Earfun Air Pro 3 - the MOST over-hyped earbud of 2023? Review, Call Tests & Comparisons!
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
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Review Summary:
The Earfun Air Pro 3 has been recommended by RUclipsrs and Influencers relentlessly during the early part of 2023, but I wasn't impressed with the sound at all, with some fundamental errors in the tuning that simply can't be remedied with EQ.
Headline features include:
- Bluetooth 5.3 connectivity
- Qualcomm QCC3071 chipset
- 11mm Wool Composite Driver
- Quietsmart 2.0 43dB Hybrid ANC
- LC3, AptX-Adaptive, Apt-X, AAC & SBC codecs
- App Support
- Up to 45 hours battery life
- Up to 9 hours single use
Timecodes:
00:00 - Intro
00:15 - Vendor Video
01:10 - Unboxing
02:50 - Case & Portability
04:29 - Design & Build
05:11 - Ergonomics
06:02 - ANC
08:23 - Audio & Sound Signature
12:50 - Comparison to Soundcore Liberty 3 Pro
13:50 - Comparison to SoundPEATS Capsule3 Pro
15:43 - Call Quality
16:00 - Call Samples
17:48 - Other Features
18:56 - App Walkthrough
20:16 - Battery Life
21:34 - Summary
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Best, most helpful review of these. Thank you for your honesty and thoroughness!
Thanks! Appreciate the kind words 👍
Thanks for the great video mate. These look aweso e for the price.
Can always rely on you to tell it like it is 😁 I bought them over Christmas and sent them back, I didn't like the sound and even the EQ settings I saw in another review couldn't get them sounding good. Thanks for another great review
Excellent and thorough review. I've got a set of these on the way, but I'll give them a shot with your comments in mind.
Thank you! I know I'm pretty critical in the review, but as a package they aren't that bad at all.... My issue is more with the reviews that just talk about the sound quality being great and then not even giving a frequency response measurement..... reviewers can do better and TWS buyers deserve better. Anyway, thanks for watching and enjoy your purchase, a little tweak of that EQ and I'm sure you'll be happy 🙏👍
@ReganCipher damnnnn why did i not look at your review before buying them lol
@@saadabdullah4245 how are they?
Excellent honest review well done 👍
Thanks for great review, I bought it
Hi Regan, I finally bought these. I updated the buds to 1.10 and it sounds amazing. I even tune the buds to bass boost 1, activated the Aptx and made custom EQ on my player (otomusic). It sounds heavenly. Two step better than the melobuds (my daily driver from now on).
Thanks for the feedback! I don't have them any more, but I've been in touch with Earfun and hopefully can work with them on the Air Pro 4!
Fantastic review
Thanks Tig! 🙏
Now the firmware has been updated these are fantastic for the money....
Thanks for a honest review. Was thinking of buying them glad I saw this review.
Thanks for the kind feedback and for taking the time out to watch the review, much appreciated 👍
Since the brand first launched, i've had 2 different pairs. Both have ok soundstage. One had a charging issue from about 8 months. Both has been treated with utmost care and yet both has issues with plastic cracking and even breaking out due to being too thin. No matter how great the specs, if the build quality is sub-par then i will rather spend a little more and buy Soundcore or even Soundpeats.
I bought some TWS with ANC for £10. Battery issues crept in 8-10 months in but still lasted for another 1.5 years at which point the battery was not great but they had survived multiple drops with zero cracking. The case would continually have to charge the right earbud even if full and the left one would discharge way quicker because I'd killed the battery on that one wearing it to sleep every night. I was still using them until they got trashed by seawater in a kayak capsize. The sound was decent, but max volume was a little low, ANC was almost as good as my NC700 Bose as long as I used the Comply foam tips to help the passive isolation. Best bang for buck ever. They didn't have multipoint though. Bought the Earfun to replace them. Sound isn't as good out of the box but tweaking EQ works wonders, the transparency on them is less white noise than the £10 ones, but the ANC struggles more with the sometimes crazy shrill noises of the London underground. Not just failing to block but trying so hard it crackles. It's the only really frustrating thing about them, otherwise still great value for money. Hope they last longer than yours did though. Fingers crossed. The multi point is a game changer for me.
@@TheChiraagG Sure hope they do. My very first attempt at TWS earbuds was the FIIL T1 pro, which i'm still using to this day. A year or so after their release, i wanted another pair and found the EarFun Free pro's (Exact copy of the FIIL's), so i gave them a go - biggest mistake ever. Never trust a knock-off! Their downside is the fact that they try and push too many features into a "budget" earbud in order to try and compete with the likes of established brands such as Soundcore and Soundpeats.
After some weeks' use on v0.4.8... Don't mind the sound profile, though it clearly does much better on certain genres of music. The ANC is very strange, fantastic in the lower range, I'm often near the mechanical room for a pair of differently-sized restaurant ventilators and the drone just disappears... but in the upper range it doesn't seem to even try, which has been an ok experience in practice. The ambient mode sounds surprisingly natural, but often if someone is not speaking directly towards me I find the levels are insufficient to discern their words with music playing. I have contacted Earfün with some suggestions, like adding the option to pause audio when switching to ambient mode and resume when switching back. The customizable ANC toggle can ONLY be assigned to the long-press action, which is annoying when the main use for me would be switching to ambient for a brief conversation without having to remove the buds... At this point I have the standard ANC toggle set to single tap one one side and play/pause on the other, and do both when I need to talk. One thing I am quite impressed with though, is the seal and ambient sound with ANC disabled, in wind or on a bicycle - can still easily hear approaching vehicles but no wind noise whatsoever is transmitted. The sound tuning could surely be better, but for passive listening at work or play I feel my money was well-spent. No complaints about the ergonomics here, I wouldn't wear earbuds to play basketball, but for non-contact activities they fit and hold tightly.
Thanks - appreciate the feedback and glad you're enjoying them! 👍
And some things I forgot. If not connected to a device they power off after 10 minutes, so even using as ANC only, will still drain your phone as well. Mono mode works, but changes the assigned controls. No way to change ANC mode from the time your phone rings, to call end or routing call audio elsewhere. Not sure if possible on any device, but cannot reassign the controls for calls.
@@mushbert whilst those things are annoying, they are pretty normal. There are some limitations over what they can change due to the chipsets. But I hope others are reading this because you covered a lot of stuff I didn't point out (partly because the review was already a bit too long!) 😭 Thanks again for participating and for an excellent contribution 🙌
Great video.. what are the alternatives in this price range ?
Good question! The Air Pro 3 is great in terms of features, it's just the sound that lets it down a bit. The only thing that is close to this for features at a similar price is a bud I haven't reviewed yet, the Soundcore Liberty 4 NC. So I'm hoping to review that pretty soon. Otherwise you have to compromise on something, like multipoint. Thanks so much for watching and for the very kind feedback 🙏
Which earphones would people suggest - requirements: don't require ANC, want excellent call quality and in ear detection. Mid range. Thanks
Soundpeats Air4 Pro has added in ear detection! I got them yesterday so haven't done any major testing yet but review is coming this week 🙌
Bro pleaseeee suggest me one between Earfun air pro 3 and Soundcore life p3 (considering ANC especially)
They are very similar in terms of performance. I think I marginally prefer the P3 but you do get LE audio with the Earfun so they are probably a better bet in terms of future proofing. If you like overwhelming bass then both models tick the box. Thanks for watching! 🙏
I disagree I gave my wife the p3 the earfun anc is miles ahead. transparency sux on both I think earfun sound better and they also stay in my ears better than the p3 and they have better button customization
Thanks for your honest review.. Do you prefer it or soundpeats capsule 3 pro regarding comfortability, call quality and ANC ?
Thanks! Comfort is about the same, perhaps slightly better on the Soundpeats. ANC is a bit stronger on the Earfun, but again not much in it. Call quality is also quite close - you can hear the two compared in the same scenes in my 2023 call quality videos. Sound is much nicer on the Capsule3 Pro though - the Earfun are not well tuned, and don't respond especially well to EQ either. I would say the Earfun probably have a slightly more premium feel to them, but otherwise I do like the Soundpeats more
@@ReganCipher Thank you bro.. I bought soundpeats capsule 3 pro.. Phone calls are fine.
Put my problem is the I feel some uncomfortable after wearing for some times.
I don't know is that from the brand or I just not used to it.
I try to find a reason to keep them because of long battery life. Upgraded firmware to 1.1.0. I wonder if it makes a difference for you.
Thanks for the heads up! I sent them back pretty much straight after the review. Good to know Earfun are still updating the firmware though - a lot of brands wouldn't have bothered. Thanks for commenting - appreciate it 🙌
Respect
My requirements are for spoken word audio, i.e., talking books, podcasts and radio drama with good ANC and comfort. I will not be using them for music. Will they fit the bill for my needs?
The ANC is quite good and the comfort is ok too. You might have to play around with the EQ for better vocal clarity, but otherwise yeah they probably do meet your needs
@@ReganCipher Many thanks indeed.
How'd you say freepro 3 anc against Liberty 4nc?
Liberty 4 NC is stronger 👍
Ok so i bought them.
I love the sound quality on my galaxy buds pro and 1more comfobuds pro. They were a good price and i wanted multipoint. Any chance they can sound near to the galaxy buds pro? (Imo they are the best sounding earbuds on the market better than the sonys on par with the sennheisers)
Both of those buds (1More and Samsung) are quite neutral sounding. The Earfun are very v-shaped, very bassy and the trebles are very spiky and not smooth at all. Some people like that (you can see in the comments plenty of people disagree with me) but I, like you, prefer the sound outfit of something like the Buds Pro, so for us I don't think even the EQ will save them. You never know though, you might like them?!
@@ReganCipher shit. No man. I hate bass heavy earbuds. Ugh. I literally bought them as the review on scarbir said they had great calls and multipoint. Love my comfobuds pro man. Should have just got the aero or waited for a new model.
@saadabdullah4245 1More has a new product - Pistonbuds Pro Q30. I reviewed them, you can find it on my page. They have multipoint (it says 'experimental' in the app but works fine) and the tuning is more neutral - still a little bassy but warm rather than the bass cannon that the Earfun are. Only thing is the fit isn't like the Comfobuds Pro, they fit a bit more like Airpod Pro. You'll see what I mean if you watch the vid. They're quite cheap as well
@ReganCipher just saw the review thank you. They look enticing. I can just sell the earfuns. But i want to ask as these better than the 1more aeros? I dont have the aeros but have the comfobuds pro looked very similar with multipoint and spatial audio. Is the spatial audio on these any good?
And finally i take a tonne of calls. I know you included samples which i saw and they looked decent a lot of people were raving about the call quality on the earfuns do you think these are as good.
The comfobuds were also amazing at calls(except wind)
@saadabdullah4245 the spatial audio is ok.... It's definitely more usable than some where it just seems like really low resolution..... On the Q30 it does actually sound pretty good, definitely not Apple levels though. The Earfun are probably slightly better on calls depending on the scene - I don't have the Earfun any more but I made sure the call samples were in the same location so it's possible to compare. The sound is just so much better than the Earfun though!
Which one is better earfun air pro 3 or Liberty 4 NC ?
I haven't bought the L4NC yet - I'm hoping to get them this week. Picky Audio's review suggests the L4NC are better and I'm expecting this to be the case. Thanks for watching! 👍
@@ReganCipher ❤️
seems like these are basshead earbuds. but great anc and price, they go for $60 dollars cad here, equiv to 40 euros.
At €40 I would be much more forgiving of their flaws, at the time of review I think they were around €70-80! Yeah, I'd say that's a good assessment - for pure bassheads who don't care much about the quality of bass they are ideal 👍
I can't receive FB messenger and whatssap calls thru the earfun pro 3 - the audio won't route thru the buds - do you know how I can remedy this?
That's usually not an earbud issue - have you tried this: www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/s/nB9iiTjIgB
@@ReganCipher super helpful! Thank you for replying and with the link :) apparently it can be remedied on some handsets by press the whatssap icon to select the setting (that option wasn't there for me) but in the thread I found the answer for an iPhones - go to phone settings/Bluetooth / device type!! Never new that existed 🙈 many thanks! 🙏🏼✨
true - the sound fidelity was lackluster. i got some L3Ps the next day for the same price of
Yeah the L3P are in a different league altogether for sound. Even if you EQ the L3P to make them a little less hot, take the sizzle out of the trebles and dial down the subbass, the staging and imaging are far, far better.
Thanks for watching! 🙌
What is the l3p??
@@michaeldavis6550 Soundcore Liberty 3 Pro 👍
@ReganCipher wouldn't the liberty 4 NC be even better. Other videos say these earfun air pro 3s are better then the liberty 4. I'm so confused lol. But tired of trying buds for calls & the claims of removing most back ground noise has proven to be completely false. I'm now sending back the jbl live pro 2 because they also suck on calls. In so so frustrated.
I finally found a review that isn't from a product shill 🤣
Mine sound fantastic after the flimwere update. I love them the mics are amazing in noisy environments!!.. i do use wavelet app to on all my earbuds.. wavelet is a amazing app for a android phone
Yeah the mics aren't bad, the ANC is very good and if you like a darker, bassy sound and don't mind EQ'ing then the Air Pro 3 will be fine for a lot of people. I like a much leaner bass so they were probably never going to suit me unfortunately 😭 and I agree, Wavelet is a lifesaver!
What’s your firmware version now?
I tried 0.4.1, 0.4.7 and 0.4.8
@@ReganCipher Did upgrading to 0.4.8 improve the mic call and sound quality for you?
@@vinzcirstenfrancisco5561 no change in the sound signature, no idea about calls though
How does the anc compares with soundpeats air 4 pro
Soundpeats Air4 Pro has better low frequency noise cancellation, Earfun Air Pro 3 has more uniformity. So low rumbling sounds are blocked out better on the Soundpeats, but voices and other similar sounds are better on the Earfun. Haven't tried the Free Pro 3 though
@@ReganCipherthanks man your reviews are top notch
@@SimonChikezie thank you bro, appreciate it 🙌
As an Anjuna fan glad I found this review, think I’ll pass. Thanks
The best there is, was and ever will be...ReganCipher!
The Earfun Air Pro 3's are better than my Nothings in 2024..
I'm gonna try the new Nothing's soon. The Earfun are alright, I just don't like the tuning and I think certain RUclipsrs shilled them a bit too hard
What else would you recommend?
Realme Buds Air 5 Pro, Soundpeats Air4 Pro, Soundcore L4NC & 1More Q30 are all better options IMO
@@ReganCipher What about soundcore liberty 4 NC earbuds?
@@ReganCipher oh nvm just noticed. Thanks man
It's funny seeing so many people getting so salty just because you didn't like the headphones they bought!
LOL only a few but yeah some people are very protective of their purchases like I called their kid ugly or something 😭
Lmao Pleel off 3:28 was it a typo? then the company must be joking
this or freebuds 5i?
Not this lol
huh?? these are great! i just got them. best value.
For most users they will be fine, but I guess I'm frustrated with Earfun because I'd have paid £20 more for better drivers and tuning where the bass isn't so overblown that even with EQ it's too coloured and blurred for my liking. Thanks for watching and contributing!
No in ear detection sadly!
As always - great review!
Maybe you know which what earphones are better - for indoor/outdoor calls:
REALME BUDS AIR 3 vs REALME BUDS AIR 3S vs REDMI BUDS 4 PRO
or anything else in that price ranges? thanks brother!
Yes my friend, thanks for commenting! You can hear the Buds Air 3S in my newest call quality video - it should be uploaded in around 30 minutes! See what you think.....I like the Buds Air 3S though, one of the best budget options
@@ReganCipher you are the best! thanks man!
"better off going for other midrange models"
such as what?
I included two comparisons in the audio section - at the time, Soundcore Liberty 3 Pro & Soundpeats Capsule3 Pro. Since then, Soundcore Liberty 4NC have been released as have Air4 Pro. I'd personally go with either of those, but it depends on what you're looking for specifically in a TWS
I fell for the fake reviews and bought these garbage earbuds.
The sound is flat and tinny
And on full volume I can barely hear them, they are way way too quiet
2 out of 10 from me
Your review lost me at around the 15:06 mark. Have a good day.
The sound quality is great. The battery isnt.
Bass is just way too bloated for me 😥