Pardon me while I stand and salute EarFun’s new flagship noise-cancelling earbuds, the Air Pro 3. These feature-filled mighty mites deliver dynamic, detailed, and full-bodied sound. While they’re just a bit shy in bass articulation, they deliver much of what you’ll get from buds with much higher price tags.
Comfort level is good—I can wear them for hours—and the active noise cancellation (ANC) is improved compared to the company’s earlier efforts, wiping away a goodly amount of plane, train, and bus noise as well as walk-about wind noise.
What really sets the Air Pro 3 apart from its midpriced competition is a futuristic feature set that could grow in usefulness and service for years to come. Tapping the brand-new , EarFun outmaneuvered the majors to deliver the very first earbuds to support the next-generation Bluetooth LE Audio. Collectively, these upgrades provide a rash of user-friendly enhancements—if hardware makers on the playback side of the equation also adopt these standards and play to their strengths. As it stands, however, that’s a very big “if.”
