The TWS true wireless noise-canceling headphone market has now become a sea of red. Not only are the traditional veteran audio manufacturers guarding their own high-end positions, but with the gradual maturity of the supply chain noise reduction program, mobile phone manufacturers and various accessories manufacturers are flocking to this track.
As one of several major domestic mobile phone manufacturers, Honor's flagship noise reduction TWS product, Honor Earths 3 Pro, was officially released in China on March 17. This headset as early as the 2022MWC debut, has made everyone full of expectations, the domestic release of facts also prove that the glory of this shot, came to a big wave.
Sullen appearance: introverted on the outside, shining on the inside
In terms of the appearance of the headphones, the Honor Earbuds 3 Pro is a general public style, what do we think of the TWS wireless noise-canceling headphones that look like, and the Honor Earbuds 3 Pro looks like almost what it looks like.
This time we got the titanium silver version, which is a "stuffy" color scheme. The headphone box is a conventional rounded rectangular shape, the shell is frosted gray plastic material, the front of the headphone box is a power indicator, and there is a pairing button on the right side, and the overall design is relatively simple.
Unlike the low-key gray matte headphone case, the glossy titanium silver headphone body is much more high-profile. The Honor Earbuds 3 Pro headphone body uses a bright silver shell design, which makes this product look exquisite and upscale, and this bright silver high-end feeling also reminds me of the big brother next door to it.
Honor Earbuds 3 Pro single earphone weight of 5.1 grams, coupled with the rounded shell outline, this official promotion also mentioned that the headphones use double vent front and back sound cavity conduction design, can be used to balance the wearing of the internal and external air pressure and sound pressure, although do not know how much this design can play a role, but the actual use of the headphones The overall wearing feeling is still relatively comfortable, and indeed there is no obvious sense of foreign body or ear pressure.
Through the detection of the fit of the earbuds in the APP, the Honor Earbuds 3 Pro can detect the fit of the left and right ear caps worn separately, and give the corresponding ear cap replacement suggestions, which is still very friendly to some users with different sizes of the left and right ear canals.
Balanced and listenable, it is the main theme of Earbuds 3 Pro sound quality
As a flagship TWS headset, good enough sound quality is an indispensable part of the Honor Earbuds 3 Pro. To this end, the Honor Earbuds 3 Pro uses an ultra-wideband coaxial combination of 11mm large amplitude dynamic and ceramic tweeter.
We know that the larger the diameter and amplitude of the moving coil, the fuller the low and medium frequencies can be issued, the large amplitude dynamic of 11mm can ensure that the low and medium frequencies of the headphones are more solid and powerful, and the bass is more surging and shocking, and the ceramic unit of the latter is used as a supplement to the dynamic unit, responsible for the power in the high-frequency part, which can bring richer details and more pure and loud high-frequency effects.
Of course, these are also theoretical. The actual listening experience, the Honor Earbuds 3 Pro is indeed satisfactory enough.
Honor Earbuds 3 Pro's sound quality can be attributed to the balanced three-frequency performance, the balance here does not refer to the kind of boiling water tedium, but this headset has a good sound rendering and restoration ability in high, medium and low three frequencies, if you have to compare, honor Earbuds 3 Pro may be in the low frequency part of the sense of volume and strength is more sufficient.
Benefiting from the large amplitude dynamic of 11mm, the Honor Earbuds 3 Pro In a number of TWS headphones, the low-frequency part has a sufficient sense of volume and a good thickness, and it is a good choice to listen to some rock surging songs; the sound performance of the mid-frequency part is full and clear enough, the interpretation of the vocals is natural enough and has enough rich vocal details, which is very suitable for the Performance of Chinese Lyric Songs with Prominent Vocals; there is also a good expression in the high-frequency part, and the sound will not have sharp and harsh problems. It has good resolution and permeability.
In my listen, honor Earbuds 3 Pro is a sound neutral headphones, it does not deliberately enhance which frequency of sound effects or tend to a certain type of music, its high and low three frequencies of balanced sound performance is enough to cope with most of the music style, balanced, listening to the sound is more in line with most of the user's listening habits, as the honor of the first flagship TWS headphones, such sound quality and tuning style is safe, but also the right way.
However, everything is difficult to be perfect, honor Earbuds 3 Pro is the lack of support for high-definition transmission protocol, although the transmission protocol is not a key factor in determining sound quality, and honor Earbuds 3 Pro in the default AAC protocol under the sound quality is already excellent enough, but the high transmission rate and sample rate brought by the high-definition transmission protocol means the possibility of more extreme sound quality. Honor Earbuds 3 Pro's shortcomings in the transmission protocol are indeed a pity.
The honor Ofbuds 3 Pro has also won two authoritative awards for its outstanding performance in sound quality, namely CPHA certification and Best of MWC 2022. CPHA, full name CAIA Premium Hi-Fi Audio, is the first authoritative certification for the comprehensive objective detection + subjective evaluation of high-end Hi-Fi audio products launched by the China Electronics Industry Audio Association.
CPHA conducts subjective listening evaluation through six dimensions of high frequency, mid frequency, low frequency, three-frequency balance, sound field and resolution of headphone sound. The Honor Earths 3 Pro not only passed the CPHA certification, but also achieved five-star praise in terms of subjective listening evaluation.
In the past, there were 11 CPHA-certified products, from the Sennheiser high-end flagship high-fidelity in-ear headphones IE 900 at 10999 yuan to huawei's high-end Bluetooth headset HUAWEI Freebuds Studio at a price of 1999 yuan. Honor Earthbuds 3 Pro is the first TWS headset to obtain CPHA certification, and it is also the first product within 1,000 yuan to obtain CPHA certification, which has excellent performance in terms of sound quality.
Excellent noise reduction according to local conditions
If you have ever known the Honor Earbuds 3 Pro product, you may remember that the official product page for noise reduction is "scene-based smart noise reduction". How to a wisdom method, in fact, it is very simple, that is, the headphones can automatically adjust the noise reduction gear according to different environmental noise conditions.
Specifically, when I wear headphones to ride the subway, the Honor Earbuds 3 Pro will enable the depth noise reduction mode, and the maximum noise reduction depth reaches 46db, which should be the highest paper parameter in the mainstream active noise reduction TWS headphones. In this mode, the noise of the train, the sound of the wind passing by, and the human voices in the carriage have been thoroughly filtered, and I am used to playing music at 40% volume, at which point the sounds of the outside world have been basically isolated.
If it is like a more noisy roadside, the Honor Earbuds 3 Pro will adjust the noise reduction to a moderate mode of 30dB+, and most of the low-frequency noise in the environment will be filtered clean, such as the sound of pedestrians and vehicles passing by, of course, the high-frequency car whistle sound is still retained. If it is a relatively quiet environment, such as an office, the headphones will be reduced to 20db+ light noise reduction mode, which can already meet this basic noise reduction requirements.
Of course, users can also select a noise reduction gear in the APP. I personally generally use the default wisdom noise reduction mode, it is more reasonable for the recognition of daily ambient noise and the matching of noise reduction gears, it will not be easy to mess with the situation, the overall noise reduction experience is still very comfortable, and in fact, there are not many scenes in daily life that need to be maintained in the highest grade of noise reduction.
The standard transparency mode of the flagship headset is not absent on the Honor Earbuds 3 Pro, which Honor calls it transparent transmission. Long touch the earphone handle, you can switch back and forth between the three modes of noise reduction, transmission mode, and off noise reduction. In the pass-through mode, the Honor Earbuds 3 Pro can clearly hear the surrounding environment and the voices of others, which is already a fairly usable level. Functions such as dual device connection, taking off/wearing automatic pause/play sound, etc., Honor Earbuds 3 Pro also supports.
Body temperature monitoring, a feature that adds to the icing on the cake
The above mentioned functions are also routine operations, honor Earbuds 3 Pro has a function that claims to be the world's first and no one has me - body temperature measurement, which is also one of the most gimmicky selling points in this wave of publicity.
After wearing the headset for more than 5 minutes, you can take your temperature with three taps of the headset, and the headset will broadcast the voice and record it in the app. If it is just worn, the headset will voice indicate that the temperature measurement will be performed after N minutes.
The Honor Earbuds 3 Pro also offers a temperature cycle measurement function, the headset automatically measures the body temperature every 10 minutes and generates a temperature curve, if the temperature exceeds or falls below the temperature setpoint during the cycle measurement, the headset will issue an alert. Around the "temperature measurement" feature, the Honor Earbuds 3 Pro is still in place in these small details, which is a icing on the cake.
As the first product to enter the high-end TWS market, the Honor Earbuds 3 Pro came with a mission.
It uses excellent and balanced three-frequency performance, good enough sound quality, powerful noise reduction effect to prove its flagship positioning and product strength, and the temperature measurement function that no one has formed a unique differentiated selling point.
Although there are regrets in the support of high-definition transmission protocols, but the flaws are not hidden, the honor Earbuds 3 Pro, which costs 899 yuan, is a sincere enough active noise reduction true wireless headphone product.