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Samsung Galaxy Buds Live review: good sound, unique design - The Verge

Samsung Galaxy Buds Live review: good sound, unique design - The Verge

Samsung Galaxy Buds Live review: good sound, unique design - The Verge
Aug 06, 2020 1 min, 49 secs

The tap controls work just like those on the Galaxy Buds Plus: single tap to pause, double to skip, three to go back, and you can customize what a long press does.

The Galaxy Buds Live carrying case, which has a USB-C port and wireless charging support, is wonderfully compact, though the earbuds will definitely go flying out if you drop it since they don’t have a very deep cradle.

The AKG-tuned Buds Live have 12-millimeter drivers — larger than what’s inside the Galaxy Buds Plus — and a “bass duct” to help ramp up the low end.

I’ve been pleasantly surprised by just how good the Galaxy Buds Live sound.

Samsung says it designed the Buds Live to eliminate very low frequencies — think the persistent hum of an air conditioner or the rumbling of an Amtrak — and you can hear some of that ambient sound get sliced off when you turn on active noise cancellation.

Bluetooth stability on the Buds Live doesn’t seem quite as robust as with the Galaxy Buds Plus.

Nor do I have any gripes with battery life; Samsung says the Buds Live can last for up to six hours of continuous listening with ANC enabled (21 hours total with case recharges) or eight with it off (29 hours with the case).

Those numbers are quite good and beat out the AirPods Pro, but they fall short of the staggering 11 straight hours the Galaxy Buds Plus can last on a charge.

As with other Bluetooth earbuds, you can use Samsung’s Galaxy Buds Live without agreeing to anything in software.

So there’s a lot of good, but the Galaxy Buds Live aren’t without faults.

And like most other true wireless earbuds besides those from Jabra, the Buds Live can only connect to a single device at a time.

Taken as a whole package, the Galaxy Buds Live exceeded what I came in expecting based on the leaks and the uncertainty I had about what the bean shape would mean for comfort and sound quality

If you’re okay living with a healthy dose of outside sound when listening to the Galaxy Buds Live, there’s a lot to like

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