After more than a year of reshuffling in the domestic TWS market, I believe that many people have found that some brands are missing, some brands have reduced prices, and some brands continue to stand firm with more mature and cost-effective new products.
Each TWS headphone brand actually has some genes of its own brand in it, such as HiFi brand is mostly the main sound quality, in other words, the sound quality is made, but other aspects are mediocre.
On the contrary, brands such as Sony, BOSE and Jabra, of course, including Apple, are all affiliated with the camp that first entered the TWS market, and their advantage is that they have the accumulation of fans, coupled with the first month near the water, which is often a market trend or wind vane.
If you want to say the disadvantages, there are also, the sound has not been able to match the price.
Then there are the halfway kills, whether it is domestic or foreign, how to do it is actually just to play a price difference, it is difficult to succeed in the high-end range.
Of course, there are first-class mobile phone manufacturers who say this because they have their own innate advantages and will not say more here.
In these brands, Wanmo is a super big guy of domestic TWS, the brand has Zhou Dong sitting, the product is more with unique functions to segment the market, the market you see, to 2022 can still adhere to the new product research and development is really not much.
▲ The above picture is the packaging and family portrait of The latest release of Pistonbuds Pro, that is, the Piston Bean Noise Reduction Edition, in addition to the 5.2 Bluetooth and 10mm full-range aviation titanium sound unit, it is also equipped with magic's exclusive QuietMaxTM double-feed noise reduction black technology, and the noise reduction can reach 38dB. In addition, it is also equipped with a transparent mode, fast charging and in-ear induction, and four-microphone call noise reduction.
Despite the family barrel configuration, the piston bean noise reduction version of Wanmo is priced at only 399 yuan, and the pre-sale activity price is as low as 269 yuan.
▲ Magic piston bean noise reduction version storage box display, very small, and its headphone cavity has the same black, white two, the top of the lid directly with a mirror material like a CD texture, the whole machine weight of 39.5 grams.
▲ There is only one battery life display light on the front of the storage box, in addition to different colors to show different endurance, when it is insufficient, it will also flash a red light prompt, and there is a voice prompt, when the voice prompt of insufficient battery life sounds, it means that you have almost half an hour of use time.
▲ The back of the storage box is displayed, the surface matte texture is still quite obvious, and the plastic feeling is greatly weakened. What should be noted here is that there is a hidden physical button on the back of the storage box in addition to the TypeC fast charge, which used to be factory reset or clear the paired device (the Magic Piston Bean Noise Reduction Edition is a long press for 8 seconds), and this one also has a pairing function.
In the case of opening the lid without removing the headphone cavity, you can enter the pairing mode with three clicks, of course, you can also directly remove the cavity, and you will also enter the Bluetooth pairing mode.
▲ Open lid display, the lid can be opened very large, the hinge connecting the lid is not specially designed, but there is a model number on it. In addition, the headphone cavity is placed in the storage box with obvious magnetic attraction, and the probability of poor charging contact is very low.
▲ Magic piston bean noise reduction version cavity display, in fact, is also plastic material, but the CD-like mirror design on the back cover makes it full of texture. The shape is a classic piston type, in fact, I have doubts about the wearing stability of this shape, but the cavity of the magic is actually very small, and the nozzle design is exquisite, and the wearing can withstand the test of some sports.
▲ The workmanship details are displayed, the workmanship on the shell does not see any flaws, and there is a slight burr on the edge of the nozzle.
▲ The inner side of the cavity is displayed, in addition to the left and right logos, charging contacts and microphones, there are sensors, but the surface layer is still very smooth and has a skin-like design.
▲Personal experience section
Pairing: As mentioned earlier, the Magic Piston Bean Noise Reduction Edition has two pairing methods, one is to open the lid three combos on the buttons on the storage box, and the other is to remove any earplugs, while supporting ear detection, that is, removing any earbuds Music pause, supporting two people to wear one earbud each.
Bluetooth: Although it is a non-Qualcomm chip, the Bluetooth of 5.2 is enough for it to reach the top level of the first line in its class. Note here that the Qualcomm chip does not have a necessarily long transmission distance.
Endurance: In terms of battery life, the official announcement of a single full charge can not open the noise reduction can be used for 7.5 hours, with the charging box up to 30 hours; do not open the noise reduction single full charge can be used for 5 hours, with the charging box up to 20 hours, because it supports fast charging, and abnormally fast, so individuals can not measure its single endurance, from the overall point of view of the battery life is almost the same.
Delay: The official delay of 90ms makes the Magic Piston Bean Noise Reduction Version fully capable of all kinds of mobile games, but this point has not been experienced by individuals this time. Personally, only from watching live broadcasts and videos, the mouth type can not feel the delay at all, which is rare in the same price point TWS.
Call: And the delay of the Magic Piston Bean Noise Reduction Version, its call is also leading the same price of friends, and it also has a wind noise reduction mode, just recently the personal Jingzhou wind, in the outdoor experience of many times, the other party gave me a positive answer.
▲Active noise reduction part
Because the call and active noise cancellation and ambient sound mode are all experienced at the same time, we will talk about it together here. First of all, the sound insulation effect (that is, physical noise reduction) of the Magic Piston Bean Noise Reduction Version itself is very good, and after opening the active noise reduction mode, there is also the feeling that Sony has entered a quiet state when it is put on.
The use of personal test scene is next to the park next to the community, next to the park is a door and window hardware processing plant, only a three-meter river separated, in addition to the sound of chainsaws and a variety of blowing and beating sounds, and then the sound of the wind, after putting on the headphones the wind is completely inaudible, the sound of knocking is also very small and far, only the sound of chainsaws can barely hear clearly, although there is no intuitive comparison with Sony's WH1000XM3, but compared to those three or five hundred active noise reduction TWS, this performance is really amazing enough.
In addition, its ambient sound mode is also very good, except for some kind of whistles similar to the sound of the wind, the difference between the person next to me and not wearing headphones is very small, so I can easily communicate with others when I wear headphones to turn on the ambient sound mode.
▲Finally, talking about its sound quality part, compared to its active noise reduction and ambient sound mode, the magic piston bean noise reduction version gives me less surprises. The main analysis is not good enough, but when I changed the phone from the Huawei mate30 to the machine, the effect is much better, so the listening sense of this article is mainly based on the iPhone 11.
In terms of low frequency, the Magic Piston Bean Noise Reduction Edition has a good dive, the sound base thickness is natural, but the sense of volume is slightly less, plus the tuning style is slightly lighter, and the low frequency is difficult to give people a shocking feeling. The advantages of low frequency are excellent elasticity and instrumental separation, and coupled with a small but well-organized soundstage, it is easy to infect the ear in detail.
Compared with its low frequency, the vocals of the Magic Piston Bean Noise Reduction Version are three points light, four points warm and four points sweet, the analysis is more natural, the location is very good, listening to the female voice is better than the male voice, its thickness and stretch appear fluffy and linear when performing the female voice, which can interpret the voice of different ranges.
Its male voice is not weak, but compared to the female voice characteristics are not obvious, that sense of fluffiness is still there, the analysis is still relatively natural, the first listening does not feel stimulating, but try Zhao Peng's version of "Your Eyes" This background music is relatively low and simple songs and you will find that its vocals are actually very HiFi.
▲Finally, at the end, let's talk about the APP of this magic piston bean noise reduction version, which is actually common to all magic headphones. In terms of sound quality, there are 12 sets of sound effects to choose from on its APP, but then again, if you want to make its sound quality better, a better way is to make adjustments at the source end, such as charging NetEase Cloud Vinyl members, or finding some lossless music downloads.
▲ In addition to the sound effect selection similar to the equalizer in the Magic APP, you can also switch into the ear induction and adjust the operation gestures, and the default gestures at the factory are double-click, triple-click and long-press, like volume adjustment and song cutting need to be reset in the APP. Although these features will also be available in products at the same price, it can be seen that Magic is also very strong in software design.
▲Overall summary section
It is said that the current TWS market has more and more brands and models for consumers to choose due to the maturity of technology and the influx of various brands. Especially consumers who do not know the truth when choosing TWS headphones, they originally looked at a three-to-five-hundred headphones, and as a result, they heard that another one with a similar price also has an active noise reduction function, and ask the old iron Will you choose the second one?
In theory, the active noise reduction function has been increased, the price has not changed, and it must be more cost-effective.
In fact, this is not the case, especially with the active noise reduction function, if you only take the third-party solution to the whole, not to mention the noise reduction effect, that is, the basic failure rate is not guaranteed.
It is precisely because of this that the strong performance of Magic in the domestic TWS headset market is highlighted, from the perspective of continuous innovation in the past two years, Magic has basically got rid of the routine of the domestic headphone price war, and its different models have different use scenarios and characteristics that I admire quite much.
Back to this piston bean noise reduction version, its noise reduction function, listening to the ambient sound is surprising, the sound quality is worthy of the price, the appearance of the workmanship and the stability of the interaction also make its price more fair.