canceling (ANC) and 9 hours of standard mode battery life, read on.The Indy delivers on most of its promises. the ANC is absolutely amazing for the price point, I had no idea what to expect but it definitely wasn't what I got. With ANC enabled, the world goes absolutely silent except for brief noises. Every bit of low and mid range background noise is completely negated, to the point where it made my ears feel a little weird without music: it's a similar feeling to when you're in a shop after hours or being in a solid log cabin. It's literally just your breathing and whatever you can feel through your body, which is really trippy but makes listening to music much clearer. Ambient mode is also very useful and works as intended, you'll get good passthrough of most ambient noises. It's not as if you don't have earbuds in, but it's much better than the normal awareness reduction from earbuds of this type. Once you've found out that neither of these options are worth compromising the absolutely epic 9 hours of battery life on a single charge, you'll be greeted with a very mild listening experience: if you have access to a music player with EQ. If you like bass, bass and more bass you will be well served by Skullcandy's default EQ settings for music. They offer a movie and podcast mode as well, and all of these settings are built into the earbud and can be changed without the Skullcandy app, but I just made a new preset in VLC and called it a day. If you can tame the bass, mids and highs are clear and reasonably crisp but not stellar. It's all good, nothing to sneeze at, it's just not "knock your socks off" fantastic, which is totally in line with what should be expected from this company. Fit and finish is as expected, everything is kind of just "there". Build quality is good, the materials all feel solid enough. The rubberized loops that are toward the top of the buds make for an extremely positive retention in the ear, along with the silicone tips that are surprisingly high quality and work almost as well as earplugs. Lastly, the battery is incredible: you have 9 hours of listening time on the earbuds in a single charge, another 3 or 4 in the case if you keep it topped up all the time, and you'll get 2 hours of listening time from just 10 minutes in the case. As someone who is an absolute music addict, that's extremely important, because I'm never without my fix for more than 10 minutes, and if you're someone with reasonable levels of self control it's very easy to just top up the earbuds as you listen. I can see no legitimate use case where the battery setup here is anything less than amazing. If you need more than what these offer, get something that takes 3.5mm and be done with it, or go for headphones. 9 hours of battery in this form factor is a technological marvel.Unfortunately, this is where the good news ends. These earbuds have been nothing short of unreliable with my device. They stay connected, but frequent dropouts and the occasional crash have occurred in my ~1 week of usage and show no signs of stopping. It's likely not my device: I am running these with a Samsung A53 5g with no problems on the phone, it's all the earbuds. I can expect a total sound dropout from both earbuds at least once hourly, but it resolves itself in a second or two. I had one crash where my left earbud completely froze on one note, which required a quick trip to the case for a minute or so to resolve. It completely disconnected once, which for a week of usage is very normal for any true wireless earbud. If you want wireless earbuds, you're sadly going to have to live with the fact that Bluetooth is not perfect and will always have spotty connections and dropouts from time to time. The problem is that the Jib True and XT 2 version thereof lack this problem: both have been totally seamless aside from the occasional pairing issue after being mothballed for a week or more. It's mildly disappointing that earbuds well over triple the price of the Jibs has such a comparative problem with connection. Aside from that, the only other dings I can offer are for ANC: if there is any kind of very loud noise, the earbuds aren't able to handle it, and you end up with a very unpleasant feedback. Serves me right for using an industrial air gun no more than 4' away from the mics, and 90% of people won't have to worry about this, but there's a possibility that other noises could trigger the issue, and I feel like I should mention it.All in all, if you're looking for a relatively cheap intro to ANC and a pretty solid set of earbuds with truly outstanding battery life, these are for you. If you're looking for something wireless that plays music, there are better picks by this company and others. If you're looking for a perfect ANC experience, prepare your wallet, because you're just not finding that south of $100-$150.At time of review, these are on a steep 64% discount. That makes them a sub-$50 option, very close to the Jibs and other very good options from other companies. Would I take these over another, slightly less expensive option knowing that these would have spotty connection and the occasional freeze? Absolutely, for the exclusive reason that these are fast-charge enabled and have a whopping 9 hours of listening time without ANC. You can't find that in most earbuds, period, much less one at this price point. And, for just under $50, you could pick up one of these and a pair of Jibs for less than some competitor earbuds aiming for this niche - and you'll have 2 pairs of earbuds for practically unlimited and uninterrupted listening. I wouldn't purchase these at MSRP, not by a longshot, but on sale these are a great buy.