Comment by ivandenysov | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ivandenysov | Hacker News Reader

I'm comparing these to my galaxy buds plus, which I bough because of theoretically replaceable batteries:

- pro: 10 EUR for a pair of replacement batteries for the earbuds vs ~20 EUR for a pair of VARTA batteries with shipping from Germany

- pro: 13 EUR for a new battery for the case. I need to go to aliexpress to find a replacement battery for the galaxy buds plus case

- pro: replacement process seems to be way easier because it was designed to be replaceable unlike galaxy buds plus

- pro: lighter than the buds: ~5g vs 6.3g

- pro: ANC

- con: more expensive. I paid half the price for the buds. But that was in 2020 money.

- con: they are bigger: 28.7 x 24.6 x 21mm vs 17.5 x 22.5 x 19.2mm

Considering every new generation of Samsung buds (along the same product line) sounds magnitudes better than the last, I don't see why I would ever need to replace a battery. The batteries in my buds plus lasted me until buds pro were released, and my buds pro batteries lasted me until buds2 pro were released, so I have no reason to doubt my buds2 pro batteries will degrade before buds3 pros come out. And of course they will be the best sounding buds on the market so I'll buy them, because why even own buds if not for the sound quality.

If every release has improved SQ by that much, the first iteration must have sounded just awful.

No offense, but you sound like the perfect consumerist. I'm pretty sure you're going to hit diminishing returns pretty soon, esp. if your claim that every new gen is "magnitudes better" than the old one is true.

Personally, I was completely happy with the sound quality of my first TWS (FreeBuds 3). The only reason I felt I needed new ones was a failing battery in one of the buds.

The frequency response graph of the buds2 pro is only a little bit flatter than the buds pro [1]. In fact, it seems worse in the treble region. How else are you comparing?

[1] https://www.rtings.com/headphones/graph/23318/frequency-resp...

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