Beats Flex Wireless Earbuds – Apple W1 Headphone Chip, Magnetic Earphones, Class 1 Bluetooth, 12 Hours of Listening Time, Built-in Microphone – Smoke Gray

Sound Great
These may not be AirPod Pros but they sound just as good as regular AirPods. I’ve had a pair last me 3 years so far and just bought this pair for my wife. This is a great affordable way to add to your Apple ecosystem. These sync up to your iPhone just like AirPods and the range is really good. There is also an app for android users. These do not have noise cancellation but if in your ear far enough they do a good job of blocking out noise. I mow the grass with them and barely hear the mower. Mine stay in my ears fairly well. Sometimes I have to push a bud back in but not constantly. They come with different size tips so you can get the perfect fit. These are UCB C charging. They come with a small cable but I just charge them with my iPhone 15 charger since they went USB C. They are not waterproof. I’ve used them for working in the yard and sweat hasn’t ruined them yet but I wouldn’t wear them out in the rain or use them in the shower. The construction seems good, as I’ve mentioned I’ve had a pair for 3 years. Some people have said they’ve cracked or broke on other reviews so maybe the construction has changed over the years only time will tell. Based on what I’ve seen out of my pair and the pair I just purchased I would recommend this product.

My Favorite Daily Use Headphones
When I’m on the go, at work, or just casually listening around the house these have been my go to headphones for a variety of reasons.Sound: They sound just fine. Not great, but not so bad that its too bad to listen to your favorite songs. I use Sennheiser HD600s at my desk and these are no where close but for a cheap set of bluetooth headphones they are totally passable. I normally listen around half volume which is plenty loud at least for me. Full volume is painful, I see other reviewers complaining about the battery life at full volume and I have to wonder what their hearing is like.Battery: These will get me though a 12 hour shift, admittedly not listening to music the whole time and through a few hours of YouTube or TV when I get home. They charge extremely quickly too when the battery gets low. If I forget to charge them over night I can throw them on the charger for a few minutes at work and be fine for the rest of the day. The USB C port is annoying, I have an iPhone so I have to have two cables, but I also carry a USB C external SSD so I just use the cable from that with my laptop.Noise isolation: These things SHINE at passive noise isolation. Its like you have reusable earplugs in that just happen to have drivers. I work on cars a lot and work in a machine shop, so hearing protection is something I need to be wearing most of the time and something I want to have easy access to at all times. If I don’t have my beats in my ears they’re around my neck almost all day so if I’m about to do something I think will be loud, blowing out a hole with an air hose for example, I can throw them in my ears in seconds and have a decent level of protection. I wouldn’t use these at a gun range but for me on a daily use basis they work great.Fit and comfort: When I’m running or working under a car the neck part likes to fall off. To get around this i put the headphones on upside down, with the usb port facing up, and then cross the ear bud cords in front of my neck so they still go in their respective ears. This is not how I normally wear them but it does work if I find myself in that situation. I had a set of airpods and they kept falling out of my ears, I switched back to these tethered style earbuds after one of my airpods fell out of my ears into a coolant tank. These stay in all day no problems because the majority of the weight is around your neck and not hanging out of your ears.Only part I dislike is the magnet in the buds, It attracts metal and gets stuck to stuff if you lean over. I don’t think they’re necessary but that’s a monitor complaint.

Expensive but well worth it. Comfortable to wear, long lasting charges, sound quality is excellent and great to use everyday. Completely recommend.

GOOD

I love these earbuds and they’ve become my go-to for hiking/backpacking, skiing, running, & horseback riding. I really like that they have the cord that loops behind your neck so that if they fall out of your ears you don’t lose one. My favorite feature has to be the magnets on the back of the earbuds so that you can snap them together like a necklace – it automatically shuts off the earbuds and lets me switch quickly and easily without worrying about losing them or having to pack them away in a charging case or something every time I take them off. Because the battery/bluetooth is in the cable part not the earbuds, they’re more like the size of wired earbuds and so they’re really comfortable to wear to bed or under my ski helmet since they don’t stick out. Battery life is great, really easy to connect to my iPhone or my Garmin smartwatch, and I love how when you quick connect them to iPhone you get a battery status update. They aren’t great at noise cancellation and the sound quality is good but not great, but they’re my go-to for any kind of active/athletic activity.