Top critical review
1.0 out of 5 starsVery good when it works. Rest of the time it's garbage.
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2023
I have only used the earbuds about a dozen or so times. Mostly for jogging which is 15-20 minutes. A couple of times for bicycling around for a few hours.
THE GOOD
They have an IP rating for water resistance. Great for working out and resisting a few rain drops. The sound quality is pretty good, especially the bass. They are comfortable in the ear for a somewhat extended period of time, but not all day. Eventually my ear gets tired and hurts from them. So under 2 hours of use is ideal. Your mileage may vary.
THE MEDIOCRE
These are not extremely loud when using outside in a busy street, such as walking, jogging, bicycling, or any outdoor activity with heavy vehicle traffic around. I'm sure they are perfect for hiking, skiing/snowboarding, mountain biking, or the like, where there is some quiet.
THE BAD
After a few uses, the left earbud has begun lowering the volume by itself after a few minutes of use, becoming inaudible, making only the right earbud produce proper sound level based on the volume level of the connected device. I can barely hear the left earbud. I have to go through the ritual of disabling all Bluetooth devices, manually restoring the earbuds to factory settings, re-paring them with each other, using the Sennheiser app to also perform a factory reset, putting them into the charging case to turn off, take them out of the charging case, reconnect them to device, sacrificing various animals and praying to some undead god beyond the cosmos, just get both earbuds working properly. And it only lasts for a few minutes, maybe 10-15, before it does it again. This is garbage.
MY RECOMMENDATION
If you have some money that wants to be liberated from your possession, buy these earbuds, use them a few times, and cherish each of those times it works. Then subsequently smash them with a hammer, because they will be more useful as broken pieces of plastic and electronic innards, then keeping it around, frustrating you to no end as to why the damn earbuds don't work properly.
