Google Pixel Buds 2A Review: Good, Voice, Good Battery, Good Price

The current position of headphones is the problem. On the one hand, the market was not of this quality before: from Bose to Sony to Apple to Google to Samsung to Sennheiser to JBL to unbearable places. Chinese imitationYou cannot walk around the Best Buy store without finding a pair of strong -sounded earphones. Through prices and patterns, we are spoiled to choose.

But with the improvement of headphones, it is also more class. If you want a husband who has most features and the best integration with your device, you should buy the one that the company that makes your phone as well. They will be contacted more easily, they will have more features, and their voice will seem better at times. It is mostly Bluetooth headphones, and in general, anything can contact anything. But not all Bluetooth connections are equal.

All this means that I am mostly using the iPhone, and I do the tests Google Pixel Buds 2AAnd I find that it is completely angry that they do not work together better. Because at $ 129.99, Buds 2A is one of the best ongoing headphones deals. It looks good, and it is characterized by a good battery life, and I love its suitability and texture in my ears much better than any group of AirPods, and it has most of the best features Pixel Buds Pro 2 (very good too). At a much lower price. I recommend them with sincerity. I hope I will not have to ask about the phone you use first.

My ears have always preferred the Mentos Google Buds headphones on AirPods made from Apple’s candy cane, and Buds 2A is light and small enough so that I don’t feel really in my ears. A small rubber lip make it safer as well. I recommend trying all The size of the ear head (Buds 2A comes with four options) only to find out what is best, as well as take instructions “put it in your ear and rotate it in your ear” seriously. However, I don’t believe my words: Google allows you to check for your “ear tip” to see if there is any leakage sound.

I have been affected almost everything regarding Pixel Buds 2A devices. For beginners: I love the new purple color and I officially believe that everyone should have purple headphones. But in general, it seems as if Google has finally solved the last defect in this field. Previous models Communication problems They all left; I only faced only one sudden acoustic interruption in all my tests. The battery life is also good: I used it intensively for a week and I only had to charge the box yesterday.

I was also surprised by the response of the click controls – rarely failing to record a dual click to overcome the paths, and I don’t think I have made a single, unintended, wrong click. These headphones do not contain the full control items that you will get in Buds Pro 2, and the presence of controls of the sound level on the ear level. The biggest that bother me is the IP54 classification, which is almost translated into protection against “not more than a light race”. You can find cheap brands without a name with better protection.

The big interior upgrade here is the Tensor A1 chip, the same slide in Buds Pro 2. It provides the new feature of 2A: the active noise cancellation. Anc in these buds is not at a level Airbods Pro 3Which is worried about keeping you in a bubble of silence, but it is generally very good in alleviating the background rhythms. The 2A transparency mode is also strong, and it even reaches that rare point where you feel like you are not wearing headphones at all.

There is only one drawback to noise management: 2As respond terribly to unexpected high noise. In ANC mode, it will take a very long time to put out a sudden siren or screaming, and in a mode of transparency, I noticed that they sometimes make the sound for a short time Loudly. Google is supposed to fix this problem using an feature called “high noise protection”, but this is only dedicated to Buds Pro 2. The latest model has been updated recently with other new features to also treat sound, such as those trying to reduce the sound level automatically when you discover that you are in a conversation or uploading it when the sound surrounding you becomes high. Nothing comes to 2as.

Google is clearly looking at Pixel Buds as a way to speak with Gemini, so I had great hopes on the microphone and the quality of the connection. I am torn on the results. Like most previous Pixel Buds models, 2A microphones make me look like I shout in my phone across a very large cave. But I did not face any problem to be heard, even in loud places – the African National Congress Party is well done – and Jimini’s orders were always identified. It is not a beautiful microphone, but it is very practical microphone.

I spent a long time without mentioning the most important thing about a headphone husband, which is the sound quality, because frankly I do not have much to say. Pixel Buds 2A sound. They are not the most dynamic headphones that you will hear, but they are clear and enjoyable, and you can always adjust the volume as your desire. (Many people love to prepare “clarity”, but I find it a little also Bright). I could hear all the harmonys in the song “Fat Bottomed Girls” of the queen, but the complex tracks sometimes felt that they were slightly mixed in my ears. The audio scene looks wide in a song like the song “Billie Jean” for Michael Jackson, which is good because Google’s spatial feature is almost adding to the experience. In general, these buds do not have exciting power points or clear weaknesses.

I have yet to tell you the Pixel Buds 2A experience that comes with the Pixel phone. If you are using another Android device, you will get most of the same features as soon as you get the Pixel Buds app. But if you are using the iPhone, 2AS headphones are just a pair of Bluetooth headphones. There is no sound equivalent, no assistant without using hands, nor elegant fast peer, and there are no two devices at the same time, and there is no modification in touch control tools, nothing. You can change some settings through the Google Web app on a desktop computer, but the full experience remains reserved for Android devices.

However, the reality of locking headphones is not unique for Google. And if you have an Android phone, I recommend using Pixel Buds 2A for most purposes. This will be a great deal at the price of the previous form of $ 99, but even at a price of $ 129.99, there are not many headphones that have this mix of sound quality and cancellation of noise and other features. (What is equivalent to Apple here is AirPods for beginnersWhich does not contain anc.)

There is no pair of headphones worth replacing the environmental systems of the phone. But Buds 2A is good enough to raise the anger of this reference that uses iPhone because I can’t get the best results from them. And every time I use it to make Gemini search for something or remember something for me, I find myself wondering whether the time has come to leave Siri back and embrace the life of the purple headphones completely.