What has your overall experience been with said product?

Pros and Cons?

Which of the Nothing earbuds would you recommend?

Is there another brand I should check out?


My desired uses of them would be to listen to music and audio books with a pair of earbuds, played over bluetooth, from my Samsung Galaxy 23 S smartphone.

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In my opinion, I would rather go with some cheap IEMs + a Bluetooth DAC, because then you get both the convenience (only needing to carry the light clip-on wireless bit) and the audio quality. Also, it makes them much harder to lose!

IEMs will also last a lot longer than any wireless earbuds would, since they don't have internal batteries that will eventually die. They're usually a bit more comfortable, and you get playback controls too. When I'm using my laptop, where I don't need to move around much and just sitting on my desk, I use the IEMs wired and leave the wireless DAC charging!

I'm personally using the Moondrop Chu 2 + the Fiio BTR11, but for the latter, they have the annoying issue common with cheaper wireless devices where it yells "low battery" over and over again when it is below 10% battery. I don't know if this is an issue with all Fiio wireless DACs or just the BTR11. The BTR15 is another option by Fiio, but there are lots of other options too.

As for IEMs, you have the usual suggestions like the Truthear Hexa or Pure, the various Moondrop ones, the Kiwi Ears Cadenza, the Crinacle "Zero" collaborations, etc. it'll just depend on where you are and what's available to you (+ your budget of course)

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